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ewolf2015 MIA from south Carolina Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: I-It's not like I like you, or anything!
MIA
#9526: May 24th 2017 at 2:00:39 PM

is gradient or color banding the result of a bad monitor or a bad graphics card?

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TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#9527: May 24th 2017 at 7:44:59 PM

Somewhere in the chain there's a low number of colors being rendered.

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GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#9528: May 29th 2017 at 4:14:24 PM

Can anyone tell me what happened to ITT tech?

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CrystalGlacia from at least we're not detroit (Living Relic)
#9529: May 30th 2017 at 2:49:28 AM

My cursory Google search reveals that ITT Tech's long history of allegations of fraud finally caught up with it, and they closed in September of last year.

In a 2015 federal whistleblower lawsuit, a former ITT Tech dean of academic affairs alleged that the company (1) directed recruiters to use coercive tactics to pressure students into enrolling, (2) admitted students who were unable to succeed at the school, (3) unlawfully paid sales commissions to recruiters, and (4) lied to students about their financial obligations and transferability of ITT credits to other schools, and about the jobs students could expect to get after graduating.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Technical_Institute

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GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#9530: May 30th 2017 at 6:13:11 AM

So ITT closing is for real? So much for me going to a school for technology, sad Are there other alternative schools?

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Dauthium_Silencer The Traveling Hat Merchant from ALL AROUND THE WORLD Since: Dec, 2016 Relationship Status: Abstaining
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#9531: May 30th 2017 at 6:38:26 AM

Can I have a list or at least some of the Discord I Ps of TV Tropes channels and others?

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#9532: May 30th 2017 at 7:25:58 AM

What are "Discord IPs"? If you are talking about the IP addresses of other tropers, we do not share them.

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TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#9533: May 30th 2017 at 8:00:02 AM

I think Discord is PTP chat, so you may well need the IP address of a channel host to connect.

edited 30th May '17 8:00:14 AM by TParadox

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Sixthhokage1 Since: Feb, 2013
#9534: May 30th 2017 at 9:13:29 AM

No, Discord is very, very centralized. Rather than IPs you connect to Discord "servers" with invite codes, usually in the form of discord.gg links (e.g. https://discord.gg/AGAVvN which now throws an invalid warning because the "server" no longer exists).

Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#9535: May 30th 2017 at 10:40:41 AM

@GAP: I don't think that was a good choice in the first place. ITT Tech was infamous even amongst for-profit schools for non-transferability of credits to most institutions for not meeting standards and for being overly expensive while either being of little value to students or not serving them properly.

There should be some quality technology-related programs in traditional public universities too if you look for them.

Coleman Since: May, 2016
#9536: May 30th 2017 at 9:51:44 PM

Does anyone know how much iodine is in mahi-mahi about one serving?

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#9537: Jun 1st 2017 at 9:45:53 AM

We all know what a treasure chest looks like. At least, that's what they look like in fiction. Did real life treasure chests ever look like that? Why are they shaped like that?

TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#9538: Jun 8th 2017 at 8:39:22 PM

How common is (foreign) multilingual signage in the UK? After Scottish, Welsh, and Irish, what's the most common non-English language to see signs in? French? Hindi?

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Murataku Don't Feed The Plant from Straya Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Don't Feed The Plant
#9539: Jun 20th 2017 at 8:03:42 PM

Why do singers sometimes sing in a different accent than they speak in, even for their own songs? For some reason everyone seems to sound vaguely American when singing.

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TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#9540: Jun 20th 2017 at 8:56:30 PM

I think the Beatles, who particularly sound American early on, were specifically imitating the American rockers that inspired them.

The way a lot of American singers flatten their terminal Rs sounds a little British.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#9541: Jun 25th 2017 at 1:35:46 PM

Let's say you only speak English and move to France where you hear nothing but French day in and day out. I've heard that it's possible to learn another language by doing this, and that it's faster than other techniques. How true is this? About how long does it take before you're fluent in French?

Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#9542: Jul 4th 2017 at 8:27:22 PM

[up]For the sake of having some kind of a response to that: getting immersed in the language is indeed pretty helpful, since even if it doesn't amount to formally studying or learning the language (that's something you should do yourself, before and during your living there), it can complement the effort, helping you get familiar with, and recognize, certain things about it and around.


Is there a limit on how far back the TV Tropes search can search? I'm searching in quotes phrases that I know for sure are present in the forums, but the queries don't turn up the results I want, even though they're only about one or two years old.

edited 4th Jul '17 8:28:32 PM by Trivialis

Aetol from France Since: Jan, 2015
#9543: Jul 5th 2017 at 5:00:04 AM

The search function is pretty broken in general. Do search terms from recent posts consistently turn up?

Edit: it seems they do...

edited 5th Jul '17 5:04:18 AM by Aetol

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BestOf FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC! from Finland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
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#9544: Jul 5th 2017 at 5:42:39 AM

About language immersion: I used to know a bunch of people who had immigrated to Finland. Needless to say, Finnish is an extremely difficult language, and immigrants can usually get by if they can speak English (in most situations there will be at least one Finnish person around who speaks English).

There was this Russian guy in that group. His Finnish was absolutely perfect. At some point he happened to mention he was from Russia, and I was quite surprised because I had thought that he was in that group because he had Russian parents or something. I asked him if he grew up in Finland, and he said he'd only lived here for about two years, and not known the language before. So in two years, through immersion, he had learned a very difficult language well enough for a native to think he grew up in that language.

Thing is, that's highly dependent on the individual. Some people are like that. For others, no matter how much effort they put it, they might never reach a degree of fluency where they'd sound like a native. (Not that that should be anyone's goal - fluency is quite enough.) Some of the people in that group had immigrated to Finland when they were very young, yet they didn't speak grammatically correct Finnish all the time (I mean, even within the range of nonstandard grammar that's common in spoken Finnish).

It's quite difficult to predict how a given person will respond to immersion in a new language. I'm guessing you might get some clue by having that person watch movies or TV from the target language with subtitles, and periodically ask them about words or phrases or grammatical structures they've picked up from the target language. In Finland, all foreign TV shows and movies are subtitled - dubbing is only done if the show is for little children. This might very well be part of the reason my English has turned out OK. If you're thinking of moving to France, watch a lot of French TV with subtitles. After a while, you should know the most basic phrases for questions, greetings, and so on.

edited 5th Jul '17 5:44:13 AM by BestOf

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#9545: Jul 16th 2017 at 8:37:03 PM

Are there any alternative names to the ideology that is most commonly known as "social Darwinism"note ?

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TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#9546: Jul 16th 2017 at 8:53:18 PM

"How to Feel Good About Being A Classist Asshole"?

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CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#9547: Jul 16th 2017 at 9:04:48 PM

Not direct synonyms, but:

  • Vae victis note  (a remarkably little-used stock phrase from a certain event in Rome's early history) It pretty much is a fancy way to say no might no right.
  • Timocracy ("Rule of the Worthy/Honorable"—based on the Spartan system...)

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GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
Formerly G.G.
#9548: Jul 18th 2017 at 6:20:27 AM

Are there any online/in school colleges that I can go to learn IT technology?

edited 30th Jul '17 1:04:57 PM by GAP

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Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#9549: Jul 30th 2017 at 5:51:00 PM

Is there no way to turn off new PM notifications when you PM block the source? I thought PM blocks would stop the PM, not just hide it.

Loopytires55 Since: Aug, 2016 Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
#9550: Jul 31st 2017 at 12:41:09 PM

Which is correct as the plural of Captain America: Captains America or Captain Americas?


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