I wasn't aware of that community but I'm gonna look into it now

Well it came out in the 90s haha

Man I have never thought about it because of feeling so at ease with the digital video game stores and just downloading what I want whenever I want without keeping a physical library that would take up space. Same with books.

If the internet died tomorrow, I would have the stuff I'm playing or reading or watching downloaded but I would be out of luck for anything else until it came back. Maybe it's time to start a backup, get a big HDD or something

Just for information, how endgame is an endgame in Civilization? I assume at some point you do so well that you can't do anything else and all new nations must bow to ur immense nuclear power

Omg this has a name?! It's one of my favorite things to happen lol

Okay so uh...back when I had a really tough assignment and I didn't wanna study for it and I had just one day left. I was talking to a girl on Facebook about not doing my assignment and she sent me something that she uses to write her homework, well I looked it up and it worked brilliantly, I was able to submit my assignment in time with zero effort.

Next week everyone was using chatgpt for assignments

Can someone tell me what GOP is? Looking to expand my Americana lore lol

Okay guy status report: I finished the game yesterday, wrote this review and kept thinking about what to play next and also worrying about finding a job; fell asleep early because of all the brainload.

Woke up this morning and I think I get it, Henry went to Shoshone to get away from real life and find an adventure and the fact that the game lies to you internally and externally just hit me today. Internally, Henry never gets his life changing experience and even though he meets Delilah it's pretty much confirmed by the ending dialogue that he will go back, live his life and eventually forget about this one person he met on a two month job. Externally, the game feels like it's an escape from mundanity and is an adventure but then it turns out to mostly be an on-rails walking simulator where you as a don't even get to chop a tree yourself because all the animations are automated and the game doesn't even let you fish!

It's an exercise in deliberate expectation subversion and makes me feel sad about the whole experience. I think much of my criticism about the gameplay still stands but I get the storytelling a bit more now and would like to bump up the rating to a 7/10

TL;DR: I just realized I'm like Henry trying to escape life.

"There is a Tower, he thought. It holds everything together. There are Beams that protect it somehow. There is a Crimson King, and Breakers working to destroy the Beams… not because the Breakers want to but because it wants them to. The Crimson King." - Hearts in Atlantis, Low Men in Yellow Coats, Chapter 10

I think the beam is referenced a lot in IT but had no idea what it meant since I haven't been to the Tower yet.

"Before removing the mote in thy neighbor's eye, attend the beam in thine own" - IT (drawing on it from memory so might be a little different)

That they need to understand others in order for people to understand them. That the "tragic prince" is just a fallacy and I would really really want other people around me to appreciate art-forms more. Most of the time they find a movie good and just list the content as the reason for it's goodness, not paying attention to any of the craft and it baffles me that more people are not attached to or interested in how art-forms do the things they do.

How can I do this? I have an old Realmi stuck on Android 9

Maybe cuz despite all of the settlement helping and everything, the game doesn't manage to be lived in. The constant radiant quests show the mechanicality of the game instead of fleshing out the world. I love Morrowind, I just played it for the first time last year and it still felt like a more lived world than Fallout 4

Wait, all mods have to go through that app? That's total shite. Is there any way to launch it completely offline or would someone just have to pirate it?

Thanks again!

Definitely, I knew none of this and now I'm curious about what else those Huns in Germany were capable of

I would definitely get into it again if I ended up owning it on another store. Xbox App version PC straight up won't let me download some of the mods in-game and has write protection all over the actual files so I didn't bother

A.D. 802,701 is such a unique futuristic world: abandoned tall buildings, green landscapes, huge wells dotting the area and of course the Sphinx. It looks so idyllic yet is the ground for much of the same surviving violence that is just natural true. Like the protagonist says, it may be that there was a divide between the Eloi and Morloks of assests and social positions but now they have forgotten that and both have settled into a new natural order: Eloi the peaceful cattle and Morlocks that hunt them down

Oh so there is a win screen? For context I only played Civ V on java mobile. But I do have CIV 6 cuz Epic gave it for free

So you mean the DT universe is so massive that the literal creator of the universe where Earth is is just one of the guardians?

I think I just had overblown expectations for it and I agree that I might have been harsh to the game by talking mostly about the gameplay. Mostly just wanted to get across what I experienced as I was playing it. The small annoyances, frustrations and even delights like the opening sequence that might not seem like a cohesive whole of this game but are still worth mentioning

Maybe one day I'll replay it and be better situated to appreciate it more