Not at all. The game caters so hard to PvE players. They got hoards of new content all the time. PvP content has been very, very scarce. And with the upcoming PvE only game mode… that should be proof enough how Rare is doing everything they can to keep PvE people happy. And I don’t say that derisively. It’s good, those people should be happy. But claiming the game is built mostly for PvPers is absolutely not a good take on the game.

What are you talking about? You don’t need to listen to a damn word anyone says. Just follow the waypoints, fast travel to everything. The game is a menu navigation simulator.

Not as far as I know. But it’s gotta, right? Via EA partnership?

Sea of Thieves. Since day 1. Best Gamepass title. Easy to leave and return to.

Deaths Door is a minor masterpiece.

Tunic is a major masterpiece if you want something deceptively cerebral (looks like a kid-oriented Zelda-esque adventure. It is not, I assure you.)

Frost Punk is a very fun city builder with unique elements and design.

Loophero is a sort of tower defense but not? Strange game. Strangely addictive.

If you haven’t played Jedi Fallen Order, get on it. Sequel is out and it slaps. Fallen Order itself has a better storyline than all the Disney sequels and Clone Wars (yeah, I said it) combined.

Not on Gamepass anymore, but bonus points for any former Gamepass title that was so damn good I ended up buying it when it left Gamepass. And that trophy goes to Crosscode. Maybe the 2nd best single player game I’ve played this decade.

Darkwood will be known as the last, actually good game to be given out via Games with Gold.

I absolutely recommend if economy management is your jam.

I love this game. Went through almost all the scenarios before burning out. Good stuff. Excellent console controls.

I tried to get into that, but I kept coming back to “why am I doing this?” Like… I can manage a village and it’s pleasant enough… But why?

Sea of Thieves. Always. For the chill vibes and whimsy. And then some Aliens: Dark Decent, for that high stress, anxiety adrenaline. I’m a fellow of extremes.

Oof. Im on last stage and can’t figure it out

Sea of Thieves. Always. And always happy to show new sailors the ropes (literally).

I sure as hell hope not haha. That’s been a lifeline for me.

Do… Do I have to pay for CTV? Like, isn’t that one of the free channels? Is their on demand stuff paid?

I can sympathize with much of what you wrote. My review is: this show is the dopest ST content we’ve gotten for the last decade.

This universe is so ripe for an open-source Elder Scrolls-esque game. Choose your “race”, enter the post-Fire Nation war world where the Fire Nation colonists are getting kicked out from their occupied territories and turning into refugees. Xenophobia towards the fire Nation is rampant. Where the Earth kingdom is rebuilding and uncovering more heinous crimes the government committed. There’s some subsequent political unrest and civilian movements. The political instability of the formation of the New Republic and founding of the new city. The Water Tribes seek to repopulate the south. Multi-national organizations form. Perhaps a new university that feels the need to locate and preserve precious mystical artefacts lest another war threaten them in the future. Archaeological digs to find the lost library are undertaken, spurred on by the reports of the Gaang. The fighting league starts up.

Meanwhile, you travel the world honing your skills, participating in discoveries, supporting refugees, playing a hand in political stabilization, witness the beginning of the industrial revolution, etc.

It would be a 10/10 open world game.

This is so wildly unnecessary and wildly awesome at the same time

Play Sea of Thieves as a female.

Dang this looks SO close to what I’d want. It’s just missing big ass creatures.

Sea of Thieves. Always.

The reason you’re confused is because 90% of the people in this thread haven’t read or understood Foucault, who gave us the best (though certainly not the only) description of neoliberalism. In it’s muddled use by every day people and the media, it’s meaning has become very confused.

What people here are describing (deregulation, positive valuation of wealth generation, free markets, etc) is just different flavours of liberal capitalism. Neoliberalism isn’t that.

Neoliberalism names the extension of market-based rationalities into putatively non-market realms of life. Meaning, neoliberalism is at play when people deploy cost/benefit, investment/return, or other market-based logics when analysing options, making decisions, or trying to understand aspects of life that aren’t properly markets, such as politics, morality/ethics, self-care, religion, culture, etc.

A concrete example is when people describe or rationalize self-care as a way to prepare for the workweek. Yoga, in this example, becomes of an embodiment of neoliberalism: taking part in yoga is rationalized as an investment in self that results in greater productivity.

Another example: how it seems that most every public policy decision is evaluated in terms of its economic viability, and if it isn’t economically viable (in terms of profit/benefit exceeding cost/investment) then it is deemed a bad policy. This is a market rationality being applied to realms of life that didn’t used to be beholden to market rationalities.

Hence the “neo” in “neoliberalism” is about employing the logics of liberalism (liberal capitalism, I should say) into new spheres of life.

A good (re)source for this would be Foucault’s Birth of Biopolitics lectures, which trace the shift from Liberalism to Neoliberalism. As well, there’s excellent literature coming out of anthropology about neoliberalism at work in new spheres, in particular yoga, which is why I used it as my example here.