Sorry, but Niko was born before Yugoslavia split so when it did fall apart its possible he didnt align with any particular country or didn't get citizenship, therefore he literally has no country
He most definitely did, as he fought in the war. Him being in the war, would probably make in a Serb in the Bosnian territory, pledging allegiance to Republika Srpska.
I love what A Very Potter Musical did with the whole Cho Chang controversy -- in the play, it turns out she's a White girl from the American south with a country accent.
A tea cup is shaped different than a coffee mug. Never understood that bit though. When I am out of dishes, I eat cereal out of my big coffee mug, cause fuck you.
Honest to God if Cedric was out-of-nowhere a transgender, that still be less of a betrayal of his character than in Cursed Child. Turning Cedric into a Death Eater made me lose hope for Harry Potter.
Surprised you didn't mention the "controversy" over the casting of Hermoine as a black girl, where J.K. Rowling came out and declared that nowhere in her books was the colour of Hermoine's skin explicitly mentioned....... only for fans to find very, very specific quotes that completely contradicted that. I don't believe J.K. Rowling responded to that one.
*Sigh* The quote(and it only one quote) is "Her skin pales in fright" in the third book. A thing that black people can do. There are no other quotes. Also someone mention that her mother skin colour is described as white, but one, a black baby being born to a white woman can happen(even in an all white family with no affairs) and two, no one seem to be able to locate this quote.
Lambert2191 That and the whole Pewdiepie WSJ shit train that she hopped onto calling him an edgelord Nazi or some shit when she had in the past worn a Nazi costume and had said she felt aroused.
I still don't see how one can connect a rather small insignificant quibble with someone lacking as a person. It's really not important enough to rise to literal character assassination. The play was awful anyhow and broke canon in more ways than one with the time turner story line. Her being black is the least of its problems, bordering on inconsequential. You'll do your sanity a world of favors if you just consider the books canon and leave it at that. They even changed the race of characters in the big production films too. I just don't see how this gets people hot under the collar. Seems ridiculous, but to each their own.
There is a legend of a man you runs into traffic to perform a special maneuver called the 360 cockspin. If you are lucky to witness this maneuver, you will be blessed by the gta gods.
Каждый охуеваю с того, в насколько удаленных уголках ютуба я нахожу соотечественников. Это же не пьюдипай блять, что тебя вообще сюда привело? Ты из семьи иммигрантов? Какая за этой хуйней стоит история?
"I don't really have an accent any more" says man in clear, unambiguous South Yorkshire/Humberside accent. (Sorry if I'm wrong and that's not actually where you're from, Brad! ;)
Yea, I meant to say "I don't have my accent anymore" as I grew up in Cumbria, but have lived in South Yorkshire for almost 10 years. I had to alter the way I spoke when I first moved to Yorkshire as I kept having to repeat myself and now it's just become an amalgamation of the accents of the people I've spent the most time with. -Brad
People always tell me that they can't place my accent. I'm from Athens, Ga. (about an hour away from Atlanta), and my mom's side of the family sounds really country. I grew up speaking like that, but it assimilated over time. Athens and Atlanta are pretty urban. In the former, you do encounter quite a few people with drawls, but not as much in Atlanta. I went to college in Decatur (just outside the city), and what accent I still had mostly dropped there. I still retain hints of it, though. It strikes me as funny when people ask me where I'm from and say that I sound like I'm not from here, because I'm one of the few people I know who's native.
Fact Fiend - With Karl Smallwood From Sheffield myself, though lived In Leeds/York/Chesterfield/Devon over my life so my accent is kind of posh Yorkshire with a southern raise at the end of sentences. Back in Sheffield now but the times where my Sheffield accent kicks in are times when I'm with my mum/dad or when I'm with people who have proper thick Yorkshire accents lol.
I like how off the cuff and normal this show feels. It’s like those “fast fact” bullshit channels except actually entertaining and personable. Keep it up lads
Alex Yes I know about the Yugoslav Wars. I was saying this is a video game that doesnt use real cities/states. When you have people arguing about the nationality of a fake character that the creators/writers of the game even said didn't matter, that Nico was just "Eastern European with a dark past" that should be good enough. Why even try to shoe horn real events into a game that already played fast and loose with history?
Rowling said she loves black Hermione, and then has her as white in casting and illustrations on the literal covers of her books. Says Dumbledore is gay, then as soon as he’s in a movie about him and Grindelwald it’s invisible. Tries to make Snape, a gross ass human being, redeemable. JK can fight me in a parking lot.
Snape can be a terrible person and still have good qualities and be self sacrificing. People are not binary good/bad, they are complicated. Snape was one of the best characters in the series specifically BECAUSE of that fact.
@@davidtucker9498 idk, even with the redemption Snape in the books just seems a bit meh to me. Film Snape is much better, but in retrospect we could probably chalk that up to Alan rickman, who killed it in every role he did Edit: wrong tense used
J.K. Rowling just likes attention. She could have easily changed things before, but she didn't. She also ruined her universe by saying that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was cannon. It was a nice book, but it ruins canon. In the original Harry Potter series, time travel is self consistent, so even if you go back in time, you won’t be able to change anything. Time turners were all destroyed in the fifth book, since wizards would go mad and kill themselves. In Cursed Child, Scorpio and Albus use a time turner to go back in time and change the future. If they actually worked like that, then Harry could have just gone back in time and killed Voldemort. Don't even get me started on the other things wrong. Here's an article that explains some of the other cannon breaking things: www.google.com/amp/s/cultcrumbs.wordpress.com/2016/06/16/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-has-ruined-canon-forever/amp/ On something I care about less that she did wrong: I don't care that the actress who was cast to play Hermione in the play was black. This doesn't change anything important about her, just like Dumbledore being gay doesn't really effect him. However, I don't thing J.K. Rowling wrote the book picturing Hermione as black like she claims, I think she switched the character's race to give more diversity. Whoch is fine, just the claims that Hermione was always black I simply find untrue. Hermione was white in the novels, movies, and a drawing J.K. Rowling did of the characters ( www.therowlinglibrary.com/2015/12/21/is-hermione-granger-white-or-black/ ). If she was black from the beginning, J.K Rowling should have cast a black actress. It doesn't change anything to make her black, just admit she wasn't always black. Edit: I forgot to mention: I wouldn't even mind if they had made Hermione black as long as they didn't claim her race was always ambiguous. "Here is a quote about Hermione from Half Blood Prince. Hermione emerged, coughing, out of the smoke, clutching the telescope and sporting a brilliantly purple black eye. Here is a second quote moments later when Mrs.Weasley attempts to fix Hermione's eye. Hermione sitting at the kitchen table in great agitation, while MRS. Weasley tried to lessen her resemblance to half a panda". Let's summarize Pandas have White Faces Pandas have black fur around their eyes. Hermione has a black eye. Hermione looks like half a panda. Moral of the story, Hermione is white.... or a Panda" Source: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105467/what-is-hermione-grangers-ethnicity/105472
does it change anything? very little. but its still really shitty when an author changes races/sexes to pander. it doesnt matter what race/sex they are before, and what race/sex they are after. if you want diversity; make a new strong willed and good character. miles morales. the female thor.
i've read that rowling was only talked to for the main cast. so hermione was almost definitely white in her mind. as for other characters that changed, its not like she would name a black character brown; she would never name a character based off their race. cho chang oh. nvm.
