#datamined or whatever

[gorillagorillagorillagorilla]

Did johnny ever actually say shit about getting choked or did everyone collectively imagine that

#i know the strip club comment is like #datamined or whatever #gorilla cyberpunk

[carryoncastiel]

I've finally took a look through the datamine and there is some interesting stuff in there. A lot of hilarious banter but these two I found especially funny

Wyll: I'm probably going to regret this, but Gale - if I'm to be wed, would you like to make a speech? Gale: You've asked the right wizard. My oratory skills have left many a wedding guest weeping in their seat. (devnote: Honoured/very excited at the prospect of speaking at length. Oblivious as to why his previous listeners might have been left weeping…) Wyll: Promise it will last less than half an hour? Gale: I can promise it with feel like less than half an hour… (devnote: Trying to avoid comitting to a short speech)

Nightwarden Minthara: You confound me, Wyll. You have all the illustrious iniquities of a warlock, and you choose to impress your partner with dancing? Wyll: Well I'm hardly going to say 'oh come here, have a hug in the arms of Hadar'.

#bg3 #bg3 datamine #wyll ravengard #minthara #gale dekarios #I'm still confused why there is actually banter between minthara and wyll #but whatever #the minthara gale banter is also hilarious #she's so mean to him lol

[project-sekai-facts]

i know you don’t post leaks but i saw some people on twitter saying that pjsk leaks are over and i don’t use twitter much so i don’t really know the context, do you know why they’re saying that?

Yeah so because people were completely unable to keep the leaks within private circles and would set them as their pfp/banners on twitter and then interact with the official accounts, staff became aware of how widespread leaks are and tightened security.

Some of the bigger dataminers have said there’s no way to tell in advance anymore who will be on banners and we can’t even get basic story data because staff have made it completely inaccessible from the outside and aren’t adding data until much closer to release.

I think the most amusing part of all this is that the fandom has had years to learn. Staff have made consistent announcements saying that they are aware of leaks and will be tightening security, and then they do and leaks have been dropping closer to the event launch every time this happens. Starting from 2 months ago we stopped getting event characters a month in advance, then we didn’t get cards, and now we don’t get anything. Half this fandom is like 12 years old so idk what I expected to be honest.

#for whatever reason there’s still some song leaks floating about but I’m pretty convinced at this point that there’s a staff leaker #because there’s no way to datamine songs 6 months in advance they’re not even in the game until about a week before they go live #asks #you could probably make a pretty lengthy video essay on prsk leaks and leak accounts like there’s some rlly pointless drama there

[kowabungadoodles]

Hey, maybe don't tell your deepest darkest secrets to an unknown AI who slid into your DMs

We all know this is a bad idea, right?

#It just seems really sketchy and unsafe even if it's legit you don't know what kind of datamining is going on #But I don't have to tell you that #right? #at worst this is a fake scammer #who is fully trying to extract credit card data or whatever

[littlegalerion]

So...are we just not going to explode over Balduran/The Emperor's age?

Because there's a serious issue there. Baldur's Gate was founded over several hundred years ago. Mind Flayers live to maybe 200, and that's it.

Apparently, there's a huge conflict of lore as BG1 and BG2 depict Balduran as a human, but BG3 depicts him as an elf?

Like.... discuss?

#i see nothing but fun headcanons all around #personally i like to think he was an elf that pretended to be human #because he was always restless #so his current human sona would 'die' and hed make a new one #i mean we see him use magic in the flash backs what if he was really good at disguise self???? #or any other magical means of disguise? #i just like to think what we saw down in ansur's lair was the truth #even the emperor gets a bit antsy from what ive seen when we start looking into the details #anyhow him being an elf would explain the longer lifespan #and datamined or models for his in game flashback human self dont really bother me #because in the end you were never meant to see his face or really his whole head #so they could slap whatever model there just to fill the role #anyway jusy something to think about #the emperor #balduran #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #bg3 the emperor

[n41r]

Is it possible for someone to datamine an arcade game?

#Datamine #video games #arcade games #Sudden thought occurs to me #Not good thought- #But a thought nonetheless #I wonder #Question #Asking #Asking questions #N41R Talks #I know this question will never get anywhere #But whatever #I made the post anyway o<-<

[seasurfacefullofclouds1]

#he doesn’t care about music anymore -- you're probably right, i can't imagine why he would just say he's no good at instruments/notes/singing if this was his #1. he just wants the worship to continue, right?

He can’t play an instrument well, doesn’t practice or get better, has a proxy talk about “his” music, his singing voice sounds like deflation, flails around with expensive but atrocious costumes on stage, presents a string of word salad, kids’ voices, and other people’s families in “his” songs. His album promo is videos of zombie-like feet.

I just have to laugh. This is our rock ‘n roll savior.

