Coelacanth

Finished it today. One of the hardest games to rate ever, for me. There were some undeniable highs in there but large parts of the game were just not enjoyable to play through. The final act in particular felt like pulling teeth.

I think I'm happy to be able to say I have played it, but I honestly don't know that I think it was a good use of 20ish hours. Large parts of it honestly felt like just designed to waste your time.

The stats are normalised for per 1 million inhabitants are they not?

But your second point is definitely very good. I imagine getting consistent fully comparable numbers from all the various countries isn't easy.

That makes more sense. His phrasing did not convey that to me but it is probably a me-problem.

Every single person that I've ever told about Lemmy has not only refused to join, but outright chided me for having recommended it to them. Every. Single. One.

I have a hard time believing that since it implies every single person you proposed Lemmy to was already aware of it. The reaction I personally tend to get is "...what? Huh. Never heard of it".

As far as I know Finland has the world's strictest driving licence, so I'm actually surprised to see it posting worse statistics than Sweden here.

It definitely will happen. I've already noticed I'm sometimes getting weird "your IP is blocked" warnings when using old.reddit. They go away after a refresh but it wouldn't surprise me if they're trying to get people to stop using it.

We had some nice steady growth up until some months back, probably partially driven by dissatisfaction with Reddit rallying behind Trump and further enshittification of it. But predictably the lions share of users just accepted the new normal as the inertia of leaving is just too high to overcome. For another exodus event there needs to be a bigger shock to the system, probably something like turning off old.reddit.

I hope you do, it's been great fun so far!

I wish it was on Steam or GOG. I guess I'll keep an eye on the Playstation store, I do still have my old PS4.

I'd like to imagine I'm responsible for the first!

You were indeed! You're convincing me, I'll pencil this in as a palate cleanser at some point this year!

I think the data collection controversy was addressed in patch 1.2.7?

It's been a great game so far so I hope you'll pick it up, but I totally get overspending on Steam/GOG sales and causing an already bloated backlog to further overflow.

Pretty much same here, though I do like a bit more medium roasts.