Wow, dude, you must be like the smartest guy on the internet. What would we do without you correcting meaningless spelling mistakes? You are such a positive contributor! Go you!
@@dontmisunderstand6041 It can be retroactively canon though if she publishes another book. Like Dumbledore being gay, which I think was actually made canon in the crimes of grindelwald. Never came up in the seven books with him in it before, but at least she included it in a book later.
The thing is, nationality and language are inseparable in former Yugoslavia. See, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian and Montenegrin are basically dialects of the same language; but, if a speaker says he speaks one of them, then there is 99,99% chance he belongs to that ethnic group - meaning, if Niko says he speaks Serbian, there is 99,99% chance he is Serbian. He could've been born in Bosnia or Croatia, and still be ethnically Serbian. I know it's confusing for someone from GB, when, for instance, Jimmy Carr is considered to be Brittish or even English because he was born in England, even though his parents are Irish.
He was caught and arrested with growing marijunana in 2009, which meant he couldn't attend the Half-Blood Prince premiere and also he was fired then. The London riots happened in 2011 the same year Deathly Hallows Part 2 came out and so he was arrested meanwhile his character had already been removed and replaced.
The actor for Goyle was also changed in the last movie from a white actor to a black actor because the white actor (who had played the character since the first movie) had been arrested.
I'm still annoyed at how stereotypically asian a name Cho Chang is. No one is actually called that, and in terms of Chinese phonetics Cho doesn't exist as a word. Her name can be written with Korean hangul, but it's still a shit name with no meaning. If even an iota of research had gone into choosing the name instead of it being plucked from thin air we would have had a name that made sense or at least sounded nicer.
I could never buy into the Harry Potter mania as unlike Tolkein's works which was rather deep and well thought out and expanded on over time its clear Rowling didnt put as much time and effort into creating her world, once the first book sold i think she got pound signs in her eyes and it became about pumping others out as quickly as possible whilst compromising on quality, she did the same with the Indian girls by giving lazy generic names although not to the same extent as with cho
Thats the thing! Cho does exist as a Korean name, but it is a last name 99.9 percent of the time. How lazy do you have to be to not even check the name of your character?
Why because a person has to have a name from there native ethicity? I guess Lucy Lui, Bobby Lee, and Jimmy Yang are all terribly named by their parents.
i didn't even know there was an argument about this. he is definitely a Serb. I dont know if he is Serbian, but Serb for sure. he says Jebica all the time.
I would have guessed Serbian fighting in the Bosnian war.. it can’t all be coincidental. He also gets called Balkan by the Dimitri character a few times
that and he outright shows disdain for my people albanians when he kills dardan ..we were at war with serbia and allied with croatia so yes he is 100% serbian its not even ambigious
some people say he was croatian but it dosent make sence for a croat to show contempt for albanians when we literally send voulneters to fight for croatia during their war and have olways had a good relationship so unless he is that 1 rare croatian who somehow is ok with russians and hates albanians for some reason i guess a albanian stole his bottle of raki he just is serbian and btw its fascinating seeing how it would be like having a playable ex nazi solider...serbs outright comited genocide in bosnia its wierd how double standards work
Ridvan Berisha I grew up around a lot of Serbians and they all said Niko was Serbian because of the way he acts and how people interact with him. To me it makes the most sense
aagain slovenes have had good relationships with albanians and they dident fucking fight in bosnia THEY BARELY FOUGHT so no hes serbian or by a mile long strech russian
All i can say is that: After carefully listening over his curse words, he is definitely from yugoslavia, but they should have hired someone from these parts as the pronunciation of some words is terrible at best. But I'd go with Serbia. I am a native speaker of Croatian, our languages are basically the same language with minor differences but we can usually recognize if someone is speaking Serbian or Croatian pretty fast. I think that whoever taught the voice artist that voiced Niko was Serbian. Just my two cents.
Well we know the voice actor was voicing him as Serbian since he said so. But that doesn't change the fact the writers wanted it to be ambiguous and put no direct evidence in the game.
As far as I'm concerned, things aren't cannon to a universe unless they're actually in the story itself, even if the author herself says it's true, or it existed in a deleted scene, etc.
I find this whole argument funny, because of something that happened during my first playthrough of the game. The first time I met with Brian Meech aka the Cr*ckhead Sidequest character or "This isn't a rock, it's a f***ing boulder", he did a little Russian skit including calling Niko "comrade." Unless the Mandela Effect is in full swing, Niko responds with "I'm not Russian, I'm from Belarus."
Can I just mention for the Harry Potter tangent. There’s a character called Bem. He’s the one from the third movie that details what the ‘Grim’ is. Now while his nationality doesn’t change. His Hogwarts house does. He goes from I think Gryffindor to Ravenclaw and fans made the biggest deal about it. It was probably just a case of ‘oh what house did we put this extra in? Fūck it no one will notice a background character change’. Bem is now our king and we all love him. Go look up the tumblr thread about it, its fūcking funny.
Actually if you want to be proper, even French people don't speak proper French. After all, there are no Vulgar Latin words in French. So that's the entire foundation of the french language gone. Nor any Langues d'oïl in it either. What i'm trying to say is that languages grow and evolve from other languages. So to say that neither side speak "proper" English is weak and hypocritical as no doubt you yourself don't speak your own native language "proper", unless of course your native language is just grunts and animalistic noises as that's what our own speech and the first human languages evolved from.
I can go either way on revealing things that were previously a mystery as long as it doesn't detract from the thing itself. However I really hate when some fans create theories that are trying to make something fun really dark, which 90% of the time is "Everyone is dead" or some variation like "They're in purgatory (or Valhalla, etc.)". They tend to look way to deep between the lines or twist fun easter eggs into a dark conspiracy.
