I would join the "more pleasant to watch" gang, but I would also say that maybe getting an experience that I can't get IRL is an incentive to play as a female character for me. Also that's probably the same as with Ranma ½, and people feel differently about it.
And also maybe because exclusively male characters tend to fit in the heroic overcoming archetype that does feel a bit stale
I graduated in CS in this century and we never touched on security. If not for my own curiosity and obligatory annual compliance education on the job (and only on the last one) I would have known near nothing
They still use plastic straws in some places, and paper cups contain plastic, but yeah they don't seem to produce so much of (plastic) waste
Then it makes them four times more ecological in a way, if that's even applicable to a company producing that much pollution
I agree in part, I think that making a sequel decades after the original IRL and story-wise and updating the ideas and humour to not be the same as in the original might be worth it. But that would require an actual new idea that somehow aligns with characters strong enough to make it reasonable to make a sequel and not a new IP.
I don't remember Bart using any machine, but I remember the police going "meh", "it looks like a fountain of beer", "I'm going to run ahead, get some donuts"
Professionals in software development do not mean professionals in cyber security.
Same way you don't expect a geologist to be a mason
Anarchy is a good description, yeah, discovering things on itchio is not easy, and I usually only come by external recommendations to specific projects
Although I agree that BG3 was not exactly well polished, it was far from being "blatantly unfinished". I'd even say it was far more finished than what can be considered finished by contemporary standards
That's a vivid comparison, thanks
A pretty low bar to set, I understand
To feel more aligned with a character and try the story on oneself, maybe
But I also have never tried that as this seems to be a missed opportunity to play as someone else