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Re: conchetumare—in the past you've mentioned Chilean Spanish being harder for other Spanish speakers to understand. Is the word-contraction you described in that post part of the gap? It struck me as similar to how British English slims down words (particularly proper nouns; e.g. Greenwich → Grennich, Tottenham → To'nm), which trips people up fairly often.

It’s part of it, but that in itself is a symptom of the root, bigger cause: Slang.

Chilean Spanish is extremely slang heavy, even in its domestic every day use. To the point where more people will be familiar with the slang term rather than the actual word for something. So non-native spanish speakers and native speakers from another country alike will come here and get weird looks for using The Word EVERY Other Country Uses That We Don’t. Now imagine that happening several times per topic.

You have to learn a lexicon even as a spanish speaker. Then you have the dialects! I am from Central Chile and I speak different from a Southern Chilean.

A linguistically aware Chilean — thankfully a majority nowadays — will speak a “plain” spanish with foreigners to help them understand; the average Chilean is aware of how frankly labyrinthine our Spanish is, so we try to help others understand us. Likewise, we get hype as hell when foreigners start learning it. My bestie married a Japanese woman who moved here, and we’ve been teaching her a lot, it’s fun as hell when she uses the language “right” because she’ll say it with that very ladylike elegance characteristic of a Japanese woman using Keigo, but she’s saying “oh mother fucking shit!” in flawless Chilean.

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Re: Hoshiguma's height, AFAICT you don't need to qualify it as a Chinese thing. Even in Western countries, 184cm makes you taller than the average man (170s range) and taller than over 99% of women (average is low 160s, standard deviation around 7). She's tall! (Though ig it's no comfort to also-tall people who want someone taller than them...)

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@ryo-maybe when i first heard of the news i was like hah this must be the académie française, those old schnocks, they're at it again with their new terms that no one will ever use. and then i saw it's from the journal officiel. which means it's from the government. and i stopped laughing.

@raisengen the usage of "stream" too. what could it be?? "diffusion en direct"?? i think it's a good loanword and we shouldn't achieve such a level of language purity. but no. you gotta jouer-animer en direct on your chaîne de jeu-animation en direct as a joueur-animateur en direct, i guess!

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Did you ever play the original Divinity Original Sin? I just finished that one and was wondering if you had an idea for how it compares to the sequel. I enjoyed it for sure, but it felt like there was hopeful room for improvement/polish.

I played it briefly on the PS4 since my brother got that one first, this won’t be particularly organized but

I enjoy that there’s more interaction between the Source Hunters (and that they get more spoken dialogue as player avatars compared to the player’s character as an avatar in the sequel). My sis and I had a really fun time being unrepentant dicks but in DOS2 everything’s so grim and depressing in comparison that screwing people over isn’t as funny

The more whimsical and fantastic tone of DOS1 borders on pachiste is closer to Larian’s original game, Divine Divinity which I played many many years ago and still fondly remember

Debuffs in DOS1 vs DOS2 is a matter of variability vs consistency. While it can be frustrating getting hit by debuffs when you really don’t want it, DOS2′s armor system is probably the single most contentious point on an otherwise perfect game, but there are also a plethora of mods that rigorously balance it, while DOS1′s modding scene isn’t nearly as large

In DOS2 you can’t really run half physical/magical parties due to phys/mag armor being separate... and the HP bar that actually matters since once one of them is down you can stunlock enemies to oblivion (and they can do the same to you)

I found earlygame a lot more confusing in DOS1 because encounters are really tough and its not as apparent where you can go to get non-combat EXP, Cyseal is a lot more open right from the start than Fort Joy is

Melee is overpowered in DOS2, but melee in DOS1′s earlygame feels horrendously ineffectual, one could say this is due to getting access to teleport skills (Phoenix Dive, Cloak and Dagger, Tactical Retreat) as early as level 4 in DOS2, and the way damage increases exponentially per level when you get Warfare levels (not to mention two-handed levels’ bonus crit damage). In DOS2 accuracy is considerably less of an issue as well

Character building in DOS2 is a lot more condensed and straightforward, not having as many stats and skill sections to worry about

Persuasion in DOS1 is lal, in DOS2 its more like fallout/knights of the old republic

Money is a lot harder to come by in DOS1 so having a dedicated thief is more or less mandatory for the early game (and they don’t have a legit way of raising money like DOS2′s herb gardens gift bag add-on, as far as farming drudanae is legit anyways)

DOS1 feels more like a fun romp and DOS2 has a very thematically sound narrative about “power”

I don’t know about DOS1, but enemies in DOS2 tend to have decent elemental resistances which is another reason why melee is overpowered

Lone Wolf in DOS2 will only work with a party of 2 at max, while I like that you could technically run a party of 3 in DOS1 with one person having LW. Duo Lone Wolf is a good way to start to get acclimated to the way they changed AP economy between DOS1 and 2 (default 4AP, all attacks cost 2, get more movement per AP now)

I’m gonna get DOS1 on pc at some point bc its only 10GB compared to DOS2′s 60GB and probably is less cpu intensive, so I can finish it properly at least once, but to me it felt more like a proof of concept that was realized to full through DOS2

if you do get DOS2, lemme know because there’s a few mods I feel are mandatory for the best experience

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raisengen replied to your post “the ‘anyway i love cu chulainn’ tag started cause i was trying not to...”

What happened to the left one?

she’s not really into anime anymore but @theleftnippleofarcher is still alive and arguably well

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Did you see that Black Souls is releasing on Steam? It seems modestly popular around here, maybe it's worth checking out?

Huh.

Hmmm it's not a game I'd recommend to anyone carelessly on account of the rampant possible rape, including underage characters. If that's not a no-no to you, then I would describe this as an interesting RPGmaker game very openly and clearly inspired by Dark Souls: You are a nameless undead in a prison that gets set free to apparently fulfill some sort of greater, chosen destiny, dying just makes you respawn, spell names are directly taken from DS like Soul Spear and such, etc. It's themed around fairy tales, and it's edgy as all fucking hell.

There is, however, the endings, which I think are something really inspired. I cannot go into details, of course, but there's several endings, and there's a really crucial aspect to the plot that you can miss altogether that explains why certain things happen in these endings, leading to one particular 'the truth revealed' ending, so to speak, that I think lands the execution really, really well. It's a really cool twist, foreshadowed in a really cool way.

All in all, Watch Out, but if you want a game so edgy it'll slice your hands open from playing it that plays a sincerely fun execution with said twist, sure. But like, the rampant possible rape is very much an explicit thing and not an implication, so take that into account.

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I've seen a couple of your IS2 clips have Reed chilling in the background, and I remember you mentioning her in passing as being useful. While I do love her she's usually pretty unremarkable in gameplay, so if you don't mind, may I ask what makes Reed your pick in IS2? Is it related to the hard-mode enemy stat buffs?

Oh no, she’s bad, I just pick her because I like her a lot lmao