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[Rolan7]

Dammit Kojima, Viral AR games are supposed to come *before* your new release.  And be opt-in.
Also what even is Death Stranding, please no one explain it to me

[Naturegirl1999]

Dammit Kojima, Viral AR games are supposed to come *before* your new release.  And be opt-in.
Also what even is Death Stranding, please no one explain it to me

if you don’t want it explained, why ask what it is? Do you actually want it explained or do you not?

[Egan_BW]

Also what even is Death Stranding

Well you see-

please no one explain it to me

how dare you. You can't do this to me.

[Rolan7]

I used "what even is X" like "WTF", expressing astonishment at how difficult it is to understand.  I could figure out Death Stranding, like I've enjoyed delving into the lore of his other work Metal Gear and Metal Gear Solid, but I don't actually want someone to explain it to me because it would take a lot of effort to explain.  It would, to put it lightly, derail the thread.

Fakedit:  And I know that many would be happy to do so

Real edit: I find an odd enjoyment in observing fandoms of things without peeking for myself.  Trying to understand Undertale from the outside-in, while doing my best to dodge or forget spoilers, was a treat almost on-par with the game itself.  Sunless Skies as well.

[MrRoboto75]

Death Stranding is just pretending you're an Amazon worker in these current times.  Kojima was truly ahead of his time.

[Kagus]

Real edit: I find an odd enjoyment in observing fandoms of things without peeking for myself.  Trying to understand Undertale from the outside-in, while doing my best to dodge or forget spoilers, was a treat almost on-par with the game itself.  Sunless Skies as well.

Sounds like someone needs to play Marathon. The fandom is still trying to piece everything together, almost 30 years on...

Death Stranding is just pretending you're an Amazon worker in these current times.  Kojima was truly ahead of his time.

From what I've heard from my buddy, the scary evil dead things are scary and evil until you realize you can just outrun them, and the map is a vast and challenging expanse that is vast and challenging until you can build ziplines.

[TD1]

https://www.facebook.com/trevor.greer2/videos/10222979780106543/

Ahaha. Noice.

[Starver]

(/feels left out, with no Facebook account and stupid "Sign Up Now!" pop-overs obscuring the comments that can be seen and the video not even wanting to play to see what exactly everyone's laugh-emojing at anyway...)

[Naturegirl1999]

(/feels left out, with no Facebook account and stupid "Sign Up Now!" pop-overs obscuring the comments that can be seen and the video not even wanting to play to see what exactly everyone's laugh-emojing at anyway...)

there’s a no thanks button you can press to get the pop up away.

[Grim Portent]

Death Stranding is just pretending you're an Amazon worker in these current times.  Kojima was truly ahead of his time.

From what I've heard from my buddy, the scary evil dead things are scary and evil until you realize you can just outrun them, and the map is a vast and challenging expanse that is vast and challenging until you can build ziplines.

They are annoying as hell to outrun though, they turn the ground to sludge that slows you down if there's no raised objects to climb onto. Easiest way to escape them is to pee on them, it makes them go away. Plus who doesn't want to pee on murderous ghosts? 

Ziplines and roads take most of the vastness of the map away, but you can't carry much if you use ziplines since you miss out on several ways to expand cargo space. Been a while since I played, but I usually just filled up my truck and drove along the highways I helped rebuild and saved the ziplines for places that the roads didn't reach and were a pain to drive a car to.

It was a pretty nice game to chill out with more than anything. The writing is all over the place, but the scenery is pretty, the combat is surprisingly good and quite infrequent and the soundtrack is nice.

[Starver]

there’s a no thanks button you can press to get the pop up away.

On the first one, yes (either a "no thanks" or an "^x", it varies), but then the second level of pestering basically gives "Join" or "Log In" options with no way round, and obscures the lower half of the page which logically should give something like a "More Comments" or something below the video and thus expand the page with more than " "-type ones and give me some directly quoting commentaries that would have clued me in on the situation beyond the video's main subtitle...

But I'm not seeking to solve this (easist solution would be to sell my soul to Zuckerburg, of course), just thought I'd comment on my feeling under-informed. I doubt I shall lose sleep over it. (That it's 2:30am at the moment is incidental!)

[Naturegirl1999]

there’s a no thanks button you can press to get the pop up away.

On the first one, yes (either a "no thanks" or an "^x", it varies), but then the second level of pestering basically gives "Join" or "Log In" options with no way round, and obscures the lower half of the page which logically should give something like a "More Comments" or something below the video and thus expand the page with more than " "-type ones and give me some directly quoting commentaries that would have clued me in on the situation beyond the video's main subtitle...

But I'm not seeking to solve this (easist solution would be to sell my soul to Zuckerburg, of course), just thought I'd comment on my feeling under-informed. I doubt I shall lose sleep over it. (That it's 2:30am at the moment is incidental!)

i don’t have a Facebook account anymore, but was still able to see the video. I didn’t look for comments so I didn’t know the blockage of them occured. I know from back when I had a Facebook account that most of the time, the comments will be arguments that, more likely than not, turn into insult chains.

[martinuzz]

there’s a no thanks button you can press to get the pop up away.

On the first one, yes (either a "no thanks" or an "^x", it varies), but then the second level of pestering basically gives "Join" or "Log In" options with no way round, and obscures the lower half of the page

Yeah this. I refuse to join.

[wierd]

You guys act like you are shocked by that.  I wonder where you have been for the past 5 to 10 years.  FaceBook as been like that since... FOREVER.

Ever since they got their hentai tentacles into every other website on the planet, in exchange for that sweet sweet ad-impression and unique user tracking analytics money, they have been obstinately cockblocking basically everything unless you present your digital equivalent of your ear-tag. (you walking piece of human meat, you.)

"what, you want to view something on facebook? NO! SIGN UP! WE NEED YOUR ANALYTICS DATA! NEEEEEEEED IT!" (craven drug junkie tweaking sounds and jerky motions)

Or, has the "Oh, we over-rode your privacy settings on our update ***AGAIN*** for the 20th time now, and opted you into the expanded analytics, then FUCKING HID the option to opt-out again in a new place, again, for the 20th time! (slight hyperbole, but they HAVE done this many times, and has consistently operated with that tactic. ) Also, you can't opt out near as much now, because we NEEEEEEEEEEED that analytics!" bullshit, somehow not made itself apparent to you?

Sorry for being so toxic, but Facebook needs to fucking die already.

[martinuzz]

Yeah it does.
I can still remember how outraged I was when I was forced to make a Facebook account by my studies.
"You need this for the rest of your studies"

I used it exactly once, for that class, never looked back.  Heck I can't even recall the account name anymore even if I wanted to.