Swen Vincke had to tell Baldur’s Gate 3 writers to tone it down with the poop-based insults, which is saying a lot, since I still count at least 17 scat-based Vicious Mockery voicelines

Vicious Mockery is one of the most iconic D&D 5e spells—in case you’re completely unfamiliar with the system, or just haven’t played a bard yet, it’s a cantrip that deals 1d4 psychic damage (scaling a bit with your level) and gives enemies disadvantage on their next attack roll. It also lets you insult someone so…

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Apple’s new A19 Pro iPhone chip has posted a genuinely astonishing score on Geekbench, and if it was a new gaming CPU we’d all be losing our minds

Apple’s new A19 Pro chip for the iPhone 17 was announced yesterday and the first Geekbench scores have been uploaded. To be quite frank, if this was a new x86 CPU for gaming PCs, we’d be losing our minds. The A19 Pro is scoring nearly 4,000 points in Geekbench 6’s single-thread test. That compares with…

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 added a new secret happy(ish) ending for people who straight-up solo an entire enemy army

Without spoiling anything, I’ve always enjoyed the secret Cyberpunk 2077 ending where you just solo the entire end of the game. It’s absurd but deeply satisfying, and after all, you are a hyper-borged-up death machine by that point in the story. You know who’s not a hyper-borged-up death machine? Henry of Skalitz, lovable medieval yokel…

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