I agree in theory with these kinds of rules, but I don’t trust legislators to do it properly.

For an example, I remember back in my rs2 days, RWT (real world trading) was relatively common and things like loot dropped from certain monsters was randomized, you might have to kill it 100 times to get that one drop or pay $5 or whatever to get it now.

Where would a legistlator fall on that? Is that gambling? Does RNG and the ability to transfer goods on a game then become illegal just by way of interpretation?

At the very least they’ve continued to have their games on PC too 🤷

At the same time, unreal games seem to have much less moddability, to your point, the ecosystem around the existing engine for Beth games means its much easier to get in and do modding.

I’m not even saying it sounds like an authentic review persay but I don’t think objectively one can say for sure it’s because of a targeted harassment attack, which if we remove any “borderline” reviews, again it opens up removing any legitimate criticism against a game just for saying “oh it’s harassment!”

Not liking something doesn’t mean it should be removed.

Any negative review of a game then becomes fair game.

Honest question, do you think someone replying to a thing in a public forum “cringe thing made by a liar” is actually harassment and should be forcefully removed just because the dev doesn’t like it?

The seems too far censorship to me.

The antisemitism yeah get rid of that shit

Its not, its about Valve not proactively moderating for the devs.

Just realize Americans are not a homogeneous group, of course Google/Meta/MS/Oracle are all shitbag companies with leaders who support Trump, as far as I’m aware Gabe does not and has not contributed to rightwing government.

I understand the frustration and mistrust, I live here. But it’s important to realize that is a small minority of people no matter how much of an outsize influence their power and corruption has over all of us.

Israel is bad, but not all Israelis or Jews are, not supporting Israeli companies that are govt backed/ran by "ex"IDF makes sense, but companies that don’t shouldn’t be lumped in just because of that.

“You can’t have Americans in charge of major platforms.” Lmao what

Sadly it usually does result in a stock price increase, because less expenses

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

Basically twin stick shooters

My wife surprisingly loved Divinity Original Sin 1/2 can be played on controller splitscreen or M/kb

Is this a joke?

“I like weird interesting phones with cool features.”

“Have you thought about buying the most basic smartphone?”

That’s actually one of my favorite parts, it’s like a feed into itself incentive for my already packrat tendencies.

Now instead of just taking all their weapons/armor/clothes to sell, the random junk is also useful for when I get back home and can upgrade the town, my weapons, or my armor!

It probably is because the game already had several updates just last year, reviewer was talking out their ass.

I played for like 8 hours straight yesterday, yes my arms and fingers hurt a bit but are fine today.

I’m pretty sure the LCD deck page literally said that when I bought my OLED several months ago

Family sharing got a huge upgrade recently too where now only the game you’re actually playing is locked instead of your whole library.

It works great for me on wifie 6e, I did have issues using remote play from my PC to my deck until I disabled AX for the 2.4/5ghz networks on my router tho

What a benign comment to respond so strongly to lmao

3 was the first one I ever played (after Oblivion tho to your beth point) and it was so radically different from anything I played before that I just fell in love.

New Vegas didn’t capture that same feeling in me, I like it but it just didn’t hit me the same way.

Fallout 4 I enjoyed a ton because of the base building and refinements on scrap usage for modifications and such, with mods like Sim Settlements it can be so damn cool.

The thing with 76 I’d only guess is literally the ability to coop.

I think it’s just new Vegas stans are very vocal lmao

Ah yes hand waive away everything you don’t like as idiots who deny vaccines and the moon landing.

I am talking about normal normies, not fringe conspiracy normies.

Y’all don’t realize how much of a bubble you’re in on the anti - AI front, the vast majority of normies are catching on and use genAI

I’m sorry and appreciate your nuanced response, thank you for taking the time to explain.

For my part, I played generally low chaos just because I found it very fun to blink in, knock out a guard on their own, blink away and end up with all the guards in piles up in the rafters, on the chandelers, stuffed into corners of closets etc lmao. I haven’t replayed 1 in a couple years but I think all the main targets have non-lethal as an option and generally require some set up to achieve which gives more time for world exploring. There are also a lot of powers that work very well with non-lethal and more stealth oriented play throughs.

