On the one hand: Good. Google is a monopoly and they suck, too.

On the other, I don’t trust the trump administration to do anything correctly. They’ll probably try to give google to Musk or something.

That is cool, yeah. I had all my neat-but-heavy equipment on display in the fighter’s guild in Morrowind, and they never disappeared.

Though I think Larian’s games can also do that. Speaking somewhat naively because I’ve never worked on video games, it doesn’t sound that hard to persist the state of items in a region if you’re already loading a bunch of stuff.

It also highlights a bit of bethesda jank- an NPC will have a totally sincere, heartfelt, conversation with you while surrounded by 300 wheels of cheese, and not remark upon the cheese at all. To be fair, I don’t think anyone else has NPCs that react to the environment believably, either.

It’s frustrating that rich scumbags just get to live a rich life. Where’s the justice in that? Saint Luigi deliver us from assholes like Huffman.

I was thinking the other day that none of Bethesda’s games are actually entirely good. They can be fun, but they’re also all kind of bad. Fun and good are two different measurements.

Like, they all have a bad system of tracking health and damage. In like all of them, from Morrowind to fallout4, you get the situation where you hit a naked bandit square in the face with a sledgehammer and he doesn’t really react. He’s level 30 and you’re level 10, so it doesn’t count.

They all do stealth kind of badly. Kill a dude, his buddy yells and then a minute later goes back to idly standing there over the corpse. It’s been more than 20 years and there’s been like no innovation from Bethesda on this.

The engine they’ve been using is bad. It feels like 2002. Can’t climb over waist high barriers. Projectiles get stuck on invisible walls because the textures and hit boxes don’t align. Can’t dodge or lean or even really duck. Lots of loading transitions, still. Also fuck off with these hacking and lockpicking mini games. Either make it a player skill check or a character skill check. Both is the worst.

I want a different company to make a fallout game. Larian I’m sure would knock it out of the park. Rockstar would probably make something more “cinematic” than my taste but undeniably good. Even Ubisoft would probably make a solid wasteland to explore. (Yes yes, everyone likes to make fun of Ubisoft and the map full of markers. But be honest: that’s what a lot of fallout3 and 4 are. Going to map markers to collect duct tape. Except when you actually get there in a Bethesda game, the movement and combat sucks)

I don’t think you can use Eldritch blast for sex stuff, not even with the push/pull effects, because the damage would kill people too easily

I feel like wizards are much better with their hands, what with all those somatic components. Sure, a barbarian can thrust hard and pick you up, but a wizard can do some unreal things with his hands and tongue.

Also mage hand definitely get used for weird sex stuff.

I’m pretty sure Trump could eat maga’s babies in front of them and they’d still vote for him.

Like that anti-vaxxer lady whose kid died of measles and is still anti-vax.

No material effects will change them. Their identity and fragile ego is wrapped up in this.

For a second I thought “beats” was literal and I was excited. The real headline is good, too.

We can’t fix it but we could probably fix Miller so he can’t hurt anyone ever again.

He really is a profoundly stupid man. Everyone who supports him should be ashamed of themselves.

Aside from that, there are a distressing amount of people who think violence is never okay. And by violence I mean direct, immediate, violence. Denying someone health care for profit is cool. Telling someone to work an extra unpaid hour or they’ll be fired, and risk eviction and starvation, that’s fine. But the idea of taking an ultra wealthy man’s blood soaked money by force? Fetch the pearls and smelling salts, it’s pearl clutching and fainting time.

Yes, yes, non-violent protest is allegedly more effective*, but I’m not going to be mad if some rich asshole gets his skull cracked.

* but like is it though? we still have a capitalist hellscape

There’s that picture with the “no one wants to work anymore” quotes going back to like 1820?

From the top of my head

• crawl stone soup. Classic traditional rogue like. Less fiddly than net hack, but very good.
• untitled story (an older game by the main person behind Celeste. Looks like Ms paint but is utterly charming)
• everything supergiant did. Hades, bastion, pyre
• binding of Isaac is a classic.

I want to like Into the Breach but it’s too stressful. Like, when I fuck up in FTL and the crew dies it sucks, but when I fuck up in Into the Breach and all those civilians die? Oof. They were counting on me!

True. Saying you got fired sounds like you fucked up. Maybe “dismissed” is more neutral without being totally PR Speak?

Anyone else dislike the phrase “let go” in this context? It sounds like you’re doing them a favor, or they were being held hostage, or giving them permission to do something. I’d prefer “fired” or “terminated”, even though those have their own connotation problems.

Meme’s relatable, though. This capitalist hellscape is awful.

That’s one of the recurring ironies. Most of the stuff anti-car-culture people are pushing for (eg: more trains, this photo, etc) make it better for the people who do drive

I still want to see some sort of honey pot for ICE and the other goons. Like leak there’s going to be a big “illegals” celebration in a meeting hall, wait for them to show up, then lock the doors. Fill room with carbon monoxide. Let them pass out and die while looking for their victims.

I’m still irritated about when I was a youth I found a somewhat obvious security hole, and took advantage of it in a mildly funny way, the staff just punished me.

You weren’t supposed to be able to change the desktop background, but for some reason MS Paint had a “set to background” option that worked. So I set the background to a screenshot of the desktop, and then hid all the icons and start menu. Later, the teacher thought the computer was broken because “nothing was working”.

I think it could’ve been a good teaching moment. A talk about not messing shared resources up, and channel my interests somewhere productive. Nope. Just a lecture and week long library ban. Disappointed.

I’m not sure if it’s possible to build a healthy social network.

Smaller communities can work, if they’re well moderated. The small size also helps norms become established.

Once the network gets really big, you have eternal September problems. You have too many bad actors in absolute numbers to deal with.

So yeah, the problem is us but we suck.

Maybe federation would work, since that can keep the moderation workload smaller and distributed.