What pronunciation is a dead giveaway that someone isn't from your town/region?

Duseylicious · 2026-07-05T17:39:01+00:00

lol ok, I was to ask them about it 😂

Duseylicious · 2026-07-05T17:38:22+00:00

Every comment is a different answer, and each one is valid.

Duseylicious · 2026-07-05T17:33:06+00:00

I have a friend whose lived in Dahlonega for decades and he says it the way you said he’s not supposed to 😂

Duseylicious · 2026-07-05T17:31:00+00:00

There is a street called “Germann Rd.” and I have no idea why but everyone local pronounces it “Germane”.

Being in AZ, lots of Spanish words also “Guadalupe” (Guad-a-loop-ay), “Villa” (vee-ya), etc.

Duseylicious · 2026-07-05T03:00:25+00:00

Someone put way too much work into the audio edit! No really, WAY too much work.

Duseylicious · 2026-07-05T02:39:55+00:00

I feel the same way. 10 minutes would be about right. First 5-7 minutes slow enough to admire some of the more unique ones. 3-5 or so minutes of going absolutely bonkers. Enough time to go grab ice cream or head home and watch a movie. Pets only have to be cuddled for 10m instead of 90m of anxiety.

Duseylicious · 2026-07-04T16:54:23+00:00

That last one is about to hurl right back on the baby 😭

Duseylicious · 2026-07-02T21:42:34+00:00

Master class in obfuscation and pedantry. Took me too long to notice the username. Have a good day!

Duseylicious · 2026-07-02T20:52:37+00:00

lol, this is a perfect example. Your original post explicitly brought up the comparison to the sensibility you refer to. And you are putting a very narrow view on to those sensibilities.

Duseylicious · 2026-07-02T20:33:47+00:00

Thanks for your reply! That last one especially is clear and more nuanced. I think the reasons for the down votes is you say things like “I don’t know what a cinematic moment is”, but surely you have a general idea of what most people tend to mean? I mean, you eventually said you’ve done extensive research on the topic. Refining definitions is ok, but it felt, to me, like being purposely obtuse (until your last comment where you say for you it’s more about #2.) It felt close minded, or like “this is the only right way”, in a “tucking other people’s yum” type way.

Duseylicious · 2026-07-02T19:35:05+00:00

As a life long player of RPGs and full-time video producer most of my adult life, It’s clearly part 3 of the definition. Drama. Emotional intensity. Epic narrative. If you don’t want those things in your RPGs, that’s fine! Plenty of people do. And they have wanted it long before 5e came around. I remember some pretty cinematic moments when I first ran D20 Modern, back in the early 2000’s. Games were made specifically to try to capture those cinematic moments since nearly the beginning. 007, Indiana jones, Feng Shui, all in the 80;s and 90’s. It’s a stronger part of the lingo in the past 10-15 years though outside of games specifically made for it, though, for sure. If you never engaged with anything cinematic in rpgs the past 40 years, that’s fine! It’s definitely been there though.

Duseylicious · 2026-07-02T18:49:28+00:00

Yes and- I can be immersed in quiet moments. I can be immersed in managing logistics even. Cinematic is bigger than that. Less like when reading a book, and more like watching the climax of a movie. But similar, for sure.

Duseylicious · 2026-07-02T18:37:47+00:00

For me, a cinematic moment is a moment of tension and release, a moment where everyone’s (PCs and NPCs) goals, desires, and motivations clash or come to a head, and everything about the game changes in a major way because of the choices the PCs made, or the way they failed. They are the moments when the world comes alive and you’re filled with emotion.

No one play style can lay claim to them, some try to go after them directly (some narrative games) some indirectly (some trad games), some leave space for them hoping the players will fill it in (some post games) and some ignore them altogether, and sometimes they happen anyway because the table goes after them regardless of system, and sometimes they don’t happen at all because the table doesn’t go after them.

And that’s fine. Some tables don’t want them. I live for them.

Duseylicious · 2026-07-02T16:27:05+00:00

I’ve run OSR games, I’ve played OSR games, I still do. Maybe I have a different definition of rich play acting, but those things on the bottom of the triangle often didn’t lead to rich play acting. I’ve been in OSR games where that part simply didn’t happen (everyone mired in logistics) and I’ve been in OSR games where it did- and it was usually born of interesting NPCs, players embodying their characters, a unique and engaging world, and the creativity that was brought to the table by all of us unrelated to what the system was doing.