Mad respect to you Karl. Great to hear from someone who actually understands. I was born in America. English is my second language but i had an accent for most my life and i have to purposely try to sound like those in my region or im mistaken for a foriegner. But my accent always comes back thick when im excited or upset and then no one can understand me.
Funny that you mentioned the wizard population, i read this part just last night. After that part in the second book when Hermione gets called a mud blood, Ron mentions that having children with muggles is the only way they can maintain their population.
I've been to Bosnia for work a few times, where I've been talking to several of the locals, we were working with. One of them was from Croacia, the other one was from Bosnia. Both of them said, that in the region, all off the countries in the do in fact have the more or less the same language, wich in other countries would be called serbocoratian. In the countries there are always arguments going on, on how the local language is an autonomous language. Still the locals called that bullshit and said, it is in fact serbocroatian with some minor differences. With all of what I know about it, I'd guess, that Nico was born in former Jugoslavia, where he probably took part in the jugoslavian civil war. Since Jugoslavia no longer exists - it was split up in several countries, one of which is Bosnia - it would explain, why he's referred to as someone who has no country.
You are much more understandable for those of us that are hard of hearing. Thank you for slowing it down and enunciating more properly for us in your videos.
When you talk about Lavender being the only character to be re-cast in the movies, I can remember another instance when the actor playing Crabbe was re-cast due to the actor getting involved in criminal behavior, ultimately leading to his firing.
For some reason, I have always assumed Niko was Serbian despite never really looking up his back story or reading any theories about Niko. How the hell did I ever come to the conclusion that he was Serbian?
Lavender wasn't the only character to get recast, she was however the only character to get recast (that i can think of) for no good reason. The first dumbledore did what his character does 4 books too early and either crabbe or goyle was in trouble with the law for selling a certain illegal substance.
I used to have a strong Cajun (Louisiana, USA) accent. Nobody from my home state recognizes my accent now after I joined the military and spent years traveling amongst Georgia, Colorado, and Iraq
Niko says to Roman "Have you forgotten our language?" That implies that both of them spoke Serbian and I don't know if anyone ever mentioned Roman being a soldier at one point, (correct me if I'm wrong) so that why a lot of people assumed he's Serbian
@Daniel Joce you learn more about them when niko is talking to Kate. He lived with Roman for a while before Roman escaped the war. It's also implied that Roman has siblings and Niko mentions that Romans mother was murdered during the war. Nikos mother is still alive and she messages him on the GTA version of myspace in the game.
He is Serbian im sure i remember him saying it and him very often quietly being disrespected by being called Russian, My niko was a hero,, i only killed the people you litterally HAD to kill to complete the game, i was batman with guns, you can ko ppl in gta4 was such a disapointment they removed ko's in gta5, u shove ppl they die
Maybe the producers suddenly realized that one of the few black characters' name was lavender BROWN, and they thought "no, no, we can't do that". And they suddenly changed her to a white girl.
You finally make a video on one of my favorite video game characters of all time and all the comments are about Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling pandering haha
I'm going to be a bellend and say, as an American, sorry, New England American, and specifically central Connecticut (I know, funny word. It's Native American), I've found throughout the years the BBC have tried to pronounce words with limited accent, or the Connecticut lack of accent. Pronunciation is key for getting your point across. Apart from that, I dig what you're saying. 6:44.
lol I used to spend literally hours just pushing people down the stairs. At the playboy X safehouse there is a stair well with 4-5 flights of stairs, and every time you load there will be between like 2-10 people in there to push down the stairs. There is also some roof tops next to the these stairs that can allow for some pretty cool freerunning/parkour. Seeing how far you can make it away from that roof without falling or getting stuck.
I am about to go off on a tangent/story so if you’re interested continue reading. One of my biggest pet peeves is people who try to change source material. An example was a girl in my art class years ago who was fuming because Peter Parker in SM Homecoming was white. No lie, she would yell out that Hollywood is white washing Spider-Man and other hero’s even tho their source material said they are indeed white. One day I decided enough was enough and blurted out “yea! I hate that Peter Parker is originally white. Let’s change him despite the source material, while we’re at it let’s make Wonder Woman a man and make Black Panther white!” Oh boy the look in her eyes after I said that was hilarious. After she looked at me confused for a good minute she finally said “BUT WONDER WOMAN IS A WOMAN” I replied with “doesn’t matter. I want it changed.” She then went on how I just ruined Wonder Woman and Black Panther because I want something different than what the creators made. I stared her in the eye throughout her whole speech and asked once she was done “What makes Spider-Man/Peter Parker different?” She literally said because he was white. The next few weeks I preceded to draw Wonder Man and White Panther and would show her. She got so mad that she dropped art. Long story short; she was a hypocrite and I proved it to everyone lol Alright tangent/story over
That doesn't even compare to the argument I once heard that you had be a certain race to write about certain characters. The person arguing it reportedly said it was racist, sexist, insulting to write about other characters that are not exclusively your race, your gender, being handicapped. That's right folks, if you are an author and you wrote a diverse cast of characters, you are immediately racist. If you wrote women characters, you are sexist. If you wrote about a character who was handicapped, you are discriminatory against handicap people. So by her logic, I can only write about Chinese wimpy men. And then my friend who took the class said "Tolken wasn't a hobbit, but he still wrote about hobbits."
There can't be 130 wizards entering the world per year because there are other wizarding schools out there that may have more students than Hogwarts... Up to J. K. Rowling
Here's the thing... Hogwarts doesn't teach math. Snape created a basic logic puzzle that a 10 year old muggle could figure out, but a master wizard would have been completely foiled by... I don't think they know how to count past 50...
Well having a mix of different accents sums up having an American one in some parts of the country because of the great diversity u pick up some things from ppl
Some people are very uncomfortable with uncertainty i guess and will return again and again to it to see if it has clarified - i did that when young but stopped - i think when i realised that the answers to some questions are not there at all - authors could be dead or it may be that the author had left it ambiguous so you could choose your own canon
The Americans being from England because English point misses because we have a different form of English using words from other languages in place of your standard words, making up different words, or we use the same words in different ways/circumstances. According to the internet, I speak English (American), or American English. I get what you meant, but that was a bad example.
I always get a kick out of blowing peoples minds here in the US when I tell them that I essentially have 2 accents lol like it’s a pretty simple concept. I spent a lot of my childhood in Dublin, so I naturally have an Irish accent, but I’ve now lived here in the states for so long that I’ve learned how to speak with an American accent!
