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Raze right now:

At least you seem like a cool guy.

Cheers Bob for your knowing sense of humour and general chillness, and happy Christmas mate.

I've encountered many paranoid lunatics on the web who will dribble all sorts of looney, unhinged vitriol at the drop of a hat (other forums, not this one), but as your meme implies, you’ve got a robust sense of wit and reasonableness.

Again, god bless mate – hope next year’s a good one for ya

And then Karlach, who also hates Mizora - for good reason - wants to take the sexy photo off his hands. Some humor I just don't get, I guess.

Merry Christmas to you too

The main issue with the supposed implication that everyone who's not fond of the Emperor as a character is just wrong / misunderstood him / is a [insert buzzword], is that it's not his supposed "otherness" that is the problem here. It's that he, an enabler and a manipulator who is very insistant about pushing the PC towards what is effectively a substance addiction or at the very least a monumental change to their physiology which could easily give someone less scrupulous a lot of powers to play with to their advantage, is being pushed as a sympathetic character when the writing in the game itself confirms he is anything but, and the Balduran connection is not only sloppily executed and opens a huge plothole and a timeline inconsistency but also just doesn't work because Balduran was never a character that well established beyond background details, so neither the player nor the player character has any reason to care about him as a person.

Kinda off topic, but who the heck is Raze?

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(note: i don't have much comment about time-outs, but the majority of bans here are something i do not agree with at all. it usually feels more like an administrator power thing than a necessity. most of us on this forum are mature enough that we can handle the discussion threads if left to our own devices.)

Raze is a long standing Larian official - sometimes responds to community stuff, but commonly handles a lot of the direct one-to-one interaction with bug reports as well (at least during EA). I think he's also quite active on the discord, but don't quote me on that.