@pratik ctrl-v, done. 😄

@mandaris This is quite tidy. I like the mechanicals as well as the mood (colors, fonts, etc).

@crossingthethreshold pixels on canvas, nice!

@Archimage I include all frequently in replies out of courtesy, but in this case also because I was agreeing with you. People tend to underestimate the influence they can have, and the impact that influence can have. I mean, jeez, a large portion of this country’s representation is being led around by relatively small nose rings and jack boots. Influence with impact.

[ edit: clarity (ha!) ]

@Archimage Dude, you started this whole tangential thread by telling me, uninvited, that ‘influence’ is not ‘impact’. Something prompted you to take that action. If not emotion, which I understand can be messy, than something else…maybe an idea you would be willing to share? Some string of thoughts leading us from whence to okay I get it now?

Or is the game to simply exhaust me?

@Archimage I detect hostility. I think I can see a pun, and take a joke. I didn’t see the pun. It’s a genuine question.

@Archimage and (missed this before) what was the pun?

@bkryer @Archimage …a mistake because it leads to the kind of ridiculous thinking that says, if only everyone would use the right words at the right times we wouldn’t have any of these problems.

@Archimage As are all of them, really.

I just get the feeling you have put definitions in the domain of the sacrosanct, which I think is a mistake: consider, who writes them…?

@Archimage I guess I want ‘impact’ to be more noun-y, while today’s speaker hears it more verb-y. Uncontrollable phenomena are often vexing in this way.