I highly suspect this is because there was no Democratic Primary. I've heard the old tired excuse "they typically run the incumbent as the democratic candidate". But this is simply asinine, it's crazy. They waited until less than 6 months from election day to randomly put Harris in the running. This is one of the most insane things I've ever seen happen. There was no chance for Democrats to vote at all!
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I updated my comment, initially I had the wrong figure. I went back to the US Census website, and looked again. Then, I took the number who are over 18 years of age only, and subtracted that out.
People can share tweets virtually anywhere by screenshotting it and reposting it on Facebook, reddit, etc. I saw it on Facebook and clicked it.
I commented this elsewhere, but I'll say it here too :)
57% of the people who voted, voted in favor. Florida has approximately 22 million people as of the last census, with about 17.732 million over the age of 18. Here are the vote counts:
No: 4,547,767 (42.8%) Yes: 6,068,933 (57.2%) This means about 7.115 million people in Florida did not vote, so approximately 40.1% of the adult population voted. Truly wild to see.
57% If Floridians voted in favor of abortion rights.
One small correction: 57% of the people who voted, voted in favor. Florida has approximately 22 million people as of the last census, with about 17.732 million over the age of 18. Here are the vote counts:
No: 4,547,767 (42.8%) Yes: 6,068,933 (57.2%) This means about 7.115 million people in Florida did not vote, so approximately 40.1% of the adult population voted. Truly wild to see.
If you can't afford subscriptions like those, then you should probably have other priorities to really worry about.
If you did a simple search for poverty and How much people struggled back in 2004 when World of Warcraft released versus now, you would see that families are having a lot harder time than ever before. It has not improved at all for most people. Wealth inequality has grown massively in the past 20 years that World of Warcraft has been around. So yeah a lot of people do have different priorities, And now, the price of playing a live service game that required a subscription can definitely impact you. The same thing can be said though with other subscriptions like Netflix and Hulu. It really fucking destroys your monthly income. Alone they don't, but added up they definitely do
I don't know how anyone has time for two live service games at once
Think of an MMO as a theme park. Used to have to wait in a really long ass line to get to each of the rides. Now, you have fast passes to get through all of the attractions as quickly as possible. This explains the MMO market nowadays. If you subscribe for 12 consecutive months to World of Warcraft, you won't have enough stuff to play. The gameplay loop when you get to end game is essentially brainless and monotonous, it requires no time investment really at all. You just log in daily to do some repeatable tasks, Then you spam the exact same brain dead content over and over again currently it's raids or dungeons. They added a scaling system about halfway through World of warcraft's lifespan. So you either go normal heroic mythic raids or you do normal heroic mythic dungeons and then mythic dungeons scale all the way up to like the 30s so you just repeatedly run the same exact stuff over and over. Lots of people don't have the fortitude to do this, so there is a lot less time invested nowadays in a single MMO and a lot more interspersion across other MMOs.
Elder scrolls online has some pretty good story content, but it's not enough to keep you busy for an entire month either. Some people swear that it's worth paying for and subscribing to the game for. If you don't subscribe to the game, you don't have any crafting bag, and by extension, you don't have any inventory space to hold any materials, so it's almost required to subscribe to Elder scrolls online. You can buy all the expansions with money, but that won't give you a crafting bag and a bunch of other goodies. Game becomes virtually unplayable at that point and it's frustrating
Like what? Can you give examples? Free RuneScape or something?
It’s really weird to include ~500% additional monthly contributions into the math.
Thanks for pointing that out. My math was horribly off here. That's what I get for using Google sheets to try and work this out myself :( I corrected it. I was accidentally multiplying by something without realizing it.
Yes but the point I'm getting at is that at a certain point, it's impossible to retain more information or actually ideal not to retain it at all. But to have it accessible at any moment without straining yourself. Look at the youth today and how much they are struggling in school. Grades are down more than ever, education industry is crippled right now. How in the world are they supposed to keep up with all the information out there, seeing how they are at a disadvantage compared to when we were their age? It is almost impossible to fathom how they could do that. So language learning models can help with synthesizing information, and closing the intelligence gap. Would you really want someone who had a much worse education and is marginally less intelligent making critical, incredibly important decisions? Ideally, no. But what if you could augment them with additional information to make their decision making skills even better? That's my exact point
Do they have options?
Returned to Atlanta after a vacation out west in a small town where there were tons of small biz cafes and restaurants... My entire street is lined with nothing but fast food bullshit. In a quarter mile radius we have McDonald's, Arby's, Freddy's, Wendy's, Chick-fil-A, Zaxby's, Domino's, Buffalo wild wings. Fast food has basically conquered medium to large size towns and forced out any sort of small business that's healthy or has real food. You won't find them anywhere, so you get exhausted and tired of driving and what is left for you? Fast food. No one wants to drive 25 minutes every time they need to get something to eat
BEFORE DOWNVOTING ME, PLEASE READ: This is my opinion, you can disagree with it all you want, but it would be really nice to at least respect what I have to say just the same as I respect that people really enjoy this game
I played this game before I started Stardew Valley, I have never played either of them, the look and feel of Stardew did not really appeal to me. So I decided to try this game. Instantly love the anime style characters and graphics of the game, love the color palette, love the world design. It's beautiful. So that was what really drew me in...
They made the game way too easy so it's not even remotely challenging at all. There is so much unnecessary silly hand holding in this game. I wasn't expecting something sweaty and hardcore but seriously, anytime you plant a crop and harvest it for the first time you get the recipe for it in the mail. Like what? We can't even just go to a place and just browse for recipes normally, it's just given to you automatically in the mail for no reason.
