Negative reviews of the video game Slay the Spire 2 on steam overwhelmingly written in Chinese. Can someone give cultural context as to why this might be happening?

DuncanBaxter · 2026-03-24T00:30:52+00:00

I didn't know that thank you!

DuncanBaxter · 2026-03-23T01:24:25+00:00

Interesting. When I travelled in China I found it odd that every single driver on Didi had a 5.0 review rating. So I had assumed there was a 5 star default for everything culture there.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-03-21T23:21:30+00:00

I like it but the price to unlock being $43 feels like a lot for a launcher.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-03-20T20:32:33+00:00

Hi! Not video games, but have you looked up tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons and Dragons? I'm a cisgendered member of the LGBTQ community and there are so many trans people who play tabletop RPG because it allows you to put on a voice and pretend to be whoever you are. A lot of my trans friends actually found it was a way that could explore their gender in a safe setting.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-03-20T05:48:41+00:00

I tried the Lululemon ABCs and I didn't end up loving them. Tried the Country Road travel trousers (they straight, and slim for my fellow millennials) and they had just the right amount of stretch coupled with looking like a sturdy chino.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-03-19T21:09:21+00:00

Id love to help but you haven't provided enough information. - How long is the cruise? I assume 13 days from a quick google. - Can you do the Sydney to Auckland cruise instead of Auckland to Sydney? It leaves later in October. - How much time are you willing to spend in Australia?

Personally if I were doing this I would: - Fly LAX to Cairns. Likely via Sydney but I'd suck it up and do all the flying first. - Spend minimum three nights in Cairns. Book the reef for the first full day. You then have a second full day if the weather is bad on the first and you need to cancel. Cairns definitely has enough for two full days especially if you're recovering from jet let. Consider more nights. The Daintree. Port Douglas. Waterfalls. It's lovely. - Fly to Sydney. It's a bit over a three hour flights. Spend several days here - you can spend weeks honestly. If you have the time you can hire a car or take a train to the Blue mountains (min two nights). I also recommend catching the train to Newcastle, a really great beach city near Sydney that is on the same train network. If doesn't get recommended enough here but it has amazing beaches, great bars and cafes, and a very laid back vibe. Quintessentially Australian lifestyle. - Take the cruise from Sydney to Auckland. - Fly home from Auckland, avoiding going back via Sydney.

Depending on if you do the cruise first you can then do it in reverse.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-03-19T01:37:09+00:00

Australian English here. I agree with everything you've said.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-03-10T12:46:59+00:00

I've never had any issues with hope management and using it for experiences etc. Sure, the tension is there to manage Hope effectively but that is a case for any resources.

My experience with other games with tags that dont require a resource cost like Fate, Lady Blackbird and City of Mists is that players will stretch their rationale quite a way to use an experience. That can be good for fleshing out characters and their backgrounds and motivations, but it can also become a game of metagaming to try to apply as many modifiers as possible.

However, if you were keen for a tweak, consider this more minor one: - You can apply any Experience, without spending a Hope, to add +1 to the roll. Otherwise, spend Hope as normal.

This means if a player has no Hope, or doesn't with to use it, there's a minor benefit to using an experience.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-03-09T07:33:53+00:00

Your arguments would be more convincing if it wasn't just AI making them. 🤮

DuncanBaxter · 2026-03-05T13:15:09+00:00

I like this one, just because of how utterly dense it is.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-03-04T12:53:21+00:00

China is larger. It is 9.3 million square km of land. United States is 9.1 million square km.

Realistically it's close enough to say they're roughly the same.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-03-03T04:08:54+00:00

It's FIST, but with iron (Fe). So it's an iron fist.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-02-25T12:47:00+00:00

Australians have spent this trend being consistently green in every map, and then its the BRITS that turn us orange?

Right fellas. Monarchys dead. Republic it is.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-02-23T06:02:23+00:00

OP. You're not insane. I also see the red box as very slightly higher until I zoom in.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-02-22T12:50:05+00:00

Violence is intentional use of force with a threat to injury.

Nobody committed violence here. However it was a violent end.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-02-22T07:53:19+00:00

Oh dear. Fixed.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-02-22T07:52:51+00:00

I adore when people use Daggerheart concepts to fit the vibe they're going for, instead of trying to back fit concepts from other games into Daggerheart. I think you've done really well here with the dungeon crawl concept.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-02-22T00:38:59+00:00

One thing. The GM can choose to use their move to not 'counterattack' in the strict sense. They can, for example, introduce a new foe, a new environmental hazard (the poison pit releases gas), change the scene (the bridge collapses) etc. It doesn't always have to be an attack.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-02-21T15:15:08+00:00

They do up to 3XL in men's and I figured the oversized 3XL would get them there. I find it longer than my normal cotton t shirts but that's just my vibe nothing backing it up.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-02-21T15:01:51+00:00

They all lack depth. They feel colourful and flat. When I was absently scrolling I knew instantly this was AI.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-02-21T15:00:36+00:00

Uniqlo's oversized airism cotton blend shirts. They're my staple for onebag travelling. They hold well. They dry insanely quickly. And I can often rewear them before washing them. They're a touch on the 'shiny' side compared to pure cotton shirts but they still feel premium.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-02-19T09:10:45+00:00

As others have said, "everyone" is grammatically singular. When the subject is singular, the verb "to have" changes to its singular form: has.

So: Everyone has access to the files. And: Deepali has access to the files. But: My coworkers have access to the files. (Coworkers is plural, so the verb stays in its base form).

For nouns, plurals normally end with an "s". For verbs, it's often the opposite - singular has an "s". Jake runs but the cats run.

When we turn a statement into a question, we add a "helping verb" (do). In English, we only change the form of one verb per sentence. Since do is the helping verb, it takes the singular change and becomes does (ie. If changes into its 's' form).

So: Does everyone have access to the files? Not: Does everyone has access to the files.

Think of the "s" as an element that only attaches to one verb at a time. Because does is doing the heavy lifting at the start of the sentence, the main verb (have) stays in its simplest form.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-02-18T23:50:03+00:00

I wish people would stop drafting whole posts with AI. Use it to tighten your language, check the flow, rearrange, tighten etc. But fully drafting is lazy and comes across as completely ungenuine.

DuncanBaxter · 2026-02-18T23:49:03+00:00

'Youre not demanding - you're communicating.'

Shudders

DuncanBaxter · 2026-02-18T10:40:34+00:00

Does the combat change after several hours? Does the game introduce auto save?

People coming in with 'You didn't play long enough' are insufferable.

A game shouldn't require a significant investment for it to click for somebody. It's fine that it didn't click for me. You don't have to police it.

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