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I honestly wonder if they sped up season 2 not because they thought it’d get cancelled or go stale but because since it was successful Disney wanted more control over it. It’s already come out Tony Gilroy was butting more heads with execs for season 2. He seems like he would want to go out his way.

With that being said, maybe not 5, but I think 3 would have been perfect

Why compare us to reddit? We feel like Reddit but from a hosting and admin perspective it’s a whole different ballgame. Mods of reddit at worst run the risk of their communities being taken down for a bit if they let content slip through. Here on Lemmy us admins are legally liable for content that is posted. We don’t have a large limited liability corporation that will take the hit for us. We need these tools, or we are the ones that will have boots through doors.

A built in auto mod is the largest thing. A way to say that this common pattern is spam and to block it system wide, right now we just don’t have that. A nice to have stretch goal would be to use some model to fight actual gore or csam material, which just doesn’t exist. A moderation dashboard would be great to see users with their comment history, vote trends, high level to see if a person just had an off comment that might be taken the wrong way, or if there is a trend of trolling behavior

These have been opened on the GitHub and either sit open forever or are just closed.

Made by and for douchebags. Honestly if they actually wanted to make a little truck that was an EV I would have been all over it. Just something small to haul some dirt or lumber for home projects. I don’t want a giant f150, I want some danger ranger size or smaller for light projects. I think that could have been very popular.

I did this a ton during covid

Which makes sense on paper to a corporate board, what I love is how ironically the less risky means more boring, and that we’re finally seeing people not showing up to boring repetitive slop. Iron man and the MCU started as a risk, and they had interesting new storylines. Now it’s boring safe slop

I’ve wondered if they planned on Andor flopping and we’re going to just doa season trial run, or it came at the time they were greenlighting everything star wars. There’s no way it should have slipped through marketing, legal, the feel good police, but it did, and I’m very grateful for Tony Gilroy telling the story he wanted

I like to calculate enjoyment per hour for cost. Red dead 2 took me 120 hours for $60. That’s 50 cents an hour, and not counting the now many replays. So there’s a good bar.

Then you have the movies, who now want upwards of 12-14 dollars an hour of enjoyment. Or I just wait until I can get it at home.

Now, there’s a lot of variable there, something being more expensive does not mean bad, I can justify the costs if I want it enough or if I’m, say, looking forward to a specific movie. But they’re fighting for our leisure time, our Friday and Saturday nights, and for that cost it’s just not worth going to the movies and “seeing what’s showing” anymore. They nickel and dimed us out of that experience. Why go spend $40-50 dollars for 2 to go see a movie when we could rent one at home, or play a game, or any number of things?

You’ll be surprised a couple of weeks after leaving algorithmic content behind. It’s not immediate, it quite literally is a drug, a dopamine addiction. At first you’ll feel withdrawals, the need to check it. If you can make it over that though, you’ll realize how anxious you’ve been, how overwhelmed you were. It’s honestly a freeing feeling.

Exactly. Same with Meta platforms. You’re not fighting with a concept or an idea, this is their entire personality. They don’t care how horrid the viewpoint is, they’re just happy to be better than something. There’s a reason that it’s usually the poorest and lowest of our society, it’s because they want to feel better than people when they deep down know they’re not. It’s why it’s so hateful. It’s why they get joy even when it hurts themselves. They’re winning at something.

I think back to the maps that the sites released. The weirdest stuff was always consumed by the reddest areas. Look at the biggest areas where Step anything content is accessed. It’s overwhelmingly red.

There’s a plugin for SteamOS that does this, I’m on Bazzite and it works very well.

And they wanted it that way. They were like well that’s what it’s really like! Which like yeah great, but that’s terribly boring for a game.

Another game like that was Mass Effect 1, where they had the undiscovered worlds, but even those were more entertaining. They gave you a mako, and each planet had at least one faction with at least some backstory to it so it wasn’t a complete waste. Starfield is like, nothing. I encounter the exact same building structure and camps multiple times on my single playthrough. Absolutely uninspired

Yeah, I’m in my thirties making a good living loving what I’m doing and she still regularly brings up how sad it is I gave up on my “true passion” - the thing she pushed me into that I told her over and over I didn’t want to do. She cried when I didn’t choose it as my major. So… not applicable in my case

God how did they fuck that up? Who thought I’d want to fast travel there? Sure sometimes, but honestly I’d love it if it showed how many minutes to destination and then you started jumping.

You’re in the pilots chair, you see 10 minutes to the other side of the galaxy where your mission is. You hesitate because that’s far, but 2 minutes away is your home base anyway so might as well swing through and drop off some stuff, make sure the pumps and extractors are working. 6 minutes past that is that side quest you’ve been putting off, I guess we can do that too. You hit the jump button, stars whizz past. You go talk with your crew, get caught up on conversations. You jump back in the chair when the 20 second warning goes off. You jump out and arrive, but there is a weird signal on a nearby planet in this system…

Now THAT’s the game i wanted. Altering one mechanic right there completely changes the entire style of the game. I will forever be annoyed that everything in the game is instant fast travel. Sure have a button there to skip if people want to, but personally I prefer to lay back and fully immerse myself

This is sweet, happy mother’s day to those moms. My mom pushed me into things I didn’t like and told her I didn’t like. So this gave me emotions lol

It was incredibly mid. For something Bethesda hyped for over half a decade they sure made a bland game. Throwing aside all of the incredibly dated gameplay, you hit the nail on the head. It was boring

You can tell every faction was decided by a corporate committee inside Bethesda and Microsoft. They couldn’t be too risky, couldn’t come close to possibly offending one person or risk having slightly fewer gamers. That results in a boring as hell game. Everyone was too goddamn nice in the game. No one ever got mad at you. You could punch someone in the face and the response would be “hey, that’s not nice” and then they would continue on. Hold on there don’t want to possibly scare off a potential customer by having a realistic situation there.

All those red counties can keep enjoying paying over $100 a month for terrible local cable company “100mbps” (20mbps in reality) download speeds with 56k upload. That’s the great America they wanted after all. Meanwhile in my very blue city I pay $60 a month for symmetric gigabit.

Nobody should be optimizing to use unity anymore. I know personally devs who have worked there and confirmed this is their business now, just strangling devs for license revenue. They may open the gate a bit at the beginning to lock you in, but they’ll slam it shut eventually behind you. And god knows if your game is even remotely successful they’re going to go out of their way to get their hands on your money