Well, it is affecting traffic being driven to those news sites, but only they will know to what extent.

Diplomancer + Decent Damage makes Swords bard *insane*. Nothing like being able to single-handedly clear out the adds so your heavy-hitters can focus on the boss. Take a dip into Fighter for archery initiate and you’re every bit as powerful as the eponymous fighter, only with more non-combat utility.

I use a Thunderbolt/USB3.0 external SSD - game runs just fine.

I thought the season 1 plot hole was wtf Geralt is drinking, or what the hell a witcher is, why they’re so powerful, or why Geralt is so special?

Agreed, that this isn’t Very D&D.

It’s funny, how you have to go to a different game in the series rather than the one being discussed to defend your point, and think I wouldn’t notice.

You’ve painted yourself into a corner.

Absolutely. They butchered what could’ve been a fairly straightforward and understandable first season by doing none of the necessary ground work.

You’re entitled to your own opinion

Plenty of other media gets criticism for pandering to men and overly sexualizing women. But when someone uses that same critical framework for discussing video games, suddenly it’s the end of the world.

That’s textbook pander’n. Just because something is a trope or pandering doesn’t automatically make it horrible.

So was Treadstone pandering to men when they had several scenes involving strip joints and sexual workers?  How about the latest Jack Ryan season, when they had to deal with sex traffickers to get to one of the key villians of the series?

You’re right. Hitman 4 is a nuanced commentary on the human condition. It would never stoop so low as to include content or characters just to titillate the fans.

What nefarious insinuation you are creating within your own mind?

You’re “on the fence” position here might as well just be with the incels because *you* are deliberately mischaracterizing her as wanting to lie about such things, instead of just listening to how women feel hurt by what happens to them in games. There didn’t have to be killable strippers. There didn’t have to be.…

How dare a game attempting to simulate a real world, feature something that exists in the real world. 

No, it isn’t.

The official statement is that Fallen Heroes required more development than was feasible at the time.

Not so mysterious!  They just devoted all their resources to BG:3 instead.

It’ll get Kotick out (eventually) and allow Blizzard to become it’s own entity again