BG3: Worst Writing of the Year

[Jen Blue(She/They/Hers)]

Today writers are selected by diversity/pc checkmarks rather than skill. In fact their modern day ideology and agendas are almost exclusively leading the narrative. Same for BG3.

Most of BG3 writing and romances leave the impression they were written by people with little romantic experience, still having adolescent views in this regard. Everyone wants to have sex with you after 2 lines of pointless conversation. Writing on porn-quality level basically, GJ Larian.

Furthermore the writting shows little social experience other than their Californian-style university/Twitter echo chambers that taught them they have to force their own real-life problems, insecurities, sex fetishes, and ideology others throat down no matter what they writing or if it is fitting.

The way how BG3 presents its characters, interaction, and world is superfiscial at best. "Millennial writing", result of year long social media exposure like Twitter with overdose of worthless no one cares and I support the next thing posting, instead of reading quality books or engage in real actions and experience. Paired with worse writing and reading skills. Your characters and story can´t be smarter than the writer.

Get a bunch of this ideologic clone and npc writers of this type together and you end up with a disconnected story as it is the case in Baldur´s Gate 3. People are literally recommending to swap acts because it would fit better the game´s pacing... Like a episodic TV series were nobody cares much about the grand story arc.

[Recjawjind]

Aldain の投稿を引用：

While I'm not a proponent of "technology bad" can we at least agree that things like TikTok have kind of rotted the brains of several many people in the world?

There's some bad with the good is all I'm saying, and to deny one or the other is kind of a bad road to take.

I wouldn't doubt for a second that the extreme short-form content and expertly engineered retention algorithms aren't good for anyones attention spans. Though, I'm not intimately familiar with the topic, and could be off on this.

[hermit0wl]

Aldain の投稿を引用：

While I'm not a proponent of "technology bad" can we at least agree that things like TikTok have kind of rotted the brains of several many people in the world?

There's some bad with the good is all I'm saying, and to deny one or the other is kind of a bad road to take.

Probably? Never used TikTok, but that algorithm sounds unhealthy. Or I'm getting old. No-no, it's definitely the algorithm...

[Aldain]

Recjawjind の投稿を引用：

I wouldn't doubt for a second that the extreme short-form content and expertly engineered retention algorithms aren't good for anyones attention spans. Though, I'm not intimately familiar with the topic, and could be off on this.

...I mean there's been several life threatening TikTok challenges that made the rounds over the years as one example of literal Darwin Award inducing things that come from it as one set of brain rotting examples.

Sure there were always stupid people, but...holy crap it feels amplified thanks to social media.

Speaking of, anyone remember Tide Pods? Good lord I worry for our species when things like that happen...

[Recjawjind]

Aldain の投稿を引用：

...I mean there's been several life threatening TikTok challenges that made the rounds over the years as one example of literal Darwin Award inducing things that come from it as one set of brain rotting examples.

Sure there were always stupid people, but...holy crap it feels amplified thanks to social media.

Young people have always done stupid ♥♥♥♥, it's part of life. But being egged on by a global audience to do especially stupid ♥♥♥♥ is probably not the best.

[Aldain]

Recjawjind の投稿を引用：

Young people have always done stupid ♥♥♥♥, it's part of life. But being egged on by a global audience to do especially stupid ♥♥♥♥ is probably not the best.

That's like the one example I honestly feel when I go "Back in my day" it actually is less anecdotal.

Social media clout chasing has somehow made people EVEN MORE STUPID than they already could be compared to yesteryear.

Hell when I was young the dumbest things people my age were doing was breaking limbs or getting concussions, not eating detergent...

[Carlos Spicywiener]

Mosesjns の投稿を引用：

Carlos Spicywiener の投稿を引用：

Is there such a thing as serious romantic relationships with the latest generation, let alone western society? In an age where one only needs to swipe to satisfy their sexual urges and when the leading form of communicating is through a handheld device, Do you really have to think hard where is society is going to land as a social structure in the next decade? Seems pretty clear

all the more reason i am grateful i was born before cellphones and all that other BS that makes people into dopamine addicts looking for internet attention / likes instead of meaningful human relationships.

