It will be a success.
Kids, including mine, like this series. They will want to see it so parents will take them to see it. There is also little to no competition.
Kids will be brainwashed in to thinking this is normal and not just anti-white hatred.
It had a good start with Origins. The lore and darker tone was a good way to reinvent themselves after BG:2.
Everyone agreed DA:2 was trash but seemed to like Inquisition. Never got that, I tried playing it twice and just couldn't get in to it.
DA could have been a good IP and up to Vailguard was very much salvageable.
From what I've seen the game is unsalvageable, even if you are to remove all the dialogue that focuses on mental illness the rest is still cringe.
You would need to change most of the dialogue, character design and probably the story.
More harm than good
It is in fact very good, it exposes to normies how braindead cringe "modern" writing is. It creates an entire new generation of "rebels" against a cringe, virtue signaling, empty of any real emotions millennial leftist culture.
I remember he mentioned some time ago how people at Yale were very awkward around him because he was from Appalachia. Is hard to claim "white privilege" in front of someone from Appalachia. I think he was on Ben Shapiro. That part stuck in my mind. He seems ok but I'm not 100% sure he is not playing a role because he wanted a carrier in politics and as a straight white dude without connections he has 0 chance as a Democrat.
If he is playing a role then he is very good at it and has planned this many years in advance, I would be impressed if that was the case. Hopefully it is not.
I think he is ok.
He was anti-Trump and in a lot of leftist circles for a long time but genuinely changed his mind similar with how many of us that used to be on the left have.
There is some doubt in me that his change of heart it is temporary. The fact that he claims to be Christian while his wife is not is very, very iffy. If you truly believe that Christ is the only way to eternal life then you would want the same for your wife and kids.
If things turn sour I can see him turning on Trump and joining Democrats.
I would feel more comfortable with him if he had white kids. Not do to a racist reason but he would be motivated to fight against the left. Similar as with mothers of boys being more conservative.
I've heard Germany wants tariffs on Chinese cars because the auto-industry in Germany is doing poorly.
There is a case for tariffs. However if you want to put tariffs on everything from China without a viable local alternative then it will be a mess.
Haven't heard how they want to implement this tariffs, it can be good and it can be bad.
Act 1 was interesting and little to no woke crap, act 2 moved the story forward and an interesting setup but nothing wow except bringing back Jaheira - that I had to do a battle several time just to save her. Act 3 - was uninteresting, main story made no sense, the buildup was a letdown and I didn't even care about the game by the end. It didn't help that you hit max level way to fast in the game.
I had some discussions like this. My friends tend to be on the left. At one time, a guy was bashing Trump and Trump voters I just said he is not a racist and asked the guy to tell me why did he think Trump was a racist.
He shorted out and screamed to do my own research. It was very strange. He went from calm to furious in a few seconds.
I doubt he changed his opinion on anything but he learned to tolerate someone with a different opinion.
I had similar discussions on immigration. Turns out that almost all are against immigration, it was just they pretended to be for it because leftism brainwashed them in to thinking if you are anti-immigration you are racist, evil, nazi. Now they can freely complain about immigration :) thanks to me.
The subtext of Emperor's story is that he's full of shit. He was mind controlling people like crazy including his 'partner', and there's no reason to think he was only eating badguy brains aside from his word.
It's open for interpretation how full of shit he was. He is evil human rather then an alien being.
As for the eating bad guy brains, I was talking about the other Illithid. I freaking hate that one. They just had to humanize the Illithid. They are now just poor victims of the elder brains rather then an evil alien race for whom we are food and less then bugs.
I think the new Mario movie would be a good competition. I would assume there would be some noise for anything major being released.