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fleet tangle
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I enjoyed the base building more than the combat and storyline, so I didn't play it all that much.

chrome gull
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hell I even bought a new PC just to play Starfield (and also game dev but ehh)

fleet tangle
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Yeah.

chrome gull
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I mod the everliving shit out of the game

tulip orbit
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wish starfield came out a week before my long weekend, instead of the week after 😦

warm bloom
fleet tangle
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I really just don't like the fallout series in general. Wasteland is a far better futuristic dystopia series.

warm bloom
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I'm looking hella forward to payday 3 though

chrome gull
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top-notch gunplay, incredible combat (and idc about the story)

tulip orbit
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also hoping starfield will run on my gtx2060 😬

chrome gull
warm bloom
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fallout 76 was pretty fun

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fallout 4 was fine

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idk not my favorite series

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and it is still Bethesda

chrome gull
proud jay
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main OST was banger, other than that, mid game

warm bloom
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the B in Bethesda stands for Broken

chrome gull
warm bloom
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I should make a children's book

chrome gull
chrome gull
tulip orbit
chrome gull
warm bloom
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Fr let me know if starfield runs

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actually curious

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since they used and open source graphics api

chrome gull
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ping me an hour after it launches lol

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I'll let you know

tulip orbit
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doesnt come out till the 6th tho right?

warm bloom
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I believe that whole engine is new

chrome gull
warm bloom
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some graphics api wrapper I saw on GitHub

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they used it

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I forget what it's called

tulip orbit
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Unity?

chrome gull
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no what

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they have their own engine

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Creation Engine

warm bloom
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yeah I think they're using vulkan

chrome gull
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It's a Microsoft game

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why will they use vulkan

proud jay
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it was in development before msft bought them though

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and the engine already existed I guess

chrome gull
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surely their biggest game will use their own RHI, right?

chrome gull
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from scratch

warm bloom
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oh yeah they're using the forge

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holy they improved forge a fuck ton since I last saw it

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even made it into a company

chrome gull
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heh?

tulip orbit
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the first developed to run on Creation Engine 2.

proud jay
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they support both dx11 and vulkan from what I can find

warm bloom
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yeah

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just a wrapper

chrome gull
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I'm talking about the RHI lol

warm bloom
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but it used to only support vulkan

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not anything else

chrome gull
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Beth does have their own engine

proud jay
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it's not like vulkan is this obscure api that is used by 3 people world wide though

chrome gull
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I know 2 games that use vulkan

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Doom and Doom Eternal

proud jay
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well it's not as common as dx, but it's out there in the wild for a few well known games

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bg3 supports vulkan

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not that I use it

warm bloom
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well I was looking for wrappers around graphics api's and I saw it a while back

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but at the time it was super simple

chrome gull
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what are wrappers ;-;

warm bloom
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basically a wrapper is makeup for things

novel storm
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Any tips for managing / preventing neck pain? My monitors are arm's length from me, and just below "straight ahead" when sitting at my desk.

chrome gull
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I see, noice

proud jay
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get a good chair

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sit up straight

fathom wadi
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I thought CP2077 was pretty immersive tbh. I felt right in character throughout the entire thing and the open world experience felt decent. Just my two cents tho.

broken sigil
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I love cyberpunk, thought it was a solid 9/10

Funnily enough on my first playthrough on launch I had absolutely no issues, I can't remember any bugs either

So after playing it, seeing all the criticism online was very surprising

proud jay
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a split keyboard can help with shoulder/neck pain as well if you wanna yolo in

fathom wadi
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same. I completed it twice and had 2 bugs the entire time

novel storm
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That is ironic but I believe it

proud jay
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not sitting in the same position for 5 hours on end also helps

novel storm
proud jay
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I see you have too much money

chrome gull
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I played 2077 on its first sale lol, saw one bug and after I fixed it, there was nothing

novel storm
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ngl if I get this career job I will straight up piss any excess money away into my health

warm bloom
proud jay
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a standing desk could help with changing positions throughout the day as well

warm bloom
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and then the combat felt mediocre

proud jay
chrome gull
warm bloom
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the story only felt interesting once johnny appears

chrome gull
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it's an RPG lol

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not an arcade sim

warm bloom
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I'm paying $60 for an open world story game

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alternatives were more impressive

novel storm
fathom wadi
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and it was an open world with a story so you got what you paid for. And we can all criticise games to any degree but as far as games go, it was very very good

proud jay
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most of them are a scam

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especially in murica where they sell anything as "medicine"

warm bloom
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like assassins creed odyssey or far cry 5 or red dead redemption 2

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are light years better

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imo

chrome gull
fathom wadi
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its all preference tho so I respect that.

chrome gull
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than CP2077

warm bloom
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misleading

fathom wadi
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to be fair, Farcry 5 was very good. RDR2 was boring as hell tho

chrome gull
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ACO is the most grindy, bloated and dreadful game I've ever played

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FC5 was pretty fun

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haven't played RDR2

warm bloom
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aco is really fun

fathom wadi
fleet tangle
proud jay
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what is that

warm bloom
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and flying fucking cars

fleet tangle
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It's a vitamin supplement.

proud jay
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do you have a deficit?

novel storm
proud jay
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cause too much can also be bad

fleet tangle
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Probably.

proud jay
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you can test it with bloodwork lol

warm bloom
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I wasn't disappointed in the story it's a solid 8/10 maybe a 9

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I was just disappointed in the world

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I like exploring everything

chrome gull
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I'll maybe try it again in the far future

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after I cut through my backlog of several 100 hour long games

fleet tangle
fathom wadi
warm bloom
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hopefully cd projekt red can redeem themselves in the future but they made me stop preordering games

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ngl

fathom wadi
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I instantly pre-ordered Phantom Liberty.

