The Daily Populous

Monday June 17th, 2024 evening edition

image for Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate 3 was originally "more sassy" and had to be "heavily dialed down" after one of the devs said "I really don't like" the character

Shadowheart, the fan-favorite cleric from Baldur's Gate 3, was originally a much more sassy character before being "heavily dialed down" due to internal feedback.

GamesRadar+ had the chance to attend a panel at the BAFTA's: An Evening with Baldur's Gate 3 event, and director Swen Vincke revealed a key insight about Shadowheart's early character development.

The host of the panel then asked for clarification about whether Shadowheart's sassiness has since been dialed down, and Vincke replied, "yeah, heavily dialed down.".

Baldur's Gate 3 was in early access for about three years, and in that time Larian made a bunch of major changes for the final release, and plenty of those were based on player feedback.

At one point during the panel, Vincke remembered early access players being vocal about certain elements they viewed as missteps.

"The players were telling us 'this is a mistake, you shouldn't be doing this, we are saying there's 100 of us saying it now, in the future, it will be millions of us.

Find out where Baldur's Gate 3 ranked on our list of the best RPGs ever made. »

MrBeast gives $200,000 directly to people in poverty

Authored by givedirectly.org
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Beast Philanthropy, the charity founded by the world’s most popular YouTuber MrBeast, gave $200,000 to Ugandans living in extreme poverty through GiveDirectly and posted a video about the process→.

For this video, Beast Philanthropy and GiveDirectly worked together to uphold our #1 value, putting recipients first→.

Some of their viewers will start giving directly, helping reach more people living in extreme poverty with life-changing cash transfers. »

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say

Authored by bbc.com
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Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say.

The Greek coastguard has caused the deaths of dozens of migrants in the Mediterranean over a three-year period, witnesses say, including nine who were deliberately thrown into the water.

We showed footage of 12 people being loaded into a Greek coastguard boat, and then abandoned on a dinghy, to a former senior Greek coastguard officer. »

Hamas video shows terrorist firing mortar rounds from civilian area in Rafah

Authored by allisrael.com

However, contradicting its own official narrative, the terror organization released footage of a Hamas terrorist firing mortar rounds from a civilian area in the southern Gazan city of Rafah.

"Hamas released footage of a terrorist using a civilian area as a launch site," the Israeli military spokesperson stated.

Footage, released by Hamas, of a Hamas terrorist using a civilian area as a launching point. »