I always thought replika was a sex chatbot? Is/was it “more” than that?

I definitely recommend Control, since a lot of games you like have big epic set pieces as well as an engaging story. That game is insanely rewarding if you’re willing to put the time and effort into looking for “collectibles” and piecing the game together. Very cool atmosphere and fun to play as well. You really get out of this one what you put into it.

Bioshock Infinite got shit on by both racists and leftists who completely missed the point of the game, but the ending is the best of the Bioshock series IMO and stuck with me longer than most anything else I’ve played. Lots of big cinematic moments, too.

Guardians of the Galaxy is slept on imo and has some amazing moments, and while the story is a retread of things the GotG comic has done, if you’re not a big comic reader, you won’t know, and if you are, you’ll be jazzed about how things are represented.

BG3 is incredible and the hype is well-deserved. The replayability is genuinely off the charts. Ive begun 4 playthroughs and beat it once and have not played the same game twice. Main story is the same but the variability in motivation, drive, and interactions is simply incredible. It is THE CRPG, and this is coming from someone for whom BG2 is my favorite game of all time.

New Vegas is New Vegas. It’s a shining example of what gaming can be for a reason. Needs no explanation (other than “don’t go north at the start”).

I’m not the biggest fan of Elden Ring’s story, but it is decidedly not low fantasy.

Hey man you know where you can find a great cup of coffee? Starbucks!

Edit: this How I Met Your Mother joke apparently did not translate.

That’s not true at all. People often steal because they value the item but cannot afford the price.

I’d be willing to bet on the latter point there. Laserdiscs are similarly dead technology. Niche collectors may enjoy them, but they will not be catered to for the average consumer.

I appreciate it.

No, because in practice that isn’t a thing that regularly happens, and as the tech continues to die out it will be less and less possible.

Most people do not own and cannot use a soldering iron.

If you can add it to a phone that doesn’t have it already, I’m not sure what the problem is, in your view.

This is all also true about traditional headphones jacks, which have failed quite often for me over the decades

My favorite headphones of all time failed in this way, and requires I have the jack in exactly the right spot/depth

I didn’t choose the analogy.

At the bottom of your phone (probably? Idk like iPhones and shit), you have a USB-C (or some letter) port. There are headphones that plug in there.

They are no more battery powered than your phone.

Kind of shocked this isn’t well known, as this is a tech forum.

In my experience, 0 headphones are guaranteed to work indefinitely, and I’ve been using headphones jacks since like '87

If bicycles and motorcycles competed for the exact same role, with an opportunity cost allowing only one, how would bicycles not be obsolete?

Idk hopefully not many. I’m not enthused by dead tech.

I’m not talking about Bluetooth at all tho

All headphones you plug in are.

You can still buy DVD players, which means people still buy DVD players, but that doesn’t make it not dead tech

Yeah that I def agree with.

If you buy this phone, you’re exclusively buying it for sustainability, so you’re already accepting an inferior product.

There’s no reason to cling to headphone jacks as if those are somehow a worthwhile technology.

comfortable headsets, audio without batteries

These are both solved via USB headsets tho?

as technology starts to plateau

Not sure we’ll ever hit that point tbh.

There are headphones that use the USB port. Headphone jacks are kinda dead tech at this point.

It is super bad lol

Dunno why this is downvoted. My half-orc barbarian sounds like a schoolboy and it is weird.

Perfect is the enemy of good but I’d love a PC chatter mod.

I respect this take but also can you translate that first sentence

BG2 is my favorite game of all time and anything that gets more people to give it a shot is a good thing.

It just so happens that is what inspiring people to give it a shot may be the best game of all time.

I have a barbarian that throws smokepowder barrels at people

This game is fucking amazing

Yeah I could not care less. Seems beyond weird to me. Reminds me of the old video game console arguments in elementary school.

I got roasted by a room full of interns for having an android phone last week.

But you are the one tilting at this windmill.

This is a really stupid hill to die on my man

That’s a courtesy for people who didn’t pre-order but want the dice cosmetic. It was originally a pre-order exclusive but they changed it when asked to.

People do not get paid based on production but based on value.

Do you have a source on that? Because EA pays in the top 20-25% for their market.

https://www.comparably.com/companies/electronic-arts-e/salaries

I googled median EA wages (gave me median, top 75%, etc), EA CEO pay and number of employees at EA and then did division

So you want to raise the wages of the people making $140k per year but not $170k?

Why?

EAs CEO makes $20MM. They have 13k employees. That’s an $1100 raise, give or take, if you take every penny from the CEO. For the vast majority of their employees, that is less than a 1% raise.

So no, it won’t get you both, in any meaningful sense.

people should be paid more for their work!

things shouldn’t cost slightly more money!

Gotta pick one chief.

There will most definitely be an expansion/enhanced edition for BG3. Expansions are not “in game purchases”