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DE adds something to the game, then finds out it is way, way, WAY too good, and everyone is using it and having fun... /surprisedpikachuface We've seen this pattern over and over and over. My main gripes are still that: 1: DE doesn't learn from these mistakes. 2: They are obviously not testing whatever they're shovelling out to us. The design process has for many years been "Just launch, watch, patch", and it has become worse with the new guard. It seems more and more, that the winning formula of old was more of a lucky coincidence, than design choices, and they're running out of good ideas. I'm more and more finding myself playing the old content. Most of the new stuff becomes stale really quickly. Oh, and hi Mag. Good to see you again.

Grrrr...

Not quietly enough!

Hello diabetes, my old friend...

Lived through two oil crises as well. Saw my parents put plastic sheets over the windows to help isolate during the winter, and was brought up in a rather austere and frugal household. So I'm used to planning ahead and minimizing waste. Add a broad selection of practical skills and geopolitical awareness, and you can't get a lot more adaptable than that. Only thing I'm missing is the skill to take animals apart. And of course, I'm still dependent on access to certain medications, so no wilderness living in the long run, far away from well stocked pharmacies.

More a tendency to not keep up with geopolitical development, then panic when taken with their pants down. I lived through the Y2K panic, and saw everything from canned goods to yeast get torn from the shelves, so when my sources told about these odd indicators of things happening in China, I started adding a few non-perishables and extra meds every time I was out buying groceries. As a result, I steered clear of most of the panic shortages, when Corona hit. Luckily, things didn't get nearly as ugly over here as other places in the world. The problem is not, that people buy additional foods and other essentials. An increased demand is relatively easy to accommodate in modern society. The problem arise, when everybody rushes the stores all at once. Then we see people getting their heads beat in with the last can of beans, or getting shot over baby formula. Nothing wrong with a bit of prepping. Just don't get carried away. 😆

Busy couple of days would be an understatement. I wonder, if I should start stocking up on toilet paper.

That has been the age-old struggle, telling developers, that gameplay>graphics. It doesn't help, that Moore's law doesn't seem to hold true any longer. On top of that, the current economical landscape bars a lot of people from upgrading whenever the latest GPU hog gets released. Just look at Warframe, and DE's insistence on cramming more and more details into the environment. The extra clutter TNW left in Plains and Orb Vallis caused a very palpable drop in performance, and I can observe frame rate dips in real-time every time someone blows up the destructibles in the new tileset. On top of that, the now mandatory "enhanced" graphics engine runs like arse on older machines. Luckily I can still appreciate old games, despite their less flashy graphics. Got the Witcher games, KotOR 1+2, Jagged Alliance 2 and Morrowind modded to the gills on my off-grid machine. If Warframe gets too artsy for this rig to handle, I'm not without options.

Time for nerdery...

Semi-rhetorical question: Is a new season of Nightwave coming soon? I've been severely slacking regarding challenges, and I'm well into the prestige ranks, despite that.

Well... Life is strange.

I do get those on a regular basis. Take it as a belated compliment.

I'd rather you have 365 happy days a year. I did say every day, after all. Now come here and get your hug. In the same vein, I don't limit showering my girlfriend with affection to just one day of the year.

And now for something completely different...

Happy women's day btw. Granted, every day is women's day, but each to their own, I guess.

Yeah. A bit of a downer. Part of getting old, losing creators of your longtime favorites.