If you think “virtue signalling” was what was wrong with RoP and Witcher, you’re completely beyond help.

“People will think the Imperium are cool, they will think Exterminatus is cool.”

“it’s like they hate money”

Where are you getting this “cashless society” business and why does that mean “you can have anything at any time” to you? That’s not even true in Star Trek, so by your definition, Star Trek’s utopia isn’t a “cashless society”, because you can’t just say “I need a Galaxy-class starship, now!” or “I want an entire…

Ah excellent hahaha!

This is a shameful take on your part. Nobody should be eating steak dinner every night. It’s not healthy for them, and it’s incredibly destructive to the environment. The fact that you see it is a legitimate life goal speaks to a broken brain and a broken system.

Unfortunately it seems like from the video he’s only “banned” until Jan 18th.

That blew my mind.

I’m really sorry about that and yeah this is exactly the problem. David Zaslav, who hopefully will be slowly eaten by an alligator, apparently found that he could survive breaking the taboo on deleting “own brand” TV shows from existence entirely, something everyone else had been too scared/sane to do, and now it’s…

Yeah it’s painful - and it’s genuinely shocking to me how many good movies I’ve seen, whether kinda big or cult classics, are just not available at all. Not for rent/sale, not streaming, and often not currently available on physical, or only available in physical on ebay or the like, for really awful prices (which…

It’s not just physical - that’s my point. Stuff that could easily, trivially be made available on digital, for basically free money, is not. Sometimes stuff that is available for sale/rent, inexplicably vanishes. Sometimes stuff that’s bought and paid for gets removed - c.f. the recent Playstation idiocy.

No. You don’t need infinite energy or resources to have a society along the lines of Star Trek. That’s a childish idea. You need sufficient ones. And we have more than enough resources - this has been discussed and analyzed at great length - to ensure no-one is hungry, or homeless, or cold, or doesn’t have access to…

Nah. An awful lot of movies can’t even be rented.

They had a post-money society long before replicators.

You kind of have to have the latter to get the former, because much like the Ferengi, the rich will do anything to stop the former from happening.

The billionaire class at this point is so disconnected from reality, and has such armies of paid sycophants and defenders - particularly in the political class - that’s it’s not a matter of if, only when.

Yeah people are full of shit on this, though maybe not consciously. A few years back (god close to a decade now) I was watching a friend play FO4, and it was glitchy and buggy as fuck in the area he was in, and I made a comment about all the glitches, and he just hadn’t noticed them, like at all. I pointed them out…

I mean, I sincerely hope so. I’d really like to think that a minor masterpiece like TotK outsold a not-very-good Ubisoft-style deal whose sole merit was exceptional fan service.

Kind of a lot of the games that sold best in that second chart were in the “mediocre to bad range”. That doesn’t bode very well. I mean, Hogwarts was a low-grade generic Ubisoft-style deal, this CoD sucks, all the sports games were, from the reviews I saw, not great, Diablo 4 is good but not amazing, same for Star…

That’s good to hear. If they implement the same system for this, it’ll at least severely reduce people’s incentive to do this, though I do wonder if we’ll see weird situations where multiple bases occupy the same space because each reported the other and then built there.