I like to think we in Europe often get to see only the dum dum americans in our media.
Yeah, sadly āMedia Literacy in the West, and possibly the World, is at an all time lowā is accurate, regardless of what people may think of their production or statements.
There is a certain boss fight in Baldurās Gate Act 3 - optional, from what I can tell - with an amazing boss-specific song
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Raphael. It even has him singing some of the lyrics, even as heās fighting you. Amazing.
A shame I had to kill him.
Makes me hopeful as low-key, the music in BG3 thus far hasnāt been really blowing me away. Itās all very generic fantasy-core or not even present. Not sure whatās going on in the sound deparment, as even the main characterās soundbites when you navigate the world are so quiet, yet everythingās set to 100%. 
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One of the mysterious level 10 orcs who stand by the barracks appeared and immediately started targeting my profile
Theyāve become aware of me and are moving in for the kill I am in terrible danger
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The main theme and the mind flayer leitmotif are pretty much awesome in my books, though Iāll agree that some of the battle music does get a bit samey after a while.
Itās ruined for me because the line ādown down down to the riverā keeps reminding me of Polandās 2022 Eurovision entry.
Honestly, I think moreso itās just the sound mixing thatās weird all over, I hardly even hear the music even though itās at 100%. Granted, I need to play some noise at the same time so Iām aware how music can get outnoiseād, but other games donāt really have that problem, soā¦ 
And what I do hear is generally pretty boring. Though Iāve pretty much noticed a general downtrend in music in recent video games anyway, WoW is another example really.
Can hear very little āmoofsā in the darkness.
If Sir Moof wants something, heās going to have to come here to get it.
I am in the final stretch of bookwriting, in that I think Iāve got around four chapters plus the epilogue I want to write left. At current pace Iāll finish mid-September, maybe early September if I stop gaming so hard (I will never stop gaming so hard).
Then rereading and editing.
Thenā¦idk, I honestly never thought Iād get this far?
Thatās nice. Whatās it about?
Coming up with a snappy blurb is the second to last thing Iāll work out. The last thing is the title.
Itās a travel story of magical girls fighting monsters and helping each other overcome their historical traumas. At one point they kiss.
Also the Vatican is the big bad. Not of the world, just the story. No I donāt have any historical traumas of my own to work through, why would you think that.
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lol this nerd fell into the poopy waters of venice canals
Sounds good.
Writing a book myself at the moment. Tough work.
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Iāve never been to Venice tyvm.
But if I did I would definitely not fall into the poopwater.
Why go all the way to Venice when I can fall into the poop waters of the Thames?
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If I am ever in London it is against my will. Foul city.
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Camdenās still cool to visit though.
Interesting that I chose to mention the Witcher 3 and Netflix witcher in the same breathā¦ it seems the developers added in a nod to the show. Just big sadge I can only get the full stuff after I get to Kaer Morhen, and Iām still in Velen 
Spoilers for witcher 3's nod to Netflix's Witcher
So they finally updated the Devilās Pit in Velen, and gave it an actual proper questline now. You get called by a deacon of the Eternal Fire to first clear out the pit of bandits, and then descend into the mine to deal with whatās been lurking in there.
And this is where it gets interesting. It turns out they used the Devilās Pit to just dump plague-victims, dead or about to die, but from the collective suffering of those victims, a monster was born. A witcher from 300 years before you came to investigate but got posessed by the spirit, a Red Miasmal. And the fun part. Heās wearing Henry Cavillās Geraltās armor, and you get diagrams to make that armor for yourself later. Just big sadge I can only do so after getting to Kaer Morhen.
Most British water is poop water due to the way the sewage companies conduct themselves.
True. Literacy in general seems to have gone down, along with attention span.
But what I think has gone down even more is trust in institutions. Media, the justice system, governmentā¦ Even whole societies.
When it turned out that the c-virus was, in fact, from a lab and not from a bat (as many had been saying for two years) as the WHO and media were hellbent on ramming into the skulls of all and every person around the world, and there was no repercussion for the fearmongering or āfake newsā, as they like to call it, I know a lot of my faith went down the drain for them. Also the effectiveness of vaccines literally went in the span of a year from āthey protect you 100% and are 100% safeā down to āyou need a booster every few months and also there are some health risks, but they are lesser than the benefits!ā, which again, nobody got reprimended for. A bit like the swineflu debacle.
Equally, increasingly all medias around the world try and control the flow of information to the commoners and filter it so that it āproduces the best outcomeā or āfor the greater goodā. Instead of reporting about things and phenomena objectively, they instead act as moral compasses and policemen for societies. I hate that.
And to top it all off they seem to be able to find an expert for every god damn subject these days, which literally is using authority as an argument, rather than having a civic debate or discussion about things. So now people donāt trust experts anymore either.
I unironically have stopped paying attention to most news as a result. Also if I did not mention this the standards and efforts of media also pisses me off; You can god damn bet that they will burn an entire budget on reporting about the 1000th gender/abortion/andrew tate etc debate on national news, but things like the wikileaks stuff exposing thousands of politicians across the world (who are still in positions of power, mind you) for things varying from money laundering to taking bribes to tax evasion, nada. Not a thing. Not a word.
I genuinely donāt think there is a criminal mastermind or syndicate or a global elite behind this whose plan is to keep us divided and conquered, but its rather that conflict and division generates clicks and views and clicks and views generate money. With the absence of good media principles and third party oversight, I donāt think it is going to get any better.