bermuda @ bermuda @beehaw.org

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It feels like a lot of people missed that the movie is about the guy and not so much about the Manhattan project. It seems like a lot of that is due to misleading marketing though. I'm guessing many people watched it because of the bomb.

I saw it and los Alamos takes a bit of a backseat and plays more into the plot as opposed to being the plot.

Edit: I read the article all the way through and I see now it's less of a complaint about a lack of scenes and moreso about the complex history being shown in quick and succinct metaphor. I'll leave this comment up though because I think it's related, despite what OP seems to think (weirdly enough)

I think live play podcasts and shows might help also. I'm a big live play DND/ttrpg listener despite having never played in person with people. I bought it pretty much instantly and I'm loving how much it feels like those podcasts.

I know CRPGs based on ttrpg mechanics still hit with people back in the 90s and early 00s but I'm guessing it wasn't the selling point. Like I'm pretty sure people didn't buy Fallout back in 97 because it used a system that was similar to GURPS.

The Adventure Zone podcast by the McElroy brothers came out in like 2014 and the live play podcast genre skyrocketed since. Pretty much every podcast network has at least a few DND shows plus a few more using other unique systems. There's even podcasts parodying live play like Offices and Bosses, an improv comedy where they play fantasy monsters playing DND with human characters. Theres no way people would have come up with that format before the adventure zone.

You can be a contrarian troll all you want but not to me. I'm not entertaining this further. Blocked and reported.

You can hold others accountable without resorting to calling them a terrible person.

I literally explained in my post multiple times that I'm not looking for people to agree with everything I say.

If you couldn't get that the multiple times I said it than I see no point in continuing it here because I don't think it would work. My post was pretty clearly about obnoxious people that want to argue about everything so I find it almost funny that you would just... do that.

I said it would be funny if the next elder scrolls games smashed expectations and was good, in an ironic kind of funny. I mentioned baldurs gate 3 due to it being also incredibly well received and was immediately met with a person who wanted to argue that the two games aren't comparable.

I agree with them but I wasn't even trying to make that argument in the first place. Just mentioned BG3 because it released like two weeks ago. Was very disappointing to see such a misrepresentation of what I said.

I'm not sure whether to agree or disagree with you but thanks for being polite about it. Sorry for calling your comment baiting but when I saw something like that that just didn't expand on anything I figured it would be. Most troll comments are like that. Say something controversial without expanding on it to encourage arguments.

In fact id consider that kind of comment to encourage far more shit-flinging than something thought out like this.

I don't appreciate the snark.

Disappointing to see baiting from a mod.

Star Citizen is a Kickstarter open world space sandbox MMO game. Look up Elite: Dangerous for a similar project.

Starfield is an upcoming open world space RPG (which I think is singleplayer only not sure) developed by Bethesda.

The Witness

You won't see it in your lifetime. About 150,000 people die a day assuming no natural disasters or disease. 7.9 billion / 150,000 = 52,666 days. About 144 years for your dream.

I'm not trying to argue that? I'm just making a dumb comment, dude.

I'm not sure why that's relevant

1 per square kilometer is physically impossible unless you plan on finding a way to kill 7.9 billion people.

Earth has 146 million square kilometers of land.

It's a neat idea but I think "the largest genocide in the history of humanity" kinda outweighs your solution.

I think it would be very funny if the game came out and was good. Like Bg3 level good. Just the irony of everybody going "not Todd doing his bullshit again" and it turns out to be a perfect game or something.

And for the record I'm not a huge Bethesda fan.

Edit: I'm astonished I even have to say this, but this is just a stupid joke comment. I'm not trying to make comparisons between baldurs gate 3 and a game that hasn't even come out yet. Don't dig that deep.

Fuck off.

There are plenty of games that feel true to their roots without needing to feel like the same thing. 1 and 2 came out almost 30 years ago. While they're good games, there are other ways to explore those kinds of stories than by just replicating those two.

they put polonium-210 in the engines

Money.