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EvilWolf

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The problem with this argument is that, even though it sounds absolutely fucking retarded, human sexuality often works precisely in this manner. Just look at all the male feminists raping women and Christian preachers sneaking out for private, drug-fueled parties with male prostitutes. That's why whenever you hear someone crusade just a little too strongly against some vice or another, you can put money on it coming from that crusader's guilty conscience.
So, do arachnophobes want to fuck spiders?
In some rare cases, yes. Though bugs, snakes, and spiders are three things that humans evolved specific instincts to fear, so these cases are somewhat exceptional. Keep in mind that due to the misattribution of arousal (AKA "the suspension bridge effect") fear itself becomes an aphrodisiac.

Humans often feel and think many contrary things at one time. That's parallel processing in action.
There's nothing contrary about your body wanting to reproduce before you die, that's the whole takeaway from the suspension bridge experiment.
 
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The problem with this argument is that, even though it sounds absolutely fucking retarded, human sexuality often works precisely in this manner. Just look at all the male feminists raping women and Christian preachers sneaking out for private, drug-fueled parties with male prostitutes. That's why whenever you hear someone crusade just a little too strongly against some vice or another, you can put money on it coming from that crusader's guilty conscience.
The point of that meme, I think, is that NPCs are fueled by projection - not so much that this kind of stuff doesn't happen. There are plenty of weird fucking sexual deviants out there, but one of their most consistent characteristics is that they think everyone shares their kink.
 

NecroLord

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The problem with this argument is that, even though it sounds absolutely fucking retarded, human sexuality often works precisely in this manner. Just look at all the male feminists raping women and Christian preachers sneaking out for private, drug-fueled parties with male prostitutes. That's why whenever you hear someone crusade just a little too strongly against some vice or another, you can put money on it coming from that crusader's guilty conscience.
The point of that meme, I think, is that NPCs are fueled by projection - not so much that this kind of stuff doesn't happen. There are plenty of weird fucking sexual deviants out there, but one of their most consistent characteristics is that they think everyone shares their kink.
You know, I always found it funny how westerners (especially americans, since they are the world's biggest exporters of porn) are offended by nudity and porn, but people getting their skulls split, violence and showers of gore in movies and such are A-OK...
 

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It was a mediocre movie, at best, but I'm not going to complain about near-prime Biel running around "half naked" for the whole movie.

Complain about Wesley phoining it in (he did), Ryan Reynolds' humor being a horrible match for the series (it was), and the whole tone being off instead.
 

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It was a mediocre movie, at best, but I'm not going to complain about near-prime Biel running around "half naked" for the whole movie.
coomer moment. I don't mind skin in the movie, but having a girl wear a tank top doesn't mean a crap movie in a series I liked becomes tolerable.

this isn't the 80s. there's a whole internet full of porn if that's all you care about.
Complain about Wesley phoining it in (he did), Ryan Reynolds' humor being a horrible match for the series (it was), and the whole tone being off instead.
huh? I'm saying it was a trash movie. the part about her being 'half naked' was me trying to make my post colorful. I hated the energy sword and them killing whistler in such a dumb way.
 
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Has Larian said if/how they're going to implement lone wolf in BG3 yet? Last I heard they said they wanted to add it but didn't have any specifics, and it's getting dangerously close to launch and I still haven't heard anything. Was planning on double lone wolf co-op with a buddy like with DoS2 but I'm not really sure what they'd do for that with semi-5th edition rules. XP's just globally doled out to the party so it's not like playing solo in the originals where all the XP gets piled on one character, and even just adding an XP boost for lone wolf likely wouldn't work since I would assume you'll be hitting the level cap easily without any XP bump. And trying to increase a character's power to make it a little more viable when the kick in the action economy from going solo has to be tricky when you take into account all the different classes.

Won't be the end of the world if we each have to drag a tagalong NPC with us but it will be a mild shame since it'll bring more NPC drama cluttering up our murderhoboing. NPC drama's for playing singleplayer with a full party.
 

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