works for me

Huh. Works for me at home as well. Must be something with the firewall at work or similar. Thanks!

We force life itself on them without their consent, so ensuring they actually live past childhood seems like a package deal...

Is there less beauty and purpose and meaning in a child who lives for 1 month over one that lives for 80 years?

Objectively yes, I'm not even sure that's a question.

I have some serious antinatalist leanings, but if one is going to live (assuming decent quality of life and what not) more life is always going to be objectively better.

>Everything has been commodified.

welcome to capitalism...

considering how fast we're speed running climate change I don't even think the present cares about the future...

Though I agree bard isn't the best name, gemini is a worse name.

Bard has connotations, but by it's self it makes one think of a person that talks well.

WTF is gemini? It is a twin, but this is a singular product. Beyond that it's just generic. It doesn't tell you what it does at all.

Not with regular people. Bard is just "old" to them.

Think of the syllables. Copilot. Gemini. They need to be close to the market leader on a subconscious level.

When the competition is called "ChatGPT", maybe the naming isn't as important to normal people as we think?

Microsoft is the competition. ChatGPT has been embraced and extended.

I read Gemini as twins, with the user and the AI making a pair.

Works for me.

it also get's caught in stupid loops.

this game is fun for a bit, but shallow once you realize the gimmick.

you can go completely random bullshit go and get "super cyberwolfman zombie phoenixman" that's nonsense, of course it's "first discovery!"

That cat is out of the bag, that term has gone napkin or bandaid.

Yeah, Trek2000 didn't really defend their mark too much. I suppose J&J probably does because I don't see anyone using Bandaid for non-J&J bandages, at least in the US.

Not for sales purposes, but I don't know what brand the bandaids I have in the cabinet are, but if i ask for one that's what I'll call them...

Sure. I wasn't commenting on colloquial speech, I was commenting on Amazon's listings.

I'm confused, you're lobbing this as if it's a gotcha or insult.

No matter what you think of them as a company Steam is a license to print money, of course basically everything they do is in service of it...

No I'm not, I'm acting as if it reinforces my original point - which it does.

That Valve is a software distribution company.

>It was a mistake.

What do you mean, the game is objectively solid and is very much a continuation of the Boulders Gate series. It has flaws, but personally I think it's the best crpg i've played in years (and without nostalgia filters).

I'm guessing its probably related to the fact that BG1 and BG2 are T-rated, BG3 is both M-rated (in part for sex) and inclusive in a way that, well, more than one review or article suggested it might be something like “the queerest video game of all time”.

To be clear, I'm not criticizing, I just am not surprised that a certain segment of the BG1/BG2 fanbase is unhappy.