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[redwallzyl]

stream if you missed it.
https://www.twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive/v/54999695

[Aklyon]

Was it longer than quills 40min cat-pire?

[redwallzyl]

Was it longer than quills 40min cat-pire?

its an hour of hilarity and blorg.

[JumpingJack]

its an hour of hilarity and blorg.

Affirmative. Resistance is futile.

[Descan]

Face-cam makes a re-appearance though. Not sure if it's the same size but it definitely takes up a sizeable chunk, and has the same overlay. Don't know how long it stays, it starts as soon as they load into the game.

[Orange Wizard]

Face-cam

Literally unwatchable

[Dansmithers]

Face-cam

Literally unwatchable

[Cruxador]

[At any rate, if you're critiquing my joke in earnest, your choices of quibbles seem a bit odd to me.  I'd consider "butt/but", "plane/plain", "won/one", "inn/in", "ayes/eyes", "seams/seems", "too/two", "their/there", and "compliments/complements" to all be phonetically identical to within a margin of error, and I'd consider "too", "their", and especially "compliments" to be very, very common mistakes made by native speakers.  On the flip side, I wouldn't consider "won/one" to be a common mistake made by a native speaker at all.  I also wouldn't consider "discreet" and "discrete" to be identical at all, especially if one considers "compliment" and "complement" to be highly distinct.

"Butt" and "ayes" have a longer vowels than "but" and "eyes", "inn" has a longer consonant than "in", and "their" is often so lengthened as to be arguably bisyllabic, though it does have overlap with "there". "plain" and "seems" and "ayes" are pronounced higher than "plane", "seams" and "eyes". They're all within margin of error for a non-native (but well-educated) speaker of English. They're still not mistakes that an English-speaker would normally make. "won"/"one" is a case that I called out as an exception because of pronunciation but the usage is very distinct and both words are common. "compliment" and "complement" are each pronounced with the same second syllable vowel as they're written as having, at least in every dialect of English I can recall hearing the words in (to be fair, they're not words I commonly use internationally) and not only are "discrete" and
"discreet" identical to me, but I can think of no reasonable pronunciation in which they're more different than any of the words you consider to be the same.

[sambojin]

^Look. I'm Australian. We are literally the last bastion of the Empire.

Including Scotland and Ireland. And yes, Wales as well.

You are incorrect.

[sambojin]

"Many Australians have been enhancing themselves with yeastoid brew-based technology and barely see themselves as a part of their parent Empire any more. They are fitter, healthier, more comely, fuck better, and tend to destroy their parent empire at cricket. They now consider themselves as Post-Pommy-Gits."

[Orange Wizard]

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Holy crap you're literally arguing over words.

Stuppit.

[sambojin]

Even funnier, no one realizes there's still a Great British Empire. Not even English people. From England.

It's a sorry state to be in, I'll grant you that.

It's probably best to let the poor English language be used or misused, as the case may be. It's more-or-less a "use it as you know it" call, has been for hundreds of years. English Professors aside.

I doubt the Queen would mind

[Orange Wizard]

Commonwealth of Nations != British Empire

[sambojin]

Head of Government through an Attorney General/Governor General in Australia = Queen of England and the Great British Empire.

It's just somantics, but meh. If your name isn't Queen Elizabeth II, and I find money on the ground, it isn't yours. I'm just tidying up the place a bit for the little lass.

edit: titles and stuff.

[Orange Wizard]

... no, the Governor-Generals have no power. Officially, they can reject legislation made by the local government (except in Australia, that power was revoked) but doing so would kick up a shitstorm (see Australia).
As a result, the Queen of England and the British parliament have no direct influence over their former colonies. Any ties to England are basically just ceremonial (barring various treaties, but that's not the same thing as an empire).