uglykitten

Kourtney.

I'm with you. May is the best of the 3.

@feralchemy: I really think you summed up why I like this game, and why I'm not bothered by the criticism.

I haven't had a chance to play it as much as I wanted, but the times I did I enjoyed. It's a game where you can make your own fun, and I understand why people object to that; the argument being you shouldn't have to MAKE things to keep your interest, it should be designed in to the game.

For me, it's a game where I can put on one of the many pod casts I'm listening to and go sail around, avoiding other ships like the plague and do the occasional mission. My computer is pretty beefy (I was lucky enough to buy a GTX1080 Ti when it was under $800) so the visualslook amazing, and the soundtrack/ambiance is superb.

Admittedly I haven't been griefed by spawn campers yet and the $60 price tag is steep, though I suspect that putting this game on the game pass is the primary reason why this game has the audience it does. It doesn't have the pull to remain a top streaming game (LoL, PUBG, and even Fortnite will likely have that honor for the foreseeable future). But for me, I'm satisfied.

Even more so than No Man's Sky, which I didn't learn my lesson from because I pre-ordered SoT as well.

This seems to be a game that might be as fun as you make it. I played solo the last few weekends, and most of my time was spent running from larger ships and frantically looking over my shoulder as I was coming back to return treasure chests. I think everyone's concerns are well justified, though. Unless they're really holding content back, I don't see this game holding my attention longer than a month, or so.

The Youtube profile he links to was created in February of last year. And everything he wrote is written with the kind of fervor that's difficult to simulate. If this is indeed a ploy, then it's on an Andy Kaufman level of effort, and I apologize for falling for it.

@anund: Mind. Blown.

To start with, I sincerely hope this won't be marked as spam, because I would genuinely like to hear other thoughts about it.

I subscribe to the T Shirt Hell Newsletter (specifically for the F**k you, you just won a free t shirt part), and the most recent email had a link to, what I can only describe as, well typed gibberish.

http://www.tshirthell.com/truthor.htm

The tl;dr version is that your TV (or anything with a screen) is actually a window to another realm (plane of existence? planet? dimension?) where fully conscious beings use the live images to hypnotize you in order to feed off your energy and learn everything they can about you. There is plenty of hidden gold, but probably my favorite part is the following brain nugget:

"Yes, I do realize much of what I’m describing sounds just like basic movie making techniques (the camera movements to keep your attention, etc) but I’m telling you this is a whole other thing that most people are not aware of. It’s actually alive and in real time, involving real beings who exist in the screen/coming through the screen. There is no such thing as a final product. Nothing was filmed, edited, put on tape and hence finished." (He really likes using bold lettering.)

At the bottom of this lunatic manifesto is a link to a YouTube channel where he tries to demonstrate what he's talking about. In it, he shows how he flipped from one channel to another and had two different shows mention a similar topic. For example, in the one video, he's watching the scene from Strips where Bill Murray says he doesn't want to take his cab passenger, or her luggage, to the airport. He then switches channels and in another black and white movie someone asks "Where's the airport?" He goes on to explain how there are ways to block these hypnosis attempts which then confuse the characters on screen. If I'm understanding his train of thought (which, in all likelihood, derailed shortly after it boarded), he thinks you can watch movies on any format in such a way that will change the dialog/action because they can't get access to your brain.

It's interesting to note that he admits that doing this research as upped the amount of TV he watches each week.

I, for one, welcome our new tv-alien overlords.

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loccus357

"Hey dude, go look at Jarl Balgruuf real quick. Wait, get closer. Right there, on his crown if you look closely- FUS!"

This will happen.

@mosespippy:

Time travel, basically. And yeah, it was a different set entirely. However...

@ev_rowe said:

For folks who have not yet triggered it, think something that both Crash Team Racing and, say…Twisted Metal have in common.

Bingo. This was the best hint so far. Much obliged.