I asked ChatGPT and got a few wild ideas:

• Timefall Symphony - You play a deaf conductor in a future where time is tied to music. You must sneak through collapsing timelines by conducting symphonies that rewind or fast-forward reality. Meta Twist: The game’s soundtrack is dynamically composed by the player’s performance and affects NPC memories.
• Agent Ø: The End of The Author - You play an AI agent in a post-literature world where all creative writing is outlawed. Your job is to assassinate remaining authors hiding in simulated story-worlds. Meta Twist: At a key moment, the game deletes its own script and asks you to write the ending — but the NPCs begin resisting your choices.
• Neon Genesis Logout - Set in a VR world where logging out is illegal, you’re a rogue program trying to find the “Exit Protocol,” which is rumored to cause the death of your real-world body. Meta Twist: The game links with your real-world social media data and uses it against you as blackmail from in-game NPCs.
• Cognitive Espionage: Synapse Eater - You are a “Neuroleptic Diplomat” — an interdimensional agent hired to broker peace between collapsing timelines by entering sentient thought-constructs that have gained independence and now wage war against their original hosts. These constructs — known as Ideovores — eat ideas, replicate memories, and begin overwriting reality. Your mission: infiltrate mental realms that believe they are real, neutralize rogue ideas, and plant “cognitive malware” to reestablish consensus reality. At a critical point, the game begins reinterpreting your dialogue choices from hours ago as if they were implanted ideas — and characters confront you for “things you never said.” The main antagonist turns out to be your own future self, who defected and now works for a rogue nation of self-aware conspiracies. Final boss: defeat your own consciousness before you come up with it — a battle in “Pre-Thought Space,” where thinking too hard makes the level collapse.

I mean, any of these are probably more coherent than a Kojima plot.

So, Joseph Cross, the main art director is a “former employee”?

It’s not an artist that included her work. It’s multiple artists, including the main art director. They followed her and large portions of the art design in the game are based on her work.

I’m trying, but it’s hard to stay motivated when the information on a lot of local areas I visit are so damn old.

There are entire areas where it looks like it acquired the data 5-10 years ago from some other mapping software (Google, Bing, something else), and hasn’t updated since. It didn’t have all of my street information for my neighborhood area, so I started there first. I didn’t really mind it too much, because, hey, Google didn’t have it filled in several years ago, either. I started using Vespucci and drew out some of the houses and streets.

But, as soon as I expand out, there are strip malls with really outdated information. StreetComplete tries to ask me questions about these places that were replaced long ago, and it doesn’t have the tools to allow me to carve out sections of the strip mall, since it only thinks there are two shops, but there’s now 8-10 shops. So, I go back to Vespucci and try to fill it out, but I only have so much time before I’m going to some other location, and I don’t really have the time to draw out even the map details in the place where I’m parked. I feel like I’m the only one that bothers and the entire city is out-of-date. It’s overwhelming.

If bots somehow got this information back then, then why can’t it pull this data now? Certain sections and entire cities desperately need a refresh.

Old, but still relevant:

Yeah, it’s not his rockets. There was a lot of hard work behind them by literal rocket scientists.

If anything, the rockets have excelled despite his stupidity.

I feel like these commenters didn’t watch the disaster that was Elon pretending he was the greatest PoE2 player of all time.

After that, I think it’s fair game to write shit about his gaming setup. It’s a puff piece, for sure, but it’s a well-deserved one.

I’ve lost count of the number of companies EA has murdered.

Why? I think the only thing that is bad with the practice is involvement with kids. Enforce age limits within the gambling sites, and really that’s up to the FTC and gaming commissions.

Borderlands 2 had an excellent antag with some pretty good writing. With Borderlands 3, the antags were so insufferable, with the rest of the characters only progressing the plot because of stupid decisions, that I really didn’t feel the need to continue.

It’s just getting wierd because people can cash in on it easily.

Yep, I remember the old South Park episode about “Internet Dollars” something like 15 years old, and suddenly, people are figuring out how to do just that.

Translation: We don’t know how to create new IP, and nostalgiabait sells.

Because it’s true.

On one hand it’s nice that Mastodon doesn’t have ads, and people usually don’t share bullshit, but does that logically result in attracting users who shit on someone for sharing a YouTube video, because sometimes other videos on YouTube are bad?

I have lost count the amount of times I’ve shared a YT video on Lemmy, and people bitch about the fact that they have to spend 15-60 minutes watching it, or immediately ask for some TL;DR about it. Like, I’m curating content for you, sharing a video I liked among the other videos that you probably didn’t like, and people just want to universally shit on the format because of that one bad experience from two years ago when they dared to go to the web site for 5 minutes.

People love to shit on TikTok, but secretly, that’s the length of content a majority of this audience wants, and it’s dumb. If you don’t want to devolve into a TikToker, then watch longer videos and don’t bitch when somebody asks you to watch a video for 10 minutes. If you don’t like it after a few minutes in, fine, go watch something else.

They tried. Starbound didn’t do all that great. Granted, it’s been 10 years.

Which is why PC gaming will always be superior.

The only way they’ll “return to their roots” is if they aren’t publicly-traded.

What do you expect from RPS, Kotaku, IGN, and the rest of the games “journalists”? Journalistic integrity?

That would require an actual journalism degree.

Did they fix all of the bugs? Subnautica 1 is still buggy as shit.

I loved that game for a brief time, but I felt like I could have gotten into a car accident with how much I was trying to take over outposts.