warm bloom
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I'll probably preorder payday 3

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though

proud jay
warm bloom
chrome gull
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but tbf as long as they are fun idc

proud jay
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pre ordering something they promised would be free at first, and is an expansion to one of the most broken disappointing launches

warm bloom
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also aco I didn't even finish it

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but it was fun as shit

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put maybe 150 hours

chrome gull
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one was bleh and the jury's still out for the other one

warm bloom
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idk though these newer assassins creed games look real bad

fathom wadi
# warm bloom I hope that dlc makes it into a full game

dude thats just excessive criticism. The original game was a full game. It had a beginning, middle and end with the story. It took over 40 hours to complete. I mean, what do you want out of it? Is there something you felt it needed?

warm bloom
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like the Viking ones had terrible movement systems

warm bloom
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imo gta 5 from a decade ago had better ai

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and more interactive things

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I don't actually know what the phantom liberty dlc adds in terms of story

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or how much it costs

fathom wadi
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its Β£30

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it basically reboots the whole game they say. New story, different way to complete it. etc.

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new area too

warm bloom
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seems worth while then

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I might buy it in the future

broken sigil
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Yeah I'm playing it as soon as it comes out

warm bloom
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like i said the cyberpunk story was solid 8/10 maybe 9

fathom wadi
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I don't pre-order games usually. I do it perhaps once every 5 years. But I had to with this. I know the console players had a rough time with CP but I played on PC and found it really enjoyable

warm bloom
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talking about far cry 5 made me want to play it again

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ngl

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that game has the best fishing mechanics ever

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it's so fun

fathom wadi
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I watched my wife complete farcry 5 at least 25 times. She's an expert on it to the point she got me to teach her how to hack games so she could find hidden unused content and things.

warm bloom
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when's phantom come out anywah

fathom wadi
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september

warm bloom
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I've played it only twice

fathom wadi
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I played the first area and got bored knowing the rest of it is just the same repeated. But she was obsessed with for a solid 3 years

warm bloom
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I hope far cry 7 is a brand new game

warm bloom
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far cry 6 is kinda just a reskin

fathom wadi
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yeah its not an exaggeration either

fleet tangle
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Was fc6 the cult one?

fathom wadi
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no that was 5

chrome gull
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that's 5

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6 was the cuban one

fleet tangle
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What was 6?

chrome gull
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with bullet sponges

fleet tangle
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Hmm. Think I skipped 6 then.

fathom wadi
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6 is the south american one with Gus Fring

warm bloom
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it was a reskin

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tbh

chrome gull
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6 was so bad

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I played multiple free weekends

warm bloom
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a reskin with less features at that

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when is that new division game coming out

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the free to play one

fathom wadi
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heartland. Dunno. But I bet it flops

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I'm a huge Division fan but they consistently ruined it over time

warm bloom
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oh late this year or early next year cool

fathom wadi
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Something that really pisses me off in games dev right now is removing content in sequels. Like they make a game where people love it. They have all this content and game modes. Then make a sequel and take it all out. Like why? Just add to it you special kind of lazy bastards.

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Like Diablo 4 for example

chrome gull
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Just Cause 4 is the best example of this

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guys removed everything people loved from the previous game

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like why

fathom wadi
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they did the same with The Division 2

warm bloom
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if you're gonna reskin a game why take content away from me I'm all for copy and pasting good titles that took years

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but why not just add more content

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Ubisoft does this all day long

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all their titles

fathom wadi
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Yep

warm bloom
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assassins creed has the same issue

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it's annoying

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you have to wait a few years til they start from scratch again

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then you get a solid game

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but first they release their testing games

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like assassins creed origins

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is like the test of the new engine and features for odyssey

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and then they copy their next few games

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dude it was actually the same with unity to syndicate

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god that's awful

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and it's all documented

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on their fandom

proud jay
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diablo 4 already on sale lol

bronze axle
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Soon.

inland oriole
proud jay
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yes

warm bloom
unborn lotus
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Starfield reviews looking good

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Looks like I gotta take some days off to play πŸ₯²

inland oriole
unborn lotus
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I read that it feels polished with minimal bugs

inland oriole
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Also this a typical triple A studio game move. Not announcing what the gameplay is actually about but instead just saying "we sell games people play" 🀣

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Storage: 125 GB available space
No thanks.

proud jay
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how can there be any meaningful reviews already though

unborn lotus
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Embargo lifted just now

proud jay
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I see

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I was thinking steam reviews

inland oriole
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Those are not "meaningful" in any way. Those are often just trying to make it look better than it is so they don't get kicked out of being able to review their next games.

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πŸ™ƒ

proud jay
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Oh I recognise this game engine

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it's powerpoint

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hey the current top starfield streamer cohhcarnage played our shitty indie game at release

inland oriole
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I'm definitely biased though, I absolutely do not like those big companies reviewing games.

unborn lotus
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what's the catch with xbox/pc game pass? all these games (and starfield) for like 7 euros per month?

proud jay
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there is no catch yet

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farm subs, raise prices

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that's how services work

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look at netflix

inland oriole
proud jay
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I think microsoft likes money though

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Laura could tell you all about it

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they crunch the money out

inland oriole
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They pay developers to have games on gamepass, people buy the subscription and end up giving Microsoft money and so the loop continues. Then after some time new games go on there and other games get yoinked away so that you now need to buy the game you spend hours on x)

proud jay
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well most people will not play a game longer than the game pass shelf life though

inland oriole
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It's still an amazing deal to try out games though.

proud jay
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it is a good deal

chrome gull
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reviews range from 7 to 10

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it's so odd

proud jay
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is it?

inland oriole
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If they didn't make money from it or gained something else from it they wouldn't be keeping gamepass πŸ˜„

proud jay
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that's all pretty high

proud jay
chrome gull
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7 is less high than 10

