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- Comment on Introducing Steam Families 7 months ago:
I was so hopeful… pretty much useless for me as I live in a different country to my family.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 has already consumed 500 hours of my life, and I'm just getting started 11 months ago:
Not sure, I know that you can in Windows.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 has already consumed 500 hours of my life, and I'm just getting started 11 months ago:
Can just use a controller on the computer, right?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 has already consumed 500 hours of my life, and I'm just getting started 11 months ago:
Starfield feels the same, I go back to it for an hour or two and I forget what I’m supposed to be doing. It’s fiddly and I don’t know where some of the menus are.
- Comment on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Review Thread 11 months ago:
It’s been a while since I’ve seen such a wide variety of reviews.
- Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience? 11 months ago:
Does it happen automatically? I thought it did but now I’m not so sure. Perhaps this is why I feel it’s very quiet here.
- Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience? 11 months ago:
Aren’t they federated so that doesn’t happen?
- Comment on GTA 6 is likely to skip PC again and only launching on current gen consoles 11 months ago:
mobile doesnt count right now.
Why not? It’s the biggest market.
- Comment on Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee 11 months ago:
Epic, of course.
- Comment on Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee 11 months ago:
They don’t set the prices.
- Comment on I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change? 11 months ago:
Mine became Americanised after living in the US a short time (less than a year) and having American friends in general, no one has said it’s not my real accent, but friends have made fun (in good humour) of my accent and vocabulary after returning to the UK, it’s a funny one. I don’t really pronounce the ‘t’ in water, toilet is often bathroom for me now, and yeah, it’s a bit unique.
- Comment on I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change? 11 months ago:
I won’t delve into the reasons you shouldn’t based on ‘coolness’, but…
There are half-ways between the pronunciation you’re mentioning: the short ‘a’ sound can be used (common in British English), and wouldn’t seem so jarring to me.
You can drop your Ts for weak Ds in things like ‘water’, so the tip of your tongue gently taps the roof of your mouth instead of pronouncing the typical British hard T (a lot of us don’t pronounce it like that, mind you).
However, “speak like an American” doesn’t necessarily mean one accent, as there are many in the US. Choose one, I suppose.
- Comment on Why people say good morning (or something like that) on chat after a night? 11 months ago:
To synchronise.
- Comment on Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”? 11 months ago:
In phone numbers we can often mix oh and zero, but you’d very rarely (if ever) use zero in time. Perhaps in the military (or similar organisations): zero/oh six hundred hours. I’d naturally say oh.
When telling the time, I get my students to say: six oh five, three oh eight, five oh two, etc. The alternatives would be ‘past’ and approximations: five past six, and just after six.
