"Get out of here, Stalker! Release the Epstein Files!"
I am an NPC in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Shadow of Chornobyl (2026 Remaster -- (All we did in the remaster was fix the bugs, it is the same game you know and love except for this one NPC now reminds you of the Epstein class criminals!))
I had this enabled, but i never figured out you have to tap the app icon to bring up a menu... Nothing else that i can think of works like that in Android.
Under water gym. No, not water like Misty. Under water.
I haven't figured out all the logistics. How will people breathe?
Seaweed mazes and cool cave grottos, sunlight filtering in from above,
There's rocks and plants and corals and shit under water. My trainers will use all those Pokemon. Not sure about ice yet. That can be in the sequel game -- the icy under water gym.
To me, several times shorter makes perfect sense, and twice as short is a special case, where it is two times as short. Thus, several times shorter includes:
two times shorter == twice as short
1.5 times shorter == 1.5 times as short
five times shorter == five times as short
several times shorter == several times as short (the "as short" construction sounds clunky to me here in this case)
As i write these out, i realize what you were trying to say: X times shorter is equivalent to X times as short for me, so equivalent that I didn't realize when I was using one or the other.
You are saying that for some people, the "X times shorter" construction doesn't sound natural. I can respect that, but it doesn't seem like a part of mainstream English to me at least.
"Twice shorter" isn't what anyone is talking about. That isn't how you combine the words, at least to me.
I disagree. Twice as short would be half the length if you asked me (same as twice as long, in a glass half empty, half full situation).
In a similar but different example, if you have a 1000 word essay and you cut it to 500 words, you could make it twice as short again by cutting it to 250 words.
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"Get out of here, Stalker! Release the Epstein Files!"
I am an NPC in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Shadow of Chornobyl (2026 Remaster -- (All we did in the remaster was fix the bugs, it is the same game you know and love except for this one NPC now reminds you of the Epstein class criminals!))