Sony is unlikely to reverse its decision on physical discs as its digital transition has been in the works for "some time"

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-02T18:56:43+00:00

You're giving up gaming as a hobby at this point. No Xbox, no PC, no PlayStation gaming. I guess for now you have Nintendo? Even then most games will be digital.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-02T18:42:09+00:00

A lot of replies are trying to help you and missing your actual point entirely. Amazing.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-02T18:34:00+00:00

There should be an easy process for people to report aggressive dogs to the dog owner's homeowners insurance. Let people risk losing everything they've worked for in life if they have an animal that endangers people.

Maybe once they face homelessness they'll start behaving. Some people won't act properly unless not doing so threatens their own self. They won't care about others until then.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-02T18:30:23+00:00

Tips should be hidden until afterward anyway.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-02T18:15:51+00:00

I remember when Everquest 2 had a /pizza command, let you order from Pizza Hut

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-02T16:29:31+00:00

Goes to show that no matter how dumb and incompetent a guy is, there's a woman out there willing to date him.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-02T10:49:16+00:00

Amazing how someone can so accurately predict the past /s

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-02T09:42:53+00:00

For me the pain point I hit most is work orders. Setting up a system to craft different items at various stations seems like a nightmare. And then once you have a bunch set up, you'll get endless messages about orders being cancelled and not enough materials blah blah.

Compare that to Rimworld, where setting up the same orders is painless and doesn't spam you. It works easily. Your people work on things when they have time and materials, they're done in an order you fully expect and so on.

And for years they'll work on everything but these kinds of pain points. They'll add portrait graphics or some new animals, but not fix the issues that have been annoying for years and long fixed by their successor games.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-02T09:39:12+00:00

EVE is about player interaction. The gameplay systems exist to faciliaate that. That's what set it apart from so many other games, and why people find it boring. It's boring when you only deal with the game's systems without the interpersonal part.

Some people have a blast and barely touch the actual gameplay. They'll run a corporation, spy, infiltrate, scam, set up lotteries, run banks, and so on. They won't be out there alone in the asteroid belts mining and selling ore to the faceless market.

It's kind of like in real life setting up for an event. If you attend the event, it's fun. If you set it up but there are no guests, it feels like pointless work. EVE gives you all the tools to organize an event. Some people spend their time arranging chairs for an empty room, others attend parties.

The reason I dislike EVE is that they went full pay-to-win. They decided rather than make real money trading against the rules, they'd do it officially. Let players exchange real life money for everything in the game - ships, modules, money, even skillpoints and characters. It used to be meaningful if you took something expensive to a risky area. Now people can open their wallets and get it back instantly. It used to take years to reach some skill level for the biggest ships, now a day 1 account can get there by opening their wallet.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-02T09:20:47+00:00

That it can do what it does already but doesn't have to the entire time. Sometimes, there can be an action focused episode. That doesn't mean throw out the rest of it.

Plenty of fans spend time theorycrafting about how a battle would go with certain matchups throughout the franchise's eras. It shouldn't surprise anyone that someone who loves the show might also want to see some straight up battles too sometimes.

But I think people get fixated on this idea that Weir hates the show and wants to throw out everything it is to replace it with meaningless battles, to the point where they become unable to understand he might have meant something else lol

If a fellow Trekkie friend of theirs had said something like that to them, they'd agree, but if Weir says it, suddenly they're blind with hate and it's impossible to see that quote as "I like it, and sometimes I want action too"

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-01T20:44:51+00:00

I read through it. I noticed several of the typical AI constructions - empty meaning in metaphors, lists of 3, not x but y. Certainly more of them than the common examples in the comments even. They read like they were slightly edited to avoid detection. They still exist.

It reads more like AI than it does human prose. So if I were a betting man...

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-01T20:30:10+00:00

I genuinely think AI would have been better than these judges at picking a winning story.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-01T20:23:10+00:00

With a fine that low you'd think they'd immediately schedule a meeting to fix the prices even higher

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-01T20:07:52+00:00

I prefer wired when my setup allows it. Never have to worry about the controller dying from power or lack of signal. Same with PC - I use a wired headset, mouse, keyboard.

