Quote from: rytrasmi on August 08, 2023, 09:50:17 PM

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Quote from: VisionStorm on August 08, 2023, 09:41:51 PM
No, but it does mean that YOU personally are 100% OK with slavery and are dying to engage in human trafficking IRL, because you once did it in a virtual environment while playing a fictional character that's not you in a game, according to the people hyperventilating about a shapeshifted bear sex scene here.

*looks at his copy Mount and Blade*

Hans, am I the baddie?

LOL.

I think I'll play a thief this campaign.

Thou shalt not steal!

Oh, yeah. I guess I could play a paladin...again.

Back in the early 2000s I used to get together with my coworker buddies after work to play RTS games, and when we played Command & Conquer: Generals my go to army was the GLA, which were modeled after Jihadi terrorists. That means that deep down I want to shave off my body hair, hijack an airplane, then yell "Death to America!" as I fly it into a building.

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Quote from: rytrasmi on August 08, 2023, 09:50:17 PM
I think I'll play a thief this campaign.

Thou shalt not steal!

Oh, yeah. I guess I could play a paladin...again.

Funny story, a friend of mine once unwittingly joined an online game entirely populated by off-duty cops. They were not enthusiastic about his thief character...

"Fine, I'll play my secondary character. He's a pig farmer."

Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 08, 2023, 09:53:01 PM
Yeah, so in a free society we get to criticize what we consider degenerate bullshit and vote with our dollar not buying such degenerate content, but apparently informing others that the game is full of degenerate filth is akin to killoing babies or something from the reactions of the enlightened centrists tm around here.

You "informed others" that THE WHOLE POPULATION OF EUROPE is composed by degenerates. Don't be surprised if your "attempts to inform" are taken with a bit of salt.

Quote from: Reckall on August 09, 2023, 01:23:58 AM

Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 08, 2023, 09:53:01 PM
Yeah, so in a free society we get to criticize what we consider degenerate bullshit and vote with our dollar not buying such degenerate content, but apparently informing others that the game is full of degenerate filth is akin to killoing babies or something from the reactions of the enlightened centrists tm around here.

You "informed others" that THE WHOLE POPULATION OF EUROPE is composed by degenerates. Don't be surprised if your "attempts to inform" are taken with a bit of salt.

Citation Needed, I'm afraid this is just ANOTHER lie being propagated by you and your "enlightened Centrist tm" ilk.

FFS I shouldn't have clicked on your post, don't worry it won't happen again, so you'll be able to lie about me to your heart's content unless someone else quotes your lies.

Now go fuck yourself.

Quote from: Zelen on August 08, 2023, 08:56:41 PM
I know from my own experience that Larian have spent millions of dollars on development of this type of content, rather than on better game mechanics, voice acting, storylines, and so on. Noted how little effort is spent on arguing for those, rather than for whatever this shit is.

Larian made the conscious choice to invest time and money to reach a more ample public. As I wrote earlier, BG3 is "inclusive" in the original, positive, sense of the word: everyone is welcome, nothing is forc...

(sees Geeky streaking from left to right screaming about "DEGENERATES!!!")

...And nothing is forced upon the player, I was saying. This strategy has been proven right if the numbers we are seeing are real (it is apparently on the top 10 of the most successful games on Steam ever - and we still are waiting for the PS5 and native M1 Mac versions, due this september).

Having said that, the amount of content in BG3 is unreal. I could even point how, personally, I consider "too much character's choices" a problem of the game - as I'll play it maybe twice or three times and it is impossible to even scratch the surface of the character's creation part.

My impression is that Larian will use BG3 as a "base product" - with more adventures, areas and contents to come for years - a bit like Skyrim. We will see.

Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 09, 2023, 01:51:33 AM

Quote from: Reckall on August 09, 2023, 01:23:58 AM

Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 08, 2023, 09:53:01 PM
Yeah, so in a free society we get to criticize what we consider degenerate bullshit and vote with our dollar not buying such degenerate content, but apparently informing others that the game is full of degenerate filth is akin to killoing babies or something from the reactions of the enlightened centrists tm around here.