I always thought they stole the idea of Niko Belic( pronounced Belich) from that movie called Behind Enemy Lines staring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman. The main protagonist that chases the Wilson is based in Bosnian Serb territory and also wears Adidas tracksuit with a rifle.
@Very Snazzy: You may be certain, but you're wrong. "Spelt" is an accepted past tense form of "spell" and seems to be quite common in British English. It's also a type of wheat, but I think that's rather beside the point in this case.
bloodgain Oh yeah... I guess I forgot, since we moved into an area with such a strong northern (British) accent and sh*t grammar that they only say "spelt," even if the situation calls for "spelled," so the word sounds wrong now that I've heard it used for the wrong thing, constantly. Also, you didn't need to @ me, you can just click on my reply and it'll display my channel name, and notify me since it's on the thread. Unless you wanted to, but then just write "at." However, in the context of this, "spelled" is the correct word. If it was "you spelt it wrong," that'd be right, but that wasn't the reply. I would've accepted this better if you hadn't been rather blunt, and as pretentious and patronising as our government.
Very Snazzy Or maybe you should lighten up and realize I was just razzing you for being so "certain" about the grammar. Also, I @'d you because the web interface doesn't insert it automatically, and sometimes the reply chain gets confusing to readers later if names are left out. Using the @ is just an old habit, and I'm used to seeing it that way. Again, lighten up, and maybe don't assume you have every use case for every person in the whole world figured out. I used to be that kid that got a 100 on every test, screwing the curve for everyone else. I always needed to be the smartest person in the room. I usually still am, but I stopped giving a shit about it. Turns out sometimes other people know things, too, and sometimes shit I don't. You just have to shut up long enough to find out. And dollars to donuts, I have a way better grasp of what I'm doing with technology than you - it's kind of my job.
I'm pretty sure Niko Bellic's name is an allusion to the old joke "What do you call a Russian with three testicles? ...Hudyanicabolokov (Who'd you nick a bollock off)
I fully expect Rowling to announce that a goat was following Harry throughout the entire series. "It's never mentioned but it's there." And we'd just have to accept it
People arguing what part of the Balkans a specific video game character comes from sounds about right. People on the Balkans take regionalism and nationalism to an entirely new level. So on the question of "How much of your life can your spend arguing over the nationality of a character?", you'd be surprised how long that argument is going to continue in some form or another somewhere online.
As a writer it can be difficult to flesh out your characters and universe without waiting for the next publicly available piece of your story. On one hand I feel bad for Rowling because she's just trying to expand her world a little, giving it more depth, but on the other hand she's not putting any thought to how she's doing it. She seems to just react on the spot when asked a question, or give a knee jerk response to current events.
Sorry, but Niko was born before Yugoslavia split so when it did fall apart its possible he didnt align with any particular country or didn't get citizenship, therefore he literally has no country
He most definitely did, as he fought in the war. Him being in the war, would probably make in a Serb in the Bosnian territory, pledging allegiance to Republika Srpska.
We are talking about his nationality, not his citizenship dumbass. And that would still make him a Serb no matter what.
Maybe his white?
Fucking nerd
@@chilledmadness9546 Ah, i see. I didn't know that the former Yugoslavia only consisted of Serbia.
I love what A Very Potter Musical did with the whole Cho Chang controversy -- in the play, it turns out she's a White girl from the American south with a country accent.
@@hadeskingoftheunderworld7010 It's a comedy, so being filled with bullshit is kinda the point. It's fantastic and it's all on RUclips. Go watch it
Plot twist. Karl actually drinks alcohol in every video. He just uses a coffee mugs to hide it.
Steve Nah if that was the case, there'd be a lot more tangents than there are
steam clan but tea mug doesnt sound right its a coffee mug
steam clan so we can agree he drinks 5 cups of tea a day in a coffee mug spiked with Gin.
I just assumed there was alcohol in the mug. He is seen drinking it from bottles in other videos
A tea cup is shaped different than a coffee mug. Never understood that bit though. When I am out of dishes, I eat cereal out of my big coffee mug, cause fuck you.
J.K. Rowling: "Uhhh" *Flips through book* "Cedric Diggory is" *Rolls dice* "Transgender"
Pwn3r37 I think you mean Cedric Diggory WAS...
Chris Schoenthaler ... An attack helicopter
plot twist, when he was brought back with the time turners in cursed child, he came back a woman, in a mans body.
Honest to God if Cedric was out-of-nowhere a transgender, that still be less of a betrayal of his character than in Cursed Child. Turning Cedric into a Death Eater made me lose hope for Harry Potter.
The whomping willow was a metaphor for immigration laws
"Please stop J.K. Rowling" thats a mood right there
It aged like fine wine
Surprised you didn't mention the "controversy" over the casting of Hermoine as a black girl, where J.K. Rowling came out and declared that nowhere in her books was the colour of Hermoine's skin explicitly mentioned....... only for fans to find very, very specific quotes that completely contradicted that. I don't believe J.K. Rowling responded to that one.
*Sigh*
The quote(and it only one quote) is "Her skin pales in fright" in the third book. A thing that black people can do.
There are no other quotes.
Also someone mention that her mother skin colour is described as white, but one, a black baby being born to a white woman can happen(even in an all white family with no affairs) and two, no one seem to be able to locate this quote.
One of the most charitable people on the planet is lacking as a person because they cast a black woman in a play? Okay. lol
Lambert2191
That and the whole Pewdiepie WSJ shit train that she hopped onto calling him an edgelord Nazi or some shit when she had in the past worn a Nazi costume and had said she felt aroused.
I still don't see how one can connect a rather small insignificant quibble with someone lacking as a person. It's really not important enough to rise to literal character assassination. The play was awful anyhow and broke canon in more ways than one with the time turner story line. Her being black is the least of its problems, bordering on inconsequential. You'll do your sanity a world of favors if you just consider the books canon and leave it at that. They even changed the race of characters in the big production films too. I just don't see how this gets people hot under the collar. Seems ridiculous, but to each their own.
i wasn't surprised.
There is a legend of a man you runs into traffic to perform a special maneuver called the 360 cockspin. If you are lucky to witness this maneuver, you will be blessed by the gta gods.
Oh. You mean the devs themselves?
You should make a video with your natural accent
Copper-Brass and no subtitles.
I can understand thick irish and am american. My body is ready.
They should make a video about that small, round stain on the greenscreen.
I would like to see this video.
MrcabooseVG he's from Yorkshire so I'm guessing it's from somewhere around that location
Come on, you HAVE to give a demo of your natural accent now #RealAccentReveal
Also, #RealAccentReveal
To anyone who may read this. Could we forward the hashtag to other videos and maybe Karl's personal channel?
