The made the game because they wanted to make a really cool game with all these features.  Their devops and current tech thwarted them initially, but No Man’s Sky was a labor of love from the beginning and they keep doing it because they love it. It’s obvious if you listen to interviews with the devs.

The cheating will continue until the legal system improves.

The 5th percentile female dummy really doesn’t capture the much more varied female geometry. That’s a big part of why women keep getting injured. Our shape changes as our weight changes, you can’t just scale a ‘female’ shape up or down like you can a male one. This is well known in clothing designs, it’s why so many…

Not just height. BOOBs, my friend. My large-average sized chest bumps mean that seat belts don’t stay in the right place, no matter where I put the top of the seat belt. They mean that airbags will impact me in a slightly different way.

Oh great, the old ‘cats don’t love you’ garbage.

The next time someone tries to ‘not all cops’ me, I’m linking them here.

Not if you’re using it as a cigarette replacement with tobacco products. Also, excommunication is in the cards for repeated affairs.

I ran into an older farmer couple who’d done some kind of agricultural mission-thing where they’d taught potato farming techniques to people who wanted to learn potato farming. That seemed pretty harmless.

So this is going to be Dragon Age: Pokemon, right? With a rich story where the characters grow, not just a shallow collecting & arena game where we mimic dogfighting with the pitiful number of pokemon we can actually collect?

It’s not even like RPGs that have a player character who grows over the story arc are a new thing! That’s pretty much the definition of the genre. Game Freak wants to sell a shallow collecting game but without even doing the work to put in all the collection items. It’s a disgrace. 

They could also expand the genre a bit. A more RPG game, for example. Change the story so you aren’t a new trainer starting out, you’re an elite trainer who has to figure out what happens afterwards. Or make some kind of branching storyline instead of wacky cutscenes.

I was hoping it wasn’t that many, since I think the designs are getting worse over time.

It’s keeping this player away.

The near-complete lack of rear visibility took it off my list of potentials completely. Cars are not submarines. Drivers need visibility, not resistance to water pressure.

Download the DF Starter Pack. It’s a zip file with DF and multiple utilities, all set up to work together. It’s honestly the best way to play even for veteran players. Having a tileset and DwarfTherapist (a utility to manage dwarf jobs) makes the game a lot more fun. 

I let my sub lapse on accident and re-upped after a couple months, they were still there. Maybe you can get yours back?

I’ll be one of those people. I’ve been waiting to finish transferring until confirmation of whether we could transfer to Sword & Shield came out. Now that it’s confirmed I need to hurry up and catch Latios and finish transferring. 

Social context isn’t the pretence; social context is the air that interactions breathe in, the water talking swims in. You’re pretending that people can interact in a frictionless spherical manner a la intro physics, which is both ignorant and self-defeating. Just like with physics, the real world doesn’t work like…

That sounds horrible. In your shoes, I’d stop feeding him. He can buy food if he wants, maybe he can eat from your meal plan if he wants, but no more say in what food comes into or goes out from the house because he’s actually a toddler. Sounds harsh, but he’s wasting so much of your time, money and hard work.

...that conversation definitely started with smalltalk. Also, it was with older men, and male/male convos are a totally different ballgame. Men don’t consistently attack men who won’t be their friends; they do consistently assault or harass women who turn them down. Pretending that talking with older guys is the same…