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13 but I hardly pay attention to my grammar, I just try to edit out typos when I see my posts in these forums. I'm not even sure why I am not in this thread as one of the bad examples.

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In case anyone hasn't been paying attention - it's broken/trolling. Could it in fact be Frog Fractions 3?

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In case anyone hasn't been paying attention - it's broken/trolling. Could it, in fact, be Frog Fractions 3?

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In case anyone hasn't been paying attention - it's broken/trolling. Could it, in fact, be Frog Fractions 3?

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In case anyone hasn't been paying attention - it's broken/trolling. Could it, in fact, be Frog Fractions 3?

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To harp on about 'deep dive': I just saw an io9 post that calls a 4-minute video about the sound design of the new Godzilla movie a "deep dive". FOUR MINUTES! I haven't watched the video but I assume that, like all other sound design featurettes, it'll be about them doing foley and combining different noises for creature noises. DEEP DIVE!

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Ben, I really appreciate your deep dives on the media's misuse of deep dive.

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Well fuck me sideways - sorry Gormongous! In my defense, we were having an early family Christmas and I was very drunk at time of posting!

 

Man, you really dropped your balls with that one.

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Apologies for the combo breaker but my phone wouldn't let me post that bigger quote inception and instead gave me a 'Bad gateway'

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I think we're only allowed one quote inception per year, it was probably good someone cut it off before it went on too long.

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From the GG thread:

 

Yeah, i've never particularly liked the sealion metaphor. I get the point of it, it just doesn't hold under even mild scrutiny and there are plenty of better metaphors we could come up with.

 

 

It's not a metaphor though is it?

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Sealion as a 'metaphor' for gg, 'analogy' is maybe a gooder idiom for me to deploy?

 

Sorry, first time in this topic, couldn't resist :P

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Sealion as a 'metaphor' for gg, 'analogy' is maybe a gooder idiom for me to deploy?

 

Clearly it should be "The simile of the sealion" if anything. Though all types fall under the umbrella of metaphorical language use, so I don't think it's an issue.

 

Metaphors are like analogies in that I'm making one right now.

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