Happier coders probably write better code, though.

(Not that writing better code will help if ES6 is still running on Morrowind’s relabeled gamebryo engine like everything they’ve released since Morrowind, of course, but one can hope…)

Bakeneko.

I dont think it did enough to make me hate corporations

Counterpoint: Biotechnica. Those bastards are almost as bad as scavs. Some of them are worse.

Also, maybe it looks normal for Americans, but what Militech are doing in the badlands definitely ain’t right. (Phantom Liberty kind of ruins it by treating Militech’s puppet president like one of the good guys, though. Night City ain’t part of the NUSA, and it doesn’t want to be!)

And, besides all the relic stuff, Saburo was also seriously considering nuking Night City (properly, not like Silverhand’s half assed job), so there’s that, too.

Eh, I see those as cleaning my town.

If the NCPD wants to pay me for my trouble, fair enough, been paid by far worse, though I’d probably be doing it for free anyway, especially scavs, wraiths, tigers, Biotechnica, and scavs. The rest are mainly just gonks, so I usually just beat 'em up instead of slicing and dicing them.

There’s also that cop you have to get rid of to help some corrupt cops she’s been getting in the way of.

You can either kill her, helping said corrupt cops, or warn her to leave town, thus helping her (to stay alive, at least, though obviously not to do her job).

Either way you’re helping cops, but the NCPD looks like trash (which can also be said for River’s storyline), so there’s that, at least.

Why rename the files when you could just categorise and index them…?

This seems unnecessarily destructive.

pretty dumb, cheesy, and flat out badly written at times

So, a great adaptation of the Fallout setting, then. 👍

faithful adaptation

Cue Shady Sands controversy.

It’s a good adaptation, but not necessarily a faithful one (though, frankly, I’m not deep enough into the lore to tell, or care).

Looks like New Vegas might show up in season two, so we’ll see if and how they make the timelines fit (though if they do it’ll have to be a pretty tight fit, seems like).

UE has evolved and changed over time to use new hardware features and adapt to new player needs.

Gamebryo is still the exact same engine that ran Morrowind, just running worse games on faster hardware with more memory. It even still has some of the same bugs, which community patch mods have had to fix for every single game (except Starfield, because that’s become such a clusterfuck of bugs and poor design that even the most dedicated modders have given up).

Horse armour.

And, well, mostly everything after that.

rivalry between Fallout entries developed by Bethesda (3, 4, and 76), and those from Interplay, Black Isle, and Obsidian (1, 2, and New Vegas)

Why can’t we all be friends and gang up together on fans of Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel…?

To anyone who’s played the games it’s very evidently exactly the same engine used in Morrowind, running on faster hardware and with less functionality due to it being unable to handle the higher quality graphics. (Morrowind had mostly open cities - except for Vivec - and flying, for instance; later games had to sacrifice those and add more and more loading screens…)

No, but some are arguing that they might be due to peer pressure (which I find unlikely in this particular case, but if someone can be peer pressured into wasting $48,000 on digital assets, they probably can easily afford it), or gambling addiction (which also seems unlikely to apply in this case), since those are common causes of people (especially children) wasting money on microtransactions.

I’ve never noticed “obfuscate” being an uncommon word, but English is my third language, so what do I know. At least you can find it in a dictionary, I suppose, which won’t be the case with some obscure acronym. 🤷‍♂️

As for this fear of missing out you’re obsessively trying to shoehorn onto Star Citizen… we’re not talking about a race here, there’s no getting behind, there’s no winning other than having fun and achieving whatever objectives you set for yourself (talking about the Star Citizen MMO specifically here, not Squadron 42, but the ships they’re selling now won’t be playable on the single player game, so it’s mostly irrelevant to this discussion, other than as yet another way to weaken the missing out argument, since it very evidently doesn’t apply to that game).