Like the other commentor pointed out, the guard and good amount of the general folk are not really enemies because they are “bad”, they’re simply manipulated by propaganda and think Corvo is the one who murdered the empress in cold blood. So from a bystanders prospective, the boatman in this case, he’s seeing a high chaos player murder a bunch of at least morally neutral guards and is understandably disgusted. For high chaos you’d definitely have to kill a good percentage of the guards as, from my understanding, you can still kill every target and achieve a low chaos ending. Corvo is given the choice to do what’s needed, but at a point it’s more like a slaughter and the characters are effected by it. Not to mention murdering the majority of the police and leadership of an empire is going to throw an already strained empire into… Chaos has. Not enough guards left to keep the peace. It felt less to me (in high chaos runs) like the game is chastizing me, and more like understandable consequences to my annihilation tactics lol, more rats because of all the bodies, characters becoming disillusioned and turning away, the guards absolutely know I’m a monster now, etc…

You indicated you felt the tools you were given pushed you more towards a lethal playstyle, however what about the non lethal tools you were given? There’s a stun mine, sleep bolts, ability to choke guards unconcious, several powers as I mentioned… Plus you get to choose what you upgrade, most runs I didn’t upgrade the lethal options much at all. 🤷

Idk, I went in expecting a stealth game and it overdelivered and had the bonus of also being open to a less stealth oriented call of duty or dark souls style kill all in your way option with a bunch of completely different powers I didn’t use on my stealth run.

Reading your experience it feels like you might have gone in with a different mindset or maybe misundertstood something about how you can play the game and that it clouded your experience with a game I so thoroughly enjoyed, It’s one of those I go back and play every few years.

It’s silly that I pushed so much on it because of course in the grand scheme it doesn’t matter lol its just a videogame, but eh.

Edit: My wife pointed out to me there’s some additional moral points around how the Outsider basically tempts you with power just to see if you’ll succumb to the “easy route” with the lethal powers. It is kind of the point that it’s harder to do/be morally good in ethically complex situations.

Lol fair enough, idk like you called the boatman traitorous, view it from his angle, you would have to have gone around murdering a LOT of people for him to turn his back on you. The whole plot is about the govt being suoplanted and you’re supposed to be part of the “good guys” yet it doesn’t feel that you’re (a player with high chaos) is being a “good guy” I can totally get why he’d be like… Dude in done with helping you, this isn’t right what you’re doing

Because your qualm of “they gave me the tools but don’t want me to use them” is plain wrong.

It’s like playing FO3 or NV and getting upset that killing random people in a city results in everyone getting angry with you and losing karma. “They let me kill them so why should there be any consequences?”

What you’re not understanding is its not “don’t use these tools” its, “if you’re a murder hobo you’re going to get a darker ending narratively” there’s not a real consequence otherwise, you can play however you want still.

I used these guides to get set up https://www.simplehomelab.com/

That’s how I use it, cloudflare handles my DNS and traefik does all the routing, I’d have to look again (been a year since I set it up) but it dynamically updates with my IP

Check out traefik, not sure how easy or the process to switch but configuring it is relatively easy

It seems more it comes in waves, and not all at once but over time. Through my life things like the internet and smartphones becoming ubiquitous and becoming staples of life, likely AI is another one of those.

I mean… Tariffs…?

You’re really not getting this lol

The cpu is below min specs but not by a crazy amount performance-wise, maybe “demo” it before you buy, not many people using that cpu these days.

I used to have one though too :) broke several pins on it and I decided to upgrade to Ryzen lol

My wife loves the Sims and Rimworld, but mostly the simulation and building aspects, you can tone the difficulty down, every run doesn’t have to be extreme randy lol

My wife played a little and one of the coolest features was the ability to “design” a pattern on clothes by just typing what you want in and having it generate it.

Its fun with friends, very silly and potentially infuriating at times but that’s part of the fun lol

I feel like having a toggle for overworld/underground similar to in the base game would have been very very nice.