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8-10 is good

proud jay
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depends on who you ask

chrome gull
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5-7 is... not good

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that's what I think

proud jay
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not all reviewers have the same standard for a 9 for example

inland oriole
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A 7 on average still means nothing when it's only a few companies getting a look at a small portion of the game though πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

proud jay
chrome gull
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yeah I'm still in the process of reading all the reviews (like I won't be playing the game in a few hours hahaha)

inland oriole
chrome gull
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i've discovered tons of good games on XGP

proud jay
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it's like amazon

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they make bank on AWS so they can lose money on things like twitch or undercutting competition till they die

inland oriole
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EGS does the exact same thing. They throw a ton of money into it in the hope it eventually starts generating revenue for the rest of the companies existence πŸ˜›

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But it absolutely did not make any money for a long time. I'm not sure how they are doing these days but you get the point xD

proud jay
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but it is a great deal if you play games regularly

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I don't play that many games anymore these days myself though

inland oriole
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The launcher is absurd.

proud jay
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or a reverse financed intern

inland oriole
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I was looking at my library the other day and noticed I have a bunch of mod SDKs in there. Turns out you can't remove them or any game for that matter because they don't offer that functionality. You can't even hide them D:

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I don't understand how they don't see how big of an issue their whole interface is though. It's absurd they put millions of dollars into that product and then still have the most barebones functionality.

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I'm probably one of the very few people that want them to succeed but it's absurd how much is missing :/

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I was in a stream for a game today with the developers playing and someone was asking "Why don't they just add all mods for the game into the game" and I was genuinly confused why after all these years it's still not clear games can't just throw everything into their game in a second 😦

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Especially if it's 10-20 people versus an entire army of modders x)

proud jay
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and why would you even

inland oriole
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I mean fair enough. It's definitely much easier for me to say "Why don't they just fix it?" then someone within Epic getting paid to do so lol.

proud jay
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if it's already there

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why do it again

inland oriole
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The person asking was playing on console and we all know how much Sony / Microsoft etc. love mods.

proud jay
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factorio is also making a space expansion, co created by the guy that made the well known space exploration mod

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at least that's different

inland oriole
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I'm super excited for their DLC ❀️

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I mean it is though.

proud jay
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well it is downloadable

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technically the base game is also DLC in that sense πŸ€”

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as are most games

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have we been living in DLC all along?

inland oriole
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I can't be bothered to use words every company gives something while we for a long time have named things like these "DLC"

proud jay
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wait

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expansions were a thing before dlc

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(in response to thom)

inland oriole
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I can't wait for the day people do the same with micro-transactions πŸ˜†

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But I'm not old though.

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"DLC" is the word I grew up with πŸ₯²

proud jay
inland oriole
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  1. So might as well be.
proud jay
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damn

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am I already a boomer at 26

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is this the end of my life

inland oriole
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Yes. 🀣

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Laura is a πŸ¦• at this point.

bronze axle
warm bloom
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:(

inland oriole
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Why is "dinosaurus" called "sauropod" πŸ˜†

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I was born in 2001. So you might understand why I was saying I literally grew up with that name x)

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The lower price thing?

proud jay
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I don't accept people born after 2000

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that's impossible

inland oriole
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πŸ˜‚

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I have to eat though. Brb.

proud jay
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unfortunately

lofty lark
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The worst part is the consumers continuing to give those companies their money πŸ™ƒ

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Actually what I would consider worse than that, is the part of the community that acknowledges the problem, complains about the problem, and then continues to give them their money πŸ™ƒπŸ™ƒ

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sry but my fav streamer is playing that game and buying all the dlc and comsetics so obvi i have to too

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I didn't mind DLC much at all growing up... granted my initial exposure to DLC was COD and battlefield. I was cool with spending $15 for 4 new multiplayer maps and a new nazi zombie map :p

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I've always just viewed dlc and expansions as one and the same, just different names shrug

fleet tangle
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Back in teh day you had to actually buy physical copies that extended your game.

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They are essentially the same thing, barring that.

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The internet has just made it convenient to release smaller amounts of content per release.

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Depends on the game/developer what DLC actually is.

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Borderlands DLC, for instance, is generally very well made and mid-sized.

lofty lark
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It's just really sad that the state of AAA games especially, has devolved from, "we want to use our resources to make great shit," to "we want to use our resources to milk your wallet." 😦

lofty lark
fleet tangle
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Yup!

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Admittedly, they have released some "hey this is a new playable character" dlc which was shit.

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But all their actual content updates are really good.

broken sigil
lofty lark
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10 bucks for new areas, enemies, guns and story? hell yeah. But now you got shit like Destiny 2. "$40 for a couple hours of story plz and a raid. if you don't buy it, we lock you out of some content too hehe"

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"oh and here buy our $15 season pass too"

fleet tangle
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ikr

broken sigil
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Hey mine does, am I in the cool kids club?

lofty lark
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"and to compensate for the price increase, we also took dungeons out of the season pass. you have to buy those too hehe"

broken sigil
fleet tangle
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Yes, Destiny is a shit show.

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All its players have Stockholm.

lofty lark
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the game lies about being free to play

inland oriole
lofty lark
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it's a fucking demo

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and the new user experience is dogshit

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it doesn't help they removed almost all the story content that was in the game on launch

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including the first two paid dlc

inland oriole
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Even @slate drift made fun of me for my age πŸ˜†

broken sigil
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That's like 30 ish
Practically 1 leg in the grave already

inland oriole
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The server I moderate in there's a fellow mod who is like 80-90 years old. It's great XD

lofty lark
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It has the worst progression system I have ever experienced in a game too. "You are only allowed to progress this much every week, and you have to do these specific activities every week to progress." and it's 90% the same exact shit they had you do 6 years ago when the game launched

broken sigil
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That actually makes me feel a tiny bit better, considering I look back at my 18th birthday with massive nostalgia lmao

slate drift
lofty lark
slate drift
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Acting as I'm not a zoomer myself

inland oriole
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I think you were like just on the edge of being a millennial, Wizard?

slate drift
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Yeah, but well

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parents...

unreal ether
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😭

inland oriole
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Damn parents not considering that I'm now a zoomer smh 🀣

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"Next time"

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I'm not a refundable product, sorry to disappoint Laura.

lofty lark
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stop that

inland oriole
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Wdym "how does that work"?

