Correct, There is only 1 Dakota, stop gaslighting yourself into thinking there are 2

1. Old series that has a decent following of mostly niche dedicated fans is left to sit without a new installment for many years.

2. New title is announced. It’s sells gang-busters and flips the community on its head.

3. Corporate Executives prioritize short term profits and begin planning a quick and easy cash grab. !

4. Second new installment comes out. It is a shell of the previous title with the soul sucked clean out.

5. Fans are dissapointed and outside of a small niche following the game series falls into obscurity.

6. Repeat.

! we are here right now

Look… Maybe BG4 will be good. But after watching this exact cycle play out over and over again for the past decade I’m not sure how you can expect anything else.

Don’t… Don’t give me hope…

I have some opinions about 4, but nothing like the vitriol you feel towards it lol. Could I get an example of some things they removed in your opinion?

My complaints mostly boil down to how mediocre the story, world, and characters are. But I can’t think of anything they removed necessarily, just poorly implemented

Oh shit, there’s a working open source switch emulator out there? Thanks Nintendo!

Aaaaaaaand downloaded the source code, Windows Installer, and Linux installer. Thanks again Nintendo, I really can’t express how thankful I am you brought attention to this!

… I would like to hear more about this secret name…

Why is not being alone in the universe a bad thing though?

I actually get a great deal of comfort from the thought that us and our silly little squabbles are so inconsequential to the universe at large. That some alien species we can’t even begin to imagine is just doing the same shit we are 800 billion light years away. Makes me feel like maybe getting up for work in the morning ain’t so bad when you consider the scale

Coward. Boot up huniepop and send your most introverted friend a game invite

To be fair I feel like college is way less about teaching you anything specific and way more about teaching you critical thinking and abstract conceptualization.

Like I didn’t learn jack shit from my “American economical development in the 14th century” class but I did genuinely get good at telling good sources from bad ones while writing essays, and that IS a skill that has uses in life

I’ve lived in NH and Mass my whole life. As far as I’m aware the states both guarantee 12 weeks of unpaid leave. Your work can opt to pay (at a reduced weekly income) but they can also tell you to pound sand. And seeing as how many people live off week to week paychecks…

just to make one of the powers you get later seem more useful

I want moder power to be useful so fucking bad dude. Last time I played I tried living on a little island that I terraformed into a small fort that rises out of the water, my only way to come or go with ore was by boat and I STILL never used it.

Despite being in literally the most optimal use case for having it that power just feels so lack luster. It would be wayyyyy better if it was just like a passive effect that made RNG better or half cool down or something. As it is I’d rather just use bonemass or Deer since they are more universally applicable

Hey hey hey Strangle Thorn Vale is fucking miserable dude, leveling there is basically asking to get ganked by some max level player farming world buffs. Easily as bad as the two part system

To be fair “neoliberalim” is a really misleading name. It does basically just mean “proto-conservative” which can be really confusing if you don’t already know what you’re talking about

Money doesn’t grow on trees.

Who wants to tell him

I mean if he actually got into med school then he must have some interest. Med school is hard as fuck to get into, you either have to be really fucking smart or super dedicated. So your brother clearly has something going for him.

Hell even if he failed out he still got in and that’s impressive. Maybe cut the guy some slack?

I dont care how long it has been or how persistent you are. It’s fucking Comcast Xfinity sounds like the subtitle to a terrible Sci-fi movie from the 80s

I feel like"lean" is a little too generous. They are aggressively right. 99% of their content is just mocking LGBT, leftists, or younger generation ideologies

It’s possible I’m misremembering. I thought in their initial statement about his not losing protection while incarcerated they had mentioned that it would be impossible to protect him while he’s in an open cell block but perhaps that was my dumb lizard brain saying the quiet part out loud. Either way I don’t think they would just let that happen without significant uproar.

Idk maybe I can allow myself to feel an ounce of optimism. I do like the idea of something actually good happening for once lol

I mean, it’s certainly possible that the government/wall street/etc have a bigger, better, and more powerful AI model but I wouldn’t exactly call it likely.

AI as a technology is still in it’s infancy in many ways, I highly doubt the government has some crazy new Sci Fi engine capable of much more than “the free version from a website”. Faster computation and better data processing? maybe. But the limits of what is technologically possible are still limits even if your employer is 3 letters.

To each their own indeed. If you want see this as cause to celebrate who am I to rain on your parade, I truly hope you have the right of it.

I’m just exhausted from all of the "final nail in the coffin"s this guy has had. Ive gotten excited for some actual justice just to be disappointed 1 too many times I guess. Even now, any federal charges are gonna just get pardoned as the first act of the next republican president for some quick and easy brownie points amongst their base.

The only hope for lasting consequences is realistically Georgia and even ignoring that they are pretty deeply purple, the Secret Service has pretty explicitly said they will not allow Trump to go to prison… Now I personally am of the belief that they can pound sand since they have no jurisdiction over this. However I do not get to make the call, and as stated above I have been let down too many times…

Maybe this is actually it and maybe I’m just too jaded and not seeing the big picture… I just can’t bring myself to be optimistic anymore man