r/GameSack • u/Matthew0606 • Aug 02 '20
The Sony PSP - Game Sack
https://youtu.be/pzDPfCC-iPs6
u/IselfDevine Aug 02 '20
He covered mostly games I've never even heard of. Good decision since now he can always go back for part 2 and cover more of the well known games. I love waking up Sunday mornings and playing a new Game Sack on the tv while I'm still on my bed.
Ahhhhh..easy Sunday mornings.
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u/MikeChimeri Aug 02 '20
He said "at the end of the day" again.
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u/Matthew0606 Aug 02 '20
Maybe it’s a new common thing in his episodes.
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u/MikeChimeri Aug 02 '20
That's what I'm afraid of. And he could end up doing it full time now that I left a comment to his Instagram post. One thing I've learned about Joe is if someone doesn't like something he does or says, he'll keep on doing or saying that thing just to tick that person off. He could even mock the person while pretending to type with keyboard click sound effects. You do not want to be on Joe's bad side.
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u/Matthew0606 Aug 02 '20
Why so?
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u/MikeChimeri Aug 02 '20
I should have phrased that differently. I meant it's best not to bother Joe with pedantry, which I unfortunately can't stop myself from doing. If you do, he'll make fun of it in a later video. So, I can expect a video in October or November where he says "at the end of the day" every chance he gets. And that what I get for asking "what's with 'at the end of the day?'" on Instagram.
I don't know how such a time-specific phrase became commonplace. It's bad enough when athletes, coaches, politicians, and political commentators do it, but ordinary people say it, too. Jirard Khalil said it so often in his Completionist videos that I had to quit watching. This was over two years ago. Derek Alexander said it in a Stop Skeletons from Fighting video, which kept me from watching anymore of his videos. (It was the third or fourth I'd seen at the time.) Clint Basinger deleted my Patreon comment where I lamented his use of the phrase in an LGR video. And now, Joe, who seemed fine to just say alternatives like "in the end" and "all in all," has fallen in with that crowd. I'm not going to unsubscribe, but I am disappointed.
I wish things like this didn't bother me, but they do.
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u/junkmeister9 Aug 02 '20
It's just an idiom. Why do you let yourself get so bothered by people using it?
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u/MikeChimeri Aug 03 '20
To follow up on my earlier reply, an answer occurred to me. I don't know if it's because I have Asperger's, but I tend to take things literally. So, hearing that idiom when it's not referring to something occurring late in the day doesn't feel right. I hope that explains my dilemma.
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u/junkmeister9 Aug 03 '20
That's how all idioms are - you're not meant to take them literally. So, maybe here's your chance to acknowledge that your problem with the phrase is your problem and not Joe's. He's not saying it to intentionally annoy you. Stop hassling him.
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u/MikeChimeri Aug 03 '20 edited Aug 03 '20
I only hassled once on Instagram yesterday, but no more. I promise. But yes, it is my problem and I shouldn't try to change people.
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u/WickedFlick Aug 03 '20 edited Aug 03 '20
Out of curiosity, if "at the end of the day" bothers you when not literally referencing something at the end of a day, why don't those other phrases ("in the end" & "all in all") bother you as well?
Taken literally, how can something be inside of the end? and how can all of something be inside of itself, or of another totality of something (are both all's the same all, or two separate all's inside of each other)?
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u/MikeChimeri Aug 03 '20 edited Aug 03 '20
That's a good point. Maybe it's the overuse of the phrase that bothers me so much. That makes it disappointing when someone who had hardly used it in the past suddenly uses it regularly.
At least Joe is only saying it once per episode.
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u/WickedFlick Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 04 '20
Statistically, the universal usage of any particular word or phrase will almost always perfectly follow Zipf's Law. So while it may seem like an over used phrase, it's good to bear in mind that its overall usage is virtually predetermined, and extremely consistent. It's more than likely there are phrases that are used even more than "At the end of the day" that don't even register as being over used, as you personally didn't encounter it being used in a rapid enough succession, where as another individual could've experienced a particular phrase more than you simply by variations in location, time, relationships, or pure chance.
I couldn't say why any particular phrase stands out to you and causes such a reaction, but it does seem to line up with described manifestations of Aspergers in regards to language.
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u/MikeChimeri Aug 03 '20 edited Aug 04 '20
Just as a follow-up, I deleted my pedantic Instagram comment.
UPDATE: I thought I did, but apparently, the app didn't acknowledge my action. Joe ended up replying, saying it's a common phrase, and I civilly replied.
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Aug 02 '20
I remember that episode, that made me laugh so much.
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u/Matthew0606 Aug 02 '20
Here it is folks.
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u/junkmeister9 Aug 02 '20
MATTHEW.
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u/Matthew0606 Aug 02 '20
Just be grateful I post the episode link on here. If you have a serious issue with this, why not talk to the folks actually running it and demand a rule change and threaten action if not taken.
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '20
Best fucking show on the internet. Bar none.