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xD

lofty lark
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that never occured to me and that's just wild

inland oriole
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I don't think we need to have this talk with you any more I hope.

proud jay
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so what is between 93 and 98, asking for a friend

inland oriole
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πŸ˜‚

slate drift
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stap ittt

inland oriole
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Wizard have you already taken over your job's lead role? πŸ˜„

proud jay
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event gang rise up

inland oriole
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SORRY EXCUSE ME.

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WHAT;

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🀣

broken sigil
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Are you like 70 concerned_tom

slate drift
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You have a very special manner of convincing

inland oriole
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There was a YouTube short and they were using the term "I tiktok'd without a firewall" and it was the most absurd thing I had ever seen.

slate drift
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Gonna use that against our designers

inland oriole
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NewObject intensifies.

broken sigil
inland oriole
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Wizard is a lie all along πŸ₯²

unreal ether
slate drift
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It's still not looking good no?

broken sigil
proud jay
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I feel like they've given up on generation naming after millenials

inland oriole
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❀️

lofty lark
proud jay
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what is gen z even supposed to mean

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or gen alpha

inland oriole
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What even is life am I right Dieter.

lofty lark
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why not just refer the generation by the years

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instead of weird words

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oh. sorry for the suggestion PepeLeave

inland oriole
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What instead of "generations" we start calling them "hotfixes".

unreal ether
proud jay
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only alpha males born these days

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no beta cucks

unreal ether
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Run and hide when generation gamma comes around

inland oriole
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Lol

proud jay
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2012 apparently

deep glen
inland oriole
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I saw the emoji and I thought it was Wizard.

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The disappointment is unreal πŸ˜”

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This is my cue to disappear again. This is the peak of the day.

proud jay
unreal ether
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Is this some cursed version of a superconductor? Who let the scientists think again?

broken sigil
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We need a :baby_yells_at_unreal: emoji lol

deep glen
proud jay
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lmao that ending

deep glen
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speaking off, @broken sigil still wanted to generate an image for me iirc

mental veldt
hybrid jasper
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hi

empty dune
mental veldt
empty dune
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updatecide

mental veldt
empty dune
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kek

worldly mesa
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does the steam version of substance painter come with all the invasive adobe windows services and background running apps?, or does the steam DRM handle it?

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indeed :/

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same. i know it does not contain 'creative cloud' but i still wonder about the 4 other services constantly running (if they are still included)

worldly mesa
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yeah, that's the type of Windows service they install that bug me (barring cloud based stuff)

worldly mesa
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oh, that's not good. i know they are still selling 2023, but IDK if 2024 is coming.. sounds like no, from that

fleet tangle
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In about 4 months

worldly mesa
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Mixer is officially at its final version, but they seem to have something else planned.. perhaps a suite?

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well, depending on your needs, maybe the Layer Painter add-on for blender is enough,. i just forked and updated it to include edge masks, and procedural grunge maps. PR is waiting on acceptance, but you can pull it from my Git if you wanted to try it

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lol

proud jay
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woops I accidentally cracked photoshop

worldly mesa
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yeah, but manually setting up all the layers, every freakin' time is Super slow workflow killer :/ that is why i was so glad to find Layer Painter. had to contribute, just because it was so helpful

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Yeah, layer's are a manual thing, without this plugin

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nope. Nice!

celest musk
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i watched 10 minutes and it was... exhausting to watch

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i feel like the quality of the UE streams is going down

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or they are just too slow placed for intermediates?

celest musk
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matthew wadstein does that!?

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just watch them at 5x speed πŸ˜„

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glad they leave something like that for "compatibility" reasons around πŸ˜„

worldly mesa
fleet tangle
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That font!

worldly mesa
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I find it very easy to read! y'all are just mean πŸ˜›

fleet tangle
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Stockholm syndrome is a proposed condition in which hostages develop a psychological bond with their captors. It is supposed to result from a rather specific set of circumstances, namely the power imbalances contained in hostage-taking, kidnapping, and abusive relationships. Therefore, it is difficult to find a large number of people who experie...

chrome gull
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lmao 😭

sweet rose
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umm guys

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Can landlords ask for cash only

fleet tangle
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That would depend on your local laws.

#

However, I highly suspect they aren't paying taxes and you shoudl report them to the local government.

#

After offering them a loan secured on their house which they will then be unable to repay.

regal pecan
#

Something tells me Varun is not a centralized bank, otherwise that would be sound advice

sweet rose
chrome gull
#

starfield in just an hour guys

sweet rose
worldly mesa
fleet tangle
#

One key thing regular payments make is a paper trail, in case they try to say you didn't pay

errant raven
#

My neighborhood is trying to make a new housing rule where any "tenants with a dog over 30 pounds will have 3 days to leave"

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"Trying", I dnt think its gonna get very far considering everyone has hounds and pits

fleet tangle
#

Indeed.

timber viper
#

is it just me or bg3 act 3 is beyond unplayable

#

i was having fun with around 50-60 fps now its barely 15

fathom wadi
errant raven
#

Killer klowns from outer space are getting a game

#

And it's just a dead by daylight clone

#

Sorta

fluid bloom
#

I wonder if we'll get project zomboid with better graphics with this πŸ˜„ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ_TWsTlXnw

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proud jay
#

I hate zombie games

unborn lotus
#

and days gone

fluid bloom
#

the best zombie game to date is probably last of us

proud jay
#

well then I don't have to play any others

#

cause I didn't even like that one

pearl elk
soft night
#

blame mons for this hue thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9mEVc0DS9w

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proud jay
#

I will never trust "smart" security

pearl elk
#

Isnt there some Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 thing9 tonight?

graceful sequoia
#

yep WP has the exact same damn bug

#

as it was in 5.0

#

basically "dont use the cardinal axes!!!!!"

