Lots of naval terms aren’t pronounced the way you would think, e.g. boatswain and gunwale pronounced differently than they are spelled.

Boatswain sounds like bo-sun

Gunwale sounds like gun-ull

“No one is screenshotting…”

You underestimate what people will do to get pirated video.

Young Luke kind of looks like young Anakin so maybe he saw the family resemblance?

I never played the first one. I just watched a story recap.

The gameplay isn’t janky just brutally difficult and unforgiving. It goes for realism above all. I’m really liking it but I’m only maybe halfway through the story.

I’ve been playing so much kingdom come deliverance 2 that I didn’t even notice PSN being down.

If you like RPGs try it.

Have you played Cyberpunk? I think you’d like it. It’s in a really great place now.

Also Hampton Court Palace had a real tennis court built in the early 1500s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Tennis_Court,_Hampton_Court

I’m sure I’m not the first person to mix up a Sopwith Camel with an Albatross.

He looks nothing like his war photos.

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I call it a bardzooka.

In my second language, yes. Sometimes I just lack the specific cultural references to understand the phrase. In english, no. Can’t say i’ve ever confused myself with a sentence unless it was meant to be confusing (eg garden path sentences).

I live at the equator and it’s always ~28 degrees celsius where I live. You can get almost any temperature at the equator so that really isn’t a test of heat. Here in Colombia if you go down the mountains towards the coast or jungle it gets hotter. There the houses are built with lots of natural wind tunnel effects to keep them passively cool. When you’re outside in the heat you just get used to it. When I was in Iraq it took us a few weeks to really get used to it but even at 50 degrees celsius you eventually build a tolerance.

Yeah, it’s to keep people from tilting and quitting the game. The bots are easy so if you give someone an easy win after two losses they are more likely to keep playing which raises engagement.

I don’t fuck with that type of business model.

I played for a bit. Then i read an article about them putting you in bot matches if you lose two consecutive matches. Then i tested if it was true and once i confirmed it was i stopped playing.

I don’t mind playing against bots to learn the game if that fact is stated. I do mind being lied to about a game in which i think i’m playing against humans when in reality i’m playing against bots just to keep engagement up.

This isn’t true. I’ve been put against Diamonds and GMs and I’m gold 3. You can look at people’s rank in the history tab even for enemy teams.

Withers having big naturals isn’t even in the top 5 weirdest things about BG3.

But it’s 100% on brand for those rascals at Larian.

It’s really fucked up when you think about it since qp matches are any skill against any skill. So if you get a diamond ranked dps on the opposite team and your team is mostly bronze you’re screwed. Then you only have to lose one more match to get put into the bot matches. That seems super unfair.

It’s a problem if you think you’re learning techniques for killing humans but in reality you’re learning tricks to kill AI. There is already a bot match option if people want to learn with no pressure.