Oh we’re the target, just not the customer.

I hope you’re right. It’s time for private equity to take a massive beating.

Tired: men/women shouldn’t run for president

Wired: there shouldn’t be a president

Wait, Yacht Club made a new game? And it’s a dense, challenging dungeon crawler? Shit, that’s all you had to say!

The current situation came from using “norms” instead of “laws with actual enforcement mechanisms” in politics. There’s probably no saving those norms anymore, they’ll have to be reforged as laws.

Is RATM secretly an ADHD incantation?

I did not know that. That is a fun fact!

Dallas Fort Worth and Houston both felt like a place God forgot. Didn’t visit the rest of Texas, I could have been picking up on the state’s overall vibe.

Chicago Style, Haus of Decline (2026)

The only thing I like about the “own half” idea is that it calls the LLM bluff. “You’re going to replace all labour? Time for eminent domain.” Which will, I feel certain inevitably lead to that not happening when private capital realises they’re not going to own all of society with their shitty little word-spewer machine. They’ll cut bait and move on to ruining something else and we’ll own half of who gives a shit.

With these fuckers, that’s as good as a fact.

Thanks for clarifying, got it. Yeah BG3 isn’t branched, at all. That kind of game script is a lot rarer, for obvious reasons. It’s a shame, those kinds of choices always end up feeling more substantial than whose company you keep, how you kill people, or who you have sex with.

bg3.wiki/wiki/Endings is a pretty long page. Witcher 2 has, what is it 16 endings? There’s at least that many here, but I’ll grant that not a lot of the possible endings feel meaningfully unique, just stylistic preferences. That might be the real shortcoming, the fact that when your enemy is “absolute mind control monster”, there are only so many ways to win that are meaningfully different.

I knew some dudes were dumb, but I didn’t know they needed instructions for that. I guess it really does take all kinds of veggies to make chicken soup, what a world.

It’s one of the pitfalls of a novelistic game with multiple branching paths; a story where Raphael is the main villain might easily work out to be the best possible story, but it’s more about what you think is the best story.

I’ve beaten BG3 three times and I go after him every time. It’s not about the loot, the XP, or even the theme song. It’s because the brain was just a problem that needs solving, but I had a score to settle with Raphael.

For me the main boss of BG3 was Raphael. He’s the one who established an ongoing personal antagonism throughout the game, and the fight with him was unforgettably dramatic. Everything after him was a protracted denouement.

It’s pretty much their exact aim.

He’s certainly a striking character. Dude sounds like a wheelbarrow of rocks falling down a hill.

Aw cheers, thanks for reading. I dream of finding a horse furry to pick their brains for better material. Something that really demonstrates a genuinely prurient mania that a non-horsefucker can’t really replicate. A joke like this is like Evel Knievel, you just hit the gas and go for airtime, yanno?

You better believe that’s in the regular rotation!