One solution revolution!
Каждый охуеваю с того, в насколько удаленных уголках ютуба я нахожу соотечественников. Это же не пьюдипай блять, что тебя вообще сюда привело? Ты из семьи иммигрантов? Какая за этой хуйней стоит история?
"I don't really have an accent any more" says man in clear, unambiguous South Yorkshire/Humberside accent. (Sorry if I'm wrong and that's not actually where you're from, Brad! ;)
Yea, I meant to say "I don't have my accent anymore" as I grew up in Cumbria, but have lived in South Yorkshire for almost 10 years. I had to alter the way I spoke when I first moved to Yorkshire as I kept having to repeat myself and now it's just become an amalgamation of the accents of the people I've spent the most time with.
-Brad
It happens! In my time in Yahkshire I developed an apparent allergy to the word 'the'. I'm a safe distance away and fully recovered now.
People always tell me that they can't place my accent. I'm from Athens, Ga. (about an hour away from Atlanta), and my mom's side of the family sounds really country. I grew up speaking like that, but it assimilated over time. Athens and Atlanta are pretty urban. In the former, you do encounter quite a few people with drawls, but not as much in Atlanta. I went to college in Decatur (just outside the city), and what accent I still had mostly dropped there. I still retain hints of it, though. It strikes me as funny when people ask me where I'm from and say that I sound like I'm not from here, because I'm one of the few people I know who's native.
Fact Fiend - With Karl Smallwood I had to travel 6 hours to get to Cumbria last week lol
Fact Fiend - With Karl Smallwood From Sheffield myself, though lived In Leeds/York/Chesterfield/Devon over my life so my accent is kind of posh Yorkshire with a southern raise at the end of sentences. Back in Sheffield now but the times where my Sheffield accent kicks in are times when I'm with my mum/dad or when I'm with people who have proper thick Yorkshire accents lol.
I like how off the cuff and normal this show feels. It’s like those “fast fact” bullshit channels except actually entertaining and personable. Keep it up lads
Karl is a big, thirsty boy.
MyAnacondaDoes
Karl do be thirst.
MyAnacondaDoes Karl thirs.
“Please stop j k Rowling” hoo boy I relate
Don't we all, hahaha!!!
@@anzaca1 Because she seems to be ruining her own IPs.
big relate
Its a game that involves states and cities that dont exist in real life. Who is to say those war torn countries even exist.
Countries seem to be real in GTA. Just cities get changed.
Alex Yes I know about the Yugoslav Wars. I was saying this is a video game that doesnt use real cities/states. When you have people arguing about the nationality of a fake character that the creators/writers of the game even said didn't matter, that Nico was just "Eastern European with a dark past" that should be good enough. Why even try to shoe horn real events into a game that already played fast and loose with history?
I now heacannon Nico as being from Latveria.
@@tek87 so are countries comprised of island cities?
Wait, so the Potter fandom thought a character named "Cho Chang" was white?! I feel like I lost brain cells just by how stupid that is.
I always pictured Cho Chang as black.
Rowling said she loves black Hermione, and then has her as white in casting and illustrations on the literal covers of her books. Says Dumbledore is gay, then as soon as he’s in a movie about him and Grindelwald it’s invisible. Tries to make Snape, a gross ass human being, redeemable. JK can fight me in a parking lot.
Snape can be a terrible person and still have good qualities and be self sacrificing. People are not binary good/bad, they are complicated. Snape was one of the best characters in the series specifically BECAUSE of that fact.
@@davidtucker9498 idk, even with the redemption Snape in the books just seems a bit meh to me. Film Snape is much better, but in retrospect we could probably chalk that up to Alan rickman, who killed it in every role he did
Edit: wrong tense used
"I HAVE A VERY BIG THIRST"
J.K. Rowling just likes attention. She could have easily changed things before, but she didn't. She also ruined her universe by saying that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was cannon. It was a nice book, but it ruins canon. In the original Harry Potter series, time travel is self consistent, so even if you go back in time, you won’t be able to change anything. Time turners were all destroyed in the fifth book, since wizards would go mad and kill themselves. In Cursed Child, Scorpio and Albus use a time turner to go back in time and change the future. If they actually worked like that, then Harry could have just gone back in time and killed Voldemort. Don't even get me started on the other things wrong. Here's an article that explains some of the other cannon breaking things: www.google.com/amp/s/cultcrumbs.wordpress.com/2016/06/16/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-has-ruined-canon-forever/amp/
On something I care about less that she did wrong: I don't care that the actress who was cast to play Hermione in the play was black. This doesn't change anything important about her, just like Dumbledore being gay doesn't really effect him. However, I don't thing J.K. Rowling wrote the book picturing Hermione as black like she claims, I think she switched the character's race to give more diversity. Whoch is fine, just the claims that Hermione was always black I simply find untrue. Hermione was white in the novels, movies, and a drawing J.K. Rowling did of the characters ( www.therowlinglibrary.com/2015/12/21/is-hermione-granger-white-or-black/ ). If she was black from the beginning, J.K Rowling should have cast a black actress. It doesn't change anything to make her black, just admit she wasn't always black.
Edit: I forgot to mention:
I wouldn't even mind if they had made Hermione black as long as they didn't claim her race was always ambiguous. "Here is a quote about Hermione from Half Blood Prince.
Hermione emerged, coughing, out of the smoke, clutching the telescope and sporting a brilliantly purple black eye.
Here is a second quote moments later when Mrs.Weasley attempts to fix Hermione's eye.
Hermione sitting at the kitchen table in great agitation, while MRS. Weasley tried to lessen her resemblance to half a panda".
Let's summarize
Pandas have White Faces
Pandas have black fur around their eyes.
Hermione has a black eye.
Hermione looks like half a panda.
Moral of the story, Hermione is white.... or a Panda"
Source: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105467/what-is-hermione-grangers-ethnicity/105472
does it change anything? very little. but its still really shitty when an author changes races/sexes to pander.
it doesnt matter what race/sex they are before, and what race/sex they are after. if you want diversity; make a new strong willed and good character. miles morales. the female thor.
i've read that rowling was only talked to for the main cast. so hermione was almost definitely white in her mind. as for other characters that changed, its not like she would name a black character brown; she would never name a character based off their race.
cho chang
oh. nvm.
Hermoine is a panda CONFIRMED! Great work, dad.
canon*
Wow, dude, you must be like the smartest guy on the internet. What would we do without you correcting meaningless spelling mistakes? You are such a positive contributor! Go you!
