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GTA goes live. Absolute realism from Russia.
Vanneto
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May 2007

jhuuskon said:

And yes, it is a big deal. In real life, if you confuse a serb with a russian or the other way around, the russian will only beat you up and break some of your bones[1], but the serb will kill you.

Where did this information come from?

In capitalist America bank robs you.

type568
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March 2007
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From the game with Niko I suppose..

jhuuskon
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Vanneto said:

Where did this information come from?

From the same pool of misinformed racial characteristics as type568's "definitely russian accent" statement.

You don't deserve my sig.

bamccaig
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July 2006
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Another angle of the accident...

THAT is fucking awesome. I wish somebody would make such a mod... That would be sweet. Finally, a mario bros. game for the people that grew up with them (and are now adults). :P

Kibiz0r said:

Anyone care to explain what happened in that video, that justified a mob, and what seemed to be the police, going all caveman on that guy?

The guy was exposing man parts. That's reason enough. On top of that, he was damaging property and attacking people repeatedly. He deserved to get his ass kicked and was obviously asking for it. I'm surprised he got such small beating actually...

Kibiz0r
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type568 said:

What vid are you talking about

The one the thread is about...

Cop beats the shit out of dude who apparently got in an accident, drags him out of the car, then doesn't give a fuck when he gets back in the car. Guy backs up like a madman and wrecks two parked vehicles, then runs forward into the pileup again, like he just wants to gtfo. Guy gets out of car, mob surrounds him, cops are like "whatev". People start swinging, guy fights back and appears to be drunk or totally messed up from the accident, everyone kicks the shit out of him as they drive his face into the pavement and the cops arrest him. Everyone casually walks away as he twitches on the ground, handcuffed. I'm wondering what the hell precipitated all that. Nobody's actions made any sense at all except for the guy trying to gtfo, but since he's apparently the bad guy, I have no idea what to make of it.

gnolam
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March 2002
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It's so cute that bam-bam doesn't understand that everyone is commenting the OP's video as if it was GTA! :D

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type568
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OP

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia said:

Op art

or Optical art

???

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@rozikib
Well, that's nonsense.. That's why there's a thread about it.

Mark Oates
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type568
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Thanks.. However..
"XXX's" stands for "XXX is", while "XXXs" means something belongs to XXX, am I correct?

bamccaig
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gnolam said:

It's so cute that bam-bam doesn't understand that everyone is commenting the OP's video as if it was GTA! :D

Ummm, my very first post was a GTA reference. Hi?

Kibiz0r said:

Russia is one hell of a drug. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-ECMTNcewI

Anyone care to explain what happened in that video, that justified a mob, and what seemed to be the police, going all caveman on that guy?

He posts a video, then expresses a concern about a video, and I'm supposed to piece together that he's talking about the original video? In any case, it was hard to keep track of what happened in the original, but it seemed like one of the guys went similarly apeshit crazy. Once again, destroying property, assaulting people. Kick his ass until he's sorry he woke up that day. >:(

The video has been taken down, but I remember one of the guys jumping in his smashed up SUV, driving carelessly back into parked cars, etc. Assuming the law and insurance work similarly in [insert country of origin here] (Russia?) he should have been waiting for police. So sure, if he tries to flee the scene, perhaps evaluates that he has nothing to lose and wants to short out on the deal, PULL HIM OUT OF THAT FUCKER AND PUT A TIRE IRON TO HIS FOREHEAD. I mean, if you want. :-/ Again, the OP's video has been removed, and I don't remember it in detail (I may or may not be mildly or significantly intoxicated).

There's also the possibility that he was the victim (unprotected by the government), in which case I bet to sure fuck he wished he had a gun to just pop every motherfucker looking at him wrong and drive off into the sunset.

(OK, closer to significant than mild, but meh).

type568
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bamccaig said:

He posts a video, then expresses a concern about a video, and I'm supposed to piece together that he's talking about the original video? In any case, it was hard to keep track of what happened in the original

Confused me too tbh, I thought he saw police on the video he posted.

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Mark Oates
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March 2001
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type568 said:

"XXX's" stands for "XXX is", while "XXXs" means something belongs to XXX, am I correct?

