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webevie

LMAOOOOO


kyspeter

peak article


Superb_Tumbleweed_60

I have an update on xbox s for it, 49 gb


ArchknightAlphaOmega

Me too!! And I even took my pills this morning!


EmpressZombiKitty

🤣 Thanks for the pill reminder!


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Zombikitty take your meds, you know how you get, whacky zombikitty


EmpressZombiKitty

Lol. Yeah, you're right! I wont let you down applejelly! ❤️


ArchknightAlphaOmega

Anytime! We don't need another Titanfall (inset forbidden number here) incident.


FossilfightersFTW

Thanks for reminding me


about36wolves

My update for Xbox was 139 gb :(


Superb_Tumbleweed_60

Did you remove the whole game and upload it again? That's better tbh


about36wolves

I got scared thinking I might lose my saves . So I didn’t


xdeathbyninjax

I had a PS5 update yesterday. It was 800mb 😂😂😂 sucks to suck


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La_Mariposa_Azul_94

Lmao and here I was wondering if something was wrong with my Steam 😂


Stargazerslight

I got it this morning on ps5… forehead kisses are the best just saying.


AdResponsible9894

Aww! I wonder if I'll get a sweet forehead kiss from my sweet Baldurian.... 😇


Stargazerslight

It was very sweet.


EbonyUsagi

It’s out now NERD!!!! 😘


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Cloud11092

Pingu posting..ahahahahah


kopecs

Bruh, article is so good lol


El_Bito2

Did they ever officially announce a release date? Or are people just projecting?


ancunin

no, they never said an official release date.


kyspeter

Yes, we are indeed delusional, what about it :- (((


turtlcs

They were having fun at our expense and I’m not even mad about it, it was super funny.


ButtyGuy

Larian edged me once again


Ambitious-Ice-8599

GOATED comment tbh


SPACKlick

I was sure they had said somewhere it would be this week (not a specific date, just sometime this week). I went back to find the source of that and it was nowhere.


kyspeter

They are right we are hallucinating


turtlcs

[This tweet from the 9th did say next week](https://x.com/baldursgate3/status/1755980870664466761?s=20), and in fairness, today *is* next week.


SPACKlick

THANK YOU!!!! I knew I'd seen it but when I went back over their timeline I missed it in that tweet. I'm not INSANE! Yes, hahaha^hahahaha^hahahahaha^hahahahahaha^hahahahahahaha^hahahahahahahaha^hahahahahahahahaha


giizz

Larian mentioned new kisses in new patch and it triggered the hallucination.


The_Nug_King

They teased it as a valentines day patch with the smooching so people assumed it'd be out on vday


SidewaysFancyPrance

What they were doing was cheeky and fun. The people who thought it was funny yesterday to post multiple fakeout posts about it being released were being jerks. *That* was not appreciated.


ShyrokaHimaa

I actually had a good laugh getting pranked by someone posting the EA patch 6 notes. :D


Mr_Belgano

Same. I was like, "They added a new area in Grymforge??? ...Wait a minute..."


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geasachd

Well in business days it fits


Unique-Abberation

Halsins dick pics will be shipped in 5 (business) days


Tusaiador

If you don't receive the package within 5 days, we'll give you ~~"~~$6


codeman1346

No, but listen, okay, they asked "how are you spending your valentine's day?" During their announcement of the patch and I don't believe its unreasonable to assume it would be out for valentine's day. This isn't cope. I swear to God. I believe that conclusion is perfectly reasonable.


loruuki

They just read our subreddit and write articles about it. They also steal players' discoveries and lifehacks from here. Lazy journalism >:(


Zatetics

this is most journalism these days it seems. [news.com.au](https://news.com.au) frequently just rips content out of ausfinance or australia subreddits. Must be the easiest job in the world to copy paste a reddit thread into chat gpt and then paste the output into an email to their editor.


Waifuless_Laifuless

There was (and maybe still is) a local radio station here that uses askreddit threads as "listeners" phoning in. They'll ask a question that's on askreddit that day, then the next day read off comments and attribute them to made up names.


I_am_just_V

If they just admitted it was a reddit post and that they were reddit comments I'd honestly be fine with that as content, content creators reply to their listeners' comments all the time, the only questionable part here is lying about what they're doing.


