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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

It's always hard to leave a cult

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

I don't get why people defend this game so fiercly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

I had an argument with someone who kept claiming that it was all okay because it was "in alpha", all the developers have to do is claim that the game isn't finished yet and is still in development and then they can sell it for whatever price they want an idiot will buy it and defend it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I haven't bought into it or anything, but I followed the development for a while in the 2010s because I was really excited for what they showed.

Speaking personally, I just want a game that would let me feel immersed in a spacefaring future human civilization. I'm never gonna live to see that. So, I'd like a game where I can at least pretend.

EvE doesn't work for me. I'm not interested in spreadsheets, and I want to be able to fly my ship instead of just clicking to move (I assume that's still how it controls? I only played briefly in the 2000s)

Starfield is..Starfield. I just appreciate that they tried something, honestly. No Man's Sky seems pretty neat, although I don't really know what you do in that game outside of just collecting resources. I need to try it sometime.

Elite Dangerous is great. It comes the closest to scratching the itch. Zooming through the galaxy looking for different astral phenomena and sights to see is a really chill way to spend an afternoon. But, it only really gets so deep. The space legs (I mean, the Odyssey expansion) only do so much to make you feel present. Space stations and outposts really only consist of two or three different layouts of one big room with the same shops. Settlements mostly only exist to be mission objectives. You get 8 guns and 3 pistols to choose from. That's about it. Not super immersive once you step outside of your ship (personally speaking).

But, pretty much the main thing they've been trying to accomplish with Star Citizen is to make it the most immersive experience they can. It's right there in the name, isn't it? You get to play at a citizen of an interstellar civilization. That's the idea. I'm not sure if that's the reality.

So, yeah. Speaking personally, I've got a dream I'll never see realized, and (it feels like) no one stepping up to offer a proper simulation. I imagine a lot of folks are clinging to Star Citizen out of desperate hope, since there's not really a proper alternative if it ever goes away.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

claiming Bethesda tried anything with starfield is pretty generous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

To me NoMansSky feels like singleplayer Minecraft but with planets and tasks/missions.
So if you arent fond of that, I'm afraid it's not for you. You can play witg randoms but I would say this isnt the norm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

It's a bubble.

A friend of mine who bought it clearly states that that's never going to get anywhere. But he's only paid a regular amount and accepted the risk and loss.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Because it's in a genre that has no good alternatives?

EVE is spreadsheet simulator, Elite Dangerous is space-truck simulator, NMS is all planets not space, StarField is StarField.

The only viable alternative I found was X4. Even that is slightly different from what Star Citizen promises (it's more empire management than solo flying in the endgame, vanilla balance is also questionable: you can "luke skywalker" a destroyer with a scout with pure dogfighting skills)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

Sunken cost fallacy maybe.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

My employer after they let me go wanted me sign a contract saying I absolve them and all their associates of everything from the begining of time. yes it actually said from the begining of time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But we don't know if time even had a beginning, thus the contract is unenforceable.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One time I got an "in between" job at a local business. The first day I showed up and the place made me sign a 17 page front and back NDA.

I've signed actual, legitimate NDAs. They are like 3 pages, max. Some people are just preposterous.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah I go through all the contracts and paperwork and I am never wild about any of them but this is one of two types of things I refused to sign despite losing a fair sum with them. I totally get people signing them though as its a tough loss to deal with. There needs to be laws around reasonableness of contracts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

At least in the EU there are rules about contracts and how they need to be understandable. Companies are not allowed to just hire a lawyer who's going to latinize everything simply to make it as impenetrable as possible.

Of course lawyers still use 16 words where one would do but it results in documents that are more rambly than incomprehensible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

thing with the contract I got was it was readable enough, at least for a person like me, what it was proposing was unreasonable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There are and a lot of those weird ass NDA's won't hold up...so I've heard on videos from hopefully lawyers but who knows...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

yeah its like do you wan to take the risk they can't enforce the indentured servitude contract when the top judiciary came out of a facist fad period.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I hope you told them to go fuck themselves.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had an employer (wrongfully) terminate me and they wanted me to sign a similar thing. I asked if I could just… not. My (very cool, forced to do this) manager said “absolutely.” I didn’t sign it. I applied for unemployment. Started getting free money.

They fought it. I had a conference call with a judge and that same manager. I was shaking. The judge asked “MANAGER, did you have any reason to suspect that Rai did the thing they’re accused of doing?”

“Nope.”

End of call.

Thank you for the year of playing TF2 for 40 hours a week, dope-ass manager.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

What a gift, TF2 in it's hay day no doubt

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I did. Means I lost a severance they waived in my face. I think most people actually take the deal but wtf man this is crazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Been there. What is the problem with signing it and getting the cash if you are not going to sue the employer?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

So the begininig of time was the one part but it also had this paragraph that listed all associates and went on for awhile. It had things like all stock holders and the company is owned by a holding company so all associates they way they listed could conceivably be practically everyone. Anyone who through all of time owned any company stock that the holding company had or had owned it or since its the begining of time any predicessor of it. Lastly it did not limit the scope to my work at the company. I talked with a lawyer and it did technically have the capacity of disallowing lawsuits for anyone for any reason. Case in point is a doctor fucks up a surgery on my wife and it later comes out he was drunk but he owned stock in a company that was bought by the holding company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That is not an NDA at all then! A very different contract and you are absolutely right to refuse signing it. The company is totally acting outside of a normal legal practice, worth suing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

oh im sorry. I did not mean to say its an nda like in the story just an effed up contract. It was what they wanted me to sign to get my severance. As I said second time I have had to leave the money on the table.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 days ago (40 children)

every new thing i learn about Star Citizen is like far sketchier than the last thing I learned about it.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)

SC is a scam. Of course they're willing to break the law to keep the money they stole.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I received a refund in 2018 though they have since tried changing their EULA and TOS to make it harder, they have no legal standing to refuse a refund to Australian customers.

I was refunded for around $750 USD IIRC and at one point was in email contact with Will Leverett prior to my refund being approved.

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