Sad they're looking to consolidate, puts a firm nail in the coffin of the idea that I might be able to pester their Quebec office for a job if my eng degree doesn't pan out jobs-wise, but I get it. :P (Bigger company gets harder to manage, especially if you're trying to maintain a healthy environment low on coporate bullshit.) Super hyped for any and every project they put out in the future, if they are able to so much as replicate what they've done with BG3, never mind expand on it.
Oldmandan
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With luck, maybe people will realize all the stink around the deal being audited (which is the auditor general's job, as much as Ford wants to pretend otherwise) is suspicious as hell, the audit will happen and he won't be able to. That's perhaps too optimistic, though.
It got more questionable the further I scrolled. /shurg Perhaps it's just marketing (thumbnails decrying feminism/diversity/etc) but bare minimum he gives off vibes like he's trying to cater to a far-right crowd.
"Right" is "capitalism is a good economic system" (degree of acknowledgement of current problems variable), and "traditional values have value, so care and caution should be taken before change is made." IE, the modus operandi of most (American) parties that brand themselves as left wing. :P It shouldn't be fucking screaming about things being "woke" or too feminine or too diverse. As soon as it's about hate, instead of policy, it's alt-right. The problem is that nowadays, that's all there seems to be.
I'm not terribly keen on watching any of the vids on his second channel; maybe the titles and thumbnails are just click bait and the actual content is more level-headed, but I've got better things to do. /shurg
I do something similar to Sprint, basically, you can move at double your speed for a round (so 4x total, dashing) but have to roll a Con save or take a level of Exhaustion. Each time you use this ability without resting, the DC goes up by 5. (Starts at 10.) Which feels about right, IMO. Lets a max-level Monk/Barbarian match (or exceed, with certain feats/races/subclasses) Usain Bolt for speed, but only for a short duration, even if they have a superhuman constitution.
Malazan is one of the all-time greats, IMO. Took me a couple years to get through, (had to take breaks with lighter books every now and again, especially in the back half) but what a ride, holy crap. Memories of Ice in particular was amazing. Itkovian remains one of the most compelling characters for me.
Mouse and keyboard. I do like joystick movement, but I'm used to mouse and keyboard from EA, and being able to navigate the hotbars easily feels like it'll be more important to not getting frustrated. :P
(I might be misreading, I haven't had my coffee today, sorry if this was already obvious. :P) Just to be clear, these do play while casting the spell in BG3, it's just not the same exact Latin phrases as before. Which I get is something of a missed opportunity for nostalgia, (I'm sure someone will mod OG incants in eventually), it does still do a good job with in terms of vibe.
Thanks for the recommend; quickly browsing through what he's got on YouTube there's definitely stuff I'd be interested in watching.
Slowly working my way through Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary on breaks at work. Not far enough in yet to have a firm opinion on it.
In terms of stuff I have opinions on, I just recently finished Robert Jackson Bennett's Locklands. The Founders Trilogy was overall was a fascinating read. Not 100% sure how I feel about the ending, but I loved the world, characters, and language/definitions as magic. (Kind of hard not to, as an engineer specializing in how tech and software interface with biological systems. :P)
There are still incantations, although due to the spellcasting changes (anything that doesn't instant-cast is functionally useless in combat, nowadays, stuff is either instant, 10 rounds, or 600 rounds), they are a bit shorter. IIRC, the available heals in EA have "te curo" (single-target) "vita excellato" (aoe) and "dum vita est, spes est" (max hp buffs).
That is what is done, but they're attempting to explain how that actually effects the odds. If you only had a 5% chance to succeed to begin with, advantage only bumps that up to about 10%. On the other hand, if you were at about a 50% to succeed, you jump up to a 75% chance with advantage. Bounded accuracy means that most rolls are balanced to have somewhere between a 30-70% chance to succeed; right in the range where advantage is most impactful.