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The Giant Beastcast: Episode 119

Is Mario a true hero or just a sad vessel that enables us to go on fun adventures together? Also, Goodbye Miiverse, hello Travis Touchdown, and who is LAY-RA Croft? What? Here we go!

The Giant Bomb East team gathers to talk about the week in video games, their lives, and basically anything that interests them. All from New York City!

Sep. 1 2017

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@wandrecanada: not to nitpick, but nu-cu-lar is 100% a mispronunciation. Same as li-bare-eee. Just because I can infer what you are trying to say does not make it valid.

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@dcav said:

@wandrecanada: not to nitpick, but nu-cu-lar is 100% a mispronunciation. Same as li-bare-eee. Just because I can infer what you are trying to say does not make it valid.

It absolutely makes it valid. The message and not the means validates communication. Spelling the word later or l8r is valid so long as the reader can understand it.

Not that codification is not useful. It eases use for everyone if we agree on certain rules. There's a reason Merriam Webster is constantly adding words to it's dictionary (there is no definitive English codex but dictionaries are good stand-ins). It's still just a framework for the message and that's the most important part.

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Lara and Ubisoft. We will never know how these things are meant to be spoken. Until the end of days.

As a French Canadian I can cover both (thanks colonial wars?).

U in the french language is pronounced more closely to the ghost noise oOoooOoo. It's not Yewbisoft. That's the British U sound.

Lara is British and they pronounce that name as Lah-ruh. Like Cara is pronounced Kah-ruh.

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@dcav: I blame songs for singing Nu-cu-lear. Like that Nuclear song that showed up in MGS 5.

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Seems like they completely misunderstood the question being asked by Abby about endorsement on social media. They all point out how and why it's okay to endorse products you enjoy, but her question was about a keyboard she just got and hasn't used much. So it wasn't really an endorsement because she doesn't know yet whether she likes the product. Nonetheless, fans may have viewed it as a tacit endorsement.

In these cases, I would suggest that if fans are asking about what you bought you should probably remind them that you don't know if it's a good product. The last thing you want is to have major issues with your new keyboard and be reminded that you lead your followers to buy it.

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Those questions at the end, hahahaha. Especially Alex and the Grim Reaper.