Eternity Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pre-DLC Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Safav Hamon]

It's not gating because you could do it at any time. You would just never be overlevelled.

 

[Quillon]

Having to repeatedly backtrack to a major hub to check if some invisible trigger changed the world state and spawned bunch of new quests is fucking retarded.

Not if they don't make invisible triggers random and tie them to main story milestones/acts; that would make new quests appear, existing quests disappear/change or resolved in some way on their own(prolly in a worse way since player did not help).

 

[Lacrymas]

It's not gating because you could do it at any time. You would just never be overlevelled.

You mean scale it down infinitely? That doesn't sound good.

 

[Safav Hamon]

No, that's not what I'm saying at all...

 

[Lacrymas]

I know what you are saying, but that is gating in a way, just not the artificial one. I'm trying to tell you that your terminology is insufficiently specific.

 

[Roguey]

Soft gates are still gates though sure there's a difference between "you can never ever pass this gate unless you have the specific key" and "well you can try to pass this gate, but you'll probably die within five seconds inside."

 

[AwesomeButton]

you might want to double check things before calling folks illiterates

"There is a [...] number of ways [...]"

Subject-verb agreement.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Every grammar book will tell you that a "[quantifier] of [things]" structure takes the plural verb.

In fact, from your own damn link:

 

[Jasede]

Both forms are acceptable and put the emphasis slightly differently. This is one of those things people who argue on the Internet masturbate to and it's really boring.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Every grammar book will tell you that a "[quantifier] of [things]" structure takes the plural verb.

In fact, from your own damn link:

The example given in the link is correct. But it's you who can't notice the difference between:
"A number of people grow"
and
"There are a number of ways".

 

[AwesomeButton]

Both forms are acceptable and put the emphasis slightly differently. This is one of those things people who argue on the Internet masturbate to and it's really boring.

From my perspective people who don't argue about grammar are boring.

 

[DalekFlay]

From my perspective people who don't argue about grammar are boring.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Instead there are a number of possibilities of denoting future time.

In addition to process and continuation, there are a number of other concomitant meanings or overtones that go with the progressive aspect.

There are a number of count nouns that take the zero article in abstract.

There are a number of noun phrases that can be minimizers only in negative clauses

Do I need to go on, or do you want to argue with Quirk?

 

[AwesomeButton]

Instead there are a number of possibilities of denoting future time.

In addition to process and continuation, there are a number of other concomitant meanings or overtones that go with the progressive aspect.

There are a number of count nouns that take the zero article in abstract.

There are a number of noun phrases that can be minimizers only in negative clauses

Do I need to go on, or do you want to argue with Quirk?

Why post four examples of the same thing? You don't understand the reason why that sentence should be with "is", instead you're parroting examples which you don't understand.
These are all different cases of collective noun use than the one I said should be in singular.
I'll give you until tomorrow to find what the difference is, then I'll tell you.

If you find by tomorrow why should "There is a finite number of ways" be with "is", you will win... my admiration I guess. Now let me watch the fucking game.

 

[aweigh]

I love entering soft gates.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Since I'm also watching the fucking game, I'm gonna hit you with the grammar book again later when I find the actual chapter on this, cuz I know it's there. But spoiler: you are wrong and also a cretin.

 

[Darth Roxor]

actually as retarded as it may seem in grammer-induced raeg i completely missed the "finite" in that sentence

so i guess i'm wrong and also a cretin

good job you win

this time

edit: however without the "finite" in there (which you happen to skip in a number of posts (hóhóhó)) that would still be "are"

 

[Quillon]

Such fun discussions ITT.

 

[2house2fly]

Wouldn't surprise me at all if it were a somewhat common thing to read on forums like this, but that's not the same as being common among players. In any case, majority or minority behind me, I'm against the idea of restricting access to content and quests until you're a higher level or whatever solely to avoid people doing everything in a city at once and then complaining there's nothing to do there anymore.

I stayed in Neketaka exploring and doing quests until I'd done everything that didn't require me to get back on my boat, and I agree. I still came back to Neketaka to shop and turn in bounties and shop, and if after all that there's no more reason to return to the city... so what?

 

[Wulfric Pinewood]

Where can i grow tomatoes in POE 2 ?

 

[Parabalus]

This grammar discussion is more interesting than Deadfire.

 

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[fantadomat]

A bunch of Slav shitposters arguing about English grammar,that is a new low for the codex i take it. If it was a debate about latin or old greek linguistics,that would have been prestigious. But lowly english,shame on you guys.

 

[Darth Roxor]

speaking of, you're supposed to use spaces after commas

 

[norolim]

You should also remember to start sentences with a capital letter and end with a full stop.