Well yeah, but the surfaces were DOS2 “thing”. They are present in BG3 too, just not as important to the overall gameplay. It doesn’t reflect badly on any future Divinity games, since they have proven they can use surfaces and have it not be overwhelming.

I said in other posts, that women aren’t worse at chess - there is less of them, so higher ranked players aren’t as common. But keep your outrage.

It absolutely can be both. You don’t know that sexism in chess makes it so no women play chess at all. It is a factor, but you don’t know its impact.

They weren’t excluded. Since early 1900 they played chess in chess clubs. Since 1920s women competed in high level tournaments. There isn’t many women in chess, so the chances of a higher rated player are lower amongst women. It doesn’t mean that it doesn’t happen, or that women are weaker players. There is simply less of them.

Because historically it’s been shown that they are weaker players. At the top, the grandmaster title, only 41 women have it, out of like 2000 overall titles. So they created the women’s tournaments to encourage more of them to play chess. There are only two types of tournaments, open, where everyone can play, and women’s only, where only women play. A lot of female players play opens as well as women’s

Except it isn’t that easy to just “wipe them out”. It’d be like dealing with a very well armed, very large resistance movement and would probably start a civil war. Without support from somewhere (like the US) it would be political (and probably regular) suicide

Women aren’t barred from joining chess tournaments. They have their own tournaments where men are not allowed. They don’t join “grandmaster level tournaments” whatever that means because they don’t have a high enough rating to compete. Reasons for this are complicated and largely unknown, with the main possible reason being they probably get less support worldwide for pursuing chess. Also there are titles that require less ELO points to qualify for, made for women, like “woman master”.

Except that everybody and their grandma is using Jira, and not having any experience with it is unusual (well, maybe not for an entry position).

Larian worked with Hasbro to make BG3. Hasbro lays off people who helped them (from Hasbro). Larian doesn’t have much say about it other than “it sucks dude”.

Sure, but gaming boycotts don’t work. That’s why they are doing this. They rake in tons of money and alienate maybe 1% of their userbase. The reason is simple. The first paid mount microtransaction in World of Warcraft made more money than the entirety of Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty. They won’t care about reviews - sales will go through the roof anyway, and they’ll rake in a shitload of cash on microtransactions.

Iirc the microtransactions were put into the final game on release. I guess also all of the dlc - they probably had everything unlocked for reviewers, and then locked it for players buying the game.

Probably someone thought statistics go from 0 to 10 instead of the usual 20. Or they don’t know that a statblock of “only 10” is considered average

Works fine here

Lemmy isn’t any better than reddit is.

Too small for that. It’d be like someone crawling through your plumbing to stab you.

It’s simple for people with non-drug resistant depression. Which is like 60% of cases. For some people, nothing works, even after years of trying different medication. Or a medication just stops working and you can’t find an alternative.

Have they confirmed it comming before July?

Ah yes my ridiculous standard of “it needs to be true”. You have nothing. Otherwise it wouldn’t be religion and faith, it would be common sense. You use parlor tricks to confuse people who don’t know better. But when someone knows all of your tricks and calls them out one by one, you throw a hissy fit.

You have no evidence.

And harambe turns into a really buff white dude with blue eyes and long hair, usually depicted on a shooting target background