• but any actual social/cultural changes of actual significance are unfathomable or even scary

    This is definitely a giant problem in Starfield, but I don’t think it’s why the clubs are so lame. Cause the problem isn’t just that it isn’t a cool club for a magic space future, it isn’t even a cool club for now. If I walked into that club tonight I would be like “this place is lame and dead.”

    For one, it’s the most incredibly sex-less club I’ve ever seen in my life. If you’re gonna have dancers on a stage in your space bar can you try to make it at least slightly sexy?

    Mass Effect 1 had a better nightclub and it’s not even very good and that game came out like 15 years ago.