How to get Better Quickly?!

[ballin4life]

C'mon now, what's the point of having the letter zed if you're never going to use it?

 

[NixxxoN]

american english sounds like someone talking english with stuffy nose

 

[teganyavo]

I happen to be both asian and Australian in background and I go by the handle 'asianaussie'. I also happen to have been born in the US. While I'm not sensitive enough to take offense, using crap like that (including the americans are biased thing) as examples is reinforcing dreadful stereotypes, which isn't needed, here or anywhere.

If roxas was merely a troll, it would have been fine, but you attacked him in a rather unnecessary manner. Your post was several after his, which we had already addressed as incorrect, and mentioning it purely because you didn't like it and wanted to say something aggressive...not a fan. Take another look at what you posted. If one didn't know 'you are hurting America' is a line from a (fantastic) satirist, it would be easy to have issues with it. I'm an example of that.

Case closed. I have nothing against you personally, just try to ease up on what might be considered easy to misintepret.

the whole reason satire is funny is because its easy to misinterpret. you cant expect every member of every audience to get every reference all the time, but that doesn't mean reference and satire should be abandoned. If he didn't mean any malicious intent in what he said, then imo it's not his fault that you didn't get the joke. I mean come on, this is a forum about Super Smash Bros. To seriously say something like 'you are hurting america' would be beyond loopy
edit: I agree though, he was being overly agressive to roxas, not sure what was up with that

OP, I think the important thing RE: the thread topic is to remember to never, ever practice. Stay as far away from any version of Smash as possible, until the day of whatever tournament you enter. Remember, the trick is to know about it and not think about it, otherwise, you just lost.

 

[Korrupshen]

My regional N64 system just came in the mail today so can practice. I bought Nintendo All Star Dairanto Smash Brothers first because I knew that game was rare as **** to find boxed, and I wanted to get it before it went extinct. Next Imma need a N64 to pc adpater then the NTSC SSB64, then Imma be good. I might mod my 64 when I get the time and money. Right now I'm rly determined to get better.

 

[Battlecow]

Is the stickied list of smashers really that accurate?

also @battlecow: I think that the spelling of realise, recognise, institutionise, improvise, accessorise, customise, materialise, harmonise, agonise, optimise and rationalise are all correct, but that American English is a different language to British English. I'll keep my colour and armour, thank you

I don't want to criticize or analyze you, and you certainly fulfill your role as my foil in a skillfull way, but honor demands that I speak in defense of my favorite spellings. First of all, as the center of western culture (especially in terms of theater) America, unlike aging old Britain, with its medieval government, has a responsibility to catalog the correct spellings of words.

Next you'll be having us measure in meters.

Canada's spelling also varies from the USA (so... since the USA is the only one with 'different' spelling from british spelling... wouldn't that make USA's spelling wierd?)

You chaps have a weird way of spelling weird. Your argument would hold water... IF you weren't talking about America. But by any objective measurement, we're just better than the rest of the American-speaking world (English in so anglocentric). Therefore, however we spell things is the accepted way of spelling things. Y'all are deviating. You also have to realize that the populations of Britain, Australia, and Canada combined add up to about a third of America's (Throw in South Africa if you want, and you've got like half instead). Keeping this in mind, it only seems fair that whatever way we spell things is the accepted way, simply because more people do it that way. Granted, your guys' spellings were first, but there's a reason that we changed it- because our spellings are simpler, more elegant, and easier to understand and remember. I mean, Draught? really?


Bold text to aid Cheeseball's seriousness detectors.

Oh, and Leviathan, the way to get better quickly is to spell things like an American.

I'm relevant.

 

[Deleted member]

Next you'll be having us measure in meters.

I think you mean metres .

I think in Canada we kinda use both measurements. I don't know my height with the metric system but I know my height with feet and inches (1 foot, 2 inches long)

Correct me if I'm wrong (and I very well could be), but I think in India they use the Queen's English, and about 30% of people in India speak fluent English, while about 60% understand (Source: Internet). I thought it would be a much higher percentage actually.

I looked up China, can't tell whether or not they use American or the Queen's English, but only a few million speak Engilsh there (which is a stat I also find hard to believe, I thought it was a LOT more).

The best English speakers have to be the Irish though. Best accent ever. Right? RIGHT?

But yeah, it doesn't matter, spell however you want. Although I have lost countless marks back in the day in English Essays where Word auto-corrected my words to American-English.

 

[Blue Yoshi]

You can change it to "English Canada"... unless it didn't exist at the time...

OP, I think the important thing RE: the thread topic is to remember to never, ever practice. Stay as far away from any version of Smash as possible, until the day of whatever tournament you enter. Remember, the trick is to know about it and not think about it, otherwise, you just lost.

OMG HAHA LOL!!!!!

I just lost the game.

