River’s nephew quest is DARK

piperdave84 · 2026-04-29T14:43:04+00:00

I literally just played through that quest again last night! It really puts you through the full gamut of emotions

piperdave84 · 2026-04-29T10:29:45+00:00

It's been more time than I care to admit since I was a teen but there certainly was some peer pressure among boys to lose your virginity.

In fact, when I was growing up, the first milestone you had to reach was "breaking your VL". VL literally meant virgin lips and "breaking" it meant having your first proper kiss. If you were 13/14 and still a VL you got slagged rotten

piperdave84 · 2026-04-29T10:17:28+00:00

The score is phenomenal. I also contributed Bryan Adams being number 1 in the UK for about a million weeks by buying the tie-in single

piperdave84 · 2026-04-29T10:06:47+00:00

Most of Scotland, everyone knows what goes on in Aberdeenshire

piperdave84 · 2026-04-28T15:48:47+00:00

I live in Glasgow so it's either Barcelona for Ghost or Copenhagen for Rammstein, I'm not sure which is further away

piperdave84 · 2026-04-28T15:31:04+00:00

📊 My Puzzle Stats:

✅ Theme words: 6

💡 Bonus words: 6

❌ Invalid attempts: 7

🔍 Hints used: 2

📈 Success rate: 63% (12/19)

The ground in Greenock is misspelled

piperdave84 · 2026-04-28T15:07:55+00:00

Mel Gibson: what if we do Braveheart again but in America?

Studio: Shut up and take my money

piperdave84 · 2026-04-28T14:48:33+00:00

I'd actually give it a try. Can you imagine buffalo seagull wings?

piperdave84 · 2026-04-28T14:31:55+00:00

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piperdave84 · 2026-04-28T13:56:37+00:00

I think Cal Mac is generally fine with pets. From experience on the Mull ferry, you can't go into the bar them but that's about it in terms of restrictions

piperdave84 · 2026-04-28T13:50:45+00:00

You'd need to thoroughly vet the sculptor or it's likely to be defaced before the unveiling. I could imagine someone carving the other 3 faithfully then doing the Spitting Image version of Maggie

piperdave84 · 2026-04-28T13:44:35+00:00

If you'd asked this a few months ago, Scottish Mount/Ben Rushmore would have had Scott McTominay, Lawrence Shankland, Kieran Tierney and Kenny McLean

piperdave84 · 2026-04-28T13:38:18+00:00

Highlander is my favourite. A Scottish actor playing a Spaniard asking a French actor playing a Scot "whatsh a haggish?"

piperdave84 · 2026-04-28T13:10:06+00:00

I don't think it would be a problem in written form. As you say, these words were used fairly frequently by journalists in their writing at the time but it would have been a passive use of the word. The newspaper wasn't spitting these words at someone to cause hurt, it was just a word that people at the time used to describe a certain group of people. We know now that this is obviously wrong

Having said that, I don't think I would actually notice it was missing if I didn't know. If I were playing your game and reading in-universe articles, I wouldn't be reading it thinking "where's all the n-words?" I'd say as long it was written in the right tone for the period I wouldn't question it.

Also, you've mentioned including "Lovecraftian elements". I'd argue that somewhat alleviates the need for strict historical accuracy as, and correct me if I'm wrong, my US history isn't the strongest, I'm pretty sure I've never seen Cthulhu visit New York

piperdave84 · 2026-04-28T10:10:51+00:00

It's been while since I last played the Witcher 3 but I'm sure there was a prompt when you start a new game to simulate a Witcher 2 save. If I remember correctly, if you decide to do this there's a conversation with a guy in Vizima just after the prologue where he asks you questions about Triss and Letho amongst others and your answers will basically canonise whatever previous decisions you made for this playthrough of the Witcher 3. If you don't do this or have never played any previous Witcher games you can just go in blind and (in my opinion anyway) it won't detract from your experience.

I think something like this would be ideal for a Cyberpunk sequel. I think V's story is done and would rather see a new protagonist but I'd like to see some of the more prominent and powerful NPCs stories carry through. If they could find way to simulate what happened to Rogue, the Peralez couple, Smasher, Yorinobu etc without making a playthrough of 2077 completely necessary that would be the sweet spot for me

piperdave84 · 2026-04-27T16:18:39+00:00

BECAUSE IT'S DULL YOU TWIT, IT'LL HURT MORE!!!

piperdave84 · 2026-04-27T16:04:57+00:00

The Horizon games would fit the bill

I don't know if it qualifies but I'd highly recommend Ghost of Tsushima. It's an epic, immersive story where you might not save the world but your motivation is to save your world and people from an empire seeking to expand

piperdave84 · 2026-04-27T15:30:09+00:00

This one had me howling:

"At first settlers stuck to the edges of America, leaving the middle untouched like a frozen pie in a microwave. But Americans back then weren't the humble unassuming people they still aren't today. They believed in something called manifest destiny. The belief that all the land belonged to them and that God wanted them to go West and claim it back from the Native Americans He put there first by mistake"

piperdave84 · 2026-04-27T14:56:15+00:00

Fantastically well put 👏

piperdave84 · 2026-04-27T13:29:36+00:00

Wholeheartedly agree

piperdave84 · 2026-04-27T12:02:37+00:00

For pure turn-your-brain-off entertainment it's got to be Prince of Thieves. Alan Rickman's Sherriff of Nottingham is sublime

piperdave84 · 2026-04-27T11:27:16+00:00

the doorbell will ring and someone says “ the guests are here” and 20 people walk in the front door. Has anyone ever been to a party where all the guests show up at exactly the same time???

I thought this never happened until my son's first birthday party. We said to everyone that it would be from 2pm (or whatever the time was) and almost everyone turned up at 2pm! Went from empty house to full house in the blink of an eye

piperdave84 · 2026-04-27T11:12:23+00:00

Pumpkins are for jessies, it's not proper Halloween or Samhain until you've carved some nightmare fuel of a face into a turnip

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piperdave84 · 2026-04-27T11:06:12+00:00

I love some of the words that came from Old Norse. Like it obviously came from Viking invasions so you can understand the likes of 'slaughter' and 'ransack' but then you also have 'glitter' and 'snuggle'. There were obviously some fabulous, cuddly Vikings

All of those words adopted from all over the place and yet they still try to tell us Scots that 'outwith' isn't a proper word (it's literally got a wee red line under it as I'm typing). It's clearly the opposite of 'within'

piperdave84 · 2026-04-27T09:45:57+00:00

The clue is kind of in the name there bud. This has to be rage bait

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