man I had to take a bit of break from social media over the last few days because seeing the horrid takes about Palestine has my blood pressure rising

OiNK, too. I was a teenager when it went down and it was devastating lol

lol @ people in that thread pointing out that a few days ago OP said they were Peruvian

Rules-based international order

it reads like a reddit comment

lol those screenshots which are supposed to be an example of how authoritarian that mod is, and under every ban/comment removal there's like "Reason: Rule 1," "Reason: no sources," or "Reason: spam."

why are these authoritarian tankies banning people for breaking rules and posting claims with no evidence!? the horror

All these media outlets trying so hard to avoid calling him a Nazi. "...fought with Nazi unit," "...fought against the Russians in World War II," "...belonged to anti-Soviet nationalist group," and so on. Reminds me of when US news orgs report on police killing someone and they call it an "officer-involved shooting."

lol this is the type of editing joke you would see in a Naked Gun movie or something. Like Drebin is giving a speech and then it cuts to the audience and he's sitting there watching the speech while Ed glances at him and then does a double take

i know it's a meme but fr tho crabs/lobsters/shrimp have always grossed me out and the few times i've tried them i wanted to barf

yea I know I just said "onion-ass headline" out loud when I read it

onion headline

my friend pointed out the person who tweeted that talked about doing it as a joke so it's just a troll post. looks like it worked though since i've seen this pic in like 5 different subreddits and now here lol

It's a pretty interesting video too. I was expecting it to be sprinkled with some lib takes about the USSR but thankfully didn't notice any

alright am I crazy or is this not the exact same thing these people were saying last year as winter was approaching?

Lol I actually just had another one today where I was doing a mission on Neon and told my companion to wait in one of the air ducts because she kept alerting the guards when I was trying to sneak around. I totally forgot about her in there and during the next mission I was talking to an NPC and my companion interjected with something... from a totally different floor, partially obscured by shadows of an air vent she was standing near. Gave me a good laugh imagining her standing in a dark air duct for hours and then somehow hearing our conversation from multiple floors below us and giving her thoughts on it.

my thoughts after about a week of playing:

• It's definitely one of the least buggy Bethesda games I've played at launch, but it's still a Bethesda game so you'll see the usual "npc vibrating into a wall" type bugs. An amusing one I just encountered was my companion getting stuck talking with that spacesuit filter on her voice, so even though she's standing right next to me and we're not wearing spacesuits her voice she still sounded like she was talking over a radio lol.
• I've seen a lot of complaints about performance, and I don't know if I just got really lucky with my PC config but the game runs really well for me (max settings, 1440p with FSR2 enabled and it never goes below 60fps).
• Loading screens galore. I'm playing on an SSD so they only take like 1-3 seconds max but it's still annoying to see so many. I feel like Bethesda needs to just bite the bullet and create a brand new engine from scratch (which would take a ton of time and resources so it will probably never happen).
• The "fast travel everywhere" system is strange. I agree that it's a little immersion breaking to fast travel light years away with a short loading screen. I don't really know how you'd get around it though because manually traveling everywhere in a space game would get boring very quickly.
• I like the ship builder. They make it pretty easy to snap parts together and it's really satisfying to design a cool looking ship that actually has useful features on the inside (like the workshop for the crafting stations or the armory for showing off rare weapons). I just wish the ship builder controls were a bit better. It's also pretty neat to put windows on your ship and then go out in space and look through them at a huge planet or other ships flying around you, or come back to your ship and see members of your crew hanging out in the living area or engineering bay.
• I like customizing guns too but it's really easy to make guns that are super overpowered, especially if you start with one that has really good effects. That's kinda expected in a Bethesda game though.
• I'm not sure how I feel about the procedural generation on planets. On one hand, a lot of the "random" structures you can walk to are actually pretty detailed and some are WAY bigger than they look from the outside. In fact some of my best pieces of gear came from exploring them. On the other hand, the longer I've played the more I find reused set pieces. It's also strange that even on severely inhospitable planets there are still NPCs living there or ships landing and taking off.
• After I did a specific side mission, I now see a random encounter related to it all the damn time and they have the exact same dialogue every single time. I don't know if it's a bug but if not it's a really strange design choice.
• Visually the NPCs don't look that great, and the environments are okay, but the items like guns and miscellaneous objects are very detailed. The ships also look (and sound) incredible. At one point I climbed on top of my ship and noticed there are a ton of small details all over it that most players won't even see
• I haven't played a ton of the main story, but the side quests are usually pretty interesting. IMO they're the best story-related parts of the game. However I agree with another comment here that Akila city is weird because it's like the 24th century and they still have dirt roads.
• The companions are okay. I like Andreja and Vasco.
• I think people will make some really cool mods for this game. Once the creation kit is released I plan on making a few myself (I really want to add an infinite-volume storage container near the crafting stations on my ship).

Overall I don't think this game is GOTY material or anything, but I usually have a good time with Bethesda games (with the exception of Fallout 76) so just like Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim/Fallout I'll probably come back to it every once in a while and have fun, especially once more mods start rolling out.

nature is healing

Dead Space has that really cool diegetic "locator" system so if you come across multiple paths you can see which way points toward the story, and take your time exploring the other direction, knowing you won't accidentally start a story cutscene that locks you out of explorable areas

they also wrote a really bad children's book about Trump that included a muscular, shirtless Robert Mueller, and when someone commented on it they got really defensive and started posting pics of both of them shirtless with kids. This has remained in my memory because it led to one of the hosts of my favorite podcast having a shirt made that said "MY SON CAN SEE SHIRTLESS MEN" lol

I kinda miss watching these two goofy mfers tweet at each other for their followers like they were in a sitcom