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You mean the paragraph that was very clearly written as sarcasm to highlight the inherent contradiction in your theory? Would that be the part you’re referring to?

14 years of development does not imply good or efficient.

Where did I say that?

You’re implying everyone thinks the game is good, worthwhile or innovative

Again, where did I say that?

I’m honestly wondering if you replied to the wrong comment by mistake, because I can’t see how you got any of that from what I said.

So here’s what I don’t get… CIG is a notoriously mismanaged company running an incredibly bloated game that has been feature-creeped beyond all recognition from its original pitch, run by a self-important auteur egomaniac who frequently costs the company time (and therefore money) by exercising a truly obsessive level of control over every single aspect of the game’s development…

… And they’re also so shockingly good at everything they do, so efficient, so clever and smart that they can spend 13 years very publicly producing a ridiculously high concept, broadly scoped, overly ambitious money pit of an MMO, whilst actually secretly siphoning off the majority of the money they’ve received into their own personal accounts. They are, in fact, so good at this that they can make a game bigger and more complex than GTA 6, on the same kind of budget, whilst actually needing to only spend a fraction of that budget on the actual game development, and they’re so good in fact that they can do all of that whilst convincingly running the pretense of being a shockingly mismanaged company.

Do I have that right?

Look, I get the urge to turn everything into a conspiracy, but bro, it ain’t that deep. They’re just a bunch of nerds with bad people skills and a lot of money to burn.

The “scam” thing is just a meme people repeat because they think it’s important to have an opinion about SC and that’s the only one they’ve ever heard. And yeah, it really doesn’t make any sense. There so many actual valid things you could criticize about the game and the company making it. I could make you a list but we’d be here all day.

But objectively, scam is literally the only complaint that is instantly disprovable, because you can log in and play the game and see that they put the work into it. It’s a buggy mess, they desperately need a proper UX lead, the project is atrociously mismanaged, but like… They did the work. As a scam, it would be the worst scam in history; you’re supposed to run away with the money, not actually spend it making a game.

They were. The Kickstarter ran entirely on selling ship packages. Basically the different tiers were just “… and what ship would you like with your copy of the game.”

That’s great advice, when you don’t have to explain to your elderly parents why you need to migrate their email for the second time in six months.

The only reason I haven’t cancelled yet is because I moved my family, including my parents, onto a family plan with them, and that’s going to be a lot of work to move everyone again.

But this shit fucking sucks. I recommended this product to my loved ones because it’s supposed to be trustworthy and secure, and now I find out it’s neither of those things.

If you’re a Proton customer right now and not in a position to simply cancel your account, submit a support ticket laying out your concerns. I got a detailed and lengthy response back within a day (one that was clearly not a form letter either, it directly addressed all the points I raised). Flooding their support channels will make it clear that they are in some serious shit here.

Write to the Proton Foundation too. Demand that Yen be removed from the board and the company, and that serious changes be made to the leadership at Proton to ensure this never happens again.

Far be it for me to complain about a separatist party shooting themselves in the foot I guess. You’re think they’d have learned from event events in 'Berta but apparently not.

It’s wild that Patrick Stewart is most well known for his serious acting and his immense gravitas, when in reality he was one of the most naturally funny people who ever lived.

Because it’s not pay to win, people are just salty. Get someone to teach you Commander, its a casual format that’s a lot of fun to play even with budget decks. I don’t put expensive cards in any of my decks and I win plenty. My wife runs a deck that I built her for only slightly more than the cost of a basic preconstructed deck and she’s become kill on sight among the people she regularly plays with because it’s so strong.

Eh, you can buy a Commander precon and win games right now. The game is fine. My budget decks rack up plenty of wins. There’s actually a lot of fun to be had in finding cheap ways to do what the expensive decks do and building around undervalued cards. My Xyris deck is now kill on sight for anyone who’s ever played against it and it’s my cheapest deck by far.

Sure, those are all things the government could do in a world where this wasn’t the intended outcome.

NASA is being fed to SpaceX like a prime rib.

There was an existing grass fire, and the range safety officer just decided it was fine to train right beside it, in a famously windy and unpredictable climate.

I’m aware. There is some important context here that the public reporting really doesn’t talk about though; if you’re doing weapon handling of any sort, grass fires are very nearly a daily occurrence. A few times a week, for sure. They are so common that if units had to stop training every time there was a fire, they would literally never train.

Though we won’t know for sure until the investigation is done, it’s entirely possible - likely, even - that the range safety officer followed established protocol to the letter. The way the CAF handles range fires, by necessity, is you report it, and you make sure no one is in immediate danger. And then you get on with your work.

Now, either protocol wasn’t followed in this case, or the protocol needs to be updated. That’s clear. But I think a lot of people are reading the reporting on this and thinking “Oh my God, how could you let people train next to a raging inferno??!!” and not understanding that, in this context, that’s literally just an average day on the job. The policies have to draw a very fine line between “acceptably dangerous” and “too risky” and that’s not easy to get right.

If it sounds like I’m being callous here, believe me, I’m not. I have loved ones in the military. That’s why I know so much about this. There are people I care very deeply about whose lives are on the line here. But those same people have to live with the reality of these difficult choices, and they very much want the average civilian to understand that this is a much more complex situation than it sounds.

The issue is confirmed by the devs, it just doesn’t affect everyone.

It’s not about PC performance. My wife is running it on 32GB of RAM, 16 thread CPU, 6700XT. It’s a specific memory leak issue that affects many, but not all users. This is directly confirmed by the devs.

The issue has been confirmed by the developer, it just doesn’t affect everyone. My wife is running it on 32GB with a 6700XT, and it runs like dogshit after a few minutes of any level. Massive stuttering and freezes.

Fair warning, the PC port is awful right now. Crazy memory leaks.

The game is apparently the best Ace Combat ever for about 5 minutes, and then it’s a stuttering mess.

Plus one for this suggestion. The Divinity games are some of the best co-op games ever made.

I believe you can also play Baldur’s Gate 3 co-op as well (same developer for anyone who didn’t know).

Meta does have some very specific issues with their corporate governance in that regard. Mark’s contact basically makes him impossible to fire as CEO. It’s an unusual situation that should have set off alarm bells for investors years ago.