Bleeping Lobster @ Transcendant @lemmy.world

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Imo the big problems with the game are because they outsourced so much of it.

Although there were too many fetch quests (imo), generally the game I found to be quite engaging. Just, not very deep systems; load times going into even the smallest buildings meant it's not even approaching open world; drab procedural planets and outposts in a sad attempt to bulk it up; horrid animations and NPC models that wouldn't be out of place in a game 10 years ago. Not to mention the horrendous amount of bugs I experienced.

This is why I can no longer allow myself to get excited for new games. I paid £7.99 for a month of PC gamepass to experience Starfield, if I paid full price I'd have been very unhappy. Now we pay to be bugtesters.

It's fraudulent as fuck. Hedge funds who are also market makers (oh, sure, they claim to be 'separate' yet repeatedly get fined for their behaviour, all while not admitting fault of course). Definitely no conflict of interest there. That's before we even get into 'dark pools': https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dark-pool.asp

When a majority of trades for many companies are conducted with zero oversight, that allows bad actors to manipulate the markets. It's madness to me that this parallel system is allowed to exist. I just picked AAPL at random, 43% of trades were made 'off-exchange' yesterday. ~22m shares traded with zero price action or regulation.

https://chartexchange.com/symbol/nasdaq-aapl/exchange-volume/

I know we were a bit of a pain in the arse at times (though I'd say, no more than some other countries which doesn't seem to generate the same press or vitriol), but the EU would, in an ideal world, like us back. The chances of that happening are slim enough, swapping the £ for the euro would absolutely torpedo it.

That would probably be a good metric of how serious the will is for us to return, if the demands include losing our currency that to me would demonstrate that the talks are poisoned to fail.

That is fucking insane. $3 per hour wage increase in 31 years?!

If they're paying dividends to shareholders, and fatcat salaries to CEO / upper board, whilst their workers need gov topups and assistance to survive... they can get fucked.

It never fails to amaze me that there's so much focus on 'benefit scroungers', whilst a majority of big businesses gain the giant benefit of cheap wages while their workers need gov assistance to get by. There are piggies with their snouts at the top, and they sit on the boards / are CEOs of big companies & multinationals.

No Man's Sky - Finally lifting off the planet into space for the first time reignited my love of space and the cosmos. Made me feel awe and wonder

The Stanley Parable - never had a game make me laugh till I had tears in my eyes before. This game really fucks with your perception of what is real and just how common / predictable some gaming tropes have become

The way you describe it, it's genuinely tempting to me. Mainly I use my PC for making music, and a little animating / graphic design. I tried to avoid installing any games because they just all cumulatively seem to slow down the system with all the little installers / c++ redistributables they seems to need... but of course, not being made of stone I've installed many!

For my next machine... maybe I'll keep it pristine and use cloud for gaming.

Considering how much a 'top spec' PC costs (even to build DIY), let's take a lowball figure of $2000. 2000 / 50 = 40. So 40 months, or 3.3 year of $50 a month is the equivalent of a gaming PC.

I tend to upgrade every 3-4 years. Even at $50 a month this isn't necessarily bad value for money (imo). And especially for people who can't DIY faced with the cost of a custom-build machine.

clunky to control.

This was my main frustration with Valhalla. Assassins should move fluidly and responsively when controlled by the player, not lumber about.

It sounds the same as how here in the UK, referring to someone as 'Pakistani' is fine, but referring to someone as a 'paki' is NOT. I know plenty of Pakistani-origin people who refer to each other as paki but generally the use is in a demeaning way when it's used by someone outside that group.

Brilliant show with a very distinctive art style. Have only watched each episode once so maybe now's the time for a rewatch from the start.

When Matilda moves things with her mind, is she using the Force? If so, then yes.

Asscheeks still very much apart, ready to receive paper

No idea why this read for me like a response to a drill sergeant.

"WHAT'S THIS, MAGGOT? ARE YOU FULLY STANDING UP TO WIPE YOUR DIRTY ASS, RECRUIT?!"

"SIR, NO SIR! ASS CHEEKS VERY MUCH APART, READY TO RECEIVE PAPER, SIR!"

So it's not a cost-saving, water-reducing exercise, merely lack of maintenance? Interesting.

I guess the answer to that will be dependant on flexibility and arm length. I'm an around-the-back-er, can't imagine reaching underneath... feels like it'd be more of a push than a wipe, but then I don't have very long arms afaik (I kept seeing people with v long reach in MMA bouts, decided to measure my reach, was mildly disappointed to not have long arms).

Hahahaha. Every statement OP makes just leads to more questions.

I feel like Standers have not been clear all this time, sounds like the manoeuvre is more of a crouch! Which makes far more sense than bumcheek-smooshing a fresh poop remainder.

Yes, and life hasn't been the same since

Ahh I see, it's like a nasty unwanted bidet. An unwelcome germ shower across the entire backside, nobody wants that!

I mean, it's the internet, someone somewhere probably wants that.

The mysterious world of the other side of the toilet stall.... you're sat there pooing like a normal human being, meanwhile in the next stall someone is stood over their own pants, pulling their bumcheeks apart one at a time for what could only ever be a half-wipe. Strange & inefficient.