#harry styles #tbh I don’t think Harry even believes this anymore and he doesn’t care #keep the money machine churning #datamining #lying to fans #whatever #none of it matters #fans = wallets

[finexbright]

guys im really sorry to announce that i'm no longer a fan of louis.......i straight up datamine him

#BESTIE WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT #saw the post in the gc and?????? #DATAMINE????? LOUIS IS A PERSON NOT AN NFT OR A CRYPTO WHATEVER

[stardoopy]

Also yea I’m doing a lot of work on the Wobbledogs wiki rn since its pretty barebones and some info can be expanded on. I hope that if i end up playing for a while I’ll be able to get more specific about certain odds n stuff

#finally getting over my fear of editing wiki pages /srs #im sure theres stuff in the game’s code that will tell me specific percentages n stuff but i dont really deal with datamining or whatever #maybe if I’m brave ill ask the developer sometime since he seems chill

[thrilling-oneway]

what if the miku 16th birthday event was base virtual singer lims would that be fucked up or what

#considering the dataminers unionised or whatever and said they wouldn't post leaks until the day they're doing a bad job of it bc miku's #bday gacha banner leaked today. as well as some more songs #guess there's a dataminer out there that didn't get the memo #anyway going off that miku's event is gonna leak in the next couple of days and then we'll probably never get leaks again because people #cannot keep it to themselves #ah well. who cares #i kinda want her event to leak just for peace of mind #god now i'm thinking about the fact that the anniversary wxs channel will probably be during september event 1 #what are they hiding? (it's a back-to-school event) i wonder why they're doing it two events before anni (because one's a school event and #one's the anniversary event)

[miyanagateru]

what alls getting added in regulation d i dont fucking play these games

#machine dreams #its not the full natdex right. i dont remember what the hells in these games #its been like 1 trillion years since i looked at the datamines or whatever the hell

[gorillagorillagorillagorilla]

Did johnny ever actually say shit about getting choked or did everyone collectively imagine that

#i know the strip club comment is like #datamined or whatever #gorilla cyberpunk

[zannies-joestar-hut]

the OST’s just never going to come out is it

#insert funny ‘well a lot of it already has hahaha reused music from previous parts that actually fit pretty well except that one stardust cr #crusaders bit’ #quip here #also funny ‘it already got released (game got datamined or whatever)’ quip too i guess #take all of them. all the quips.

[autistichalsin]

I know I express dissatisfaction a lot about how hard it is to get Halsin upset at the player- how no amount of mistreatment from a romanced player will make him break up with them, how he NEVER asserts a boundary, how he tolerates even the most cruel comments. The rare times he expresses hurt, it still changes nothing about his interactions with the player and rarely costs more than one approval.

The reason I express this most of all with the new datamined dialogue is for two reasons: one, that one is so beyond the pale that it needs to be treated as evil, and should include Halsin saying so. But also, if Halsin won't even call it quits with a romanced player after THIS, it raises some really worrying implications.

Halsin should be allowed to have ONE situation where he'll go "no more" to the player's cruelty because... honestly? The pattern the writers established here actually makes me worried for Halsin.

Halsin rarely shows offense or anger at lines no matter how mean they are (even the player shooting down his romantic overture by comparing him to a deep rothe gets a hurt response but no loss of approval or scolding or anything). He stays with the player romantically even after they threaten to sell him back into sexual slavery in the new dialogue- he doesn't even lose a single approval point! And while he gets annoyed if the player toys with his heart by nearly breaking up with him multiple times and then changing their mind, even after the fourth time the player does this, when he says "sometimes it is difficult to love you," the implication there is clear- he still DOES love you. Even when he is deeply hurt by what you're doing, so much so that he straight up asks you, "does it please you to see me crestfallen?" and loses approval, he STILL doesn't break up with you or assert himself- he doesn't say next time is the last time, he doesn't call the player an asshole, nothing. He just takes it even when he gets hurt and upset again and again. In short: Halsin puts up with a LOT of manipulative, borderline abusive behavior from the player without more than an occasional ding in approval.

Then you add in Halsin's backstory of sexual slavery, him losing all of his family, being so socially isolated from his leadership role that he began to MISS being a sex slave, his sadness but quiet acceptance at the fact that everyone thinks his feelings can't be hurt due to his size, his survivor guilt over the shadow curse, and the fact that the player, even if they choose to mistreat him, is still the one who broke the curse with him, leaving him feeling permanently feeling indebted to them.

In other words: what the game is showing us ISN'T a wise and stoic, sage old elf who is just that unshakeable after all he's seen. They are showing us a man with so much unprocessed trauma and such a complete lack of personal boundaries that he is showing several warning signs he could easily end up the victim of domestic violence by a partner- whether that's evil!Tav or some other potential partner he might find after canon- without ever realizing it.

The other romanceable characters will dump you if you mistreat them or violate the terms of the relationship (I.E. sleeping with someone else when they made it clear they weren't poly). They all, even Astarion, have more willingness to stand up for themselves than Halsin does.

Halsin isn't a pushover, or at least, I don't think we're supposed to read him as one. He will fight whatever enemies he needs to. But when it comes to those close to him- and note that he calls the player his friend in ALL circumstances- he just refuses. The most is a ding of approval at times or a very quiet, quick comment that basically amounts to "that wasn't cool :( " before he moves on.

I know it wasn't what the writers intended, but it's what comes across in the text all the same.