You could be wrong or right depending on what XXX is. There is no apostrophe in possessive pronouns and that usually trips people up.

With regular nouns, you use the apostrophe:

Mike's home.
The bottle's cap.

With possessive pronouns, there is no apostrophe:

his = a thing that belongs to him.
His big house.

its = a thing that belongs to it.
Its handle is big.
wrong: It's handle is big. (means "it is handle is big.") <- a very common mistake.

The other case is where an apostrophe is used as a contraction...
it is over there = it's over there.
there is an answer = there's an answer.
you are a great guy = you're a great guy.

...not to be confused with the possessive pronoun
your home = the home that belongs to you.
you're home = you are home.

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type568
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I see.. I think I only had confusion with "its", and "Mike's"..
If all the following are correct, thanks a lot and I understood you:

This is the cat's food plate.
This is hers food plate.

"your you're"- I know just fine, more like matter of typo(with right click correction suggestion by chrome afterwards) or not reading what I wrote, if I make this error..

And..
Well, the rest is obvious actually. Thanks. I'd love correction if there's any single mistake in the current post.

BAF
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type568 said:

This is hers food plate.

Her is already possessive. It should be "this is her food plate."

type568
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facepalm

Then when do I use "hers"? :|

BAF
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I've never heard 'hers' used before, so I'm not sure if it's proper english or not. A quick google search brings it up on wikitionary.

type568
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The word is a proper English word, although I'm not sure I really encountered it before, but..

Concise Oxford English Dictionary said:

hers
■ possessive pronoun used to refer to a thing or things belonging to or associated with a female person or animal previously mentioned.

There is no need for an apostrophe: the spelling should be hers not her's.

Awesome.. Wikipedia doesn't have an example as well. :-/

BAF
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Oh, I'm dumb. This is obviously proper English and I have heard it used so many times that it didn't even occur to me.

Consider this example: "The kite is hers." Or: "The food plate is hers."

type568
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March 2007
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Alright, but I'm still not sure why is:
"This is hers food plate." wrong :[

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>Her is already possessive. It should be "this is her food plate."

Well, yes.. Hers is possessive.. There's nothing else indicating possession her, or I'm totally confused.

bamccaig
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type568 said:

Alright, but I'm still not sure why is:
"This is hers food plate." wrong :[

Neither are the native English speakers. :P We just know it is from experience. In my experience, English was taught horribly wrongly in school to us native speakers. They never really provided any structure to it. It was just randomly "X is Y" with no explanation. There was no way for me to even identify what "X" or "Y" was because it was just some magic new word that they'd tell us. It is a horrible way to teach a language.

type568
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???

Mark Oates
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The confusion you're having is between 2 different forms of possessive pronouns: subjective and objective.

Take the case of "This is her food plate." and "The food plate is hers."

In the first case, "her" is the important word in the sentence fragment "her food plate" and thus it takes the subjective form. (side note: "Her" is not the subject in this example sentence, though. The subject is "This.")

In the second case, the "plate" is the subject of the sentence and so the pronoun for "her" is less important, and turned into the objective form "hers". "hers" is an object in reference to the plate.

Here's a little graph I found: http://kestrelsaerie.com/2010/01/passive-possessivemdashpronouns-pros/

Pronouns are weird. ;)

edit: it's easier to think of subjective as "active", and objective as "passive."

edit2: "The food plate is her." is just funny. Meaning "She is the food plate." :P

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type568
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Sigh.. Perhaps I should just use the grammar I know, and not to look around trying to correct the others.. It will also be sad if I forget what I learned, as if I haven't it'll be a lot of others and mine time wasted(*)..

*- Is all correct this time? :P

However.. Thanks a lot.

Mark Oates
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type568 said:

Perhaps I should just use the grammar I know, and not to look around trying to correct the others.. It will also be sad if I forget what I learned, as if I haven't it'll be a lot of others and my time wasted(*)..

(just that one mistake)

Yea, I've never had a problem understanding what you've written. I really wouldn't worry about it. :)

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type568
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But I'm used to think I know English well. And that one mistake is actually a prove I didn't understand the topic. :-/
I'll return to it.. If I'll do. -.-

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