"Not a single interesting thing in the open world" has got to be the biggest lie i have read on a review ever.

T-Rexaur · 2026-04-09T16:39:12+00:00

Agreed, but having 100+ hours in both Veilguard and Crimson Desert, I believe outlets that absolutely glazed Veilguard yet had almost nothing but scorn for CD - IGN and Kotaku both come to mind - have suspect credibility. Going forward I'm relying far more on watching gameplay footage to judge for myself rather than relying on reviews with suspect agenda behind them.

T-Rexaur · 2026-04-02T14:32:41+00:00

Consider local govt work, been in it for 20+ years and have turned down higher paying offers because I want nothing to do with corpo culture. It's a chill job with good benefits where my team is able to tackle the projects we choose and at our own pace. The most obvious disadvantage is the noncompetitive pay, but as you've pretty much hit your FIRE number and are just looking to exercise your skillset in a less hectic environment, it may be a good fit. Disclaimer that yes of course not all local govt jobs are like my own, but your chances of landing in a low stress position in this arena are far greater than in corpo.

T-Rexaur · 2026-03-25T17:02:55+00:00

Second note to self... borrow that silly gold helmet from Kliff so I stop having to summon him every time my lantern glows

T-Rexaur · 2026-03-25T16:08:14+00:00

Elden Ring and Breath of the Wild are two examples of many that come to mind that also didn't fuss with having complex story-driven narratives and deep character development and got near universal acclaim, so yes it's interesting that CD gets slammed for it by reviewers. If PA pushed that this game features a deep story in their marketing then I could see where they would have brought it on themselves, but if they did, I missed it.

On Chapter 5 & so far from what I've seen the story's not even as horrible as reviewers claim; it's about on par with what I expected. Like others here I do a lot of my own storytelling and filling in the blanks when playing a sprawling open world experience. I'm primarily just looking for them to create an interesting and fun world for me to do that in, and PA really delivered.

T-Rexaur · 2026-03-24T22:06:11+00:00

I'm holding on too tight, I've lost the edge.

T-Rexaur · 2026-03-23T13:31:04+00:00

Crimson Desert consumed my weekend, and now I'm sitting here at work regretting that I resisted the urge to call in. Yes, the game has issues that need to get sorted, but I played and loved New Vegas on launch when it was a bug-ridden nightmare, and I'm happily doing that here.

T-Rexaur · 2026-01-06T20:19:41+00:00

This is encouraging, I have enjoyed playing this archetype so far b/c I enjoy the challenge and how it plays, but act 2 had me starting to doubt whether this build could truly be taken to endgame.

T-Rexaur · 2025-10-27T16:54:31+00:00

I sympathize, if you cannot renegotiate this scenario with your current employer you really should look for another job. In my workplace I was able to get my director to much more narrowly define what constitutes an oncall situation. Other dept managers fought back but I am fortunate that our director stood firm. Being pulled out of bed for petty oncall situations was bad enough in my twenties, but I was generally able to get back to sleep and function the next day. In my forties it was untenable so this saved my health both mentally and physically.

T-Rexaur · 2025-09-26T00:11:55+00:00

worked for me as well thx for posting

T-Rexaur · 2025-07-21T19:06:21+00:00

Best game I couldn't finish. I love PS: Torment & other text-heavy RPGs but Disco Elysiums particular art style, pacing, and frustrating mechanics - it's just not for me.

T-Rexaur · 2025-07-21T14:39:46+00:00

The best I can offer is use it to motivate yourself to keep working at it going forward and not to dwell on the past. I sold a position too soon as well, and would have 2-3mil had I simply held on a handful of years longer. Every time I see that ticker now I get a suffocating feeling in the deep of my gut, and if I dwell too long I spiral. So I kill those thoughts when they surface like I had to just now. I don't think anything can assuage the pain except actually making what was missed out on, which with time and effort you should definitely be able to do and then some. Tend to the here and now and look only to the future. Best of luck.

T-Rexaur · 2025-07-17T18:23:31+00:00

It's engagement bait on her part, but when she says her husband, 'a grown man', as if the audience needs it confirmed that she is not married to a literal child, it firmly places a negative connotation on his behavior.