I need to just make a whole video on the shit JK Rowling has said or done with her fandom.
K.J. Offdensen total bitch...
@@dontmisunderstand6041 It can be retroactively canon though if she publishes another book. Like Dumbledore being gay, which I think was actually made canon in the crimes of grindelwald. Never came up in the seven books with him in it before, but at least she included it in a book later.
I like how the editor decided to leave in the take of him cursing/thanking his mom after he asked to do anther take. Lol. Good stuff.
The thing is, nationality and language are inseparable in former Yugoslavia. See, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian and Montenegrin are basically dialects of the same language; but, if a speaker says he speaks one of them, then there is 99,99% chance he belongs to that ethnic group - meaning, if Niko says he speaks Serbian, there is 99,99% chance he is Serbian. He could've been born in Bosnia or Croatia, and still be ethnically Serbian. I know it's confusing for someone from GB, when, for instance, Jimmy Carr is considered to be Brittish or even English because he was born in England, even though his parents are Irish.
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Montenegrin and Bosnian language doesn't exist...... only Serbo-Croatian
Karl “No one ever believes me when I tell them this” Smallwood
18:00 Well Crabbe was removed from the franchise because Jamie Waylett was growing marijuana, but his character was replaced with Zabini.
He was caught and arrested with growing marijunana in 2009, which meant he couldn't attend the Half-Blood Prince premiere and also he was fired then. The London riots happened in 2011 the same year Deathly Hallows Part 2 came out and so he was arrested meanwhile his character had already been removed and replaced.
That opening joke was fucking phenomenal.
“Karl, that’s a really big cup.”
“Yes, I have a big thirst.”
“Oh, okay.”
Such perfect team-work haha.
The actor for Goyle was also changed in the last movie from a white actor to a black actor because the white actor (who had played the character since the first movie) had been arrested.
lotuswraith I think they actually just replaced the character with Blaise zabini instead
Yah they just replaced Goyle with Blaise Zabini. Goyle isn't black, it just a different character from the books.
Typical Slytherin
I sit corrected.
I'm still annoyed at how stereotypically asian a name Cho Chang is. No one is actually called that, and in terms of Chinese phonetics Cho doesn't exist as a word. Her name can be written with Korean hangul, but it's still a shit name with no meaning. If even an iota of research had gone into choosing the name instead of it being plucked from thin air we would have had a name that made sense or at least sounded nicer.
Lucy Xu same
I could never buy into the Harry Potter mania as unlike Tolkein's works which was rather deep and well thought out and expanded on over time its clear Rowling didnt put as much time and effort into creating her world, once the first book sold i think she got pound signs in her eyes and it became about pumping others out as quickly as possible whilst compromising on quality, she did the same with the Indian girls by giving lazy generic names although not to the same extent as with cho
Thats the thing! Cho does exist as a Korean name, but it is a last name 99.9 percent of the time. How lazy do you have to be to not even check the name of your character?
Why because a person has to have a name from there native ethicity? I guess Lucy Lui, Bobby Lee, and Jimmy Yang are all terribly named by their parents.
Lucy Xu I thought cho meant something in Japanese, because dragonball super is dragonball cho over there
i didn't even know there was an argument about this. he is definitely a Serb. I dont know if he is Serbian, but Serb for sure.
he says Jebica all the time.
Its spelled jebi ga
I would have guessed Serbian fighting in the Bosnian war.. it can’t all be coincidental. He also gets called Balkan by the Dimitri character a few times
that and he outright shows disdain for my people albanians when he kills dardan ..we were at war with serbia and allied with croatia
so yes he is 100% serbian
its not even ambigious
some people say he was croatian but it dosent make sence for a croat to show contempt for albanians when we literally send voulneters to fight for croatia during their war and have olways had a good relationship
so unless he is that 1 rare croatian who somehow is ok with russians and hates albanians for some reason i guess a albanian stole his bottle of raki
he just is serbian
and btw its fascinating seeing how it would be like having a playable ex nazi solider...serbs outright comited genocide in bosnia
its wierd how double standards work
Probably a Chechen tho
Ridvan Berisha I grew up around a lot of Serbians and they all said Niko was Serbian because of the way he acts and how people interact with him. To me it makes the most sense
aagain slovenes have had good relationships with albanians and they dident fucking fight in bosnia THEY BARELY FOUGHT so no hes serbian or by a mile long strech russian
All i can say is that: After carefully listening over his curse words, he is definitely from yugoslavia, but they should have hired someone from these parts as the pronunciation of some words is terrible at best.
But I'd go with Serbia. I am a native speaker of Croatian, our languages are basically the same language with minor differences but we can usually recognize if someone is speaking Serbian or Croatian pretty fast. I think that whoever taught the voice artist that voiced Niko was Serbian.
Just my two cents.
Well we know the voice actor was voicing him as Serbian since he said so. But that doesn't change the fact the writers wanted it to be ambiguous and put no direct evidence in the game.
2:48 Nico! It's your cousin! Let's go bowling!
Fun fact, Cho Chang is meant to be Chinese yet her name is just two Korean surnames jammed together!
Please use your actual accent at the end of a video soon
We need a tangent for this right now.
#realaccentreveal
As far as I'm concerned, things aren't cannon to a universe unless they're actually in the story itself, even if the author herself says it's true, or it existed in a deleted scene, etc.
I find this whole argument funny, because of something that happened during my first playthrough of the game. The first time I met with Brian Meech aka the Cr*ckhead Sidequest character or "This isn't a rock, it's a f***ing boulder", he did a little Russian skit including calling Niko "comrade." Unless the Mandela Effect is in full swing, Niko responds with "I'm not Russian, I'm from Belarus."
Can I just mention for the Harry Potter tangent.
There’s a character called Bem. He’s the one from the third movie that details what the ‘Grim’ is. Now while his nationality doesn’t change. His Hogwarts house does. He goes from I think Gryffindor to Ravenclaw and fans made the biggest deal about it. It was probably just a case of ‘oh what house did we put this extra in? Fūck it no one will notice a background character change’. Bem is now our king and we all love him. Go look up the tumblr thread about it, its fūcking funny.
6:29 Karl I'll have you know, that us Americans fought long and hard for our right to speak American.
Loooool, you actually speak old school British. It's the British people that changed.
...What are you trying to say? And ofc there's french words in english.
