But manual space travel would be even slower and honestly I think it would get old very quickly. I do understand the frustration, and if you were expecting it to work like NMS or Elite then yeah it's going to be disappointing. But for me, that's not the point of the game. I've had a ton of fun exploring randomly around, just jumping system to system and checking out random planets. The only part of space flight I'm actually that bothered about doing 'realistically' is ship to ship combat, and that works great, especially once you unlock the thrusters. If you manage to take out their engines by focusing fire you can disable them and board the ship, and take it as your own. Also the sidequests are great, I think the writing has improved from previous games. They often go in unexpected directions.

I've enjoyed seeing the initial backlash fade and turn around. I'm seeing a lot of posts on the subreddit saying stuff like "I initially made a bug complaint post but now I'm a few hours in and I was wrong, this game is amazing"

If you're not enjoying the first few hours I implore you to stick with it a little longer.

From the article it looks like that was an issue with ZeniMax Online Studios

Fallout76 was a bad game. Not really evil though. And I heard it got much better, admittedly long after launch. I really enjoyed Fallout 4 but I get that I was in the minority there. Either way, I don't think a company should be totally panned just because they made the main character voiced instead of silent. Re-releasing Skyrim got old, but you don't have to buy it, lol. I don't know what you mean about their launcher. Was it bad? You could always start the games from the exe as well. You'll be happy to know there's no launcher for Starfield anyway.

I think they've made something amazing with Starfield, although it starts quite slowly.

Pirate the game if you want, no judgement from me, but don't justify it by pretending its some moral good.

Oh why not, it's a really good game. Did Beth do something evil or something?

It's not that buggy. I've had maybe half a dozen minor visual bugs at most in all the time I've played

Fair enough. I'm the kind of madlad that really enjoyed Fallout 4, although not as much as previous titles. I'd say this one beats FO4.

Can confirm it is, I went for it and now have SF preloaded 😁

Why is this downvoted? Just cos it's an ad or should I not take this deal?

Yeah it's quite dangerous, there is moderate risk of mild injury and very mild risk of serious injury. But everyone participating knows that.

They didn't say "and that is wrong". But I think that's because it's obvious. There were a few raised eyebrows or a change to the tone of voice, so it was certainly implied.

Like if there was a documentary on the slave they might not actually say, "and this was a bad thing", bevause obviously it was a horribly bad thing.

We have a long tradition of doing silly and dangerous things. Particularly in small towns. Some have formed out of old oagan (pre-Christian traditions), some for more questionable or objectionable reasons like this one. They keep going because a lot of people have good memories of them and it becomes part of a local identity.

I watched this video, and lots of people make mention of how the tradition started, and how the pennies used to be actually hot. And why. Its referred to multiple times. Your post implies this was glossed over, but you clearly got the info from the video, so it's not exactly hidden. Maybe that's why OP says, "no need to watch it", bevause they know they're telling fibs for outrage bait?

Look up The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake. People get really hurt doing that.

New here. I was reading all the snarky strawman comments here and thinking "what the fuck are these people on?". Then I read your comment, which is clearly and concisely written, and makes good points. I hadn't thought of it that way and it makes a lot of sense. Not saying my view is totally flipped around, but that's some food for thought and I'll be snacking down.

Now will the rest of you calm down about owning libs and speak nicely to each other?

There were a lot of protests in the UK at least before Bowling For Columbine came out.

I'm a special education teacher and today I was tasked with writing a baseline assessment for the use of an iPad. Was expecting it to take all day. I tried starting with ChatGPT and it spat out a pretty good one. I added to it and edited it to make it more appropriate for our students, and put it in our standard format, and now I'm done, about an hour after I started.

I did lose 10 minutes to walking round the deserted college (most teachers are gone for the holidays) trying to find someone to share my joy with.

The Nature Centre - art-pop from Birmingham, UK. They're great!

Does that work? You can't see posts or comments from places you're banned from?

Cut them up and put them in your water bottle! It's delicious and refreshing and it apparently helps you hydrate cos cuc's have potassium which is an electrolyte. I put them in there the night before and leave the bottle in the fridge overnight. Then refill the bottle at lunchtime and when I get home, then chuck the slices in the compost at the end. Lovely!

Steve Correll as Lucifer please