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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally like it a lot more than Satisfactory currently, but that's because my life is pretty stressful right now, and managing the conveyor belt spaghetti and machine connections is too tiresome for me at the moment.

  With The Planet Crafter you are striving to unlock buildings by raising your Terraformation Index, which is comprised of pressure, oxygen, heat and biomass. You do that by crafting and placing down various machines and buildings, but none of them are feeding each other like in Satisfactory. Instead you are out exploring, finding ores in the wild, in old bases, scattered crates, and raiding old, abandoned, crashed spaceships for resources and parts. There are no enemies in the game, so no combat and no weapons. Instead the challenge is to manage your oxygen, hunger, thirst, and various environmental hazards like meteors and weather events.

  As you raise your Terraformation Index you'll start seeing your planet change in flora and atmosphere, which is such a cool experience! New areas will be unlocked by you heating up the planet, which will introduce new resources. I just can't recommend this game enough. I think it's definitely worth the full price, but based on previous sales, my guess is that it'll go on sale again within a month, around 40% off, if they stick to the pattern. I also really appreciate their pricing structure for DLC, which is just a new planet to start out on (Base game has 2 different planets to choose from as your starter), at 8 euros. I ended up getting it, since only the player hosting the save file, needs to own it, in order for everyone in multiplayer to join in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Planet Crafter. I can't believe how much fun my girlfriend, my friend and I are having with that game. When we first picked it up, I expected we might play it for a couple days, maybe enjoy it for a couple of weekends. But it has really turned into one of those obsessions that you get from games like Satisfactory, No Man's Sky, Favtorio, etc., where the whole world just disappears around you, and a 7 hour session feels like 3 hours at most. This game has just perfectly straddled the line between challenging and relaxing for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clock logic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can't believe this is the first I'm hearing of 24-hour analogue clocks! That's so cool. But yeah, I see your point about it now allowing for very much precision at a glance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. From reading OPs replies to my questions, it seems they have different definitions for "albums" and "Albums". But as their claim slanted their entire comment for you, I would also say that our whole exchange sets the rest of their comment in a different light for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Me not agreeing with you is not arguing against you. I'm only talking from my own experience, and not insisting that what I'm experiencing is the absolute objective truth. At no point did I say you were wrong or that what you're saying doesn't exist. Just that I can't make sense of your viewpoint. Anyway. this is it for me. Have a good one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I really can't see where you're coming from. I'm discovering and listening to loads of new albums every couple of months. Spotify is even pushing albums with their "pre-save" feature, where artists start a countdown for their album that's about to drop, and you 'pre-save' it to your library, so you get a notification and have instant access, once the album drops.

  Your specific point about Hayley Williams also doesn't make sense to me. I haven't listened to much of her music, since it wasn't really my cup of tea, but I have family members who love her music, and look forward to every album of hers.

  I agree that singles are more important than ever in a marketing sense, and that there are probably some artists that focus more on putting those out, than creating albums. But to say that albums are incredible rare is just straight up untrue in my experience. Plenty of artists are still making thematic albums and/or albums that tell a story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't really have my finger on the pulse of most of this, so I don't have anything to add to everything you said. But I am curious about your statement regarding albums:

  It is incredibly rare to see an Album anymore because people don't listen to music as albums. They listen to them as singles in a playlist.

  What genre are you listening to, where artists used to come out with albums but aren't anymore? As a listener of all kinds of music, like rock, metal, blues, kpop, reggaeton, EDM, country and many other genres, that has not been my experience at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Spoiler] Day 410 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (The Last of Us Part II)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just tried with my lemmy.world account too, but it was the same result. So I guess pixelfed just doesn't federate with lemmy and mbin in that way. Looks like it's more akin to mastodon. I need a phone app and a desktop solution, where I can just plug in all my fediverse accounts and then have the option of seeing all content from all of them in one place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Spoiler] Day 410 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (The Last of Us Part II)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really enjoy these posts of yours. I take it your Pixelfed account is at @MyNameIsAtticus? Linking it here, so I can hopefully just click the link and follow through my fedia.io account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youngest actor ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is accurate, OP. If you scroll down and look at Thorpe's acting credits, you can see that she was in the show for 12 episodes between 2000 and 2002 The show started in 1973, but it's still airing new episodes to this day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And seeing as it's his grandkid, he can even just say, "Ask your parents.", if he wants to be a real coward about it.

  smh, why does it have to be everyone else's problem that people don't want to talk to their (grand)kids?