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I don’t think High Valyrian is an actual language…

That… Sounds exactly like how every smart asshole describes themselves. Don’t know anything about Linus, just basing that off your description.

Bayonetta is my only exception for this. Because she’s got guns in them heels. Also because her character clearly wants them.

Fun fact: bg3 added dick physics.

That said, I’ll usually always play a male character in a Souls title, because [insert valid reason for inconsistency here.]

I often do this when I want the character to mesh with the build. If I’m playing a character with a great shield and giant hammer, I’ll want a big beefy character that is often easier to create in game as a male body. And when I play a quick assassin, I often pick female. It’s like the opposite of how anime weapons work.

FYI: as someone I think would like incongruent in girl mode, I went as Dr Frankenfurter (creation scene, was cold) for Halloween this year and went all out: full makeup, fishnets, shaved legs, 4" platform heels, etc. It was very fun and could be a good entry into what you might want to do. Also: you can always dress up at home just for yourself.

I play in 2 games and run 1. As a player I play both characters who share my gender and one that doesn’t. At the table I run there’s a guy who plays a woman, and used to be another.

It’s never caused issues or confusion. So for anyone interested in playing like this, feel free to do so! For pronouns I’ve also found success in referring to characters instead of players with names unless explicitly talking to the player, but that’s easier as a GM.

I don’t relate with masculine characters at all. No idea why as I don’t identify as a woman. I have very little association or ownership of my gender.

Also character creators traditionally don’t have a ton of options beyond the binary. Hair, pronoun options tend to be most of the extent.

Also feminine bodies tend to be more interesting. More curves and interesting shapes while a lot of masculine bodies are rendered as blocky.

Musk HATES hates public transportation. Which is weird because he’s in a private jet when he travels anyways.

That’s the difference between art and just a product. Starfield is just a consumer product. It sold because of heavy marketing.

If you hold up sales as a measure of success, you deserve every possible criticism.

The same reason Trump has his own social network.

Didn’t that only start when he was threatened for being kicked off Twitter?

But the other points for censoring ideas make sense.

Why would they self-host and do work when they could just use Threads? It’s not like FB gives a fuck about treasonous political parties.

Orange juice doesn’t really retain flavor for very long. Most use added flavors. If you’ve ever bought orange juice from an orchard in florida you’ll know the difference. Doesn’t seem to really be practical to do this but I guess people prefer non-frozen for the name at least.

So what’s the core gameplay loop?

We are shown exploration but little to find besides landscape. We are shown building simple houses with prefabs. We see very basic npc interaction to your presence. But that’s it. NMS biggest issue is that there isn’t that much to do and it’s depth is shallow. I’m seeing nothing here to dissuade that.

It looks like a PS1 era game. It looks like Cloud Strife’s model.

The same reason merchandise sellers are on Amazon even though Amazon forces them to lower prices and make less: if you’re NOT on Amazon, people just won’t find you. If you’re not on Spotify, you don’t exist in the music world to some people. Because otherwise where else will they search for you? Youtube Music or Apple Music, both pay sites. Otherwise you’re having word of mouth or searching manually.

Any track, not any artist. You could have a hundred tracks getting hundreds of streams a piece. Maximum before cutoff would be about $3/track. Not a ton but could be hundreds of dollars. And combining that from dozens to thousands of artists potentially in that boat.

That’s so pathetic. There is a comedy club near that does this. If your review isn’t glowing, they respond shittily to your complaints. All this does is make the business/developers look petty and gross.

The Bajoran economy is not post-scarcity

So I understand the above items (latinum being the most important and fungible) being non-replicatable. But at the point where Starfleet is permanently on your station and has easy access to both replicators and infinite energy, why aren’t the Bajorans also post-scarcity? You’d think that tech, while powerful, is a far more important thing to trade for and Starfleet has an incentive to uplift societies it isn’t at war with to prevent scarcity wars and instability.

Starfield feels exactly like Skyrim did. Which is the problem. This isn’t 2011 anymore and their faults that they refused to learn from or fix aren’t cute but annoying. Bethesda is your college boyfriend who never learned to do the dishes or cook and they’re 40 now.

It’s in the article.