Actually if you want to be proper, even French people don't speak proper French. After all, there are no Vulgar Latin words in French. So that's the entire foundation of the french language gone. Nor any Langues d'oïl in it either. What i'm trying to say is that languages grow and evolve from other languages. So to say that neither side speak "proper" English is weak and hypocritical as no doubt you yourself don't speak your own native language "proper", unless of course your native language is just grunts and animalistic noises as that's what our own speech and the first human languages evolved from.
Excuse me its pronounced 'Merican!
I know that but I didn't want to confuse our foreign friends.
I’ve recently found your videos and I want to thank you guys for giving me the mildly useless content I need to adequately procrastinate my life!
I have a sudden urge to go bowling for some reason... hmmm
Don't forget to stare at the beeeeg American teetees while you're out and about.
I can go either way on revealing things that were previously a mystery as long as it doesn't detract from the thing itself. However I really hate when some fans create theories that are trying to make something fun really dark, which 90% of the time is "Everyone is dead" or some variation like "They're in purgatory (or Valhalla, etc.)". They tend to look way to deep between the lines or twist fun easter eggs into a dark conspiracy.
Greatest channel I've found in a while
Mad respect to you Karl. Great to hear from someone who actually understands. I was born in America. English is my second language but i had an accent for most my life and i have to purposely try to sound like those in my region or im mistaken for a foriegner. But my accent always comes back thick when im excited or upset and then no one can understand me.
Niko Belić (or Belic as you call him) is a Serb, his last name directly implies that he is a Serb
Or his family was from Serbia, and moved somewhere else.
Funny that you mentioned the wizard population, i read this part just last night. After that part in the second book when Hermione gets called a mud blood, Ron mentions that having children with muggles is the only way they can maintain their population.
I've been to Bosnia for work a few times, where I've been talking to several of the locals, we were working with. One of them was from Croacia, the other one was from Bosnia. Both of them said, that in the region, all off the countries in the do in fact have the more or less the same language, wich in other countries would be called serbocoratian. In the countries there are always arguments going on, on how the local language is an autonomous language. Still the locals called that bullshit and said, it is in fact serbocroatian with some minor differences. With all of what I know about it, I'd guess, that Nico was born in former Jugoslavia, where he probably took part in the jugoslavian civil war. Since Jugoslavia no longer exists - it was split up in several countries, one of which is Bosnia - it would explain, why he's referred to as someone who has no country.
You are much more understandable for those of us that are hard of hearing. Thank you for slowing it down and enunciating more properly for us in your videos.
Now I want to hear Karl's natural accent.
When you talk about Lavender being the only character to be re-cast in the movies, I can remember another instance when the actor playing Crabbe was re-cast due to the actor getting involved in criminal behavior, ultimately leading to his firing.
That was actually a new character if I recall.
For some reason, I have always assumed Niko was Serbian despite never really looking up his back story or reading any theories about Niko. How the hell did I ever come to the conclusion that he was Serbian?
Lavender wasn't the only character to get recast, she was however the only character to get recast (that i can think of) for no good reason. The first dumbledore did what his character does 4 books too early and either crabbe or goyle was in trouble with the law for selling a certain illegal substance.
"A man with no country" Yugoslavia.
I used to have a strong Cajun (Louisiana, USA) accent. Nobody from my home state recognizes my accent now after I joined the military and spent years traveling amongst Georgia, Colorado, and Iraq
Niko says to Roman "Have you forgotten our language?" That implies that both of them spoke Serbian and I don't know if anyone ever mentioned Roman being a soldier at one point, (correct me if I'm wrong) so that why a lot of people assumed he's Serbian
@Daniel Joce you learn more about them when niko is talking to Kate. He lived with Roman for a while before Roman escaped the war. It's also implied that Roman has siblings and Niko mentions that Romans mother was murdered during the war. Nikos mother is still alive and she messages him on the GTA version of myspace in the game.
The Lavender Brown thing ALWAYS pissed me off!! Thank you Karl! Thank you!
Is it just me, or does all of Karl's stories start with "People don't believe me when I tell them"
Lol you let his mom yell at him by not editing out that part what a friend
He is Serbian im sure i remember him saying it and him very often quietly being disrespected by being called Russian,
My niko was a hero,, i only killed the people you litterally HAD to kill to complete the game, i was batman with guns,
you can ko ppl in gta4 was such a disapointment they removed ko's in gta5, u shove ppl they die
Maybe the producers suddenly realized that one of the few black characters' name was lavender BROWN, and they thought "no, no, we can't do that". And they suddenly changed her to a white girl.
You finally make a video on one of my favorite video game characters of all time and all the comments are about Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling pandering haha
I'm going to be a bellend and say, as an American, sorry, New England American, and specifically central Connecticut (I know, funny word. It's Native American), I've found throughout the years the BBC have tried to pronounce words with limited accent, or the Connecticut lack of accent. Pronunciation is key for getting your point across. Apart from that, I dig what you're saying. 6:44.
Got the notification, but an Overly Sarcastic Productions video won out...
lol I used to spend literally hours just pushing people down the stairs. At the playboy X safehouse there is a stair well with 4-5 flights of stairs, and every time you load there will be between like 2-10 people in there to push down the stairs. There is also some roof tops next to the these stairs that can allow for some pretty cool freerunning/parkour. Seeing how far you can make it away from that roof without falling or getting stuck.
I haven't watched the whole video yet and I'm just confused why everyone's bitching about Harry Potter.
My Nico was just a psychopath who shot up hospitals and had shoot outs with the police in said hospital
can u do a whole video where u just talk about harry potter like that?
Brad sounds like an older version of Wakko from Animaniacs
When me and my dad played gta he just referred to him as “angry Russian man”
Only if he was russian...
Him getting interrupted by his phone is a cool nod to GTA 4 lol
I am about to go off on a tangent/story so if you’re interested continue reading.
One of my biggest pet peeves is people who try to change source material. An example was a girl in my art class years ago who was fuming because Peter Parker in SM Homecoming was white. No lie, she would yell out that Hollywood is white washing Spider-Man and other hero’s even tho their source material said they are indeed white. One day I decided enough was enough and blurted out “yea! I hate that Peter Parker is originally white. Let’s change him despite the source material, while we’re at it let’s make Wonder Woman a man and make Black Panther white!”
Oh boy the look in her eyes after I said that was hilarious. After she looked at me confused for a good minute she finally said
“BUT WONDER WOMAN IS A WOMAN”
I replied with “doesn’t matter. I want it changed.”
She then went on how I just ruined Wonder Woman and Black Panther because I want something different than what the creators made.
I stared her in the eye throughout her whole speech and asked once she was done
“What makes Spider-Man/Peter Parker different?”
She literally said because he was white.
