Microsoft did the same shit with 343 and it was a big reason infinite came out a total mess. They clearly have learned nothing.

It would be awesome if this game got traction after switching from f2p+micro transactions to p2p-micro transactions. I’ve only ever heard of games doing the opposite.

Wow I was completely unaware that this game had something so invasive. I’m definitely going to have to refund it. This sucks since the game is really fun but that’s a deal breaker for me.

or search the web for some stupid ass reason

The reason was actually documented at the end of Halo 3; when Cortana got rampancy and subsequently infected all of our windows 10 start menus.

There’s almost no way you have played BG3 or you’re just being contrarian. I love the old bioware and black isle and crpgs, BG3 absolutely stacks up to 1/2.

To call it “decent” is so disrespectful to the complexity of BG3. Hardly anything else even comes close to the scale of BG3, let alone any game fully voiced, in terms of decisions, outcomes, dialogs, and campaign paths of BG3. I’m 70 hours into my first playthrough and still likely have another 10-20 hours left of act 3. And all of those hours have felt impactful and engaging; none of that filler garbage you see in other games this size like AC or starfield.

This isn’t exactly true as tencent has a 30% stake in Larian. I imagine it definitely helps to have an owner like Sven and his wife that are fully bought in though with 70% stake.

What do you use for your voice command system?

I’m only self hosting a few things but they are all actually getting used for things

• Shinobi (camera software)
• pihole
• valheim server
• truenas

Eventually I would like to replace other services for self hosted alternatives such as Google photos and onenote. But I am severely limited by my upload speed (only 20mbps). I also desperately need to add a bigger/better UPS and some sort of kvm over ip as my power has been going out at least a few times a year.

This guy is such a douche.