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Cake day: February 19th, 2024

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  • It is very poverty stricken. There’s plenty of dangerous/sketchy characters if you go looking for it. Clearly quite drugged people are everywhere. Young kids with the iconic gray tracksuit and balaclavas racing about on bikes. Closed shops and signs of attempts at reviving the city are abundant. Me and a friend walking down the main street saw this really odd shop. It was the size of a moderate clothes shop, but it was like stripped down to the concrete, no music, little to no shelving, just random products stacked on the floor on pallets. Things like microwaves, bbqs, fans, and such. A couple of guy were eyeing us the entire time. What my friend told me is that’s a store for things “that fall off a lorry”.

    Edit: I should add though that the city as a whole is surprisingly low on actual crime. I think it has a pretty decent community mindset. Just don’t go to Pillgwenlly :P






  • I’m not saying the game isn’t good now. They’ve done a fantastic job getting it to where it is now and everyone should definitely give it a second chance. But Rockband (I’m a huge RB nerd btw, my friends and I definitely skipped a few too many school days to play it all day instead) and Minecraft gets poked fun of because they really are just digital Lego and hitting plastic together, but they are still among the best games ever. The closest equivalent I can think of for NMS was that the game had a very shallow game loop of collecting resources and upgrade your ship, which is what it was when it first launched.

    I don’t see much hate for NMS anymore, either people forgot it exists or they are praising how good it has become.


  • I’m not quite following how NMS relates to Rockband and Minecraft. No man’s sky was blasted on launch because Sean Murray kept lying about what the game was and how it worked. People hyped it up to ridiculous degrees and instead of correcting or toning they hype down he just went “yeah” with a smile.

    It is a fine game now, but the distaste for the game didn’t come from no where.