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> そうびは 「ぶき」と 「ぼうぐ」に分けることができる。 ところで **おやくそく** だが 「メニュー」でそうびしないと意味はないぞ。

I understand the second sentence as roughly "By the way, if you don't equip
them in the menu, they don't do anything."

I'm assuming this is お約束. At first I thought it might be literally "I promise
you that X" to add certainty, but that didn't seem to account for the だが.

Another definition I've found for お約束 is "something expected or predictable".
Does this essentially make it mean "It shouldn't be surprising, but X"?
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What does おやくそく mean here?
**お** 約束 can be just an honorific version of 約束 in formal speech, but it has
its own meaning, too.

> ### [お約束](https://jisho.org/word/%E3%81%8A%E7%B4%84%E6%9D%9F)
>
>   2. something expected or predictable (e.g. running gag); typical or
> clichéd development (in a story); something considered obligatory or
> guaranteed (in a certain situation)
>

For this だが, see [this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/32826/5010). So
this おやくそくだが means "as you can expect" or "as always".
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