From Steam’s self-published stats.
Baldur’s Gate 3 could not be preloaded and weighed in at 125 gigabytes on disk, so when the game left Early Access at 11am US Eastern yesterday, Steam’s bandwidth utilization shot up 8x over a span of 30 minutes. I know personally, I saw my download hit over 600 Mbps across a 1 Gbps fiber connection.
Kudos to the system engineers at Valve. It is mind-boggling that they have built infrastructure that robust.
Please, please don’t take this as any insult or criticism, but for future reference, it’s “piqued”.
This particular homophone is almost as devious as “milquetoast”. (Sounds like “milk toast”)
Edit: someone beat me to it and now I feel like a jerk for piling on. Sorry!
An easy way to remember “milquetoast” is with context, here let me use it in a sentence:
“Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath is an Eccentric-class Offensive Unit.”
See, didn’t that clear it all up?
It’s been about 5 or so years since I reread The Culture books. It might be time again.
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