r/slaythespire • u/A_Certain_Surprise • Oct 10 '24

META Xecnar attempts to continue his rotating A20H streak to 25 Spoiler

...and loses to Awakened One as The Silent!

What a phenomincal achievment. The current world record, which beat Baalorlord's previous world record by 4 runs (20%). Insane

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u/Ohrami9 Oct 10 '24

But your hyperbolic statement is obviously incomprable due to the fact that neither Jorbs nor Paparatto already know highly fluent Vietnamese to a level nearly indistinguishable from a native over text, as does Xecnar with English.

Learning a more native-like accent does take significant amounts of training, but why would one choose to undertake the gargantuan task of learning a language and give such little mind to actually sounding intelligible to the average speaker of the language? He would likely be able to see substantial improvement in his pronunciation if he spent a few months doing focused practice.

While people on Reddit here are generally much nicer due to the risk of sounding rude, you still see multiple people complaining that the accent turns them off. Every single person who I've tried in good faith to share his streams to in order to demonstrate the top-tier gameplay he provides has said that the accent is so intolerable that they are unable to even sit through a few minutes of his streams. It actually is a significant problem.

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u/LaundryBasketGuy Oct 10 '24

Dude, it took me about an hour to get used to his accent. Your friends sound super impatient if they can't even tolerate a "few minutes" of getting used to an accent. Especially considering he is the best player in the world now.