Keegen

I'm not happy that they still haven't figured out the "pick who initiates dialogue" problem. This has been a thing in Divinity: Original Sin 2, and continues to plague us into Baldur's Gate 3. It's really annoying to watch your party face Sorcerer or Bard sit in the background while the Barbarian gets to fumble all the dialogue checks with their 8 Charisma score just because they happened to be the first one to enter the room, or the one who was closest to the boss before they decided to plea for their life (looking at you, Hag...) There is also the dilemma of whether to pick the dialogue options you would pick or the ones the character speaking would. I would love to pet that puppy but Astarion happened to walk into the door first, so I guess I'll have to pick the option to kick it instead or break character.

Look at Paisen, all full of self confidence! I'm kinda sad we didn't get to see Machida's sketch fully to compare them.

Played around 80h of Early Access and I even bought the old games and played through them before release to catch up on the world. I enjoy Baldur's Gate 3's combat a lot more, but that's mainly because I loathe real-time-with-pause combat and only suffered through it in Baldur's Gate, Pillars of Eternity and Planescape:Torment because the story and characters grabbed me enough to keep going. The game is very different and makes many changes from PnP DND ruleset, and has many "Larianisms" (spells causing surfaces, water making you weaker to lightning/cold but resistant to fire height giving advantage/disadvantage to attacks) but none of them detract from the experience. If you're not a D&D purists you will probably enjoy it after some getting used to it. As for the story and characters, it's hard to say much as we only had access to the small portion that is (not even the entirety of) Act 1 during Early Access, but what's there has been incredible.
In short, it's not like the old games, but I think considering it's been 23 years since the last game and this one is developed by an entirely different studio, it would be incredibly unfair to judge it based on that.

I was really torn between a human storm sorcerer or a half-orc battle master but ultimately decided to go with a gold dwarf hunter using a heavy crossbow. Fits in very well with my preferred party companions (Karlach and Shadowheart as frontline, me and Gale as backline) and has Talk to Animals which is really nice to have in Larian games. I also just love the visual of a grizzled dwarf bounty hunter with his pet raven (taking the Beast Tamer choice for Find Familiar on character creation).

The plot thickens! Poor Romm had a near death experience just trying to investigate "the thing" hanging around Michiru!
They framed the sister as a possessive stalker so far, but with this series' tendency to bait you into blaming the "obviously" evil characters, and with how Michiru is even more creepily possessive, literally breaking-and-entering, not hesitating to use violence (that bloody pen flashback?), she could be just trying to keep her sister from getting to close to others, knowing how bad things can get if she does.

Very happy to see that, I know it was pretty obvious they wouldn't abandon that IP but it's still nice to have a confirmation. I loved Divinity: OS 2, one of my favourite RPGs, and I'm extremely excited to play Baldur's Gate 3 in a few days. With everything they learned during it's long production, I'm sure the next Divinity will be an incredible game, whenever it comes out!

Cute how Nazuna dressed up in her school uniform all ready to pick up Yamori from school. She did got to have a cute little "investigation" with her senpai, though!
Will Nazuna try to wriggle out of answering Anko like she did with Kabura? Find out next time on Drago-... Call of the Night!

Well, it's a discussion thread for the chapter, I think those are a given.

Can't believe King not only tried to take on Atomic Samurai with chopsticks alone, but he casually surpassed even his greatest technique! He truly is the strongest man!

I did like how to unwind from all this stress he had to crush poor Saitama at fighting games. King's Engine got a workout today, some day this poor man is gonna get a a heart attack!

For how great AMD usually is on Linux, it's not without it's issues. RDNA2 (the entire RX 6000 series) still suffers to this day from this 2 years old issue that can cause stutter in games as the GPU constantly downclocks itself aggressively. I still prefer it over Nvidia (having owned one and now using AMD) but just be aware, it's not all as perfect as some Linux users would have you believe.

The current kbin domain block doesn't really work well as an instance block. What it does is block any post linking to that specific domain. It will block a nsfwlemmy user posting images to their own instance, but it won't block lemmy.world or lemmy.ml user posts there as they link to their own respective domains instead. It also won't block any post from that instance linking to a 3rd party domain either.

I keep going back and forth between KDE and Gnome. KDE is great on my desktop where I always have a mouse plugged in, but on my laptop I really like the workflow and gestures that Gnome on Wayland has.