yeah your empathy is really showing here.
from your comment it seems like you think they deserved to die, and immediately copy pasted your wall of text when someone accused you of racism. not a good look i must say.
telltale's sam and max games are great it's shame they are overshadowed by the rest of telltale's library.
i didn't even mention he got elected by winning an snap election after murdering the president himself against the reanimated statue of Abraham Lincoln, and the head of this statue later in the franchise impregnates one of the main characters of the series and leads a coordinated strike of huge robots against an eldritch horror, designed as a distraction for the A team containing but not limited to his pregnant wife, a huge cockroach and the monster's best friend to stop the monster.
it's a brief summary of the second half of Sam & Max: Save The World.
a sociopathic mammal gets elected as the president of the united states, and through the power of friendship defeats a rainbow cult on the moon by violently murdering its leader.
personally im fine with machine learning, what I don't like is "AI", a new marketing buzzword that justifies every shitty corporate exec decision and insane company evaluations.
it really wasn't people just liked to compare both of them because both of them were "fps hero shooter" but the core gameplay and mechanics were very much different.
community servers are fine, and it's a great game. people were just holding out hope that valve would do something but they didn't.
i like how instead of adding +3:30 to the ledger they just used yellow and green together
i haven't played it that much since my ping was atrocious, but i would say no. IIRC beside membership and cosmetics that you can buy with gold, i think you can covert it into silver which you can use to progress faster and even buy gear but you won't gain an unfair advantage or get something that's exclusive to the MTX shop.
you should read what experienced players have written if you want a more detailed explanation, im just sort of vaguely familiar with the game.
Albion online seems like a good fit for you, although based on your location your ping will massively vary since they only have a few centralised servers.
they would prefer you use their pirated software rather than using their alternatives. if you aren't someone that would be paying for it anyway, this is the desirable outcome for them. stick it to them by abandoning their platforms all together.
by available i meant available. it's on a per channel/group basis and not on individual messages but essentially you can't join or view their messages even if you have their id and even if someone forwards it to you it displays a "this message is nor available on clients downloaded from google play" error message or something similar. if you joined a channel prior and it get blocked from your client you stay in but can't view its messages.
pretty much the title. i have played most of sierra, lucasarts and telltale catalogues so if you are suggesting one of their games i've probably already played it. it doesn't have to be a copycat, homage or in the same style as these companies' games either, just that it must satisfy the vague definition of being an "adventure game" and have a good story. thanks in advance, can't wait to see your recommendations!
EDIT: thanks for your recommendations i couldn't reply to everyone. i can't to play (most of) them when i got time.
i wouldn't normally be concerned since any company releasing a VR product with this price tag is obviously going to fail... but it's apple and somehow through exquisite branding and sleek design they have managed to create something that resonated with "tech reviewers" and rich folk who can afford it.
what's really concerning is that it's not marketed as a new VR headset, it's marketed by apple and these "tech reviewers" as the new iphone, something you take with you everywhere and do your daily tasks in, consume content in etc...
and it's dystopian. imagine you are watching youtube on this thing and when an ad shows up, you can't look away, even if you try to they can track your eye movement and just move the window, you can't mute it, you certainly cannot install adblock on it, you are forced to watch the ad until it satisfies apple or you just give up and take out the headset.
this is why i think all these tech giants (google meta apple etc) were/are interested in the "metaverse". it holds both your vision and your hearing hostage, you cannot do anything else when using it but to just use the thing. a 100% efficiency attention machine, completely blocking you from the outside world.
i'm not concerned about this iteration as much as people are not hyped about this iteration. just like how people are hyped about the next apple vision, i'm more worried about the next iterations with somewhat lower price tag and better software availability. i hope it flops and i know it probably won't achieve any sort of mainstream adoption even if it's deemed a success because it probably can't get less bulky and look less dorky, but the possibility is still worrying. what are your thoughts?