So the concept of a space designated for one thing doesn’t make any sense to you? Like at all?

You know what, I appreciate the call-out. I don’t trust our economy, and shouldn’t reference it in defense of one (in my experience) honorably led company.

I thoroughly enjoy it as a game. It’s better with friends though, as some games tend to be.

I like Imperium a lot, but I’m so bad at it lol

I feel like too many people sleep on this game. It’s so good

Those fees are multi-industry standard though.

Negative. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but Ubisoft is AAAA now.

You are absolutely right. My problem was trying to install a hex map-making tool for D&D, which only came as a .deb file. So I needed a tool to install that, and the tools I found needed pacman to install them.

In regards to the decision to purchase a steam deck as opposed to a desktop or laptop, I most likely just wanted an excuse to buy a new toy, justified as a way to replace my aging laptop. I’d love to say it was a younger me making that mistake. No, it was me one year ago. I’m not really a different person now, and would likely do the same thing given the chance.

It’s literally just a progression system. The pass never goes away, the paid currency doesn’t even correlate with pass progress. It’s literally just a progression system.

Did you read his response at all? I’m a third of the way through the current battle pass, which does not have a premium track, and I’ve only played for a couple days. No money spent except for buying the game initially for less than a standard AAA price.

I was incredibly stupid and did buy it as a laptop replacement. The thing does what it was sold to do extremely well, but I have little Linux experience, and trying to learn Arch on SteamOS has been hell.

Didn’t a solar flare just hit us today? I assume that’s the reason

I would prefer to see something that uses the IP that isn’t just a card game port. Something new. If MMOs weren’t all (Except for destiny I guess) hamstring by their own 90’s era hotbar mechanics, I’d think an MMO would be cool.

Sirswag is easily the single most underrated creator on that platform.

I kind of thought half the reason for the class based system was to appeal to specific fantasies/wish fulfillments, though. My first thought concerning this problem is that maybe they’re playing the wrong caster class, different classes exist for different fantasies.

It’s my personal belief that the mechanics of the caster classes don’t lend themselves well to the fantasy of it.

I find myself caught between two forces on this issue. My dad is one of those tech dads, who watches David Shapiro and builds his own GPTs in his free time. He is convinced that AI has (or will imminently have) the ability to replace us as workers entirely. Economically, we are not ready for that. People who don’t work just don’t get to have anything. Food and housing aren’t even universal human rights.

The urge for me to stick my head in the sand, despite my father pushing me to learn to use AI, is very real. I don’t have faith that we as a society will be able to make a good future with AI. So my only option feels like learning to build, manipulate, and wield the tool that I believe could cause enormous societal upheaval, because the alternative is to be upheaved like a modern boomer dropped in the middle of Cyberpunk’s Night City.

Just because people did fine in the past doesn’t mean we can’t try new things to improve the experience for our players.

I mean no offense here, but I think your take reflects how few relatively ground-shattering innovations have really happened over the last twenty years or so. I mean truly life-changing. Maybe the internet was last, I’m unsure.

I’m probably too young to have an accurate idea of how often an innovation is supposed to change the world, but it really feels like we’ve become used to seeing new tech that only changes life incrementally at best. How many people, if such an innovation was created, would fail to recognize it or reject it altogether? Entire generations to this day refuse to learn computer literacy, which actively detriments them on a daily or weekly basis.

Won’t update their insurance because they don’t want to use a computer. Don’t know how to reboot a router/modem. Don’t know how to change their password. Congressmen asking if Facebook/TikTok requires Internet access. Some small companies operating exclusively on fax and printed paper, copying said paper, sorting said paper, and then re-faxing it instead of automating or even just using one PC (I worked at a place like this).

Classic hi-rez

Honestly, if you didn’t enjoy the first hour of RDR2, it might not be the game for you. I’m a strong believer that not every game should appeal to every player, and RDR2 really knows who it tries to sell itself to.