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Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic)
  • No, you can fly it. The thing is, manually piloting your ship sounds like it's not used for transportation, only for combat and docking/boarding other ships and space stations. But those things are apparently pretty fun.

  • What are your favorite single player games to go back to?
  • The ones that I find myself going back to the most in the last decade are indie classics. Hyper Light Drifter, Kerbal Space Program, FTL: Faster Than Light (I just realized all these titles sound similar, but they're a 2D character action game, a spaceflight simulator/shipbuilder, and a very unique strategy game, respectively, and they're all among the best in their genres). Also, as a horror game fan and a Resident Evil fan in particular, I keep replaying the Resident Evil 2 remake from 4 years ago; easily one of the best horror games ever made.

  • Can Christianity Survive—With So Many Problems and Scandals?
  • I don't know if scandals can really discredit a religion, this is mostly not how cult beliefs work; they seem to gain adherents largely through manipulation and force, which are not holds that a scandal is very effective at breaking. I'd suggest the results that Madison is citing are not the results of scandals but instead of rising levels of education and living standards, which do in fact break the hold of cults (by decreasing general ignorance and increasing emotional well-being, and thereby reducing the desperation that makes people vulnerable to dependence on authoritarianism and other comforting lies in the first place).

    However, he does bring up a point against Christianity that I like at the beginning. I've heard Christians say that clergy are less likely than laymen to go to heaven, an admission that they observe corruption in those who are supposed to be closest to God. So where is the ennobling influence of the Holy Spirit? Where is God's discernment in picking the virtuous to represent him? The corruption of the clergy is a pretty solid bit of evidence against religion.

  • Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • I’ll bet that any TOS fans who were furious at the time probably did not go on to like the show.

    As a TOS fan who wasn't too happy with what I had heard before TNG came out, I would bet against you. Most of them probably became TNG fans eventually, because the most impactful thing a show can do is simply to be great. Canon complaints and complaints about characters not returning are mostly about nostalgia, and if the show is compelling (especially if it's compelling in a similar way to the old show), nostalgia can't compete. If anything I'd guess that the people in this article were more likely to become fans of TNG, because it would have exceeded their expectations, which can make things seem better than they would otherwise.

  • Russia’s lander experiences ‘emergency situation’ while approaching lunar surface
    www.cnn.com Russian lander experiences ‘emergency situation’ while approaching lunar surface | CNN

    Russia’s space agency said in a social media post that the issue occurred while its Luna 25 lander was completing a maneuver to put it on course for its touchdown.

    Russian lander experiences ‘emergency situation’ while approaching lunar surface | CNN

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3451334

    > The Luna 25 spacecraft reported an “emergency situation on board,” Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, said on Saturday. > > An incident occurred as the spacecraft was trying to enter a pre-landing orbit, according to Roscosmos. > > “During the operation, an emergency situation occurred on board the automatic station, which did not allow the maneuver to be performed with the specified parameters,” Roscosmos said in a Telegram post.

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    Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • Were you really a Trekkie if you thought TNG was going to be good in 1987?

    Kidding, sort of. I remember thinking it was going to be a cash grab, and I still think I was right to think so at the time. Keep in mind, you couldn't go on the Web and instantly know everything about an upcoming TV show. I think I learned it was in production from the back of a cereal box. I didn't even know Gene Roddenberry was involved. The Enterprise-D design was pretty weird, and the cast of characters was more than a bit out there--a Klingon? On the Enterprise crew? Come on.

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  • Counterpoint, it won't "hang over" Joe's reelection bid because he's not the one on trial. The article even quotes someone pointing out that voters don't care about guilt by association in a situation like this.

  • Resident Evil 2 remake is now best-selling title in the franchise | GamesIndustry
  • I don't see them as replacing the originals, although I guess in a sense they are. It would be one thing if they weren't as good as the originals, but they're arguably better. I've been a Resident Evil fan since 1996, I thought the original was better than Resident Evil 2 (which was an unpopular opinion at the time), but right now, if you ask me the best game in the series that I've played so far? RE2 Remake. Don't even really have to think about it much.

  • Meta to end news access in Canada over publisher payment law
  • Because they struck a deal with the media companies in that case. That hasn't happened with Canada. They're gonna do it this time, and I'm sure Canada will be fine without getting its news through Facebook.

  • Trump was just indicted for trying to steal the 2020 election
  • The Justice Department has to be able to indict people, that's part of its function. And the DoJ is part of the executive branch. A good President will not use the DoJ for his personal political purposes, but the incentive to do so, if it was there, would be extremely powerful. I think it's probably a good idea to remove it. If the people can't be trusted not to vote for a criminal or a traitor, we have bigger problems.

  • Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets
  • Elon Musk's slow transformation into Donald Trump is as disturbing as it is fascinating. Not much good at anything, but incredible at self-promotion so people think he is; obsessed with Twitter and conspiracy theories, then becoming a right-wing demagogue; refusing to pay people he owes and suing anyone who looks sideways at him. Few would have predicted this 10 years ago.

  • The Craziest Details From the Trump Classified Documents Indictments
  • Looks like there's nothing that crazy that we didn't already know; Trump changed his travel plans so he could be present at Mar-a-Lago when his attorneys searched for the classified documents he was hiding from them, basically.

  • Trump hit with new charges as special counsel expands Mar-a-Lago documents case
  • The former president told the group he had a "plan of attack" from a senior military official. Trump characterized the document as "highly confidential" and "secret information" and noted that "as president I could have declassified it.

    Sounds like it's the document that was thought to be a plan for invading Iran. There were so many news stories about this, Trump was caught on tape admitting to a crime, but for some reason he wasn't being charged for this document specifically. Now it looks like he is.

  • UFOs Are a Common Sight, Former Military Official Tells Congress (Non Paywall in comments)
  • On top of that, every country in the world would have to be collaborating in keeping it a secret

    And that's why conspiracy beliefs always end up including a global conspiracy. It's like solipsism; the whole world has to be in on the deception or it doesn't work.

  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. condemned over false claims that COVID-19 was "ethnically targeted"
  • How does someone like this even get near a mainstream party in the US?

    All it takes to be a Democrat is to check a box when you register to vote (same for any other party in the US). There is nothing stopping anyone who wants to from running for the Democratic nomination. Needless to say, he isn't endorsed by the Democratic Party and doesn't have any real popular support. As for why he wants to be known as a Democrat--I'm not an expert on the guy but I do know that he is one of the children of the Kennedy dynasty from the '60s; the Democratic Party is part of his brand, I suppose. He is not a serious candidate, he is almost certainly running specifically to raise his profile and increase the number of followers he has as a professional conspiracy grifter (which has been his occupation for decades now).

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