CidVicious

This is incorrect. What you're describing is the Third World. The Second World was the eastern bloc and other Soviet allies. The First World was NATO allies. The implication is basically that the third world was not important enough to be a factor in the cold war.

Huh I never type in portrait if I can help it, my thumbs are way too big for it. Landscape any time I'm typing and even then I wish I could make the keyboard bigger without losing visibility to what I'm typing/replying to. I also don't swipe type, have never really liked it.

Well...I suspect a lot of the people who routinely complain about this stuff actually are teenagers.

There's a bug dating back to October that made Heliboard unusable for me, because it cuts off half of the keyboard in landscape. Looks like it just got fixed but hasn't been rolled out yet. Meanwhile heliboard is just really bad about learning new words (tends to think capitalized words are a different word and adds them to the dictionary when you start a sentence with them, can't seem to handle autocorrecting to a word with an apostrophe). I gave up on it and went back to Gboard and I don't think I'm going back. Honestly I'm real frustrated with the state of android keyboards right now. Swiftkey used to be awesome but MS ruined it. Gboard is better than it used to be but it barely has an options for customizing it. I don't know anything better.

Not sure I understand why you would want that. But more options for gboard would always be good.

First thing I noticed on this was that they erased her name. Very lame. Edit: I reported it, removing author credit seems like it should break rules.

Well that's probably a bit predictable given what community this is. But I really think the pricing is way out of line with what your average person is willing to pay and it only serves to make the physical media more niche.

The back and forth on twitter/bluesky over this topic was pretty wide ranging, and size/cost definitely was a topic discussed. And besides a lot of the "quality" of BG3 was the fact that it supported endless paths through the game, something which requires a lot of development effort.

Making smaller games isn't a bad thing. Every game being a BG3 would be completely unsustainable. Sure, that game was a great accomplishment, but also imagine if they'd made the game that size and it was bad. It would've probably sunk the studio. I'm all about more A and AA games. Not everything needs to be a 300 person effort.

I think the number of scammers went way up though

Fun fact, you can do a light rubbing/knocking on a tree trunk to coax a screech owl into showing itself.

Honestly I'm always shocked by how much they cost. Who's paying $30+ for these? Who even owns a blu-ray player that isn't a ps5?