We know because the guy who wrote it told us.

The guy who first wrote “eiland” spelled it as such. Then some idiot put an ‘s’ on it as a stylistic choice to latinize a word that has no Latin root. Now if you spell it any way other than “island” you are wrong because that is the way to word is used and understood.

Or, to put it another way, if you want to insist language is set in stone let me translate for you:

Se mann þe ǣrest wrāt “eiland,” swā hine stæfode. Þā sum dysig mann an ‘s’ onlēde swā stīlcræft, tō Lǣden sprǣce þæt word þe næfþ nān Lǣden rōt. Nū gif þū hine stæfian on ǣnige wīsan būtan “island,” þū bist wōh, forþām þæt is sēo wīs þe þæt word is gebrocen and understonden.

I encountered someone who was foaming at the mouth certain about how I was saying it wrong

And here you are. The circle is complete.

That’s why you had to spell it wrong in order to communicate that.

I’m sorry, I see you just wanted to knock your straw man around and are unable to handle actual push back. I’ll leave you to it.

The Catholic Church

Catholics and Christians, while similar, go to different churches. So despite the fact that:

“Of their local church” is what [you] clearly stated

You are in fact associating them with people who do not attend “their local church”.

You think every church has pedos in it and you accuse me of building a straw man?

You are the people you associate with

Do they associate with people 2000 miles away? Or do they just like the same book?

Is everyone who enjoys Lord of the Rings responsible for the actions of other LotR fans?

Many of them do speak out against and actively oppose those who use religion as an excuse for bigotry.

Then some idiot responds with “No True Scotsman” and thinks they made a brilliant retort against someone who you would think they would be on the same side as.

There were 2 big things that cover 90% of things Jesus said in the Bible.

1. love people. Full stop. Yes, them too.
2. don’t listen to hypocrites that make up religious rules and tell you you have to obey them.

Something like this is what encouraged my wife’s conservative grandmother to reconsider her thoughts on the topic. She heard about a gay teen who committed suicide and asked “if it was a choice, why wouldn’t they just choose not to be gay instead of killing themselves?”

“So who can I refuse treatment to?”

“That’s the neat part. You don’t.”

Someone being LGBT doesn’t mean McDonald’s is allowed to refuse them service, or ESSO is allowed to refuse to sell them gas, or a gym can refuse them membership. Why the fuck do you think a doctor should be allowed to refuse them treatment for a disease?

The “which one” was in reference to the original comment. Which was about Epic.

So we were talking about epic. Glad we cleared that up.

Dictionaries generally (because each one is going to have a slightly different definition) define it as having complete control over a market.

So it’s not a Monopoly then.

Whereas a lot of the monopoly laws and departments define it as having over a certain percentage of the market share, even if it isn’t 100%

And seeing as Valve appears to not be running afoul of these laws, not a Monopoly then.

I was listing all the bad things Steam does and never mentioned Epic. That’s on you projecting so much.

You used the phrase “which one” a lot. That is incoherent nonsense unless you are talking about at least 2 entities. “Which one” was the second entity?

even if that ain’t the dictionary definition

So not what that word means.

Point to where I said that.

Right here: https://lemmy.world/comment/18163814

The same thing Steam did to secure its monopoly.

That’s not what the word monopoly means

No, you were literally saying Epic was better than Steam because Epic is doing the same scummy things but just wasn’t around when Steam started doing it.

I never made any claims as to whether I felt those practices are problematic or not, I just pointed out that they both do it so it’s irrelevant in the comparison.

Epic is worse than Steam because of its aggressively anti-consumer practices like paid exclusives.

Piracy

If Steam goes down I have no problems torrenting games I’ve already paid for

Imagine being so full of yourself that you think saying nothing has any value.

Fun fact: the term “Stockholm syndrome” originates from a hostage situation in which the authorities did not seem to care about the safety of the hostages at all, they regularly put the hostages in danger and the hostage takers were frequently trying to protect the hostages from the actions of the authorities.
In light of that, the hostages having more empathy towards their captors makes perfect sense. However ignorant people who did not understand the details of the event coined the term “Stockholm syndrome” instead of actually listening to the hostages or trying to understand a different point of view.

Your use of the term feels very appropriate.

Dude can’t even spell “Gamers” and is complaining other people aren’t smart…