Some of the elements of Subnautica 2 worry me a bit (live service model), but can't deny the franchise had a big effect on me and I'm excited for this entry.
One of the coolest things they did is tease Subnautica 2 using the time capsule feature in Subnautica 1. Some of the earliest screenshots were to be found by exploring Subnautica 1.
huge overlap with people running 400+ modlists on their fallouts with CBBE meticulously tuned to ensure their own personal orgasm within 50 seconds of playing the game
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joking, i wish it was just coomers, but this trend is dominated by grifters now so it's less funny :(
one of the things I'd do if I struck big with the lottery or some ghoulish investment is spend my time signing up for these sorts of jobs just to quit in the most inopportune way possible
confidently wrong incarnate
decentralized platforms take me back, man. back to having to hope your server admin is a cool dude, and waiting patiently for your photos to load.
Lmao same. Felt so lame seeing all of the backlash towards the game and it's developers fade away because it visually looks good and isn't a total disaster gameplay wise.
Like that's good but I think the original core problem is still that these utterly tone deaf developers are handling a monumentally important piece of art and that problem doesn't go away no matter how satisfying the shotgun is
pan leftism pisses me off. defanged theory, feel-good nonsense that doesn't equal a legible ideology. Also preys on the dumbed down simplistic single axis of political thought. I don't know how they expect communists and anarchists to work together, or communists and soc-dems, or communists and anyone other than marxists. Then again, I'm guessing that's the point - to legitimize every single flare of leftist thought other than the one with actual material history behind it
yeah it's crazy how the pandemic put a smart device in front of every school aged child, we overhauled our infrastructure radically within a few years to support this. we demonstrated the technology age we're living in and how adaptable it is
but couple years later and we're trying to ban them from schools because of the addictive design we imposed upon them via usual capitalistic interests
shit like that makes me so depressed - we're living in the future. humans of the past could not comprehend what we live with. and we've designed it in such a fundamentally anti-human way that it's more of a danger to our health, physical and mental, than anything else
American work culture scares the shite out of me. We have a type of work called 'casual' work, distinct from permanent part time and full time contracts. 'Casual' work applies a 25% loading on your pay, but in exchange, you can be let go for any reason, without notice, and do not have a guaranteed amount of hours/shifts. It's intended to be offered to teenagers getting their first fast food job or whatever, but it's abused by employers and we have a real problem with too many people working casual.
Anyway, imagine my actual horror when I discovered this 'casual' scheme is just about the standard framework for working in the states - and they don't even get casual loading!
Powerful design.
millions of dollars spent on PR companies cannot produce a more inspiring statement than this