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I mean they are a part of it, and their abandonment of politics in general is pretty typical of what is going on. I am talking rn specifically about the channel the soy pill and I haven't watched the Cody Showdy for awhile, so I can't confirm, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was bemoaning it.

Basically anyone who does progressive to hardline leftist politics explainer videos, however the vast majority land to somewhere on the progressive to socdem side of things. I've gotten into a habit of cataloguing them and kinda hate-watching them as their overall quality has gotten worse.

Unfortunately, I know plenty of gen z who do not know how to do basic excel functions properly.

This is, and has been, already happening, regardless of the tariffs. The biggest difference is that now local manufacturing will be able to raise prices on domestic goods because the overall competitive market price has gone up. Fun stuff!

Idk, why do bread tubers keep waxing poetic about USAID, despite not pausing for a second when most of the highest recipients of aid are countries that we have either invaded or at least conducted numerous military operations in. Libs are gonna be libs.

Pivot to Iran?

Not to tout YouTubers, but Micheal Reeves literally had a goldfish do his trading and it made him more money than the average hedgefund manager.

It is absolutely true in spirit, Asia has always been at the forefront of quality engineering and lean manufacturing.

Because that would mean he is doing a bad thing and be obligated to stop or have to call himself a bad person, neither of which he is willing to do, so it must be the fault of the Chinese, even though they are clearly shutting down these factories who participate in these abuses, unlike in the U.S. where they will just be like 'how could we have known immigrant kids were working in our factories, all their paperwork that we purposefully didn't double check was correct! We need to change the laws to lower the legal working age, so that way poor innocent business owners don't get duped by malicious immigrant children.'

And that it was only possible due to the successes the Russians were having on the Eastern Front after the battle for Stalingrad a year earlier. Stalingrad is overwhelmingly considered the turning point in the European Theatre by historians, and the allies still delayed the operation beyond what was actually necessary.

Yes. Literally just talk about it as if it was gossip or celeb trash.

Aside from the romance issue, the problem is that Gale is a whiny douchebag who basically trips his way into higher power, ascribing many of your achievements to himself (even if you do not bring him along on quests) and thus thinking himself worthy of praise and other things that I will not reveal because of spoilers.

My friends and I were pissed that even after we made the choice to deny him one of these 'really bad ideas' he has, we were forced to see him achieve it in the post-game, and then were not allowed to kill him for doing something explicitly against our wishes, which we were entitled to make since we were the ones who actually saved the city, which he then seemingly forgot that we were opposed to because the BG3 writers aren't always to maintain coherent character emotional arcs and memory after Act 1 ( omg I love Act 1 though, so good), which can lead to some very funny story moments.

Perhaps he is better if you take him along (though he was already an annoying wizard to begin with) but if you are playing multiplayer and simply wish to save him by not dismissing him from your party, the story devs will still try to force him and his frankly absurd OC level goals down your throat because he is clearly one of their favorites.

Edit: That said, I am honestly not a huge fan of any of the NPCs especially compared to the interesting people you met in Divinity 2, which is the superior Larian game imo because it isn't tied to the exploitation strategies that plague D&D 5E as a system, so much so that bosses have to randomly lose status effects to maintain any level of difficulty.

That isn't to say BG3 is bad, just that, having played hundreds of hours of both, D2 is the more compelling game, in large part due to its much more difficult, and intricate combat system, which allows you to actually use status effects on bosses though they were a pain to get to stick, and encouraged you to really combo powers, rather than just have a couple one-trick pony styles.

Anyways, my point is that most of the characters are pretty meh, but Gale is absolutely the most annoying if you play the game not really interacting with him.

Edit the 2nd: Basically none of the characters are that great unless you want to have sex with them. Karlach was my favorite though, story-wise, because at least she has a character reason to be a dumbass.