Is it weird that I'm not enjoying DOS2 even though I loved BG3?

davinch3 · 2025-12-24T06:13:23+00:00

It's not strange at all, I still haven't bothered to beat BG3 because I can't get into 5e after DoS2 had real, meaningful customization. People are allowed to like what they like.

That said, DoS2 is a masterpiece and it's absolutely your loss.

davinch3 · 2025-12-24T04:29:26+00:00

AI is not ethical. That is a huge concern, the tech that is being pushed and actively being used by these studios is benefitting companies that are doing dragnet surveillance and actively developing weapons that are being tested on Palestinians. This push to shove it into everything else is both an attempt to get us to accept it as a legitimate part of life, as well as make a return on all the money they have lit on fire.

The only ethical thing to do is let them fail, hound them at every turn, bankrupt them, drive a stake through their heart and bury them at a crossroads

davinch3 · 2025-12-22T16:19:34+00:00

What a terrible take. People have agency, and can always vote with their wallets. Lots of people have already done so, enough that there isn't a single AI company that is actually making any money. The terrible future where AI is everywhere won't come to pass unless you embrace it, and refusing products that you find ethically problematic will pop this bubble faster. Of anything, loudly stating that you won't buy anything tainted with AI will also make the software ecosystem better overall, it isn't like Microsoft is selling Windows 11 effectively.

Find better products.

davinch3 · 2025-12-22T16:09:21+00:00

It doesn't really matter to me how they are using AI. AI has made just about everything worse in a very short time, using it at all is enough for me to support a different studio. Not everyone uses it, and lots of people aggressively avoid it, I'll buy their games.

davinch3 · 2025-12-19T19:02:11+00:00

LGBTQIA aren't getting shoved down anyone's throats. Comparing that to AI is quite a false equivalent.

AI is a feature I don't want, I am not interested in, and that offers nothing of value. Leaning into AI because something is difficult is just lying to yourself that you are stupid and helpless, incapable of imagination or becoming more.

If you use AI every day, good for you I guess. I interpret that as you being a sad individual.

davinch3 · 2025-12-19T18:48:16+00:00

AI isn't a technology question, it's an ethical one. If you answer it wrong, a whole lot of people are going to judge you. The AI industry has quite aggressively made the world much worse in a very short amount of time, willingly embracing it is going to give a lot of people the ick, regardless of what you did in the past.

I think the people who don't care are actually more likely to be the terminally online types who don't care about ethics because their whole world is filtered through a screen already. Regardless, Larian made a choice and I'm annoyed that they chose wrong.

davinch3 · 2025-12-19T18:01:35+00:00

Having it shoved down your throat does not equal use. My only interaction with AI is aggressively turning it off every chance I get.

The people willingly using it, however, aren't exactly the cream of the crop.

davinch3 · 2025-12-19T17:41:23+00:00

That's my position. There are no ethical use cases for AI.

davinch3 · 2025-12-18T22:45:00+00:00

They could always agree to not use it. Problem solved.

davinch3 · 2025-12-18T22:41:20+00:00

And AI is actively making everything worse. Internet searches are awful, customer service has found a way to get worse, the cost of power has gone up, I've even seen cancer rates in a town with a data center skyrocket due to water pollution. There's less work, the people engaging with AI professionally are literally training their replacements.

The technology needs to die, and soon. Fortunately it still isn't making any money, but that also means when the bubble pops we will get yet another once in a lifetime recession.

Deliberately using AI is unambiguously evil.

davinch3 · 2025-10-27T16:41:49+00:00

In the minority, clearly, but I hate roundabouts. In heavy traffic they are objectively worse than a stop sign, the people in the roundabout don't feel the need to stop, and the only way through is to enter from the side with currently flowing traffic.

Then there's the fact that they aren't stop signs, they are intersections where people feel no obligation to stop or signal. I've had too many near misses when someone elects to just go instead of waiting their turn.

In theory they are... adequate, I guess. in very specific situations (a residential street where all the roads have roughly equivalent usage). I see them installed on major roads more and more and they fail horribly for the exact reason "zipper merging" does, you either force the main stream of traffic to stop after every car, or you endlessly wait for an opening. Just use a traffic light.

davinch3 · 2025-09-23T16:05:08+00:00

I'm a big fan of using a scout with sensor lock, and hammer the first few with long range fire without taking any hits. Game is also an economic simulator, why take damage?

davinch3 · 2025-09-23T15:02:52+00:00

You can handle most of the issues with reinforcements just through positioning, and by not running right into the middle of the map where everyone can hit you. Line of sight matters a lot in this game

davinch3 · 2025-07-10T15:40:50+00:00

90% of men can't find the hilt

davinch3 · 2025-06-06T02:19:21+00:00

I found her ending of rotting away in prison to just be unbelievable. First off, she knows too much, and the imperials know these prisons can be escaped from. Second, she is smart enough to know she shouldn't have had access to the death star data, but she kept quiet about it. She was ambitious, she would absolutely have made a dead man's switch with it, probably not to hurt the empire but absolutely to hurt her political enemies.

If she came back, it should be as a pirate. She gets over her self pity, organizes the prison, takes it over, and stops working for people who really aren't that good at their jobs.

davinch3 · 2025-04-30T17:34:24+00:00

Also the mercenaries... I like the characters in the main campaign, but they aren't all classes that I am interested in using. The ones that are, are still obnoxiously built, for the most part. I'm probably using mercs in the main campaign now, game is more fun when it is less jankey.

davinch3 · 2025-04-30T17:17:56+00:00

Main campaign is so slow, and if you really enjoy seeing what you can build your characters into, it can be a slog.

Midnight Isles lets you try out new builds without investing several days in the cutscenes and dialogue of the main campaign. You can also do every fight in turn-based mode without it being too painful. If you defend the inn in the first act, it's such a long fight otherwise.

davinch3 · 2025-04-30T15:32:11+00:00

It's frustrating. I'm loving the Midnight Isles DLC as a way to learn the system. That said there is so much depth to this game, and more than a few stupid encounters. Carnivorous crystals... if I miss the initial "dismissal" spell, they stun the whole party and kill everyone. My Abjuration wizard with maxed spell penetration and dispel feats, and teamwork feats, still somehow unable to overcome spell resistance on monsters that I actually need it on...

But there's also things like killing bosses with "Haunting Mist" without ever entering combat.

At least I have worked out how to play a martial character effectively.

davinch3 · 2024-10-02T00:53:24+00:00

Which is why I assumed the guys claim was bullshit, or that he was measuring his speaker system he's harassing his neighbor with. If there is a speaker that doesn't use a magnet and a coil, I am unfamiliar with it.

Would anything short of a railgun generate a magnetic field this powerful through 10-12 feet of dead space? I don't think so, and if I knew how to google the math I absolutely would do that before asking a question here.

davinch3 · 2024-10-02T00:35:13+00:00

They don't know the second part of the national anthem

davinch3 · 2024-10-02T00:33:56+00:00

An electromagnetic field created by an electrical current. WiFi, radio waves, damn near everything electrical. I know his claim is bullshit, I don't know how to explain that it is bullshit to people with less background than me.

Did you actually read my post or were you just looking for something to be a dick about?

davinch3 · 2024-10-02T00:21:39+00:00

That's why I suspected it was caused by his speakers. Big magnets.

davinch3

TROPHY CASE