dead souls style invasions

There is only two ways to protect a game against piracy, right? Either you don’t, or use our protection

this is the most denuvo quote i could possibly think of. it’s beyond parody, and yet, they went and said it anyway

i’ve been clutching my pearls for the past 10 years but it’s nice to know i can rest easy tonight

sovereign citizen

basically people who think the legal system has hidden cheat codes, and if you can say the magic words then all of a sudden certain laws no longer apply to you

give it another 7 to 8 years

another chicken and egg problem

i wonder how 5% of employees getting laid off will translate into executive bonuses. last year the top 2 guys made $72 million after laying off a bunch of people.

yeah i completely agree. it’s in the details. there are so many oversights and inconsistencies that the game feels soulless, like they didn’t have a central vision they were trying to create. it’s a lot of jumbled parts that oddly feel both repetitive and disjoint. lots of the quests feel the same, and the game just gets so predictable.

this was very comforting to read

i just don’t get the appeal of the game at all. you load in, walk for a few minutes, talk to generic npcs to get generic quests, fast travel, walk for several minutes, shoot your way through unthinking npcs, scan some planets, etc.

bethesdas combat and writing has been lackluster for quite some time, but before they had the excuse of having interesting worlds to explore. here that is not the case. there’s like 3 or 4 copy pasted dungeons on most planets, and the rest is completely barren. i just don’t really see the joy in the game, it all feels so monotonous.

if you go abstract enough then any game can be dated. all you do is load the game, do some stuff, maybe get some rewards, and then close it.

people are saying bethesda is outdated because of how they implement these abstract ideas. they’re stale and years behind what other games are doing.

the complexity of morality does not preclude it from being discussed

Doesn’t that go both ways?

no. not everything goes both ways. some things are bad, and should not be tolerated.

And don’t you think what you imply is scary?

no i don’t, what about it do you find scary?

And with that I mean : “people’s thoughts influence their actions” I fucking hope so. And who are you to tell them what is right and what is wrong?

just so we’re clear, the context of this statement is me saying “i care about people having racist/homophobic thoughts because people’s thoughts influence their actions”. so, again just to be clear, the “what” that is being discussed is “racism/homophobia”.

in context, your reply reads “i fucking hope so, who are you to tell them racism/homophobia is right or wrong?”.

Only if you give a fuck, which is far too prevalent in the world

you’re acting like things can’t harm people if they don’t care about them. this is not the case.

why do you care who thinks what?

because people’s thoughts influence their actions

There is nothing criminal in creating, using and sharing those mods (as hateful as they are)

this isn’t about the law. this is about what’s right and what’s wrong. making mods like this, and allowing them to exist on the platform, is wrong.

Or was it similar to the Starfield pronouns mod, where the creator went on a hateful rant in the mod description, and acted like a total dick, spewing their bullshit intorelant propaganda?

yes, this is basically what happened with this baldurs gate mod, and this is why it was removed

so many of the replies read like entries to a libertarian contest. and in traditional fashion it seems they forgot to actually read your comment. it’s nice to see a post that understands why the mod is a problem and explains it well, even if so many in the replies seem unable to grasp it.

i don’t care if someone is racist or homophobic unless it affects me

this is a libertarian fever dream. the nature of prejudice is that it does affect other people.

rugged individualism is not the path to a functioning society. in any society worth living in there are certain views that cannot be tolerated. the kind of bigotry expressed by the mod creator is one of those views that cannot be tolerated.

i’m still on fallout 2