Elden Ring's "scadutree" is not pronounced the way you think it is

Guess what, Tarnished? We’ve all been saying Elden Ring DLC’s “Scadutree” incorrectly.
According to VaatiVidya’s fascinating video Amazing Secrets in the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, scadu is derived from ancient English and is pronounced “sha-doe” rather than “ska-doo”… which, let’s face it, makes much more sense given the DLC’s subtitle.
Jump to 510s/8m30s on the video below to hear the correct pronunciation for yourself:

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Summer Games Done Quick 2024 raises £1.9m, taking its lifetime charitable total to £40m

Summer Games Done Quick 2024 is over for another year, raising £1.9m ($2.5m) for the charity Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières.
That brings the speedrunning organiser’s lifetime total to a staggering £40m/$51m across all its events for charities like AbleGamers, Doctors Without Borders, Organisation for Autism Research, Malala Fund, National Women’s Law Center, and Prevent Cancer Foundation.

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Balatro's free collaboration update adds The Witcher, Vampire Survivors, Among Us, and more

Balatro, the acclaimed poker-themed rogue-like that continues to haunt my dreams, has just released a free update for PC and consoles introducing a bunch of cosmetic cameos from the likes of The Witcher, Vampire Survivors, Dave the Diver, and Among Us.

Balatro’s Friends of Jimbo update is available now and gives player the option to swap out the game’s usual Kings, Queens, and Jacks with characters from the aforementioned series. So if you’d like to spice up a run with, say, a beaming Jaskier or a vampire from the infamously vampire-free Vampire Survivors, today’s your lucky day.

In a post shared on Steam, developer LocalThunk explained Friends of Jimbo is the second of three big Balatro announcements due this summer, with the first being the recent news of a…

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