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Hard Mode V.2

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            Years ago I watched an anime called Bakuman . It’s basically an anime that follows two characters who work on a manga together. At one point they get writers block and are having a hard time deciding where to go with their story. They get the idea that they should read their fan mail and maybe get an idea or suggestion from the letters. The two come up with a story they thought would work and showed it to their editor. The editor takes one look and says something like “what is this!?” The two tell him that they used some fan suggestions and he comes back with something along the lines of “never use what fans say. No one ever knows what they want.” I always think about that when I write my own suggestions in my blogs or when developers say thinks like “ we took thecommunity’s feedback. ” or “we listened and we learned.” That always results in an eye roll from me. Must be why Ubisoft thought we liked paying money for basic cosmetics (You eye rolled right then! Admit it! Eithe

Cyberpunk 2077

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              Hello. I’m done my first play through with Cyberpunk 2077 and @NEETproxy is on his second character so I think I have enough information to start this. The world of Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t quite what I was hoping for. I’ve been watching a lot of cyberpunk/dystopian movies lately to refresh my memory of what I think of when I think cyberpunk. I agree with William Gibson’s 2018 tweet of "The trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 strikes me as GTA skinned-over with a generic 80s retro-future." Not that there’s exactly anything wrong with it, it is a fine game as is and I do like types of games but it is not what I expected. The game definitely feels more like Elysium then anything else.             So the game follows the typical, stealth/action with crafting to try and please as many people as possible. Like, I get why companies do it but it always just seems to turn out shitty in one way or another. Trying to go through the game stealthy and get to boss fights that you’re n