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Thankfully the community is actually really good with spoilers.

I bought it on sale and it sat on my computer for literally years before I finally dove in, and it just so happened to be the perfect time in my life to engage with it. I don’t know how such synchronicity occurs, but I hope you also find your time to enjoy it, for once you do get into it, it really is worth every moment, even the really frustrating parts.

DB is just painful all around until you figure out a method that works for you, which is the intention I’m pretty sure. The way I solved it, I never used anything but full thrust or no thrust anyways.

Right. I’m just saying I can somewhat understand it if they, like me, managed to overlook that at first. Didn’t take me too long to figure out my problem, but someone who gets more easily flustered might have a bigger problem with it.

The part that I struggled with at first was trying to reach other planets, which is legitimately difficult without the autopilot.

Whelp… spoilers I guess? The space ship has an autopilot, and you only need to actually steer it in certain sections. As for the “poison fog,” once again there are only a small number of areas where it actually becomes important to use the camera to navigate it. Most of the “fog” can be easily circumvented entirely, and the most significant area where you can’t is entirely optional.

If those are the two things that you found difficult, I’d recommend giving it a second chance. Also, there is an extensive mod scene for the game, and you can literally remove things which are giving you grief if you really want too.

Hands down one of the best games I’ve played in recent years. The only negative I can think of is that there is zero replayability, because the entire point is to learn about what is happening on your own. For the same reason, I can’t even explain anything about what happens in the game, because it’s all spoilers. If you’re at all considering it, you definitely need to pick up this game.

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Wait, does that ever actually happen as anything but a joke?

How are they going to break record profits quarter after quarter if your pants don’t wear out weekly?

You can care about both issues fyi. Frankly pretending those things aren’t a serious threat makes me wonder about who you are. You can’t even discuss those other problems online as things are, without such bad faith actors injecting themselves into the conversation and muddying the waters.

Care to use words to express why you think having a problem with that is laughable? Just guessing, but if you think pretending they disbanded means they don’t actually exist anymore, you ought to know that a KGB agent is literally running their country now.

Well I have an absolutely massive fucking problem with giving the KGB, MS13 and ISIS access to my children online. Socializing online is a pitiful ghost of actually socializing with real people in the real world anyways.

That’s like putting a bandaid on a sucking chest wound.

Why we continue to allow every intelligence agency, gang and terrorist organization in the entire world to have a direct line of access to our whole population is beyond me, and it’s hard to explain away without assuming malice from those running our own societies.

Best I can do is more hats.

Tencent

That’s all you had to say.

You can get feedback from people you know, who’s opinions you actually trust. Why anyone ever thought taking advice from anonymous random strangers online was a good idea is beyond me.

I’m astonished it took this long for people to start realizing that injecting social media into every facet of their lives isn’t a great idea. Why people wanted anonymous comments on their art, which could be from psychopathic junkies for all anyone knows, is beyond me.

I don’t care what your fancy RAMrod doohickeys say Johnson! We need that system up tomorrow so we can reach our quarterly earning projections for the shareholder’s meeting!

You assume too much. Those were problems brought on by the intrusion of big business after gaming became more profitable than movies, and precursors to the current blight. I’m talking about when gaming was almost entirely run by hobbyists doing it on their own time and dime.

Well that’s just completely the opposite of my experience. Blizzard Entertainment, for example, was reliably putting out hit after hit after hit for many years. AAA studios used to actually hire talented people, and allow them to make the games they wanted to make, which resulted in fantastic products.