Lots of things in this game are like this, as well. No effort put into getting anything, everything's just handed to you given to you or spoon-fed to you. This makes it very boring because you don't get to just wander around and explore and find stuff at vendors or look online or elsewhere to try and figure out how to do something. Even certain major things like crafting or blacksmithing... You can just do it right out the gate with no training, and no need to wait any time at all for the blacksmith to craft it.
There are too many similarities to Stardew, making it feel copy pasted. Again I played this game first, but I knew that Stardew was out there before this game was. So after playing this game and pretty much doing everything that there was to do, I decided to try Stardew Valley since that game is mostly complete and finished, this game is early access and will change... I was shocked to find out that they pretty much copied huge aspects of Stardew and didn't even try to do anything differently.
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The mine system and the elevators, they literally carbon copied Stardew Valley verbatim. You go into the mine and break rocks and then a ladder appears, then you unlock the mine level every five levels. They didn't even try to do anything different just copied it.
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The museum. Wow like... They just copied it exactly wtf? There's literally nothing different.
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Some characters are too similar to Stardew. Abigail, the purple-haired girl in Stardew is the most popular to romance. Who is the most popular one in this game? Juniper, another purple-haired lady. Celia, blonde lady, very similar to Haley. I could go on for about 5 minutes about this but I won't. Just look, too many similarities
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Seasons. Why are they the exact same? They didn't even try to do anything differently.
There's virtually no passion at all put into Fields of Mistria
Concerned ape, developer of Stardew, has a whole beautiful backstory about how he came to develop one of the most popular indie games in the world. It wasn't his first game that he developed, and it was extremely difficult, challenging, a very long-winded effort for him to develop the entire game, and get it to be state that it is in today. A true passion project and the more you hear about it and see the changes made to the game over time, the more you can understand how freaking passionate he was about the game.... This is nowhere to be found in Fields of Mistria! There is no intricate story of how the game was a labor of love, or how hard they worked to bring the game to life. All you can find when looking at their website is that it's developed by a huge team of people, and a huge amount of marketing hype, game streaming videos where they showcase the game. There's nothing inspiring, or beautiful, or gripping about the development of the game. It's just a generic indie game that looks really cool. To me, this was really disappointing. It just feels like there's some mid-sized gaming company behind this, and that's the end of it.
There's virtually nothing to find or discover on your own
Due to the insane amount of hand holding and early access status, and the fact that they just basically copied all the main parts of Stardew Valley, there's virtually nothing to find or discover on your own.
In Stardew, there are huge amount of things that I was able to discover on my own just wandering around or purely by chance, which made the game so much more exciting and enjoyable. For example, there was randomly this thing called Green rain, it's raining green, no explanation for it but people in town are like scared of it and huddled up in the local tavern, and Moss grows all over trees and stuff like that. Pretty awesome. There's also a spa that you are not introduced to You can just basically stumble onto it on your own and it restores all your energy.
Fields of Mistria has literally nothing right now that you can find or stumble onto by chance. Even stuff like a destroyed bridge, you get a quest and hand holding, you don't even repair it yourself.
Community team is non-existent
I barely hear of any updates from the community team. All I have seen over the past several months are marketing hype videos, streaming, updates but not on a platform most people use. People don't use x or Twitter or whatever the hell it is. So it's hard to follow the game's updates. They have an entire team of people listen on the website, but can't be bothered to actually connect with the community and actively work with them like Concerned Ape who makes Stardew does. I asked if it were possible for them to post updates on a platform that people actually use. Reddit? Meta's threads? Facebook? I mean they have a discord but it's a community discord, and they have nothing to do with it, they hardly ever react or reach out to anyone there. There's just no community presents at all other than trying to grab people's attention and get them to try the game. That to me sounds like a cash grab. Like, they don't really care about the people who have purchased it and are holding on for future updates, they just want to get as many people to get it as possible
Summary
I give Fields of Mistria a 4/10. It's lovely looking, but why would I want to play a low effort copy and paste of another game that came first?
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Graphics: Attractive anime-style visuals and color palette
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Lacks any challenge, overly simplistic. Constant handholding removes any sense of choice.
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Copy-Pasted Stardew Mechanics: Mining, museum, seasons, and characters feel blatantly lifted from Stardew Valley with almost no originality.
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Passionless Development: Feels like a corporate indie product with no genuine vision or passion behind it.
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Weak Community Engagement: Dev team’s communication is poor and scattered across low-traffic platforms, hinting at more interest in marketing than in actual player connection.
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Limited Discovery: Exploration is nonexistent; everything is handed to the player, stifling any real sense of adventure.
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Overall: Fields of Mistria is a 4/10. visually decent but ultimately a hollow, uninspired Stardew Valley clone. Nothing to justify its cost
Wanted to see more photos of a place that I want to try, but cannot view more than literally one single photo without downloading an entire app that will take up a huge amount of space and lots of my data
My salary didn't change at all, but homes went up 82%. The money I saved for a down payment and my salary no longer are good enough for this home and many others. This ain't even a "good" home either. It was a 200k meh average ok home before. Now it's simply unaffordable
My retirement fund that I just started was worth $15k in December of 2021. Then, May of 2022, our area was hit really hard. My retirement plan went down to $7k. Today, it's worth $11k. I lost $4k on my retirement plan. It's invested in total market funds, some tech, some big cap companies, and healthcare. But every sector has been ravaged by the stock market changes.
Amazing how this cash grab of a game has been in early access alpha development for about 8 years now, finally releases, and this is the best they can do
I thought this was a joke but it seems like it's actually legit. WoW, which has a subscription and paid expansions, just added a $90 item to their store. This is Korean MMO levels of absurdity. What do you think of this?
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I'd be surprised if it even exists a year from now