Huh? I literally said in my post that I’ve never run into an instance of someone not being hired by their merit. I don’t understand how anyone could not hire someone if they didn’t have talent and passion, so we are in agreement there, unless you have a different definition of merit.

This is lucky for you, I have not been so lucky and had to be forced to train people that did not have the ability to do the job but were hired solely based on other factors even though their were better candidates. But of course YOUR experience invalidates everything else.

Did I even mention all the stuff in the game? If fact It even said it was GOOD WRITING by QUALIFIED people. No I did not... again projection on your part trying to force a narrative that is not there.

My point always has been and will be.. Hire on merit and not to fit quotas. This is not political or any such thing, it again is YOUR projection for YOUR narrative.

you seem to want to bring conservative political talking points to a baldurs gate forum. Why? Please stop.

Firstly, you know nothing about my political leanings. If I had to myself in one of your "boxes" it would definitely be left leaning not conservative, so that makes your point moot.

I said nothing about diverse viewports. That is your own skewed perceptions jumping in. I am all for diversity and equality. Everybody should be treated equally!

What I am against is FORCED hiring practices. I know nothing about the hiring practices of Larian, and you can see they have a very diverse team, but you can also see, from their various podcasts, that the people there are capable and love doing what they are doing. There is no "in your face" agenda pushing from their material.

Why are you so afraid of hiring by merit? But, just continue to push your own narrative in your head if it makes you feel better.

What a concept!

PS. For those downvoting the previous comment... Obvious sarcasm is obvious.

No just the industry at large with their "Quota" hiring policies and other such crap.

EDIT: For those doing the downvoting.... you don't improve your civilization by bringing it down to the lowest level, you try raise the lower level up. "Quotas" bring things down being you cannot use the best people. "Quotas" are the easy path for virtue signaling and you end up worse for it. Proper education and training is the only way to improve things, but that takes time and money.

Yeah, it negates the effort the person put it. This is the reason people tend to dislike the Mary-Sue characters of "modern movies".

Why do people say "perfect storm of conditions"? Larian has worked hard to perfect their style of crpgs through the divinity series. They put an emphasis on good storytelling and listening to fan feedback. They do early access to perfect their systems. They hire writers, composers and developers based on merit. They care about what they are creating. This is not a perfect storm but good management and development cycle. There is nothing random or lucky about it.

With a Full respect guy later on... you have the opportunity to try anything in one play through... however, I feel this is a game you will play many times because of all the variety of choices etc.

So go Wild!

This is the biggest issue.... Waiting for the release... Lol

I was mainly thinking for the extra expertise I can put in sleight of hand, stealth + the back stabbiness of the rogue.. all at really level 1. Not really much for bard at 11 and 12 tbh.

I was thinking of Warlock, but decided to go for Rogue for the lockpick thing, as the bard will then replace rogue in party. Warlock might be the stronger DPS, but I need ALL the lewts. :)

Bard is versatile front man, that's Why I like it. I just think the Rogue will "complete" it for me. Well, at least that is my thoughts for the choice... too many options lol.

Ah yes I forgot about the human refactor.

Thanks, I have gone through and identified the REAL accounts gathered the ID's and deleted the rest from local_user and person tables.

Haven't really played much with Postgress so took some time to look up all the functionality with that.

EDIT: yup, made sure the person one was local only :)

The one I learnt at the dawn of time was BODMAS.

bracket of Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction.

I learnt this in the 70's early 80's in South Africa, so not sure if things have changed.

lol, this made me chuckle... Are you an AI bot?

And How would I do that in the UI? This is the issue, haven't found a way to even find those users on my system, even though it marks at 15 extra users.

thanks I will try this.

I agree, and the level of user on G+ was of a techy IT variety of person. It was great and you could have good conversations. Lemmy really has that feel now. Enjoy it till either the general public gets hold of it and it turns into a cesspool or it slowly dies a death.

Personally I hope to face neither of those scenarios, but history is not on our side.

Been using Joplin for ages now. used to use Evernote and was trying to find something to replace it. Joplin fitted that need, and being able to store all the stuff on my dropbox in encrypted format made it great for use on all my devices. Combination of Joplin and Bitwarden is pretty much my secure solution to everything. lol