[-] talung@lemmy.talung.org -1 points 1 year ago

you seem to want to bring conservative political talking points to a baldurs gate forum. Why? Please stop.

Firstly, you know nothing about my political leanings. If I had to myself in one of your "boxes" it would definitely be left leaning not conservative, so that makes your point moot.

[-] talung@lemmy.talung.org -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I said nothing about diverse viewports. That is your own skewed perceptions jumping in. I am all for diversity and equality. Everybody should be treated equally!

What I am against is FORCED hiring practices. I know nothing about the hiring practices of Larian, and you can see they have a very diverse team, but you can also see, from their various podcasts, that the people there are capable and love doing what they are doing. There is no "in your face" agenda pushing from their material.

Why are you so afraid of hiring by merit? But, just continue to push your own narrative in your head if it makes you feel better.

[-] talung@lemmy.talung.org -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No just the industry at large with their "Quota" hiring policies and other such crap.

EDIT: For those doing the downvoting.... you don't improve your civilization by bringing it down to the lowest level, you try raise the lower level up. "Quotas" bring things down being you cannot use the best people. "Quotas" are the easy path for virtue signaling and you end up worse for it. Proper education and training is the only way to improve things, but that takes time and money.

[-] talung@lemmy.talung.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it negates the effort the person put it. This is the reason people tend to dislike the Mary-Sue characters of "modern movies".

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This is what I am hearing endlessly about why Baldur's Gate 3 is a success. I say that's a crock of shit sold by bad companies and developers and an insult to Larians hard work.

These are the things for my opinion:

  • They have 20 years of experience making CRPGS with the Divinity series
  • They do Early Access to test and perfect their systems
  • The listen to customer feedback and distill the good from the bad, ending up with a better product
  • They don't insult their customers and respect them
  • No microtransactions or Day 1 DLC, or mention of upcoming DLC and Season Pass
  • They hire Writers, Composers and Developers BASED ON MERIT!
  • You can see the love they put in the games from the Panels from Hell and social media

I am sure there are many more things that add to their success but random chance and luck is not the reason; hard work, dedication and good management is!

Just a little rant and pet peave I wanted to get off my chest.

[-] talung@lemmy.talung.org 17 points 1 year ago

Why do people say "perfect storm of conditions"? Larian has worked hard to perfect their style of crpgs through the divinity series. They put an emphasis on good storytelling and listening to fan feedback. They do early access to perfect their systems. They hire writers, composers and developers based on merit. They care about what they are creating. This is not a perfect storm but good management and development cycle. There is nothing random or lucky about it.

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submitted 1 year ago by talung@lemmy.talung.org to c/cat@lemmy.world

Definitely Oscar material.

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First Character to play (lemmy.talung.org)

So been thinking of what to play for my first run through of Baldurs Gate 3 when released. I will be streaming it, so looking for something entertaining, I I think I have come up with something that sings… :)

Half-Elf Drow rogue ( to get the drow hate, or maybe dragonborn… not decided fully) for the first 2 levels then switching to Bard. Or maybe Bard then switch to Rogue… not sure yet. Only 2 levels or Rogue in total. Of course there is no other choice but going with Dark Urge!!!

What is your first Character going to be, have you decided yet?

[-] talung@lemmy.talung.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks, I have gone through and identified the REAL accounts gathered the ID's and deleted the rest from local_user and person tables.

Haven't really played much with Postgress so took some time to look up all the functionality with that.

EDIT: yup, made sure the person one was local only :)

[-] talung@lemmy.talung.org 5 points 1 year ago

The one I learnt at the dawn of time was BODMAS.

bracket of Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction.

I learnt this in the 70's early 80's in South Africa, so not sure if things have changed.

[-] talung@lemmy.talung.org 5 points 1 year ago

lol, this made me chuckle... Are you an AI bot?

[-] talung@lemmy.talung.org 3 points 1 year ago

And How would I do that in the UI? This is the issue, haven't found a way to even find those users on my system, even though it marks at 15 extra users.

[-] talung@lemmy.talung.org 4 points 1 year ago

thanks I will try this.

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Dealing with Bot Accounts (lemmy.talung.org)
submitted 1 year ago by talung@lemmy.talung.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

Hi there, Been running my own little Lemmy instance basically to see how it runs with federation and stuff like that. I have had open (email validation) for the odd person or 2 that might want to use it.

Early this morning (my time 4:43am) I had about 15 new users all at the exact same time registering as users with same structure names (random words) followed by 4 numbers. Being all within 1 minute of each other they are obvious bots.

Going through the UI I have not been able to find a way to remove them. I have since changed my registration policy to make the person fill in an application, captcha, email validation etc. to help stop polluting the ecosystem with bots.

Any help would be appreciated. I am running it all under docker

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submitted 1 year ago by talung@lemmy.talung.org to c/memes@lemmy.ml

Since we doing Old memes, here is one I recreated in Blender about a year ago. :)

[-] talung@lemmy.talung.org 2 points 1 year ago

Been using Joplin for ages now. used to use Evernote and was trying to find something to replace it. Joplin fitted that need, and being able to store all the stuff on my dropbox in encrypted format made it great for use on all my devices. Combination of Joplin and Bitwarden is pretty much my secure solution to everything. lol

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