i think you are misunderstanding the point of the no preorder movement. There never should have been an expectation for it to improve the Day 1 quality of game releases.
The main benefit of not preordering is consumer protection, so we can judge a game’s quality after people who we trust have played and review it. That protection is worth more than whatever paltry nonsense publishers bundle with preorders.
the principle applies to literally all games anyway, but the youtuber almost certainly did that to get clicks.
but now you get special armor that’s relevant for a whole 10 minutes of game time.
for example, say you are waiting to make a left turn, it would be nice to know if oncoming cars are braking or not. if they are stopped and you see their brake lights turning off, you can judge if you should hurry up or not turn at all.
and honestly i have the same problem with that intended use. it often looks like a stopped car is attempting to turn out into traffic. IMO emergency lights should have a faster blink pattern or something to differentiate from turn signals.
okay, pick a different color then. it’s a solvable problem.
i don’t think that was ever required in the US. it is elsewhere though.
fair point about color blindness, but surely there is some 4th color that would work well with red/amber/white.
How would you do that so it isn’t ugly as hell
same way we do with lights now, design them attractively. It is not always successful and that’s on the manufacturers.
and isn’t prone to misunderstanding?
what about it is confusing? green = not coming at you so it’s okay to turn left (or whatever).
with computers these days an acceleration based system should be achievable for all types of cars. hybrid/electric cars already do it with regen braking.
and on the opposite side don’t turn on your emergency lights while driving in bad weather. you’re only causing confusion by making it seem like you have turn signals on if i can’t see both blinkers.
i have a feeling not much would be different given how politics go in cycles anyway. W might have even won a 2nd try in 2004 or 2008.
agreed. the honeymoon period post-reddit-exodus was nice but this place is just like everywhere else now.
that’s only a small part of it. the bigger issue is that people are just generally assholes on the internet, even your not crazy relatives. so for me the less digital socialization the better. lemmy is the only social media i do now (not having a profit motive helps some), but i have dialed it back like 99% since peak reddit.
pretty much that
so meta
i would like to see social spy craft stuff too. Dynamic dialog, interrogation, casino games, seducing NPcs etc
Bring back KOTOR.
solo RPGs have been doing party experiences for a long time.
the real turing test.