...it's also worse than the 3060Ti...

It wasn't really meant to be a game, it turns out. It was just a Hype Delivery Vehicle.

I'm not worried about the bugs so much as I'm worried about the half-arsed mechanics Todd slipped in here that Bethesda really doesn't know how to do properly (crafting, base-building, romance) that's outside the scope of their skills.

I fear it's gonna be "Todd Howard Tries To Clone No Man's Sky, Mass Effect, And The Sims - But In SPACE! - And Fails Miserably".

Yeah, it's easy to have a bug-free game if everything is hard-scripted to play out exactly in one way. COD SP campaign set pieces are bug-free because literally everything was hand crafted to play out exactly the way it does for every player, in every instance.

They're not games so much as they're movie sets, and the player is just the lead actor. Acting simulators.

This. They're selling an experience, not just...a game. It's a fuckload of sizzle for a relatively tiny and bland sausage.

It's funny how you get the mainstream gamer crowd lose their shit over a lot of Nintendo games for selling well - despite the "bad" graphics and "kiddy" themes, and I'm just like..."The gameplay is solid. That's what makes games good."

I had to expand this post to get to the bottom of it.

Inland taipan? Yes. Regular taipan? No.

They were going to ask for volunteers from Musk's legions of loyal fans, but then they realised the subjects needed to have brains.

I just love the assumption that we have to have brain implants (why? Because L. Ron Musk said so?)

You've got a bunch of nerds whose sole positive trait they ascribe to themselves is being smart, so they'll do anything to prove that - it's the only thing keeping them going. That was reddit.

That's my main desire when not wanting this to be Reddit 2.0, that and a move away from the heavily US-centric bias, in views, content and assumption it's the default lived experience of the users.

Unfortunately, American lensing isn't a function of reddit, it's a function of Americans, full stop.

Heh, the growing passive-aggression the last few years definitely was Toxic Ex-Girlfriend territory.