Mentioning smoking breaks is a big part, I think. At a place I used to work if you smoked you basically got free extra breaks to take care of it that other associates did not, and depending how tough your job is it could be an incentive.

Right, you get it. I know what honing is, but could you explain for like, all the other losers? Not me, though, I'm down with the kids.

As soon as they opened the post with "why it turned out so awful" I just discounted everything else. We're not even playing the same game. You could argue that there are parts of it that are designed and executed in such a way that some gamers won't enjoy it, e.g. lots of loading screens, it's not a true space sim, performance is lacking, etc.

But there's tons of content and variety, the game looks nice, the game plays well both on foot and in the starships (of course the shooting isn't Destiny, and the ship combat isn't elite dangerous, but it's good), it's an enjoyable product in its own right that is buggy, sure, but not brokenly so.

That being said this numerically huge involvement of multiple studios has been a thing in AAA development for a decade or more now, and it doesn't really mean the game is bad on its own. I do think it's a problem with scale and visual fidelity of these games hitting a point where this sort of outsourced collaboration is necessary to hit the development time frames these companies expect, but that's just a sign that they should scale down and get more humble and "locally grown", though we all know capitalism won't abide by that and neither will the paying average gamer who can still somehow look at modern AAA titles and say they look bland or all right at times even though the fidelity is absolutely nuts.

My proof that it was a Bethesda game was when I was first exploring New Atlantis, and I tried to talk to a man who was relaxing at a table in a bar. He instantly snapped from his relaxed pose into a different animation where he slowly got up out of the chair, turned around to face away from the chair, stopped, turned to face me, then the camera zoomed in on his face and he spouted some random TMI opening sentence about his job.

I just cackled and cackled for a good 5 seconds or so. Feels like home.

Hiking, for me. There's a variety of trail difficulties, so you can do something more casual if you want to, and aside from the great cardio, you're out in the beautiful outdoors.

Oh yes, he was the Govenator.

STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM! YOU VIOLATED THE LAW

edit: didn't mean to reply this, I violated the law

Make it so that when you arrive home you're never allowed to put your keys in the same place more than once.

Forgot something in the car and have to go back out? Time to find a new spot...

A lot of that is out of band's hands. Ticketmaster has, essentially, a monopoly on venues. It's already incredibly hard to even make net zero on playing shows, getting picky about venues makes that almost impossible and relegates your band to shitty dive bars.

It's an interesting idea. If they always were intelligent, then yes, they'd probably have their own nation, or maybe they'd even be integrated with us in a society that accommodates for both of our form factors, but I'm sure there'd be terrible racism concerns because if we're this bad to people who look relatively similar to each other, then we'd be just terrible to a very different intelligent race.

But, if they suddenly became sentient through some sci Fi artifact or event, that'd be a whole other thing, and the process and debate of giving them rights and what to do about it would be complex and an ethical minefield on what to do or don't do. Probably planet of the apes. But with cats and dogs.

Uh oh, looks like all the Borderlands games are illegal. Gearbox better watch out

Theoretically, you can't. If text you posted federates out to other servers deleting it locally won't delete it out there, I don't believe.

So, once it's up, it's up, wasting evenings deleting your stuff won't really stop it