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Do you know why I mentioned the companions whole thing? Because apart from the main quest they take up most of the narrative attention, and if that is one of your chosen themes let me tell you it's weak, if BG3 was about it maybe it'd be more than window dressing in the third act it'd make up a central pillar of the theme of that act, you know when the refugees ARE in Baldurs Gate?

As for the other alright dipshit, it's called an elder brain, or netherbrain if we take what BG3 calls it, and the rest is just nonsense propaganda? zealotry? My guy, my baby boy, the game literally yells it at you several times AUTHORITY, like for fucks sake it's called the Absolute, it is about control and power and here you are going, 'Well it's about propaganda innit and like the stuff' just amazing, am I supposed to take whatever you say serious when you don't know what themes are? When it doesn't seem like you have any media literacy, and I'm somewhat convinced you haven't really played a lot of RPGs because you have nothing to say about any of the games I've mentioned, which just tells me that you are a baby whose opinion can be safely discarded.

They didn't need precedent before to spy on climate protestors, to arrest them etc. like they've pretty much just done whatever against leftists often unconstitutionally if they wanted to they'd crush junge welt without precedent.

All this stunt did was embolden nazis, which is a bad thing.

There is a case against those one as well germany, I don't think there's been a ruling on this one so far but the german government says that it's allowed to do this because people from that mosque are enemies of the constitution. Is it possible this case would be thrown out? Maybe but the courts have been dragging their feets on it while not on the nazi rag one.

Extra extra german news coming throug!

A couple days/weeks/months back the german government coalition decided to ban the nazi magazine 'compact'

Now this would've actually been a good thing I would've said about the german government in the last decade sadly today the german courts ruled the ban unconstitutional, freedom of the press trumps being a nazi rag I suppose.

I think it's due to ideology, it is unthinkable to them that a western(white) country could ever lose to the asiatic horde that is russia, so why are they losing? If you are a fascist you'd blame trench warfare, hiding in dugouts allows the cowardly russians to use artillery and bombs to grind their forces down so how do you break it, you can't overcome the defensive lines so you advocate for big arrow maneuvers, for a 'blitzkrieg' the reality be damned. Zelensky agrees because it also is good PR even though it is pointless in the end but it's not like it changed the trajectory in any way so I think ole Z is going to chase those short term gains before he makes it for the border.

Dang did the tankie write something you dislike? I didn't even say the story was bad I said the story really doesn't have much to say, and it doesn't like their central theme of nature vs nurture is incredibly muddled and comes out incredibly weak.

Shadowhearts nature is to be good no matter how much suffering and indoctrination she went through her good nature always shone through.

The Emperors nature is to be deceitful and lie and be evil he keeps saying that and does it as well.

Karlach rejects her nature because uh well it's about nurture you see nature doesn't exist.

Lae'zel wasn't born evil, non of the gith are it's due to the careful indoctrination(nurture).

Again muddled if you are just vibing with the fun dialog and voice acting that's fine not everything needs to be a grand thesis statement but also that means that yes BG3s story doesn't have much to say.

Which we can now look at all the others I've mentioned what is Discos central theme? How the past influences us, and finding joy and meaning in a broken world, and it does that in a very tight package that doesn't overstay its welcome. Some anglo I believe has said 'brevity is the soul of wit'.

Pillars first ones central theme is funny enough again the past and how it shapes and influences our lives, colonialism, religion and eugenics

Pillars two colonialism again, also isolationism and traditionalism in face of that colonialism, religion and eugenics

Planescape Torment what can change the nature of a man? Wow look it's another game where you are haunted by the ghosts of the past, being a misery vortex and all that jazz maybe I just like those games or maybe they are just really good.

Arcanum, wow hey victorian era fantasy world, it's magic (feudalism) vs technology (capitalism) baby!!!!!!! Wow look at all that change the continent is going through, look how it reacts to this radical change oh shit phrenology, we also have some nihilism and Camus getting quoted.

I'm not even going all in here I've put out the more popular ones I can mention even more but I didn't want it to read like I'm going 'Stop liking BG3'

Honestly I like the Demon a bit better for evilness, Lich is very good and thematic but that makes it a bit boring since you are locked into caster which again, makes thematic sense but I kind of would've liked a Dead Knight version as well, Demon has quite a bit going for it when you reach the abyss.

Swarm just sucks as a path the only one that's worse is japester (trickster).

As for the game itself I dislike stuff like the whole crusade mechanic that just adds more stuff to do which makes going for different mythic playthroughs painful it didn't need it and I'd prefer if they cut down on a lot of this stuff since the different mythic paths are excellent.

Yes, compared to Disco Elysium, Pillars of Eternity, Planescape Torment and Arcanum etc. the story really doesn't have much to say. Like it boils down to 'People are abusing their authority which is bad'. Which compared to the story and themes in other games is less impressive. Like I'm sorry but BG3 compared to those games really doesn't say anything, or at least anything controversial. Choices boil down to:

Do you help the refugees or side with the fascists and kill them all.

And almost all companions have the exact same problem of having to confront their superior being that fucked their life, and in three cases indoctrinated them to become a worse person. BG3 doesn't have much to say doesn't mean you can't enjoy it the story or the writing or the companions but yes in the end it isn't saying much.

I think it also doesn't help that BG3 has mass appeal because the story doesn't really have much to say and all the companions are extremely easy to get, so you can focus on the funny quips. I don't think something like I dunno Durance this ugly angry zealot could fit in BG3 much less as a companion and the pathos of something like the Grieving Mother would stick out like as well much less horny nerds trying to mod her.

BG3 is the quippy fun blockbuster movie, Pathfinder the B-movies, Pillars some movie a director pulled favors for to tell their story and Disco Elysium is made by a soviet director.

Rollercoaster Tycoon I & II

Nothing ever happens, I remember a thing years back where Janet Yellen was interviewed at some financial thing and it came to Boom and Bust cycles and she said something along the lines of 'I think with the new controls we've managed to eliminate those' obviously that is nonsense but it could very well be that the stock market (which isn't the economy but I digress) now is uncoupled by the economy and will experience unceasing boom, I mean even with that mini crash the S&P is still up some 10% did the US economy grow by 10% of course not that'd be insane but hey that's happening and will keep happening I guess, until there's a glut of money and capital but considering the US' position as the global hegemon they can draw that bow quite a bit before it breaks.