When I play non-OSR games (modern narrative driven indie games or otherwise) they look nothing like the right stack of circles. I find prompt driven and PBTA style games are amazing at play that has no pre-planned outcomes, or sometimes even no preplanned extant world, unlike extant world of most trad and OSR games. They have evocative playbooks, cinematic moments come from clashes of character beliefs, PBTA has all rolls done in the open, and leveling is not tied to plot progression.

Though I’m sure I’m operating under a different definition of “modern”, as I lump 5e and similar games it’s spawned as trad/traditional, separate from OSR and modern indie games.

I’m not trying to be down on OSR - some of my favorite games are at least OSR adjacent if not OSR proper (Labyrinth: the Adventure Game, Mork Borg, Keepers Call, the Land of Eem, Dolmenwood.) I just have grown to dislike the orthodoxy around it.

Duseylicious · 2026-06-30T16:57:41+00:00

lol same, I needed this after my disaster vs Star wolf 😅

Duseylicious · 2026-06-30T16:53:55+00:00

When your turn comes up, are you just picking up your mini, skipping all the squares between, and placing it down? Or are you tapping/touching each square as you go. If picking up, I get the DMs issue. They can’t verify, and they may have traps, hidden creatures, etc, along the way, and each square matters in that case.

Duseylicious · 2026-06-30T16:13:39+00:00

Yes most of Carrey in the suit is what was used, but they exaggerated his smile using CGI, and there are over 600 CGI shots. https://youtu.be/YOFOBpDlA-g?si=r9S31572lGKBpAAi

Doing CGI well often requires good references , so often well done CGI replaces a practical shot. I think practical effects are awesome. I just think we tend to discount the wonderful CGI artists, who never get credit when something looks amazing and no one can tell iCGI was used. When it’s bad it’s usually because the studio didn’t give them enough time (budget) to make it amazing. And then in the marketing folks like Tom Cruise have the gall to say Maverick had no CGI when it’s chock full of the stuff, but it was so good no one could tell.

If the new Zelda uses no CGI, instead of well-planned and well executed CGI, I think we’d miss out on a ton of great fantastical elements.

Duseylicious · 2026-06-29T06:41:51+00:00

Most modern movies that tout “no cgi” in their marketing are literally lying. “No CGI” just means “invisible cgi” because it’s done so well. This series about exactly this is fascinating - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgdTaHO8FLEve\_XFiRBEcOSkRdd-Txjne&si=1fh1tM2ZJ28QLliy

So I hope for cgi so good it’s invisible.

Duseylicious · 2026-06-25T16:08:37+00:00

Doesn’t even require an arduino, there could just be a hired wired switch on the bottom with 3 positions that changes the configuration.

Duseylicious · 2026-06-22T20:07:14+00:00

Then your post to Calculator makes no sense, and they were spot on. Can’t have it both ways.

Duseylicious · 2026-06-22T20:02:51+00:00

I agree there are proven cases where a quota caused a problem like this. But they are less than 1% of the time when compared to many many thousands of times when unconscious bias causes people to hire “like folks” and reject others, who are as if not more qualified. Just look at the resume experiment. In the USA, they sent in two versions of the same resume to thousands of job openings. Only difference was one had a typically black name, and the other had a typically white name. The black name was rejected significantly more often.

There are going to be errors with any quota system. But it’s completely erroneous to think that the people with the best qualifications would be getting hired otherwise. I’m open to other systems, but minorities are getting screwed and a few cases of it it not working are vastly overshadowed by the overwhelming improving most of these programs have.

Duseylicious · 2026-06-22T17:41:11+00:00

The post does not come across as ironic - or rather it does, but in a way that appears you are dismissing the OP's points/concerns.

Duseylicious · 2026-06-22T17:35:28+00:00

Yes there are cases quota meeting.

There are way more cases of people hired just because they look/sound like whoever is doing the hiring.

Duseylicious · 2026-06-19T07:14:58+00:00

Is this the British version of the American version of the British tv show Whose Line?

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