This isn’t some microtransaction ridden malware like Fortnite or Overwatch (and I’d say any comparison to that crap is ill informed or disingenuous), this is a fucking space sim… There’s no microtransactions, there’s no pay to win, there are no season passes, there’s no such thing as a better ship… it’s a rock paper scissors situation, some ships will be better for some things, some better for others, and no matter how many you own you won’t be piloting more than one at once (and the larger ones you probably won’t be able to pilot or defend alone, so they’ll be worthless to you if you don’t have a group of friends to help man them).

If all you care about is fighting other players (personally I have no interest in that, but to each their own), sure, maybe having a better combat ship (which you’ll easily be able to obtain in-game anyway) will make a difference… but not as much as your piloting skill (same if you want to be a racer), and much less than being part of some player organisation.

But there’s so much more to do… you might want to explore (in which case the main “missing out” factor will probably be how early you get into the game… which, since all beta progress will be reset before release, you can’t buy into no matter how much you pay), you might want to be a trader or smuggler, or miner, or whatever.

Is CIG preying on people with too much money and too little sense…? Possibly (though if I’m not mistaken they asked for this particular everything package, and they seem to be enjoying their ship collecting, so if that’s what they want to waste their money in, let them, I say)… but that won’t give them any significant advantage over players who just bought the basic game, and they’re well aware of that.

If there’s any pressure here it’s from the whales to CIG, asking for more new shiny ships for their collections, not the other way around.

Google tells me “fomo” is probably an acronym for “fear of missing out” (it’d probably help make your points clearer if you didn’t obfuscate them behind acronyms the people you’re talking might not be familiar with, by the way).

Supposing that’s the case… what is there to miss out on in Star Citizen…? Any package above the base ones (which get you the games for about $40) give you absolutely nothing that you can’t get in-game (with the arguable exception of a few limited edition ships, which in any case shouldn’t offer any in-game advantages and can probably be considered cosmetic)… you’re not missing out by not buying them…

You can purchase the base games (Star Citizen and Squadron 42) for around $40.

Or you can wait until they’re released.

The larger packages are 100% unnecessary to play the games once they’re released, or the alpha versions now, and practically every ship they’re selling is also obtainable in-game, without paying for anything else than the base game (there might be a few limited edition exclusives, but those shouldn’t provide any significant gameplay advantages).

Hell, you can even play for free every once in a while (granted, whenever that happens it’s to stress test the servers and engine to the breaking point, so it’ll probably be a suboptimal experience, but still, it is an option.)

Any money you give CIG after that base game price is 100% out of your own volition, and won’t get you anything you can’t get in-game (and last time I checked CIG were pretty clear about that).

It’s basically giving them money in exchange for nothing of any real value (again, with the arguable exception of any exclusive or limited edition ships). Sounds an awful lot like a donation to me.

Exactly, there’s no microtransactions in Star Citizen.

Whatever we call the way it’s funded, and regardless of what we think of it, it’s not microtransactions.

Microtransactions in games mainly played by minors should be illegal, yes (and in some countries they are), as they’re basically a form of gambling… but people giving CIG money are mostly those who played Wing Commander back in the nineties and want a modern version of that, so there’s little risk of kids being involved, at least until the games are properly released (and, even then, they’re PC exclusive, and most kids are probably on consoles or mobile devices), at which point as I understand it these ship sales are supposed to stop… and there’s nothing micro about them… if I recall correctly the smallest package (which would get you a base ship and the two games) goes for about $40…

3; 2 didn’t have body models, only 2D faces (and event artwork, but there was no nudity in that).

3 has full 3D body models, which are used for events, court, and so on, and it’s not unusual to encounter characters (often your own) who prefer to be in the buff, for religious or cultural reasons or due to specific events, traits, or bugs.

No it’s not.

I mean, maybe it’s trying, I don’t know, but I’m not even trying to keep ublock origin up to date (maybe it updates itself in the background?) and I haven’t noticed any difference (or ads) other than the normal progressive enshittification of both platform and channels, and I’m pretty certain I live in the world… EDIT: And before anyone asks, I am logged in, I mostly use YouTube through the subscriptions page, so being logged in doesn’t seem to be causing any problems for me either.