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It will be riddled with monetisation, with the attendant mission/quest structure to support that goal. Like, it's an impossibility that it won't be. Starfield was on the verge of getting some good will back from the player base, but squandered it on that bullshit pay-per-quest DLC they released recently. Bethesda is beyond help at this point.

Could someone please take aim at Elon Musk?

I literally saved this image mere seconds before seeing this thread 🤣

Got it from here:

https://lemmy.world/post/23483577

• No Man's Sky - 1,631 hours
• The Long Dark - 1,337 hours
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 651 hours (I combined the original and Special Edition playtimes)
• Nova Drift - 434 hours
• Fallout 4 - 378 hours
• Starfield - 178 hours (I enjoyed it!)

I'm currently pissing blood on the regular and I have free healthcare, so I think this is more of a "dumb dude" thing than an "American with an overdraft" thing.

I will go to the doc eventually, but I need more. I can't be turning up there with one thing to report. I need stabbing pains, memory loss, night terrors and maybe some jaundice before I pick up the phone.

I know I can't die early, because I'm not getting off that easy. So I'm safe for the time being 👍🙃

EDIT ~3 months later: So I think it was kidney stones. I had all the symptoms and the doctor said she agreed, so I got sent for blood and urine tests, which showed nothing, and then an ultrasound. Pissed myself during it because I had to turn up with a painfully-full bladder as part of the examination 😒 and the first dude was a trainee, so his work needed to be seconded by his superior, extending the torture time. Was literally squeezing my dick with my white-knuckled hand to prevent further leakage. Anyway, I think from the time I first had symptoms to when I got scanned, the stone(s) must have passed on their own because the scan found only 2 harmless cysts and the bloody piss and other symptoms disappeared a couple of weeks before that 🤷‍

George could have just gotten done slaughtering a school bus full of kids using a chainsaw in a fentanyl-induced psychosis, it's kinda irrelevant. He was cuffed and under the control of three police officers. Chauvin remained on his neck minutes after he was already said to be without a pulse. He murdered him, intentionally, and made sure of it, and seemingly did so just to upset the horrified onlookers. If you are told that the handcuffed and prone guy you're kneeling on is dead, and your response isn't to render first aid, but instead to spend another few minutes crushing his neck... yeah, that's murder however you slice it.

I wonder if Brand had been accused of rape by other men if that would have made the difference. If Trump was accused of raping a male Wall Street banker instead of E. Jean Carroll, would that have smothered his candidacy in its crib? I honestly think it would have. Which is a sad thing to believe.

I love that Linux exists, but I really don't appreciate the bullshit PR speak about how regular users can switch from Windows with little-to-no friction. The second something doesn't work as expected, even a minor thing, they'll be at a complete loss about how to even investigate the issue, let alone correct it. Windows competency doesn't transfer to Linux for even the most basic under-the-hood stuff. The less honest you are about that, the fewer people will try Linux a second time, and the more people will write off the entire endeavour as being the domain of computer experts/enthusiasts.

It's nice of them to list their qualifications and the subject in which they earned a Nobel Prize. It makes it so much easier to Trumpistan to disregard them as "mainstream" and part of the commie woke academy.

If Trump or any of his lackeys respected the opinions of experts or the power of education, this letter would not need to have been written in the first place, because RFK would have been catapulted over the wall of the nearest insane asylum the second he opened his mouth. And besides, since when has Trump ever changed his views or his plans because smart people have told him not to go through with whatever dangerous bullshit it happens to be? His own team is unable to rein him most of the time, and he chose those people.

Shout out to my fellow SSRI/SNRI nevercums 😭

What I like about this moment is that the people who ought to be fearful are indeed the ones who are fearful. I mean shit, Elon is posting Tweets about how great CEOs are actually, health insurance companies are removing pages from their websites that identify leadership, it's a lovely little pocket of schadenfreude where we can all take a breath and prepare for the next 4 years.

The replies on Twitter to Musk's legal team complaining about this decision are equal parts hilarious and day-ruining. People are really cheering for this man to get ~55 billion dollars. Like, it hurts their actual feelings that he's been denied such a payment, and they offer words of support to Musk like he's doing a life sentence and has been denied DNA testing that would prove his innocence by a capricious judge who built her political career on the initial murder trial.

I hope they're just bots. Bots expertly-programmed to annoy me specifically.

I've heard this debunk a lot over the years, and I don't disbelieve it, but is it not the case that one or two animals (wolves or otherwise) in a group will be the "bosses" or something close to being dominant over the others? Is all of that internal power struggling we see in groups/families of animals not really what it seems? Or is the "alpha" stuff different from that? Or does it only apply to wolves, and "alphas" do exist in other animal species?

Yours, confused and uneducated,

u/58008

Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Felt like I was fighting for my actual life in that game.

It's hilarious that this warped little creep has arranged things such that he has a credible excuse to sit and listen to trans women pinching off loaves from the next cubicle, all while he's reporting his porn usage to his son via his iChrist app. He's definitely someone we want making policy around genitalia.

I'm sure this totally unprecedented plan is nothing to worry about. It's not as though history is replete with similar plans that went awry.

I'm sure that, once concentrated into this one location, the people being deported will be safe and sound and free of disease and well-fed. And when no country agrees to take them in, I'm sure they'll just continue to be well-cared for in the encampment and there won't be any problem and certainly there won't be any spurious stories of riots or uprisings that need to be put down and which sadly result in the killing of pretty much all of the immigrants being held there. It will be fine. This is all fine and very, very normal.

Wish they'd do another run of the OG Steam Controller. I love it, but finding replacements is a costly business these days. Can't even send it in for repair because they don't produce the parts anymore.

Also fails to mention mastery of nunchucks?

It's the path of least resistance to achieve Musklessness. The second two of the positives you listed are actually negatives to the average Joe. Choice paralysis, overwhelming number of apps and servers, these are things that put people off even trying, especially if there are easier-to-use alternatives that are familiar and instant.

Mastodon is great, but it's not quite there yet in terms of convenience. Too much copying and pasting and clicking through to different instances in order to read old posts etc. It needs to be more cohesive in a way that doesn't require constantly leaving your timeline or going into the settings.

It's also the case that the Twitter diaspora who are famous tend to choose BlueSky, and that brings a lot of people along with them.

And it's also the case that Mastodon doesn't have much of a marketing campaign outside of word-of-mouth, whereas BlueSky does.

How does the old saying go? Sex offenders flock together?