InfiniteLoop @ InfiniteLoop @lemm.ee

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That 90 minute to do a full ng+ run number is kinda nuts but an interesting design choice. I ended up not picking up starfield but I do hope someone takes this novel ng+ approach and expands on it to create a game more focused on that as a story telling tool.

Heck, THIS is what studios should be using AI for - write a solid base story and let the AI build on that to create a more truly infinite and distinct set of new loop possibilities. (I would say your first 5 or so runs should be handcrafted, tell an interesting cohesive story, and then if players still want more the AI can kick in and offer additional replayability)

really glad we got to hear about a straight up comparison against space exploration. i’ll admit i was hoping they’d go a different direction (i’ve seen people mention going underwater which i think would have been a ton of fun and a guaranteed differentiator from anything currently available)

all that aside, the most interesting parts for me are the engine changes:

• improved blueprints? how? i can’t say i’ve ever had much to complain about with factorios blueprint system
• better flying robots behavior. this one could be huge, when i built a large base it was hard to properly balance logistics robots and not feel like they were just not working as well as they should

a year away tho! that’s okay, we’ll live, i just got sucked back into satisfactory (playing sf+ which is basically bobsangels for sf and it’s GLORIOUS).

i know all us diehards will pick it up sight unseeen, but unless there’s something flashy, like a graphical overhaul (which i’m not sure the diehards would be in favor of), i do wonder how it will stand out and attract the newer players that have been playing the newer automation games and might only look at factorio skin-deep and not get as excited for.

and i’m okay with all that, but i also want their work to be appreciated by as many people as possible so here’s to hoping they can nail the marketing

ahhh. i thought for sure he was suing the fleshlight manufacturer!

as another middle-aged person who’s been dealing with a lot of the issues both you and OP mentioned - do you have any tips for task paralysis? that’s the one that has had the biggest impact on me (as a former workaholic in particular)

how’s the current state of controller support? i played a bit during EA but had been planning on waiting til the PS5 release cuz I figure the layout options would be in a better state by then.

yeah I really miss the game-specific subs that always crop up on reddit. Been playing remnant 2, and the two lemmy communities I found are empty save for 1 post while reddits remnant sub is thriving :/

also I miss my metroidvania sub. Small price to pay, I try not to touch reddit but I have been peeking in at the remnant sub just to see what people think about the game

can we take bets on what a “tweet” will be called now? my bets on “chi” (pronounced kai)

weird. i totally just see a half-human half-cat with her leg/foot flipped back

Probably woke my neighbors up screaming “GET IN THERE LEWIS” as he finally returned to poll. How exciting! Yet another awesome qualifying session across that board (and I personally like the idea of this new format)

so interesting - i’m left handed too, but am randomly ambidextrous so I never know if I’m doing something “wrong” — I tend to use my phone in my right hand.

yeah i’m good with another trophy like the mini-tire they sign for pole. I’d say this award should also require getting fastest lap during the race tho.

Say there’s a post with a deep comment thread replying to one of the top-level comments. You start reading replies to one of the top-level comments and you’re done reading that conversation now (you didn’t each the end of the sub-comments and want to jump back to the main conversation to see other top-level comments). This feature would just collapse the current context you’re in (all sub-comments from the top-level comment) so that you can easily move on to other top level comments without having to scroll all the way back up to collapse that entire thread.

That top-level comment is now just collapsed, so if you wanted to dig back in again you just tap to uncollapse it as if you had collapsed the top-most comment yourself. It’s really just a shortcut to collapsing the top-level comment without having to scroll back up.

This isn’t a novel idea - apollo did it, it’s probably the #1 thing I miss that I haven’t seen any of the lemmy apps I’ve tried tackle.

it’ll close the children, but i would like a feature to collapse the parent comments

When I read the post I was initially focused on google search but man….if gmail were to die, the pile-on effects would be seriously catastrophic and it would take a very long time for things to stabilize again. It’s not just personal emails that are handled by gmail - their corporate offerings are used by a ton of companies, and there are plenty of school districts as well that rely on it for their email (and thus associated logins). If you’ve ever worked near education, you know what a cluster that would be as all the IT departments scrambled to figure out who would be responsible for a migration.

I don’t really see it happening, but it’s very scary to think about what would happen if gmail were to fall.

edit 4: thanks for the gold kind stranger! i’ve never gotten an award before!!!

(real edit: i have short term memory and forgot your first edit acknowledged the gold…)

oh, sorry. “what is fuck u/spez”

nooo hulk! why!!!? too bad :/ but man was that a messy qualifying

great point. don’t forget the books tho! that industry needs some reigns put on it and to prevent professors from preventing the use of used books!