Oooo now you have me interested in Starfield by comparing it to Wing Commander, damn you.

I loved Outer Worlds. Rough around the edges, sure, but it wasn’t much different than playing Fallout 3 in terms of gameplay. Also the setting made for some great satire. My only real complaint was the small maps. High hopes for the sequel.

Literally is, sorry you are so confused about the subject.

None of our institutions encourage “learning”; they are built to encourage “making the grade”. Why they need the grade and what it represents is irrelevant to students. It’s just a barrier that society has placed in front of them.

There needs to be something done about how we, as a society, approach education because whatever we are doing ain’t working. It apparently only worked at a very surface level and that was only because A.I. wasn’t available yet to be an easy out.

If I like a song, I make a deliberate effort to learn the lyrics and what they mean. People wrote those lyrics for a reason.

Or do you just want to dance?

If they start any nefarious monetization practices, absolutely pull mods. Until then though, I agree. No reason to pull ones that are already there, but definitely be prudent and start casting a wider net.

You don’t need full communism, just make sure companies are owned by the workers

“Companies owned by the workers” is communism. That’s literally what is meant by “shared ownership of the means of production”.

The “means of production” is all the shit that companies own, such as the land, machines, buildings, raw materials, etc…

Let me introduce you to torrenting and community distribution of data.

It could be implemented this way so that no one individual would need to fully shoulder the burden of hosting everything.

Paid mods I think are unlikely, why bother to make a change so unpopular? Milk this shit for a decade and press this button only when shit hits the fan.

Unfortunately, I think this will be likely because Nexus has almost entirely cornered the market on mods. It is the place people get their mods from if not the Steam Workshop.

People would have to actually abandon the convenience and go back to scrolling a bunch of games specific forums for their mods. I don’t see that happening unfortunately and I’m pretty sure the executives at the new company know this. It’s a common marketing tactic to exploit the sunk cost fallacy.

There are plenty, they just aren’t as big or as well designed because they are just small forums, and most are usually game specific.

Nexus was unique in that it was a hub for the modding community, made specifically because people didn’t want to have to browse hundreds of different forums to get their mods that may or may not be compatible with each other. It was a nice convenience while it lasted.

Welp, abandon ship.

Nice whataboutism.

Too bad that hypothetical is statistically unlikely, as the extremely religious are predominantly pro-MAGA by an overwhelming amount, to the point it could be readily argued that, if your hypothetical was true, it would be done in spite of their religious beliefs, not because of it.

It’s a satirical joke. Not like this regime hasn’t been escalating in its practices of bypassing law and regulations already. What’s one more broken regulation for some convoluted reason which will get zero push back on?

As someone in Louisiana, I can attest to this.

Also, the struggle of having to decipher if someone is talking about “L.A.” or “LA”.

“Dead” is an adjective yes but that rule only applies if the adjective is describing that noun, but in this case it is being used as an adverb, which are usually placed after the verb unless the verb takes a noun, which in this sentence it does, making it grammatically incorrect.

I’m just sad they won’t be continuing with games similar to The Lost Crown. 2D PoP games are peak.

They are jingoists, and jingoists are no different than schoolyard bullies who want to appear tough so they loudly proclaim how tough and big they are, which includes an occasional show of force against those they believe won’t/can’t defend themselves to reinforce their image of being the biggest Tough Guy™ around.

If they win, they win. If they lose, it’s because they decided it wasn’t worth their time and left willingly, not because they lost.

This country has always been stuck up its own ass.

There is no “and”. The shareholders are the machine.

I have, but only fighting games because that first month of online play is heaven when there is no meta established and no one has muscle memory yet.

But yea, fuck Gearbox, I uninstalled every Borderlands Game after the new changes to EULA. Fuck them having kernal access.

It was always just art for your body.

People who got tattoos wanted to be able to express themselves in the way they desired, by decorating their body with artwork, and didn’t appreciate having their decision dictated by arbitrary standards that they did not agree to. They weren’t doing it for the sake of rebellion, it was just called rebellion because it went against the social expectations of the time.

People often do not understand the reason behind the act of rebellion and attribute those engaging in the activities as being done for the sake of rebellion itself instead of some deeper cause.

Truly ironic people are trying to say you’re the racist for calling someone else out for espousing racist rhetoric.