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  • A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters

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  • What made new Vegas interesting was that it's not just another kitschy wasteland romp. It's post-post-apocalypse, and it asks who rebuilds after.

    My limited understanding is the TV show nuked the NCR so they could do more wasteland theme park, and not continue that train of thought. But also didn't just set it somewhere else.

    But admittedly I haven't actually watched it.

    But also, again, trying to make a TV show intersect with a video game with multiple endings is a foolish idea. You won't make everyone happy, and it's an entirely avoidable problem. They could've just set the show in a different part of the world that hasn't had a game.

  • The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game.

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  • I found a pizza place near me that still has like 2010 prices. It's like a large pie with 5 toppings for $20. Most places are more like $30 now, here (NYC)

  • A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters

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  • I kind of refuse to watch Fallout. Partly because I read they fucked up the NCR. But also Amazon sucks , and Bethesda is kind of creatively bankrupt.

  • A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters

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  • Spoiler for Shadowheart's story

    Viconia is a recruitable party member in bg1 and 2. You can even make her not evil at the end. I was bummed that they decided that she just stays evil.

    And for the main plot in act 3, with a certain bhaalspawn.

    You can also redeem sarevok, but they just decided that he's evil.

    Annoying, but I get why they didn't do like a save import from an ancient game.

  • A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters

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  • Related, if they ever make another game in the franchise this show will probably be canon, so it’s not entirely ignorable.

    Technically I don't have to watch it. I don't have to play any more games in the franchise either. But if I do want to play more games in the franchise, I'll probably have to deal with the show.

  • A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters

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  • Can we just not do this?

    One, not every thing needs to be a whole franchise universe.

    Two, the game had a lot of decisions players could make. Collapsing that into a single canon is going to be unsatisfying. It was annoying enough that bg3 made some big decisions about choices from bg2.

    Related, if they ever make another game in the franchise this show will probably be canon, so it's not entirely ignorable.

    Three, it's not even that interesting a setting. It's pretty Standard Fantasy.

  • the enemy within

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  • Dark souls 1 nail bat was the shit, even though it's just a piece of wood with some nails stuck in.

  • New York City killed outdoor dining and has stopped bus lanes in the name of saving street parking. Yet on Park Avenue, cars park for a week at a time without being used.

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  • I saw a guy with a shirt once that said something like "street parking is theft" and I was really excited. Gave him two thumbs up and he was confused until he looked down at his shirt.

  • Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding

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  • Yeah I don't really like the model where it starts basic and hard, and each failure makes it a little easier.

    Feels like it would be more interesting if you started with high stats, and each successful run you had to remove or lower something. Sure, you won with 200 health but can you win with 100? Hades kind of had this alongside the upgrades as you go.

    I didn't like dead cells or rogue legacy that much because it felt like I would've won if I had grinded more, and that's not what I want.

    I feel like games are usually a mix of execution challenges and numbers challenges. In a pure action game or other games without progression (eg: chess) you win or lose from your decisions and input. But in numbers games, you win or lose based on the stats. There's really no way cloud from the start of the original ff7 can defeat disc 3 bosses. The numbers just aren't there.

    Some rogue-lites feel like they're trying to be execution games but have a less clear numbers check on top. Doesn't always work for me.

    I do really like the traditional rogue like Crawl: Stone Soup, though. No meta game aside from the occasional player ghost.

  • I can read

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  • The bit about avoidance might be insightful. Some people have anxiety about reading and writing, and the LLMs feel like they're helping. But as this post says, they're not. They're making the anxiety worse in the long term.

    Many people legitimately are bad at reading and writing. You'll won't find a ton of them here, on a platform that's mostly text, but they're out there. Struggling though life, probably embarrassed. An LLM that purports to let them skip uncomfortably engaging with text probably feels like a godsend. But it's a trap. It's a tarpit they'll get stuck in and never develop skills of their own.

  • Borderlands 4 for Nintendo Switch 2 likely axed, as Take-Two says it’s ‘paused’ development | VGC

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  • Is it like the other ones where it takes several hours until you start finding interesting guns and get cool powers?

  • You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift

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  • I don't understand how my coworkers are using windows. Like, they routinely have issues where it randomly reboots or gets sluggish. And it's just flat out unfit for software development, unless you're targeting windows specific stuff. They can't even run our code locally.

    Maybe some of the problems are janky security stuff to try to lock it down

  • What's your opinion on prostitution?

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  • Many complaints against prostitution also apply to trading labor for money/shelter in general. People just have a stronger emotional response.

    Emotional responses are rarely a good foundation for policy.

    Prostitution should be legal with safety regulations. All labor should have protections, unions, and such, to protect them from being abused by the wealthy.

    Some specific things would probably remain illegal or disallowed, in the same sense that you're not allowed to work construction without safety gear. People can wear condoms as easily as hard hats and hi-viz vests.

  • Community members performing traffic stops in order to check for fascist paramilitary invaders. (Minneapolis, MN - date unknown)

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  • Completely understandable to establish borders to keep certain people out who might mean you harm or who might disrupt the peace of your community.

    I mean, keeping ice out because they genuinely are a threat is cool. But some people would use this logic to keep out black people, because they falsely believe black people will disrupt the peace or mean them harm.

  • The curse of being right

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  • People are emotionally driven. Admitting something scary is more emotionally taxing than pretending it's fake.

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    A Life of Crime

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  • I don't think that's always true. Some people develop a drug addiction and then that leads to homelessness. Spend increasing amounts of time and money on drugs instead of life needs, and then they're broke jobless and out of options.

    Someone who's homeless may use drugs and develop an addiction, too. But the order of events isn't fixed. I don't know how common either order is.

  • Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?

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  • I've heard this but I haven't taken the time to find a rom and emulator and get it working (on Linux)

  • How much do you pay for food each month?

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  • It helps that I'm not a picky or demanding eater. I make a cup of rice in my rice cooker, get some canned beans, and throw in a random assortment of spices and/or condiments. Not afraid to try some weird combinations.

  • Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?

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  • I was going to say diablo4 as well. Diablo1 and 2 were some of my favorite games in my youth, but I just don't want to give blizzard any more money. Path of exile 1 and 2 are good for the same itch.

    Also any console exclusives. Bloodborne? Would love to play. Not buying a console. New Zelda and Mario? Same.