I don't think there's been a turn based game that has sold as well as BG3 in a long time. They're just chasing trends. Something like XCOM is a better comparison in terms of gameplay and style, but doesn't have the sales that BG3 has.
I plan to reread all Clive Barker novels a second time, at some point in my life. His prose is just so unique and has an effortless beauty about it that I've yet to find in another author.
Plot can only really draw you in once... when you already know what happens in a story it doesn't have the same pull it had the first time. But prose has a lasting appeal, one that can be revisited. The indescribable quality of the way that words can make you feel is unique to the relationship between reader and writer.
I don't. At least not anymore. I used to have a 40 hour, Monday through Friday job, but I had to find something else or I would've ended up having a breakdown. I'm autistic, and my life has been a series of periods of trying to be the person society wants me to be, failing, and then spending several years burnt out and unable to function before repeating the whole process. If I hadn't been able to live with one of my parents during those burnout periods I would've likely ended up homeless.
I've found that I simply cannot work 5 days a week. Even 40 hours over 4 work days will eventually burn me out. So I found a job that offers 12 hour shifts, and I work weekends. I pick up one or two shifts during the work week when they're available. I average 32 hours a week.
It's unarmed security, and it works for me, even though it doesn't pay well. I've just accepted that I will be poor, and my life is much better this way. Capitalism has brainwashed us into believing that money is more valuable than time, and there's something wrong with you if you can't match what is expected of you.
Right? Whoever wrote this headline is like... new, or something. Republicans have been doing this for decades and it's explicitly written out in project 2025.
Alan Wake 2 has great voice acting. I think the main character is just naturally more subdued and when compared with the theatricality of BG3 it just seems worse if you're expecting that style.
You have a point. I've been wondering just how senate Democrats could possibly approve all these wildly incompetent boobs to these powerful positions. Maybe they want the worst people possible in these positions so that this administration implodes on itself.
But that could be giving them too much credit. It would mean they weren't entirely spineless...
I'm autistic and trying to figure out if autism is an at-risk minority group. It doesn't help that I was extremely vocal on Reddit about how much I hate Trump and Musk. I deleted my account, but Reddit is now a fascist platform and would likely turn over my posts and email address to this administration without a second thought.
I'm not sure what to do. I'm not sure if I could even leave at all, with my debilitating anxiety and trauma.
Washington State. My deductible is $600. It's income based, so my low rate requires me to make very little. That is fine with me, since I have no desire to work more than 32 hours a week and I've learned how to live cheaply.
The insurance my job offered me is $100 a month with a $4,500 deductible, which is absolutely awful in comparison.
No, it's neither universal nor garbage. You didn't bother to read my comment. If you had, you would've seen me mention how I pay $30.19 a month for health insurance. That is a fantastic deal. The ACA works well for people like me, it just has a limited scope and sends tax payer dollars to greedy health insurance companies.
It's not universal, it's based on income. When I signed up for the ACA I put down my income at $3,000 a month, which makes my monthly bill $30.19 a month. If my average income for the year exceeds $3,000, I owe the difference to the government.
My small income works for me because I live alone and don't have any dependents. But if I had kids I would need to double or triple my income to support them, in which case my monthly ACA payment would also increase. It's possible for people with families to be priced out of the ACA.
Fair enough. I didn't mean to imply that we're as good as the French at protesting. I don't think anyone is. They are the world champion protestors. I wonder what platform they use to organize.
You can't be both a libertarian and pretend to care about parks and forests. Pick one.