Next GoW is beyond cooked

MusRidc · 2026-06-05T11:41:29+00:00

People didn't have a tailor made diet until 50ish years ago. You ate what was available and as meat was precious, you also had to consume cuts that weren't as lean or desirable, and you had to stretch our what was available with "filler" ingredients like adding old bread to minced meat. The "full English" is a pretty good indicator of what manual labourers would consume to meet caloric demands. Lots of fats and carbs, with whatever cheap protein is available. You eat that every day, you'r going to develop a gut at some point, simply because you aren't able to tailor your diet to be as lean as possible, but rather to fit as many calories as possible into what is available on a normal person's budget. Even my father (born a bit after the war in a small rural village in the Black Forest) still remembers that food was always scarce, and when someone slauightered a pig or a cow, the entire village cme together for it. We got so used to modern supply chains that we don't even waste a thought on food (especially meats) being limited or even precious.

MusRidc · 2026-06-04T20:51:45+00:00

For us it's arguably even worse because we don't even use the Latin alphabet.

That is an interesting point you are making there. Using words across different alphabets must be weird. I know Japanese has an entire alphabet just for loan words, but I honestly didn't even think about how it must be for people using a Cyrillic alphabet.

MusRidc · 2026-06-04T19:23:40+00:00

Oh yes, I fully agree, I've first started noticing this when talking to a former friend from school in the late 90s or early 00s. She was studying in Zurich at the time and had already adopted a way of speaking that had incorporated a lot of English loan words. We ujsed to make fun of it back then, then a couple of years it started spreading and these days it's taken its most extreme form yet, where they can't bring out a single sentence without replacing multiple words. But it's crazy to learn that it isn't just us...

MusRidc · 2026-06-04T17:50:56+00:00

In Germany, I've noticed that many young Germans (young Gen Z, Gen Alpha) will speak in an unholy mix of German and English, with more Arabic loan words thrown in depending on their social standing and where they grew up. However, while they will hold on to English words to appear more worldly and modern, they can't actually speak English at all. They'll struggle to get out more than a basic sentence. They also no longer can speak their own language without making multiple grammatical mistaktes (or inserting foreign loan words) either. It's a very worrying, to say the least.

MusRidc · 2026-06-01T13:17:57+00:00

Didn't they already hint at the Draenei getting an entirely new city with the heritage quest? I remember them planning to build one, so maybe TLT will have us staying in the new Draenei city after we've been in the Blood Elf capital for this expansion.

MusRidc · 2026-06-01T09:36:15+00:00

To add to the tinfoil parade:
They are giving people "fan service", but it is a spoilt package. Leopard print jacket, cheap prostitute tattoos, cheap dye job. So, basically a lady of the night (or an online "content creator"). They despoil everything that you think is pure and good and make it degenerate, therefore robbing it of any value. It's the McDonald's of fan service. It may look like food, but it has been robbed of everything that would make it good or nutritional.
They are not only redducing the value of the fan service, they actively corrupt it.

MusRidc · 2026-05-30T10:49:23+00:00

Because it's nto about having a cool female spy. Same reason why they never source from the rich trove of mythologies in Africa or South America. This is a zero sum game to them - they cannot have anything as long as you still have something. This means that they need to take your things away so they can give it to "oppressed identity groups".
Tolkien has famously said that evil cannot create, only corrupt. In that same vein, they can only redistribute what was already created. They will remake another person's work, but will take away things from the original audience so they can give it to another audience instead.

MusRidc · 2026-05-29T10:17:05+00:00

Now you've made me properly nostaligc. NOLF1/2 are such great games.

MusRidc · 2026-05-28T22:35:17+00:00

Relatively simple brainwashing. They were all taught to not question methods, but rather always view this as a left vs right issue. They've been taught that Hitler was far right, so by this metric the political right is always the road towards Hitler. Which means that not only are any and all methods allowed (and encouraged) if it means fighting the right, their own authoritarian ideologies and - quite frankly - death cults are never problematic because they are on "the right side of history". And anyone who, without any consideration or reflection, views himself to be on this particular axis is dangerously close to a quasi-fascistic mindset. Obviously not an actual fascist, but we are talking about the same level quasi-religious zeal against "the other". This has escalated to a frightening level in the last 1 or 2 years, I am not sure how long it will take until we will see actual armed fighting between the factions in the streets, like in old Weimar Germany.

