u/DJWetAndMessy

This meme is so weird to me and seemingly the other people who are actually playing this game. It seems just so out of left field. I don't think the obsessive player count posters understand that, to the people actually just playing the game, the low player count is interceptible. It's not a real problem that affects the game directly, it just affects it on a meta level regarding the health of the company that made it. It's just the only thing they can really point at because Marathon, objectively, fucking slaps. It's not perfect obviously, but it doesn't have the same kind of glaring flaws like the games that were quickly canceled or the games that we're initially received very poorly such as No Man's sky.

Marathon, unlike Concord and highgard and whatever else, is actually a very good game. That just doesn't compute to all of the people who are looking for a post-hoc rationalization of an opinion they formed long before they knew anything about the actual game. So they have to obsessively post about player counts and forcing a meme out of people simply playing and enjoying a video game unironically.

It's a manifestation of their frustration that the game is actually good and people really like it. They wanted it to be bad so it will fail, so they can mock it, so they can feel catharsis over a company they don't like failing. Since they didn't get the first part of that, they have to skip to part two without a convenient narrative to justify it. The failure of the game must serve as its own cause because to examine the real causes would be too complicated and you'd have to examine things like narrative and company reputation.

And all that is just too complicated for the average culture vulture slop-tuber making daily videos about culture war shit and ranting about DEI.

I have a very painful condition that has afflicted me for decades starting when I was 11. I've been seeing doctors for it my whole life but none of the many medications I've been prescribed have helped. I've been sent back and forth between different specialists for My entire living memory until finally I got sent to USF where hopefully I can find my doctor house.

After seeing two different doctors there, no dice, they have no idea what's wrong with me. I didn't realize this but apparently doctors specialize in specific ranges of diseases, and since it's unclear what is even happening to me, nobody seems to have any idea what to do.

So I'm wondering if there's specific kinds of doctors that deal with rare diseases with challenging or unusual diagnostic criteria, and if they take Medicaid because I'm in the US and nobody can find a job in my industry (gamedev).

I have an asus OLED vivobook. It has windows 11 installed unfortunately. I love OLEDs specifically because there's no backlight where a dark screen still casts a top of light. I tweak the settings on it until a black desktop background is COMPLETELY black. On my LG desktop monitor I can just tweak my settings via it's own interface but I cannot find a way to do that at all on this thing. It's giving me terrible eye strain and I'm finally trying to fix it again and I now see why I gave up last time because there seems to be no way at all.

I can't even find a way to adjust my contrast because despite having a 4060 in it it refuses to allow me to use the nvidia control panel for it.

I'm entirely at a loss and any help will be appreciated.

Edit: The reason I can't use Nvidia to control things properly is because it has a default Intel xe GPU that uses for most things unrelated to GPU intensive software like games

I've gotten three different toilet seat bidets and each one for some reason has been way too thin for the comparatively thick rim of my toilet. This causes the rim to either stick out in the front or behind it and either has significant problems for my D and Bs. I can't seem to find one that has a thick seat, if I can even find one that shows the seat at all, and NONE of them have the proper measurements to know if it would work out!

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If anyone knows my issue and has a recommendation I would really appreciate it!

I was banned from the Ashes of Creation subreddit for asking this lol. Apparently the only mod there is the former CEO Steven and I refer to him as a frauster a couple times. I was warned it was about to happen by another user and sure enough I was permabanned only a couple minutes later!

I'm currently making a video cataloging a list of all the many promised features of Ashes of Creation. I hope as a dev that's worked on these kind of games to provide folks with the tools to identify unrealistic promises and avoid both getting their hopes up and being separated from their money. I am also personally interested in the phenomena of fraudsters in the games industry and want to approach the topic from a somewhat academic perspective. In this effort I have done extensive research and have a list 20 pages long of all the individual features that were supposed to be in Ashes of Creation that are also not typical of a game like this.

For example: Quests aren't in this list because of course an MMO has quests, but dynamic quests that unlock as the world state develops overtime? That's on the list. Classes aren't on the list, but a class system in which multiclassing at lvl 25 creates a multiplicative amount of distinct classed? That's on the list.

So while I can find a great number of features Steven (and several other devs) have promised by combing the wiki on the waybackmachine (wiki was fan-run and taken down for obvious reasons), and slogging through the hundreds of livestreams myself, it doesn't give me a good metric of what people were actually excited for.

I would like to know which of the features you were the most excited for, down to the most narrow specifics you can provide, and feel free to add any additional stories and/or context you wish to share along with it! The waybackmachine stops functioning around April of 2024, so along with things I just happened to miss, I also have somewhat outdated info and I hope this would also serve as due diligence that I'm not missing anything of critical importance in my list.

Thank you very much for sharing, I feel for all the people that devoted so much time, energy, and money to this game only to end up being burned; but maybe with your help, we can keep people in the future safe from fraudsters like Steven.