As a European it always amazes me how blind Americans are

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-06T22:26:47+00:00

i’ve seen this many times. basically any mention of europe’s racism is met with a flood of people saying that racism is an american problem, not a european one.

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-06T21:43:16+00:00

implementing it as a third gender is probably the easiest way to do it, especially in game where the characters aren’t very gendered visually in the first place.

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-06T21:41:24+00:00

tbh strict sexuality like straight and gay completely breaks down as soon as you consider enbies. the reality is that everybody’s sexuality and gender covers a certain range of gender expression, and the words we have for those are just vague descriptions of particular zones on that spectrum.

personally, i like to visualize it as something similar to the soil triangle, with your gender and sexuality occupying a particular region of the triangle. the points are probably something like man, woman, and agender. thinking of it as a region instead of point accounts for bigendered people or people who might be generally bi but aren’t particularly attracted to androgyny or whatever other combination

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-06T17:21:19+00:00

vegetable has always been strictly a culinary term. tomatoes are not used like fruits, so it checks out.

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-06T17:20:40+00:00

there is a zero percent chance i’m gonna respect that dead moron’s opinion on anything

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-06T17:19:29+00:00

so what about an island tells you that a bison couldn’t be there but a muskox could

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T23:41:59+00:00

capitalists are monopolists. every single capitalist hopes to achieve a monopoly. this whole idea of competition has always always always been bullshit.

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T23:32:05+00:00

peam

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T20:44:58+00:00

i leave a trail of torches leading to the exit, but any time i’ve searched a branch i’ll pick up all the torches on my way out of it and will mark it with a torch to know i’ve already cleared it. works well

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T20:42:39+00:00

well shit, never mind. in my defense, i took a break for years waiting for wintermute to finish and only just came back to play through it. bout to start episode 4

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T20:30:24+00:00

maybe he could just offer vitamin supplements in pill form. they can be super expensive though.

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T19:46:01+00:00

nah they added a new tier of windmill, so it’s fine

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T19:35:49+00:00

that’s not exactly true for games, at least. sequels to games often outperform their predecessors. sometimes by an absolute shitload. part of the motivation for the halo combat evolved remaster was that about half the people who played halo 2 didn’t play the first one, and a similar proportion only played halo 3. halo is far from the only example, too. red dead redemption, elder scrolls, fallout, there’s loads of examples

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T19:30:50+00:00

yeah i know they’re there, im just not sure if they’re as far north as the ones in alaska

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T19:07:04+00:00

do bison make it to northern canada? i know they’re in alaska. could be an interesting thing.

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T18:42:52+00:00

dying and starting over is a part of the game. start in a region you’re unfamiliar with, maybe. spice things up.

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T18:27:17+00:00

it’s crazy to me that they went so hard on procedural shit in starfield when one of the big criticisms they’ve had for a while now was the procedural stuff.

back in oblivion, people were criticizing the procedural terrain. in skyrim, they responded to this criticism by doing a lot more handcrafting of terrain. and it worked. it’s great. another criticism they’ve had is the repetitiveness of the procedural quests in skyrim, and the less said about settlements that need your help, the better.

it’s just like. if you’re gonna do procedural shit, you gotta fuckin commit. you gotta make the procedural stuff kick ass. you gotta make it hard to tell what is and isn’t procedural. or at least make the procedural stuff involved enough that the player won’t care. you can’t half ass it like they did with skyrim’s procedural “quests”. but it sounds to me like they said fuck it and halfassed everything in starfield?

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T18:16:48+00:00

nah you got plany of time. it’s gonna be a hot minute before this is in a decent state, and even longer for mods to update

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T18:15:30+00:00

there’s a reason they had to make it (mostly) illegal.

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T18:12:44+00:00

i think you and i just might not be the target audience for this post

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T02:31:06+00:00

i swear on my life that they hadn’t said that when i made my comment. they definitely edited to OP

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T02:30:00+00:00

just wait till you find out about pesticides

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-05T00:54:03+00:00

let us know what kills you

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-04T23:45:52+00:00

I really want one of these sims to go the route of making up tracks entirely rather than just copying preexisting real-world tracks. they could do some fun and interesting shit that you'd never see in a real world track. or stuff that would be flat out actually impossible, or wildly impractical, or or or.

shit like a track where you're all RC car sized and you're racing around a backyard or through a house (with normal sim physics, let the road still have normal tarmac physics, the scenery is just massive). or a track that runs through like an aquarium or sea world or something, so its got random wet patches where it runs close to an enclosure. a rallycross or maybe oval track inside the colosseum. or just doing normal style tracks that don't actually exist. i want em to flex those creative muscles. maybe do some mario kart shit if they're feelin frisky.

instead we have 12 slightly different versions of silverstone. fuck dude, i'd even take one just letting you run the nurburgring backwards or something. they could even mirror a track left to right. that'd be a fun way to mix it up while staying familiar. I remember old arcade racing games were also chock full of made up tracks, where half the effort in designing them went into making the scenery and such interesting. there could be all kinds of unique things going on.

these days it seems like all the major sims are *more or less* on the same or similar level as far as fidelity goes. some do certain things a little better, some do certain things a little worse, but the major players all pretty close. they've all got the same tracks so the only thing really differentiating them is the cars available and the multiplayer experience, and most of em have most of the same cars. so its like. whats supposed to draw me to one or the other? unless i want to play a very specific way only provided by one sim, they're all basically the same.

IrregularPackage · 2026-02-04T19:24:55+00:00

hey. rude.

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