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Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Back in high school I invented a runic language like this and I used it to cheat in German class. I was always drawing fantasy/scifi scenes on my notebooks and I would write all the German verb declensions into the scenes, like on Thor's chest or the side of a spaceship or whatever, and then have the notebook on the floor while taking the test. Straight As in German and now I can't fucking speak German.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

now I can’t fucking speak German.

I took German for two years without cheating and I can't speak German, either. Classrooms are the worst places to learn languages, period.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At some point I switched my games from German to English, my English skills probably improved more in the first two months of doing that than in the 4 years of classroom English I had before then.

I've heard similar from the people who took French or Spanish as ellectives, it seems schools are the worst place to actually learn a language (I'd say including your native one, I learned more about German in Philosophy class than in German class)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What an enigma you represent.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Underrated pun. Nice.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I hope you can at least still speak the ancient runes of the Chicken Lady.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

That's a pretty genius way to cheat, impressive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Guter Trick, trotzdem schade eigentlich.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you still read and write in your runic language?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I can't even read and write English any more.