For me this is more about open world games losing cool features than wanting to play a game with that feature. In GTA 4 it affected the choices I’d make whilst driving as it was entirely possible to make a vehicle nearly impossible to drive without coming close to blowing it up.
*The notion of choosing to go to bed that early makes me tremendously sad.
The notion of going to bed that early makes me tremendously sad.
Not what this is about but it reminds me of a lamp my mother asked me to fix every time I came home for about five years. I’d check it, find it worked, report back, she’d forget and once again assume it didn’t work otherwise she’d be using it.
I couldn’t be bothered to come up with a neat way to say “GTA-like games” and decided to hope that the reader could intuit that context.
Land of the free, everyone.
The vehicle damage modelling from GTA 4. The fact that it hasn’t been surpassed is tremendously disappointing to me.
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I do something like this with left over chicken roast dinners. Delicious.
I hate the notion that fringe lunatics have opinions that are just as valuable as anyone else’s. Push that fucking Overton Window back to somewhere sane. We do need people shutting these disruptive idiots down. The answer is not just to act like they’re not there.
Has that approach worked on any bully ever?
If someone shows up at a party and starts shit the answer isn’t to expect the other partygoers to put in earplugs.
Single serving friends. I really don’t like it.
I guess the problem was and always is, when there’s too many people, it ruins things.
This is the thing when people talk about the Fediverse’s traffic compared to Reddit. To me it’s very much a feature. I don’t think trying to get everyone and their dog on the same platform is a particularly good idea!
Precisely! It’s not half bad for that but the way people use it does my head in 😂
Yeah, I get a bit of it through Mastodon and I’ve been to a meetup there which was delightful (Jeff Minter bought me fish & chips!). I think a bit more emphasis on user profiles (bigger avatars, signatures, stuff like that) would help a lot.
I’ve run forums and been part of them. At the moment I don’t really have time but I expect I will again in future. I keep using stuff like Lemmy but it just doesn’t make my brain happy like forums did.
The asynchronous nature of them helped a great deal. Here I feel like threads have a lifespan of a day or two at most. I don’t want to have to engage immediately in order to take part.
I also don’t like the whole upvote/downvote thing. I’m good at it but it colours every interaction in a way I find deeply problematic.
It was the forum replacement thing that baffles me.
It’s a chat client, not a community building tool. It’s the round peg square hole thing that baffles me.
Because hardware, software, culture, incomes, demand, supply, and many, many other factors have all changed since the 1980s. It’s not a straight comparison. Inflation is a factor but it is not the only factor.
I cannot fathom the popularity of Discord. It’s IRC with rich media support - what good is that as a replacement for non-ephemeral communities?
“You get less steak, sure, but you get more cardboard!” 😆