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tfw you read the first sentence but don’t make it to the second ;(

if whoever suggested the anchovy pizza knew that most people there didn’t like anchovies, and therefore wouldn’t have a preference, allowing shit-sandwich to win, then yeah?

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if you honestly believe that’s the future of the us, you should probably leave the country

you should probably have been planning to leave the country for the last three months, since the election never went more than 60% in harris’ favor

being angry at voters who didn’t vote the way you wanted them to isn’t going to actually achieve anything, though

harris didn’t even win the popular vote. it wasn’t even a particularly close election. you can’t not blame the dnc after a defeat like this.

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can’t answer for wow but i imagine the change is similar for runescape, where

• people engage with the game more efficiently than before, which slurps the fun out
• people have jobs now, so they don’t have as much free time to play games

you’ve been scammed because that’s only 6

the tld is .uk in that case

just take the L good lord

• absolute population growing
• share of population with feasible access to pokemon-compatible consoles growing
• share of population who see video games as a legitimate pastime growing

i don’t get it

it was her fault for spilling the e. coli in her lap

literally is objectively correct in this context

Hackers acting as if they’re doing a public service by bringing down a free publicly accessible tool is a new level of assbackwardness.

are the zendesk hackers the same as the ones who brought down the website initially?

giving somebody a gift card for a product or service you think they specifically will enjoy is objectively more personal than giving them cash, yes

e.g., starfield would’ve been a very different game had you been able to fly space -> surface, and had there been vehicles to do actual exploring with

it would’ve completely changed the way the game plays, and opened up new possibilities for design. it also would’ve removed many of the oft-criticized loading screens and made the whole experience flow better.

but they can’t do any of that, because the engine isn’t good enough to support it.

sometimes you can’t make a choice because the engine says no

Bethesda can’t improve because they keep catering for the lowest common denominator

even in your ideal world where they perfect the world, quests and characters, tes 6 is still going to suck if core gameplay plays the same as skyrim, which played the same as oblivion

they can’t improve that core gameplay without a better engine

new vegas and london are popular in the same way 1 and 2 are popular, which is “not mainstream enough to sustain a studio like bethesda”.

which is historically how they made up the difference between the lackluster gameplay

you and i must have been playing different bethesda games, because none of them have been particularly interesting story-wise

the average player doesn’t care about crunchy rpg systems. they do care if the core gameplay would’ve been outdated in 2010.

bethesda doesn’t seem to be able to improve the core gameplay because the engine can’t cope.

even if you fixed the writing and tossed out the awful procedural generation in favor of hand-crafted environments, at it heart it’s still going to play like a stripped down borderlands 1

the writing, yes

but if their engine is “perfectly tuned” then that means their engine is informing their design

they can’t make good design choices because they have to work within the limitations of an over-fitted engine

They’ve probably also put considerable work into the next project already

fallout 4 was 9 years ago, and people wanted them to switch to a new engine then

you’re right, of course, but good lord have they had ample time to course correct since then