Well, if there's one thing we can agree on is that when the whole Covid shit happened rural folks had it better, right? Cityfuckers like me got caged up like rats

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Perhaps development costs are ballooning due to increased graphical fidelity: whereas before thanks to 3D assets being simpler they were faster to make and therefore cheaper, now they're too complex for the developers' good so they'll be stuck for days modeling and texturing a single fucking flower pot, multiply that for all the other assets of a game and these guys are getting bogged down on minute bullshit like that. Who could forget Aloy's face hair, an artist was tasked with the ignoble job of implementing such a feature and I'm willing to bet that alone took days to finish. Such a waste of resources all in all