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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · 20h

I do think Talia's thread was right that the elements that make this stuff go viral can also render it toothless when divorced from a specific context. But this is just the problem of decentralized movements writ large- it's hard to coordinate strategy or engineer confrontations at scale!

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 10d

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · 11d

Good pull. My mind went to Jack D. Ripper preserving his fluids and essence, but this also works

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · 17d

Man, the Rebuilds of Evangelion really changed some things up, huh

trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · 22d

The skeet is art, of course, but I feel like Ritsuko might be a better candidate for this. Just because her Hedgehog theory of human interaction is the sort of thing that Chotiner will often coax out of a subject once they've truly lost the thread answering a basic but incriminating question

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · 29d

His dad was a sheriff and he grew up in the LDS church... IDK, this seems totally plausible to me. I'm not going to rule out a fake, but it seems like they'd go for something much more lurid if that was the game here.

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Sep 13

Especially considering all the other companion quests and your options for resolving them.

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Sep 13

Yeah, there's an interview with the writers talking about this. It was always intended that she'd run out of time, and then the Hell escape ending was added as a concession to players.

I have played games that are metaphors for this (see also: Hyper Light Drifter) but IDK if it fits in BG3.

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Sep 13

To me, this will always be the "Fawkes says that dying of radiation builds character" effect

Fawkes's Original Ending Dialogue Before Broken Steel DLC

YouTube video by Atomic Media

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Sep 13

I get what they were going for and I think "Karlach's heart as metaphor for terminal illness" thing has some real pathos to it, but the issue is that it doesn't actually work when the player character is clearly blocked from exploring possibilities like consulting the Gondians.

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Sep 13

Her ending and the illithid dilemma at the end of the game both feel like places where the writers were really set on a specific dilemma, then things changed in the writing, and they stuck with the dilemma even though the story as written didn't quite force that small set of choices.

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Sep 13

I also think that Larian probably assumed that some large chunk of the audience would probably want to see inter-party romances, and the game didn't give you an option to play matchmaker for other companions.

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Sep 13

I'd be curious how many people who play multiple campaigns eventually play an origin. I know it'd still be pretty low, but I imagine that one-and-done players and people spamming new Tav builds that flame out in late act 1 contribute a lot to the lopsided numbers.

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Sep 13

she was originally supposed to be an evil-only companion, but people kept on finding new ways to recruit her without raiding the grove and eventually Larian folded. It really shows in how half-baked certain things are, especially in act 3 (where reactivity just goes to die generally).

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Sep 7

I felt bad for her right up until the point where I saw that unstoppable: 7
Also when I remembered all the people she murdered

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Bhaal cultists really should have left around a book declaring "we are currently clean on opsec."

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Aug 24

(he also doesn't need the money with that huge guaranteed contract)

trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Aug 24

Juan Soto strikes a victory for Christendom by using his excellent plate discipline to lay off the Christian Baby pitch just outside the zone, but then he instantly ruins it by doing his weird crotch grab + shuffle thing (inappropriate after such a grave and dangerous mishap on the field)

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Aug 24

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPRQ...

Big Structural Bailey-01

YouTube video by plexible

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Aug 24

guess what, Christian baby? The boots (or cleats?) are on the other feet now

Quora question asking "Atheists, imagine you're a famous baseball player and are about to bat the winning hit. Accidentally, the pitcher tosses a Christian baby at you. Would you still hit the baby out of the stadium and win millions, or spare the Christian baby?"

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Aug 21

Timestamp please!

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Aug 20

A more cynical person than I might suggest that the appeal of Abundance for someone like Barro *is* the prospect of abandoning progressive civic commitments like unions. Basically, just deploying a lib-coded vision of utopia to pitch the libertarian deregulatory playbook to a new set of marks.

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Aug 18

This sucks for users everywhere and my views on IP are obviously much closer to theirs than to the dominant paradigm we have, but IA got sloppy or cocky (take your pick) in a way that you really can't afford when you're operating that close to the edge.

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Aug 18

My opinion on the IA ruling is that it IS an outrage, but they did kinda go looking for a fight with the COVID Emergency Library and the shoddy checks they had to ensure "corresponding physical copies" were actually matched up properly. Tragically, IA was just too libertarian-brained to live.

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trusted diet coke valet @litano.bsky.social · Aug 14

You should read the article- it does a good job of showing how many of these "criteria" are defined and applied in such a vague way that they're practically non-existent (as well as the movement to lower these standards even further).

Canada’s MAID law defines a “grievous and irremediable medical condition” in part as a “serious and incurable illness, disease, or disability.” As for what constitutes incurability, however, the law says nothing—and of the various textual ambiguities that caused anxiety for clinicians early on, this one ranked near the top. Did “incurable” mean a lack of any available treatment? Did it mean the likelihood of an available treatment not working? Prominent MAID advocates put forth what soon became the predominant interpretation: A medical condition was incurable if it could not be cured by means acceptable to the patient.

This had made sense to Li. If an elderly woman with chronic myelogenous leukemia had no wish to endure a highly toxic course of chemo and radiation, why should she be compelled to? But here was a young man with a likely curable cancer who nevertheless was adamant about dying. “I mean, he was so, so clear,” Li told me. “I talked to him about What if you had a 100 percent chance? Would you want treatment? And he said no.” He didn’t want to suffer through the treatment or the side effects, he explained; just having a colonoscopy had traumatized him. When Li assured the man that they could treat the side effects, he said she wasn’t understanding him: Yes, they could give him medication for the pain, but then he would have to first experience the pain. He didn’t want to experience the pain.