Has your SO tried books? Ebooks or audiobooks could be helpful. They could try reading a book they are already familiar with in english, that way they wouldn’t have to put too much effort into getting acquainted with characters and plots, and focus into pronounciation, grammar and slang.

Also, music. Paying attention to the lyrics helps with learning new words, though ig metaphors, similes, etc., would be tricky, if not an even better learning experience.

This. The two times I’ve noticed my spoken english getting better were when I worked at a call centre and when I spent hours and hours on my clan’s Discord back during New World’s release. Plus, it allowed me to really see what weaknesses I could address by just asking people I was hanging out with how they would pronounce a word. I’ve recently started to have the same thing going with Battlebit, but I haven’t found a group to game with.

If OP’s SO is at all interested in history, Overly Sarcastic Productions has a discord channel and people there are beyond nice. If Gaming is an interest, there’s tons of niche content creators with their own discord to just chat in.

It might, but at this point the kid gloves have to come off. We’re coming ever closer to climate catastrophe, and we get nothing but platitudes and half measures. Wages are nowhere near to liveable, and we get nothing but a boot to the face. Hateful bigots have free roam to spew their shit in the streets, internet, radio and print, and now they run the government and spew their shit with no consequences and we get their hatespeech converted to policy.

Taking the high road is a losing strategy.

Old thread but anyway: kinda meh. My buddies and I with whom I play have gotten to the point where we stomp in 4 stars and get absolutely rolled in 6 stars, but there’s so little leeway that a good game can cause a whole session to go off the rails, loss after loss.

Had 40k in the bank during the Skinned questline, held myself to it until the start of this event. I’m down to 19k, last week I was down to 11k. MMR changes have definitely screwed my team.

Was going to mention Stalker. Honestly, a single player Hunt in the same vein as stalker would be a day 1 buy for me.

I just started to get into 40k, if you like reading, Dan Abnett’s First and Only is a good introduction to the world. It doesn’t expo dump you, and has a nice enough plot to follow.

Think also that it depends on whether the user gets the humor. Liberty Prime, the Imperium, etc. aren’t things to support what they stand for at face value, yet some do.

Like, I remember a while ago seeing a thread on reddit where some dude was saying that Fallout was a parody of communism, and not capitalism, and his argument boiled down to “when government does something bad, it’s communism”.

Walk off a cliff, fash.

Not controversial with politically literate people, but bigots, fascists, racists, homophobes, transphobes, etc., shouldn’t get a platform to spew their shit. Public or private, doesn’t matter. And any effort by them to acquire one needs to be put down.

It shocked me when my friends pushed back when I explained why Rogan shouldn’t have those people on his show with a freeze peach argument. Those people deserve nothing but a sock full of batteries.