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Fantasy games have a weird relationship with regional British accents

Whose epaulet is that pauldron?

Geralt prepares to fight guards in a The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt screenshot.
Image credit: CD Projekt Red

Nationalism is obviously weepingly dull, even when it’s not being genuinely harmful, but the UK does have a few special things you can’t get anywhere else. Nik Naks, for example - the only crisp without at least one inferior flavor in the multipack. If I’m even vaguely patriotic about anything, though, it’s the sort of colloquial variety for such a comparatively tiny landmass that means you can drive an hour in any direction and get in a guaranteed fistfight with a stranger over what one of these is called*:

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