What amazes me is still the complete disconnect. I literally want someone like this to go talk to some homeless person, or someone that just lost their child to a psycho with a gun or even the average person in your average [insert bullshit retail job here] clearly struggling to pay rent or whatever that the 50 billion or something in Ukraine is a fucking investment in democracy.

Motherfucker invest into something tangible at least once for starters, like I am pretty sure your average human being next to you(assuming you’re actualy real and actualy spends time outside not some NAFO loser in a basement LARPing as some “democracy holy warrior” or something) could give you a list and I’m sure 99% of the time it wont start with some piece of shit missile worth 50k a pop to some random Ukrainian teenager in a trench somewhere or 50 million per plane that can’t even fly etc.

I don’t know anybody who gives a shit about these movies or will see them, regardless of politics.

You can’t deny the numbers though, maybe its just you and you’re lucky with your acquaintances but this is literally like saying “yeah the latest capeshit made 1 billion and I don’t know anyone who watched it or wants to watch it”. I mean, come on now.

Also in the current state hollywood commentary is right now I think it is an extremely safe bet that if there was actualy any indication that either of those movies flopped the media would run with this for all the rage clickbait from pretty much every side.

The second important comparison is with BioWare. Baldur’s Gate 3 feels like the game that BioWare should have made after Dragon Age: Origins. Even if BioWare didn’t want to make a full turn based D&D adaptation, not only did BioWare’s brand begin with Baldur’s Gate, but in many ways Baldur’s Gate 3 feels like a Dragon Age made with Original Sin technology. The camera work, the character driven storytelling, the RPG mechanics. BioWare could have evolved in that direction. But telemetrics and market demographics never told them it was an option. If I was in charge of the Xbox division the one thing I wouldn’t have done is what happened to BioWare. The studio was acquired and retooled - almost by osmosis really - to follow their parent company’s ethos. They went from making niche RPGs to believing that the only way they could afford to tell their character driven cinematic games was to become more like a mainstream action blockbuster release. Baldur’s Gate 3 disproves all of that.

If there is at least one game I’m extremely nostalgic about is Neverwinter 1, NWN was the game in the early 2000s arguably probably more popular than BG imo.

I wonder what’s your take on the NWN 1-2 transition from Bioware to Obsidian. I don’t entirely understand what went on there, I looked at the wiki before and it was something about licensing so reading your comment I’m not even sure where exactly the decision was made to just give up on those DnD games if that was even a thing.

Joke’s on you I’m here for YURI

Maybe she doesn’t want to have anything to do with the next election, what is a better way to escape and forget than to literally move to another country.

Do we need to go over the problems that arise from putting memes in front of discourse?

How insulated a community has to be in order for someone to end up thinking “I don’t really know if X is good or bad and I’m too afraid to ask.”

Of course we have many, maybe most people here with a strong consciousness and good rhetorical foundation, but I shouldn’t have to mention the dozen of struggle sessions over the years over so much stuff.

In hindsight one can always say “but I always thought X was [the correct take here]” but doing it in real time is not as straight forward as it seems.

In the end we realy do need a “Beginners guide to Hexbear” somewhere just to be safe.

Yeah but as you can see from the comments here we already have this culture here even as a joke, imo we just have to make sure people don’t take volcel it as unironically good and end up on the other side.