Starfield kinda killed positive views of Bethesda. Fallout 76 shortly before that essentially eliminating most of the good will they had.

Beyond the technical failures inherent to those titles, even more so than the average Bethesda title, the writing, the story, the atmospheric story telling were all just… bad. Not a single glimmer of what made Skyrim or their previous titles great could really be found. Fallout 76 felt like the most obvious and pathetic cash grab in game release history, being practically unplayable for the first six months of its life… which for an online game is ridiculous; and Starfield legitimately felt like what a dev team that were fans of Skyrim might produce. It felt like a third-party rip off of Bethesda’s style.

Don’t get me wrong both games have their fans, and honestly the hate is overrated as both games are competent, they’re just not good. They’re just not Bethesda games.

Add onto that the fact it’s been 15 years since a significant elder scrolls title was released; because let’s face it no one remembers Blades, ESO is its own thing entirely, and I had to actually google ‘elder scrolls card game’ to remember wtf Legends was called; and you have a recipe for absolute disappointment. Most of the people that worked on Oblivion and Skyrim are gone from the company. The new batch have not made a popular game in that time besides Fallout 4, which is still viewed by half the fallout fan base as the worst fallout game despite Fallout Tactics existing.

The negative outlook is because we aren’t likely to get more of what we like. Especially given Todd Howard’s obsession with using AI. This is much more likely to be a corpse wearing the skin of a beloved franchise than anything worth playing, all for the low-low price of $80+ USD, if not $100+ USD.

You can add any gog game to steam and run it through whatever proton compatibility layer you would like. The Heroic launcher and Lutris both also allow this.

Artificially suppressed gas prices despite soaring oil costs, extreme US-caused turmoil in Iran, and now making daylight savings time permanent?

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The guy that essentially added lasers to Japanese movies and somehow became a multi-billionaire is a fan of stealing other’s work with minimal effort and reusing it without permission?

I’m shocked. Shocked I say.

This is why people hate you, you know.

Free trials are explicitly designed to be just long enough that the average user forgets they’ve signed up for it and it can auto charge after the trial ends. There’s a ridiculous amount of dark pattern psychology research on this exact topic, paid for by companies like Amazon and Netflix.

I mean people not wanting someone with a penis changing in the Chang room with the girls in is going to be a hard sell for a lot of people.

Anyone that thinks this is a problem is a pervert. Genuinely porn brained pervert. I get that Americans have been morally repressed for their entire existence, I mean their founding members were puritans who thought genocide was just fine but a woman showing their ankles needs to be put to death, but anyone who thinks the human body is inherently sexual or there is anything possibly sexual about changing in a locker room with mixed sexes versus single sexes is ridiculously perverted and repressed about their perversion.

I don’t think they’re okay, there’s a difference between that and picking a fight with an instance owner that believes that should be so. If .world starts hosting zionism comms instead of just moderating anti-zionist sentiment, I’ll just choose to block it like hilarious chaos and other such pointless right-wing instances.

It’s more than whataboutism, it’s a completely different argument there. No, I don’t particularly care about a transinclusionary ‘safe space’ hosted on an instance that doesn’t understand intersectional inclusivity includes class. I do care about people outside instances like that advocating for segregation, especially trans exclusionary segregation like you explicitly advocated for.

Weird how one might swap out one equal variable for another to see if the equation makes more or less sense to a person that has not followed logic into their current position.

$Immutable_Characteristic deserves an exclusionary safe space and $Immutable_Characteristic_Variant shouldn’t have a say.

If you can fill in those variables with some equal thing and it turns into a bigoted statement, congrats, the original statement was bigoted as well. “Whites deserve an exclusionary safe space and Blacks shouldn’t have a say.” is equal to “Little people deserve an exclusionary safe space and average height people shouldn’t have a say.” is equal to “Straights deserve an exclusionary safe space and gays shouldn’t have a say.” is equal to “Women deserve an exclusionary safe space and men shouldn’t have a say.” is equal to… You get the point.

All are equally bigoted statements.

And you’re the one that brought up men. No part of this article or discussion was about men specifically. This is why gender education and eventual abolition is important, so bigots like you can understand what the word means.

In 1,000 BCE when we were sending women who were on their periods into the woods so that they wouldn’t dirty the rest of the tribe I guess. It’s 2026. Gender is a social construct. “gendered spaces” has never been a majority opinion thing in history, and every society has had periods of unisex equality and periods of extreme segregation.

Let’s not bring back the extreme segregation when we’re actually pretty close to abolition of such incredible bigotry and stupidity.

No, opposition to segregation isn’t a minority opinion. There are no 'Whites only" safe spaces that are socially acceptable anymore, and you’re disgusting for wanting the equivalent of that.

Well conservatives do love their thinly disguised fetish content.

That’s great and all but the current linux phone offerings are… not suitable for general public use. The iPad generation will simply not be able to use them in their current state.

A) This is Klei’s EULA. You get the same thing if you download their games through the Humble Store.

B) Steam quite famously does not remove games from those that have bought them. They will remove games from the store when they violate rules or at the publisher’s request, but paid content has never been removed from steam accounts. e.g. :

Every attempt to escape the regins of capital in US history has been met with the type of systemic violence that would make Germany blush. Most Americans, like most people, don’t want to die. The US military has been used to kill US civilians at least once every 10 years for the entirety of the US’ existence.

And we know how fascists vote, and its not along party lines. The ‘Military History buff’ who ‘didn’t know he had a nazi tattoo,’ the ‘innocent reformed soldier’ who fucking served in Abu Grahib during all the torture, then couldn’t get enough of killing civilians so he joined Blackwater, probably isn’t going to vote dem regardless of what happens.

Someone having a D next to their name does not magically make them vote the way you want them to, they have no legal or constitutional requirement to do so. Recalls take 2/3rds of a state legislature to vote on it. That’s never going to happen even the bluest of states.

Why do you think someone with a blue tie has to vote blue all the time? Do you think it’s a magic tie?