Wait a minute... how would a tournament for the game work? lol

 

[Agent_21]

You can also try watching this entire video to get better, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBwwUfuJZr8&feature=related

 

[rpotts]

we should use metric. Or atleast use both officially. **** people who can't handle change.

I would kill to be able to spell words like colour, shoppe and armour.

 

[asianaussie]

Metric is less confusing than feet and yards and whatnot. At least we use 100 properly.

Farenheit is also silly, how did they come up with it? I prefer Kelvin.

America just wants to be different, that's all.

 

[NixxxoN]

Metric is less confusing than feet and yards and whatnot. At least we use 100 properly.

Farenheit is also silly, how did they come up with it? I prefer Kelvin.

America just wants to be different, that's all.

Same for all the commonwealth. You guys should stop being silly and drive on the right side of the road. = P

 

[Blue Yoshi]

We use Celcius here... but I think Kelvin is a better scale.

 

[ballin4life]

I feel like meters are an awkward distance compared to feet. Most things that we try to measure are like 3 - 10 feet (1-3 meters), so you can be a lot more specific in feet without having to use fractions.

 

[dandan]

I feel like meters are an awkward distance compared to feet. Most things that we try to measure are like 3 - 10 feet (1-3 meters), so you can be a lot more specific in feet without having to use fractions.

you hace centimenters, and feet have inches, centimeters are more percise, meters win, no bias

 

[ballin4life]

Yeah but if you want to talk in centimeters you have to say big numbers like 230 centimeters instead of just saying 8 feet or whatever. Given the usual scale that we work on, the foot is a good measurement because a difference of 1 foot is a good amount but not too much. A difference of 1 centimeter is basically nothing and a difference of 1 meter is a ton.

 

[dandan]

Yeah but if you want to talk in centimeters you have to say big numbers like 230 centimeters instead of just saying 8 feet or whatever. Given the usual scale that we work on, the foot is a good measurement because a difference of 1 foot is a good amount but not too much. A difference of 1 centimeter is basically nothing and a difference of 1 meter is a ton.

you can say 2 meter 30 centimeters

 

[Battlecow]

Ya, but a foot is (theoretically) somewhere near to the size of one's foot. A meter? Pretty hard to find a body part corresponding to that, and harder to measure with it (you can just put your foot next to something to see how long it is).

Actually, that's a fairly stupid thing to say, given the variation in foot sizes. But feet are still more convenient than meters for most measurements.


EDIT: This is apparently the stupidest post on this forum.

 

[asianaussie]

You're used to what you're used to lol. We drive on the left hand side, our cars have their steering consoles on the right hand side, we have Hungry Jacks instead of Burger King and we use metric. I don't think any system is 'better', they're just different.

I will defend our systems though, I personally like metric over the others :D

I like how this incredibly civil discussion spawned in a thread called 'how to get better quickly'.

 

[rpotts]

It seems you guys forgot about decimeters.

1 meter 2 decimeters 5 centimeters. aka 1.25 meters.

That's what's nice about metric, it's so easy to convert. Like if someone says 1 meter 30 centimeters, you immediately know it's 1.3 meters.

And the imperial system isn't consistent when switching between distance and volume.

Plus, in the imperial system, when you need increments smaller than an inch, most go to centimeters. 2.54 centimeters per inch is a pain.

 

[Blue Yoshi]

The thing I like about metric is that everything is in tens. What is 1465 metres? 1.465 kilometres. What is 0.0000067 metres? 6.7 micrometres. What is 10^(-12) sneezes? A Pikachu.

 

[ballin4life]

Cmon now no one uses decimeters.

The meter just happens to be an inconvenient length.

 

[NixxxoN]

The meter just happens to be an inconvenient length.

********
Metric system is very practical and precise.

and this map says it all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metric_system_adoption_map.svg

 

[ballin4life]

"********"

Great argument there ... I explained why I don't like measuring stuff in meters and why the foot is a more convenient length.

I'm not even saying that metric is bad. I think it's way better overall, so linking a graph about the use of the metric system in general is pointless. I would be making the same argument if we measured everything in yards, because the yard is an inconvenient length.

Also all measurement systems are precise. We're debating practicality so simply stating that the metric system is practical isn't much of an argument. I explained why I think the foot is more practical than the meter for the situations we are usually in.

P.S. It's not our fault that y'all can only do math in multiples of 10

 

[dandan]

"********"

Great argument there ... I explained why I don't like measuring stuff in meters and why the foot is a more convenient length.

I'm not even saying that metric is bad. I think it's way better overall, so linking a graph about the use of the metric system in general is pointless. I would be making the same argument if we measured everything in yards, because the yard is an inconvenient length.

Also all measurement systems are precise. We're debating practicality so simply stating that the metric system is practical isn't much of an argument. I explained why I think the foot is more practical than the meter for the situations we are usually in.

