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He’s not talking about Larian, he’s talking aboutbthe actual D&D team at Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast. Hasbro got a new CEO last year and the way they’ve been operating certain business units like WotC has changed dramatically, coupled with massive layoffs across many Hasbro subsidiaries. All he’s saying is the DnD team at WotC now is completely different to the one that Larian knew as they developed BG3.

But it’s not cents on the dollar, that’s the problem, it’s just cents, and then more cents, and more cents again, regardless of if you’re selling more. The issue here is that every install costs the developer money. It’s not just a cut being taken from the sales, it’s money coming directly out from the developer’s pocket, in addition to the cut being taken from the sales. And there’s no limit on how many times people could reinstall games, meaning that these charges could just keep going well after a purchase has been made.

They’re not an iOS developer, it’s a game engine used for cross platform game development. While there are many mobile games made using unity such as Pokémon GO and similar, there are also a lot of home platform games that use the engine, such as Among Us, Fall Guys, Hollow Knight, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl remakes, Cuphead, Outer Wilds, Genshin Impact, etc.

This issue impacts almost every gamer no matter what platform you are on.

I’m not super far in, but I have heard it. The first time I remember hearing it is in the opening act when Lin is telling Barrett about you. Also when Sam talks to the marshal about you in Akila City. I suppose there are only so many opportunities for other characters to talk about you while you’re standing right there, but it does pop up, so it’s nice to have the option for those moments.

I live on a fault line along the pacific ring of fire, and so building with wood was an absolute necessity for us so long, as they were structurally more lenient to the constant earthquakes. Even now I believe our old government building is the largest wooden building in the Southern hemisphere (and it’s only 4 stories tall). These days as construction techniques have changed, we’ve obviously built things with concrete, steel, brick, etc., but the wooden tradition remains strong, with a huge majority of modern houses here still being built like this.

That aside, wood was also just a much cheaper material to build with, so it was the most economical material to use for a long time for much of the “new world”.

It really is a bizarre niche, some awkward middle ground between multiple classes. Not as fightery as a fighter, not as druidy as a druid, not as rogue-y as a rogue, but somehow trying to balance all three.

At least when Paladin tries to wiggle into a similar gap, it brings some unique and useful kit to the table, but ranger is really lacking in that regard.

They absolutely are! A convenient place to hold it while dipping into that sweet, sweet, sweet and sour, for maximum sauceage.

Isn’t this a pro-bussy stance? I’m unfamiliar with the signage but to me it feels like it’s saying “no ahead, left turn only, except busses”

Having never watched star trek:

Jokey answer: recess but they have access to deadly weaponry and only the strongest will make it to maths class.

Serious answer: I presume this is some kind of proof-by-combat scenario? A local culture demands the protagonists fight one of their own in some cactus-pugilism jungle-gym arena in order to prove their worth, and only then will they grant them whatever boon they asked of these people?

That picture gives me major Scarif vibes

One glitch I came upon was in gen 2 when I had tried to clone one of my pokémon. I ended up creating a chimaera between my Arcanine and my Golduck. Sometimes it would appear as a water type Arcanine with Golduck’s moves, and sometimes as a fire type Golduck with Arcanine’s moves. So I suppose in a way, back in the day I had accidentally created the mythical water type Arcanine that everybody now seems to want as a regional form! I’ve had a water type Arcanine before regional forms were cool!

It’s such a bizarre scenario, given Luxon isn’t popular, what exactly are people choosing National for? Their… “Policies”? I could understand if people were just swayed by the identity politics of it all, even if I think that’s a bit shallow, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

As a programmer and a linguist, this is the kind of content that really gets the happy chemicals flowing through my monkey brain