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Is this saying the most money is in vr? That’s the only part of this that is surprising to me.

Edit: Wait no, I think it’s just a confusing graph. It’s definitely all in mobile


What debacle? The biggest mods out there worked right out of the gate with the next gen update (Sim Settlements 2, for example). Most mods on Nexus have not been updated in years and still work fine

The script extender was updated within hours of the last update, and anyone depending on the script extender was aware that updates would mean they would have to update their se plugins.

All this says for me is that fallout London is likely a mess. And after the way the Frontier turned out, I was not going to get my hopes up until I saw the finished product


  • 7 felt like it was mine

I remember that marketing campaign. Windows Vista had a shaky launch, because the hardware manufacturers hadn’t polished the Vista-compatible drivers yet. 6 months later, they had caught up, but people still had a bad taste from it.

So when service pack 1 came out, Microsoft made a reskinned version of it and started an ad campaign with “customers” claiming “Windows 7 was my idea!” and the public ate it up.


Right, that’s really more of a Steam issue than a Bethesda issue. I get why Valve and Bethesda don’t want to provide customer support for old versions, but they don’t have to. People have been figuring out their own problems when using obsolete systems or software for a long time.

I have no issue with Steam pushing the updates and encouraging you to take them, but giving no way to decline is a pretty poor user experience. Especially when we already know they keep old versions on their servers, as people have made guides on how to downgrade with Steam


The mods that weren’t backwards compatible were primarily the ones that depended on the script extender. This was an unsupported executable that expanded on the commands available to the scripts in the mods.

Not to say unsupported is bad, but everyone was well aware that if they depended on the script extender, they would break if the game updated at all. The biggest mods avoided that dependency for exactly this reason, and really didn’t have any trouble. (Sim Settlements still worked the entire time, for example)

And like usual, the community stepped up and updated their unsupported extension quickly, ready for this outcome.

If you made a mod that depends on the script extender and then quit playing the game or supporting your mod, that was a choice you made as a modder. Meanwhile there’s mods that haven’t seen an update in 8 years that continue to work without issue.


The mods that updated for the first update were already updated within 24 hours of the next one.

The only mods that are still broken now are mods that were made and maintained by people who have stopped playing the game some time ago.

And even most of those still work, if they didn’t rely on the script extender


Eh? I thought we had the date of this update a couple of weeks in advance. I don’t think any more notice would have helped get the mods updated faster when many of the modders just don’t play anymore


It’s a fantastic show. My biggest complaint is a problem we’ve been seeing with a lot of shows lately: not enough episodes in a season. Almost feels like it’s just a half season really.

But when the biggest complaint is that I wanted more, that’s a good sign.


Yeah anyone wanting to get into the series should begin with asylum. It’s got a more horror vibe which I think holds up incredibly well still.

But the other games are mechanically better, so it’s hard to go backwards and enjoy it quite as much


This is a very good time to pick up one or more Fallout game. The release of the show brings sales on the games on multiple platforms


From my limited perspective, it seems like the community wants mod support, but they were mad about some combination of these things:

  • Updates and hot fixes don’t come quickly enough
  • Updates sometimes break a large number of existing mods
  • Not enough new features or explicit support for certain mod features being promised
  • Things they promised not working as well as people hoped

This isn’t everything, but it’s what I observed for myself. As you can see, there’s some contradiction here, and some of that comes from different people in the community, and some of it comes from people who just want to be mad at everything

For whatever it’s worth, most people seem to be just enjoying the game and are excited for anything new coming for it.


They already had the Joker as the twist reveal in two games, one of which he was already dead for.

At this point I don’t think they know how to make a game without putting the Joker in it, and I’m not even surprised anymore. If they can retcon Deadshot, they can do whatever the hell they want I guess


For me it’s because I don’t use YouTube for that. I don’t watch channels or personalities. If I go to YouTube, I’m there searching for something specific.

And when I find the video that shows me how to open my key fob to replace the battery, I’m not interested in a series of key fob videos. If I watch a video related to a news story, I’m not interested in all the reaction videos or analyses by people who don’t know what they’re talking about. I’m most certainly not interested in any other video with a thumbnail of someone with their mouth agape at something

I don’t want it suggesting more of them, and I certainly don’t want it automatically advancing to some other video after it’s done. All I want is a video host that plays the videos I asked to watch. Everything else is just a reminder that the kind of videos they push are the exact kinds of videos I don’t want to watch.

They get in the way, they draw attention to the wrong things, and they encourage people to make more of the kinds of videos that get in the way of finding the actual useful information