Skunk
@Skunk@jlai.lu
- Comment on Post Nut Clarity - My First Solo Swiss Brothel Experience 6 days ago:
Oh Dubendorf… I might have known that specific place when being stuck in this Zurich suburb during my initial license training 🙄
- Comment on My highest achievement in Expedition 33 (yet) 1 week ago:
I did a few exploration and chromatic bosses during the story but not much.
I didn’t want to be overpowered for the story boss as you can’t enjoy the battle and music when you almost ont shot things. You can even miss lore with some bosses.
So exploring is done now, with Esquie flying and the story done. I can build the cheesiest team I want now without having regrets.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 1 week ago:
You want some Skunk?
- Comment on My highest achievement in Expedition 33 (yet) 1 week ago:
Ah the chromatic pink fluffy thing done at level 16. GG
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. First time pay attention to the songs and I cried. This is the game that I cry over so many times. This is what I think about the game. Spoiler alert 1 week ago:
The game systems, graphics, feel, etc are a bit dated. It feels like something from 10-15 years ago.
Graphics??
You can not like the gameplay and stuff, but the graphics? It’s peak UE5 and well optimized, 99% of the players I’ve seen where making “wow” sounds at the prologue visuals and details, the underwater level and many more.
I haven’t tried low settings tho, I’m playing 4K epic, but graphics are definitely 2025.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 2 weeks ago:
The feeling bro! It’s better than touching grass.
Kudos to the players using the swimsuit skin during the Dualiste fight.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Surpasses 3.3 Million Copies in 33 Days 2 weeks ago:
It’s a hard one, both are very good and I will do both (first playthrough in French, new game+ in English).
We don’t really know which language is the original one. Plenty would think it is French but the main writer doesn’t speak French and the motion capture for the lip sync was apparently made for English.
But the creator won’t answer on that question, when asked on a French livestream he said “I’ll let you decide which language is the OG one 🤷🏻♂️”
So, 🤷🏻♂️
Insert why not both meme here
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Surpasses 3.3 Million Copies in 33 Days 2 weeks ago:
Lumière, Alicia, déchirer la toile, une vie à s’aimer… I have so much little green hearts 💚 next to Clair Obcur titles on my Spotify.
I agree that it is very refreshing to see French inspiration, we are not very used to that in video games and they embraced it to the joke level. The baguette outfit were, quote from Guillaume Broche (CEO & Art director, creator of the project): “A joke we had on our internal discord and it went too far”.
Clair Obscur is an art style, the game takes place in the Belle époque (late 1800s early 1900s) and you can see plenty of references to that time, for example the pattern on the robe of the first flower seller in Lumière, just after the red and white tree.
This time period is never explored in games so that is also very cool to see.
Esquie is the best friend indeed, and he has a perfect French as the voice actor for English and French is the same. But all voice actors are amazing, English and French, it’s funny that you can hear the English ones struggling a bit with the French swearing (they tend to say “poutain” instead of “putain”).
And no, no Tabarnak, this is exclusive from Quebec and very much not a thing in France (or any European French speaking country).
This was made by French from France, so no Belgian or Swiss specific French language, only the one from continental France.
It shows after you meet François, in English Esquie says:
- Ahahah François you got smashed versus
- Ahahah François qu’est-ce que tu as pris cher.
“Prendre cher” is very very French street language and means something like “pay dearly” but always in a bad way. You got hurt doing something stupid? Tu as pris cher.
It started from the city of Lyon I think and like plenty of French slang has Arabic influence, this one being the word “Cheh”.
Cheh is a Moroccan (and probably Algerian) onomatopoeia for “serves you right”, so if I hurt myself being silly, I will hear a little and discreet “cheh” from my Moroccan wife in the other room. One magical onomatopoeia to say “I told you so, that serves you well”.
For French language differences, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco and Switzerland are very close and we can understand each other without strong complications. Same goes with Northern Africa and most of Africa. It’s mostly an accent change and most vocabulary stays the same.
It gets a little bit difficult with the Caribbean French as they often use their own local language mixed with French.
Then you have the final boss, the endgame, Québécois. You have accent + different vocabulary and slang. A dude from Quebec HAS to make efforts to be understood in France (or Switzerland or whatever) cause we don’t understand them if they don’t 😁
Maybe we could with a little training, but as a famous languages school said in an add: " Time to learn French, because they won’t learn English"
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 2 weeks ago:
What about it ?
The writing, the characters, the story, everything is new and perfectly done. It is pure art and something like 98% of the 3+ millions players would disagree with you.
But you must be part of that 2%, meh to each their own 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Surpasses 3.3 Million Copies in 33 Days 2 weeks ago:
Same here, I am in love with that game and I can’t stop listening to the 8h soundtrack or watch YouTube reactions videos of streamers crying in front of it.
Being French probably doesn’t help me from loving it… I finished the story 4 days ago and instantly reloaded my save to explore everything in the end game, unlocking every picto, every skills and Steam achievements.
Those Gestral beach mini games are annoying on purpose as they are a reference to final fantasy mini games. The platform parts are hopefully not very present, and I feel lucky to have killed that chromatic boss you’re talking about on the third try with full parry/counter.
