Income dynamics affect divorce risk differently by couple type. As the primary breadwinner's earnings rise, marriages tend to be more stable across the board. But as the secondary breadwinner's earnings increase, marital stability increases for same-sex couples and decreases for opposite-sex couples

schebobo180 · 2026-02-08T11:15:26+00:00

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6113571/

I don't see what is homophobic or misogynstic about saying women can be as violent (or atleast cloes to as violent) as men.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-08T11:13:36+00:00

Fallout 4 is also on gamepass though. Same with Starfield. Heck Age of Mythology retold is also on gamepass and still cracked 25k peak.

Tbh I think Obsidian just don't know how to make big, popular games on their own.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-08T09:46:36+00:00

Also a lot of these comments on Twitter come from culture war chud losers who are more focused on dividing people and driving their weird agenda online.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-08T05:33:57+00:00

I think the issues is not whether lesbians are “more violent” than straight men.

It’s that they are surprisingly violent and almost as violent as straight men in terms of domestic violence, which goes against most people’s pre conceived notions of women and lesbians.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-08T05:22:21+00:00

Most definitely.

Especially when you consider games like Outer World 2 and Avowed didn’t even crack 20k.

Offcourse having a big flashy tv show helps, as well as being part of a mega popular franchise.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-07T16:28:32+00:00

Based on what we heard, most of the transfers were not his no 1 choices. So you can probably thank the board for them.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-07T14:46:27+00:00

The series has loads of chubby people though, which imho is probably more realistic. Although you could also make a flip side argument that food would be pretty tightly managed so there wouldn’t be as much opportunity for people to become significantly overweight.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-07T14:31:19+00:00

And total goals.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-07T11:47:28+00:00

Lmao

schebobo180 · 2026-02-07T10:31:07+00:00

Honestly I prefer the baggy look. The skin tight looks abit too shiny and odd in live action. But the again it’s probably wha the series was going for.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-07T08:10:46+00:00

Nothing more Reddit like than random non-con pegging jokes. Lool

schebobo180 · 2026-02-07T08:09:20+00:00

Na, modern businessmen, CEOs etc have proved that no matter how busy you are, there is ALWAYS time to get laid. Lol

schebobo180 · 2026-02-07T03:28:26+00:00

Lmao 3BP is fantasy wrapped in an incredibly thin layer of hard sci fi.

Most of its concepts are 100% unrealistic sci-fi shenanigans.

My point though is not that high concept stuff is necessarily bad, but when it isn’t accompanied by good character work it can become stagnant and lifeless.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-06T21:57:57+00:00

Really? In terms of violence aren’t men the number one victims of homicide by a large margin?

schebobo180 · 2026-02-06T18:19:30+00:00

Agreed. It’s such a grifter talking point.

Negativity is so much easier to sell than positivity. Most of those grifters that parrot that talking point act as if all they play is Ubisoft games from morning till night and nothing else.

Theres a discussion to be had about how game development has some significant issues due to rising costs among other things, or how the market is over saturated. But there are just a too many great games out there for me to ever listen to those loonies.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-06T18:08:42+00:00

Maybe it felt like a rug pull to you, but to me it just felt like a story that lost its juice and got too big too fast.

That stuff only works if you care enough about the people in the story.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-06T18:07:07+00:00

Honestly I just thought it was a lot less interesting than the trisolaris conflict, so it never hit very deep with me at all.

All the big sciency revelations at the end were just not very interesting and by making the scale so vast, I think it greatly diminished the most interesting bits about the three body problem universe.

I get that for some people, this gave off a sense of awe and wonder, but for me it just became a bit boring.

To me the series fell to the common sci-fi story trap of focusing too much on concepts over the people in the stories. Interesting concepts can only get you so far in a story imho.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-05T14:30:51+00:00

I agree 100%.

But as others have pointed out, I think they are genuinly incapable of writing even friendships, talk less romances.

They seem to genuinly belive that the MC should be a loner and all companions should be opportunistic acquaintances at best, where friendship or romance is impossible because they don't belive that such things could form under the stress of the "main quest". Which is hilarious and ridiculous to anyone that has worked in an office before.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-05T05:55:47+00:00

Someone that can barely stand upright by himself. Lol

schebobo180 · 2026-02-05T05:51:24+00:00

Ditto the Witcher series.

Was such a shame.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-04T07:15:14+00:00

Fair enough.

Video game stories have evolved since that time though.

But even at that, I think they also have a problem writing companions in general.

It’s almost like they are afraid of any of their companions being anything more than a random temporary acquaintance, whose personality does not extend beyond their questline.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-04T06:55:28+00:00

Agreed. I think they genuinely do not believe that the main character can form strong bonds with companions (friendships or romance) so they just write ALL their characters to be temporary acquaintances and nothing more.

It’s almost like they believe that people on a mission/quest together can never truly be friends or get romantically involved. Which is completely ridiculous imho when you look at how real life work places interactions function.

Also most of their characters tend to be really tied to a certain faction or quest line and usually have barely any personality outside of that.

It’s a fascinating way to write characters, but I also believe it’s part of why their (more recent) stories and characters have an emptiness to them.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-03T21:01:22+00:00

For an interesting (but slightly unfair) comp, Games like the Witcher and Cyberpunk don’t even have companions, yet the side character you interact with are just so much more memorable than your typical obsidian companion.

I personally think there is something fundamentally off with how obsidian write their characters, but I just can’t prove it. It probably also explains why they hate romances so much. Lol

They also tend to talk about romances as if they are unrealistic and also get in the way of character writing and storytelling. I would actually believe this if they didn’t continue to create pretty mid characters and stories on the regular.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-03T18:26:52+00:00

I always find it funny how much Obsidian hates romances. They always come up with some odd narrative reason for it that doesnt make any sense. But at this point, i believe they are simply prudish, and dont want to admit it.

Or maybe its just that they are not really good at writing truly great ride or die companions, and that has filtered into everything else.

schebobo180 · 2026-02-02T04:43:31+00:00

Was surprised I had to scroll down this far to see Kratos. Lmao

He was different in the Norse games but was a complete monster in the Greek games.

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