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Cake day: March 22nd, 2024

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  • My issue is those “smaller communities” for my niches withered away, lost in the depths of SEO and attention machines.

    I’m not innocent there. I stopped participating in many in lieu of Discord and Reddit which, in hindsight, I feel sick about. But the draw of phone pings and algorithms and critical mass is very powerful, and that temptation didn’t exist a long time ago.



  • Do folks enjoy Starfield these days?

    Or 76?

    I’ve been playing BGS since Oblivion, and my experience was:

    • 76 was boring, even with coop. That’s saying something. The world was interesting, but the main and side (fetch) quests were the dullest, buggiest things that kept trying to sell us some anti grind stuff; and this was well after launch.

    • Starfield was… well, even more boring. It felt like Fallout 3 with all the jank, 10X the production budget, 100X the graphics requirements (as smooth as a cactus on my 3090), yet somehow, none of the charm. I only played for a bit, but I don’t remember a single character name. Whereas I can still recall little side quests from Oblivion and FO3. Quirks persisted all the way from Oblivion, yet all the fun bugs were patched out. Basically, ME: Andromeda was better in every way.

    But, you know, whatever floats peoples boats. I’m curious if these games have grown a following over whatever I was missing.