Oh, oh, I hope they do the same thing for PoE 2, I just started it after *finally* completing The White March expansions during the holidays. I dig the system changes they implemented there, though I fear some of them will make an eventual solo run extremely challenging (i.e. skill checks use the whole party’s combined skill bonuses, which is pretty nice, but I assume most will be impossible to beat with a single character past the first few levels).

Quoting: pbI wholly enjoyed PoE up until the point where there was some massive battle and I haven't secured enough allies so I kept losing and apparently it was necessary to progress so I just dumped it. Maybe I'll revisit with this new patch.

If you mean the battle for Caed Nua, I finished the game without doing it, then started the expansions and only went back to dealing with Caed Nua missions well into the White March P. I, so you really don’t have to bother with it (unless you painted yourself into a corner with no saves prior to starting the event).

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Working in translation, another worrisome trend I’ve noticed is content farms not just using AI to write articles, but to translate them, so we’re seeing tons of poorly translated content filling up search engine results in content farms with country-specific domains (e.g. "english-sounding-name.fr"). Logically, the AI is going to continue to get trained on junk content that it (or another AI) wrote or translated itself and perpetuate, if not amplify, the errors in it by seeing them as commonly used. A race to the bottom indeed.

It would be bad enough if it only meant more trash on the Internet, but you just know this widespread corruption of language is also going to influence people, especially language learners, who will be much more frequently exposed to mistranslations and unnatural expressions and adopt them naively. The effect on English speakers will likely be lesser or slower to manifest (English being the "native" tongue of most AI and being a simple language to begin with), but I weep for just about every other language.

Quoting: Guest...it's not hard to write anybody can do it, and it's the pennical of laziness to...

*Pinnacle ;)

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Started playing this with friends recently and have been enjoying it. Controller support is a little finicky (it forgets you’re using a controller at the start of each level until you press a specific button for some reason) and we’ve had a couple hangups that forced me to hard-reboot, but not too bad overall.

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BG3 isn’t showing a sale on my end, is it regional?

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Quoting: ObscureThe stats they show only add up to 95.43% so is it safe to say the other 4.57% were from Linux users across all the various distros?

They also only show Windows 10 and 11, I would assume they have many players on earlier editions.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI've considered getting a cell phone just to use where there's wi-fi.

That’s what I do. It’s my e-mail-on-the-go/mp3 player/calculator/watch/camera micro-computer. Occasionally I’ll buy a plan for a month or two over summer holidays if I expect to be on the move a lot and need/want to be reachable. As a non-obvious upside, once you have a SIM card in there, even if you cancel your plan, you can still make emergency calls as long as there’s a signal, which is good for peace of mind in the countryside where you can’t always count on borrowing someone’s phone at the drop of a hat.

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Quoting: 1xokThe colors on the OLED always seem oversaturated to me.

I was wondering about that too. The LCD unit just seems sharper and cleaner to me, versus the red blur bleeding through everything on the OLED unit. Tough to judge image quality through a picture, but sharpness is sharpness, and the OLED screen just seems to lose a lot of detail and its gradients are way less subtle.

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Great news for those of us waiting to grab one used for cheaper. Go on everyone, sell your older models to fund your upgrade

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Yeah I was gonna say, isn’t that like whichever game they could think of?

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> Fixed in-game overlay keyboard input not working on systems with ibus, such as gnome desktop environments

Ah, I guess that’s why the new note-taking feature wouldn’t let me actually type.

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