I know I bought Elite Dangerous Horizons on steam for like 80 bucks and played it for a while, and now no matter what I do, I cant get access to the game. I get bungled in third party account sign ins.

Sounds like the genera is cursed. There is promise, but the developers just leech money and obstruct access to the game.

But dude, Star Citizen ships are the NFTs of tomorrow!

Think of the fat stacks you’re gonna get when the game drops, the plebs cant buy the pre-order ships and you take them to resale!

In the end, there is this great fear of “the AI is going to fully replace us developers” and the reality is that while that may be a possibility one day, it wont be any day soon.

You still need people with deep technical knowledge to pilot the AI and drive it to an implemented solution.

AI isnt the end of the industry, it has just greatly sped up the industry.

Developing with ChatGPT feels bizzarely like when Tony Stark invented a new element with Jarvis’ assistance.

It’s a prolonged back and forth, and you need to point out the AIs mistakes and work through a ton of iterations to get something that is close enough that you can tweak it and use, but it’s SO much faster than trawling through Stack Overflow or hoping someone who knows more than you can answer a post for you.

I fucking LOVED Bob Hoskin’s Super Mario Brothers, so me as well.

Yes, the modern mindset. Murder the product, preserve the manager’s paygap.

They just want to spy on you.

They want to monetize you… after cost of entry.

It was really great, but the constant “balance changes” to remove fun and increase stress really outline to us why military fuckin’ loves the game.

They need their ptsd stoked more than they need a good video game.

Can’t have shit these days.

I blame Shark Tank.

Love watching rich S.O.Bs kill capitalism, but hate the consequences.

As someone who started with 3 and is enjoying a replay and low key excited to do the dlcs on that one for the first time, these comments are making me more optimistic about trying 1 and 2.

Actual hacking when it was cool and not a dick move.

I was amped for FO4 on release.

I had a relative potato pc at the time.

All was pretty great until I tried to mount some power armor.

Took about 6 hours of crawling through the steam forums until a kind fellow player showed me which ini to change in what way to get the game to work.

Almost just gave in to give 76 a go, then remembered I had just bought GOTY edition FO3 because my love for Fallout started when my friend lent me FO3 on… either Xbox OG or PS3, so I am long overdue to do a full FO3 GOTY playthrough.

Oh, I don’t know. But knowing new era Marvel games, even if it is “F2P” it’s not F2P.

They just could have added skins to Overwatch.

This is just modded Overwatch.

But now its will be a separate full price purchase.

Minecraft, Terreria, Stardew Valley, Overcooked, The Sims, Dark Souls.

I guess that is where the confusion is.

I didn’t mean it in a negative way.

Literally said I love the game.

Again, didnt say overwhelmed or drowning.

Said sucked the life out of me. Had me engrossed. My first sit down was 4 hours that felt like 5 minutes.

Edit: Cheeky, but I gotta sat it… people who are taking “sucked the life out of me” as a negative statement have never enjoyed a blowjob. At least not a good one.

… All of the mechanics of the game.

“The beginning…”

Makes sense.

The beginning is fun and really just sucks the life out of you as your are flooded with new mechanics and npcs.

Then the game very quickly shows itself for what it is, an open world game.

It’s a glorious grindy repetitive complicated open world game that doesn’t hold your hand.

I knew I was in love the moment I started compiling my pal attribute database. 90% of gamers dont like that kind of stuff. They just want to be lead from A to Z.

OG NES Duck Hunt.

And you should gargle my ballsack.

I have said nowhere to prohibit social people from being social outside of work.

This entire thread is about forcing everyone to socialize with their coworkers for 10 percent of their time on the clock.

Stop goal post moving.

So from this I hear “stress out the introverts to bully them into silence and it’s so much easier for the extroverts scheduling the meetings to figure out where they can claim credit having only scheduled meetings”.

Gotcha.

I dont know, just sounds like a extrovert saying a bunch of touchy feely shit that amounts to “I might suck at the job but I have great people skills!”

But why? Why can’t that work for you?

So you can ensure that the person who is doing great work isn’t one of “them”?

Work is professional. It’s work. Social is informal. It’s not work.

What exactly is it that makes you need to mix the two?

I am an extremely introverted person with pretty extreme social anxiety.

The only reasons I can come up with for NEEDING to force social situations into work are nefarious.

And notice, I’m not saying work anonymously. Zoom makes sense when the processes are that lacking.

The company doesn’t own the buildings, but the owners of the company, the ones that would see the bonus money for selling the buildings (company savings on rent and a terminated lease), own the buildings.

So there are a lot of mental gymnastics, but the punchline is that the company does own the buildings with a lot of rotten little pockets in the irs filings…

Your initial and final statement, while both true, do very much contradict eachother.

I like almost all of his rhetoric, but his 90/10 rule is only 90 percent of the way to being correct.

Your last sentence contradicts your first sentence.

I mean sure.

So are you saying you are a proponent of causing a problem for me? Because you have a great time, you endorse forcing me to go against my will?

I guess I’m not saying “don’t do team building”, I’m saying “don’t force people who don’t want to go to go.”

If I am doing my job, and I am remote, why are you compelled to fuck around with me and make me uncomfortable for 10% of my work obligation?

Probably nothing they like.

But when an out of touch CEO isn’t trying to force us to be “a family”, they love my work, and that’s all I care about at WORK.

I mean, you get your opinion, but I just disagree.

Remote means Remote.

Being forced to stand in a field and eat hot dogs with my coworkers doesn’t accomplish anything but subject me to learning things I shouldn’t need to know about my coworkers and being forced to share things I don’t want to share with my coworkers.

I have never once attended a “team building” event and liked my coworkers more after.

In fact, the opposite happens. I learn who is religious. I learn who is racist. I learn who denies climate change. I learn who is a horrible parent bit thinks they are the best parent.

I’m not friends with my coworkers. I cowork with them, and as a data analyst/process Automator, I can do that through zoom.

I really just got bored.

I can’t put my finger on it.

I can play Payday 2 maps ad nauseum. Hundreds of times each heist.

The Payday 3 heists just got boring after a week.

Ya, there is zero local play. 100% drm.

You have to play on their servers.

You can ready up the second you get into an empty lobby, but I don’t see any way to just simply choose single player.

That means that if their matchmaking system is down, you don’t get to play. And funny enough, their matchmaking system was down all night last night.

My overall largest gripe though is that in PD2, I love how if you are accurate with headshots, helmets pop with a single tap and you can just mow through 30 cops in seconds. In PD3, its taking me 2 to 5 headshots after the first wave. On the easiest setting.

Just got access to the beta and I gotta say, I was hyped and now I’m not so sure.

I like the vaulting. The weapons feel a bit crisper.

The new skill system seems weird. The cops are now bullet sponges.

Beyond that, I don’t see a major difference. Certainly not enough for me to leave behind my 200 bucks worth of DLC in PD2.