This is why I’ll never understand people who get excited about news like “We have over 1000 planets!”

Spend all that time and effort making like, 15 really complete, kick ass ones in the same physical space that I can explore instead.

I think this must be something with Lemmy itself. If I try to change the home instance of the anonymous account the issue stops. I’m guessing this is actually some weird quirk of how federation works based on my normal home instance that just is a little unintuitive.

22 minute pulses? Someone out there is playing through Outer Wilds.

This conversation always felt so disingenuous to me. The game clearly has elements that we’re left open with the potential of exploring the further. The lost and destroyed crystals, missing Leviathan, ambiguous ending elements… If you go to the far north of Sanbreque and look up the coast you can also see some weird growth on the landmass that you cannot reach. They put tons of empty slots in the game then were like “We don’t plan to fill these in.” Uh huh.

Really frustrating to see online commenters speaking in favor of the acquisition (and prior MS buy ups) just because they are already locked into the Xbox ecosystem and they want games on Game Pass. Never mind that it’s objectively anti-consumer/anti-competitive and arguably bad for the industry broadly, it benefits a very specific subset of consumers so it must be good and the FTC / Sony are just haters. Complete lack of critical thinking.

I’ve heard some industry people aren’t pleased about these kind of late cycle whole-studio acquisitions either…think for example about Starfield devs who have already done the bulk of the work on their game and then have to A) shelve whatever work was done on PS versions B) throw their work onto a subscription model instead of pure sales while C) having to immediately generate profit to justify the purchase of Bethesda/Zenimax that they didn’t have any say in. Turning more and more studios into line items in a mega corp budget sheet.

Grim.

I think you’re wrong about how the movie deals with the overall system.

First of all, in the world of the film Nimona (the character) directly addresses this idea, pointing out that believing that systems and institutions are good but individual bad actors misuse them is flawed thinking and condemning it as naiveté. She basically looks directly at the camera and says “neoliberalism is wrong, Ballister.”

Second of all, the ending doesn’t feel like the “status quo” you make it out to be. The ending as it is A) doesn’t really explore things that in depth, as it’s pretty brief, and B) to the extent that it shows us anything, shows us some pretty major changes. The wall which represents the fascistic control over the people has a giant hole in it that clearly isn’t being fixed (remember the directors speech about how wrong even a single crack in the wall would be?), the cannons on it that represent the weaponization of their social structure are being dismantled, two of the major characters who were knights are shown just being happy together, and a third knight (one of the films biggest assholes) even demonstrates that he’s changed his perspective on Nimona and monsters (along with many others in their society). If the ending had been longer and explored more I’m fairly certain we’d see a clearer system change happening.

Seriously though, what movie would have a character explicitly say “Changing who’s in charge of a bad system won’t make things better” and then just do that?

I think it’s time to try a new tactic. Since clearly this court is only interested in hearing cases and issuing rulings for Christian evangelicals, someone needs to bring a suit arguing that their religious liberties were violated when they were forced to take a loan with interest to pay for education. Usury is a sin, both the old and new testaments speak against it, Luke writes that lenders should give with no expectation of profit or return. Paying back this loan would violate closely held religious beliefs, clearly.