I believe there is a way. Nanotechnology helped along by artificial intelligence could conceivably bring material abundance to everyone. This would be a world dramatically reshaped. Humanity might not even qualify as the same species anymore.
Some people actually think that such a future is an inevitability; that it can’t be stopped. Short of everybody dying in a fire of course.
You forgot to escape.
Yeah. He must be talking to a crowd that he figures can take a guess, but I wouldn’t think that such a crowd would find it very funny. A normie crowd would just have no idea wtf he means at all.
It’s too lucrative to die completely, somebody will always be there to take it up.
I know I don’t have to say this in present company, but with these kinds of people, it’s always projection. Like it can’t not be projection. I actually just learned there is a term for it: reaction formation.
Put another way, we can be pretty sure these people are dangerous for children. Very dangerous.
I am confused. I realize this is just a flag change not even a dev problem but PEBKAC, still - in the event of an actual bug, why wouldn’t Microsoft have a dev contribute to the project and fix it instead of just opening a ticket?
Yeah, this is my 65-year-old aunt. Never got covid she says - and yet she’s been sick more than once since 2019. She just never tests - so she never gets covid! Easy!
This picture gave me PTSD.
I could teach her
But she was killed by tar
Yes and this is what Starfield doesn’t do. Starfield doesn’t actually have whole planets generated by a shared seed. Planets in Starfield are just unlimited sources of randomly generated playboxes. Since the planets don’t actually exist, they can’t properly be said to be explorable.
For anyone interested in this topic, there is a super great video that explains the difference between procedural generation and random generation and how a tiny amount of data can be used to generate extremely complex things.
But I don’t think they can grab that explorer fanbase again, they are just against procedural generation in general, they probably wanted Outer Worlds but bigger.
I don’t think that’s true. Elite Dangerous is one of my favorite games and it’s procedurally generated. I think the issue is that that’s not exactly what Starfield is.
When you “land” in Starfield (outside a handcrafted city or similar), you land in a procedurally generated box made just for you. It isn’t repeatable by anybody but you. Other people who “land” in the same spot will not see what you saw, they get their own procedurally generated box. The contents of the box are similar (the terrain is the right color, the flora and fauna are the same). If you were to see something particularly cool in your box (although I never did when I was playing the game) - ie: “unusually tall mountain range” or “unusually deep valley” - you can’t tell someone “hey go to coordinates x,y and check this out!” You CAN do this in Elite Dangerous. All worlds, all settlements - everything is the same for everyone, and if you explore through it all and you find something interesting, you can share it with people.
In Starfield, your box always contains an uninteresting/unremarkable patch of terrain and magically, literally everywhere you land, there are structures and ships within walking distance - none of which anyone can get to but you.
There is literally no WAY to explore. Everywhere you land, it’s just another box and it will always contain the same variation on the same things. That isn’t exploration. Exploration implies things that exist whether you are there or not and which can be found by someone if they look long enough.
This looks like a great game, but “can we do this? Is this even possible?” I mean Super Paper Mario did it in 2007.
Do you people really think that YouTube can pay five-year-old "influencers" millions of dollars a year because YouTube is losing money?
What if the solution they come to is shutting the whole thing down?
Good fucking riddance.
AAA games also tend to do esoteric things like “release” and “become profitable” and “spawn sequels.”
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You’re being charitable, imo. USENET was plagued by a seemingly never-ending parade of mentally ill savants who lived to post, lived to troll and lived to avoid killfiles. It made it deeply unpleasant.
I see in the AMA they’re discussing moderated newsgroups, I never saw any in my day but frankly, moderation is often worse. Reddit had, I think, the most workable idea of them all, community policing and hiding content beneath a threshold. The unfortunate corporate reality of Reddit begat Lemmy and here we are now.
With Lemmy and the Fediverse, I don’t see USENET as being in any way relevant, other than its continuing role as a solid resource for above-average pirates. I don’t miss it even a little bit, it was utter rubbish by the end.
How’d you get it to be so snarky?
I wonder how long he sat in front of the mirror and practiced that.
Big disagree from me on that. I hated (nearly) every second of it.
That having been said, SQUEEE ENTERPRISE D
Was glorious seeing it again, even after everyone in the show shit on its design all season. That rather embodies the whole problem tbh.
Edit: I love SNW though, so there’s that.
Unfortunately I think it’s a losing battle. I’m not sure why the entire industry doesn’t do what Blizzard has done with D3/4 (ie: physical copy or not, it’s always online, validating your user and exposing you to mtx) but it seems to me that “resistance is futile” as more young players are normalized to it and it becomes the rule rather than the exception.
For my part, I generally refuse. But of course, the “generally” part is why they will all eventually succeed. There are games that always-online is more necessary because of multiplayer and shared world. There are also games where always-online is nothing more than naked capitalist bullshit. But who’s to say where it’s appropriate to draw that line? The players? Christ knows D4 isn’t hurting for money because they haven’t gotten mine.
So if you think that your single-player experience has no technical reason why it should be always-online, Blizzard’s just gonna be all: that’s just like… your opinion, man.
No sense worrying about it then. I know I don’t.