Stovetop @ Stovetop @lemmy.world

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Am I crazy or are the shades of blue in the key of that graph completely different from the shades of blue in the graph itself?

Why are the two Os written in two different styles? AI gen?

Oh it took me a second but I see what they were getting at with it being spelled out:

Puta tu es, "whore you are" in Spanish.

The people you're messaging might, though.

I just think it stopped being a good deal the moment they implemented their first price increase. That signalled that they're willing to do what every other subscription service does and raise prices as arbitrarily high as people are willing to pay, with the enticement being that once you're in deep enough, you can't unsub or you're left with no games.

If you have copious time for gaming and are always on the hunt for sometbing new, is it still a better deal than buying every game at release? Sure, at least for now. But the patient gaming strat at least gives me a backlog of affordable titles too long to finish them all, and I can also return to it at any time without worrying about titles eventually disappearing from a subscription catalog.

Same here in Massachusetts back in 2020.

It's not necessarily a GOP vs Dem issue, it's dominant parties worried that giving voters more choice will weaken their control.

The universe where her real name is Kasumi

Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh too.

Each has real-world analogs. Kanto is the literal Kanto region of Japan, Johto is Kansai, Hoenn is Kyushu, and Sinnoh is Hokkaido.

I'm honestly surprised people still have it.

The general worker anxiety in the US is so bad that most people believe that attempts to unionize will end up costing them their jobs anyways.

Worst part is that not all of them are wrong.

May constitute a war crime? Israel is a war crime.

That's exactly it, they have the ability to go about certain scenes in different ways.

I still only have the Astarion/Cazador example, because that's the only origin character I played as, but one moment I remember as different between Astarion as party member versus Astarion as player is the conversation with his former lover Sebastian before confronting Cazador.

In my playthrough with Astarion as an NPC, he basically auto-piloted through most of that conversation. He remembered who Sebastian was, it was somewhat touching, and the player was able to ask Astarion questions for context.

In my playthrough as Astarion as the player, you can navigate that conversation in different ways, but there are also certain things that are no longer a given. You actually have to roll to remember who Sebastian is (which I flubbed) and that changes the course of the conversation away from the NPC "default" conversation.

Edit: I found some examples of that specific scene on YouTube, to compare the differences.

Astarion as a Party Member

Astarion as an Origin Character

Comment still agreeing with the mistaken criticism above, despite the apology, just to be argumentative.

Leadership inaction

but if you play as any of the characters you barely hear them, or so I've heard.(haven't done it myself)

This is the case. There are a small set of instances where the character might get a one-off voice line, but in general you're left mute, even during high impact story moments where the character would usually get a spotlight (e.g. Astarion confronting Cazador).

It's just a bit of a shame because you'd think people would opt to play characters they like because they want to experience more of them while playing, but ironically you get less that way.

Agreed, I think it's more that Jennifer English is out there putting in the work to get as many solid gigs as she can, BG3 being just one of several.

TBH still my enemy, I'd say. His methods are still about leveraging his ill-gotten wealth to manipulate American politics in his favor. No matter which end he accomplishes, the means are still a complete breach of the democratic process, in my opinion.

The Earl of Sandwich invents the sophisticated breaddystack only for the plebs to just refer to it by its inventor. Imagine inventing the morphodynamic semioscillating inverter only for the uneducated commons to call it a "Jimothy" or something.

Chopsticks, unironically. Better than having salt all over your hands.