SenorBolsa @ SenorBolsa @beehaw.org

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Need for Speed Unbound.

The stakes are just too high and the limit on time and funds you can safely earn just makes it feel stressful when it should be fun.

I can get the appeal of the risk/reward but it crosses the line from exciting and tense to anxiety inducing for me.

On top of that the game was kind of unstable on release and if you crashed it counted as losing the race and your wager etc and you cannot load an earlier save or anything, if that was the case the whole game would actually be decent apart from the lack of event variety.

It took me about 14 hours in to reveal a major game mechanic that Bethesda didn't even mention. it's wild how big this game is I did some goofing around and side stuff but not that much.

I recall it boggling my mind that GTAIV was 15GB (two dual layer DVDs basically) now I have copies of movies that large kicking around on my NAS.

A 10MB game is basically the equivalent of a 100GB one now.

yeah but sheetz wit da beer cave.

That's why it's unscored.

It's gonna be like the wii U where they just release updated versions of those games to start, not the worst move TBH

Just being more powerful will allow it to run a lot of games at their full res and target framerate more consistently.

walks into bucket

"Why is there blood on my screen?"

Press F6 for God Song.

I just can't help but imagine a world where every religion has its own OS. The Hindu one would get real wild with it.

You are talking about people who have been consuming agitprop their whole life about why they should do this kind of thing for their country, and there's a good chance they were conscripted against their will, where the choice was go to war or die in a gulag. In the same way I wouldn't blame every American that went to Vietnam for the pointlessness and atrocities of that war either. (though I may be biased on that, my grandfather was drafted and was a cartographer during the war)

looks like a yellow viagra.

Peepi

why did we waste our time with Bepis?

My precious eidar cheese wheels!

I remember encountering those giants outside whiterun on launch and having one yet me practically to dawnstar. It was hilarious and I wasn't mad at all.

Reject science return to monke.

The logistics just boggle the mind. It's an interesting concept I do want to explore and will when I have some time to look into it deeper. I think I know what you are saying a little better, I just can't envision it working in such a global economy that's required to give people a high quality of life.

Also I don't think the choice ever should be shit job or starve, I just don't think you need to eliminate the concept of money or regulated "free markets" to do that. In a rational market system you gain a lot of efficiency by having it steer people to more efficient processes and encourage people to do the difficult or unpleasant things that need done with rewards.

We value similar things we just have different ideas of how you get there.

How do I get a computer? My neighbors do not make computers. The next 100 towns over don't either. (at least not in whole) Do I go to the computer people in taiwan with a bunch of stuff the engineers and manufacturing technicians need? How much time would I have to spend to do that? Wouldn't it be nice if we agreed on a medium of exchange that represented my labor, fair share, or value to society that I could just send electronically and could be exchanged again locally for what they need specifically?

It sure is the way we lived naturally in small tribes, but that's not tenable at a certain point and it's why almost every society that has grown to a sufficient size to make good use of it has invented some form of currency.

Money isn't the problem, it's the way it's used.

Also society is so large there's no way to have that level of accountability for everyone unless you create some neofascist social credit system.

Uncontacted tribes also don't have advanced medicine (though not to say they haven't discovered a great deal of important things on their own) or well... videogames. If you want to live like that more power to you, but for all the faults of modern society it has massive benefits as well.

I think there's plenty of middle ground to be found where we can have our cake and eat it too even if it looks wildly different from what we have now. Gift economies just don't work when you have billions of people involved. It's ultimately more efficient to give people money and then they can spend it on what they need or want. Even the idea of a corporation or company isn't inherently broken, people will always have a need to organize themselves to create efficiencies and build bigger things than they could on their own.

Capitalism is shit, the concept of money, and organized labor, is quite good.

The later ones don't allow that, they'll just take off and you'll have to reset. Some mods let you turn it off but really the game just becomes a cakewalk if you do.

Yup and why they come flying up your ass when you are ahead. It's usually mostly in the computers favor lol.

Earl is the worst for this.