Kinda my own arse?

Correct.

this feels like something so obvious I’d think studies likely show this

Surprisingly unscientific attitude from a scifi author.

Sources?

Oh wow I remember doing this too, now that you’ve mentioned it.

Implementation seems fine to me, I’m not sure what people think is dubious?

It’s obviously a different take on the “survival” data horde. Its obviously not intended as a wasteland survival kit, it seems intended for a scenario where the power is still on but universal internet access isn’t a given.

As long as you understand the limitations, AI is just a vastly more efficient way to find information in large knowledge bases. For a topic that you know nothing about a chatbot gives you the ability to work through the information in a conversational manner, honing in on the specific bits you’re trying to understand and filling in the “things that I don’t know I don’t know” holes, and then you can go to the source material and verify the details.

I rate it “Goes hard”.

I find it funny that they’re pretending that they won’t end up strapping explosives to these things.

lol wut

Ah I had this one when I was a teenager.

Looks like this is the one where they jump the shark.

You’re incoherent.

Don’t feed the trolls.

Maybe there’s even a bit of us vs. them, because market saturation has made the fight for an active playerbase so cutthroat, people don’t want to see a competing title risk siphoning players away from their preferred game.

This is a really good point, I’ve definitely felt this way over the years.

You’re not wrong about the state of live service games, but this definitely isn’t why they are getting review bombed. That’s happening because the gamer mob are a pack of fickle mush-heads that will randomly get outraged by total non-issues with no regard for the facts.

I mean, the mechanics of Highguard are unique, as far as I’m aware. They’re a mashup of a lot of other games but done in an interesting and new way.

Like, I have no idea whether it’s good or not, but they are trying to do something different.

Clever.

That’s totally fine, but don’t comment on the content of it in that case.

You literally engaged by commenting.

lot of people voting and commenting that didn’t read the article.