I was at a party, and I saw a guy with a leather jacket, and I thought, ‘That’s cool’. Then I saw a guy with a leather vest and I thought, ‘That’s not cool’. It was then that I realized what coolness is all about… leather sleeves.
I OWN LEATHER SLEEVES.
-Demetri Martin
Hmmm… half a billion, out of roughly a trillion, compared to my account, mathing mathing mathing…
That’s like me spending a buck… on payday… the payday that doesn’t go into rent…
Maybe he can spring for the Super Sized corruption combo next time.
For unknown reasons, no one who died before the movie was made was allowed to work on the set.
Zero sugar…
This is just what happens when you don’t plan out your story and write yourself into a corner, and then the fanfic authors are left trying to make it make sense… and then eventually the fanfics get merged into canon.
Whole new usage of ‘no true Scotsman’
The Availability Heuristic can’t be that important. After all, no one ever even talks about it…
Honestly, it amazes me how many people will spend hours arguing over a shitpost.
Not upset with you at all, nor do I blame you for wanting to be with your family. Just as I don’t blame the many Americans who are prioritizing the immediate needs of their families.
But you are giving yourself the grace and understanding that you have repeatedly refused to give to others.
Call me a cunt, get offended, run with “the only moral excuse is my excuse” narrative all you want. But it would do you some good to realize your reasons to move are not so different from the people you are condemning.
So you could have stayed and fought… but you left and are now yelling from the sidelines.
I agree with a lot of your points, but it rings a bit disingenuous coming from someone who threw in the towel.
Schrödinger’s Feature!? O.o
The title’s claim is false?
Does Kagi not have a Fediverse Forms search toggle now?
Nobody said ‘only’. The other hotspots of rape (and rapists in general) absolutely also need to go.
Wine enjoyers be like ‘it’s not an emulator’.
A Matriarchy based on the same values and role distributions would also be harmful
The Patriarchy by any other name…
Was just sharing what works for me. Didn’t mean to downplay the difficulty of dealing with overstimulation.
I get that it’s not always easy (or even possible), but I also find that causing concern or distress in others only exacerbates the issue for me. Nothing helps my overstimulation less than having someone act like I’m having a medical emergency. So I do my best to mask and give as short and honest of an explanation as possible.
But I get that not everyone has the same response. If your overstimulation gets so bad that you can’t manage to avoid causing concern in others, then you will obviously need your own solutions. And if you find one that works, feel free to share.
That’s fair. And like I said, seamless landings and planetary travel are cool, but they don’t make a game good on their own.
That said, I’d call it less an “excuse not to like the game” and more a tangible thing players can point to when the real problem is harder to put into words. For a lot of longtime Bethesda fans, imho, that problem is that Starfield failed to deliver the Bethesda-style “believable world.”
Bethesda were never just the “see that mountain, climb it” developers. They were the “every object has a 3D model, every building has an interior, every town has a history, and not everything exists for the player” developers. That put them in a unique spot in the industry. That level of simulation let players believe in and explore their worlds in a way most games simply don’t allow. It’s why Bethesda games get such oddly specific critiques: where do the NPCs sleep, what do they eat, where do they go to the bathroom?
This doesn’t matter to everyone, so I imagine a lot of these complaints sound trivial or even insane from the outside. But for the people it does matter to, Bethesda was one of the few developers filling that niche.
So when I see complaints about seamless travel, or shopkeepers not caring that you’re standing behind their counter, or nobody reacting when you fire a gun in a crowd, or so many raider bases on an isolated planet with nobody to raid, I don’t see an excuse to not like the game. I see players struggling to express their disappointment that the game feels artificial and gamified, and that it failed to capture the soul of a Bethesda game.
I get what you mean, but it makes sense in context.
Immersive “Open World” Sims with ground and space exploration have a hard time tying the two together. Often they feel like two separate games, and one of them often feels like the “second class (star) citizen”. Not that making them seamlessly connected actually makes the two mechanically complimentary, but separating them by a loading screen makes this dichotomy all the more obvious. Starfield was no exception.
To exacerbate this, Bethesda made its brand the “You see that mountain? You can climb it!” game makers (Which, to be honest, I think they started to lose the plot on what made their games good when they started saying this. But that’s a different conversation.). So when they made their foray into space exploration, they really had no one else to blame when folks expected a similar “You see that planet? You can fly to it!” design philosophy.
Though I think it would have been overlooked if the game was… good? At the very least, if it was way less bloated with low effort copy pasted fluff content. Complaints like this only tend to become so focal when people have more disappointment to express than meaningful critique can adequately convey.
Florida Man kicked out of public garden after stealing apples from a protected tree.
Tells police his wife convinced him to do it after she had “taken bad advice from a snake”.
Optimistic of you to assume that’s why I am here.