Of course it's not canon to the games. It's just canon for the general setting, so other games can have an outcome of it. Pretty much every FR game or tabletop setting is minimally important. And even this minimally important protagonist has a Schrodinger's cat death. Did he die to the other Bhaalspawn, or did he die to an adventurer party after going ravager on everyone? It's all stupid either way.

But yeah, I agree. That's why I said unless you can import a character, BG3 has no connection to BG1-2, and why I predict that one of these events will be referenced in the game as some kind of "See? They're connected!!" moment, as if it's not some kind of cheap cop-out.

Anyway, Bhaal isn't completely back to how he was; he reclaimed his pantheon, but came back mortal. Maybe we'll kill him (again) in BG3, since there's currently no events after that. That would be the perfect terrible woke writer ending to the entire saga; everyone involved died and nothing mattered.

They should have called it Baldur's Gate: <title>, like they did with Dark Alliance. That would have at least been acceptable.

Unless you can literally import a BG2 character this game has nothing to do with BG1-2. There's a canon Bhaalspawn protag with a canon ending that literally any FR game can reference. He also happens to die 100 years later, i.e. when this game is set, in Baldur's Gate, in a fight with the other only living Bhaalspawn (the one that teleports randomly, I don't remember his name), which causes Bhaal to finally resurrect. I'll be absolutely shocked if their "tie-in" that makes it "worth" being called BG3 isn't that event, which isn't even a tie-in at all.

Restricting it to anyone who pays taxes sounds much better than people with children.

Considering it's "100 years later", the list of ways it can tie in is very limited. The only notable events are the deaths of the last two bhaalspawn (including the protag of bg1-2), and the rebirth of bhaal. And since that's just canon and doesn't tie into your choice at the end of bg2, there's no reason for it to not just be some other game set in forgotten realms.

Agreed. The name is 100% pure piggybacking. Might as well call it Half Life 3.

My fellow felines.

"Vote blue no matter who" would be an interesting strategy in Canada, considering the colours are reversed there. Of course it wouldn't matter much in the end, but still.

I'm sure this game will be very fun in a year+ when it comes to PC.

There's no reason to care about your legacy in current year. Even with your best efforts it'll still end up bastardized. Better to just get your fuck you money and get out.

Sure thing.

Alright, I'll bite. Who's the feminist puppetmaster for the jews, then? Since neither George nor Alex are women.

Last update for the week.

Cycles 5-7

Fashion Report

So reddit but with borders and immigration policies. Got it.

The one I see most pushed over there is something called lemmy. I assume it's even more commie than even the most left-leaning subreddits.

Yeah, they've either figured out the algorithm used or created one close enough. By day 4 they have enough info to predict the rest of the week. It's complicated as you've noticed though; whatever you make is factored in to future days. I don't even pretend to understand how it all works. The people who figured it out just aim for whatever gets the most currency per week, which is what most people want.

Cycle 4

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The entire week (Fortune-teller if you want the new version of crime time)

Fashion Report

I can edit/update this for Thursday / Friday if the subreddit doesn't show up.~~

Considering all the discord servers that game has, the channels in those servers, and the people who moderate them, it is indeed those kinds of people. Worse yet that most of them probably aren't bothered by it at all because a lot of what people tend to go to the subreddit for comes from one of those many, many discord servers.

If the subreddit says closed and you want any of that weekly info (and don't want to deal with all the discord bullshit), I'd be happy to pass along whatever you need.

This is Atlas, the company that rereleases games later to have a 'definitive' edition (see: Persona 5, and then Persona 5 Royal). Everyone knows this, and they've been doing it since 3. The consoooomers still buy them both anyway. Knowing this, we can probably expect:

• Release the P3 remake

• Release the P3 remake with FES

• Release a P3 remake with the female protagonist

• Release a definitive P3 remake with all of the above

Why release one game everyone wants when you can release it 4 times, and (most of) the fans will buy it 4 times?

I expect that, if they actually stick with that (and don't roll over and take it as usual), the admins will just pick a couple of the bigger (non-compliant) subreddits to do a hostile takeover, and that'll scare the rest into capitulating.

Just develop a crippling allergy to glyphosate and you'll never have to worry about the temptation to eat it again.

Do they actually play them on the regular after one playthrough? I doubt it.

I don't think most story-based RPGs have much replayability to them. It's like rereading a book immediately after finishing it. Maybe a good book might be fun to pick up on subtle hints the 2nd time, but we don't get RPGs with stories like that these days. Has there even been a good story-based RPG lately? I can't think of any off the top of my head.

Honestly the HP game specifically sounds absolutely horrible to play a first time, let alone a second. Maybe if you really enjoy exploration a lot it might be fine, but it's just copy-paste tasks over and over and over again. I imagine even the most hardcore HP enjoyers are going to get bored.

I don't think I've bought a re-release game in over a decade. They've gotten so incredibly lazy about it. Definitely always look for the original these days, and leave the re-release as a last resort for if a game is significantly improved or is otherwise nigh impossible to find. But I don't think you ore I are the target audience here. I think normies are the driving force of these kinds of games. They don't want to play some old game with "bad" graphics or have to hunt down some hardware / emulate, so companies can make a quick fortune selling to them with AI upscaled graphics or something that runs on their phone.

I think the entire game market is going to have to crash before there's any hope of it getting better.

Yeah, if you stick to AAA and well-known studios you're going to have a bad time. A less bad time than looking through indie and other small developer games, but also a lot less to play. I haven't bought a AAA game since 2020, going by my steam library.

IMO there's still decent games, but good god do you have to wade through an ocean of shit to find them.

Most of the games I play these days are 5+ years old.

It works. Just look how many people say 'problematic' now for anything even remotely inconvenient, when there are at least half a dozen other words that would be more appropriate.

I've seen a number of people in various app subreddits saying they'd sooner quit reddit than use the reddit app, and some mods saying they'll protest and close subreddits due to the reddit app being shit for moderation. How much of an impact that has, or if people even stick to that, remains to be seen. Normies gotta consooooom, after all.

Of course, I've also seen a number of people say they don't care and they'll just use the main reddit app, which is probably what reddit itself is hoping most will go with. I'm hoping this finally lets them digg their own grave.