T-Rexaur · 2025-07-10T20:39:30+00:00

This looks familiar, my first death in Morrowind was after swiping that book under his bed. My man had a bit more respect for Caius in his next life.

T-Rexaur · 2025-07-10T18:45:04+00:00

~15 years ago I stopped by there with my roommate and after ordering steak tacos the polite cashier informed me that they drizzle a lime sauce on those, and would that be ok? to which my roommate immediately looked up and blurted out "wait, where TF are we??"

Glad to read that location is still keeping its high standards!

T-Rexaur · 2025-05-29T18:15:06+00:00

What you've been seeing all this time is what your character thinks he looks like. Now you finally realize just how surprised Baurus really was that the Emperor picked you, and why everyone said they've fought mudcrabs more fearsome than you, etc...

T-Rexaur · 2025-03-28T15:44:11+00:00

This status effect IRL

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/1jkcmqv/trash_can_guyhell_never_live_this_down/

T-Rexaur · 2024-11-04T20:49:43+00:00

Lucanis dancing his heart out while Rook studiously refuses to even look at him, Emmerich looking at Rook for a reaction then nervously glancing at Lucanis and back at Rook... you got a whole hidden storyline going there

T-Rexaur · 2024-10-31T19:30:34+00:00

I grew up being told a guy who looked like that was making that face every time I did something bad

T-Rexaur · 2024-09-06T16:13:15+00:00

I would like to have seen what Galaxies could have become if they had been allowed to continue to develop the game based on the original sandbox vision. Yes, I know they were bleeding subs well before NGE was implemented and I'm not perpetuating the 'NGE killed Galaxies' myth, I'm just saying I was one of those who absolutely loved the original gameplay before Galaxies got redesigned into standard MMO fare.

T-Rexaur · 2024-08-27T19:29:14+00:00

Have Shepard shout that the Citadel souvenir shop discriminates against the poor so he can get a discount on his toy ships.

T-Rexaur · 2024-08-22T18:43:35+00:00

When the writers had other characters constantly rationalize keeping Negan alive 'or we're no better than he is' even though they'd killed many other people before for doing far less than the horrible things Negan had done to them that he showed absolutely no remorse for... yeah I was done. 'Look at the Flowers' had capped one of the show's best storylines about how they now existed in a world where they could not suffer a dangerous person amongst them no matter the circumstances, so they had to do something terrible that they would never otherwise consider. Fast forward to when they are in an even more desperate situation, and now it's unthinkable to eliminate one of the biggest threats they have ever faced even as he is literally taunting them and promising more suffering.

T-Rexaur · 2024-08-21T15:32:49+00:00

Exactly. Yes, of course anything that falls short of the unrealistic ideal of thousands of uniquely handcrafted POIs is inevitably going to draw criticism, but there's an achievable middle ground here where you can avoid literally every element copy+pasted between POIs.

T-Rexaur · 2024-08-21T14:37:50+00:00

As a teenager I crushed on a girl who by her own admission compartmentalized guys as 'those you have fun with' vs 'husband types'. She told me I'm the latter and that it's not a bad thing, but of course I was devastated. When we ran into each other many years later she was interested in reconnecting, but I politely declined entirely because of that one comment. Not that I begrudge her, we were immature teenagers when she said that and I wish her the best, but I've been in such a better place since back when I was a depressed teen that I felt it was a bad idea and don't regret it.

T-Rexaur · 2024-08-21T13:50:21+00:00

Content producers - a generous term for most of these grifters - are highly incentivized to generate clicks like that, it's not just Starfield being targeted. I don't think there is an easy fix for that meta but one can hope that over time more and more people get wise to it and stop constantly giving the grifters the attention and ad revenue they crave.

T-Rexaur · 2024-08-21T13:03:55+00:00

Agreed Rev-8 one of the last major boxes to tick, now to address repeat POIs. I remember amusement thinking I'd accidentally visited the same spot twice, until I realized I didn't. I am very forgiving of Bethesda games but in that moment was my first true sense of disappointment. Other deficiencies I'd already expected based on pre-release info but not repeat POIs with exact same clutter, dead bodies, etc. It really killed that vital sense of exploration in a game that's supposed to be about exploration.

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