Amen

[Carlos Spicywiener]

Aldain の投稿を引用：

While I'm not a proponent of "technology bad" can we at least agree that things like TikTok have kind of rotted the brains of several many people in the world?

There's some bad with the good is all I'm saying, and to deny one or the other is kind of a bad road to take.

don't get me started on Tik Tok. There is a study going on right now with Mental Health Canada with young women and Tik Tok and how the constant views are changing the way they think and act. There is one right now that has hundreds of girls convincing themselves that they tourettes. Its nuts.

[Carlos Spicywiener]

Recjawjind の投稿を引用：

Aldain の投稿を引用：

...I mean there's been several life threatening TikTok challenges that made the rounds over the years as one example of literal Darwin Award inducing things that come from it as one set of brain rotting examples.

Sure there were always stupid people, but...holy crap it feels amplified thanks to social media.

Young people have always done stupid ♥♥♥♥, it's part of life. But being egged on by a global audience to do especially stupid ♥♥♥♥ is probably not the best.

Like eat tide pods? Doubt it. I think the law of diminishing returns applies with some people

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Idk, with gullom as a contender?

[hermit0wl]

KingOfFriedChicken の投稿を引用：

Idk, with gullom as a contender?

Gollum had writing?! :O

[Recjawjind]

hermit0wl の投稿を引用：

KingOfFriedChicken の投稿を引用：

Idk, with gullom as a contender?

Gollum had writing?! :O

A lot of writing went into the BREEDING

[KingOfFriedChicken]

hermit0wl の投稿を引用：

KingOfFriedChicken の投稿を引用：

Idk, with gullom as a contender?

Gollum had writing?! :O

I mean something must have bin written right? Lol

[Orion Invictus]

Recjawjind の投稿を引用：

hermit0wl の投稿を引用：

Gollum had writing?! :O

A lot of writing went into the BREEDING

The ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ what now?

[An Irate Walrus]

Carlos Spicywiener の投稿を引用：

Recjawjind の投稿を引用：

Young people have always done stupid ♥♥♥♥, it's part of life. But being egged on by a global audience to do especially stupid ♥♥♥♥ is probably not the best.

Like eat tide pods? Doubt it. I think the law of diminishing returns applies with some people

I dunno about that. I'm an 80s kid (90s high school), and we did some profoundly stupid crap that I'm surprised we survived well before the age of "smash that like and subscribe button, AYOOOOOOO!"

I once drank a glass of half Mt. Dew, half soy sauce for a fifty dollar bet (I was fifteen, so thankfully young enough that my heart didn't just explode), I had a buddy that snorted a giant Pixie Stick in class just to freak out one of our teachers, and yet another friend who broke his arm riding his bike down the dry face of a thirty foot dam trying to impress a girl (didn't get the date, either).

Hell, we had a guy nearly kill himself riding a shopping cart off the roof of a three-story dorm in an attempt to get a video on Jackass (he didn't think the pre-episode disclaimers were serious, evidently).

What's happening now is the same youthful stupidity we all went through to varying degrees, with the distinction that everyone and their mother's brother's uncle's former roommate now has a camera attached to their phones, so the likelihood of engaging in said youthful stupidity without a record being generated is super low.

The performative clout chasing is stupid as hell, I'll grant you, and I'm glad I was permanently off the relationship market before the advent of TikTok, but I actually met my wife through Match. I was 29, recently out of a broken engagement, and had realized my dating options were either former students (I've been teaching at the college level since I was 24, so all said students are legal adults), which wasn't something I was going to pursue (creepy, an ethics violation, and a massive abuse of power), or women who already had kids.

I don't want to be a father, so I wasn't going to take up with a woman I'd eventually have to tell "look, I like you a lot, but I could do without the snotrag." It wouldn't be fair to any of us--me, the woman, or the child(ren).

So to Match I went. Dated a few women, none of them worked out, and then I met the woman who would become my wife.

Thirteen years later (married for ten of them), I couldn't be happier. Tech isn't automatically anti-romantic. It's a tool, and like any tool, the end product is going to be a result of how that tool is used.

[Maj. Grumpy]

I agree.

BG3 has some of the best writing for a video RPG ever.

No wonder it got GOTY.