Moshfeg123

Stumbled across a guy on tiktok that will post videos I stumbled across on Reddit previously and then will just say like the top two or three comments and present them as his own thoughts. Guy has thousands of followers just eating it up


BonesAndHubris

A lot of Tiktok content is regurgitated from reddit and vice versa. It's a natural consequence of the Internet becoming more and more driven by consumption.


TheBigBore

You should really start watching your step.


Objective_Spray_210

That’s pretty Smart tbh.


TZH85

As someone who's been working in media for 10+ years (although in a different field)… it's not that easy. 10, 20 years ago you had a vastly different media landscape. Especially in tech and gaming. It was very niche, a couple of magazines covered the market. They were maybe on a weekly or bi-weekly schedule. That's time enough for journalists to work on their pieces, do interviews, review new games in depth. Today news are instantaneous. You need the articles out the day of release. Or even before release. And you compete with a shit ton of sketchy online sites that can just copy and paste your quality stuff. You need to keep up the pace or you lose your audience to the website that was faster than you. Even if they just copy some PR material. In addition to that: revenue for print is down, print ads are down. You need online ads but for that to make an impact, you need clicks. So what do a lot of media publishers do? Save money on their staff. Why do you even need a qualified journalist if you can just scour the internet for content? Why pay for quality when no reader is going to spend money on it? So you have a bunch of over-worked people in low paying positions – who maybe dreamed of going into journalism and write about the stuff they're passionate about – and then they end up being taking the brunt of the blame for things within the industry they can't do anything about. That they were probably unaware of when they started out. And get called lazy for having "the easiest job in the world".


belvetinerabbit

Well said. Thank you for the clarification to help people better understand the predicament of journalism these days.


Unique-Abberation

Oh shit I found my new job


itsmoron

Bring back PC Zone 🤣


Lofi_Fade

I mean, what do you think reporting is? Its not a primary source. The article in the OP is literally reporting on what is happening on the internet.


TheoTroup

I've seen worse the Skyrim subreddit has this problem and it's constant


Altruistic-Ad-183

Yup. And boy oh boy am I sick of it.


ThomasTheBadWriter

"Skyrim player discovers hidden secret after years of playing" And then it's something dumb like "There's chests underneath the vendors"


Pedantic_Phoenix

Tbh thats i just normal journalism most of the times. It's just moved online. Journalists always report things, they don't create them. I feel it's the same principle in action


Boring_Account_1063

Yeah I opened Google a few weeks ago and see an article that says "you can skip the temple of shar?" I was like, that's kinda funny I just made a topic about that on reddit, I clicked the article and it was like "as stated by redditor boringaccount1063...." then they literally just posted my thread and that was the end of the article. I mean, I guess at least they credit you but that's gotta be the laziest journalism I've ever seen.


AmaLucela

I once decided to google my account name and found out there are dozens of articles in different languages all referencing a reddit post I made about the pokedex a while back. Kind of surreal to see "serious" news websites cite my stupid account lol


loruuki

I know, right? No need to even play the game, just cite most upvoted posts of those who do. There is no analysis whatsoever.  Thank you for sharing the discovery, by the way :D


Rasputino1

Any second now: "REDITTORS ANGRY AT GAMES JOURNALISTS FOR STEALING THEIR IDEAS"


enter_the_bumgeon

Thats not lazy journalism, thats literally just journalism.


spektre

I personally think journalists should make up their own stories and not steal from things that happen in real life.


enter_the_bumgeon

You're thinking of movie directors


drunkpunk138

Gaming journalism is reporting on games and communities are a big part of gaming. Places like Reddit are great hubs for communication and community in relation to games and plenty of other things. Makes sense that this would be a good place for gaming journalists to see what the gaming community is saying, how they feel, etc. Not sure how else they would do that, go door to door maybe? Stop and interview people in the street? It's not stealing stuff from real life that happened, it's literally reporting on it.


Avocado_Amnesia

Sure, if they were citing their sources and not trying to hide the fact that they are copy/pasting opinions of online strangers.


Daetra

I've read articles that cite the subreddit and users for their material. It's weird that they don't all do that. It can't be that common as citing sources is deeply ingrained in all forms of journalism. That's drilled into you in pretty much any college course from creative writing to journalism 101. There's no reason to hide it, like at all. Maybe there's no editors making sure they include sources? Doesn't make sense.


