Kill_joy

I would actually just settle for not pre ordering AAA games as a good place to start.

Mine is 7 months old now. I felt the same. Just wait, you’ll likely feel that it was the best thing you ever did. Your kid may be the one to drive some positive change. Just do the best you can and give yourself some grace.

What a fucking badass.

I’m with you. The intro was pretty lackluster, the main campaign doesn’t interest me at all, and new Atlantis kinda sucks imo

Then I joined the crimson fleet and suddenly 50 hours was gone.

spread open your wallets

I’m dead

I leave that shit off currently.

My wife, however, thrives on it. That’s the game for her - recovering and rebuilding.

Would drive me nuts.

I’ve participated in the alpha and now the closed beta, which launched today.

The game is just a big cozy grind… an mmo stardew valley. So far it’s been super enjoyable.

Happy to answer any questions anyone has as the NDA ended officially.

Played 2 games in beta. Then uninstalled 1. Just ripped the band-aid off. It was dead.

OW2 killed what was perfect. It deserves to rot.

Saying “we’re not engaging at all” makes it clear that whether the feedback is positive, negative, seen, or not - a reaction will not be provided. This keeps the community managers from getting into the mud with the rest of the pigs and creates a bit of a barrier for audiences.

It may not seem logical but neither are the people sending death threats to game developers on Reddit. More of a psychological wall to create perceived space.

Everything about Kiba is 🤌 perfect

Damn, tbh I didn’t realize he was still around. Back in 2008 or so, in the 360 days, he’d pop up every month or so in the Xbox dashboard and show case new games or hype up project natal or whatever. Those were magical times. o7

It’s really incredible that we’ve reached a point in society where all problems have been solved and we have the space, time, and energy to focus on things like this. Really proud of our older generations and their focus on priorities.

Okay but, like, here’s the ultimate test of best friendship, Anas:

Coke or Pepsi?

On steam you can get the complete game for just a little over $300! What a deal /s

Aye, go watch the Wind that Shakes the Barley

Yeah but that’s how you unlock the secret cow level

Absolutely agree. The optimist in me wants to be excited for what this means and how this could impact the future of, well, the Internet.

But then I remember this is Meta we’re taking about. They do not do things that are good for anyone but Meta. As someone who doesn’t use meta products, this brings concern.

I think you’re underestimating evil.

Competition is for losers.

From what I have read, I think it’s all of the above.

• a space is wanted free from corps, ads, data perversion

• people are fearful that 30 million people joining threads has automatically made it the largest instance. Once it integrates with ActivityPub and can federate, it will dominate the space and produce the majority of the content. People are fearful then meta will retract it/ defederate and take the majority of content and content production with it (EEE). This would effectively kill the fediverse.

• many believe meta will not act in good faith and is doing this to appease European courts and laws

Because of all of this people likely believe keeping threads quarantined right off the bat is the best solution to mitigate the amount of damage they can do to what’s already been established.

Edit: I am adding to this post as I just stumbled across a post from the host of the lemm.ee instance (which I am a big fan of). He has also listed some great cons of Facebook stepping into the fediverse:

-there is nothing stopping facebook from sending out ads as posts/comments with artificially inflated scores which would ensure they end up on the front page of “all” for federated servers
-threads already has more users than all of Lemmy’s instances… therefore, they can completely control what the front page looks like by dictating what their users see and vote on
-moderation does not seem like a priority for threads which would increase workload for smaller instances
-REVENUE FOCUSED

I paraphrased a lot of this but as this is getting some traction I wanted to provide additional visibility to the cons of federating with the Facebook.