so many countries
so many women to have sex with
so little money
so little height

>be me
>31, married, a dad
>4yo daughter, cute as hell
>small 2br house in the suburbs
>life looks comfy from the outside
>inside? collapsing harder than WTC 7 and no one asking questions
>outsourced IT wage slave
>permanent contract? in this economy? lol
>house eats 30% of income, interests hit harder than AA Flight 11
>inflation pounding harder than my wife does these days
>wage been flatlining like it dies from covid
>daughter starts kindergarten
>can't afford anything beyond bare necessities
>living paycheck to paycheck like it's a survival game
>old pre-covid gaming laptop limping like a zombie, can't game
>can only run chrome, office, and zoom now, can’t justify replacing
>try to feel joy, boot up old xbox 360
>controller disconnects every 5 min
>ragequit
>4yo iPhone gets yeeted by accident
>new one costs a kidney
>switch to $300 Android out of spite
>feel poor in both ecosystems now
>16yo hand-me-down Civic flashes check engine light
>car still runs, so ignore it like my emotions
>wife always tired
>toddler stress + doomscrolling + mobile game addiction
>gave up finding new job after experiencing multiple layoffs
>sex becomes a bi-monthly event
>when it happens, it’s more stress relief than La pasión
>coworkers invite me out
>“can’t bro, got stuff at home” (translation: broke & tired)
>sometimes go to dinner just so family thinks we’re still okay
>we're hollow just shells now, barely feeling alive
>miss 2010s
>miss dopamine
>miss having dreams
>this isn’t life, it’s a slow descent

being grateful keeps getting harder and harder

>>714726469
TLDR:
>dogshit tier publisher who doesn't care that games need time to develop and only see profits as main drive
>devs lack desire to take risks and instead take dumbest decisions ever
>dick sucking of Most Wanted with Underground 2 because they were bestsellers back in the day (big factor here because it's bad idea overall, that ship has sailed long time ago and devs should have moved on to something else)
>forced multiplayer instead of focusing on singleplayer
>bad physics model that took 5 games to fix
>progressively worse and worse soundtracks (NFS used to have top tier soundtracks in most games)

>>714733759
Carbon is halfbaked game that is also a stepping stone for all things that are wrong with games industry, and once you play it long enough, you notice the cracks very quickly. All complaints are reasonable, and I'm saying this as somebody who considered it as one of personal top 5 games in past. Nowadays I wouldn't touch it with 10 foot pole with how bad it is.