The Sentinelese people are not known to practice cannibalism, or flaying.

Your comment doesn’t make the American idiot look worse. It makes the Sentinelese sound awful.

One previous idiot was killed by unknown means, likely an arrow or spear then this happened.

The fishermen later saw the islanders dragging Chau’s body and the next day they saw his body being buried on the shore

Can confirm this is normal in Aus, Ive regularly been asked how much I paid for the house as well, which I have no problem answering.

The stronghold, at the very least. It was a major problem in the first game to have your base of operations be a thing that you had to return to with travel time, so it’s a significant course correction to have it come with you.

Sure but that’s a mechanics improvement that people aren’t going to realise because they never bought the game… because an Age of Sail / Pirates setting has never been popular in CRPGs. They should have stuck with high fantasy.

Having a turn-based mode as an option is always welcome especially with large parties but again… people need to play the game to get a feel for any potential improvements there. They didn’t buy it, didn’t play it, and still didn’t do either when turn-based was added.

Larian had zero reason to change a winning formula so I’m not sure why that factors in your mind? Literally a “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

I agree that budget isn’t the defining difference, the setting is. DOS2 starts you off on a ship then dumps you on a tropical island. Did it suffer? No… because their game is clearly not a Pirates (Age of Sail) game. You even see a shot of the characters on a big ship during the trailer but then go straight back to combat on land.

There are many discussions on this particular issue and John absolutely refuses to acknowledge it because he likes the setting.

PoE2 actively addressed every criticism I had from the first game

Which of those issues you criticised are highlighted in the game trailers and ads that were run?

People buy games based on impressions, some people do research and watch streams but most CRPG buyers are going to avoid spoilers.

Half of the game trailer on Steam is ship, ship combat, upgrade your ship.

The sales numbers really say the rest. PoE as a setting died and there won’t be a third entry.

There’s a decent Post Mortem by Josh Sawyer but he still just doesn’t hit on the Age of Sail being an unpopular setting for this kind of game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xChOXFJ83

I didn’t like the gunpowder in PoE1 but could overlook it.

I absolutely hated the initial impression I got that PoE2 was an Age of Sail sort of setting. I wanted more in depth Castle and town building with story not to trade it in for a leaky ship.

It was never a mechanics or art or story thing for me… because I have never bought it and I’m hardly alone there.

I’m simply not interested in ships, guns and naval settings in RPGs.

He’s not wrong, I wouldn’t be particularly interested in any further Pillars of Eternity games or spinoffs with the direction that PoE2 took.

It seems they still don’t really understand what their audience wants.

Sounds like he made poor choices, got Nissan into financial troubles and somehow thinks he’s negotiating on even footing with the much larger and healthier manufacturer Honda.

Persistence hunting is overblown, humans didn’t evolve the best brains to mindlessly jog after prey.

Work smarter, apply pattern recognition and build traps for your prey.

Try leaving a technically correct comment first.

Obvious bait.

Even citing certain statistics is likely to earn a ban. It isn’t hard to imagine what, given that they are notoriously thrown around by actual racists.

Pretty damn sure you would argue that quoting certain statistics would be racist.

Your comment will age poorly when Trump’s tarrifs lead to a collapsing economy and he prints money like mad to solve it, resulting in hyper-inflation letting President Musk keep his election promise.

Oh good. Americans will swallow the fascist satire without realising the satire like they did with Starship Troopers.

I didn’t. I just happen to be aware of the tik tok trend that they refused to name in the article, because that could have been damaging to the victims.

Outrage over the headline lacking the word gay and none for gay men trying to have sex with 16-17 year olds?

Article requires sign up which Im not willing to do.

Also didn’t receive a GDPR compliant prompt.

From the article you linked

it also provides a worrying forecast of what could happen if the situation is prolonged

Do you understand what a forecast is?

On the other hand, “mortality among children aged under one year old was 8.4 in 2022 – one of the lowest values in recorded history,” said the observatory. “However, it has remained stagnant at this value over the last few years, between 2018 and 2022.”

Your claim is unsubstantiated but plausible.

There is as yet no evidence of increased child mortality (yet) and seeking to paint those you disagree with as child killing monsters and ignoring the longer term benefits of a stronger economy, reduced poverty and by your own claims, reduced child mortality is naive at best.

Long term fixing the Argentinian economy would result in better quality of life and reduced child mortality.

Allowing high inflation to continue would prevent that progress and long term result in more dead children.

Nice straw man. I never made that claim. I simply asked you to explain why you think inflation is better for the poor than the current situation, which you have clearly expressed you do.

I will, right after you answer how uncontrolled inflation helps poor people.

Repeated your unsourced claim that people are dying does not make it true, and nice dodging the question.