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It literally has all the federation features removed. By definition it isn't part of the fediverse, because it's not federating anything

If I set up my own mastodon server, but blocked literally all federation, then my server wouldn't be part of the fediverse. It's a bit odd that this has to be elaborated on

100% agree, nothing in his work or interviews actually lead me to believe that he's been doing anything other than just moving forward one step at a time, retconning as needed without much more of a plan then "milk it for all it's worth"

I don't believe for a second that the brief mention of "clone wars" in IV meant he already had the prequels drafted or even more than a vague idea about what the clone wars mightve been, to give an example. There are countless similar throwaway lines in his movies that are total nonsense (looking at you, Kessel Run in 14 parsecs...), there's no reason to think there was more going on with the bits that eventually got retconned into existence

Ngl, I'd totally try a Philly cheese steak chunk

I definetely agree with the murderbot diaries all being pretty samey. They're definetely a fun read, but hard to do the whole series in one go without getting bored.

I like them as a "listen to while falling asleep" book

Mickey7 by Edward Ashton (well, actually the sequel right now, finished the first book yesterday). I was actually surprised at how good it was given that I haven't heard much buzz around it. Though that might just be me having my head buried in the sand, because apparently there's a movie for it coming out next spring, so it's hardly an unheard of gem lol

But yeah it checked all the boxes for me

• interesting characters with a fair amount of development
• fascinating thought experiments about the nature of consciousness and continuity
• fast paced plot that keeps you on the edge of your seat for most of the book
• interesting aliens and a mysterious planet
• semi hard scifi

Frankly, who the fuck knows lol

If you can't stand bugs, id just hold off entirely until Beta at least. Frankly they've still got a ways to go to just get the basic content in the game, several core gameplay loops like exploration are still missing, and some core pieces of tech like server meshing are still MIA as well.

Could be a year or two, could be another decade, could be never.

My advice for SC is as follows - if the game in it's current state (check it out during a free fly event - which is probably coming up soon) is something you enjoy playing, then grab a starter ship and enjoy, but if you just want to play the "finished" game, then wait. And under no circumstances drop hundreds of dollars on internet spaceships lol - it's really not that hard to grind your way in-game to good ships, and frankly you'll have more fun that way, because there's nothing to do with the most expensive ships right now anyways.

OK, take a delivery mission from the crowded space station you're currently on, load a rover onto your ship (by which I mean actually load a rover onto your ship, not just press "equip rover" in a menu) . Walk onto your ship (again, meaning actually walk onto your ship, not just load straight into the cockpit), travel to your fly down onto the planets surface without a single loading screen, head down to your rover bay, get in and drive over to the delivery location to deliver the package. All without one single loading screen at any point in the process.

The closest I can think of to that is space engineers, except space engineers doesn't really have "missions" in the same way SC does and the station would be a ghost town, and all the ships/rovers would look like LEGOs lol

Don't get me wrong, the game is very unfinished and even by alpha standards it isn't at all perfect and there's a 50/50 chance that at some point in the process above you'll get a 30k or some other game breaking bug, but I don't see how you can have played the game like you say and not think that it's doing things other games aren't. There's no other game that I'm currently aware of that actually provides the same immersive experience (when it works) as SC.

Whether or not those extra bits of immersion actually matter to you is an entirely separate question, but they are present and a good measure further than any other scifi game I'm aware of. If I'm wrong pleasepleaseplease fill me in, because I fucking love that shit in SC but can't deal with the bugginess for more than short intervals lol

Yeah no one can argue that it isn't a giant mismanaged, drastically overdue mess, but it's literally the only game of its kind right now, I haven't played in a little while now, but earlier on I put easily hundreds of hours into it

That being said, God I wish they'd get their shit together and get the damn thing finished.. At least just SQ42..

Unfortunately if you want to play games with 0 hassle, Windows is still the only real option. Proton is awesome, but there are still games I want to play that either don't work (or don't work well), or require workarounds to get working

In my defense, apparently my phone auto corrects "its" to "it's" 🙄

Though that's probably because I misuse it all the time myself lol

I won't pretend that luck wasn't a big factor, but my wife worked at a senior living facility and I managed to avoid catching it. Hell my wife even caught it, but she moved into the guest room and we just treated it like a clean room

What's really BS is the professors who don't teach jack shit during class and just expect students to do all the reading on their own time, then fill the actual class time with busy work. That was wayyy too common when I was in college.

The whole point of college is supposed to be to have highly qualified individuals giving you individualized instruction on advanced topics. That's why it costs literally tens of thousands of dollars. Yet more and more the professors are losers who couldn't hack it in their fields and the "lessons" are just there to fill time while you're expected to do most of the actual learning on your own.

I'd say about 10% of my industry knowledge when I graduated came from my classes, the other 90% was independent study or picking stuff up "on the job" at internships and jobs I worked outside of class. Basically I burned countless hours and tens of thousands of dollars just to get the piece of paper at the end. And talking to colleagues over the years, that's not at all an uncommon experience