Everything doesn't have to be complete sentences, but it's really awkward to figure out how to punctuate it.

Whereas if it's a sentence fragment (and all alone, like this), there is no capitalisation, and no final period or other terminal punctuation?

Yes.

I suspect I'm considerably older than the author of that article, and everything he says is completely wrong, except maybe the part about gamers.

I am always bugged when someone nests brackets (because they have a thought within a thought {it just adds confusion [though it is nice that there are various bracket styles]}).

eta - then there is the danger that they don't match their brackets and cause havoc.

ita, like Steph said yesterday, brackets are different than parentheses. These are brackets: []

No, you are regional. Check wikipedia: [link] .

except maybe the part about gamers.

Yup, that's the part I recuse myself for too. I don't really think, until I was 15 or 16, pretty much, there were enough games to properly be a gamer without working so hard at it you were doing something asocial.

I couldn't because there are TOO MANY.

I don't think I've reblogged Supernatural since I got to work...not since the very start of the work day, anyway. I think I've got all the other topics in the world covered though, with extra carbs.

No, you are regional. Check wikipedia

I only know from U.S., lady, because that's where I am.

ita, like Steph said yesterday, brackets are different than parentheses. These are brackets: []

No, you are regional.

WE ARE NOT REGIONAL. WE ARE EVERYWHERE.

(I'm proofing something with long chemical names, which have italicized letters that seem random but I know aren't, and I just needed to bust in here with ASSCAPS so I could stop looking at the crazy chemical names for a minute.)

EVERYWHERE.

I think I've been pretty clear about being from somewhere else. If you need me to review, I can. Totally fine with that. The bit where you say the way I talk is wrong versus different, then we gonna have issues. You can say parentheses all you need--I am not going to sweat it much, though.

One of the people I see agreeing with that article is also self-identifying as having Aspergers and a brain injury. At what point can you be clear about what causes bring on what social effects?

Hmm. I guess the sort of gamer you would be in the early-mid 80s would be the sort that wrote your own games too, and given the effort expended to play through a Mass Effect and then do it again as male Shepard or a different character or whatever, I'm gonna say that your (my) Zork-ripoff for the BBC Micro or the Asteroids ripoff for the ZX Spectrum took less time, don't know about effort.

Steph, please. You are right there. Don't front like you're anywhere else.

The bit where you say the way I talk is wrong versus different, then we gonna have issues.

I didn't say you were wrong, I said parentheses and brackets are called two different things in the U.S., and that's all I know.

Ita, one of my pet peeves is saying "driving on the wrong side of the road". It's the other side.

Steph, please. You are right there. Don't front like you're anywhere else.

Dang, I thought I was so convincing as being EVERYWHERE. Omnipresence isn't what it's cracked up to be.