#

i really hope i just dont know some magical incantation because

#

otherwise it seems like world partition is completely useless

#

without some very careful world design

#

hmmm

#

well that implies this eventually ends, that only things within 4x of your grid's load distance will stay loaded

#

lemme check that once i relaunch the editor since it decided to die

#

fwiw its 50 feet of gap

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not like these are perfectly on the axis

#

its actually a little lopsided too, but that might just be sloppy methodology on my part

#

oh right

#

i guess on that point, its not as bad as it seems, because very dense very small objects are unlikely to do so

#

i suppose for your "architectural" or "environmental" grid, youd want to be sure to set the grid size itself to be large in addition to the load distance, to minimize this effect

#

oh yes

timber viper
#

"game dev is not stressful"

graceful sequoia
#

you can use some prioritization to help

#

but absolutely not solve

#

i was hoping to find some new WP loading observation API

timber viper
graceful sequoia
#

i meant grid loading prioritization

#

yeah it doesnt exist

#

or if it does, its.... shall we say absolutely undocumented

#

for characters so far i have some hacks

#

things like checks for floors and disabling physics, some teleporting stuff. But nothing works well

#

honestly a nightmare

timber viper
#

is this all to workaround a single WP bug?

graceful sequoia
#

well no

#

to work around multiple WP bugs

#

but the fact that you cannot enforce loading order? yeah

#

if your object has physics, its gone

#

or at least, indeterminantly gone

timber viper
#

interesting, why Fortnite doesnt suffer from this?

graceful sequoia
#

does fortnite actually use it?

#

oh wut gif did i pull

#

lol

timber viper
#

if it doesnt, why it exist in the engine Thonk

timber viper
graceful sequoia
#

sadly it seems just a tech demo

timber viper
#

lol

#

another marketing trap?

graceful sequoia
#

oh God water

#

you all know how I feel about that

timber viper
#

i really wonder how epic responds to "actual" clients

#

we got a fking expensive license and WP doesnt work

#

answer: lmao

graceful sequoia
#

"you weren't supposed to actually use that"

timber viper
#

"but you marketed it to us CB_angery_cry"

graceful sequoia
#

I really hoped it was gonna get better in a few point releases

#

because the old system is so insane as to be useless unless you have a huge team

#

what was it called again

#

world.... composition

timber viper
#

nativization didnt work, water doesnt work, statetree is buggy, aimodule is dumpster fire, wp doesnt work, vcs integration is shitty, c++ is awful

#

in house engines should be beyond terrible

#

if Epic can survive with this amount of half assing

graceful sequoia
#

How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love The Hot Reload

#

just kidding

timber viper
graceful sequoia
#

I bet the larian engine is nice

timber viper
#

its using c#

#

and act3 doesnt work

#

its laggy af

graceful sequoia
#

I'm in act 3

timber viper
#

it cant render much skeletal meshes

graceful sequoia
#

it's not great perf but it's actually impressive what they do on crowds and stuff

timber viper
graceful sequoia
#

cheers in 3080ti

timber viper
#

its cpu bottleneck

#

rather than gpu

#

ryzen 2600 cant take it, i wonder how xbox series will take it

#

which is even weaker than ps4

graceful sequoia
#

yeah core i9 12900k for me, and it's ... ok. about 30-40 fps with some noticable frame stutter

woven wing
#

How come no one uses right click as 'back' in menuing

graceful sequoia
#

(on 4k)

timber viper
graceful sequoia
#

shtaaap

woven wing
#

See it sometimes in eastern developed games, in EDF and AC6 for instance, but I can't think of a single western developed game that does that

timber viper
#

4k is 4096x4096 or something like that right?

#

in resolution

graceful sequoia
#

nah it's ehm 2160p 16:9

#

not even cinema 4k is 4k*4k

#

cause that would actually be 16k

timber viper
#

ah

#

right

woven wing
#

It sounds bad, but 'plays' good

graceful sequoia
#

I want my right click to be for... like menus and stuff

woven wing
#

In and out of menuing with just a mouse

graceful sequoia
#

that's fair I guess. for certain games it could work. makes me think of death stranding

#

on PC, kind of a nightmare controls wise

woven wing
#

Some games do use right click for like bringing up a menu

graceful sequoia
#

all creative tools should have fluffy mode though

#

because it sounds comforting under crunch

woven wing
graceful sequoia
#

yeah. cries in kojima

#

oops I guess I can not ping you

#

Bloop.

median wraith
#

Damm the dragon from the editor

graceful sequoia
#

sup hevedy! man, Laura, hevedy, I popped on at a good time

#

and Eren of course sorry eren

woven wing
#

I don't ping Laura because she does this

graceful sequoia
#

k, make that 25875

woven wing
#

And I feel dumb (deserved)

empty dune
#

please can this happen 😭

graceful sequoia
#

I've been hanging out with the forge folks (actually, Neoforged now because they're forking) and pings are strictly forbidden

median wraith
#

25874 RTX TI

median wraith
graceful sequoia
#

so I got used to hitting that bell on every reply to avoid banishment

timber viper
graceful sequoia
#

ahh the 25874 RTX Ti, not to be confused with the 25874 GeForce RTX Ti, which behaves entirely differently

woven wing
#

I like how Epic is giving out unannounced RX 7500s

graceful sequoia
#

yes all three are from different generations and have nothing in common. Thanks Nvidia!

