You mean because Finland and Thailand are squished?

I’d like to see you try to block in the Japanese flag in the Polish flag.

Yes. Astrology shit.

Boomerization of millennials. It’s tough to watch.

Yeah this new stock of devs just don’t have it in them to deliver anything great. Their values and language likely prevent them from even considering something more visceral. Wouldn’t be surprised if most of them have lived such uninteresting lives they have nothing to draw from. That’s at least what they write like.

Seems they don’t know why their hero kills, they don’t believe in the culling the player enacts. They’d probably rather he didn’t.

They seem like they’d prefer to make Animal Crossing in space, they don’t really want to write about empire, conquest, terrible crimes, deep-seated hate. Ending threats.

They don’t even want to know how the tools of the trade work. Just look at the animations for the models, you can tell that whoever worked on then feared being put on an FBI watchlist if they looked up a video on how pump action shotguns work.

These kinds of dev teams are fully incapable of writing good villains and a cast of characters with wildly different moralities that are grounded in something real.

They’re not interested in combat games. They shouldn’t touch them. They should leave and make room for those who want to.

Yeah, they banned touching other cars. Double disqualification.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQTn1QxCZ2s

Welp

US onion*

I agree, that looks like a fascist to me. And they’re on Midwest social, that’s all you need to know. Ban. Defederate.

Too fucked up and funny for contemporary audiences.

You can have a commune of wiccans represented respectfully in the game, with a soup making minigame, a small patch for planting and harvesting vegetables you can use, and a short quest chain featuring a little “theatre” performance event near the end, where you get to play the role of one of the fae. You even get a “play dead” button. The commune will feature interesting and iconic characters with appropriate jokes.

It’s just how some lumpy butts fold. Badly.

Impressive and commendable, but irrelevant.

It would be called “OurSpace”, but really it would be “The Party’s Space”

Idk about all the rest of it, but you might be able to learn to watch your tone. You know, modulate your voice better. Figure out what sounds aggressive and how to catch it, maybe apologize for it if appropriate, then consciously avoid it for a bit.

I think I’ve had a couple friends like you, and while there were a few things to tolerate with them (as I’m sure there were with me as well), the weirdly/slightly aggressive tone they had a bit too often made hanging out with them a little bit worse than it could’ve been.

Still happy to have spent the time I did with them. I’m still hanging out with one of them and he’s still aggressively into some games, TFT now, but he’s chilled out a bit it seems or I just notice it less. It comes back when he gets competitive or drunk.

Nothing unhealthy about that. Video games, crying and arson are the holy trinity of our generation. It’s just contemporary culture.

NFS Heat felt good. Just a good game.

Everything between Heat and the first Most Wanted (I think?) was trash, I looked at reviews and played demos and saw nothing but garbage and usually a frontend for a microtransaction model.

I’m one of those who didn’t buy Unbound because the theme ended up being a bit of a gimmick, they didn’t lean into it enough to make it cool, they held back and delivered something unexciting.

You can’t just build shelter and grow food. All the land, clay, and wood is owned by someone else. You need to earn your land, clay, and wood. But we will give you some free food. We won’t give you shelter, we were playing with the idea and kind of set it up, but decided to not really do that. We allow you to temporarily set up tents in our woods and pick some foods there, but you can’t plant anything and you have to pay us if you want to hunt our animals, and if you camp in one place too long the forest police will arrest you. If you camp in our cities, we’ll have the normal police chase you around. Maybe break your stuff, maybe beat you up. Sometimes we’ll go farther. Don’t camp in our cities.

I think it’s actually more like 98 to 2

That must be more right than what I used to think, because it’s certainly not any kind of freedom.

I don’t think there’s a place in the West that demands more obedience and denies more freedoms in the average man’s life than USA does.

If humans did literally nothing ever at all, the world would be teeming with a lot more life.

The question in my mind is more about whether the local environment serves us without sacrificing too much of the natural environment, and a high maintenance cosmetic lawn doesn’t serve me or nature at all.