What about a system like the Like a Dragon franchise, where it’s a small open area flush with things to do?

As a long time Gen X hater, I can confirm that they’re essentially responsible for boomers being seen as the only adults in the country for the past 50-whatever years.

I think I can shed light on the 6 7 hate. To do so though, I need to cover why people are okay with the others. 420 and 69 have been around for ages so they get a pass for being grandfathered and having transgressive origins. Quick maths (2+2 is 4, minus 1 that’s 3) got its fame for being an incredibly stupid thing to say in the middle of a rap while also simultaneously going way too hard for how silly it sounds. Lastly you have 21, which was a vine meme so again, a more grounded and community based origin.

What makes 6 7 stand out is that it’s from the British school system, and British culture sucks.

I rest my case.

We finally found him! John Openworld! The core reason why game devs keep making every game into an open world!

I have a question I always wanted to ask. Is it more important for the world to be deep or wide? More side content or more to navigate?

That’s just, like, your opinion, man…

Not good for capital generation. Media needs to generate revenue like everything else in this system, otherwise it starves.

People are simplifying it a bit too much. Take Two is calling it an extended look at the game. Knowing Rockstar, it’ll preview a lot of the story and show off the gameplay adjustments/additions from the last release. Some agreement happened between Take Two and Netflix, understanding that this release was going to draw a lot of attention, so they worked out this timed exclusivity thing.

I’m not sure creating a streaming monopoly is much better as an alternative. I’ve been workshoping the idea that we should have a “public option” for being able to buy and watch shows and movies so that the subscription model would need to become more competitive, but the US especially is just too private enterprise focused support that right now.

Is that Rockstar’s track record now? I remember RDR2 releasing in a pretty stable condition. Regardless, bugs or no, I think people deep into gaming usually see the most important parts as what the gameplay is shaping up to be. So that would be, how has the driving changed, is there more thought and effort put into the non-violent side-content, how intractable is the world and to what degree is the world responsive? Stuff like that. The folks I usually listen to are mostly on that track since graphics are generally irrelevant now and the story is… Gonna be a Rockstar story, and won’t be anywhere near GTA IV, so it’s not that exciting.

It sucks, but GTA is one of our last tentpole entertainment products. I understand people being a little excited to participate, and that also means the corps milking it for every last cent. The Netflix thing makes sense in the same way superbowl commercials make sense. And it does look like this is supposed to be the big gameplay showcase, so wanting to tune in as a gaming insider also tracks. It is what it is.

Shout out to my cousins!

I’m not joking when I say consuming every propaganda helped. It allows you to measure each set of voices by their accuracy. You can figure out if people online are correct or wrong about something by taking measurements in your own environment and comparing that to the observations. This does create an issue where you might only trust things in your observable reality, and I would say there are trustworthy places for boring information like the history of groups of people and how light or sound work. Wikipedia put us a long way towards understanding eachother.

Anyways, kinda rambling but my point is, reality is easier to trace than people think. Your opinion isn’t usually too far from reality. The rest is usually misinformation that can be corrected through curiosity.

Useful in small scale interactions for sure. The previous comment seemed to want ground-up change in behaviour though.

Would telling people to do better really have the results you’re looking for?

Real talk, let’s say you did have metrics that rated users on a scale of not misogynist, semi-misogynist, and misogynist. What would you do with that information? Never mind how the rankings themselves are even captured, let’s say a feminist psychic was able to scan the whole world. What now?

The way I see it, things like misogyny and racism require more than knowing. They require understanding on the part of the perpetrator. If they dont understand the transgression, they can simply claim that you’re unreasonable for granting them the title.

I like to think I was banned for similar reasons, but I’m pretty sure it was because I was commenting in a gatcha subreddit that was really circling the drain regarding taste. Folk were putting up questionable images of questionable body types and I was getting annoyed that the game was falling so far. Got banned for calling a spade a spade. Ironically, the sub was banned shortly after.

Thankfully I cant have the same issue here because all the niche interest communities are dead, lmao!

Preach. I just migrated here and found a disturbing lack of casual communities with any real activity. A real bummer because I miss the old internet and figured this could replicate it. Still, if you build it, they will come. Maybe it’s a user count issue.

Controversial, but I dont think overpopulation is the problem folks think it is. More hands can mean more trees planted and more wind turbines built as much as it means oil refineries. Overpopulation is only an issue if you’re coasting off shared resources.

I’ll be raising my kids on The Anarchist’s Cook Book for this reason.

Weak like LITTLE BABY MEN, “whhaaaa, whhhaaaa”

Not to defend this too much (misogyny and racism are popular pastimes in the states and I do think Kamala being a black woman was a factor in her losing), but Biden would have lost her race too. People that say Kamala’s bad stance on Isreal and dearth of big ticket items cost her the election might be pushing it a little, because it wasnt just one thing, but she was weak in those areas and it definitely cost her votes. Could a different strategy have flipped the states she needed? Who knows. It’s just not a wise strategy to blame everything on prejudice because doing so completely erases your ability to ever get someone other than a white male elected.