I don’t think it’ll end well for them, and it’s a disappointing choice. However, choosing to not federate is just as much a part of the system as choosing to federate. If everyone had to run exactly the same setup we everyone else, the whole thing would be pointless.

“You don’t understand. You’re in a story right now, and I am the villain. You’re going to suffer untold ang—“
“I said I know how capitalism works.”

Holy hell.

New project idea: lemmyframes by 2024, or we do a blackout!

Sometimes, even at the same time.

Can we please get back to talking about Rampart? - spez, probably.

I definitely agree with you on 1, 3 and 4. Personally I haven’t even looked at Starfield because of the patient gamer thing, I’ll try it out in a few years or whenever it’s on sale / has enough buzz.

I do kind of defend a lot of dlc though. Some of it is predatory as fuck, but some of it just massively expands a game’s lifespan and you end up with massively more support/content in a post-dlc world than we ever got without it.

It just depends on if they’re selling Horse Armor, or if it’s a game that keeps getting major content patches for 10 years because it’s being supported by dlc. Both happen. Of course, given that “horse armor” is literally something Bethesda did…well…

I haven’t looked into it myself (which is why I’m sus and not worse) but a lot of people have accused the person running the server of some sketchy stuff. Like removing any posts critical of China or Russia, and similar things. Typical biased mod stuff.

And yesterday in the “what’s something you’d like to see stay on reddit and not follow?” thread on (I believe) lemmy.ml’s AskLemmy, someone went on a full-on transphobic rant using typical “just asking questions” / “I’m just worried about them!” concern trolling, which led to that post staying up but (apparently) most people who disagreed being removed. That left a pretty bad taste in my mouth.

I haven’t looked into the issues deeply enough to make up my own mind, but the sheer amount of accusations - combined with the fact that lemmy.ml is overloaded and very laggy - makes me think it’s better to just be on another server. Just in case.

Back when I was young, most games cost around $50. But back then they were 1/100th the size and complexity they are now, had absolutely no post-launch support whatsoever, and and even “AAA” titles used pixel art. They didn’t even have voice acting.

If I adjust for inflation alone, no other factors, a $50 game from back then would be $91 today.

I’m not happy about the price increase, but I certainly understand it and can’t really blame anyone for it. Frankly, I’m surprised this didn’t happen many years ago.

Personally, I’ve been a patient gamer for a while - welcome! It’s great here.

I’m having a heck of a fun time not just trying to find places I’m interested in, but figuring out the best lemmy instances for them. Because xyz on one server isn’t the same as xyz on another server, even though we can access both of them from any server we want.

I’m also a bit sus of lemmy.ml, which is sad since it seems to have the most activity overall so far. We’ll see how it goes.

But yes, where sub indeed.

Cereal is basically just a giant bowl of sugar, sometimes with candy added to provide extra texture. So I could actually believe this. Doesn’t mean pizza is good, just most cereal sold in the US is very bad.