Whoosh.
No, you cannot. There is no “Special Affects Department,” here in the US, nor is there an “affective treatment,” for the common cold. You don’t “effect” an accent here, if you’re trying to sound like you’re from Newcastle, neither do you “effect” people with your bad suppositions about vocabulary.
Stupid people interchange these words, not countries.
Whoever told you that here in the US, you can use either “effect” or “affect” in the same place, was dim. In the extreme.
I did nothing of the sort. I stated a proper fact that people should be aware of.
If some rube gets confused over that, then they need schoolin’. That’s not on me.
You did, but keep trying, professor.
This threed effected mi 
gonna take solice n watch the butterfly affect
How the hell can stating a form and meaning of a word confuse people?
Yeah, OK Sherlock, in your specific example, affect is the verb and effect is the noun. But, you made an incorrect statement.
If you’re going to call out grammar, be sure you have the knowledge to do so.
Personally, I would have stated that “in this instance,” the verb and noun are such and such, in order to be specific, and correct.
Not vague, like you were.
Wait, that’s actually not vague, that’s pretty specific. I don’t see any qualifiers anywhere. You’re just straight up incorrect, then.
Yeah, in my example, it’s correct.
Then say that in your OP.
What you said is incorrect.
I’m not the OP? And as I said previously, the most common usage does not need you to point out one very specific instance where effect is used as a verb. Really, there was no need to point it out. But do what you want, I guess. I certainly can’t stop you.
You’d barely need either of those these days
Right. My bad. I was actually giving you leeway, thinking you were the OP, because you were partially correct.
I take that back. You’re just trolling. The OP was partially correct, but his or her statement that “effect is a noun,” is incorrect. It is also a verb.
Dude, just. Please. Yeah, that’s one example. You want me to type 500 sentences? Lulz…
It’s used as a verb. End of.
How am I trolling? I made myself quite clear that what you pointed out is pretty irrelevant in how the two are used.
It’s not irrelevant.
Effect is a verb as well as a noun.
What part of this do you not get?
What part of what I’m saying do you not understand?
What part of what you are saying do you not understand?
Grammar is grammar, you cannot make up your own rules.
Effect is both a verb and a noun. People should know that.
Or, we can just pull a little cloth over the fact that it is a verb, and you can be 50% smart. That suit you better?
“Oh, it’s not always used like this. I don’t need to know about it.”
Said most stupid people.
I’ll just leave this here. Make sure to keep track of how many people improperly use affected in place of when effected is used as a verb. I’ll keep everyone else on track for what 99% of the people out there intend for the word usage. Bye.
I’ve seen it many times. Here on these forums, in internet “publications,” and in actual printed books. Most commonly in a sentence about effecting change - something like, “our protests are affecting change.”
Buh bye.
I’ll point out that if the master of grammar that is the OP used grammar correctly, this point would be moot:
“Affect is the verb, effect is the noun,” would have done it. Pesky grammar. As worded, it’s incorrect.
ROOJ! 
Yeah, this one is headshakingly baffling. It’s not like people don’t see it written in-game and on the forums numerous times daily…
That it’s still regularly spelled incorrectly is madness.
Its Mass Effect, best sci fi RPG of all time
Oh o.k ,while you impose your misspelling to the world and back the front dating,hmmm.Soon you will speak chinese so it’s all good.
Relax… the purpose of language is to communicate. As long as the point goes across language did its job.
Championing English purism is kinda silly since English is already a deeply mutilated, patched up, misused, evolved, adapted, Frankenstein-ed language.
Did misuse between affect/effect really ever caused THAT much miscommunication? … to come to a video game forum talk about it???
No way you’re being serious. 