It’s also bullshit as it has no bearing on the actual properties of the chips. Manufacturers use these as product names. Here’s an article discussing it.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/tsmc-7nm-5nm-and-3nm-are-just-numbers

I fell off the Bethesda train around Oblivion. They peaked with Morrowind and it has been downhill since.

I’ve come to prefer waiting. When a new game comes out, what I tend to see from the scene is the initial release, then a few updates/patches, a lull where updates/patches are missed (unless it’s pretty popular), and eventually a rerelease with the now final updated version.

Waiting for the last means no figuring out why cracks don’t work, wrestling with weird performance issues, etc.

We’ll help you pirate it, just ask.

I remember being a kid playing Morrowind and really wishing my friends could play with me.

Now I’m an adult and I don’t want to play with the kids. They have way more time to play and take my ass to the cleaners. After the umpteenth time getting tea bagged while some 13 year old goes on about fucking my mother, his voice breaking repeatedly throughout, I swore off multiplayer.