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Randizzl:
--- Quote from: Mike A on September 06, 2018, 02:19:39 pm ---Holy crap dude. I just thought it was funny that you narrowed the list down to a slim 2000 games. It was really no big deal.
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Well that makes sense, sure.
It did take work, and I suppose it could be construed as funny for one to put effort into something like that.
As funny as someone putting effort into any of this stuff could be, as it's all frivolity and pointless in the end I suppose.
I'm not sure what that has to do with my use of the word curate, however. My initial response to your post was wondering what you found funny, and you didn't state what you just said, but instead chose to point at my use of a word. To that end, if one were to be pedantic, one could say my use of the word wasn't, entirely, idiomatically correct. But when did forums about posting pictures of arcade cabinets become grammar or vocabulary quizzes?
Mike A:
I think I am being Punk'd.
8BitMonk:
--- Quote ---Curated the list of games down to about 2k games
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:laugh2:
DaveMMR:
--- Quote from: Randizzl on September 06, 2018, 02:44:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: Mike A on September 06, 2018, 02:19:39 pm ---Holy crap dude. I just thought it was funny that you narrowed the list down to a slim 2000 games. It was really no big deal.
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Well that makes sense, sure.
It did take work, and I suppose it could be construed as funny for one to put effort into something like that.
As funny as someone putting effort into any of this stuff could be, as it's all frivolity and pointless in the end I suppose.
I'm not sure what that has to do with my use of the word curate, however. My initial response to your post was wondering what you found funny, and you didn't state what you just said, but instead chose to point at my use of a word. To that end, if one were to be pedantic, one could say my use of the word wasn't, entirely, idiomatically correct. But when did forums about posting pictures of arcade cabinets become grammar or vocabulary quizzes?
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Let me step in to explain the joke. 2000 is still a rather large number of games. Combined with "curating down" (as, we have taken it to mean, narrowing down), it came off as humorously ironic (which may or may not be the proper use of the word but whatever) That's what the joke was.
Okay, back to my lurking corner. Carry on with the panel porn.
DracoDan:
--- Quote from: Randizzl on September 06, 2018, 02:10:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on September 06, 2018, 01:47:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: Mike A on September 06, 2018, 11:05:44 am ---Your definition of curated amuses me.
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I'm with you.
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With him how? In what way? For what reason?
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I'm not 100% sure English is your first language (not faulting you either way, god knows my English is far from great and it's the only language I know!), but "curated" probably isn't the best word to use here, in fact it could be considered to be the opposite of what you intended. "Curated" is usually used to refer to selectively acquiring something, not selecting a small subset of a great collection (aka losing something). The better would would be "narrowed". IE. "Narrowed the list of games down to about 2k games". For that reason "Curated down" really makes no sense.
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