Wait...you mean this ISN’T Harry Potter?

This content drop does not have an associated Expedition (the NMS equivalent of Diablo3 Seasons that you’re speaking of). You can unlock this stuff on your own time.

It’s also worth noting that anything unlocked by an Expedition save applies to all of your saves. You just have to go to the Anomaly with your main and…

I’m GenX - it’s just a rebranding of “politically correct” - a weaponized catchall term to villainize anything regressive bottomfeeders don’t like.

It absolutely does not mean that. By your definition, Bioware caving to angry nerds and revising the ending to Mass Effect 3 would be “woke” even though the campaign was largely driven by people who would dox you if you applied that label.

There is also no objective way to say that something isn’t offensive to ANYONE.…

It’s an odd mix of things that I didn’t know I wanted. The Tetris-like cargo management, the increasing hallucinations if you stay out in the fog too long (watch out for phantom rocks!), and I personally find the core loop satisfying, even the way the boat controls.

To be fair, most fishing game mechanics are glorified QTEs, the ones in this game are not demanding.

Here’s a TL;DR:

More-or-less, yes. Return of the Jedi was Lucas’s first film without producer Gary Kurtz and it shows, it commits many of the same plot retread/fan service sins that The Force Awakens would years later. Kurtz was the one guy who would say NO to him. Marcia Lucas was called in to help edit RoTJ (she had done much of…

Let me spell it out for you - it’s grift because there’s no endgame. CIC is selling hope and fantasy and at this point cannot possibly meet expectations, so the sunk costs fallacy rolls on, and people keep giving them money to chase a dream that is always just out of reach.

The project is an object lesson in scope…

What is the difference between “grift” and “scammy practices” in your mind? Your Early Access Hell theory doesn’t hold water...that was THEIR choice, and their failure to prioritize their backlog efficiently and ruthlessly for YEARS.

Ok, how about calling it a Ponzi Scheme?

Old game developer here, can confirm. They’re basically hacked and pirated the moment builds are sent out for localization testing. The publisher of one game I worked on in the early 00's went through the trouble of manufacturing a cartridge with JUST Russian on it, so when it was inevitably pirated it wouldn’t also…

Yes they are!

And that’s why we’re here. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition. No one thinks that a fascist regime will sprout in America, when we’ve been on this slide since the moment the New Deal was signed and capitalists began their efforts to undo it. Gutting the social safety net and bringing about a White Christian…

...which requires millions of years of evolution, whereas this fictional variant of codyceps is using the biological material available to it.

And to your earlier comment, they didn’t change it in the adaption because it serves the same purpose - to create a sensation of dread when you hear it. You know, standard…

SNL has already beaten both Dunks and Sam Adams to the punch, with far more accurate depictions of Bostonians.

Shows starting with a montage of scenes from the episode you’re about to watch is an old television trope that’s coming back around (it was a staple in 70s shows like Columbo). It was meant to hook people who started channel surfing between shows (“oh, this episode looks good”) and I imagine it serves a similar…

Forget the late 90s and 00s - I think you’re just indicating the age in which you grew up and noticed it. This has been the standard playbook for discrimination forever.

Just want to give a shoutout to Melanie Lynskey, who’s been a fixture in some of my favorite media since Heavenly Creatures in 1994.