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I'm actually surprised it isn't available by default, as alternative control schemes like this in isometric RPG's is as old as Neverwinter Nights 1 back in the early 2000's.

Larian seems to have great attention to detail, so I wonder if they'll add it in a patch.

The big companies and official government accounts refuse to move, and the only real alternative is Facebook, which comes with its own set of issues. Plus, users in foreign countries like Asia aren't involved in US politics and debate and haven't noticed any real changes except that big, stupid X.

It's mostly political content that's filled with right wing trolls and paid nation state bot runners. If you're in more obscure communities that Russia / China / Right wing corpos aren't interested in, it's just business as usual.

I don't get it, it all just looks like the "EU" or "Nato" to me, or whatever you're calling it now.

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From the place Deadpool and all those 90's heroes do.

It's true. It's why I feel that Mastodon will never replace Twitter. It's too much of a left wing circlejerk / bubble, and they're actively hostile to even moderate viewpoints. much less actually conservative ones.

I'm probably in the minority in this, but I believe that even people I don't agree with should have a platform and be tolerated as long as they're reasonable and willing to compromise and show respect, as long as they're not racist nazi nutjobs.

The world isn't exclusively made up of one set of ideas, and you shouldn't shut out 75% of all viewpoints just because they don't agree with yours, imo.

I don't see how this works in the long run, if they have to put paid corporate drones in charge of moderation. Wasn't the entire point of Reddit that they don't have to pay moderators?

This kind of strategy is lose / lose. If spez want an IPO, well this kind of crap is tanking that IPO.

The Galaxy S5 was water resistant and had a headphone jack and microSD card too. It set a new standard that unfortunately no one followed up on.

To this day I wish they'd open-source that design so at the very least, small hobbyists and open source fanatics could try making updates to that design using the same basic frame. I think there's a large portion of the population that wouldn't mind having some variation of the Galaxy S5 forever as long as the internals and camera were upgraded every so often.

The funny thing is that the stress from jumping all these hoops might actually age him faster. I think I read that lowered stress leads to slower aging. Then there's just basic stuff like eating better and exercising more, but not exercising too much.

I read an article by a tai chi teacher who's in his 70's and he doesn't have health problems and said it was due to him doing Tai Chi almost daily, while eating a whole food plant based diet that's low on meat and dairy.

On a similar note, my 12 year old dog overcame a bout of severe pancreatitis and had to be put on a prescription diet, but lost 3 pounds (a little over 10% of her body weight) and is getting walked more often and it feels like she's a much younger dog now. She walks quickly now and with more agility. She can jump better and has tons of energy, and she's more alert and noticeably thinner and healthier looking.

Given how obese and sedentary many Americans (and citizens of similar western nations) are a lot can be done with lifespan and healthspan just by making a few simple changes. Like eating / activity level and also lowered stress and more sleep and hydration.

Of course the REAL root of a lot of our problems is poor work/life balance due to increasing oligarchy, but there are still things we can do, like trying to do a little bit better than we did yesterday, and also fighting the oligarchy.

We also like games that ask players for feedback, then take it and test it in the game and improve the game with it if it works. As opposed to recycling the same ubisoft tower climbing + shallow collectible fetch quest-a-thon for the 100th time while wondering why people are getting bored and not buying the sequels.

Probably, but there was a time when you could easily make your old car feel new just by adding an aftermarket stereo with bluetooth (and mic compatibility) and a USB port and an aux-in port.

My car's 6-cd changer (which could play MP3 CD's) broke so I replaced it with one of a new one with all those features and it almost felt brand new. I could connect my phone to it, take calls via bluetooth, change all sorts of settings including balance and equalization, it was actually a revelation.

It was so good that I had my sister get the same thing, because while her radio worked, her CD player did not, and it was also very useful for her as well.

I actually got the idea because of all the features that my mother's (then new) 2013 Kia Soul had with its bluetooth and mic equipped stereo. Nowadays I think most new cars have a pretty decent entertainment setup with an integrated back up camera, so it's no longer necessary to get something aftermarket.

That said, there was a time where aftermarket was remarkably better than factory stock.

Hope it's better than the first one. It was too repetitive for me and the pacing was too slow. It spent too much time in Greece, and took way to long to get to Babylon and China Had some serious balance issues as well, to the point where I actually wondered why they allowed certain "class" combinations at all.

I hope this new game doesn't force you to distribute stat points 1 at a time (almost no one wants to do that) and also allows for cheap or free respecs at any time. It gets boring using the same abilities all the time, no matter how optimal they are. Swapping builds and powers on the fly helps you feel like you're playing a brand new game.

It's a lesson that Blizzard learned with Diablo 3 and 4 and even World of Warcraft, which is why those games don't force you to look up a guide before spending every single stat point, and also allow you to respec easily to try something new and keep you engaged.

Depends on how well written the evil route is. I think most people don't like evil routes where you're just a mustache twirling murderer, slaver, torturer, etc.

But if it's written more like Breaking Bad where you're doing desperate things for desperate reasons, and /or because of relatable character flaws, then they're more into it. It's rare that games actually have a story as deep and well written as Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, where if you stop and think about it, the Protagonists are obviously the villains of the story, but nuanced portrayals of villainy are what work better, imo.

Someone mentioned Tyranny in this thread (which is basically Pillars of Eternity 1.5 in terms of gameplay) and while it's not as compelling or as well written as Breaking Bad, it does have a story where you're the "bad guy" but you don't really have a choice in the matter. You're doing bad things to prevent worse things from happening, and you have to do them or else worse things will happen to you.

What I like better than the "evil" route are where people do "good" things but it leads to a bad result, like in Fallout 3, where spoiler alert:

-------------Spoilers------------
You can negotiate to let Ghouls into Tenpenny Tower, only for the Ghouls to turn around and kill all the humans in there, because it turns out the Ghouls were racist against humans, and were total hypocrites.
-----------End Spoilers---------

Similar to a news story in real life I read recently, where a Taco Bell manager with a heart of gold hired the homeless guy sleeping behind the store, and allowed him to sleep in his house, only for the guy to constantly blow up and threaten his co-workers and then "repay" that act of kindness by shooting that manager dead. No good deed goes unpunished, as they say. It's why I'm careful with my charity nowadays and prefer to let organized groups do it rather than reaching out directly. This is not the only story like this I've heard or read about.