I believe it was written in advance and already filming when S1 premiered.

It’s a large rpg game with everything an rpg game has to have to be attractive and immersive but without forced bullshit. Note how Larian’s previous games were also praised even without the context of “modern games”. The studio is good at what they do so the game is good… and it doesn’t break the previously successful formula, down to keeping local multiplayer - yes, it’s an AAA game which lets two people play with a single copy. Would someone think of the shareholders?! Hopefully not and an essential aspect of rpg - actually playing with other people in a shared fiction - is there.

Besides contrasting it with greedy monetisation BG3 needs to be compared with its precedessors (Divinity games and Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2) and it passes the tests with flying colors from what I read. Then we can compare to other big single-player rpgs like Pathfinder and again BG3 doesn’t disappoint.

That Larian did not over-monetise the game is really just cherry on top and I didn’t even play the thing yet.

gossip that Elon has no idea about running anything was circulating for a long time but since Tesla/SpaceX were not social media it was easier to manage the PR to make Musk seem like “tech and business genius, also twitter troll” regardless of what was going on behind the scenes. On Twitter every single decision hits millions of people and businesses within an hour and managing that is impossible for any PR department so we get to see the man as who he really is.

I tried Mastodon and failed. Lemmy is different IMO in that you can freely access, write on and read all lemmy communities from any Lemmy instance (and apparently from Mastodon). On Masto you’re quite siloed-in, can’t follow “local” from a thematic instance with an account on another (and in Lemmy you can follow thematic communities from all around the threadiverse), people won’t see your content unless they either actively follow you or read the local/global feed. Curating feed is a necessary effort and not too easy one since you only get to follow individual users.