Man i really miss Cracked. It used to be so good.

That quote is being proven true right now though?

People don’t really remember what happened with the nazis. Most of the people who actually lived that past are dead now.

And the vast mojority of people lack enough empathy/understanding to be able to ‘walk a mile in their shoes’ as it were and extrapolate the horrors from the most readily available histories.

Get to know my neighbors? C’mon dude no way.

Water? We dont need no stinking water.

I’ve been using Lightning Launcher for over a decade now.

It’s no longer on play store, but a version is available at https://github.com/TrianguloY/LightningLauncher

Lots of customization options.

Black Flag was the 1st I played and the only one I enjoyed. Tried others and they were just ‘meh’.

(Why is a decent pirate/sailing game so hard to make? - almost 15 years later and still nothing seems to come close to what Black Flag offers)

I’m not gonna lie, I like how that wall looks lol.

Through “no fault” of the company and years after the purchase.

Its not the companies fault he couldnt be assed to :

1. Diversify his email addresses in the 1st place
2. Update his email address.

When you put all your eggs in one basket, you’ve really got no one else to blame when you then decide to throw the basket away.

Taco bell is one the the few fast food joints that still has decent cheap options.

They have a $7 luxe box ( if you use the app you can customize it.) That actually gives a worthwhile amount of food.

And as far as I can tell it’s an all the time deal, not some shitty limited time promotion like mcshit offers trying to get people to come bsck to their overpriced garbage. ($6+ just for fucking “large” french fries)

In regards to 1. I disagree - there are plenty of flawed things that are still my taste - just like this game is.

I can enjoy something and still admit the problems it has. I don’t need to ‘justify’ my enjoyment by pretending something is perfect or doesn’t need improvement.

That would be like saying a person I like has zero flaws or issues. Just patently untrue. EVERYBODY has something they need to work on themselves even if they can’t see it.

If you can’t tell the difference between constructive and destructive criticism that’s something you need to work on lol.

Maybe the only game that actually has a redemption arc?

I can’t think of any other game that was so panned for so many things that turned it around like Hello Games did.

The only other games I can think of with any sort of redemption arc the main issues were because of bugs not swaths of missing features.

It doesn’t really help, but I find NMS space combat feels a lot better to me in VR.

The added immersion really covers up the “on rails” feeling for me.

But you end up “exploring” the same stuff over and over.

Theres no reason to actually explore a planet - pretty much everything you want to do/see is taken care of at any random spot you choose due to the single biome planets.

You’ve got like maybe 6 different versions of flora depending on the enviroment type. If your lucky they give you a color change too so instead of all green tree A you’ll get a red tree A .

Now I know it can be explained away by the games lore, but when the main goal of the game is to explore it doesnt really help.

It doesn’t even matter how many galaxies/universes you jump to - it’s all still the same limited number of assets with the same limited color wheel.

Money.

I really hope I get the chance to see them in person before I die.

Yes, it is a flaw. Because those “smaller things” are little more than virtual fidget spinners.

They offer a few fleeting moments of novelty and thats pretty much it. They have little to no relevance to the gameplay loop or are opposed to the gameplay loop.

I can “build” a settlement that does next to nothing and I can’t even design it the way I want.

I can build a base that is practically lifeless, but I have to be carefull because terrain will respawn. Or base foundations float on top of terrain.

And all the things I can build I’m lucky if theres 3 different skins I can choose from to try and make something “my own”.

And then of course lets not forget about the near literal mile wide inch deep the games oceans are. Heres a submersible. We will force you to use it for a couple missions and then theres no real need or point to it. All the oceans are the same shallow boring experience.

Here im being slightly facetious but only slightly :

You’ve seen one ice planet? Guess what - you’ve seen them all.

One glitch planet- you guessed it youve seen them all.

Tropical planet - oh look this ones sky is a different color, but still the exact same type of tree as that other tropical planet 40k lightyears away.

Yeah, best case scenario it would be chaotic neutral

Honestly, i wonder if generative ai would work for a procedural game like this. Any ‘errors’ could just be written off as alien flora/fauna or a glitch in the simulation.

My biggest problem with exploration in NMS is how quickly it all becomes the same thing.

Hell if they just made planets multibiome that would go a long way to eliminating that cookie cutter feel.

Mile wide, inch deep. I’ve no doubt (as excited for this update as I am) that this will be the same.

Basically they just add a framework for new features and then leaves it there without building it out.

I can’t decide if its aww or ahhhh!