You "informed others" that THE WHOLE POPULATION OF EUROPE is composed by degenerates. Don't be surprised if your "attempts to inform" are taken with a bit of salt.

Citation Needed, I'm afraid this is just ANOTHER lie being propagated by you and your "enlightened Centrist tm" ilk.

FFS I shouldn't have clicked on your post, don't worry it won't happen again, so you'll be able to lie about me to your heart's content unless someone else quotes your lies.

Now go fuck yourself.

Why?! I'm not a bear...

Quote from: Reckall on August 09, 2023, 02:29:58 AMWhy?! I'm not a bear...

Is part of the objection to the game that it would encourage furries to attempt to fuck actual bears?

Because, frankly, that would be funny as fuck. I'd sign up to pay-per-view to watch the subsequent mauling of pervs in animal suits by pissed off grizzlies!

Quote from: Adam Csipke on August 09, 2023, 02:39:13 AM

Quote from: Reckall on August 09, 2023, 02:29:58 AMWhy?! I'm not a bear...

Is part of the objection to the game that it would encourage furries to attempt to fuck actual bears?

Because, frankly, that would be funny as fuck. I'd sign up to pay-per-view to watch the subsequent mauling of pervs in animal suits by pissed off grizzlies!

So he avoided providing any proof of what he says about me and went for "Teh funny tm"?

Why I'm not surprized that the "intellectual & Enlightened Centrist tm" would blatantly lie, thinking I won't see it and when called out he plays dumb?

Why can't I have for once an intellectually challenging adversary?

These assholes are as smart as the Flatearthers. And equally dishonest.

Quote from: Adam Csipke on August 09, 2023, 02:39:13 AM

Quote from: Reckall on August 09, 2023, 02:29:58 AMWhy?! I'm not a bear...

Is part of the objection to the game that it would encourage furries to attempt to fuck actual bears?

Honestly, if this were actually the case, shouldn't we be ENCOURAGING more bear sex in games. If it actually movitated weirdoes to try it IRL, seems like the problem would correct itself.

Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 09, 2023, 02:53:49 AM

Quote from: Adam Csipke on August 09, 2023, 02:39:13 AM

Quote from: Reckall on August 09, 2023, 02:29:58 AMWhy?! I'm not a bear...

Is part of the objection to the game that it would encourage furries to attempt to fuck actual bears?

Because, frankly, that would be funny as fuck. I'd sign up to pay-per-view to watch the subsequent mauling of pervs in animal suits by pissed off grizzlies!

So he avoided providing any proof of what he says about me and went for "Teh funny tm"?

Why I'm not surprized that the "intellectual & Enlightened Centrist tm" would blatantly lie, thinking I won't see it and when called out he plays dumb?

Why can't I have for once an intellectually challenging adversary?

These assholes are as smart as the Flatearthers. And equally dishonest.

To be fair pal, I saw the cheap laugh opportunity and took it too

Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 09, 2023, 02:53:49 AM

Quote from: Adam Csipke on August 09, 2023, 02:39:13 AM

Quote from: Reckall on August 09, 2023, 02:29:58 AMWhy?! I'm not a bear...

Is part of the objection to the game that it would encourage furries to attempt to fuck actual bears?

Because, frankly, that would be funny as fuck. I'd sign up to pay-per-view to watch the subsequent mauling of pervs in animal suits by pissed off grizzlies!

So he avoided providing any proof of what he says about me and went for "Teh funny tm"?

Geeky, you lost the moral right to have answers the moment you showed how "an answer I don't like doesn't exist". I have better ways to spend my time - including having fun.

BTW:

Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 09, 2023, 01:51:33 AM
FFS I shouldn't have clicked on your post, don't worry it won't happen again

—> Proceeds to do it again immediately...

Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 09, 2023, 01:51:33 AM

Quote from: Reckall on August 09, 2023, 01:23:58 AM

Quote from: GeekyBugle on August 08, 2023, 09:53:01 PM
Yeah, so in a free society we get to criticize what we consider degenerate bullshit and vote with our dollar not buying such degenerate content, but apparently informing others that the game is full of degenerate filth is akin to killoing babies or something from the reactions of the enlightened centrists tm around here.

