u/jibbick

A lot of comments suggest that his issues are specific to the theaters he goes to or the area he lives in, which may be true. For me, my experiences have not trended quite as negative as Mike's have been but I would say that theater etiquette has gotten noticeably worse in my lifetime with COVID rapidly accelerating the decline. It's worth noting that roughly half of my theatergoing experiences in the last several years have been special events of some sort - re-releases or special screenings of The Room, Monty Python, Back to the Future, et cetera. These have by and large been fine because they just don't attract the same kind of riff-raff you'd run into at mainstream releases. But for the big-name blockbuster type stuff that genpop goes to see? Yeah, there have been more than a couple of shitty experiences of late. From memory:

Avatar 2 - went on a Friday afternoon to avoid mouthbreathers, but then a family walks in like 45 minutes into the film, kids all on Switches and phones, barely paying attention to the movie at all and talking nonstop. I guess the runtime wore them down (as it did me) and they fucked off before the final act, but like, why the fuck even pay to go see a movie you're not gonna watch?

Gladiator 2 - unbelievably obnoxious 13/14 year old sitting next to me, who I guess didn't want to be there, talking the whole time, making annoying ass sounds just to be a prick and piss his useless parents off, then acting like he didn't know what they were talking about when they told him to be quiet. The theater was packed, otherwise I would have moved. I didn't like the film in general but his shit behavior didn't help matters

Project Hail Mary - Annoying woman with her boyfriend sitting next to me acting like she's in her living room, narrating and commenting throughout the first half hour or so until I gave her a nasty look and she STFU so I could enjoy the rest of it

The Odyssey (most recent) - this one was OK for me at least, because I again chose a slow time and sat near the aisle away from most other people. But there was a lady in a middle seat who was just talking the whole fucking time and I could hear her chattering whenever things got quiet (which, this being a Nolan film, wasn't that often)

Even excluding the niche/special events and focusing on mainstream releases alone, I'd still say that bad experiences account for less than half my time at the movies, but it's frequent enough that I do kind of low-key dread going to see any major release that's not near the end of its theatrical run. Most people are fine, but it just takes one asshole to ruin the moviegoing experience for others and I do feel like assholes who have opted out of the social contract have become noticeably more common.

Bear in mind that this is all specific to America. I lived in Japan where this sort of thing practically never happened (unless foreigners were around). Even in other Western countries I've lived in, people seemed better behaved, but that was before COVID. What have your experiences been like?

Obviously this only applies to the English dub. But since German characters speak German, Hungarians speak Hungarian, etc - if Henry meets someone who speaks only English, then what?

It could actually make for a funny side quest. 1403 spoken English would be nearly incomprehensible to us, though not entirely. With subtitles you might be able to get the gist of it, though Henry would still be confused. Would feel similar to how I felt as a novice German speaker in Kuttenberg. With subtitles I kinda get what's being said, but not really.

Kind of reminds me of how Hungarian speakers had an advantage in KCD1 since they could follow what the Cumans were saying, which is mostly just for shits and giggles when you're fighting them but actually comes in handy during a few missions. IIRC there were complaints that the Hungarian being used sounded way too modern and out of place. I don't know if that applies to other languages that appear in the game.

For those wondering - Middle English began evolving into Early Modern English right around this time. In written form it was already kind of comprehensible but in common speech would be extremely hard to understand. By the early 1500s it was easier to read, but still tough to follow in real time. And then by 1600 when Shakespeare was writing his classics, the Great Vowel Shift was mostly complete and English would have sounded strange and archaic to us but still very much understandable (though again, common speech would be a lot harder to follow, but you would at least be able to communicate with people). Yes, this subject is a weird pet interest of mine.

Essentially, just the same two sentences being reworded by various male authority figures:

1: "Think of yuh poor muddah!"

2: "Be a man!"

His mom's idea of moving away was a pretty good one honestly. Too bad Season 6 Tony was a degenerate gambler who pissed away the money for it, so instead the kid gets shipped off to one of those teen abuse camps where Mormon families send boys who act up. Almost certainly fucked the kid up for life.