#ok a friend was also ignoring me but that wasn't the main quest of the dream the pepsi was important

[moonelf19]

I have an unpopular opinion that might get me dogpiled by my social circles IRL

I think Baldurs Gate 3 is a "meh" game.

Before you grab your pitchforks let me say I'm so glad Larian is getting praised, that people are enjoying it. Really.

But the bugs and errors have absolutely ruined my experience, coupled with the fact that my first playthrough is with two other friends in multiplayer.

My friends begged and pleaded and refused to play anything else when it was in early access, and even though I eventually put my foot down and refused to start any new saves after the SEVENTH FRESH START. In early access. Where we never even made it very far. Any time they added or changed anything my friends were like "ok time to start a new save file!" And girl. As much as I love making alts. I hated BG3 in early access. We did the same first 2-3 hours of that game too many times. I realized too late I was getting burnt and the damage was done.

When it full released I was so excited to jump back in having completely ignored it for so long. I made a new character, played for a few hours (speeding through the stuff I already had done) before discovering that my saving was corrupted.

That happened three times, with me changing settings and even reinstalling the game, before my googling finally pinged about the cross save articles.

Again. Damage was done. I was so incredibly frustrated I wanted to take another break.

Instead my friends convinced me to do a multiplayer for my first run through.

Huge mistake. Don't do that. Don't do multiplayer for your first time.

After we got through the part I had done a million times, I pointed out that I didn't know the story at that point so we should stick together. Nope.

Didn't happen.

The host went full main character syndrome. I would be in the middle of buying something, or doing inventory management, which I am very efficient at this point. But he would run off and do conversations and continue quests and I kept getting confused on what was happening.

And the one time I wandered off, while he and my other friend traded some gear, I accidentally aggroed some mobs and he absolutely scolded me for "trying to split the party". Apparently I walked past a HIDDEN DOOR that I wasn't aware of and AFTER I GOT INTO COMBAT he decided to go into the door and start a different combat, and got mad I wasnt following him.

Later I was talking to some NPCs and seeing if any of them had anything interesting to trade, like main character told me to do, and then he said he was continuing a quest and doing a riddle/secret and I was like where? What? Wait for me! But he didn't and by the time I showed up he had moved into the next quest.

I feel bad because like. I want to play game with my friends, and when it's combat it isn't so bad, although they pretty regularly do things that fuck up my combat skills. It's just.

It's not fun. It's not fun when my only role is to open locks and disarm traps and do sneak attacks. And whenever I try to talk to the NPCs he's like wait don't do the thing without me there. Like I'm not supposed to play the game because he might miss something, but I also have no idea what's going on because he is sprinting through act one "sinces he's done it so much in early access".

The biggest multiplayer problem is how often he will tell me "ok open this box and bring the thing to here" and I will be doing that, talking to a person, continuing the quest, but he will run off and like, fast travel, or make some decision that effects the world, and my game will crash. It's happened like five times now. The last time it totally corrupted my game, I had to fresh install, and when I came back everything in my personal chest had gone to his, and my twitch drops were gone.

Oh! And one time they asked if I wanted to play that night, and I said yes but I wouldn't be ready for an hour. Less than an hour later I got online and it turned out they didn't wait for me, main character was piloting my character and used a bunch of my saved arrows/potions "because there's no point hoarding them" and I was pissed. I know how much act 2 ratchets up the difficulty and I had told them I was saving resources. And he PLAYED MY CHARACTER, played our group save without me!!!

I figure ok, time to make a solo game and really sprint through it, on easy mode, just so I can experience the story and know what's happening!! I gathered my wits and rolled a wizard and started playing and wow. Uh. It's full crashed three times.

Tonight the latest crash was because I *checks notes* clicked to fast travel and somehow it tried to make a new marker on the fast travel icon, but also initiated the fast travel, so the game got stuck and I had to alt+f4.

So. Please continue to have fun. But also. This game has had so many bugs and crashes that I find it unplayable. I'll be back in 6 months when everything has been spoiled and the bugs ironed out.

Maybe.

#rant over #im rage quitting for another 6 months bye

[luna-rainbow]

*Leaps enthusiastically onto the criticizing Peggy Carter train*

I guess finding a partner wasn't so hard after all and you always wanted be a soldier and now you are, just like all the rest are two lines in particular from Peggy that just make me violently cringe. They're both such nasty jabs at two things/values that clearly mean a lot to Steve and for her to say that while he was scrambling after her and profusely apologizing was so harsh.

And it just furthers the whole thing everyone else has been saying, that Peggy is supposed to be this ultimate, special, Not Like Other Girls character. Her jab about finding the "right partner" is pretty clear in stating that she thinks that ONLY she could be the right person for him, and that any of these other people who might be interested in him are not good enough.

The "just like all the rest" comment is really what gets me because in it's quest to fulfill it's role as military propaganda the film actually kinda fails in showing us how this was bad thing? There was Hodge who was a dick, but other than that pretty much all the soldiers were portrayed as pretty ok people. You have the commandos, who all seem in the short screen time they had, to be good, nice men (who Peggy was also shown to literally be close friends with in the AC show; I wonder if they know how lowly she really thought of them considering this comment). Her saying this would have made more sense if we had seen more of the soldiers being massive assholes, but the movie never shows us that. It also could read as a pretty harsh jab at Steve's self esteem, like she's almost trying to tell him that he isn't really that special after all--is that perhaps a bit of jealousy that she wasn't considered for the super soldier program herself? I'm not sure, but it was a cruel thing to say no matter how upset she was at him in the moment.

Thanks for the ask!

Now that I think about it, most of the Peggy scenes in the movie seems quite forced and felt like they belonged to a different movie. Like, maybe in a romcom where the two characters get the time to build up their relationship, those interactions are okay, but because they had so little time together, those scenes just felt uncomfortable and unfriendly. It was such an odd sense of entitlement over the kiss when the guy wouldn’t even respond to your very obvious advances to invite him to a dance.

Based on her interactions with him, it doesn’t gel that she would even appeal to him? It’s the usual dudebro fantasy of the unattainable woman who falls impossibly for the main character despite her high standards, and it’s because she sees what’s inside.

The thing is, and I think it’s part of the writers not really thinking about Steve’s disabled experience: Peggy being unattainable isn’t a new experience for him - she’s not special because she’s unattainable. He’s met a lot of women who think they’re above him because they refuse to look at anything deeper than his skinny frame.

Peggy only changes her mind after Steve gets the serum. This could have been fixed so easily if they demonstrated Peggy’s interest in Steve before he got the serum. If she was the one who asked him why he wanted to be in the military, instead of Steve’s inane comment about why a girl like her would want to be there. If she made a passing compliment at Steve after he took down the flag instead of ignoring him. The first time she really showed interest is by grabbing his serumed up boob 😕

What this really reinforces to Steve is that women - including Peggy and Lorraine - are still judging only by the most superficial part of him. This makes Peggy not special at all from Steve’s standpoint. She’s only special to the audience by the fact the camera focuses on her - I highly doubt she’s the only woman Steve had an ongoing collegial relationship with in the 4(?) years he lived with the serum.

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