Comment on When Baldur's Gate 3 came out, Steam's overall bandwidth consumption went from around 18 Tbps to 146 Tbps

• snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The original Dawn of War ruined isometric games for me since it allowed the pan and zoom, with mods allowing even more zooming in an out. BG3 having that ability has my interest peaked!

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  • teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    piqued*

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    • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks, I wasn't sure it was right but also too lazy to check.

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      • utopianrevolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        and too lazy to edit 😅 just joking around

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    • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      pooped*

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  • joe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Please, please don’t take this as any insult or criticism, but for future reference, it’s “piqued”.

    This particular homophone is almost as devious as “milquetoast”. (Sounds like “milk toast”)

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    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      An easy way to remember “milquetoast” is with context, here let me use it in a sentence:

      “Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath is an Eccentric-class Offensive Unit.”

      See, didn’t that clear it all up?

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      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s been about 5 or so years since I reread The Culture books. It might be time again.

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    • velxundussa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m not the person you answered to, but as english ain’t my first language I figured I’d ask:

      I get that this person was trying to say “piqued” as in “got my interest”

      But wouldn’t “peaked” as in “my interest couldn’t possibly get higher as it has peaked from that new information” also be valid?

      (I get it’s a saying, but as I’m not familiar with that saying in english it didn’t bother me, which is why I’m curious)

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      • tburkhol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        piqued implies a mild interest worthy of further investigation.

        peaked implies interest can’t possibly get any higher, as though they were already super interested, but the ability to pan the camera eclipses all other interesting features.

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      • duckington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah it technically would get across a similar meaning. And at this point I see “peaked” more often online than the right one. But “piqued” is the idiom— not that it matters all that much.

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  • icesentry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The zoom out is very limited. I constantly wish it could zoom out more

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    • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The inability to zoom out is my dealbreaker for Diablo. The limitation doesn't feel immersive to me, it feels claustrophobic.

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