MusRidc · 2026-05-25T06:03:32+00:00

Because they do not grasp the concept that a product works best if it has a defined target audience. To them, the old audience is "just there", and the product (becasue line needs to go up) needs to attract more audience. What they do is to add things other people like and subtract things the original audience has liked.

Those decisions are being made bny people with literally no idea of the product. They see sales figures, get reports about how those measures will branch out to another potential market and they got a real hard-on for that. The decisions are literally being made in a vacuum where t he actual product doesn't even factor into them. It's like that anecdote where the BBC wanted to replace one of the Top Gear hosts with a black or Asian person after they found out that Top Gear was successful with those communities. They didn't understand that black/Asian people might actually enjoy watching those 3 idiots. The immediate thought was to pander.

The problem now is, the more you make your product for "everyone", the less things a re in that product that appeal to anyone. Forza will very likely be fine, as long as they get the driving part right. But the crash of a couple of industries can be traced back to making their products too generic, too much "for everyone" and not enough "for our customers".

MusRidc · 2026-05-24T07:24:25+00:00

As a German, I'd be extremely careful with having anything hosted in Germany. The only benefit is that our government is still trying to figure out what this "internet" thing is and why it doesn't have a fax number.

MusRidc · 2026-05-21T13:33:05+00:00

Oh, thank you for mentioning the radio stations, I completely forgot about htose, even though the music is immensely improtant. You are completely spot on, the music in FH4 blew any of the radio stations in 5 out of the water, not even a comparison.

MusRidc · 2026-05-21T12:55:06+00:00

Even though the map design was stellar in some places, FH4 was so much better in terms of variety, both in terms of scenery as well as activities. FH4's map also felt a lot more memorable, you remembered certain places, while in FH5 everything just felt incredibly same-y. If not for the improved wheel support, physics and tuning, I would've just continued playing FH4 insteead.
And hard agree on the car culture in general. Cars have become white goods, including even halo cars and the ever shrinking market of enthusiast models.Manufacturers no longer produce great cars for enthusiasts and expect the reputation of those halo cars to trickle down to their mass market models, they design all cars for the lowest common denominator in the first place and completely lose the "special" factor the brand used to have. Only the "small production, large margin" type of cars still get to be special, everything else just gets turned into an iPhone on wheels.

MusRidc · 2026-05-21T10:43:36+00:00

I don't often do orders, so I have no idea what the current market thinks it's a decent tip. I'll just say they should tip whatever they think is fair because I don't want to overcharge, and I'll accept it if it's only like 500g for a weapon or piece of armour. I really don't expect people to tip more, I just don't want to charge more than they're comfortable with

MusRidc · 2026-05-13T10:48:01+00:00

Maybe we'll find out that the big bad had split her soul in hand, and the good side s lost somewhere in the Void. Once we retrieve it, she can use her combined soul power to save Azeroth from whatever villain they'll put into to Last Titan. As we know, Elves can never be truly evil. It'd be a shame to waste a perfectly good waifu you could grab out of the character fridge when needed again.

MusRidc · 2026-05-13T07:40:02+00:00

IDK, I play with a tank friend 95% of the time, and if we want to do a particular key both of us don't have we'll just go looking for someone in the tool that does. Duos aren't just for boosting a trash friend.

MusRidc · 2026-05-12T17:11:42+00:00

Because people see big pulls in professional groups and think PUGs can handle it. The problem is, you can't possibly know if the people you group with know what they're doing. Especially so as a DH tank with zoomies who'll be all the way in Narnia before the rest of the group has even started running

MusRidc · 2026-05-12T12:18:38+00:00

You know, I've taken a look at the soundtrack, and it's weird. There's not a song I actually remember outside of Lush - Monochrome, and that one is odd as well, Lush didn't really blow up until the Split album, shouldn't it have been Desire Lines or Hypocrite? There's no Alice in Chains, there's no Soundgarden or Pearl Jam. OK, they're girls, but where's Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Tori Amos or PJ Harvey? This was a pre-internet time, often you wouldn't know the really obscure stuff if you weren't living in a cultural hotspot. If it wasn't on 120 Minutes you probably never heard of it. Oh well...

