SlothMama

American propaganda is wild.

This comes from review guides, so yeah, they are literally sent by the company with a set of talking points and things to mention.

I haven't blocked a single anything, but I don't feel like I've had a reason to or even run into anything questionable so far.

I don't understand why it seems so common. Are people having issues on other servers?

Forspoken is low key incredible and like, exactly one sound bite sealed it's fate, once it became a meme, people already made up their mind about it.

It was one of the best games I played last year and I found the story to be compelling and the gameplay fresh.

I think it'll be regarded as a hidden gem in the future unironically.

I was working in the industry at the time and people absolutely talked about the implications of microtransactions and how it would result in more expensive games and being nickel and dimed.

Like, I distinctly remember conversations with actual human beings from exactly the horse armor DLC and maybe we didn't think it was going to result in, say the online shooter battle pass formula exactly, but we without ambiguity understood that meaningful in game items, and things like levels / experience would be monetized.

The biggest shocks to me were how patches would be used to reduce the game testing cycles, enabling companies to print incomplete or broken versions of games, requiring day one patches.

It's a disgusting practice now, and it was then too.

I'm sure it's strongly worded, almost a condemnation if you will

It's the only way to demonstrate the fall, of you did it at scale it would've even be noticeable.

I'm curious ( I'm not in FL )

So it rapidly decreased in intensity a hour or so before landfall? I know someone near Tampa that they lost their car and home, but overall damage is significantly less than what happened in the Carolina mountains from Helene, is that correct?

Any ideas why it deintensified so? Is it worse than I understand? Pretty much everywhere reads like this ended up being far less destructive than anticipated, but that the anticipated storm and destruction would have been record setting.

Such weird reasoning - people ask because they don't know outside of their own limited perspective and what they can infer from their idea of the values of their peers.

You should absolutely ask, no shame.

I do actually believe that everything, including human behavior is deterministic. I also believe there is nothing special about human consciousness or creation tbh