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But why would any Russian ultra-nationalist be concerned about/upset with this? This is exactly what Russia is doing, which they consider to be okay. So why shouldn't others also do the same thing?

Please, please, please Mr. Putin the Great, send your troops to Alaska. The people of Alaska, oppressed by the nazis as they are, will surely welcome your troops with flowers!!!

Honestly, I'd rather have a AA PoE3. Or maybe a AA PoE3 with a AAA budget?

About damn time. And if Western leaders are sincere (LOL) about their anti-fossil fuels rhetoric, they should be supporting and aiding this, because it is precisely Russia's undiminished energy sales that have made Western sanctions against them so very pathetic.

You and me both. I had to drop it out of fullscreen to be able to handle watching it. For me, it's more about the motions that close-in being too disoreinting such that I can't follow what's going on.

The first-person combat is definitely going to be problematic for me. Even just watching it fullscreen was extremely disorienting for me.

I seem to recall the DA games having this type of animations in cutscenes and dialogue.

How very Soviet!

Indeed. The term door kickers IRL refers to our special forces (esp. the SEALs). To use that term for CIA field agents seems rather silly.

This is one of my most loved Pink Floyd songs, but because I now despise Roger Waters I am not able to like Pink Floyd's music the way I used to.

Preach.

This is *exactly* how I feel as well, and @Wormerine can vouch that I said this very thing on the Larian forums over and over again when I kept coming under attack for criticizing the game. I really and truly *wanted* to belong to the BG3 fan community. But the game just isn't good for me in far too many ways.

Well, what do you want me to say? I've always been anti-elites. But in recent years I've also become completely disillusioned with mass publics. As with so many other things so too with society and the world, I no longer belong or fit in anywhere.

Very true. That's why for me it doesn't matter whether the awards are being made by biased insiders with their personal agendas or the masses who are generally know-nothing asses. Either way the results usually don't reflect quality or merit. And sadly nowadays, this has become true even with the Nobel prizes.

If BG3 can win for its "story" and "characters," then why not Starfield for "most innovative gameplay"?

For the strategy games fans here, I just came across these two games, both supposedly scheduled for release in 2024. They both look quite good to me. Millennia may have already been shared here, but Ara is definitely new to me. What do you guys thing?

It's on my Steam wishlist. But I'll end up a 'no' if they don't give me a third-person option.

Yes me too! It's Steam page is up so I've already wishlisted it.

Oh. I don't know. The video is available on multiple gaming sites. And it says "official trailer."

I was wondering if that was something just with my GPU. Good to know it's in the video itself. And yeah, that was annoying.

This trailer seems to be a lot longer than the one posted here a few weeks ago. And it seems to say the game is expected to be released in the second half of 2024 (with game reveal in summer '24).

BG3 is not a story-rich game. The lame main story with a million plot-holes and contraditions is the game's biggest weakness. People who've played the game a lot have laid out these issues in great detail in thread after thread on the Larian forum.

This is how I played TW3 too. I also hate the whole concept of buffing my character and never do it. And instead I prefer to just lower the difficulty as much as needed to compensate. In TW3 this worked quite fine for most of the game, but started to become a problem towards the end where even at the lowest difficulty not buffing was not working. I still somehow managed to finish the game. But then I tried the first DLC, and it was flatout impossible to get past a certain enemy (the burning mansion) pretty early on without using all manner of buffs. That's when I quit.

It has been my very vocal contention for years that all the divisions we are presented with within Western societies (party, ideology, race, gender, age, etc.) are fake faultlines intentionally created to divide the public into manageable groups. The only real and meaningful line of division is the elites versus the rest of us, where the elites are the elites across all the supposedly-different political parties and factions, across all elite institions, and across all countries. And by their very nature they're all totalitarian.