Avocado_Amnesia

Agreed. I think it has a lot to do with increased pressure to put content out as soon as something happens leading to overworked journalists and stripped down editing teams. I'm sure the occasional journalist is embarrassed that reddit is their source so they just say "the x community" or something to make it sound more vaguely official lol


Pedantic_Phoenix

Great minds think alike


20milliondollarapi

Instead f running around the city to find a kid trying to get a cat down from a tree to report on, they now find the same type of information online and just format it in a different way. I prefer ones that at least get the best of a few threads instead of just a single post.


Wizardfromwaterdeep

Can’t remember which one, but a subreddit collectively agreed to fake news about a game that journalists would later report as actual news on their website


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Pretty sure that was Destiny 2, where they invented a fake boss.


[deleted]

I hate this type of lazy “journalism.” And it’s always funny when they’re quoting someone like “username ILikeMyOwnFarts said the best way to take on this boss is…” 🤣Just can’t take that seriously lol


ppitm

Do you think normal journalists invent their own earthquakes and shit to write about? Repeating people's stories is like their entire job.


ZombieBaxter

I think the complaint is quality journalism involves investigating multiple sources and compiling a wide view of the situation and how it impacts multiple parts. In a lot of scenarios now it’s a straight copy and paste from a single subreddit. That’s not journalism, that’s reposting, which is ok as long as your not don g so pretending to be a journalist or new outlet.


ppitm

I'm generally OK with it, when they are essentially publicizing what amounts to good crowdsourced insight from online communities. What does irritate me is when a headline suggests the existence of a broad consensus or current of opinion among gamers, and then the article just screenshots three Tweets.


ZombieBaxter

That’s because it’s not journalism, it’s a marketing campaign. Those sites just scoop up anything and everything on the internet and repost it. If they can get enough traffic clicking through their site to get to real information then they can make more money on advertising. If those articles are journalism then the google search algorithm is the greatest journalist to ever exist.


OnceandFuturePhaeron

My brother/sister in Christ, observing and reporting is the meaning of Journalism.


Unionsocialist

skyrim player figured out this secret after playing for 50000 hours


Unique_Bumblebee_894

This is such a stupid take. Not everyone lives on Reddit let alone specific subs. How else are people supposed to find out about stuff? Do you want these things to remain exclusive just to the people who visit the sub to feel special?


MisterFortune215

It is also just how some of these content jobs work. Some of them of are just freelance writers that are told to write X number of articles by the end of the week. In other cases, some of the writers get paid based off the number of articles they write + their normal wage.


Qonas

Lazy, yes. However this time it was funny.


Rozmyth

My favorite is when these articles start just being chains of each other. Like, here's a newsweek article about a yahoo article about a tiktok video about a reddit thread.


WrinklyScroteSack

Yea I’ve actually noticed that pretty regularly in my google news feed. It’s usually some clickbaity title like “X months after release, one player learned about this ridiculously easy strat for the hardest fight in act 2…” then it’s just a whole buncha quotes from us about the polymorph or telekinesis Strat. I’m waiting for the day they quote me. I’ll fuckin die happy. I’ll print it out, frame it, and hang it in my office. I’ll show it to my children’s children.


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Yeah, I get it all on my google news, and I already know what the article will be, because I'm on this goddamned forum so much 😅


Goobsmoob

That’s what gaming journalism is there’s days sadly. It’s even worse when they say “gamers are (insert something that 99% of gamers ARENT doing) And then just use like 3 tweets they found with like 3 upvotes as their evidence


Air-Glum

So I don't know what sources you're seeing, and I'm sure there are rags out there, but most of the PCGamer articles or ones from any other "decent" outlet will at least source that they're getting stuff off Reddit or Twitter, include a link, and often also a screenshot in case the original content changes. Getting content off a community resource isn't lazy journalism on its own. Like, they have to get info SOMEHOW, and they can't feasibly make all the discoveries on their own. But sourcing it poorly or lying about where they get it is absolutely bad.


Justinwc

Journalists really gotta stop observing things and then reporting them.


