Fan subs can be just as ideologically driven, look at how All Might and Sir Nighteye from My Hero Academia had their working relationship translated to indicate a romantic history. When the translator was called out on this he was evasive at first before admitting he had changed what some of the dialogue had been.
It's amazing how quickly this writing is going to be out of date since many of those things are no longer held in a positive light by the public.
Masking is already facing big pushbacks and isn't even brought back fully in many of the places behaving in such a way.
Immigration is hitting crisis points in many places now as the sheer number of new arrivals dwarfs any prior numbers and shifts demographics overnight, all the while somehow being expected to function without additional infrastructure development as a foundation.
The BBC, and MSM, are facing more and more call outs for these topics as the narratives being pushed are countered with increasing numbers of conflicts arising. Of course the response is to tighten their grip and claim any such videos aren't within the proper context which then infuriates those already skeptical in the first place.
All in all this reads like literal tumblr fan fiction and already so badly framed it won't survive long under any scrutiny.
Ah yes, Fringilla, a character who is meant to be so similar in looks to Yen that the Lodge specifically sent her to literally fuck Geralt as a distraction from searching for Ciri and at one point resulted in him calling out Yen's name during one such fucking... 🙄
Could Netflix not find any more drab actresses to match after the casting of Yen? 🤔
I disagree with the point about Edwina being trans, Edwin simply fucked up and was a man stuck in a woman's body trying to get his original body back. Sure there might have been times of body dimorphia but it wasn't because he felt he was born in the wrong body, it's because he's a Red Wizard of Thay and arrogant enough to stupidly play about with powers beyond his ability. Then later when he manages to fix it he does something similar when challenging Elminster which results in him being turned into Edwina again, but probably not for any trans related reasons. More likely it's Elminster being the crazy old coot he is and punishing Edwin for being a dick yet again by Dwayne Dibbly-ing him a second time.
Also as MargarineMongoose points out it's not the belt Edwin uses, it's the scrolls you find under the graveyard if you let Edwin keep hold of them. He fucks around with it a few times and when it goes wrong he ends up a woman until he works out how to undo it. In the mean time both party and npc interactions make fun of this like when a fellow wizard learns of what happened and mocks Edwin to his face. I think the response is a fireball from Edwin, or something similarly lethal spell wise.
Problem there is embracing your divinity is only one of the ending options, you can give it up to live as a mortal and bang elves.
Seriously, every single romance option in the original BG2 was some kind of elf. Jaheira: whiny elf. Aerie: wingless Avariel. Viconia: emo elf. Anomen: basically a whiny elf despite being human. Bonus love triangle event: Haer'Dahlis: pirate/Jack Sparrow elf.
Anyway, the devs elf fetish aside, many sequels to games which can end in multiple ways have the same problem of picking what is canon and deciding which may end up pissing off large portions of the fan base if one still exists.
Mass Effect Andromeda got around this by relocating so far away, and having originally taken place before 3 ended so the ending ironically wouldn't matter, that it didn't matter what the story was. Mostly because it was shit and never actually completed, but still.
There are Witcher comics set after 3 which face the same problem and ended up just going with several options which made sense for the most part but also ignored character development that took place in some of the games. In the comic Geralt chooses Yen over Triss, Ciri survives, and for some dumb reason Dandelion breaks up with Priscilla despite her being probably the best and last option left to him for an actual wife since every other woman he's hooked up with knows he's an annoying twat. There is multiple dialogue in the third game where Dandelion makes clear the way he feels about Priscilla is different from every other woman he's known and yet the comic ends the relationship off panel.
Accepting or rejecting the collective divine essence of Bhaal however is such a significant event, no matter the outcome, it would mean having to make two completely separate games just as a baseline and modern devs can barely make one game these days, let alone two.
They bring back Jahiera, Misc and Sarevok
That's called nostalgia bait, especially with Minsc who is meme tier while the other two are a whiny harpy, I mean Harper... maybe, and someone who might not even be alive depending on player choice at the start of ToB when in the planar pocket dimension.
Edit: The webcomic is "Nerf Now!"
There's a web comic I regularly check which has a [Brazilian?] creator who frequently posts about how dumb woke things are. Then he bought BG3 and started making updates about it! 🙄
I can't remember the comic name off the top of my head but it's the one where the creator is a purple tentacle creature like from Day of the Tentacle called Jo. A lot of the supporting characters are fembended TF2 characters like "Angie" the engineer.
It just seems incredibly short sighted to complain about Wokeness so much and then jump on the next normie bandwagon.
anyone notice how ugly most of the chicks in Wheel of Time are?
That would have required me to watch it 🙃
I know Moraine was played by... 🙄 [I needed to go look this up because I actually forgot her name], Rosamund Pike but she would have looked better for the part 10 years ago when she was in The World's End (2013) from The Cornetto Trilogy or as the badgirl from Bond Die Another Day (2002) another decade before that, but now she looks visibly aged which isn't the point of Aes Sedai.
Literally someone who needs beaten with a belt, namely the cursed one from Aerie's circus after you free her and Quayle since its a Cursed Belt of Sex and would actually do for them what is supposed to be the point 🙄
Failing that pray to one of the God's for divine blessings, buy a Greater Wish, or piss off Elminster since he proves he can cast the spell to do the same thing when Edwin is dumb enough to do just that. It's literally a world setting where someone can actually transition completely but still the characters get added.
I'm forcing myself to complete it as I'm a fan of BG1 and 2 but is a chore to play.
Baldur's Gate 2 is one of my favourite games ever and I'm not touching this cash grab and nostalgia bait. The Bhaalspawn saga ended with Throne of Bhaal and no attempts to revive it 20 years later will change my mind.
There is nobody left to fight that matters. Sarevok was set up very early in BG1 when he murdered Gorien while coming for the protagonist leading to the revelation about the protagonist's parentage. Irenicus is introduced immediately at the start of BG2 and stomps the shit out of everyone who is dumb enough to get in his way signifying just how important he values the protagonist. While not the actual final antagonist the ToB expansion revolves around Bhaal so much it's named for him. When the dust settles the number of Bhaalspawn left is either one or none, not counting the one who teleport when scared because he can die in Saradush if you don't cast a Horror spell on him so his fate isn't important.
But because D&D is now trendy various groups and grifters are looking to milk the hobby and related media for everything they can, which inevitably means dumbing the games down in order to appeal to an even larger audience now.
You owe these parasites nothing. They likely view you as little more than nothing. When these franchises fail the ones who drove them into the ground neither care or suffer any consequences since they will still fall into a new job doing the same shit in a different spot. You owe them nothing.
the "stigma" of being overweight
These people are fucking stupid. Social shaming aside the basic biological facts that being overweight kills you sooner needs to be repeated since it brings with it increased medical burdens to both the individuals involved as well as the medical facilities being used. Facilities which could be dealing with issues other than someone who simply can't stop eating.
Healthy at any size, dead by 35.
I wonder what the timeline is for him coming out as gay and women who would defend oggling him back then using "but he's gay!". Something tells me enough years difference that the defence attempt is retroactive gaslighting.
Disagree. One of the reasons there is so much woke infestation in hobbies is due to the number of NEETs squatting on official and fandom wikis because they have nothing else to do.
Same issue is present outside of hobbies and because they literally "do it for free" without needing to be ordered they make some of the "best", and cheapest, useful idiots for any groups looking to shape discourse around certain topics or interests.