native english speaker here, and it's really not hard to believe that people had problems with the wording. the fact that so many people didn't understand the choice means that word isn't as common as some ppl think. it might be common in your daily life, but it's unfair to assume it's a common phrase for the entirety of the US. tho it does seems pretty evenly divided on who understood it and who didn't, so i wonder if it's one of those regional-varying phrases (kinda like pop vs soda). personally i had never heard this before and thought it meant oppose or fight whoever you chose (like going head to head).
I grew up in the NW, and I'd heard it and understood the meaning right away. I'm wondering now if this might be a regional thing. I've never spent any time in the South and wouldn't be surprised if there were idioms common there that I'd never encountered.
Also, "glass him" is a pretty well used slang term in at least the U.S. and Australia.
I'm born and raised in America and have never… more heard this term used in that way or at all for that matter. "Glass him" was the most startlingly misleading dialogue option I've ever encountered.
I am not a native english speaker, english is my second language, and while I was admittedly a bit confused by the choice, "to head someone off" is a valid sentence, however there are alot of sentences and words that are used way more often to say the same thing, since "head off" is very rarely used, at least in my experience
native english speaker here, and it's really not hard to believe that people had problems with the wording. the fact that so many people did… moren't understand the choice means that word isn't as common as some ppl think. it might be common in your daily life, but it's unfair to assume it's a common phrase for the entirety of the US. tho it does seems pretty evenly divided on who understood it and who didn't, so i wonder if it's one of those regional-varying phrases (kinda like pop vs soda). personally i had never heard this before and thought it meant oppose or fight whoever you chose (like going head to head).
Also, "glass him" is a pretty well used slang term in at least the U.S. and Australia.
I'm born and raised in America and have never… more heard this term used in that way or at all for that matter. "Glass him" was the most startlingly misleading dialogue option I've ever encountered.
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native english speaker here, and it's really not hard to believe that people had problems with the wording. the fact that so many people didn't understand the choice means that word isn't as common as some ppl think. it might be common in your daily life, but it's unfair to assume it's a common phrase for the entirety of the US. tho it does seems pretty evenly divided on who understood it and who didn't, so i wonder if it's one of those regional-varying phrases (kinda like pop vs soda). personally i had never heard this before and thought it meant oppose or fight whoever you chose (like going head to head).
I grew up in the NW, and I'd heard it and understood the meaning right away. I'm wondering now if this might be a regional thing. I've never spent any time in the South and wouldn't be surprised if there were idioms common there that I'd never encountered.
I am not a native english speaker, english is my second language, and while I was admittedly a bit confused by the choice, "to head someone off" is a valid sentence, however there are alot of sentences and words that are used way more often to say the same thing, since "head off" is very rarely used, at least in my experience
Full blooded American born here. (New Jersey) I figured out what glass him meant before I made the choice, but I had never heard the term before.
It still confuses me that people didn't understand the glass him. You wouldn't be confused by 'bottle him'
Actually? I would. I’m 35 years old and have never heard the terms bottle him/glass him.
Well I hadn't heard glass him but it just seemed like common sense to me.