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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You mean the war that is not a war, and the attack that Putin said he wasn't going to perform until he did, leaving even Putindrones running confused for an excuse because Putin's cancer was acting up making him panic and rush so even they didn't know? How's Prighozin, by the way?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Wanting to join a state power that is infamously non-democratic, faking and manipulating elections and foreign affairs, is inherently a dead give-away that you are a pawn, just like arguing for it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Michael Jackson is a good example of how being rich and successful can lead to behavior that just feeds into mental sickness. He probably thought being rich and successful justified his aberrant behavior and that he shouldn't put himself on the level of those below him, until he eventually ended choosing drug abuse over therapy. His whole obsession with children can be traced back to his insecurities that he had been deprived of a childhood, probably in no small part due to growing up as as part of the Jackson musical group family. He must have thought he could relive with his childhood through someone else's by using his wealth and power to create Neverland Ranch.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

If anything is bad about it, it's that it's the most Bethedaist game to date. They are going full steam ahead with the Creation Store, and after trying to charge slightly less than 10€ for the second quest to the Tracking Alliance, they are now charging more than 10€ for a standalone quest .

I love the genre, but I've just had to stop playing it today because of the extreme whaling monetization. I refuse to be part of a franchise where the whales are going to set its course. They've tried to do this with Fallout 4 and Skyrim, but never this early on, and paying so much for a single quest sets a terrible precedent that's far worse than simple cosmetic horse armor. I can ignore everything else in the Creation Store, but not getting left out of the story and lore of the game because I'm not a whale


They've reduced the price by half, but it still seems too high for me, even if it is 5€ - for six of these you could get a full game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That only points out that Iraq was chosen as a target of opportunity chosen by a war criminal. Funny how the logic of "well it was provoked" just seems to create a feedback loop of hate that principally benefits the most powerful war criminals of both sides of the conflict (see Israel-Iran).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Could be, people want the choice of a platform instead of cheap devices with overpriced games that cost more in the long-term.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I better be able to set the airplane in autopilot and then go out and watch an inflight movie. Unfortunately, walking around inside the plane doesn't seem possible.

Then again, if I couldn't walk around the plane while it's flying upside down or while part of its hull has been ripped off the plane, I would be disappointed. Preferably with NPC coworkers and attendants screaming at you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Too many capitalist milkshakes, and Turkey has the added incentive of wanting to keep its culture closed off from the rest of the "West".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Just poor enough not to be affected, had to stick to the 12th generation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's in a state similar to Linux gaming, it depends on the game. It's potential is making Intel and AMD sweat, though. AMD is already designing ARM CPUs, but so is NVIDIA. It could be very good ... or very bad if they attempt to embrace, extend, and exploit with their own chips.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I imagine there are a few mod remakes of them already in the works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The Creation Store is definitely way too predatory. The Tracking Alliance faction definitely seems tailored for future "elite bounties", and so far does not seem to have any singular faction questline with a conclusion. The quality is better than I expected and I suspect they will continue expanding it through the free patches as they also release new bounties Creations to go with it. If you don't purchase them, you are left with the empty space on the board reminding you of it, and paying for plushies? Decorations? Greed upon greed, but no different from what they did with Skyrim.

If Bethesda had any brains they would force developers to only post those as free and only as hooks and essentially free promotion for the content rich expansions they could be involved with, but instead they've been trying to push for MMOesque purchases for their singleplayer games for a while now, additions which I wouldn't even want because of how grossly they intrude upon the game universe. Sudden overpowered suit or base for no reason ahoy! The Anniversary Edition spoiled the Skyrim experience so much ...

Starfield was on its lasts legs and needed something that would revive it, not greed, but then again this sort of shit is why Bethsoft isn't one of the studios Microsoft has shut down. Makes you wonder just how much whales spend on this practice. Judging by the Sims and looking through posts regarding Skyrim, quite a lot, so move over traditional market and let the whales pass. Shame there's so little competition, I love this particular niche of a genre.

I am not going to look forward to TES6, although I doubt the MMO will curtail its development much. After all, they are already turning singleplayer into MMOs without the service cost.

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