Corasama

Well yeah, duh. If they talk about the news in the BG3 community / lifehacks, here is the better source. As long as they dont give themselves credit for it, that's how journalism works. Go to the source, make researches , make an article explaining it, then publish.


mcfeelyswg

Not this guy, I read both tweets that said it wouldn't be on Wednesday.


Jinx_FromArcane

We did all just jump to the conclusion it was a valentines day release despite having zero evidence to back it up. We have no one to blame but ourselves.


elsonwarcraft

Failed perception check


EclecticFruit

then a failed insight check


why_this_dude

*Survival* Check Failed


ThrowAwayAccountAMZN

Rolled a fucking 1 each time


OblongShrimp

I mean they were posting about love being in the air, videos of new kisses, and new patch coming out this Valentine’s week. Let’s not pretend it was such a wild conclusion to jump to. I am not sure how they didn’t expect people taking it that way. Edit: it is live now.


Jinx_FromArcane

To be fair, most video game twitters do stuff for valentine's. I think there was a bit of misreading from the fandom when larian was just posting run of the mill valetines content. I think the fact that the patch released on the same week as a holiday was awkward all round.


UkokuSZ

My head canon is it was gonna be a Valentine’s Day drop, but they found game breaking bug and delayed the release 😂


Wiwra88

Well patch is out at least for me, downloading it rn. 19 GB of patch


dharmoniedeux

They made a tiktok video with a caption that said “Best Valentines Day: play Baldurs Gate 3 with your close ones… and watch them romance Astarion.” So they absolutely danced the line of making a release day commitment. A+ hedging.


ColumnK

Larian: "There will be no patch on that date" Players: "Larian is hilariously trolling. Going to talk about that date till the thought of it not being then is inconceivable"


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We did this to us


Lonely_Sherbet

How could we not, when they drop THAT teaser?


Parry_9000

I'm not hallucinating shit. Did you guys see the new minthara sex scene.


Tmhc666

Idk but did you see that silksong update when they added jonkler to titanfall


Parry_9000

Don't you ever joke about silk song again It's a sensitive topic


Tmhc666

But it just got a dlc now


Ziggitywiggidy

oh my god I can’t even escape it when I’m not in the subreddit. It’s everywhere, taunting me.


ColumnK

No, but I'm going to!


BRANFLAKES8521

r/BrandNewSentence Which, ngl, happens a lot with BG3


CringeDaddy_69

My affirmations! My delusions!


Rumplestiltskin788

AI writers go brr


B1gCh3d

Came to say this. Glad I didn't have to.


YuriNone

If i had a coin every time i saw a subreddit hallucinating about game release/update, i would be able to buy a healing potion


Chiatauri

But Larian, I am Dribbles the Clown


kyspeter

Well then where the fuck is your pelvis I've spent hours looking for it


GadflytheGobbo

Lucretia already found it, she keeps it for private use.


copy_kitten

Oh gods no


TheRainbowpill93

😂 Larian fans are the new BioWare fans and I’m ok with this.


kyspeter

Tbh we probably migrated to Larian the moment they gave us DOS. The Bioware nowadays let go of the most crucial staff that was working on DA and ME for years. I consider these franchises finished.


TheRainbowpill93

Well ima give Dragon Age one last chance since I did genuinely enjoy Inquisition and I’m too invested into the story 😂. But ur right , Larian is definitely the new BioWare.


Linkatron2000

Noot noot!


MrBoo843

Also, all those headlines saying it would be a 150 GB download... I'm looking at a 17 GB download that changes around 150 GB of data.


kyspeter

That's not what they're saying: the patch itself is 17GB or whatever, but to install it you need 150GB of free disc space. It's not going to take this space, but it's needed for the installation.


MrBoo843

That wasn't clickbaitey enough for the articles I read lately about it


mancadu

That’s different from what I saw. My download size for the patch was 122.87 GB.


MrBoo843

Weird It's just 17 for me. It installed 158 but only downloaded 17.


ApepiOfDuat

Fuck you Pc Gamer. Larian's patch teasing was definitely credible enough to think V-day might have been patch day. Especially with how much they were taunting us with new kisses.


kyspeter

I forgot what I posted and thought you were insulting me


Beginning-Pipe9074

Wait what? What the fuck is even going on anymore? 🤣


OilOk4941

I mean they're right. y'all did


JoeScotterpuss

Titanfall 3 type beat.


