StansberryRules

There is no magic soil.

The shitty parts of town are shitty because the people who live there make them that way.

The same is true with countries.

If you were to magically swap the populations of South Korea and Haiti, in 20 years time Haiti would suddenly be a prosperous, advanced peaceful island paradise and South Korea would be an unmitigated violent third world hell hole.

Intelligent hard-working people create nice things and nice places.

Stupid violent savages act like animals and ultimately live like them

The combat looks absolutely sick and also quite demanding, totally what i want in a game like this. Everyone who has seen it has nothing but high praise as well,

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RDR2 was criticized as “not fun” when released

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It doesn't help the first 5-10 hours are painfully slow.

And "fun" isn't exactly an adjective that's used to describe it much even to this day.

It's a masterpiece but not exactly fun in the traditional video game sense, especially until it fully opens up.

Yes overbloated games have become way too common. How many "hours" a game takes has become a big point of discourse and any game that isn't a 50+ hour slog is often described as too short by many. With rising game prices people really don't want too short of a game, but it's clear games that are too long are a much bigger problem than games that are too short.

Too many open world games that have no reason to be. The world is "big" solely for the sake of being big. Just big empty areas of nothing interesting.



Also way too much completely monotonous copy/pasted filler activities that drown out the actual good stuff. Bad signal to noise ratio. Even if most of it is technically optional it's a problem because it's easy for the average player to spin their wheels chasing this stuff and get burnt out and quit.



He makes a good point about big games putting this stuff way too much in your face too. It makes it feel like a checklist and work. Oddly enough games that just let you discover things on your own are more compelling, but they are super scared you may "miss" some content they overwhelm you with it all and it feels like work.

I miss the era when the vast majority of single player games were sorta by default a tight 15-30 hour experience.

There are games where a big world work well for them (RDR2, Breath of the Wild, Witcher 3, Elden Ring, etc.) but most "big" games feel like a chore and makes them all feel samey.

It takes an exceptionally great game to be able to hang around for 60-100+ hours and not get tedious. Way too many Witcher 3 wanna be's out there who don't have what it takes.

People frequently use the word "linear" as an insult which is really ridiculous because it makes it sound like an inherent flaw and that all games should be non-linear. The reality is that many open world games are still very linear fundamentally, and that linearity as a concept can actually be a great thing, as it allows you to reliably build a much more curated compelling experience.

They appear to be taking it seriously so I highly doubt they will, but a cameo from Error would be pretty elite.

We traded memorable, meaningful experiences for forgettable convenience.

Going to the Blockbuster was a fun event, usually involved whole family, you had to discuss your selection and lobby for it.

I remember trips to Blockbuster with certain dates and the movies we picked etc.

All of those moments are gone now. Everything has been streamlined into completely forgettable "efficiency"

Same exact shite is happening in video games right now.

Nothing feels tangible or real anymore in the digital age. It's all disposable, meant to be consumed and immediately discarded or forgotten.

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It really is weird how certain people just repeat the same thing over and over like a broken record.

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It's actually a pretty decent peek at what's going on inside their "brain", absolutely nothing.

Apparently Sam Neill is in the film, likely his last role before passing. No word of what role he plays but King of Hyrule seems like a really good fit.

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Worst stadium location in the NFL.

They built it like 40 minutes away from actual San Francisco and it's absolutely in the middle of nothing. Nothing around the stadium of note at all.

The stadium is also ugly and cheap looking and there is a power substation immediately adjacent to it and the practice fields.

Just an exceptionally terrible stadium project, very on brand for California though.