100% true - but if people feel the need to create so many mods, then there are probably lots of things people feel aren’t good enough about the game. I’ll admit my gaming time is limited, so just researching and adding mods could easily take all my time. I mean, fuck, I sold my Warthog HOTAS and went back to a cheap thrusmaster not because I liked the thrustmaster better, but because I was spending more time writing and fixing scripts and updating my bindings than actually playing the game. And every time an update would come out that would break a script I would spend pretty much my entire gaming time budget for a couple weeks just getting it running again. It got to the point where I just didn’t play those games because every patch would change something and something (even something small) would break or be incompatible. I’m kind of over that.

I was kind of hoping for fallout and elite; real space flight and exploration, but with an actual story and story line to follow. I’m mostly over real-life gaming that looks like a cartoon, so I’m glad it’s not nms.

Mods are the very first thing that turns me off in a game. I want to play a game, not go stack mods on top of mods just to fix the shit the studio didn’t feel like working on.

First rule of finding yourself in a hole: Stop Digging.

The X, in this context, is pronounced like “sh” right?

IKR? The massive influx of near-zero-friction signups is bound to create a large userbase of new/shiny window shoppers who quickly lose interest. I’ve got a couple of friends who seem to be attempting to create a presence there, but otherwise it’s a terrible feed. Of course it’s a terrible feed for me because I’ve done jack-shit on instagram and the algorithm is just throwing stuff at my wall to see what sticks. I’ve got ladies with large asses in spandex, some quote-meme spammers, and Jair Bolsonaro filling up my feed - that’s just a fucking dumpster fire.

I’ll keep the app (properly sandboxed) but I doubt I’ll interact with it any more than mastodon or Post - which is monthly at best. I’d say that I dropper Twitter last year, but really I dropped it a decade ago as being useless as both a location for discourse and a source for, well, anything of interest to me.

NGL - this is my 10 minute free time go-to on the SteamDeck