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Homie wants to defund the CBC so we can get closer to a corporate-owned state. Because we obviously need media to be further dominated by wealth.

Sure, "both sides" or whatever, but let's not downplay just how fucking awful Pollievre is.

A man of culture.

Secret of Evermore is also grossly underrated.

But, but, but Polievre keeps saying it's the liberal-funded CBC that's biased and corporate owned, private interest media is the solution!

/s

This is actually a super fascinating example of the way data can be displayed in a technically correct way to lead the viewer to completely invalid conclusions.

You don't see figuring out how things work as part of playing the game?

BG3 is a unique example in that its built in a system many players already know and understand, AND the whole thing is so watered down that you can absolutely just wing it with a rudimentary understanding of how things function and be fine. You don't need to min/max to enjoy the game, and if it's too hard there are multiple difficulty levels. It's fine to hit explorer difficulty pick a class for RP and just enjoy the game. The "GaMeR" police aren't going to kick down your door.

The answer to the wider question is: No, I don't. I like learning systems and I've practiced learning systems very rapidly. I've been quickly learning new systems for some 20+ years, so by now, I am just good at it. I do not spend any real length of time researching how to play these games; I load in, read and absorb what's in front of me, and try thngs. Things that don't work, I throw out, and I try new things. After a few iterations of this, if I am still heavily struggling I may Google some build repository so I can glance over some ideas of what other suggest work and then incorporate those ideas into my own setup, but even then, that practice is preserved for more competitive games. Games like BG3, Deep Rock, Warframe, Darktide, Inkbound, and Cassette Beasts, just to name some I've played in the last couple months, I'll never look up how others build and play. This is in part because I don't need to, and in part because crafting my own builds and finding my own solutions is a large part of the fun for me.

Opinion: I think all of the characters have very interesting, often emotionally moving arcs, but I can certainly understand why most players are focused on one character in particular.

That said, it's a game that demands 100% to get a really satisfying conclusion though. That wouldn't be a problem, but 100%includes collecting all 60 of the arbitrarily hidden shiny things across the game, which is quite obnoxious.

The problem is the way we are told to treat adults as kids.

We go all the way through school repeatedly being told that the adults have the answers, they understand everything that we don't, they know how to tackle the things that seem to big for us, and, most importantly, they don't make mistakes.

So now that we're adults, even though we cognitively know by now that it was all bullshit, it's hard to turn that training around. We make mistakes, don't have the answers, and sometimes struggle with parts of the world that we'd expected would make sense by now. We know that the adults before us were no different, but it's been so long that it's hard to internalize that we, now, are just like them.

Your imposter syndrome is programmed. It's not your fault.

Weird amount of nothing in this article. People from tangential teams focused on publishing other companies games have been laid off? There's nothing to infer about Wayfinder or Warframe from that. The only real inference we can make is DE is more concerned with their internal games than publishing the games of others.

If hype stopped selling, they'd stomp hyping.

There isn't even an attempt to suggest that there is some form of greater good at play here. They just apologetically do it and make no excuses. This is oppression, plain and simple.

Please, please, please just make gambling-focused monetization models illegal. This shit literally just exists to prey on those with poor impulse control and should not have gotten away with existing as long as it has.