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Bleeping Lobster

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  • Starfield's lead quest designer leaves Bethesda to join other RPG veterans making a new open-world game

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  • Yeah they really flopped with that aspect. I saw someone refer to it as 'loading screen simulator' and couldn't disagree. I don't understand how other devs can make things seamless, but Bethesda couldn't manage it.

  • Starfield's lead quest designer leaves Bethesda to join other RPG veterans making a new open-world game

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  • Imo the big problems with the game are because they outsourced so much of it.

    Although there were too many fetch quests (imo), generally the game I found to be quite engaging. Just, not very deep systems; load times going into even the smallest buildings meant it's not even approaching open world; drab procedural planets and outposts in a sad attempt to bulk it up; horrid animations and NPC models that wouldn't be out of place in a game 10 years ago. Not to mention the horrendous amount of bugs I experienced.

    This is why I can no longer allow myself to get excited for new games. I paid £7.99 for a month of PC gamepass to experience Starfield, if I paid full price I'd have been very unhappy. Now we pay to be bugtesters.

  • What was a profound moment that a video game caused you to experience, and why?

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  • No Man's Sky - Finally lifting off the planet into space for the first time reignited my love of space and the cosmos. Made me feel awe and wonder

    The Stanley Parable - never had a game make me laugh till I had tears in my eyes before. This game really fucks with your perception of what is real and just how common / predictable some gaming tropes have become

  • You can have any B-tier superpower you like. What do you choose?

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  • My toes are unstubbable

  • What's the worst example of not "reading the room" you ever witnesses?

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  • Where did you see that? I'm in the UK, can't remember exactly which station but pretty sure it was a London station with underground

  • What's the worst example of not "reading the room" you ever witnesses?

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  • Honesty compels me to inform you that this ending sentence was shamelessly stolen from It's Always Sunny. Highly recommend it, first season is a bit ropey as they are literally filming, writing, scripting themselves with no experience and at the start of their acting careers. An incredible show though imo!

  • What's the worst example of not "reading the room" you ever witnesses?

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  • I've been meaning to watch this show but I was put off by the evangelical-ness of it... worth watching then? This happened in the UK about 8 yrs ago!

  • What's the worst example of not "reading the room" you ever witnesses?

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  • The last sentence I will admit is a shameless ripoff of a line from It's Always Sunny, rest is my writing so I'm glad you enjoyed it. At least some good came from suffering his presence!

  • What's the worst example of not "reading the room" you ever witnesses?

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  • I remember a pause for a minute's silence announced in the upper concourse of a train station (UK) last year. It was disconcertingly comedic as the people walking in either on the phone or with a friend were very confused at why everyone inside was standing motionless and glaring at them.

  • What's the worst example of not "reading the room" you ever witnesses?

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  • Went to a cousin's wedding, her parents split when she was little so I'd not seen my Uncle Mal for decades. Tbh everyone was expecting him not to show because he's a selfish twat and knows nobody likes him.

    Surprise, Mal is here. He had an inexplicably-attractive, younger date (Mal was a disgusting, horrid-breathed, lumpy old man and his date was a pretty, well-spoken woman in her 30s so we all assumed she was an escort, as Mal has no redeeming qualities).

    The whole time everyone is desperately avoiding being stuck alone with him, and everyone is talking about having the same conversation... Mal has written a book, he's a writer now, and he's written a poem he wants to read.

    He was given many hints, subtle and not-so-subtle that his poem wasn't wanted and he agreed not to read it. Unfortunately whether due to ego or wine, he loudly interrupted someone elses toast to announce he had a poem to read. Our collective hearts sank.

    It was worse than we expected, at one point including cringe-inducing references to his daughter having large breasts. It went on and on for at least 5 minutes of everyone silently looking at the floor, sneaking the occasional "No way he just said that?!" glances at each other. He eventually finished, and just stood there awkwardly for about 10 secs, I assume waiting for applause, which obviously was not forthcoming.

    Read the fucking room Mal, no-one wants to hear your shitty poem and no-one cares that you're (allegedly) a published writer now. And your breath smells like a fart pushed through an onion.

  • YSK if you've seen something traumatic, playing Tetris for a couple of hours afterwards can drastically reduce the chance of it becoming a deeprooted memory and causing PTSD

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  • I went through a similar thing, conclusion I came to was that as Tetris is so popular, the owners of the IP have it on lockdown... it is quite a specific IP that's kinda hard to do something similar-but-the-same.

    Options I came up with were pirating a copy, or xbox game pass (iirc Tetris Effect is available there). Or... are there any Gameboy emulators that run on mobile?

  • YSK if you've seen something traumatic, playing Tetris for a couple of hours afterwards can drastically reduce the chance of it becoming a deeprooted memory and causing PTSD

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  • Sorry to hear about your childhood. Are you one of these superhumans I watch playing Tetris and thinking "how the FUCK can anyone react that quickly?!". I'm pleased to hear though that you found a way to not be traumatised!

  • YSK if you've seen something traumatic, playing Tetris for a couple of hours afterwards can drastically reduce the chance of it becoming a deeprooted memory and causing PTSD

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  • Can I ask what role she did? I read a book last year called 'The Devil You Know - Tales of Forensic Psychiatry'. It was very illuminating and interesting, each chapter a different (anonymised) story of one of her patients. Especially her 'bike lock' theory of why some people can commit such horrific crimes.

  • Roblox accused of concocting illegal gambling ring for minors

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  • Surprise, the game company which does next to fuck all to stop predators grooming kids on their app... turns out they were also up to no good.

    My niece was groomed on roblox aged 10 by a Russian man. From what I gather, she's just one of many to have been abused through this game.

  • Telling other people Im autistic be like

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  • "You don't seem autistic to me"

    Never sure if people are trying to offer a compliment / comfort or accusing me of lying when they say this. Like, yes, I don't seem autistic, because when I don't mask my autism people call me weird. Of course I try to fit in.