Although from a consumer standpoint it’s true a well. Official reviewers are often bought (directly or not), pressured in other ways, operate on nonsense scales, and are infamously not actually that good at video games. Player reviews are a Little better, but you have to be adept at weeding out whinging from people who suck at games or just suck broadly.

Streamers/YouTubers are the only real option, imo, as they actually show what they’re doing (no lying!) and have to build up an actual reputation of some kind to be noticed.

We’re at least at Stellaris 3 at this point but it never ends.

Started playing ffxiv again, decided to make a new character since is been so long. Turns out fishing is kinda cool

If nothing else this game has done absolutely amazing art direction so far.

Neat. I love the underwater but not setting I’m seeing.

He definitely won’t deliver the moon, but i am interested in seeing what is made

… What? Dedicated streamers is a bizarre concept, playing different games is normal and good

You really have issues, my guy. Your obsession with authority is something you should get help shedding.

First and foremost, yes a layman should pick those jobs up. It’s not difficult to get the basics down and to safely work on things. Ffs sounds like you are terrified of even changing your own oil. i don’t expect people to swap out their own engines or build their own OS, but plenty of ‘advances’ knowledge can be learned in a week and be useful.

Secondly; the reason it’s competitive is because the number of doctors is artificially lowered by government intervention, not most people failing out of school or some shit. It’s also common knowledge to anyone who has ever worked in or adjacent to the medical industry that plenty of people in it are complete morons; hell there is a worryingly high number of anti-vaxxers even! Which i didn’t appreciate you comparing me to, jackass.

The lay person can have access to plenty of research materials, they just aren’t bundled in a major network, and many tools that you’d need to watch out for in self medication are cheaply available from smaller clinics.

Plenty of people in every profession are idiots, doctors included. They are no more special than mechanics or programmers.

The ‘strict vetting process’ is only a method of keeping the supply of doctors low. Literally, that isn’t conspiracy. Edit: although that is a u.s. issue specifically.

This in no way sounds like anti-vax rhetoric? Doing actual research and doing something that doesn’t affect others is literally the exact opposite of what those people stand for.

The human body is just another machine. You can learn it as easily as you can learn how to fix whatever horrible sound you engine is making. The only advantage a doctor has over a layman is more direct access to resources (both knowledge, as in easy access to research, and tools, such as blood tests), but that doesn’t exclude a random from using those resources themselves.

As long as you know what you’re getting into i don’t see the big deal. Doctor aren’t some higher beings, hell a lot of them are idiots, you don’t need a fancy piece of paper to understand a science (let alone a niche as small as medicine as it’s applicable to you specifically). Just put the legwork in before hand and you can probably even do minor surgery on yourself just fine.

Although this does not comment on the legality of substance that would be used for that, the law has no baring on right and wrong.

I don’t play many MMOs these days, but i do know at least one Korean MMO that hits two of those. In mabonogi areas were unlocked by players after they released and whoever unlocked it has their name recorded at the entrance, and life skills (stuff outside of fighting; crafting, playing music, etc) were a major focus of the game. Honestly, expansive skill systems outside of combat are basically necessary for an MMO to be considered good imo.

Can’t say i particularly agree with the decision, the better call by far would have been to expand it to include men

Yeah, DnD is easily the worst game I’ve ever played, ran, or read. By such a huge margin it isn’t even funny. Even vampire 5th edition is better.

Speaking of vampire, World of Darkness 20th edition is my personal recommendation for a better game. It’s actually simple, unlike 5e, and is actually designed for roleplay, unlike 5e. Maybe exalted if someone wants more fantasy and combat.

Personally i just want them to create a magic focused game

Well damn

But why? They already remade it for the switch? Should we expect platinum next with how dirty they did that remake? And why is everyone things crazy for the original rescue team? Explorers of sky is when the series was at it’s best.

It’s also just the standard for selling your game on a big storefront.

Didn’t they sell a One Piece toy as an authentic replica katana for their merch? How do they justify that one

I mean, sports enjoyers have historically been EA’s go to rubes.

I don’t know if they actually had a good idea with 2 they just dropped the ball on, or if I’m reading too much into it; it feels like they were going for inevitability for the first third of the game, the idea that bad shit can and does just happen and you can’t really stop it as a single person, but then they went and made the biggest events immediately within your reach and killed off that story theme.