jqubed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It turns out, an NPC named Sarah, who is able to receive real-life emails from players crucial to advancement of the story, held all the answers.
Malmehed looked in Sarah’s email inbox and found thousands of emails from 2025 alone. Concerningly, he also saw that “about a third of them” didn’t have anything in the main body - everything was crammed into the subject line, which was preventing the in-game system from identifying the keywords necessary to respond.
“That’s something I’ve noticed a lot of young people are doing these days,” he told Polygon. “So I believe the users are in general pretty young.”
“No form of modern communication requires a subject and a body — it’s easy to see how people [who are] not familiar with email aren’t filling out both fields.”
jeff@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Lol this is just tragic. How would these people write a letter, even just to out in their neighbour’s letterbox regarding a burglary or something? Do people not think that they need to write a brief title?
jqubed@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
For physical letters I only put a subject on business correspondence, but that’s not something I expect kids to be familiar with
IronBird@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
when i write letters i dont include any “dear X” or whatever, the recipient knows who it’s for/from because it’s addressed to them and has a sender address