u/Gohantrash

Your favorite sports team wins this(or next) years title. They do so in either dominant or dramatic fashion, whichever scenario you feel would be the most satisfying.

BUT, you cannot support them in any way during that season, or the next two seasons after that. You cant watch games, cant watch highlights, can't post about them, follow the team or the players, can't join conversations about them with friends and family, cant even wear their merch.

If you're sitting at a bar and they're being discussed on espn or any other sort of accidental contact, youll find your head forcefully turned away and your ears blocking out any sound related to them.

In most Gen discussions online or IRL, its always Boomers vs Millenials vs Gen Z. Memes always just include those three and online discussions about common childhood experiences never really talk about Gen X as its own thing.

Gen X barely ever gets brought up. It feels like elder Gen X just gets lumped into boomers and the younger ones get thrown in to Millenials.

I know the answer is there isn't one, but I feel like this would be a fun discussion.

When you think about it, not having the most common gameplay mode, the one casual players would immediately assume is the official format, even be a secondary format is crazy.

Personally, I think the big, glaring reason is that 6v6 would take way too long, eapecially with how clunky the animations are. Do you think there would be some optimization things they could do (idk, speed up animations), combined with a time limit, that would make 6v6 viable?

Also, lets say TPC decided tomorrow that 6v6 will be an official format, what do you think their clauses/ban lists would look like? I doubt they would take any leads from Smogon, and they'd probably have item clause in there as well, so itd be interesting to see what they deem broken/not broken.

I don't just mean tense changes between chapters or sections of a story, I mean, like, past tense suddenly jumping to present tense between paragraphs.

I find that when I'm writing, I slip between tenses. I then have to go back and move everything to the main tense I've been using, but sometimes I'm like, this section feels better in the tense I was using.

As a reader, is this really jarring? Obviously, I don't mean swapping tense back and forth every single paragraph, but lets say a 5 paragraph section of a fic suddenly switched, does it bother you?

Years ago, I remember seeing this collection of scholarly works (Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America) that pushed back against the narrative that diseases were the main cause of the genocide in the new world after europeans arrived.

Full disclosure, I didn't read the whole thing (still have it on my pdfs), but the points I did read were pretty convincing, pushing back against the whole hypothesis of natives having 'virgin' immune systems that couldn't possibly survive old world diseases that had arisen due to close proximity to livestock.

But, over the past few years, the disease narrative is still fairly entrenched, even in historians and people who as a layman I think have a pretty good understanding of history.

So, was that work an outlier and the majority of experts still believe the disease narrative is correct?

And just in case, I know that the work doesnt dispute that diseases played a role, just that it wasn't this overwhelming contagion that wiped out 90% of the population by themselves.

Don't care how cliche/melodramatic it gets. Just an itch I wanna scratch.

Basically fics where a girl rejects or even humiliates Harry, then she regrets it later on. Can either be one where they get together or where Harry moves on.