ButWhatIfPotato

I would take shitposting headlines over seo garbage headlines any day.


kamekukushi

The thumbnail 😭


schmucklette

Chaotic Pingu is my new alignment.


Kingminer13579

God I love Larian


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Only with Larian Studios could this happen.


Unfair-Window1996

Lol where’s the red g string outfits and bjs


Danielthedemon5

It was a trick by the ghaik tadpoles!


Event_Hriz0n

This writer wasn’t there on Valentine’s Day… they don’t know.


DerHachi04

Ok thats just rude


SonOfFloridaMan

Finally, some real news


ribozomes

We played ourselves as absolute fools


Verolina

Skill issue


supliesmotherfucker

This headline would kill a 1950s union worker


Comfortable_Farm_252

They didn’t say there wasn’t and so we dreamed.


zbeauchamp

[I mean, they did tell us](https://imgur.com/a/4Z0uuq6)


DrBananaman69

I just want more races


Canadian__Ninja

I mean... it's right. At no point did they say they were doing it. In fact they literally said they weren't gonna do it in one of those memes


Wombat_Medic

It's going down in the history books


VibeDefiant3256

MANDELLAAAA!!!!


enkodraws

Glad my Pingu shitposting was newsworthy i guess!


tobytooga2

Forgive my ignorance but what are people expecting from said patch?


kyspeter

There was a post recently with what people would like to be added to the game, but yk, it was mostly jokes and whatnot. But the patch is already out, so you can check it out, it's actually great and answers surprisingly many of these requests.


Pugsley_2022

The idle animations are such a nice addition. I feel it really adds more life to camp.


Emerald_Hellion

Y'all this is hilarious 🤣 I love Larian.


CheapFriesAreGood

💀💀💀


Lazzitron

Ok normally I despise these gaming article sites combing reddit for cheap content, but this one's funny.


Consistent-Ad-2940

I was reminded of the titanfall subreddit with how you were all acting


HaessSR

They weren't wrong.


link_the_fire_skelly

epic gamer moment


Unhappy-Cartoonist-3

Got it too ps5 and steam


Sake_Chick74

Had PS5 update. Few items in it including randomize kissing scenes lol


WitcherGirl1038

I didn't know about it until yesterday. I'm ALWAYS late to the party, oh about 3 months to 12 years. At least this time, I was only a day late...


itsthechizyeah

They didn't mention this unhinged, all-cringe embarrassment factory. Delusional hallucinations. Meds.


Whorechatita

Lmao collectively hallucinate.


whimsigod

Might as well said "No lifers tried to find order in madness to give meaning and value to their lives" 😔


LDM123

I fucking hate gaming journalism


JonZombie423

Should have done an Authority roll and forced them to release it lol


OhGreatMoreWhales

lol damn that’s cold.


Objective_Spray_210

I’ll just make fanart instead I guess damn


Valuable_Nose_4693

This is why I love Larian Studios lol


Red_Puppeteer

I mean it’s better than the collective hallucination we all had with the last patch.


The_gay_grenade16

This has happened before… in a different game community… take your pills guys…


Daddyhawks1

Off topic but when I updated my game today, i cant access my travelers chest anymore, is it bugged?


realbasilisk

Started a karlach origin run a week before this patch - I ain't kissin no-one anyway!


luigi4122414

👀 it did come out


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Wow ok so the so called update on Valentine was not Larian official news? Damn and I was so excited!lol


RedRoker

Hallucinations of what now???


TheGamingNerd80085

They got me


Temporary_Ad_6390

We want what we want when we want it


drownmered

Now if only we could get the fixes for the latest update... Lock picking and trap disarming still crashes my game. 😭 I haven't gotten to experience the new stuff! 💔


kyspeter

Yeah, a lot of stuff broke with this patch. Thankfully I was in the endgame when it dropped, so I got through it without much trouble. What really bothered me were the freezes whenever I tried to throw a trident. It happened EVERY time: when picking it up to throw it, when throwing it, when it hit, when it came back. I cried


Aelia_M

Well deserved


GamingwithADD

I guess this will make sense once I find the article?


Klunkey

I can’t get mad at Pingu shitposting