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  • We mourn our craft

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  • So as a senior, you could abstain. But then your junior colleagues will eventually code circles around you, because they’re wearing bazooka-powered jetpacks and you’re still riding around on a fixie bike

    Lol this works in a way the author probably didn't intend. They are wearing extremely dangerous tools that were never really a great idea. They'll code some circles, set their legs on fire, and crash into a wall.

  • Meeting

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  • I think the best game I've done started as "it's a DND world and you're a band on tour".

    It started with a simple "the bridge is out on the way to your next show", then there was a battle of the bands, a sketchy record label, and then the players organized a recall of the mayor that was in bed with the capitalists. That game went great places.

  • Meeting

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  • Yeah I don't think I would happily play another "and then you all meet for the first time and work together" game unless it was like intentionally subverting the trope. It adds so many problems and suspension of disbelief problems.

  • What are your thoughts on apolitical people?

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  • Not good.

    They could be ignorant and not understand how politics affects pretty much everything.

    They could be foolishly cynical and think that "none of it matters", so they just don't pay attention.

    They could be like pathologically avoidant and don't want to talk about a potentially disharmonious topic.

    They could have shitty views they don't want to talk about.

    Not good. Not good people.

  • To Make New York City More Affordable, Extend the Subway

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  • It's not as bad as it used to be.

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    March for Billionaires — San Francisco, Feb 7

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  • Not sure if the person who made this site is joking, stupid, or evil. Or some combination

  • Walking is canceled

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  • Racism and capitalism, mostly.

    Those things lead to poor education for the public, which makes all subsequent decisions stupider.

    Then, the stupid people try to make as much short term money as possible for themselves.

    Simultaneously, anything that benefits the minorities (eg: black folks) is disliked. Mass transit, for example.

  • fedi is my home

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  • Ooh I remember that. That game was really popular in my friend group around 2008-ish. It spread to my work, too. Someone put a post-it note about the game by the time clock, and someone else invented a hand signal for it.

  • Bigfoot fairies?

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  • Yeah I think DND 3e had some wacky stuff with templates. Big effective level penalties if I recall for most of them

  • He parked his car on the sidewalk

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  • Like some variant of the paradox of tolerance, I feel like someone who does something so flagrantly in violation of social norms should forfeit their protection.

    Fine, park your shit on the sidewalk. Now no one's going to help when you're bleeding out.

  • 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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  • Bg1 and 2, Dragon age, and mass effect famously had save imports, so "the only way" doesn't check out.

    The dark souls games are so far removed in time that the previous game is legend, so that's an option.

    For the tv show they also could have, as I said, just set it somewhere and somewhen else. They can have rumors about what's happening in Vegas, but it's 20 years ago and you're in Chicago, so who knows what's true.

    So, yeah, they could've done something else and still made a TV 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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  • 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.