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Autocorrect and I are enemies.

You can tell by the way she is.

That isn’t Selma.

Do streamers call themselves influencers?

So they spent advertising money on freelance shills. Ok, that is just another form of advertising like paying an advertising company to do advertising.

Some forums are still around, but a large number of them and their content have disappeared.

That’s what I am glad they included enough for personal preference and included the ability to respec them so they weren’t locked into their starting classes.

Discord is like gated communities on the internet. Not open to the public and not something that is publically indexed.

It isn’t even comparable to mastadon or lemmy when it comes to being a source of information.

Honestly the internet will route around the loss of reddit just like it did with the loss of forums and other crowdsourced platforms that have died off over time. Yeah, we will lose a treasure trove of knowledge, but a lot of it was also outdated and the same questions will be asked again so the knowledge can be rebuilt.

I don’t normally like that kind of character but he really grew on me fast. Astarian, Gale, and Karlach are my absolute favorites but the cast as a whole is solid.

While I agree with you on how mediocre voice acting drags down most games, BG3 is one of the very few where the voice acting elevated the dialogue for me and the dialogue felt a lot less rambling than in NWN and other similar games. In BG3 the player character dialogue options are pretty robust, sometimes having six or more options to choose from, since the character doesn’t speak. I haven’t played Planescape Torment or Fallout 2 to compare, so I’ll take your word on them.

On a side note, BG3 was one of the games where the dialogue choices do matter. The worst are games where there are only a few poorly described choices and they have zero impact on what happens after! While I live Battletech (2019) the dialoge choices were completely pointless other than microfosing information. They would have been better off just having the NPCs banter after a single choice.

Personal preferences of course, which is why I love how many games there are to choose from.

I think BG3 also does max HP for 5e classws which is higher than the edition(s) used for 1 & 2. Did 1 & 2 use random HP for first level as well?

The original Neverwinter Nights after Baldur’s Gate 3.

NWN was fantastic for it’s time, loved the DM mode and online mods, but the clunky movement and walls of text without voiceovers just can’t compare.

Honestly, most doctors just give you a note if you go in no matter what anyway, so I’ve always felt that it’s more about your workplace tracking you than trying to make sure you’re alright.

It has always been about discouraging people from taking sick time by making it sound like they might not be able to get a doctor to justify them being out sick. All my low paying jobs enforced it because we didn’t have sick leave and they didn’t hire enough coverage for people to be out sick.

My current job has it in the handbook that if you are out more than 2 days that you might need a note to return to work, is phrased as existing to ensure people who were out sick are actually well enough to return. I took a note in once after being out for 3 days and they said I only needed it if there was a chance I might still be contagious or have something that would make it dangerous to work for liability reasons. Haven’t bothered with one since!

Saying they are committed to producing no rubbish on site on a sign, then selling things that result in rubbish, is hypocritical.