I *think* I know what you (and others) mean but specific words are important in this discussion about “exclusivity”, so I don’t make assumptions.

This is demonstrably false.

maybe i missed it, but does the writer explain why the word colony is troublesome?

“If the game is locked to a single platform on PC.”

Nobody who is familiar with this genre would expect this sort of reaction.

I want to play this but I hate shooting on controllers and don’t want provide epic with my credit card info (Really, I just want my games library all in one place).

Maybe I’ll feel differently after I play the game (which I plan to), but I finish the review thinking I’d have liked to have heard more about the game mechanics and less about the author’s personal political philosophy.

I’m glad to hear the game seems to grasp the concept of nuance. So many “what will you do?” game decisions always end up being binary between acting like Jesus, or being Skeletor Hitler.

exism and racism don’t meaningfully exist even though race does; many of the people you meet across classes are black and brown.

I really hope this sells well. This type of game (single player, story-driven, with tons of options for character customization and playstyle) seems to be coming along more rarely these days amidst the annualized titles, battle royals, and looter shooters built around microtransactions, paid DLC and grinding.

Dude, we all moved on to attacking Blizzard now.

It’s odd that you call the similarity to Fallout the elephant in the room. The entire reason I’ve been hype as fuck about this game for months is that I fully expect it to be New Vegas in space. There may be an elephant in the room, but I'm only in the room because I want to hang out with the elephant. 

Yes. A few people I work with are very smart, but intuitive and emotional idiots. They see free candy and they cannot help themselves but to take as much of a the free candy as fits into their grubby little mitts. It should also be noted these are the same people who make roughly 4x what I make.

Which means they *have* proven what their nutrition information is.

The main issue with the product is that there’s more to food than what you’re left with when it’s atomized. The actual physical structure of the food, the muscle mass of meat and the fibrous materials of fruit/vegetables play a part in our digestion. Just because it meets the base requirements to be considered a food…

From what I remember in a college nutrition class, we know enough about nutrition to know that there’s a lot we don’t know. We haven’t identified all the things you need to get from food yet. That’s why you can’t just tick all the boxes and call it complete nutrition.

Why haven’t physicians pointed out the primary problem with this “meal replacement” thing? Speaking as someone who had to live on a nutrient liquid diet for almost 2 years due to some severe medical conditions that prevented me from eating solid food, I know the MANY downsides and health problems associated with long…

Because it is cult food for cultists?

“FINALLY! Someone else fucked up!”.