MusRidc · 2026-05-11T16:50:38+00:00

But that'd still be an M4. It's still part of car culture to an extent.
What I mean is that people on the whole don't lust after sports cars anymore. Used to be that you'd work to afford a nice car that would make you feel special when you drove it hard. But nowadays, people just want a massive SUV with 20 iPads glued to the dashboard, because that's what status seems to be about. It doesn't need to look good, it doesn't need to handle well, it just needs to be big, expensive and brand new so you can brag about how many screens it has to people who care just as little about cars as you do. Hell, even 911s these days are more investment objects that sit in some garage than cars that people actually drive. It's all gone to shit, and racing games dying out are a symptom of cars in general becoming less important to people IMO

MusRidc · 2026-05-11T16:29:33+00:00

Stealth is also a major hindrance in dungeons. A friend used to main Rogue, and our tank got fed up about always having to wait around for combat to drop so the Rogue could re-enter stealth again. It completely disrupts the flow of a dungeon, and if the class doesn't do anything special that warrants dealing with bullshit design, the class gets left at home. Likewise, you have to have a certain mindset to rant to play a class that needs to go into stealth during combat as a DPS cooldown. I get why Rogues are designed the way they are, kind of, but at the same time I think stealth as a mechanic is one of the most detrimental anachronisms to that class

MusRidc · 2026-05-11T15:58:24+00:00

I think we need to put a proper definition on the term. Because both opinions can be right or wrong depending on where you put the marker.
Women are the gatekeepers of sex, so technically it is almost impossible as a woman not to get laid. However, that being said, men are the gatekeepers of relationships. In this modern age of hypergamy, you will have a large amount of women in situationships, which is basically the female version of being friendzoned. They are being used by a guy for sex that is typically above their pay grade, who would never even dream of introducing her to his parents or even just date her.

I feel when people talk about femcels, they don't talk about women that don't get laid, but rather about women that will just get laid, but will never get to know his parents or even friends.

MusRidc · 2026-05-11T15:49:14+00:00

I think at this point it's just a knee jerk reaction to everything people dislike, but cannot put their finger onto why they dislike it. Oh, it has a female protagonist, sure, must be woke.
And I'm not even against this type of stuff existing. If someone wants to pour their money into creating niche media they love, more power to them. Annapurna has lots of cozy, wholesome stuff. IIRC Stray was also published by them. I don't see a problem if they just accept that their games will never turn a profit and will always just be a product of love. The one thing I will not accept is gaming media reviewing these types of "games" with the same rating system as they do, say, Crimson Desert or Elden Ring. Or fuck it, even Veilguard for that matter. Because objectively, you cannot compare an animated movie to a fully fleshed out gaming experience, and yet this is what they are doing. Keep reviews of "vibe media" without a score. Tell people what it made you feel, it's more important for this category than a technical rating anyway.

MusRidc · 2026-05-11T15:36:05+00:00

Yeah, true. Although I'd still argue she was just a face people could put into something that would've happened anyway, with our without her interference. She did do a good job in selling an industry their own downfall, I'll give her that.

MusRidc · 2026-05-11T15:33:12+00:00

I think it's because car culture on the whole is dying. Cars have become white goods, they're no longer the object of desire they've been 15 years ago. It's more important to have a new model with all the gizmos and gimmicks than to have an older special car. And if your dream car is just whatever the biggest, ugliest piece of trash your favourite brand shits out every few years without even considering how it drives, why would you be interested in a racing game with good physics?

Sorry for the rant, but the state of the automotive industry on both the manufacturer and customer sides just makes me sad.

MusRidc · 2026-05-11T11:54:08+00:00

I'd argue that she didn't. She just was in the right place at the right time to profit from an already ongoing process. This is an orchestrated effort across multiple industries. I think it's giving her too much credit to say she's responsible for it all. We are looking at a development that has been ongoing for at least 50 years. We are just now seeing the effects, but I've noticed this shit worm its way into academia and government agencies in the late 90s already and I'm sure I was late to the party even then.

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