when my friends ask me about Elite Dangerous I start my recommendation with: "It is not a game for the average gamer". Then I proceed to explain in detail its virtues and flaws.
GQ Magazine "gets" Elite: Dangerous!
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when my friends ask me about Elite Dangerous I start my recommendation with: "It is not a game for the average gamer". Then I proceed to explain in detail its virtues and flaws.
Yeah that is pretty much how I go about it. I also give them a warning that the game isn't for dumb people as they come to the forums and complain about things that are their fault like shooting cops and having to deal with the results.
verminstar
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So its an american mag...thats why Ive never heard of it and will almost certainly not put on my personal bucket list of things to do. If its like american tv, itll be one page of articles and two pages of advertising survival gear and infowars.com.
However, one is a huge fan normally of "gentlemens magazines"...although Im fairly sure the content wont look anything like this one. Im afraid that "gentlemens magazines" probably doesnt mean the same thing to many here as what it does to americans.
That being said, yeah cool story, always nice to see decent reviews even in publications that have a niche audience, and by that I mean that the mag in question is not one Ive ever seen on any shelf in the local easons...and if they dont have it then ye have to order it in directly which means that by the time ye see the articles, they about 2 weeks outta date ^
Yeah in America gentleman means out of touch comically incorrect snobs. I think that personally it might suit you.
verminstar
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And obviously Im supposed to care what you think...cool story ^
When I read the thread title, I thought:
"Does anybody still get GQ Magazine ?"
"Does anybody still get GQ Magazine ?"
How gentlemanly of you!
verminstar
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I could have just lied and said I do actually care...can assure ye Im no gentleman in any language, but I wont lie to yer face either ^
Thats why my career in politics ended so abruptly...Im too honest ^
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Aha! So you are Lord Buckethead and I claim my £5! (Can it be one with the micro-engraving please?)
I did it this very afternoon in Lave: selected the wrong fire group and accidentally "scanned" an aggressive ship with a thermal conduit beam laser instead of a KWS. It earned me a nine minute sojourn to Diso. Annoying, but entirely my fault.
Funny, that's pretty much the same with me. Though I sometimes wear an Elite t-shirt when going to parties, my hope is to find some people who *know* what it means but I shudder from the idea that people would probably ask about it. In which case I usually answer "these funny dots are 8-bit stars" with an emphasised sheepish countenance that usually ends the conversation.
At least we are reinsured to be some crazy geeks at most but not being converted into some religion-like zealots - yet.
Is it like while you may be happy with your wife or girlfriend would you recommend them to a friend?
Although that is true, you are seeing it from the warm embrace of mother Earth. Do you get the vastness, the majesty, the sense of humility? Yes. Do you get the desolation, the loneliness, the sense of utter farness? Not quite. Because although your mind may be wandering amongst the stars, your feet are firmly rooted in the warm earth.
When you look up, you see the galaxy from here. In Elite: Dangerous, you see the galaxy from out there.
It is not a replacement; it's a complementary perspective.
Yeah, having a tough time myself recalling when I last went outside, went straight up out of the gravity well at hundreds of meters per second till I could bend the laws of physics to go to a bunch of the dots in the sky in a few minutes' time. If this is occurring and I am simply not remembering it I am going to be very angry. Until then, Elite.
Firstly, GQ publishes editions in many countries, most definitely including the UK and Ireland and is available everywhere magazines are sold. It's not niche by any stretch of the imagination. Secondly, that's a weird characterisation of US television. HBO, which broadcasts many of the biggest shows such as Westworld and Game of Thrones, doesn't even have ad breaks. In any case, you wouldn't see American ads unless you were watching the shows in America. Infowars doesn't adverstise on TV either. I mean, what on earth are you on about?
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I dont live in a built up area, its pretty rural (Shropshire). Beautiful night skies here
Very little light pollutionIt mentioned the grind in one sentence I think, pretty slim pickings since the grind represents a MAJOR part of ED's game structure
Someone already tried to turn this thread into another definition war back in post #50 and nobody bit. Best of luck though.