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  • This week marks 10 years with my Xbox One Forza Motorsport 6 edition. I was thinking that’s a good mile marker to admit it’s struggling under modern games and upgrade to a disc XSX. Guess I won’t expect any cool discounts this holiday. Probably just discounted to the prior price.

    I really like the blue console/controller with racing stripes and car sounds, so it’s a shame they haven’t matched that. Part of the reason I didn’t want to replace it yet


  • Glad to see another player! There’s at least 4 of us here. I still love it, but play rate dropped way down when I went back to the office with a commute. I believe I hit about 700 hours 2020-2021. The events over the last year rekindled my interest and acquired my focus. The Thargoid invasion was fun, though I didn’t do much battle. But I nabbed a few dozen base-level goid kills since surface-based air battles didn’t have swarms. There were a few lucrative community goals since then as well. I made 1.5 billion last month with a cargo haul loop where I managed top 25% (mild addiction). I’m close to handing in the current CG with exploration data, though I’m not sure what the payout really will be. Should be solid top 50% for that.

    I’m not into the grind. I’m into the vibe. 1000+ hours with ~23 ships but only 4.x bil in the bank. High imp rank (got the Cutter) but still 2 ranks below unlocking the Corvette. Aside from CGs, I don’t really do any activity more than 3 play sessions in a row.



  • This is not much better than what I can do with a single frame under the right conditions and with a little post tweaking. Canon rebel t6s, a f/2.8 lens in the 20-35mm range, steady mount, remote (cabled) shutter, 45-60s exposure, iso 1600, and most importantly, bortle 3 skies or better. You also get more star density by pointing at the galactic plane, specifically towards the center - the teapot asterism, or the scorpion. Then play with the photo in photoshop or gimp.

    Again, I cannot stress this enough, but dark skies are the most important part. If the sky doesnt wow you by eye, your picture isn’t going to wow you either. Check a light pollution map and consider that cities 50+ miles away will still have light domes over them if you want anything clear near the horizon



  • Agreed, it’s tooting his own cohort’s horn without acknowledging he is, inf act, susceptible to marketing. The actual topic at hand is marketing for software tools to software devs. Of course hand-waving marketing doesn’t work, it’s a technical field with technical products. The marketing he’s blasting is emotion-based marketing. Guess what, there’s plenty of other emotional decisions that will be affected by marketing in his life. Vacation destinations, artistic exhibitions, restaraunts, games, whatever. This article screams like it’s from someone who loudly proclaims marketing is dumb because they weren’t swayed to by women’s deodorant because of a YouTube ad.

    You are not immune to marketing.







  • Games are about having a good time. If your idea of a good time is story and completionism, then sure, what a waste of time. Some people just want to vibe, role play, or socialize.

    Also some people just leave launchers open and rack up ghost hours unintentionally.

    Edit: I’m amused there’s so many reasons for leaving the launcher open I didn’t even think of. Personally, mine was just having a bad habit of playing Elite Dangerous until I fell asleep in the chair. Computer would go to sleep, I’d rack an extra ~16 hours before ei came back. Then I’d remember to check in the morning, cutting it down to like 7 extra hours. I probably have 100-200 racked up from before I got better sleep commitment. 2020 was an interesting time in which time itself didn’t matter for a bit. Rounding 1100 hours now.


  • Similarly, I fell out of the android/pixel communities when I left reddit. I don’t know what’s popular, either. I’d guess Lemmy generally agrees with me, but we’re not the general population. I just want my piece of informational technology to keep it simple to get information. New functions are cool, power-thirsty UI animations and changes to familiar UI elements every 3 months is not (imo)