men will say hear me out and show you the most conventionally attractive woman you've ever seen (she's not wearing makeup). women will say hear me out and show you this thing
if you want more games with deep character interaction like Baldur's Gate 3, a game written by AI is not going to satisfy you. it's going to feel artificial, because it is.
everything people love about BG3 exists because real human beings poured their hearts and souls into it.
gandolfini was hot because he had real charisma -- he was charming, he could laugh at himself, he was cute as hell, and by all accounts i've heard of, he was kind.
I have no opinion of what women like, but I would be curious to hear from women who are attracted to men. Tate is 37 in this photo; Gandolfini is ~41. Assuming you are attracted to men in this age group, who do you find more attractive?
I will post my hunch later.
"There's been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around...We've got to kill that attitude and that has to come through hurting the economy."
With some time on his hands while we’re all working away on Baldur’s Gate 3, everyone’s favourite vampire spawn has an announcement of his own to make.
More info:
if i could give one bit of advice to young folks in creative industries, it's to make sure your entire social circle and personal life is not wrapped up in your job! even if you're having a nice time!
my partner just came into the room, deadly serious: "do you have a minute?"
me, anxiously: "yeah what's up?"
him: "yeah so like, in the Gauntlet of Shar..."
HEY some personal news: Oct 31 is my last day at
@larianstudios
!
working on BG3 has been the highlight of my career. what an enormous privilege it’s been to work among such skilled people on the best RPG I’ve ever played -- an exciting, humbling experience I'll never forget.
the burden is always on marginalized folks to advocate for themselves & others in conversations about workplace culture, diversity, etc.
they're the most affected & also the ones who have to stick their necks out, risk their jobs/reputations & endure being dismissed as emotional
the Baldur's Gate 3 subreddit is trying to organize to get the game to hit 1 million concurrent players on Steam this weekend
i mean, i'll be there 😌 i've got Astarions to romance and an Underdark to explore
flashbacks to me in my early 20s, defending an abusive partner's constant shitty behavior towards everyone around him because ~that's not who he really is~
spoiler: that's always who he really is
Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date, due to a problem where the accelerator pedal can get stuck, putting drivers at risk of a crash
Hey sooo, it’s my last day at
@valvesoftware
! I joined Valve >3 years ago and it’s been a pleasure to get to work with and know so many devs, and to have contributed to a platform that has such an impact on our industry.
my hot take is that it's a mistake to think of yourself as an innately good person. i've seen it lead to a *need* to rationalize one's shitty behavior as "good, actually, because i am good" too many times
Hi, Larian’s legal team here. Launch day is nearly upon us.
Have YOUR Baldur’s Gate 3 adventuring plans been thwarted by the forces of obligatory labour?
You may be eligible for Special Dispensation. Give this note to your boss — they’ll understand.
Here's a thing I've been meaning to share: I work at Valve now! I've just started on the Steam business team so if you start seeing a Molly from Valve popping up in your inbox, it's prob me. Hello! 👋
@sarahlongthorne
I think I gravitate towards games that give me small, satisfying tasks to complete, and that require less of my attention so I can simultaneously listen to a podcast or book.
So I really enjoy games like Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley.
Which summer game are you most anticipating?
June 2 - Street Fighter 6
June 6 - Diablo IV
June 20 - Crash Team Rumble
June 22 - Final Fantasy XVI
July 14 - Exoprimal
July 21 - Pikmin 4
Aug 31 - Baldur's Gate 4
Summer - Counter-Strike 2
#DiabloIV
is here, embrace the bloodshed.
Share videos of your in-game death on Twitter or TikTok using
#DiabloDeaths
for a chance to have your eulogy read by
@meganfox
on June 8th.
i remember how this game of telephone originated, which was essentially "people with ADHD may struggle to remember to text their loved ones" and it's been very stupid to watch it morph into "people with ADHD are infants who forget you exist when you leave the room"
actually, Video Games was the name of the scientist who invented moving a little guy around a screen with a stick. his creation and all subsequent works of interactive electronic entertainment are called Video Games’ Monster
@IwriteOK
the number of men in OP's comments answering yes to this makes me sad. just sounds like a pretty miserable and unnecessary way to interact with the world.
@sarahlongthorne
Lengthy, absorbing RPGs are great but if I step away from them for more than a couple days, I totally lose my place and any attachment I had to the progress I'd made and I want to start over.
Creative freedom (like building) is also good, but too much & I'm overwhelmed. 🤷♀️
today's my first day as Director of PR & Communications at
@larianstudios
!
it's surreal and exciting to join the team working on Baldur's Gate 3!
anyway here's some actual footage of my job interview:
if you want games like this, you're going to have to support game developers, who want nothing more than to create experiences like this while making a stable living wage -- supporting AI is antithetical to that. it is going to make games worse and put devs out of jobs.
the Mario voice is Chris Pratt if he was born and raised in Jersey but moved away 10 years ago and never really had the accent but now he puts it on when he comes home to visit family
An hour into playing Crusader Kings III, I accidentally tried to seduce my son's wife because I thought she was MY wife, and then I accidentally murdered him. So it's going well!
you could dress the men on the right in the world's most technically correct suit and they'd still have nothing going for them because their brains are full of worms
Incels think women only want rich hot chads with sports cars and six packs but at this very moment, women are losing their minds over a homeless radioactive cowboy with no nose
good writing requires human experience, dumb messy human feelings. ChatGPT eats up text from all over the internet and spits it back out at you. it can't feel, it has no sense of humor, and its output can only be -- like in a very literal sense! -- derivative and generic.
thinking about the guy i saw on the bus the other day who got up at his stop, hesitated to leave, turned around, held up a half-eaten raw plantain and announced to all of us: “if you see this at the grocery store, it is NOT a banana. you need to cook it!! don’t be fooled!!”
I hate that I couldn't avoid photos & info about the Atlanta shooter if I tried, but I've seen almost nothing about his victims. I know the shooter's name, I know what church he went to, I know he "had a very bad day". Fuck him. Talk
about the ppl he murdered.
I'm never gonna feel safe enough to share my Shitty Dude Story, but this morning I'm thinking about the time he came to me in a panic asking if he was as bad as Harvey Weinstein
❤️ to the folks who are brave enough to speak up
usually if a game's lucky it gets one character that the community labels "DOMMY MOMMY" but in Baldur's Gate 3 i can think of at least... 3
and i can think of at LEAST one more you haven't met yet lol
I finished Disco Elysium and I want to say things about it but I don't want to spoil anything and ALSO I'm tired so instead I will just say:
yes please more games like this