Some few/nice advices, spoiler free but I’ll tag them anyway:
Tap for spoiler
Grosse tête (Big head) is another boss with tons of attacks, but easier (psa: kill it with Monoco in your team). Once you can, go see the dragon flying in the sky (the serpenphare, snake + light house) and try to do a “Zelda TOTK” by riding it. Do not go to the final part of the story with a too strong party, around level 60 would be my maximum. And do not equip the picto you get for finishing act 2. Otherwise you’ll be too strong and miss very cool content on some story boss fights. After the story is done you can load the auto save and build a totally broken team to destroy everything. This is also how you can access the NG+ option.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 2 weeks ago:
2025: Clair Obscur Expedition 33.
Even if the year is not finished, this game is such a perfect work of art on so many levels that it became the new favorite to me, and to plenty other players.
- Comment on Which one did you choose???? 2 weeks ago:
All four, I took those four pills off alcohol abuse.
- Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining" 3 weeks ago:
Ah thanks for the link! I was looking for that information but could not find it.
- Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining" 3 weeks ago:
Over 400 seems a bit high to me but the size vs cost argument remains. Those external voice actors, animators, QA testers etc were all paid. Kepler Interactive even gave them money to have known actors for VA (they probably aren’t cheap).
So that’s very probably a several million budget (rumored to be between 5 and 25 mil according to non reliable source, thanks to Kepler and the early Gamepass contract).
Ok that’s not a 500 million budget, rather a 50 mil one (to be very large), but it’s definitely not a 500k budget.
And yet they sell it 45$.
Anyway, it just prove that you can build a Waguy steak alternative for cheaper while keeping the taste.
- Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining" 3 weeks ago:
80$ is a steal, yeah right…
(Screenshot from isthereanydeal just for simplicity, avoid grey market when possible)
- Comment on Never forget 3 weeks ago:
Oh damn, I’m adapting that to Switzerland and French then put it on a wall at my job!
Thanks for the inspiration OP.
- Comment on No, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wasn't "made" by 30 people 5 weeks ago:
The article is telling us that devs don’t do the music, duh 🤦🏻
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Guys, the divorce message has been passed and heard, the worm is in the apple.
Now let’s be the geek squad we are and find a good tech solution for OP.
Sadly I can’t help as I don’t know shit about the iPhone.
- Comment on Who can I ask or where can I find help in moving to a new country? 1 month ago:
I’ve helped plenty of people move to my country, always on subreddits and now on lemmy communities, I sometimes receive DMs asking for information.
So I’d say, find a community for that country and ask questions. If they are none on lemmy then you might get a provisional authorization to ask on reddit.
- Comment on Anon has regrets 1 month ago:
I live in the same era than you, I don’t feel anything bro.
- Comment on Anon has regrets 1 month ago:
I know duh, that doesn’t change the fact that OP was most probably not talking about contraception pills, which wouldn’t help neither in that scenario.
- Comment on Anon has regrets 1 month ago:
I think OP is talking about the PrEP pill, which is a cool thing but hard to get.
- Comment on What is the best Sea based game out there in your opinion? 1 month ago:
Really? Ah shit, I have it legit on steam so it should use ubi launcher but I haven’t started it in a while.
- Comment on What is the best Sea based game out there in your opinion? 1 month ago:
Yep, I don’t know what happened with the reviews lately. I know they did something with the servers, maybe with the PVP server so that might have made all those players angry.
I don’t have any DLC ships, except maybe for some gifted ones and I only play solo pirate/merchant on the PVE server and don’t engage too much with the community.
It is a very slow game, combats takes ages as well as trade runs. But that is what I like in those games, I just relax sailing and trying to demast some merchants. Maybe if I was participating with the community (port raiding for your nation etc) I would be angry too.
- Comment on What is the best Sea based game out there in your opinion? 1 month ago:
From the creators of Cold Waters you have Sea Power, I like it a lot but it is more about strategy fighting with missiles and stuff from the Cold War then really enjoying sea.
Ultimate admiral dreadnoughts and War on the sea are also cool options for naval warfare.
Ships at Sea for normal modern sea stuff (fishing, cargo etc).
Naval action for slow wooden ships in the Bahamas.
But the best pirate game still is Assassin’s Creed Black Flag. You can mod it a little and find good shaders to have it look a bit better on today’s hardware.
- Comment on Zuckerberg had a 'crazy idea' to boost Facebook's relevance: Make everyone start from scratch 1 month ago:
Ah, the good old mmorpg “classic” resale.
- Comment on Do it 1 month ago:
Ohé ohé capitaine abandonné in my ass.
Not thanks to @Professeur_Falken@jlai.lu that gave me this ear worm 24h ago.
- Comment on Day 259 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 2 months ago:
Non-spoilery review: It’s cool.
I kinda like all AC games but I also really enjoy this one. I love playing a stealth assassin and Naoe (the Japanese girl) perfectly fit that gameplay as she is not made for frontal assault.
The other character is also nice to sometimes have a one man army, if you want to disconnect your brain and just go head on an enemy group, it is a welcome change of pace when you want that.
Ubi’s Open World are graphic wonders as always but this one is a step above. I am really used toto 4K HDR gaming and this game is probably the best looking one I have on my PC.
As a side note, I took a Ubi+ for one month to play it and will buy the game when there is a discount.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 months ago:
Zero as well. Damn we’re old 👴
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 2 months ago:
Scent-ore
Simply “englishified” from French where I’ve ever heard only one way, Centaur (100 tor).