empty dune
#

oh totally, im secretly the owner of a AAA studio thats using unreal engine 5 to make the next AAAA game, how did you know??

graceful sequoia
#

doesn't mean much really

empty dune
#

damnit

woven wing
#

I make AAAh games

#

the AAAh is me screaming

empty dune
graceful sequoia
#

welcome to unreal. scratch that, welcome to game development

median wraith
#

Why Spiderman games are Spider-Man and not the combo or Spider+Man

#

Someone have the reply

graceful sequoia
#

Spider+Man is different

#

that's an X rated game iirc

proud jay
#

should I do a woodworking course of 160 hours for 410 euros including material and machine usage πŸ€”

#

seems like good value

graceful sequoia
#

not if you hate woodworking no

graceful sequoia
#

that would not be a good value

proud jay
#

I like woodworking with my hand tools so far

#

thing is I don't have machines at home, so outside of class can't do shit

median wraith
#

Wait you don't have foot tools ?

graceful sequoia
#

converts currencies

woven wing
#

Local makerspace?

#

Are those still a thing

proud jay
#

yeah

#

lol

#

forgot that existed

graceful sequoia
#

I mean everyone's gotta have a hobby

median wraith
#

at this point maybe is better to making living money from there than games that's collapsed

proud jay
#

well I don't make games either way

graceful sequoia
#

yeah career change! open an Etsy shop

proud jay
#

the course guy was also promoting it like you can find work with this lol

#

I was like bitch please, I'm a swe, I can get a job in 4.2 nanoseconds

median wraith
#

That always are liars

proud jay
#

this would be more of a hobby thing

woven wing
#

I had a recruiter reach out to me like "Hey, wanna go be armed security in Bahgdad"

proud jay
#

and maybe come in handy when working on my own house

graceful sequoia
#

software engineer

#

Im not much a fan of SWE

#

mostly cause I read it as Sweeee

proud jay
#

why do you hate sweden

proud jay
graceful sequoia
#

Sweden's ok cause there's another consonant grouping

#

just seems more proper

proud jay
#

it's like those people don't know how to read

graceful sequoia
#

also sounds like Soft Ware Engineer

#

speaking of hyphenation

#

what's a ware

median wraith
#

Wait, that easy is to get a job as software engineer in the north ?

graceful sequoia
#

and why is it soft

fleet tangle
#

I've always thought people who use hyphens are rather dashing.

proud jay
#

a ware is a good

#

see: ware house

woven wing
proud jay
median wraith
#

@proud jay in what industry you work right now ?

proud jay
#

but if you have none, then yes

#

I'm currently a backend dev in a supply chain planning company

median wraith
#

oh

graceful sequoia
#

and...

#

what is the frontend to that backend

proud jay
#

one that I don't make

#

the best kind

graceful sequoia
#

Webdev!

proud jay
#

idk if you can really call it webdev in se though

graceful sequoia
#

we're all webdevs

#

APIs for web

#

web apps for web

proud jay
#

I guees

#

but it goes so deep

#

we're transforming our fat client to a service based architecture with a thin client (aka this frontend)

proud jay
#

I feel like saying web dev gives this connotation of making websites for companies

#

like wordpress crap and the likes

graceful sequoia
#

yeah

fleet tangle
#

I've never made a wordpress site. I hope to continue this trend.

proud jay
#

I've never made a website

#

wait, except my portfolio

#

with drag and drop wordpress lol

woven wing
graceful sequoia
#

for a few years I did php webdev, including WordPresses and magentos. never again

proud jay
#

there's not much difference between making a desktop application and "web dev" though

proud jay
#

just that you separate the UI and work with an api

graceful sequoia
#

everything is networked, APIs are always needed

empty dune
fleet tangle
proud jay
#

neither do I as backend boy though

fleet tangle
#

Then you're good!

woven wing
proud jay
graceful sequoia
#

is it indeed

fleet tangle
#

Indeed is a spam machine

empty dune
proud jay
#

indeedz nuts

woven wing
empty dune
graceful sequoia
#

oh good

#

as in... employee with benefits?

empty dune
proud jay
woven wing
#

Honestly, looking at it, it doesn't sound too terrible

proud jay
#

and it's in baghdad

woven wing
#

They pay better than the last company who sent me over there

proud jay
#

why are you going to baghdad so often

#

you live in iraq?

graceful sequoia
#

software engineers are well known to be good armed guards this is true

woven wing
#

Army, and Afghanistan but close enough

empty dune
proud jay
#

what happened that you are a vet at 29?

woven wing
#

When statetrees are like "Linker." I got scared

woven wing
graceful sequoia
#

it's not uncommon for 29 year olds to be veterans....

proud jay
#

you were on the roof?

#

or you did the blowing?

graceful sequoia
#

at least in the us

proud jay
woven wing
#

Most peoples only do like ~5 years and get out

graceful sequoia
#

folks join young, do a few terms and leave. if there was a war, I'd suppose you are a veteran. hmm, do we consider servicemen not in active war to be veterans? not sure on that

proud jay
#

so what do you do after that?

