How else would one mass-produce gullible, uneducated voting cattle to exploit and fleece?

Who is Gomers?

They’re still putting out trailers for a game that came out in 1992? Impressive.

Every. Single. Time.

Looking at the TP with my functional eyes? I am skeptical.

-He/llo there!

-Gender role Kenobi!

The thing is that, depending on your tastes, there’s a good chance at least some of the new content will appeal to people, but I do absolutely understand getting that bad aftertaste every time you remember that it all leads canonically into those three movies and … nyeeeerrrrgghhh.

By the way, it seems that even a good portion of the producers seem to at least partially share that feeling, which makes it doubly sad that disney is making almost everyone shoehorn in some hint of retroactively created foreshadowing with the goal of explaining that no, palps returning that way isn’t the ass-pull it obviously was at all, nuh-uh!

I wouldn’t necessarily say that they are not woke. If it maximises their returns, they will definitely do anything they think will get them the woke crowd’s money (see also the shoehorned lesbian kiss in ep9). They will also do their best to get the money of the anti-woke crowd (see also: removing the black man from posters; keeping the lesbian kiss contained to five easily cuttable seconds for certain releases).

It’s more correct to not think of them as woke nor not woke, they are just whoring themselves out to whomever they believe they can get to bring them the largest amounts of money (see the company’s history of political donations).

You don’t see rushed straight relationships in Hollywood.

You may want to sit down now, because if you like, I can gather a list of all movies whose script contains the line

“and then the hero gets the girl despite there being no perceivable chemistry or other factors they have in common except him being the main character and her being The Girl^TM in the movie. They kiss. The End.”

The less said about the sequel trilogy, the better, but do yourself a favour and don’t miss out on watching Andor just because of the movies. That show is just really good and also incidentally Star Wars.

I’ve made a quantum leap in food technology: I have invented french fries with a dedicated AI… let’s say napkin. Not like it matters. It costs 450 dollars per month and requires the area of a small town’s worth of rain forest to be razed in order to produce a single one. What does it do, you ask? It’s AI, it does AI things, you bumpkin. You wouldn’t understand with your uncultured peasant brain but if you’re not on board, the evolution of civilisation will leave you behind in an instant.

Mention the concept of a daily stand-up pledge of allegiance in schools in any other democracy and get laughed at.

No, it’ll be running THAT cave from DA2 over and over, but this time in different colours!

Experience and memory, mostly.

“People were complaining that I sent them to fetch me a sandwich every five minutes, so we listened to their complaints and next game, the player character will have no legs and thus not be able to move anymore.”

You now have a one-quest-long window to do these three steps in order otherwise you will never be able to complete this quest line due to missing out on the item that’s only available if you use this specific thingamajig on the other thingamajig in the hidden room. There isn’t any indication of that in the entire game, except that some quest will never ever finish and be stuck on the vague “find x things” stage forever. If you google how to finish the quest in thirty hours of game time, you’re just SoL. Better luck next run.

What exactly is the “role” one is playing here? Diviner? Psychic reading the game dev’s mind?

FOMO - the game

Yeah, but you see, they stubbornly refuse to do it for free or at least slave wages, and you can only imagine how bad that is for wotc’s shareholder value. Selfish bastards, Larian, demanding to be PAID!

Piano misses as well, redshirt dies from a heart attack.

“Well, you can’t prevent all assaults in the world, so why shouldn’t I punch you in the face now?” is a rather defeatist point of view.