Primarily0617

no, but lots of things about the employee-employer relationship are fucked up, but refusing to act around that information on principle is likely to affect your career somewhat

we all must toil under society—like it or not, even if the system is bad—while the current system remains in place

Honestly if you work for a large employer, I’d assume that

• they were always monitoring internal chats, just with more primitive keyword-based filters
• they have now upgraded to llm-based filters

It was basically an aeroplane flying with dead pilots before then

aren’t we all

kind of awkward that this both:

• exists
• is advertised as soon as you click the play button

it’s absolutely coconuts that you’re currently attempting to die on the hill of a giant “buy now” button not being an advert

also, you do realise that the launcher is an advert? that’s its whole reason to exist. your take is essentially “you’re dumb because after you’ve clicked through the adverts, there aren’t any adverts”

I agree that BG3 is a great diversion from the usual. My point is kind of that if you’re a purist about this, you’re missing out on it, even though on the whole it bucks the trend.

I have the same launcher settings set, so I mean I kind of agree? But you’ve seen the advert, and that’s basically all they want.

I just think it’s kind of weird how people react to things once they’ve filtered their thinking through the hivemind of the internet versus before.

Yeah, you absolutely can, but knowing to do that means that the advert has already delivered its message to you.

Futzing around with the launcher settings seems like more work than just clicking “no” on an advert that pops up.

I mean I guess Divinity never had ads unless you consider the launcher an advert for their other titles, given that that’s basically what it’s there to do?

If you don’t consider anything in launchers to be adverts then I guess you can play BG3, because that’s where the advert for the DLC lives?

I really feel like if Larian had only given you the soundtrack and not the cosmetics, and just not called it DLC, that people really wouldn’t be so up in arms about it.

Baldur’s Gate 3 was probably the best game of this year (?), but it has an advert for the DLC as soon as you launch it

However, it’s also probably one of the least-bad “triple A” games of this year when it comes to overall monetisation, that singular DLC of cosmetics and the soundtrack being the only one available

Unfortunately, I think this one is a losing battle

“May help” reads as though they’re making it up on the spot

“might clean your chimney or something idk lol”