Unfortunate but this is the truth. Too many of us have been accustomed to small luxuries like “affording takeout”, but we unfortunately have been priced out of being able to afford stuff like this.

It’s a tough pill to swallow if you’ve been doing it your whole life and think that a functioning adult with a full-time job should be able to afford some takeout every now and again. We are not the generation that gets to enjoy that privilege, it seems.

That’s what makes the “I’m not bought and paid for so I can say it’s a hoax freely” line so weird.

I’ve never understood how people not being paid to intentionally misunderstand the topic can go on about the hoax line.

I’m deeply hoping we meet an angry one handed Gale at some point out for revenge.

I’m surprisingly into the character building and turn based combat. I was never a big D&D fan, but I really enjoy this system.

I will say, I think I’ve been spoiled on roguelikes and open world games, because when I heard about “endless replayability” I expected quite a bit more. If you savescum to try out different options for ways to resolve quests, you don’t really need to ever play more than one character it seems. This may change later on in Act 2.

The game is surprisingly linear, but not linear, in sort of a weird way that’s hard to describe. You can go wherever you want, and explore all the nooks and crannies, but you’re essentially in a level-gated box. I’m loving the story so it’s not really an issue, but it definitely doesn’t feel as personal and unique as your first playthrough of a Bethesda game, for example.

The second part there is by far my biggest issue with the game. I don’t find the outcomes THAT different.

I’ve about finished Act 1, so I started a coop playthrough with a friend. Although we’ve both been intentionally picking different options the whole time, it’s still by and large the same process. Go to the same locations, talk to the same people but have them react to you somewhat differently. There’s a large number of ways in which the game implies much more can happen than is really possible, and lots of ways you end up getting railroaded back to the same place no matter how much you try to change it up.

I just feel bad that she had to have a kid with the guy to find this out

Unfortunately, being gay isn’t a panacea, and one can be both gay and a huge piece of shit.

It’s funny that you say that. Although it’s not I guess replacing Reddit in terms of scale, the browsing experience on Lemmy and that community feeling is actually an improvement for me.

So, I guess for me Lemmy is a more than adequate replacement. I don’t want all of Reddit here though, I think that would cause a whole lot more problems than it would solve.

Strongly agreed! That’s been my sentiment exactly. That’s why I’m not at all bothered when people compare the numbers and show how many orders of magnitude more people are on Reddit. That’s just fine with me.

Lemmy scratches the same itch, it isn’t the same 5 posts circulating for three days anymore, and we seem to have reached a critical mass where it feels just like it should, but without the shitty bits.

God this is horrific. I love it.

Yeah… Those damn gays, and then they kiss deeply a few more minutes before settling down in a shady grove beneath an oak tree… they let the dog wander off as they reacquaint themselves with each other’s body…

It’s a classic right wing talking point. They like to present the Guardian as biased and bullshit as the Daily Mail or the Mirror or something.

Yeah, also still learning of course, but that’s my understanding of why Beehaw.org defederated. Too much new data getting copied over.

Massive numbers of users is great for a business, but not necessarily great for discussion.

Lemmy doesn’t feel like Reddit, but in a good way. Individual comments actually stand out, and it’s not a sea of lowest common denominator trash and reposts.

I think people should stop conflating big numbers with success. If anything, we’ve seen the kind of nonsense big numbers lead to, with an IPO on the horizon and all that comes with that.

I’ll admit I’m not entirely well versed in this, but what development? Is the API being continually worked on? I’d imagined it was relatively stable, especially given how awful Reddit has traditionally been with any kind of feature development.

Hell, they couldn’t even make their own app, they had to buy Alien Blue and then drive it into the ground for $$$

I do think bots are a major culprit. If you look closely, they account for a remarkable amount of the “content”.

Yeah, this is what I’m most interested to see. Right now it’s a forward thinking, principled thing.

Once Relay, RiF, Apollo, BaconReader, and all the others go defunct, a lot more people are going to take notice. If they use the awful official app, they’re going to realize Reddit has changed dramatically and not for the better, and they’ve just been shielded from the worst if it with their 3rd party apps.

This is a really good point, and one of the reasons I’m happy to make my new online home here.

The type of people who act like this is nothing, or worse, act like there’s nothing that can be done and we should just roll over, won’t have gone through the trouble to come here. And yeah, I’m with you, they can all hang out and circlejerk the same jokes over and over along with the bots.

Best of both worlds, and we’re all happy. A bit of positive selection bias.