Lead pipes, lead paint, leaded gas. There’s a reason the boomers in power are fucking idiots.

No it’s exactly the same, you just notice it more because of the different context of a limited fantasy realm versus open stellar exploration.

Oblivion and Skyrim also have a bunch of procedurally generated content. But it is more easily ignored, because these are dungeons and caves and not numerous planets where you are walking for upwards of 15 minutes or more across open terrain to visit the same dozen locations. And having dozens of loading screens to stitch each small segment together.

Starfield as a concept doesn’t work with the engine, because the engine is incapable of adequately creating an open environment at that level. If it could, they would have given it to us instead of Skyrim in space. We got Skyrim in space because that’s the limit of the engine. Bethesda’s insistence of continuing to use it, and claiming that it’s not an issue, despite the clear deficiencies in the released product, is a slap in the face to every player. It’s the definition of “You’ll take what we give you, and like it”.

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Those dang anal-probing aliens are at it again.

The graphics aren’t the problem. The Creation Engine is not just graphics, it handles everything about how the game works. How the AI works and responds to events, how NPCs handle tasks even when not actively interacting with the player, etc. Graphics is only one part of a game, and that’s not the source of the issues.

Oblivion Remastered still uses the Gamebryo engine from Oblivion for everything with one exception, Unreal now handles the graphics. That’s why the game is nearly identical to the original in every way except graphics, it is.

My strongest memory of Medal Of Honor is the undercover missions. Flipping the ID badge out over and over again like an idiot because the animation was funny.

It’s Skyrim with a coat of lead paint.

It’s been clear for over a decade that the Creation Engine (let’s be honest it’s still Gamebryo) has run its course. It is not a viable option for a modern game anymore. It has architectural limitations that simply prevent a modern gaming experience.

There have been so many Creation Engine apologists since Oblivion trying to justify its continued existence through multiple new Fallout and Elder Scrolls games, always trying to say that it’s fine. Starfield was the chance to prove that the limitations aren’t actually architectural and that it could be used for a modern game. Clearly that’s not the case. Taking just about any other modern open world RPG to directly compare, Starfield feels like crap in comparison. Hell, even the launch version of Cyberpunk felt better than Starfield does now.

Everything is going according to plan for Krasnov.

This was one of my favorite games at the time. So unlike most other games. It definitely doesn’t hold up anywhere near modern games, but it holds a special place unlike most other games.

Reminds me I should go back and finish it. Got side tracked years ago and never made my way back to it.

Relevant sketch.

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I assumed it was the drink.

This is a settlement… Meaning that Google figures not that this amount is less than they would pay if it went to court and they lost. Since there is no way they’d be spending a billion dollars on defending this in court, they know they would definitely lose, and paying an insanely high penalty is the best outcome for them.

That’s the point. Dipshits.

Oh I’m sorry, did stoking the fires of misinformation and creating a constant state of fear in your base result in a dangerous environment? Who could have seen that coming?

I’m curious how explosive it is compared to the Ford Exploder personally, that’s a more direct comparison of vehicle type. And those were rolling over and exploding all over the place much more recently than the Pinto back in the 70s.

No they’ll just say what the government wants and do what they have to anyway. Hypocrisy is the way they operate already.

Trump only gives a shit about what people say publicly anyway. It’s the single most important thing for him.

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I’m not sure it’s that simple in this particular case…

The group, which is seeking unspecified damages, argued that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing “the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve” its earnings goals.

That specific wording makes me think these particular shareholders are actually on the right side and taking advantage of the fact UHC is a piece of shit company to both profit and make a point.

So you’re saying they care about their recognized partnership being specifically referred to as “marriage” over everything else about the actual recognition and governmental benefits that governmental recognition gives them?

I think of marriage as a secular tradition.

I think most of us do, but enough of these fuckers don’t. They think of it as a religious thing deep in their core, and they have strong opinions based around that. My point is that it doesn’t really matter what it’s called, and since that seems to be one of the big hangups with many of the religious fuckers, “marriage” specifically being religious, just call it something else. What something is called is not the hill to die on with stupid people, and there’s enough of them that they can’t be ignored, so we work with what we have. Call it something else, get that new term recognized as an equal reference to marriage for benefits, and let’s finally fucking move on. Arguing with the religious about wording is a losing battle, many of them still think the Earth is like 5,000 years old and dinosaurs are fake. We’re losing a battle with idiots because we’re insisting on a specific terminology that they have a problem with.

Same.

I just upgraded from my RTX 3080 to get away from Nvidia, and essentially had to go with the RX 9070XT because the Intel options don’t reach all the way up there.

On the flip side, my Emby media server runs a first generation Arc card, because again, wanting to avoid Nvidia at a reasonable price.

The existing products are good but don’t cover enough of the market to get the power users to switch, and they are the ones that make recommendations to everyone else.