The next few weeks I preceded to draw Wonder Man and White Panther and would show her. She got so mad that she dropped art.
Long story short; she was a hypocrite and I proved it to everyone lol
Alright tangent/story over
That doesn't even compare to the argument I once heard that you had be a certain race to write about certain characters. The person arguing it reportedly said it was racist, sexist, insulting to write about other characters that are not exclusively your race, your gender, being handicapped.
That's right folks, if you are an author and you wrote a diverse cast of characters, you are immediately racist. If you wrote women characters, you are sexist. If you wrote about a character who was handicapped, you are discriminatory against handicap people. So by her logic, I can only write about Chinese wimpy men.
And then my friend who took the class said "Tolken wasn't a hobbit, but he still wrote about hobbits."
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2018 - sees after video topic: "oh?"
2021 - sees after video topic, after her twitter exists, and realising im trans: "yeah"
Excuse me! I speak MERICAN!
Its funny watching these out of order and knowing how old this is based on how much tattoo you have. A+, take my damn like.
There can't be 130 wizards entering the world per year because there are other wizarding schools out there that may have more students than Hogwarts... Up to J. K. Rowling
Here's the thing... Hogwarts doesn't teach math. Snape created a basic logic puzzle that a 10 year old muggle could figure out, but a master wizard would have been completely foiled by...
I don't think they know how to count past 50...
There’s not even a second person there. He’s talking to recordings of himself. Neat.
I find it funny that Niko can't spell or pronounce his own last name correctly.
People on Wikipedia: *Will argue about fucking anything*
People on R34: *Will agree about fucking anything*
Well having a mix of different accents sums up having an American one in some parts of the country because of the great diversity u pick up some things from ppl
Some people are very uncomfortable with uncertainty i guess and will return again and again to it to see if it has clarified - i did that when young but stopped - i think when i realised that the answers to some questions are not there at all - authors could be dead or it may be that the author had left it ambiguous so you could choose your own canon
The Americans being from England because English point misses because we have a different form of English using words from other languages in place of your standard words, making up different words, or we use the same words in different ways/circumstances. According to the internet, I speak English (American), or American English. I get what you meant, but that was a bad example.
Dallas Swinehart that's the difference between a dialect and a language
It was a joke.
What about all the u.s citizens that have spanish as their mother language
"A man with no country."
Did Niko serve with the Diamond Dogs?
Haha... I didn't know about that gay harry potter shit.
Hilarious
I always get a kick out of blowing peoples minds here in the US when I tell them that I essentially have 2 accents lol like it’s a pretty simple concept. I spent a lot of my childhood in Dublin, so I naturally have an Irish accent, but I’ve now lived here in the states for so long that I’ve learned how to speak with an American accent!
That's like John barrowman. He has a Scottish accent with his family and an American accent with his friends.
"Well, in Superman the Kryptonians have an English accent so they are from England" - Logic of accent= nationality.
Actually, depending on the canon you are talking about...
So if the “hood” ornament is on the “bonnet”? Where is the bonnet ornament located? And where is the hood that the ornament originally came from?
yeet
Da532 Karl's thirst is empty, YEET
This earth is flat, yeet
Yote
And that's all she yote
Yoot
I think your accent is part of what makes these videos great, Karl
Karl is thirsty 0.0
I always thought they stole the idea of Niko Belic( pronounced Belich) from that movie called Behind Enemy Lines staring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman. The main protagonist that chases the Wilson is based in Bosnian Serb territory and also wears Adidas tracksuit with a rifle.
*YEET*
yo dude Karl's big thirst is empty, YEET
“Will the number go down?”
Lol the money number is always top priority
Fourtyith
luke copeland **sigh** First of all (pun intended), no one cares. You're not even first and you couldn't even get that right (it's 40th).
Róisín Grant spelled. I'm certain "spelt" is slang.
@Very Snazzy: You may be certain, but you're wrong. "Spelt" is an accepted past tense form of "spell" and seems to be quite common in British English. It's also a type of wheat, but I think that's rather beside the point in this case.
bloodgain Oh yeah... I guess I forgot, since we moved into an area with such a strong northern (British) accent and sh*t grammar that they only say "spelt," even if the situation calls for "spelled," so the word sounds wrong now that I've heard it used for the wrong thing, constantly.
Also, you didn't need to @ me, you can just click on my reply and it'll display my channel name, and notify me since it's on the thread. Unless you wanted to, but then just write "at." However, in the context of this, "spelled" is the correct word. If it was "you spelt it wrong," that'd be right, but that wasn't the reply.
I would've accepted this better if you hadn't been rather blunt, and as pretentious and patronising as our government.
Very Snazzy Or maybe you should lighten up and realize I was just razzing you for being so "certain" about the grammar.
Also, I @'d you because the web interface doesn't insert it automatically, and sometimes the reply chain gets confusing to readers later if names are left out. Using the @ is just an old habit, and I'm used to seeing it that way. Again, lighten up, and maybe don't assume you have every use case for every person in the whole world figured out.
I used to be that kid that got a 100 on every test, screwing the curve for everyone else. I always needed to be the smartest person in the room. I usually still am, but I stopped giving a shit about it. Turns out sometimes other people know things, too, and sometimes shit I don't. You just have to shut up long enough to find out. And dollars to donuts, I have a way better grasp of what I'm doing with technology than you - it's kind of my job.
I'm pretty sure Niko Bellic's name is an allusion to the old joke "What do you call a Russian with three testicles? ...Hudyanicabolokov (Who'd you nick a bollock off)
I fully expect Rowling to announce that a goat was following Harry throughout the entire series. "It's never mentioned but it's there." And we'd just have to accept it
People arguing what part of the Balkans a specific video game character comes from sounds about right. People on the Balkans take regionalism and nationalism to an entirely new level. So on the question of "How much of your life can your spend arguing over the nationality of a character?", you'd be surprised how long that argument is going to continue in some form or another somewhere online.
Reminds me of an eastern European person I used to work with. Even his own family argues about how his last name is pronounced.
Karl, your accent is absolutely hilarious in a good way.
As a writer it can be difficult to flesh out your characters and universe without waiting for the next publicly available piece of your story. On one hand I feel bad for Rowling because she's just trying to expand her world a little, giving it more depth, but on the other hand she's not putting any thought to how she's doing it. She seems to just react on the spot when asked a question, or give a knee jerk response to current events.
Woot! I always knew I was English!!
Does that mean I can get on the dole now? Lol.
I just imagine these producers shaking a magic 8-ball asking it if the number will go down if they do X.