whats_all_this_then

Howrar's being nice about it but here's the way I see it (sightly less nice):

• What someone wants to call their partner/significant other/husband/wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/whatever is up to them and nobody else. Whether or not it's clear is irrelevant. They should share exactly as much or as little information about their lives as they want and use whatever word they wanna use because, simply put, we're randos on the internet and it's none of our business.
• Whether or not these people get married, are married, or even want to get married is a private matter and who they share and/or discuss this with is up to them and nobody else. Furthermore, we are not allowed to have opinions on how their relationship or marriage works. Whether they want to get married after a week, or they wanna casually hang out for 5/10/50/whatever years without getting married, it's their life and as randos on the internet, we don't get and honestly shouldn't even want a say in it. Live and let live, mate :)

Your views on relationships and marriage seem very traditional to me, and that's fine. Asking why people use words like "partner" or "significant other" instead of wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend is also fine. But just a heads up, you come off kinda shitty when you say "a joke relationship" and "proves at least one of the people is only wanting a good time" in response to something that's a little different from what you think a relationship should be.

...assuming electricity is still a thing

Yeah, a big reason why Remedy took Epic's money was that barely anyone wants to invest in an honest to god sell it once traditional single player game these days. Almost every investor with enough money to finance something like AW2 wanted mtx bullshit and/or live service and epic was one of maybe a handful that had both the ability and willingness to fund the damn thing so credit where credit is due.

For that reason, I don't mind buying it on Epic. The always online requirement though, that's a deal breaker.

The good news is that the live service bubble burst so hard and spectacularly that we may see a return to actual good games getting funding after investors are done licking their wounds.

As much as I hate Epic, I actually bought AW2 based on that logic but ended up refunding it because, and I can not stress this enough, FUCK ALWAYS ONLINE REQUIREMENTS ON PURELY OFFLINE GAMES. I refuse to pay for an offline game that locks me out when my internet isn't working...doubly so when the pirated version works perfectly fine without internet.

P.S. I also refuse to pay for single player games with arbitrary online "features" made to force a DRM check, or games published by cunts that do layoffs and shutter studios while posting record profits but that's a different conversation.

100% this. Played quite a bit of hitman on the high seas version. One day I decided I was gonna buy it on the next sale (around the time freelancer mode came out since I figured I enjoy it enough and updates would be easier). Oh boy! Their pricing model is garbage and the "sale" makes it seem way cheaper than it actually is if you want the whole game. Gave up on buying after that.

This! It's kinda turning (parts of) tech YT into the drama filled cesspool that is the rest of YT. Shit that could and should be a private conversation seems like it's getting blown up for attention and clicks. Frankly if I wanted that type of content, I'd be watching the channels that do it better and at a much larger scale.

I watched a review on YouTube that said it's a heist game at it's core. So if that doesn't click or the gameplay doesn't do enough minute to minute to keep you interested, I can see it turning real boring real fast.

I miss the good old days when software shoving itself where it didn't belong against your will immediately got it classified as malware

No longer stuck but Iron Monkey took about 2 months on/off until I got the whole thing. I try to seed where I can but internet isn't the best and sometimes there just isn't a lot of demand. That one's at 0.07 right now because not a lot of people downloading

God damn crayon eaters are ruining this tower!

...burnt out at around the 900hr mark myself sadly but the friendships remain :)

I'm definitely noticing a lot of hate warranted or not bjt it's honestly also been hard to defend them after their last "scandal". Once bitten twice shy...

Same reason I don't try to give CD Projekt RED the benefit of the doubt anymore even though I loved Cyberpunk despite the messed up launch, and it seems they've largely redeemed themselves - I now realize where their priorities lie.

Especially considering he hasn't been shy about ranting about a lot of things from (insert latest apple thing) to "fucking eggshell"