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Seeing the Milky Way in all its glory in the canyons of the Salmon River in Idaho forever changed my view of the cosmos and our place in it. It’s just about the least light polluted place in the US:

While responding to BakaPenguin, I found this chart which shows PCs are the #1 platform for gaming development today. Surprised me anyways...

Umm...it’s a bit unfair to compare Rockstar and Hello Games given the difference in budget between GTA and NMS (which is estimated to have a budget of £5-10 million):

Funny, we have close to the same rig so I tried out your setting last night to see if it improved performance. Surprisingly windowed borderless didn’t make much of a difference and I found it intolerable to play at 720p (particularly when trying to read the menues). In the end I went back to GeForce and had it

It’s really simple...if the game doesn’t work for you get a refund. It works for me (and many many others) so it’s hardly a broken game release.

That wasn’t the reason for the video game industry collapse in the early 80's...it was almost entirely due to Atari over-levering themselves with debt. Watch Atari: Game Over, it’s an interesting documentary about the subject.

Does the current system bother me? Depends on how it’s handled. Batman: Arkham Knight was a perfect example on how NOT to handle it. Frankly, I think they should have never pulled the game from Steam since the game pretty much had the same bugs months later when it finally came out. Even then I didn’t think the bugs

Check yo’ neck (and yo’ facts). Console games almost always have launch day patches too. You remember a time before the internet, good for you. I remember buying cartridges too (as I mentioned). Things have changed, that’s the point. Get with the times.

But that’s just it, I expect it now. Pretty much ever since cartridges went away and patching became a thing. 98% of those bugs don’t ruin the game, but missing out on the launch excitement certainly can ruin some of the fun.

I’ve had bad and good experiences both ways. I’m now on my third replay of Far Cry 4 after being burnt twice by bad save data, and I bought it long after release. I’m very happy with my current system of going ahead and grabbing marqee titles on launch day for those games I’m excited about (Fallout, NMS, etc.), but

The best part about PC gaming is buying games 6 months after release for half the price after all the bugs have been worked out. If you absolutely must have a game on day-1, then bugs and glitches are to be expected. This is not limited to PC gaming, but the launch related bugs are exacerbated because of the crazy

Clearly global warming is not happening in San Francisco.

A black hole only needs a fraction of a second to suck you up...

I could be wrong as I’m not that far into the game (I have the PC version and not a lot of time to play), but it seems to me that behind the proceedurally generated sandbox galaxy is indeed a story with a plot and a goal. I get it that the allure of this game has been its bazillion worlds, but really that’s never been

The game certainly doesn’t hold your hand, that’s for sure. But from your description it doesn’t sound like you’ve progressed very far. You are not meant to establish a “home” because you are meant to be moving onward to the center of the galaxy. Basically, you’re playing it “wrong” (at least, wrong for how you want

It actually does, just much more subtly. Enlarge the gif and make sure screen/brightness is such that you can see the changes.

The breathing Earth inhaling a little too deep?

Being held in Brazil...in winter (sorry, just finishing your point).