[–] 16 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

But forcing people into homelessness and potentially fast tracking them deeper into poverty isnt low? Pretty fucked up if you ask me.

This behavior is just as bad if not worse than a simple death threat. These landlords and corporations could potentially lead to untold damage to society and way more deaths than just one landlord.

They can get fucked.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago*

    Yeah, that's a bit disingenuous take on the situation at the time.

    While Sony could have toned down the marketing and better worked with Hello games, Sean Murray went on a absolute PR streak lying over and over in so many interviews about features that weren't in the game at the time and realistically wouldn't be added until many years after.

    Then they released a half baked game which was missing basically every feature the gaming community was actually excited about.

    They remdemed themselves and NMS in its current form is a fantastic game deserving of praise, but Hello Games deserved all the hate at the time. Entirely their fault.

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (16 children)

    Lol, yeah right.....

    As if Islam or Judaism wouldn't be just as bad or worse if it was in the majority in the Western world.

    The Middle East, the last bastion of the free world /s.

    Religion and forcing it upon others is the real problem here. Regardless of what religion it is.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago*

    I don't agree with the digital ID since it has implications to snowball further down road into a tool for a implemented authoritarian surveillance state.

    But the fact everyone basically carries a smartphone with personal data that is linked to private corporations is kinda ironic.

    Like the government can't have a digital footprint of you but Google, Apple, Samsung etc can.

    I'm sure these private companies are the bastions of privacy. They surely won't sell your data or bend over to government subpoenas at the first real threat to their bottom line.

    No discussion regarding this digital ID has rwally mentioned this and I find it incredibly concerning.

    There should be base line regulation stopping this both at the private and governmental levels. But if the last 5ish years have shown in the world, most people are realistically comfrontable and complacent in all this. At least until the gestapo are at your door., but then it's a week bit too late isn't it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    100% true, but I also feel like Stalker 2 has pandered more to those casual gamer audiences since they clearly can't survive as a game developer off of us fans alone.

    Stalker 2 definitely feels less abrasive and challenging than previous titles and mods.

    But I also have hundreds of hours in GAMMA and Anomaly so I've got my biases and know how Im suppose to play. I am use to being aggressively abused and punished by the game, which is a very different experience from the casual "mainstream" gamers.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I think that heavily depends on what is being defined as "mainstream".

    Is it the same buggy, broken mess it was during the first week of launch.....no.

    Is it a smooth bug free well optimized game. Not even fucking close.

    You still need a pretty decent beefy system to play it comfrontably and even then it's still littered with problems.

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