#

except apparently armed security

empty dune
#

research sheep

woven wing
#

They pay for uni completely, and like a few thousand dollerydoos a month while you're in school

graceful sequoia
#

if you specialized in something, you usually go into that industry

proud jay
#

I never got the whole army thing personally

#

but it's for a specific kind of person I guess

#

or when you are in need of their benefits to survive

graceful sequoia
#

well someone's gotta do it

proud jay
#

I of course am priviledged to live in a quite peaceful country

unreal ether
#

If everyone refused there would be no more war 🧠

proud jay
graceful sequoia
woven wing
unborn lotus
#

We had mandatory service, but they got rid of it like one year before I was supposed to go 😌

graceful sequoia
#

is that not something that can be googled

proud jay
#

we have taken our hands off of colonialism πŸ₯

#

only people familiar with belgian atrocities will get that joke

empty dune
#

everyone is familiar with the belgian warcrimes stuff

graceful sequoia
#

you can't Dieter me if Dieter didn't already respond, that's a technical foul

empty dune
#

its like the emu war level internet lore

proud jay
#

idk about everyone lol

graceful sequoia
#

(just go with it Dieter, it benefits you)

proud jay
#

technically belgium did nothing wrong

#

cause it was privately owned by the king

#

πŸ‘€

inland oriole
#

technically belgium did nothing wrong
Biggest lie of the century πŸ‘€

empty dune
#

belgium is known for two things that both start with w

#

waffles

#

and warcrimes

proud jay
#

weer and whocolate

#

and wries

graceful sequoia
#

oh crap Belgium controversy

woven wing
#

wChocolate

inland oriole
#

We all know Belgium isn't real though.

woven wing
#

Wait, he already said that

graceful sequoia
#

....is probably the only time I'll be able to say that

empty dune
inland oriole
#

That too.

proud jay
#

france is quitelarge though, hard to miss

graceful sequoia
#

Belgium is the place with that weird version of English ?

proud jay
#

what

woven wing
#

That's England

proud jay
#

you mean the UK?

graceful sequoia
#

lmao

empty dune
#

france is a story made up by mothers to make sure children finish their bread

proud jay
#

which is the normal version of english

graceful sequoia
#

well played, Americanized comrade

#

sorry

#

Americanised

proud jay
#

but belgium has 3 official languages, Dutch, French and German

inland oriole
#

I still love how France strategically placed one of their nuclear reactors next to Belgium 🀣

woven wing
#

My parents made me learn how to spell every word in the dictionary when I was really little

graceful sequoia
#

neutrality? I dunno

unborn lotus
graceful sequoia
#

reminds me of Canada units

woven wing
#

It was an Oxford dictionary, and they didn't know the difference

#

And it's ruined me for life

inland oriole
proud jay
inland oriole
#

Maybe they share the energy that comes out of the reactor but it's still on ground from the French.

graceful sequoia
#

makes me feel slightly better about freedom units

proud jay
graceful sequoia
#

at least we're wrong consistently

proud jay
#

uk also has some weird mix

#

like using stones for weight

#

wtf is that

inland oriole
#

For weight?

proud jay
#

yes

inland oriole
#

??

#

Confusion.

proud jay
fleet tangle
#

A stone is obviously the weight of a stone.

inland oriole
#

WAIT WHAT.

#

Stone is a unit?

#

🀣

fleet tangle
#

It's split into sub-units called pounds (lbs) of which there are 14 per stone..

graceful sequoia
#

and also all the us customary units are defined via conversion to metric. so like it or not, we are on the metric system (this is more funny talking to dumb pro-customary unit americans)

proud jay
#

cause metric has standards

graceful sequoia
#

ayo

fleet tangle
#

No matter what they're defined as, the metrics system is based around the idea of base 10, which they apparently don't l ike. Probably because they don't have 10 fingers, damned hillbilly inbred mutants.

graceful sequoia
#

lol

fleet tangle
#

And I'm saying this in a country that uses only half metrics units.

graceful sequoia
#

as an American, Sounds Accurate (TM)

woven wing
#

People complain about Imperial units and turn around and use 60s, 60m, 12x2 or 24hr, 28,29,30,31 days, 12 months, 7 days in a week,

graceful sequoia
#

that's a practical concern though

inland oriole
#

Didn't the US officially switch over to the metric system but people are just too stubborn to give up the imperial system?

proud jay
#

their scientists use it

graceful sequoia
fleet tangle
#

That's what the UK did, Thom, at least.

graceful sequoia
#

actually to be fair month day counts are fucked

woven wing
#

We tried that in the US, and according to my Dad (only sometimes right) "Everyone hated it because they were getting ripped off on gas"

graceful sequoia
#

that's a worldwide problem (mostly)

proud jay
#

they fucked up some space craft back in the day cause the one guy was measuring in inches and the other thought it was centimeters or something

graceful sequoia
#

why do we do this to ourselves

empty dune
proud jay
#

I don't recall which one exactly

woven wing
#

Challenger was a frozen o-ring

empty dune
#

dammit

#

i was too slow

fleet tangle
#

Oh, it was the Mars Climate Orbiter.

proud jay
#

The Newby–McMahon Building, commonly referred to as the World's littlest skyscraper, is located at 511 7th Street (on the corner of Seventh and La Salle streets) in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas. It is a late Neoclassical style red brick and cast stone structure. It stands 40 ft (12 m) tall, and its exterior dimensions are 18 ft (5.5 m) deep and...

woven wing
#

Classic! 12" vs 12'

graceful sequoia
#

for what it's worth, most Americans don't consider Texas to be part of the country

#

although it's more US than Florida is

proud jay
empty dune
#

texas and florida is probably the most US out of all US states

inland oriole
graceful sequoia
#

we're not sure what is up with Florida. seems to be some kind of swamp thing

fleet tangle
#

If the sky has fallen, it's touching it!!

woven wing
#

Idk how florida is still alive

graceful sequoia
proud jay
#

the guy just scammed them by using inches instead of feet

empty dune
woven wing
#

Feels like every year there's a new massive hurricane that destroys a part of the state

proud jay
empty dune
#

they have to deal with florida men and women

#

florida is australia for all species except humans

graceful sequoia
inland oriole
#

There's a website where you can see what random event happened including a "Florida man" on the day you were born. It's pretty funny xD

proud jay
graceful sequoia
#

hopefully get rid of them

#

but as I say that

#

do any of us want to program that?

