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100% this. Musk has dominated the news for the first month of his presidency, i bet he’s fucking furious

How many people have a dusty Marie kondo book that’s never been opened sitting in their basement, I wonder

Head on down to the container store, a store that is just (expensive) plastic boxes, so you can fill the one room you don’t show anyone with storage to load it up with all the shit you own and don’t display out of shame

But really minimalism is rich person shit. Minimalism is for people who can afford a house with several rooms and to furnish entire rooms or entire homes even in one go.

Poor and middle class people end up with maximalism. It’s hard not to when your design is I’m gonna buy a cheap couch that’s not really what I wanted but overall okay, then a chair 18 months later that design trends changed in the interim, then a table 6 months later, then 3 years later I replace the couch I had with an even worse couch because it broke (fuck you ikea) and I had to replace it somewhat urgently and my budget was very weak, etc.

or they have fallen deeply for the consumerist trap and they have the wall of funko pops. But that’s their own fault. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go put on one of my hundreds of vinyl records, which is totally different and doesn’t make me a hypocrite at all

In general pirating games is fine but it is morally correct to pirate disco elysium. It is not that the IP is no longer owned by the creators but that it was basically stolen by the financier who illegally ousted the creators

It’s also one of the best games ever made

I think it was the illness. Even without the illness based on the first games ending and the fact that Arthur was not mentioned or existed within it I was pretty sure I knew how rdr2 was going to end before I started but the illness gave it such a somber tone. Arthur recognized his mortality and really started to reflect.

It’s been ages since I played rdr1 but as far as I remember John was more “I’m doing this to be done, for my family!”. The tone was much lighter as a result even though there were moments that were heavy. And the characters weren’t as developed so I didn’t care as much. Dutch was just a fucking monster in that game, bill and Javier were just props. But rdr2 fleshed them all out so much

Of course, you are free to feel whatever you want. How could I possibly stop such a thing. What I mean is if you decide that I need to adhere to dress code based on it you can go fuck yourself.

I mean it is an era where up and moving 100 miles basically meant you started your life over. But that was kind of the plot: they were a gang of that era where they could run in a town, wreak havoc, disappear, and the infrastructure didn’t yet exist to reliably track them across the gigantic land mass that is North america.

But by the time the game rolls around the beginnings of the modern federal government are happening and agencies to track people like them across the country are in full swing. So all of a sudden their way of life is coming to a close, quickly. Instead of just some pissing off a sheriff in a town and never being able to go back there, occasionally having a bounty hunter after you, you now have a huge team of people with the resources of a government coming for you.

I think part of it that’s understated is the size of the map. The map is obviously big for a game but it’s supposed to be a huge chunk of America. When you compare the geography of the map to America it’s somewhat clear that it’s supposed to be a gigantic swath of America, from like Montana down to Louisiana and across to Texas. You can ride across the map in 20 min but obviously this would take months irl. Obviously this is about gameplay balance but as a result you lose the sense that Arthur is going extremely far away when he’s going from valentine to st denis, when in reality that would be like a month of riding and crossing several states. Even if he did a genocide that would probably shake the heat for a little while back then

They did obviously play it up of course. If you literally murdered everyone in a town back then there would probably be more of a response from the surrounding towns to find you. But gamers like violence and it’s again about balancing gameplay vs authenticity. usually gameplay wins because otherwise you end up with a boring game

I remember so many people being furious at rockstar for not releasing dlc on the scope of gta4 but honestly with this game I don’t know what form that narrative would take that could be satisfying.

The main narrative is concluded decisively obviously. It’s a prequel so continuing with John would just be rdr1. Another undead nightmare is eh, zombies are so played out. I guess you could fill in what went on with Dutch or some of the others that show up in rdr1 but frankly I don’t really want to play as them. I suppose you could intro some new character that’s part of their new gang. I dunno. I get why they didn’t prioritize it (well that and more so that dlc costs a ton to develop for a pitiful return relative to something like gta online, which is kind of sad)

I’m unfamiliar but some brief searching shows they use kigen for sim handling and mediatek for processor/modem so it appears they also have little to no American parts, though I’m not sure of this

The idea of appropriate clothing outside of like shirts with swastikas or pictures of murdered babies on them is bullshit. Your delicate sensibilities shouldn’t dictate my sense of self expression

This is not surprising at all, this is exactly what he did in the aftermath of Samoa. Instead of taking any accountability or reflecting on his actions for murdering 80+ children he blamed the populace for being malnourished and accepting vaccines (that’s why they died, of course) and then peddled this exact rhetoric word for word

This is a very good option