Nope! My company is private after getting bought last year and they are definitely fucking it up with "ai all the things" and "ai makes us more human" and strip mining out our actual work culture and replacing it with an even more soulless grind

my company's ceo went from seemingly a down to earth founder of the company who supported queer rights to an exploitatively rich board director who describes his employees as "loyal human capital"

it's about control and power and wealth and it sucks how good some of them are at seeming ok before they get it

it is simultaneously overrated yet exactly deserving of all the praise it gets

the way it encourages cooperation with a stranger is staggeringly rare in games and i wish there were more things like it

i have complicated feelings. on one hand: yes, people deserve to be able to, but also:

how much is this just going to be used by the state to coerce people into killing themselves?

there are so many underlying factors that go into treating mental health beyond just "therapy and medication", and from what my canadian friends tell me, mental healthcare is about as bad or worse in canada as it is in the usa. it's not properly covered by standard healthcare from what i have learned, so if you are too poor to get treatment, this will probably be used to just. expunge poor people from existence.

with how hard tech has rallied against remote work this is 100% aimed at justifying return to office

Yeah, here to say, as bad as my childhood bullying was, the adults are worse.

They're the ones who, in the background, were creating the circumstances for this by talking shit about you or instilling within their kids a bloodthirsty competitiveness that only lets them see others as targets.

And in the foreground, letting the kids who instigate the bullying, especially when it gets physical, get away as the victims - by equally enforcing punishment & loudly saying that you're both at fault, or just punishing the kid being bullied only for fighting back.

Played League since open beta... got into HotS and never looked back until it crashed and burned. Don't think I could get into a moba again.

...unless HotS makes a comeback... i do miss my baby abathur...

I got sick of the constant quick travel back to merchants in BG3 and decided to just install the mod that multiplies my encumbrance by 9000x. the item management in that game is a giant pain and the gold economy plus encumbrance is an artificial barrier to getting them from merchants that simply adds playtime for no actual benefit.

Realistically speaking, if you want a useful encumbrance system, you should be thinking: what is the goal of an encumbrance system in the context of this game?

In BG3, it serves a few purposes:

1. physical consequences. reduced movement speed, damage from jumping, etc are all part of D&D rules, which is useful when you're in a kind of situation where, say, you need to get a giant boulder across a huge gap and put it on top of a button that opens the gate while in combat. but outside the context of combat, doing this is meaningless, as the player can simply overcome this problem with time, which is annoying more than fun.
2. limit access to the number of options a character has when confronting an encounter. it's not feasible to carry 99 potions of greater healing on you, and encumbrance is a general strategy that prevents this from being as effective. at the end of the day it does not solve this problem
3. express limitations on what a character can do with their environment. encumbrance affects how much else you can carry, such as throwing a big rock at an enemy to do a lot of damage. this is irrelevant in the context of inventory vs. how much you can affect your environment; it can easily exist independently of an encumbrance system.

I don't like encumbrance in games in general. It makes games more fiddly, and forces the player to engage the system with no real addition to the fun of it. Limited inventory slots are similarly frustrating in games to the scale of Baldur's Gate. BG2 solved both of these problems by giving the player a billion bags of holding, which also had the added benefit of making inventory organization easier in a system that was largely left the same from its predecessor since it probably was built on the same codebase. BG3 had no such codebase restriction, and its type sort system sucks (the search bar is a lifesaver). Encumbrance very much feels like a "This is how it works RAW in 5e, so we're going to do it this way" decision, which is funny because in plenty of other situations the devs decided to stray away from RAW to make the game a lot more approachable.

I don't know if the goal of encumbrance is to prevent players from taking everything as much as possible or not - but if it is, it utterly fails at that goal

anyone remember when it was intentional that search wasn't a thing and people defederated from instances that catalogued other instances' posts for search? just me?

i am agender but still have gender and i don't know either hope ya figure things out

This is incredible and I hope they are successful!

However I am expecting this to become targeted towards marginalized groups posting, say, judge alito's address for writing to him because he fights so hard against civil rights for favors

how to explain cisgender and heterosexual to 5 year old?