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This. Democrats are way better with ideas and policies that help working people, minorities, women, LGBTQ people, non Christians, and the middle class. Republicans only have tax cut for the wealthy and culture war hate.

I wish Biden were more progressive, but he is a good president. And Trump is a criminal who wants to be a dictator.

America is a melting pot of people and cultures and religions from all over the world. Republicans don't like this. They want a Christian Nation.

Seems like this would be a hate crime. Very un-American behavior from this Republican goon.

On Sunday, several of Nevada’s fake electors attended a Trump rally in Reno, where the former president thanked three of them personally, including Hindle and McDonald, while saying they were treated unfairly. He did not mention the specific charges.

These people shouldn't be allowed to oversee any part of our election. They are working for Trump's interest and not the voters.

It's this. Remember Trump knows this cult member wouldn't hurt HIM.

Trump knew crowd at rally was armed yet demanded they be allowed to march

Trump said: “I don’t fucking care that they have weapons, they’re not here to hurt me. They’re not here to hurt me. Take the fucking mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here, let the people in and take the mags away.”

The CEO and upper management at WOTC are the real monsters. Greed is bad.

I bet they don't even play D&D.

Trump lies to them and says it is a witch hunt. The Democrats are just doing this to stop him from winning the 2024 election.

It is crazy that they only listen to Trump and right wing talking heads and believe them.

Did the conservative judges rule that money equal speech and corporations are people? So the richer you are, the more speech you have and the "poors" are free to use all the money they have-- oh the poors have no money? Then they have no speech.

Bad ruling for democracy. Shame!

Looks like they are not teaching the dumber students enough.

As a queer man myself, I wanted to talk to Newbon about what he meant towards the tail-end of his speech, where he said, "The community has reached out to so many of us at Larian, and said they were seen and they were represented by this game." I've spoken with him in the past about playing through Astarion's trauma as a survivor, and many of the same sentiments returned during our conversation here.

"That was the big thing about [Baldur's Gate 3]: people felt seen and represented, but also, it feels 'normal', quote unquote," he said, talking about how most of the game's inclusion is almost casual and straightforward in nature, and I find myself agreeing with him.

As someone who, you know, likes men, Baldur's Gate 3 never really felt like it was trying to pander to me or anything. That's not to say I'd hold it up as a great work of queer literature either, but I can absolutely see why some members of my community felt seen or heard by the nonchalance with which it separated pronouns, body types, and genitalia, to name just one example.

But I'd feel remiss if I didn't offer up another perspective. Back in September, contributor Noah Smith wrote for PC Gamer on how the game offered a lot in regards to representation, but still had some room to grow. "Thirteen years later with Baldur's Gate 3, I believe there's a genuine opportunity to tackle difficult subjects like gender and disability narratively and mechanically," Noah wrote. "Even having the option to raise deep conversations about identity with a party … could allow for deeper narrative role playing, and incentivize players to step outside of the binary with their own character."

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But even if it's not some subversive work of gay literature, I can still see how plenty of people playing Baldur's Gate 3 felt seen, or allowed to be their authentic selves within the game. Newbon reflects on the humbling experience of being able to bring that sensation to players.

Shovel likes to do wicked stuff.

Wow, the Honour Mode sounds difficult on many levels.

I wasn't aware that if a companion dies that a scroll would not bring him back. Is this correct? I guess the two deaths listed in the article are not combat deaths. That must be the difference?