wide_eyed_stupid

You're right! That's the one. I love it.

That actually great, bit of variety.

I really love the red.. I wanna say Narcissus? The one with the flowers on the left (near the christmas tree box).

I honestly really like the plants!

Fair, it's not a new term. I was born in the 80'ies, I'm familiar with the concept.

However, it's now being used with new bullshit meaning (i.e. going outside the Google/Apple app and their own offered selection), and media are normalizing this use.

You know, it's very possible, because I've never actually read an entire EULA, I don't think.

I fucking hate that word. It's not 'sideloading' to install on my own device what I want to install, to use the apps I want to use; to not use the apps I don't want to use. I am not 'sideloading' anything when I install programs on my PC. No different on my phone.

Fuck off with all these new bullshit terms that are only used to imply that what we're doing (with our own devices) is somehow outside the norm, to justify the constant enshittifcation and the growing stranglehold these corporations want on our lives. It's infuriating.

They are. One of the game's strengths, in my opinion, is the lack of empty filler and fetch quests. All the quests are voiced with original lines and they're basically mini-stories, every last one of them.

I don't like the combat system either, that's why I always put it on the easiest setting, so I don't waste time with it and just play it for the story. Let's put it this way: Amazing story but bad combat? I can sit through that easily. Good combat with a terrible story? EW NO GET IT AWAY. Combat is like the least important thing for me in games. :D

Barely anyone in this topic acknowledges the actual reason: They lied about not using genAI and were disqualified when the lie was revealed.

No, that's why I said it would be impressive to hide it this long. :p

I have played it a lot in the past. Used to log in again with every new update. But for some reason I haven't touched it since late 2023. Just got a little busy with reading and other games. Though to be honest I can't seem to work up the motivation to start it up again and I don't really know why.

It has come such a long way since launch and I can only commend them for staying active for so long. The regular updates and expansions for a game that has no micro-transactions.. it's awesome. I would recommend at least trying it to anyone who's even a tiny bit curious. Wait until it's on sale and you can't really go wrong.

Perhaps I will give it another go in the future. I can see I've missed a lot of new features.

Pfft, I would divorce my husband if he fell for a Musk grift, and it has nothing to do with gold digging. It would, however, mean that my husband kept hidden for a long time (which is impressive, I gotta say) just how big of a fucking moron he is and I won't be married to that. And he should be avoiding anything to do with Musk like the plague anyway.

Also, it would mean that he made the decision to throw away a bunch of money without even talking to me about it (because I would veto the hell out of it), which means he's an asshole.

Both good reasons to divorce someone imo.

Oh yeah, you're right, and the side content is actually so good too. Very little worthless filler and fetch quests. The NPCs really are a highlight in this game, they're so well-written. The Miller is amazing with his dumb bullshit about golems, and I loved the Striped Tonies!

They did the stealing thing really good. If you steal stuff and then immediately parade around in it in town, they will still go after you, because shocker: people recognize their own clothes.

It's also one of the very few games I played where I enjoyed the horse riding.