This platform is proof positive of this take lmao buncha tech nerds who can’t read to save their lives

God help you if you accidentally use an analogy on here

I’m not like this but I am very curious.

When I went to the dentist and they were taking molds of my teeth I shared that I was a 3D printing hobbyist and wanted to know a bit about the process. I always start with an apology “sorry I’m curious by nature as an engineer but could you share details on X?”

Dude was the owner and gave me a full run down. He even told me about the time he got a free rental for a crown 3D printer to have on site. It was stupid expensive but it was free to use for a few months. Then pay to keep it. Get crowns in hours instead of days. He returned it because labs do much better work.

I feel this, my frustration isn’t that people aren’t smart enough to use tech, but that smart people panic around tech and can’t learn or experiment. Like I get it, but you have to dive in at some point surely

The real hot take hidden in your sentiment is that less educated blue collar workers who live in rural communities and tend towards conservative politics aren’t dumber than you are. They just have different competencies than you do.

Ben Carson is the epitome of this for me - absolutely brilliant neurosurgeon, ate up every bit of the MAGA party line.

Maybe they are just hatefull from the start, and you correcting them puts you in their line of sight?

Knowing the rules and knowing when they’re needed are two different things. A racecar driver doesn’t need to floor it on their way home. Likewise a conversation doesn’t need to employ strict grammatical compliance, we’re talking not drafting a treatise. At the end of the day people who get upset with incorrect grammar do so because it’s an ick or theirs. They then proceed to make that everyone else’s problem. You’re not learned and scholarly for being pedantic.

Just thinking about the email one…

I would say one email, two emails… but a lot of email. If it’s an unquantified number then I drop the ‘s’.

My hero

The prequels have a solid narrative throughout, the sequels don’t even have a consistent narrative in a single movie.

Broooo what the fuxkkkk

Are you lobotomised???

Yeap.

I’ve written off family members due to toxicity and swore off having kids (before the economy went into the shitter).

Wife also doesn’t want to have kids herself, but loves children. If we want kids I’m going to adopt in a few years. Late 40s early 50s. Aiming to provide a good home and support to one or two in need.

We might start as a foster parents.

Eh, the people you have the strongest emotional bonds with are likely the people you’ve spent the most time with. Logically that would be family for most people. Kinda weird obsession with blood ties their mate, don’t have to be related by blood to be family.

I didn’t dislike it, but it didn’t live up to my hopes after all I’d heard about it.

I don’t regret having bought and played the game, but I never bothered to go back and fully finish all the side missions.

I do think that the edginess is kinda part of the cyberpunk genre. I can’t beat up on them for that.

• It has high production values, a lot of modeling and texturing and such — I’m amazed how much money they have to have sunk into assets only to use them briefly — but the actual core gameplay didn’t grab me the way, oh, Halo did when it first came out and I played it. Night City is painstakingly created in tremendous detail, but end of the day, the point is to create the backdrop for gameplay, and I feel like they spent a disproportionate making of resources on that.

• The combat is pretty, but for all of the work that went into various systems, I didn’t play it much differently from the way I would another shooter.

• I also had been expecting something more like a Bethesda RPG, and got something more Grand Theft Auto-ish with a beefed up skill tree.

• I wasn’t that impressed with the braindance stuff from a pure gameplay standpoint — it’s kinda “hunt for the hidden object” stuff — but I do think that it was original and it served as a useful justification to show “flashbacks” to earlier events.

• Obtaining and managing clothing is a substantial thing, but I almost never actually see the main character, so the clothing doesn’t have much impact. Maybe if there were a third person camera mode or frequent reflections or frequent looking through a camera or something.

• Having played some games like Saboteur and Grand Theft Auto, I kind of expected the differences between autos to matter more, given how much work went into creating them and all, but from a mission standpoint, they’re surprisingly interchangeable. A couple missions are easier with some, but a lot of the vehicles don’t really have that much gameplay point.

• Johnny Silverhand is a major part of the game, but wasn’t really a character that I found very plausible or super interesting. I dunno, maybe if I had been into the punk music scene, it’d be different. I felt like they really were trying to shoehorn a punk band leader into the role. That being said, I did think that most characters were pretty solid.

I’ve been complaining about the cyberpunk genre for years and 2077 is basically a distillation of everything wrong with it at current. They use the aesthetic and gut the meat, to the point where they’re often the very things cyberpunk is supposed to be critiquing. Soulless cash grabs its embarrassing we let it happen. 2077 wasn’t even mechanically fun for me. My favorite genre and I feel like we’ve rarely made things better than just reading neuromancer. We should have plenty of really mind blowing rhings with this much time to improve on it but it’s so few and far between 😞

Thor/PirateSoftware is right about some aspects of Stop Killing Games and the damages it could cause to the games industry.

For example?