Yeah, I think we all had a similar preorder experience at one point or another. There’s just no compelling reason to preorder anymore.

Seconded. Read it on my own first, ended up reading half of it out loud to my wife just because I was so tickled by it, then put it on for the whole family on a road trip. Such a great story, everyone loved it.

So what should we call the thing that we don’t want in our social media feeds that controls what we see?

Escape from Tarkov PvE.

It’s so much fun to not be head/eyes’d from fucking nowhere by a random PMC. The bots are a little dumb, but the risk/reward for bot PMCs and Bosses is still there, for sure.

I bounced off of PvP Tarkov for years just trying to play with my friends, and now I’m finally having fun with it!

I’m good with lengthy term limits, even, but there needs to be something

Thanks, dumbass! 🤣

Excellent, just the example I needed to prevent me from examining my own use of Sync. I picked it up straight off of RiF and it’s been mostly fine. Spoilers rarely work and sometimes it just straight up can’t “fetch the image,” but I can do the things I care about, like downvoting and making ad hominem attacks. 10 out of 10 for me.

Lol, oh no I forgot about GTFO. It looked neat, but goddamn was it hard to enjoy.

No, I was talking about the Unreal 5 asset flip game that was pulled from Steam after one day. The Day Before, maybe?

It sure did, bud. It sure did. 🥲

Satisfactory was in early access for years, as well, and while it wasn’t polished, it certainly wasn’t slapped together, even from early on. So I think there are probably lots of examples from each kind of developer. Like what was that open world multiplayer zombie game that was such a fiasco recently?

We all gotta learn somehow. Mine was Brink from back in the day.

Ah, you must be one of the lazies we’ve been warned about!

Equating answering a question to somebody stealing your time is not the hot take I was expecting to read this morning, lmao

I take it you’re not excited for the game. If they could deliver on all of their promises, do you think that you could find some part of it to like?

I think being on Lemmy is part of the issue. The Venn diagram of people who left Reddit for Lemmy and the people who support pie in the sky games like SC doesn’t have a whole lot of overlap in the middle, I wouldn’t think.

Anyway, any particular gameplay loop you’re excited for?

I thought of that, but I don’t think I’m the best fit for that kind of time investment.

Is there a Lemmy community for people who don’t just shit on the game? Tired of just hearing about how it’s a scam. Does anybody play this and enjoy it?

“Damn that Giuseppe! As soon as I make a 19 barrel gun, what does he do? The nerve of that man!”

As a former teenage boy, sometimes it’s really just soap and soap scum and dirt and whatever else caught in the hair rather than anything else.

Also, for anyone caught in a sticky situation, cold water to keep the proteins from denaturing and getting sticky in the first place, and if all else fails use shampoo to try to emulsify it to stick to the water instead of the floor, to make little sewer babies with your neighbors.

An interesting watch for sure. It felt a little like they were just reading off facts from Wikipedia for a bit around the 90 minute mark, but it finished strong. I also find the hope for Legacy somewhat amusing after watching Angela Collier’s video decrying most of Picard’s ideas.