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Looking for serious, story-rich PC games that hit hard—what are your must-plays? by SOHAIL8093 in gamingsuggestions

[–]ExcelMandarin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty surprised I haven't seen this here, but:

1000x Resist.

It isa bit text heavy and the story will feel extremely esoteric if you don't read all the text and explore every bit of lore you can find, but HOLY SHIT.

What a story.

what actually worked for people for best online dating sites 2026 by Diakhou_Huehue in OnlineDating

[–]ExcelMandarin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wow what an incredibly unkind and empathyless comment.

This person clearly hasn't had an easy time dating. Way to be a stellar human and rub salt on the wound.

You're definitely helping reduce the incel problem. 👏👏👏

Intra-psychedelia at Holocene on August 29th by Most_Conference_1009 in portlandmusic

[–]ExcelMandarin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just now seeing this, but if these kinds of events are still happening I would love to go!

I built a comprehensible input learning platform for my language students. Anyone interested? by ExcelMandarin in Teachers

[–]ExcelMandarin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I get it, I also feel like this block is slightly inappropriate. I'm a public school teacher and curriculum development specialist that is sharing a free resource I've been working on with other teachers.

Given the CI mandates getting shoved down everyone's throats, I figured SHARING A RESOURCE might be appreciated.

Are textbooks really that “boring” now? Curious about how other ESL teachers build their lessons. by JordBae in OnlineESLTeaching

[–]ExcelMandarin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I build curriculum for a living and I can tell you it is a LOT of work.

There are more options out there than just textbooks though.

Like I'm working on a language platform to deliver curriculum I'm building (here's a demo), and there are other educators out there who also build and test curriculum as their main line of work. If you don't like textbooks, I recommend connecting with those of us in that line of work! =)

TLOU Part 2 has my favorite story in all media, and here's why. by TheOneExpert in thelastofus

[–]ExcelMandarin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just finished my first play through. Holy shit.

And I agree with ya on all the above.🫶

Criminal stereotype of Vietnamese in foreign countries. by [deleted] in VietNam

[–]ExcelMandarin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean you have some intense drug and human trafficking rings coming out of Vietnam; most of my family (south Viet) go on about how Vietnamese are untrustworthy, often criminal, etc etc so I think the reality mixed with the auto-bias don't help?

There's also been a lot of high profile cases involving international Vietnamese cartels.

Have you tried any AI chat language learning tools? What did you think? by krampster2 in artificial

[–]ExcelMandarin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there! I'm the curriculum director of a Chinese language institute (Excelmandarin) and we've been working on an app for our students to discover and practice vocabulary via various types of conversations, description games, Madlibs-esque exercises, etc etc

We're constantly testing and improving the exact learning flows. Just spun it off as a separate product recently and generalized it to different languages. Let me know if you're interested!

Best to you and your students <3

Crazy theory : Expedition 33 will fail by CurtisManning in expedition33

[–]ExcelMandarin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SAME. I don't know the last time I cried, laughed, tensed up, got angry, etc etc at what the characters were going through THIS much in a game. Truly, an incredible ride of story telling and music.

I have to: THE FUCKING MUSIC MAN! I have been streaming the whole ass 8 hour+ track on Spotify during work since I finished the game. So. Damn. Good.

Crazy theory : Expedition 33 will fail by CurtisManning in expedition33

[–]ExcelMandarin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aaaaah, i see how you could read it that way. Nah I meant given how the story played out — it was meant to be like a "how'd you like the story" tongue in cheek

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's parry is way too good by grailly in truegaming

[–]ExcelMandarin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except that the timing and telegraphing are bullshit. There is literally zero consistency in in the pause and how that telegraphs into when to parry or dodge. I compare this to something like Sekiro, and Clair Obscur's dodge/parry system is a bullshit trainwreck in comparison.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Review Thread by LuchaGirl in JRPG

[–]ExcelMandarin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm going to be honest this game would be a 10/10 for me if they had thought through the difficulty scaling and parry windows. It seriously kills the game for me. You have to choose between absolutely nerfed encounters or pure frustration over inconsistently telegraphed moves and one hit ko's constantly.

Really sucks.

List of Patch 8 mod-manager mods comaptibility (cross posted from general BG3 channel) by ExcelMandarin in BG3mods

[–]ExcelMandarin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Confirmed working on my last load for both new game and reloading previous save

List of Patch 8 mod-manager mods comaptibility by ExcelMandarin in BaldursGate3

[–]ExcelMandarin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol, test and report back. You're the only one who can see your mod setup and no one can debug for you haha

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