I'm really getting sick and tired of people who can't properly use English on a forum. And yes, I"m making an exception for those from another country. After I learned Japanese, I started realizing how each language has its own concepts and rules. I'm not looking for Queen's English, either; I'm sure that by the time this paragraph is done, I'll have left enough mistakes in it to attract a college professor's red pen.
But enough is enough! For fuck's sake!
Here's an example: I'm looking around my main gaming forum, when I spot this gem:
"Street Fighter IV is a reborn of fighting games" is total bullshit.
Now never mind the fact that this sentence is somewhat awkwardly formed and the quote is unnecessary. That's an easy one.
I had the great misfortune of taking Senior-level editing at University of Arizona, which means I only proofread what I write once if I'm feeling lazy that day. And I understand the purpose of communication is to convey ideas, so I don't mind slang or somewhat less-than-stellar performance.
However, I would say that if anybody uttered that sentence within an earshot of me, my eyes would become aglow with crimson flame as I seek out the offender, and, upon getting them to face me, proceed to rip them in half right down their prime meridian. I am not, as they say, a "grammar nazi", as only one of us is engaging in a crime against language mores. I'm really just wantonly overprotective of my senses and what they take in.
Part of this problem can also be explained by the iPhone, which has the issue of putting in word suggestions automatically (depending on your configuration) unless you tap on them. Which is kind of like saying "you're having brocolli for dinner unless you say you want brocolli for dinner." Nothing like having a device do something out of spite. "Oh, you wanna ignore my suggestion? Fuck you, then. Hope you meant to text your wife that you were going to Whorehouse and not Whole Foods." Still, a cursory glance before somebody presses the post button will reveal that you're about to post something that doesn't make any sense.
In fact, such a practice would make the internet almost legible. Perish the thought.
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While I'm at it, let me bring up a gaming related issue: Death, crotch rot and chlamydia to every single person in the fucking "WWAAAAAHH!!! WHY WON'T SQUEENIX REMAKE FFVII?!!!" camp. Die in a car fire already. First off, you're wasting your goddamn time. Nobody's even started on this idea because THEY'RE TAKING FOREVER TO DO EVERYTHING ELSE. FFXIII was in development hell, XIII Versus is now in its place, and Nomura said he wants to do something with Kingdom Hearts (though, just to prove they still have their heads up their asses, he says he wants to do something to continue the main storyline, but not call it a part 3.)
There is absolutely NO FUCKING REASON WHATSOEVER that anybody on this planet should be starving for more FFVII. At all. Under any circumstances. How many more shitty games and overwrought CGI Fanwanks do you need to take place in FFVII's story before you get the hint? IT WILL SUCK. I'm sorry Square had to give the original such a shitty, blue-balls unsatisfying ending, but this why we move on instead of dwelling on it.
This is the same denial Chrono Trigger fans go through when they say the want Chrono Trigger 2, despite every effort by Square to let them know that they're not interested in the continued adventures of Crono, Marle and Lucca. Aren't Radical Dreamers and Chrono Cross proof enough otherwise, especially considering how convoluted Cross' story was and how much of the Trigger story was wrecked?
But you know what? I hope it gets released. Because I know that, much like Dawn of Mana destroyed the Seiken Densetsu fanbase, it will be shitty enough to kill the FFVII fanbase off, hopefully for good.
Oh, and Sephiroth is a momma's boy.
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