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4chan reception It's valuable to see how real gamers who wern't cherrypicked my microsoft evaluated the game and it isn't very positive. https://boards.4channel.org/v/thread/649196730 Who here got filtered by the shit performance? And that less than exciting story hook? I can't believe Tyrone...

False hope One big issue with lotteries is that it provides false hope for people resulting in them playing the lottery instead of focusing on things actually likely to improve their situation. You are much better off not having that false hope in your head. Try to get to real hope for...

DLSS mod already available? I was informed that a mod has already been made supposedely adding support for DLSS and XeSS which is very good news if it actually works properly. https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/111 But looking at the posts there a lot of people have issues getting it to...

Review by Junglebunny She was exceted for the game but got really disappointed when she saw the review above. She is not just some random person, only 3 people of 1000 has higher rank than here in the transmaxxing discord where she posted her impressions: Just gave starfield an hour The space...

Lottery winners often go broke It's very common for lottery winners to later to broke due to bad financial decisions. People are not just poor due to bad luck, often it's due to not being good at managing money. https://moneymarshmallow.com/why-do-lottery-winners-go-broke/ This could of course...

While around 50% is typically given back to the players in terms of winnings a lot of that is used for obscenely large jackpots resulting in other winnings being very small relative to your chance of hitting it. https://www.cuandomevaatocar.com/en/powerball/simulator/ With the mega millions...

The gameranx review was the first decent review i came across They confirmed that the exploration aspect wasn't very good due to loading screens and procedural generation.

Professional reviews are now out Currently the average metacritic score is at 87 which isn't bad but not nearly what a lot of microsoft fanboys were hoping for. https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/starfield This despite microsoft cherrypicking review outlets (selecting ones likely to give it...

Playstation massively increases the price of playstation plus Sony realized that they could rip of their costumers even more. It will now start at 80$ per year with the more expensive tiers increasing even more in price...

The doomsday argument It's unlikely that we happens to be alive now if there are going to be trillions of humans alive on different planets in the future. What's instead likely is that humanity is currently on an unsustainable peak and that we will crash hard after runniing out of natural...

Failure to successfully implement eugenics In the past various governments have tried implementing various inhumane policies in the name of eugenics but not of those awful policies actually did what was claimed. The genetic average iq kept going down and now governments are not even trying to do...

The leadership problem One big issue humanity has faced has been lack of proper leadership. A lot of countries settled for democracy which is not going to work particularly well. But when we look at undemocratic systems of governance we see that usually they do not work out particularly great...

Getting a significant foothold on other planets is very hard If we do not arrive to an existing eco-system it will be very hard for us to actually survive long-term and it will be very hard for people back on earth to even help us. Getting an eco-systems started on some other planet would be...

Space travel is extremely hard The distances to other star systems are extremely large making it impossible for humans to actually get there alive. Humans deep down know this which is why the enthusiasm for space exploration faded. In-addition there is also a lot of heavy radiation in space...

Great filters There must be at least one great filter preventing life from spreading to other planet. https://www.astronomy.com/science/the-great-filter-a-possible-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox/ The fact that life emerged very early on earth does indicate that the emergence of life is not a...

There are billions/trillions of planets just in the milky way but why then are we not detecting life anywhere. Why don't wee see any big galactic empire? Why are we not know experiencing life as an interplanetary specie? There must be some at least one mechanism destroying advanced...

A good game should have gameplay that challanges the player in a good way. Controls should be good. Graphics also matter a lot. It's unclear what a perfect game even is, people have different preferences. People also have different skills so what's too easy for one person might be too hard...

Continued slow progress in the south It remains to be seen if ukraine will be able to accelerate this to turn it into a bigger breakthrough. Very recently quicker further progress of Ukraine was shown at https://deepstatemap.live Here above the blue or green area stayed the same but the...

Remnant 2 I heard a lot of people complain about the game supposedely running poorly but i didn't really have any issues with my 3090 and 13900KF. I could basically just use the default settings except i disabled motion blur and v-sync (didn't notice much difference though). I first though it...

Why microsoft deserves to lose the console war They tried and partly succeeded to hold back gaming in general for years trying to force developers to cater to the series S. They didn't allow xbox series X to have any gameplay features over the series S (parity was required) and it's very likely...