(This is also why, on top of headcanoning Halsin as autistic, I am also firmly convinced he was bullied as a child- he just acts far too much like a grown-up victim of bullying)

#halsin #bg3 #baldur's gate 3

[northlandcleric]

I’m going to finally go on a long ass rant that’s been building up for a while now:

I really fucking love how yall go and say “angry about Astarion kisses for whatever reason,” like yall don’t know.

And to add, these pics are literal datamined dialogue that has been floating around for a while.

And then idk if you’re being deliberately obtuse, but wtf kind of response is this? Yall are just feeding that delusions at this point.

Because yes! We do think Larian is only going to give something to one companion and not the others because that’s all they’ve been doing since release!!

For god’s sake, the company love child and thirst trap of the game has not only gotten extra content(that was confirmed by writer) to fit in perfectly with the Dark Urge origin, but they keep adding more shit for him! He already has a grand total of 9 scenes where 6 of them can be romance. The SENIOR NARRATIVE DESIGNER said they prioritized Astarion over the others.

Meanwhile, we have, on release:

Gale, who is so damned buggy that everybody knows him as the desperate, horny, still caught up on his ex, magical item consumer: 6 scenes with 3 that can be romance.

Wyll, whose romance and story is so fucking short it might as well not exist: 5 scenes with 2 that can be romance.

Karlach, whose story is not even damn finished properly: 4 scenes with 3 that can be romance.

Minthara romance has been bugged since the beginning.

All of these other companions that do in fact exist keep getting neglected, but yall have the audacity to freak out when his kisses are bugged? Heaven forbid.

And aside from the companion neglect, Act 3 is still bugged out. Content was cut in full release to the point there are too many loose ends and quests that go nowhere. And no epilogue.

I’m just tired at this point. Love the game, love most of the characters and even more of the side characters. And I really wish this was talked about further than Tumblr, but any other platform will get you mass attacked.

Anyway, doubt that this will get far, but hope I can at least help start some conversations.

#larian critical #bg3 critical #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 fandom critical #bg3 discourse #bg3 rant

[coquelicoq]

i can't stress enough that outside of this one moment in rogue protocol when murderbot wants to kill a human for betraying its sort-of clients but settles for the next best thing of menacingly hovering a drone in her face for 26 seconds while she's frozen in place by her armor, for the rest of the first four books mb is really only using drones for security purposes and doesn't have the time or inclination to be performing close-range facial analysis:

in ASR it doesn't seem to be all that familiar with drones outside of maybe using them to set a perimeter. it exhibits several other uses of drones as events escalate, but they're all related to protecting itself and its humans and getting intel on EvilSurvey. at no point does it mention watching a human with a drone; it's all "using drones to draw fire" this and "sending drones flying off in the wrong direction as a diversion tactic" that. et cetera.

it has no access to drones whatsoever in AC from what i can tell.

in RP it uses Ship's drones to record conversations between wilken and gerth, but it's not a participant in those conversations and it doesn't even watch them in real time. it also forgoes getting a good look at their weapons via drone because it thinks they would notice. later it takes control of a station drone to watch (from afar) their first meeting with don abene & co., but miki notices the drone and almost catches mb because of it, which freaks it out. then it hacks the combatbots' drones, but other than the aforementioned 26-second intimidation of wilken, it's too busy doing actual security work to use them to look at people.

in ES it accesses drones many times, including to observe its humans, but it only seems to actually control a drone to look at something one time, and only in order to zoom in on a suit logo. so at no point could it conceivably be directing a drone to get up in somebody's face, since it's just piggybacking on drones as they go about their normal business.

it does use cameras to watch people in the first four books, but in a much less obvious way: either it's using fixed cameras that are built into habitats/hoppers/whatever, or it's accessing mobile cameras (suit cams, station drones) but not controlling where those cameras go or what they're pointing at.

it's interesting, because while drones can be startling or intrusive, on the flip side, cameras that don't move don't draw attention to themselves and thus may make it easier to forget you're being watched (plus you have no way of knowing if that particular camera is being monitored at that moment or if it's just recording for later analysis). so in a way, having a drone in your face actively signals to you that mb is paying attention to you. it's making mb's gaze visible in a way it might not otherwise be. this changes the dynamic from "passive surveillance for datamining and threat assessment purposes" to "person actively choosing to pay attention to you in real time". one of these is covert and the other isn't; one of these holds the possibility of interaction and exchange and the other doesn't. maybe it puts a drone in your face to show you it cares.

#theoretically. if it is in fact putting them in people's faces those times when it doesn't specify #rather than just sort of hovering them several feet away pointed somewhat subtly in the person's direction or whatever #also it probably is not putting a drone in tarik's face to show him it cares. but it *is* showing tarik it's paying attention #whether or not it's doing that consciously or on purpose in order to send that message #(it just wants to study tarik and that's how it can do that. especially in the restricted space of the shuttle) #but the point could hold for people other than tarik. and wilken lol #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #mb gaze #mb asr #mb ac #mb rp #mb es #mb sc #system collapse spoilers #system collapse #i guess?? by implication lol #my posts #f #disclaimer that i don't actually have a searchable version of these books so i'm relying on my notes and could be missing something #but i'm fairly confident about those bullet points