NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herpes Cineplex" data-source="post: 1525207" data-attributes="member: 16936">I swear quite a bit, so most of my characters do, too.  (My mom was a registered nurse, so I probably heard more profanity growing up than the kids of a Marine Corps Drill Instructor. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )  They're just very useful words to me, words that express a range of sentiments in one or two syllables that it would take a handful of sentences to convey otherwise.And honestly, f-ck verisimilitude.  Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, an invented mock swear word just sounds stupid; I'll just use the word I actually mean to use, and we'll all just pretend that when translated into the language of the game setting it comes out to something equally offensive.  We're already assuming my 21st-century American English is actually Shelzari or Basic or German or whatever, we may as well assume that the obscene phrase I just said (and which everyone understood immediately and fit the context of what we were talking about) would be translated to its nearest language-appropriate analogue.In stark contrast to my incessantly foul mouth is my friend's wife, who won't even swear when she's playing a videogame; she just starts making up elaborate and meaningless sound-alike words, which is always funny.--particularly if you put the two of us in front of the same consoleryan</blockquote>

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