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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

A prequel is a work that sequentially came after but whose story takes place before a previous work. If you want to describe the game that simply came before the game in question, the word you're looking for is predecessor.

For example, Katamari Damacy is the predecessor of We ♥ Katamari. It cannot be a prequel because it came first. We ♥ Katamari is a prequel if its story takes place before the story of Katamari Damacy. (In fact, a good portion of it does. It's kind of a half-prequel, like The Godfather II.)

So remember: (predecessor ---> sequel & prequel), NOT (prequel ---> sequel). If people keep using prequel to mean predecessor, we're all going to have to start using the word "protosequel" to describe prequels instead, and we don't want that, do we?

And now you know.

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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Did you know urine is sterile?

You can drink it.

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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:52 am Post subject:

dessgeega

dhex · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:39 pm Post subject:

psa: bagel is pronounced BAY-GEL not BAG-EL. some people don't know that.

Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Re: the Laplanders, supposedly they fed the amanita to their reindeer and then drank that piss, meaning that the toxic chemical was filtered out in the reindeer's liver and not your own.

Although urine itself is sterile, it goes through parts of your body that are not -- there are frequently bacteria in your urethra and around the opening of it, so if you are going to drink piss, let some of it go through first to clear out the bacteria. Drinking mid-stream is the only safe way to go.

Also: pee breath? Who wants to deal with that shit?

dhex · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject:

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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject:

I totally had this banner come up when I entered this thread. It's a Public Service Announcement if there ever was one.
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

When X "Composes" Y, that means Y is made up of X.
When X "Comprises" Y, that means X includes Y.

The statement "The Taito catalog is comprised of very joyful games" is totally wrong, but only on a grammatical basis.

According to a Savage Love column I read a while back, frequent consumption of urine can have deletirious effects, but it has to be quite the consumption.

SuperWes · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:16 am Post subject:

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Wes, I can't tell if you're being serious, but I don't think you've got it right.
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Tablesaw · . Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 303 Location: LACAUSA

GSL · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:46 pm Post subject:

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

I am from Wisconsin and can pronounce Bagel correctly.

I'm just saying.

...

Is there a bubbler around here?
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GSL · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:20 pm Post subject:

I think, to a certain extent, the concept of a 100% correct pronunciations in the English language is a bit of a fallacy.

References to bubblers always confuse the people around me. That and my insistance on using 'Scotties' and not 'Kleenex' to identify facial tissue, although that may be more of a smaller regional thing and not necessarily a statewide mode of speech.

And on this note:

PSA: Regional accents and dialects found Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and other central midwest states sound nothing like the movie Fargo.

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

dhex · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:02 pm Post subject:

when in doubt, follow the yiddish. yiddish says bay-gel, and who am i to change 5000 years of history?

also bubbler? the only thing that comes to mind is one of those expensive stupid looking glass pipe deals that have a little pocket of water underneath and look like a seashell painted by a four year old.

or this shit (thank you google image search)

http://ornorml.org/images/norml06/quad-bubbler.JPG
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GSL · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:12 am Post subject:

No shit, those things are called bubblers as well? I've never heard that, just 'bong' or when someone's trying to make stoner paraphernalia sound dignified, 'water pipe'.

Maybe that's why announcing that I'm going to go get a drink from the bubbler leads to so many weird looks.