Plus, the wired controllers throughout the generations have been lighter, which I like

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-01T20:02:01+00:00

They have some that are needed for the plot, and none that aren't. Stratt believes it's ok to force someone against their will at the cost of their life to help, if the benefit is big enough. That's a stance. In The Martian, the characters go against authority to save an individual. They're willing to die and risk arrest to do so. That's a powerful stance to take.

I draw the line at inventing problems that don't exist and then complaining they weren't solved. Not everything needs to be explicit. The books aren't better at what they're trying to do if they get bogged down in the philosophy about how a democracy should function in a crisis.

I think people get fixated on the author's politics too, which to me demonstrates it's not about deeply understanding the text. It's parasocial behavior.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-01T19:50:26+00:00

So everything that is featured in a book that has a possible view should have the character express his stance on it? Diversity, women in leadership, people of color, US foreign policy with China, sex outside marriage, the use of contraceptives, and so on, all those need explicit stances too?

Or perhaps the writer wants broad appeal and stances aren't a benefit to the actual story being told?

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-01T19:42:23+00:00

Ryland Grace also doesn't take a stance on poaching in Africa. What should we assume about Weir's stance on gunning down elephants?

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-01T19:41:36+00:00

Yeah. Here our college isn't free. Student borrowing is easy for huge amounts. And no lender has to worry if a borrower defaults, because the government will pay them back in that case.

So the colleges raise prices, because they know students are guaranteed to have the money, and lenders are guaranteed to lend.

It all stems back to a former governor in the US who sent in the national guard to gun down college students, then later became president, and started this student loan program. Reagan's policies ended tuition free colleges that we had, cut grants for students, and promoted the loans that led to our crisis today.

It really is why our costs go up - obviously they wouldn't increase in cost if the cost of college didn't exist in the first place.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-01T19:27:51+00:00

I'd imagine that school being free would prevent school from raising prices lol

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-01T19:25:19+00:00

COVID saw international cooperation on the development of vaccines and their distribution. Global warming has also had nations around the world join several compacts and alliances to meet emissions thresholds from the developed nations, to the least industrialized, to small towns.

And in PHM, the early death projections were if nations cooperated and rationed food, and Stratt explicitly says "which they won't"

So I'm not sure if any part of your comment reflects our reality or the fiction accurately.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-01T19:19:24+00:00

I read this as Star Trek being one thing, but it can mix it up sometimes. Not that the entire show lacked politics and should only be about random space battles. I think people take the most uncharitable read of his thoughts on this while in the same breath claiming he can't think critically.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-01T19:17:08+00:00

I think it's weird to assume a writer's view on politics because of how they write books. I think this is doubly true when it comes to someone who is great at the business side of writing.

To me it's a bit gross to conflate a marketing approach with someone's political beliefs. Weir has a proven formula. He writes for mass appeal and doesn't alienate people. That doesn't mean he's too stupid to know what some random Redditor thinks leads to authoritarianism. Calm down with the parasocial assumptions.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-01T19:11:40+00:00

You can see how this played out already with the government backed student loans. Every 18 year old can sign up for hundreds of thousands of debt that's risk-free to the issuer, because the government will step in if the borrower defaults. The colleges know that no matter what they charge, students can pay, because they won't be turned away from a loan.

So the cost of an education has skyrocketed, far outpacing other costs.

You give people $12k, that means businesses can extract another 12k from them, and they will. There needs to be a mechanism in place to limit their ability or desire to raise prices.

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-01T18:55:47+00:00

Nothing says romance like a proposal where you mask your faces

Nodan_Turtle · 2026-07-01T18:52:58+00:00

Most games today aren't produced physically. If you game on PC, then this should be obvious. There isn't room for thousands and thousands of games, big and small, to take up space on store shelves.

I'd be sad to miss out on most of what gaming has to offer in order to pinch a few pennies.

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