This. I played it a bit at launch and gave it another fair shake recently. There were some QoL mods that fixed a few major issues I had with the game, and some of the updates they added since were appreciated.

But I think the game is just flawed at its core. It’s got a lot of neat set dressing around it, but it’s missing some key central pillars to support its gameplay loop. I can’t say it’s a bad game because I still ended up sinking a good few hours into it, but both times I walked away from it, it was from lack of motivation to continue.

For me at least, I think I couldn’t stop comparing its various systems to better games.

I could play Starfield for the story and RPG mechanics, or I could play Cyberpunk 2077.

I could play Starfield for the planetary exploration, or I could play No Man’s Sky.

I could play Starfield for the base building and resource economy, or I could play Satisfactory.

Now, none of those other games individually attempted to do what Starfield did in a single package, which you’d think should still give it a niche of its own. But when all of these systems in Starfield just sit in isolation and don’t really cross one another, it means you’re basically playing several “meh” games instead of one decent one.

Is that why I’ve been seeing so many error messages on it lately?

That’s a shame, it was my preferred frontend for Lemmy. Guess I’ll have to consider switching to something else.

Sadly?

And the engine work is a lot of extra development time added on, because it can’t be done concurrently with much of the later game design work.

In Maine, the cost to fill a standard heating-oil tank as of Wednesday was $1,650

Just to contextualize this, the average house in Maine will use about 100 gallons (about 379L) of heating oil each month in winter. Older homes will use more. At the current average of $6/gal, you’re looking at paying $20 per day for heat, or $140 per week. And that’s assuming prices don’t continue to get worse as oil reserves are drained.

I am in the camp of “try it anyways”. Worst that can happen is what would happen anyways if you didn’t.

I’m a serial pessimist, so it’s more of a reflex at this point to avoid disappointment, but I still believe in fighting the good fight.

Maybe, but the courts are also stacked in favor of Trump. They can go all the way to the Supreme Court with it, but it’ll end in his favor in a 5-4 split decision.

Of course they will! For as long as people keep paying them for it.

Wouldn’t surprise me if this movement is backed by US like the one in Alberta. The US is doing anything it can to compromise Canadian sovereignty.

That appears to just be a mod. The actual dimension has yet to be shown off outside of the promo artwork, and it’s not present in the most recent snapshot.

Mod source: https://modrinth.com/mod/mielons-the-sift

I’m happy just to see how many impeachment tallies Trump can rack up, because I can’t think of anyone else more deserving of being the most impeached president.

But it’s a useless gesture, because you don’t need just a majority to remove the president from office, you need a supermajority. And that’s just not happening unless Trump manages to piss off the majority of Republicans, too.

Agreed. It was my first, and I maintain it remains the best of the PS1 era. But 7 always overshadows everything.

The exact 1-5 order will vary based on mood, but here are my general top 5:

• The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind

• Journey

• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

• Spiritfarer

• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

Something something Harris something Genocide.

But it’s not just the financial support of Google, it’s also the integrity of their devices as a secure platform on which to run GrapheneOS.

I mean, you already can’t use GrapheneOS if you get a Pixel 11 because of the deliberately excluded MTE support by Google. You can’t guarantee the longevity of a project if its survival depends on hardware and firmware choices made by a company that is incentivized to kill it.

At the moment, I’m typing this on a desktop I built actually, but sure we can jump straight to the defeatist route.

Like it or not, Graphene is currently trapped in the ecosystem called “Pixel”, and promoting the former necessitates an investment in the latter, whether it be directly or indirectly. Graphene is working to change that, and I hope they succeed soon, but I’m not eager to buy even a used Pixel when Google’s doing everything in their power to backdoor the shit out of them with their proprietary OOTB firmware.

I’d take Framework off of the list on principle due to their (still unapologetic) financial support for Hyprland and Omarchy, which are projects run by far right racists.

I’d also take Pixel + Graphene off of the list. The situation there is precarious to say the least, as Google is trying to do everything they can to invalidate the security of Graphene on their devices. Might still be fine and reliable now, but I can’t say with confidence what the situation will look like in a year or two. Plus purchasing the device still financially supports Google.

Other than the plagiarism, butchering of a classic IP, and fad genre bandwagoning?

It’s a grindy game in a genre that otherwise caters to F2P but comes with an extra $40 price tag. It’s also just plain bland and soulless, which really represents how far Bungie has fallen as a developer. The only thing they can really do is give bad consulting advice to other Sony studios on how to make live service games, which has not worked out yet for even one of them. And Destiny died for this game to happen.

Not to mention that it makes Sony money. Regardless of how defeatist it is or how little the general public cares, they remain on my personal “do not buy” list.

True, forgot that abomination got a PC release too.

They also put out Ghost of Yotei and Marathon (yikes).

Marvel Tokon too if you count console exclusives that are also on PC.

Edit: Whoops, I forgot Ghost of Yotei was late last year. Unless you’re counting fiscal year starting in October I guess.