You "informed others" that THE WHOLE POPULATION OF EUROPE is composed by degenerates. Don't be surprised if your "attempts to inform" are taken with a bit of salt.

Citation Needed, I'm afraid this is just ANOTHER lie being propagated by you and your "enlightened Centrist tm" ilk.

FFS I shouldn't have clicked on your post, don't worry it won't happen again, so you'll be able to lie about me to your heart's content unless someone else quotes your lies.

Now go fuck yourself.

>Constantly accuses other people of "lying"
>Consistently ignores the tone of and WTF has actually been said in the thread
>LIES about this thread being merely to "inform" people of shit when we've literally been dealing with accusations of being into bestiality for the last 10 pages or so

Yes, Eirikrautha mentioned something about expecting opposition to this topic from European posters cuz Europe had fallen to DEGENERACY!™, but that he didn't expect so much from 'Murican posters as well.

No, I'm not gonna go look for the post for your lazy histrionic hypersensitive lying ass, cuz it was a bunch of pages ago and you're just gonna ignore it anyway. So I'm not gonna waste time digging. But literally EVERY. SINGLE. CLAIM. that the opposition in this thread has said about what others have said at least tangentially true (if perhaps exaggerated, not 100% accurate or subject to interpretation at times).

This isn't about "informing" people of the evil Degenerate!™ ways of Larian, you fucking LIAR (you LIE). This is about having a histrionic fit and basking in your Two Minutes Hate while lashing out at anyone who disagrees and accusing them of shit while adamantly IGNORING and REFUSING to address the actual points that they make. Like good Right-Wing SJWs would.

Speaking of degenerate, BG3 fudges dice by default.

(Maybe this is common in video games, I don't know because I don't play them, but it's gross either way!)

Quote from: Zalman on August 09, 2023, 07:29:57 AM
Speaking of degenerate, BG3 fudges dice by default.

(Maybe this is common in video games, I don't know because I don't play them, but it's gross either way!)

It is a measure implemented to avoid (natural) streaks of good or bad dice rolls. Streaks are part of a branch of statistics called "Cluster Theory" which explains, for example, why all of sudden there are planes crashing all over the world, or why a certain generation has a big number of creative minds while another one can't produce a line on a piece of paper.

The basic explanation is simple: imagine the usual urn with 1000 white balls and 100 black ones. You pull out a ball at the time and create a line of 1,100 balls.

Common sense would think that you have a black ball every 10 white ones. However, if you look at the line, you discover that the black balls appear to be concentrated in groups - called "clusters". This because, due to the randomness of the extraction, some black balls come out before 10 white ones, while others came out maybe after 12-15 white ones. The result is that they end up grouped together.

Cluster theory is interesting because it can be applied to many common things. Our very lives do seem to have periods of bad luck followed by periods of good one. Social sciences point out to "resonance": a lot of good artist create a climate where their talents are helped by each other and the general positive cultural moment (everyone is the "rabbit" that others chase in their own way). Good artists amid a draught lack role-models, the ability to understand that "we can do more" (because others do), and they risks of feeling "lost" because none is pointing to new ways to do things.

Anyway, in almost every RPG there are moments when the dice are "hot" and moments when they "hate you". Karmic Dice is a way to break these streaks (for the enemies too). IMHO, true D&D is made of streaks. As it happens, Karmic Dice can be turned off in BG3 in any moment - including before the start of game proper (I still think that the tutorial is a bit fixed but that's understandable). I don't know if other games use this system.

Quote from: Zalman on August 09, 2023, 07:29:57 AM
Speaking of degenerate, BG3 fudges dice by default.

(Maybe this is common in video games, I don't know because I don't play them, but it's gross either way!)

Video Games cheat, been happening since the dawn of Digital Time, go play any 80s and 90s arcade game, "cheating" is built into the code to make it so you spend more quarters.   

Modern Video games do this quite often, example Destiny 2, where if you participate in end game content the chance you have of getting an exotic weapon increases by a mysterious number every time you do the event until you actually get the item.  The rolls become padded so eventually you are bound to get said item due to the numerical increases added for every play through.