They know. It’s a comment from the code.

NY state has a town named Chili that is pronounced—I kid you not—with two long I’s. “Chai-lai”

There’s also a town named Charlotte pronounced “shar-LOT”.

I feel like these are tests to detect out-of-towners.

It’s ironic Aussies don’t pronounce the R in Melbourne considering you add Rs to every other word!

Chrono Trigger

Silent Light: https://youtu.be/YW2J96RVN64

Secret of the Forest: https://youtu.be/j6VoS1RlA6Q

Memories of Green: https://youtu.be/4iovcGjvr38

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Crystal Teardrops: https://youtu.be/XxEdkh4lYUQ

Final Fantasy 4

Illusionary World: https://youtu.be/rDnwn11BqzQ

Final Fantasy 6

The Phantom Forest: https://youtu.be/0F-X1uX92LM

Final Fantasy 7

Wutai: https://youtu.be/Wu4hiiJ3FBI

Secret of Mana

Rose and Ghost: https://youtu.be/24gsANNY9w0

Since it needs to be compiled to JavaScript in order to be used, I kind of consider it a different language. Yes, it’s a strict superset of JavaScript, but that makes it different.

It’s much better to make your own function that uses bitwise operations to do addition.

function add(a, b) {
    while (b !== 0) {
        // Calculate carry
        let carry = a & b;

        // Sum without carry
        a = a ^ b;

        // Shift carry to the left
        b = carry << 1;
    }
    return a;
}

(For certain definitions of better.)

“Thought-terminating clichés”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché

Also… I don’t think it has a name, but dubiously claiming any of these examples in an argument. Maybe it’d just be called “deflection”.

I’ve seen so many valid arguments shutdown as whataboutism, sealioning, concern trolling when they were valid arguments. It’s just as much bullshit as actually doing any of those things.

Use m-dashes and no spaces, and you’ll be doing it right. The m-dash—which look like this—is the appropiate punctuation for this purpose.

I absolutely detest that kind (the kind who writes a giant parenthetical in the middle if their sentence before one or two words at the end. Just put the fucking parenthetical after the sentence! jfc) of person.