inland oriole
#

Can I switch my birthday.

graceful sequoia
#

at... all

inland oriole
proud jay
#

we should start years in march again

unborn lotus
graceful sequoia
#

hopefully Florida man doesn't become president. if so, run away from us

proud jay
#

make sept-dec make sens again

empty dune
inland oriole
proud jay
fleet tangle
proud jay
#

is he actually in prison now

woven wing
#

I'm so excited for the trial to be livestreamed

proud jay
#

I saw he was arrested but assume he paid bail

graceful sequoia
inland oriole
#

πŸ˜‚

fleet tangle
#

It doesn't say he was doing it to himself.

proud jay
#

well I don't think they would arrest him if it was on himself

#

that seems legal

empty dune
inland oriole
empty dune
#

there's a whole website for florida women too

#

its wild

woven wing
timber viper
#

meh nothing interesting

graceful sequoia
#

I think it should be a constitutional right for Florida men to castrate at home

inland oriole
proud jay
#

why is my birtday cursed

graceful sequoia
#

who are we to stop them

inland oriole
empty dune
#

its a little biased towards the men tbh

proud jay
#

well, men are known to do stupid shit

inland oriole
#

As a man I can confirm.

#

πŸ˜‚

timber viper
#

another "why women live longer" meme?

proud jay
timber viper
#

why

inland oriole
proud jay
#

I am

#

is joke

graceful sequoia
#

yeah but Florida men take it to a new level. And it has occurred to me that someone in here listening is probably a Florida man (technically) but they are probably one of the good ones

inland oriole
#

Sad Dieter fiancee noises.

proud jay
#

well statistically speaking women do live longer

empty dune
#

i dont understand the "marrying is such torture dear god save me jk jk" jokes

timber viper
#

I kinda observe men really do more dumb and risky things in general too, though Thonk

empty dune
#

and only men seem to do it

#

which is worse

inland oriole
#

I too equally hate all people regardless of gender.

#

Does that count?

woven wing
inland oriole
#

πŸ˜‚

proud jay
#

I don't hate everyone equally, not based on gender though

graceful sequoia
#

Anyway, let's all agree to switch to an even 28 day 13 month calendar with one additional rest day per year.

woven wing
#

I wonder what the most remote place I can get fiber internet is

proud jay
#

mostly based on personality and actions

timber viper
#

half of my friends at the same age as me are married and I'm merely 22

graceful sequoia
#

it won't be THAT hard to write the localization code for it

inland oriole
#

How about we first ditch all languages around the world and agree on the same language?

proud jay
empty dune
proud jay
#

language is a part of culture

timber viper
inland oriole
timber viper
#

but not the other half

proud jay
#

could as well say break down all the buildings and build the exact same apartment block everywhere

inland oriole
graceful sequoia
timber viper
#

I would not want to speak English all day

#

not even half of expressive as Turkish

proud jay
#

and it's not that hard in a lot of cases tbh

inland oriole
proud jay
#

I could

#

it would not be the same life, but it's possible

empty dune
graceful sequoia
#

I do love those tiktoks where they construct a sentence in an arbitrary language that sounds ridiculous because all the words are the same

inland oriole
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Sure technically you "can" but in reality most of us speak different languages.

graceful sequoia
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somehow every language has managed it

inland oriole
empty dune
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history is a lie unless the omnissian record keeps say its true

graceful sequoia
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unreal slackers is why I make no progress on my dumb game.

well, also unreal doesn't work but yeah

proud jay
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plenty of people don't

graceful sequoia
inland oriole
proud jay
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especially in less "internationalised" countries

graceful sequoia
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yep

proud jay
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most americans only know one language

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in romania only 35% of people speak a second language

unborn lotus
# graceful sequoia oh hell yeah English is no exception

More than 70 people try to say 70 tongue twisters from 70 countries. In this tongue twisters challenge, citizens from all around the world attempt funny tongue twisters in different languages. Most English speakers know about Sally selling seashells at the seashore and Peter Piper picked a peck of peppers, but what about the best tongue twister ...

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This is going to wreck my youtube algorithm isn't it

unborn lotus
inland oriole
# proud jay especially in less "internationalised" countries

Sure but there are also plenty of countries these days that teach multiple languages at schools. We had English and Dutch at our primary school and my highschool was giving French, Dutch, English and Latin as a must in the first year. Latin is by no means a standard but usually you also get a language like French or German on top of Dutch and English. It sucks.

empty dune
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in asia youll get weird looks if you say you only speak 1 language. overwhelming majority know 2+

graceful sequoia
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in California, it's 53% English only, 46% other language or both

inland oriole
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Still sucks though.

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I just want one language to rule them all 😭

proud jay
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depends on the person

empty dune
proud jay
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I got dutch, french, english and german in school, and latin and ancient greek

inland oriole
proud jay
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I enjoyed them all except german

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fuck that language

graceful sequoia
inland oriole
proud jay
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oh we also very shortly learned some hebrew for some reason

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but like only a few hours

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I also thought myself basic swedish

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languages can be interesting

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but most people won't enjoy it indeed

graceful sequoia
worldly sapphire
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The Germans

proud jay
empty dune
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The germans

inland oriole
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German is just the yelling version of Dutch.

empty dune
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Dammit

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Second again

proud jay
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nah the fact that it is a modern language and still uses all these cases

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I know that's not unique to german

unborn lotus
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German should be pretty easy to learn though

proud jay
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but they do it in a way that I don't like

graceful sequoia
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German word length disturbs me

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it's not natural

inland oriole
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πŸ€”

worldly sapphire
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I feel like knowing Latin didn't help to learn German

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Especially in high school

empty dune