Lots of RPGs allow rest cheesing. Even if you don't let players rest in random locations like BG3 does, the players can always hoof it back to town to rest. Attempts to prevent this kind of cheesing often end up feeling unduly punishing and un-fun. It's not a tabletop vs computer issue.
cyd
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DOS2 fights felt much more like a slog than BG3. Especially in higher difficulties, every battlefield ended up a nightmarish soup of elemental surfaces, which got old after awhile. I also found whittling down enemy toughness bars un-fun.
Personally, I liked both the BG3 and DOS1 systems better than DOS2.
foreign aid and health officials ... have long supported breastfeeding across the globe. They call it “one of the highest returns on investment of any development activity” because of its well-documented benefits for babies’ health and cognitive growth.
Actually, the scientific evidence for the advantages of breastmilk versus formula is remarkably thin.
Sure, it's eyebrow-raising for the US to meddle in other countries' public health policy-making. I'd argue that the US meddles too much in other countries' policy-making, period, not just in public health. But the unspoken implication behind this article is that allowing formula companies to market their products is causing some kind of public health catastrophe, and that claim is just not scientifically defensible.
Giving automakers an extra three years to keep building gasoline vehicles is not, last I checked, "accelerating the EV transition"...
Someone should make an RBG award for refusing to retire long after it's obvious you should have. First posthumous award to Diane Feinstein.
Internationally, the US is the main party holding back improved taxation of corporations. In October 2021, the US struck an international deal to revamp global rules on corporate taxation, based on two pillars: getting corporations to pay tax in countries where they do business, and a global minimum corporate tax. Now the US looks set to renege, due to bipartisan opposition in Congress over US multinationals getting taxed overseas.
Even though the Biden administration spearheaded the original deal, they've been MIA getting it ratified. Understandably, other countries worry that the US intends to watch them raise taxes while doing nothing in return. To avoid getting backstabbed, some are looking to impose unilateral digital taxes. And the US has threatened these countries, calling the measures unfair discrimination against US companies.
White House is still pussyfooting around, though. From another article (FT):
John Kirby, spokesperson for the US National Security Council, said Schumer had told the White House in advance what he was planning to say. But he sought to distance the White House from the Senate majority leader’s comments, saying that the Biden administration remained “focused on making sure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself, while doing everything that they can to avoid civilian casualties”.
This is the kiss of death. Putting Kamala Harris in charge of an issue means the administration doesn't think there's any solution (remember how she was supposed to fix the border?).
White House officials say they have largely reached the limits of their power to protect abortion rights...
Yeah, sounds about right.
I find Pathfinder 2e (and D&D 3e before it) way clunkier. Maintaining a level-appropriate power level requires stacking buffs like the Overlord meme, and if you decline to do so, you're just crippling your character. It's bad enough that auto-buffing mods are considered mandatory for the Pathfinder CRPGs.