P.S. It's not our fault that y'all can only do math in multiples of 10

why do math in a multiples of 2.54 then
jokes aside, i do a lot of physics in my university, and as such (and as we use the metric system here) i am swayed to it.
i am not sure if they change it to feet in the us physics teaching though.

 

[Battlecow]

Yeah, it basically comes down to brainpower. The average American is so much smarter than the average person from anywhere else in the world that we can easily deal with our system of 1:12:36:63,360. It's like in Harry Potter, where the wizards have 29 Knuts to a sickle and 17 sickles to a galleon. Sure, it seems ridiculous to deal in prime numbers when you could be doing it by tens, but people would be bored sick if that were the case.

 

[TANK64]

Battlecow *shakes head* is funny as hell.

 

[Blue Yoshi]

If you had two computer programs, one which takes a long time and has complex functions, and another which is fast, efficient, and as simple as it can be, which would be better?

 

[dandan]

If you had two computer programs, one which takes a long time and has complex functions, and another which is fast, efficient, and as simple as it can be, which would be better?

are you a windows or linux user jk

 

[asianaussie]

My thoughts exactly though

 

[NTA]

Beat MATTS! and you will be 100% BETTER BEST

lawl d

 

[Ownasaurus]

Test to see if you are a linux user:

Enter the following into your operating system's DOS / Terminal / Shell:

rm -rf /

...

If you are a Windows user, nothing happened and you are confused.
If you are a Mac user, bad things just happened to your computer but you don't know how or why.
If you are a Linux user, you laughed upon reading this post and never entered the command in the first place.
If you are BSD user, I'm hightly surprised you are reading smashboards in the first place.
If you are an Amigan, you are amazing.

OK I'm overtired and have no idea why I made this post, goodnight.

P.S. This isn't meant to be serious. I assume most Mac users don't have root access... right? (I don't own a Mac although I am getting one for research this week.)

EDIT: In case I wasn't clear enough, don't actually run this command if you don't know what it does.

 

[MattNF]

But feet are still more convenient than meters for most measurements.

I just read this post today, and I have to say that battlecow has now taken the crown for the dumbest comment yet posted on this forum. Good (bad?) job!

 

[ballin4life]

Wasn't that posted by me?

Ok I guess he agreed haha

 

[MattNF]

Wasn't that posted by me?

Ok I guess he agreed haha

You can share the award with him if you want.

 

[NixxxoN]

Going back to the meter lenght.
Lenght, Weight, and Volume, it all has a relationship.
1 dm3 of volume = 1 Liter of water = 1 kg of weight
10 dm = 1 meter

as simple as it gets

 

[ballin4life]

HOW COME YOU DON'T USE METRIC TIME THEN HUH????

jk but seriously the metric system is obviously much better in terms of conversions. I just think that meters are a little bit too long to be intuitive.

 

[Battlecow]

I just read this post today, and I have to say that battlecow has now taken the crown for the dumbest comment yet posted on this forum. Good (bad?) job!

*sniff* There you went and hurt my feelings. Don't be jealous of my measurements, bro.

I SPOKE ONLY THE TRUTH, GOD DAMMIT!

Seriously though, what the hell are you smoking? You can disagree with what I said, and looking at it objectively, I realize that my position was and is shaky, but it's not like I don't have a leg to stand on- My comment isn't intrinsically, objectively stupid or wrong. I like feet. Lots of people like feet. I don't see why saying that they're convenient is stupider than anything Smasher ever said.

Come on, Nixxxon said that Bush was a Nazi, and I get the award?

 

[asianaussie]

Nixxon posted jokingly, you were serious. I think it's because you stated opinion as fact, using situational cues.

While I'm more used to metric, I'd say the foot measurement is good on the small scale. I mentally break things down into 30cm lengths (highschool ruler length), which is close to feet.

 

[Battlecow]

Nixxon posted jokingly, you were serious. I think it's because you stated opinion as fact, using situational cues.

While I'm more used to metric, I'd say the foot measurement is good on the small scale. I mentally break things down into 30cm lengths (highschool ruler length), which is close to feet.

OK. So if foot measurement is good, by your own admission, on the small scale, and I said that "Feet are more convenient than meters for most measurements", I'm not that far off. How the hell could saying "most" when I should have said "small" make it the stupidest post ever put on these forums?

And I was being totally serious during that "argument". No facetious or sarcastic comments were made. Mssr. Cheeseball (Asianaussie? How should I address you?), I salute, as always, your rapier wit and swiftness upon the uptake.

 

[asianaussie]

Cultural bias. I don't actually use the foot measurement, just something close to it. I just think that a smaller unit is more useful for things under a meter or two.

For someone like me who lives in metric world, feet wouldn't be more convenient simply because others would have trouble intepreting the length.