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Swen Vincke accepts The Game Awards GOTY for Baldur's Gate 3 in plate armor: "I didn't expect it"

The Larian Studios founder looked positively regal

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Baldur's Gate 3 devs' greatest challenge was playtesters who skipped hours of content and could never get laid: "Oh god, this is the worst thing that can happen in an RPG"

They walkest alone

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The Guardian view on a dismal inheritance: the UK does not need another bout of austerity

Editorial: Fixing a broken economy with service-led growth and increases in public investment as well as welfare spending should be seriously considered

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Democratic congressman says home vandalized by Gaza ceasefire protesters

Adam Smith of Washington state calls spray-painting of garage ‘sadly reflective of the coarsening of the political discourse’

The Guardian - US

As lawmakers digest supplemental, a way forward remains unclear - Roll Call

The lack of a House speaker is just one factor in an uncertain legislative path for President Biden's $106 billion emergency funding request.

Roll Call

Lawmakers eager for Israel action hamstrung by House speaker impasse - Roll Call

The House is eager to show support for Israel following Hamas terrorist attacks. Without a speaker, there’s little action the House can take.

Roll Call

The scientist whose research was key to developing the COVID vaccines was demoted, had her salary cut, and threatened with deportation. Today, she won the Nobel Prize

Katalin Karikó, now a vice-president at BioNTech, saw her research undermined for years before the 2005 breakthrough that led to the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Free Market Book Misstates the History of Free Market Thought

Author Jacob Soll's commitment to an untenable historical thesis distorts the facts.

Reason

UK e-bike users warned not to use incompatible chargers after fatal fire

Coroner says blaze that killed London man probably caused by battery being plugged into charger with different voltage

The Guardian - UK

US sets new record for billion-dollar climate disasters in single year

Country has experienced 23 extreme weather events costing $1bn or more already this year, passing previous mark of 22 in 2020

The Guardian - US

US sets record for billion-dollar weather disasters in a year -- and there's still 4 months to go

The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to an annual record for the number of weather disasters that cost at least $1 billion

The Independent UK

Celebrity couples keep breaking up. Why do we care so much?

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner are the latest high-profile pair to announce their split in what some have deemed "the year of the celebrity breakup." Experts explain why people get so invested from afar.

WEKU

U. of I. professor examines complexity and contradictions of work

Robert Bruno’s book “What Work Is” draws on how his students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign characterized their jobs and how they affect daily life.

Chicago Sun-Times

Baldur's Gate 3 writer explains why Act 2 cuts down on exploration

Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer, Adam Smith, explains why the game's second act has a narrower focus.

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Baldur's Gate 3 lead writer says Act 2 is deliberately lighter on exploration for pacing's sake

'If we'd done three big slices of space like we did in Act One, I think it would get exhausting.'

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Baldur's Gate 3 gets high praise from Dragon Age writer and Baldur's Gate 2 dev: "A worthy successor" and "monumental achievement"

RPG legend David Gaider gives his verdict after finally beating Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur's Gate 3's darker second act had to exist because otherwise "it gets exhausting"

The stuff you learned in Act 1? "You need it to survive" in Act 2

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Why did Baldur's Gate 3 blow up? Larian lead writer says it's thanks to "a big gamble" with CRPG standards

"We believe RPGs are big ... So we always believed the audience was there," says Adam Smith

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Newcastle Herald

'The sickest man in NSW': horror flu hits 50yo man

'I want you to be strong and we're going to pull through this.'

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Lead writer on Baldur's Gate 3 describes working under Bioware's "shadow"

Baldur's Gate 3 lead writer describes the pressure of taking the series over from Bioware.

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"This was shoulders of giants stuff": Baldur's Gate 3 writer pays tribute to BioWare's legendary CRPGs

Without BioWare's Baldur's Gate, there wouldn't be Larian's Baldur's Gate 3

PC Gamer

Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer on romances: 'sex is not the goal, it's just sex'

"I know we made them too thirsty," he jokes. (But I disagree.)

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Baldur’s Gate 3 writer reveals his favorite origin character

You can be nearly anyone in Baldur’s Gate 3, but the game’s lead writer Adam Smith said his favorite is one you might instantly think of

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Even Baldur's Gate 3's devs know its characters are "too thirsty"

"Like, I know we made them too thirsty"

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Baldur's Gate 3 player 'breaks' Monk class with attack that does 320 damage on every turn

This impressive class can do tremendous damage with just their fists

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