You can also de-DRM the Amazon books with a Calibre plugin called deDRM. I recently did it to all my Amazon ebooks (had a lot for basically the same reasons as you, plus I worked there).

You have the original commenter confused. millie just said if you were spamming patch notes, you’d get a block

That is a much more reasonable take, for sure. I would do the same, and probably go one step further and ask mods to step in.

In this case I don’t think OP is spamming patch notes, they just found this on interesting.

I think it is the best they, and that is why they did not show the others. Probably quite easily debunked based on multiple photos.

lol, what? This is a general gaming community. Also, that implies people can only post about games you are playing, which is such a wild take

I dunno if you read the response, but Linus was a fucking fool for asking for receipts. He looks like your MAGA uncle asking you to prove vaccines aren’t harmful

I don’t think they were bought by anyone, but their distributor did recently approve them for ads. I suggested that as a possibility, but she was pretty sure it was PocketCasts inserting them. We shall see either way.

My partner noticed a ton of ads in a similar situation (listening to older podcasts). She was also under the impression these older casts did not have ads, but she is getting more and more each listen. Maybe it is the creator inserting them in older episodes, but she is trying AntennaPod, so we shall see

Vernacular is specifically used for informal language, and in this particular case, linguists did not want to imply slang. I am not a linguist, but the sources I found from people who study AAE cited that as the reason for the name change

It was AAVE for a long time, and momentum is a hell of a thing. Ultimately whatever the culture wants to call it, it is really up to them.

Of note here, AAVE is an outdated term. AAE - African American English (still a little outdated) or AAL - African American Language (the newest, most accurate term) are more accurate. Linguists dropped the “Vernacular” because it is not a slang language, and are starting to change “English” to “Language” because it is most likely derived from creole, not English

It is not just slang, though. It is a whole language that black folks have been constantly asking white people to stop using as slang. This is just one public instance of it happening

It might just be that Taash isn’t the companion for you. I did not find them unlikable, just incredibly direct.

Dunno where you saw that, steamdb (https://steamdb.info/app/1845910/) has it listed on 38.99€ at a 35% discount, which is horrendous for a not even 2 month old release.

I found an article from about 3 or 4 weeks after release, so clearly the price dripped a couple times. And agreed, it is a bad sign for sales

I don’t think so. The writing of Taash was so bad and uncomfortable for the most part that I genuinely didn’t know if they were trying to mock trans-people with this representation

I disagree. The writing of Taash, while basic, has a lot in common with folks early in discovering their trans identity. Yeah, it is awkward and uncomfortable. Guess what, self introspection often is. I would say with Taash we see a lot of what would be internal struggles being vocalized. The good news is that Taash isn’t the only character you can interact with.

Breaking with an established formula can be a big detriment to a franchise.

Of course it can, but it doesn’t solely make it a bad game.

Veilguard, on the other hand, doesn’t get better. It just stays bad and even confusing at times.

I disagree. I really like the gameplay. It gets better almost immediately after the tutorial, though the tutorial is a little long for my taste.

All time peak on steam is 90k - that’s horrendous. Obviously, that’s not the total sales and it’s also sold on other platforms, so we do not know the real number. However,the game went on discount not even 2 months after release, and a pretty hefty one at that, 35% I think.

Yeah, again, I don’t think the numbers are great, but 90k on 1 of 4 or 5 big platforms isn’t dismal. And the discount could be telling, but (I just looked it up) it was around 29%, which is still $50. Part of that could be backlash to the $70 AAA price tag. All that being said, all of this is speculation without numbers being released from EA

If the discourse I’m seeing on dev/gaming twitter/bluesky is anything to go off of

It’s probably not. Everyone I know that has actually played has found it to be quite fun. It’s not perfect, but highly enjoyable 7/10. Most of the negative reviews I have seen are 1 of 3 things:

1. It’S tOo WoKe And
2. It not a CRPG like Origins
3. The writing is not up the same standards as previous Dragon Ages

So the first one can be thrown out. 2 is true, but doesn’t make it a bad game. 3 is true for the tutorial portion for sure, but after that things open up. The story isn’t amazing, but it suits the gameplay well.

EA hasn’t released any sales numbers, so hard to say on that part, but probably not in the multiple millions. From what I can find it is probably selling fine. Not amazing, not bad, but fine. That also could be due to a variety of factors like marketing clarity or using an IP in a way that fans of the IP did not want. It does not necessarily mean the game is a bad game

This was published in the same journal that published the black plastic study that had a huge math error. Also seem to have problems with conflicts of interest and studies changing authors immediately prior to publication. Dubious at best

For the most part I agree, but we are quickly moving to a place where voting either won’t do anything or won’t be a thing. For now, organizing and community support is the best thing to do, but there may come a time where we need to think about other options

Guess we better not try then…

The fact is that while there is no guarantee, you can at lest push to something better. Don’t self-defeat so early

Hate to shatter that ideal more, but the US has never been a bastion of democracy. The electoral college has existed since the founding, women have only been able to vote since 1920, and black folks have only fully been enfranchised since 1965. Even so, the right has been working to disenfranchise black and poor folks ever since.

I think that it is a complex situation that people are trying to distill down into internet takes. It is frustrating, but understandable.