skulblaka

I buy things in early access for just such a reason. If it looks like something I'll like, I'll buy it early to support development. If it's great then great. If it falls through then I'm out a bad investment of like, $10.

I've got probably a hundred indie games in my library that I've supported in exactly such a fashion, from raw pre-alpha to 1.0 release to post-release content update or dlc. They aren't all winners. But many of them were worth the cost of investment and then some.

Less AAA trash fires and better access to actual passion projects because they aren't being drowned in a sea of mediocrity?

This is an absolute win on all sides

And that group of people seem quite pleased with Ada's strategy, she's one of the most well loved moderators I've ever seen in any community.

If you don't like it, that's fine. The space isn't for you.

More than the doctors? No, absolutely not.

More than the bean counters who want to replace these doctors with unsupervised robots? I'm a lot more confident on that one.

Blahaj is specifically a safe environment for LGBTQ+ folks who usually face harassment elsewhere, pre-existing homophobia or transphobia is a totally valid reason to be banned pre-emptively in my opinion. The safe environment doesn't exist if you just let anyone in and then ban them after they cause trouble.

(Using "you" in general here, not to mean you specifically, OP) if you're hanging around outside a gay bar talking about how cool your schutzstaffel tattoo is, they aren't going to let you inside the doors. Same idea here.

I think LAN is still dead but offline single player works fine.

Hell I'm over 30 now and probably half of the communication that happens between my main friend group and I happens via Monty Python and LOTR references.

From what I've been able to gather, it's basically a sandbox. Imagine if F:NV had no main quest but allowed you to create your own faction. You're just unleashed onto the wasteland to do whatever and let everyone else respond to it.

That is to say, much of the fun comes from building drug running bandit empires.

I like Lex Luthor as a villain a lot more than I like Superman as a hero for exactly this reason. He's a villain, sure, but his villainy is all centered around this one highly logical and concerning idea of never giving Superman total power because they'd then never be able to take it away from him.

Dr Doom I straight up don't even consider a villain tbh. He's antihero at worst (though he'd be pissed to hear me say so). His subjects love him. A bit megalomaniacal, maybe, but he genuinely wants to rule the world to do what's best for everyone.

If Fantastic wants to fight you because he thinks it's the right thing to do, and Doom wants to fight you because he thinks you're destroying his property, I know which one I'm putting my bet on because I know which one is going to show up to that fight more pissed off. His reasons are weird but Doom does still frequently show up to fight the bad guys, if for no other reason than "this is my fucking planet and I won't have you breaking the place". I love that.

I don't see Alaska facing these problems.