Saving this for a lawsuit if you try that BS.

It’s a felony to threaten someone, you know.

I don’t like the precedent that Collective Shout set, but this is a VERY positive side effect. Love to see it.

No, it’s that Valve reinvests their cut into improving the platform. Wild that devs can’t figure that out.

Love Valve and I know nothing about these events but I’m not a fan of removing something like this. I mean, with a few exceptions, let people make up their own minds on what offends them or not.

DEG Mods is catching up pretty quickly.

I’ve been talking about how ridiculous Nexusmods is for YEARS now. I’m just glad more people are turning on them.

Alternatives exist. While Nexus definitely has an edge in terms of features, there are some competitors rapidly catching up (eg DEG Mods). This announcement was just the motivation needed to get more people considering leaving that cesspit of a platform.

I’m not fundamentally AGAINST the EGS but Epic is not a good company and saying that they have a ton of work to do is the understatement of the century.

You people are giving “obnoxious” a whole new meaning…

Nice, followed!

And if that happens, I’ll oppose it. But as far as I can see, that’s not what’s happening.

And I said elsewhere that I’m not okay with IDing users that way (though I’d absolutely love if we banned porn entirely). However, a lot of social media sites have specialized kids’ accounts. In cases like that, those accounts should be legally exempt from algorithm manipulation and given special privacy defaults.

As far as I can tell, THAT is what this bill is doing.

The ACLU has always been a joke. As for the EFF, I used to like them but they’ve been playing partisan politics lately and no longer focus on privacy and digital rights. Much like Mozilla, they’ve become some pseudo-NGO and that makes their opinions completely worthless.

For sure! I’m on a Mastodon instance called Retro Gaiden and while it’s not free speech (because political discussions are banned), the owner is really laid back and there is literally a rule, “no discussing your sexual orientation”. Basically, it’s designed to be a no drama instance about discussing retro culture. I wish there were more instances like that!

I know it’s usually an excuse to pass surveillance legislation but I don’t see how this bill even remotely promotes that. As far as I can see, it ensures platforms don’t push algorithmic manipulation on kids and it requires platforms to offer better default privacy settings for kids’ accounts.

Meanwhile the EFF and ACLU (usual suspects) are pushing a garbage narrative of baseless excuses. One has to wonder about their reasoning.

It does, and it sucks even more because that’s all the Fediverse is outside of a few rare instances. Love this tech but the echo chamber makes me feel like giving up on the Fediverse at least a few times per week.

Not necessarily. I wouldnt be down for that, don’t get me wrong, but when there are dedicated “children’s account” options on a service, they should be legally exempt from algorithmic manipulation. Sure, without ID validation, that can be bypassed but that would be 100% on the parents. It’s not their fault they don’t know how these platforms push propaganda (of all sorts) on kids via algorithms, but it would be their fault if they didn’t ensure their kid was running on a kids account.

I fail to see how ensuring platforms don’t algorithmically push negative content on children, or how enforcing better default privacy options for children, is remotely a bad thing. As with most of what the Electronic Farce Foundation publishes today, this article was a word salad of excuses without reasoning.

Also find it pretty ironic and hypocritical that there’s a sudden outcry against “censorship” but just a couple years ago, it was apparently a tHrEaT to oUr dEmOcRaCy if anybody expressed any sort of skepticism over the narrative because tRuSt the sCiEnCe.

I’d say it’s only useful for older and less intensive games. Most modern games need an SSD, not just for load times, but for performance as well. I have a 2tb mechanical hard drive for storing my 300gb of music, documents, virtual machine ISOs and pre-2020s games. Everything else goes on SSDs.

Oh yeah, don’t get me wrong, I know it can be worse. I just think it could also be better.

I love Steam but I’ve always felt like the refund policy was a bit of a joke. I feel like the time limit should be flexible, being a bit longer for games that have long tutorials or a bunch of intro cutscenes.

As long as it still feels like TES and as long as it’s not even as hard as Elden Ring (which, as I hear, is supposedly the “easiest” FromSoft game but is still too challenging), I’m open to trying it. In general, I wish they’d just give us Skyrim’s combat with some tweaks; it’s the best combat in the series, in my opinion.

I’m not saying we need the dice roll system. I just don’t want a complicated time-based system that doesn’t feel grounded.

That’s because they’re classy and understand that the two are totally different projects. Skyblivion is impressive but that doesn’t even remotely mean that an official remaster/remake isn’t worth having.

The problem is the style, not just the difficulty. I don’t like the whole timed parry system. It’s alright if it’s akin to Witcher 3 where the blocks are timed but not impossibly so, and where you’re given other means of fighting than parry-strike-repeat… Even then though, as much as I love that game, I like TES combat. Its simplicity makes it grounded and its feel is still somewhat rooted in the dungeon crawlers that made TES what it is.

I’ll never understand the hate, it feels to me like the hate comes from outsiders who weren’t long-term fans and what the series to be what it’s not.

EverQuest Next. That game would have been the best MMO ever, if they would’ve stuck with it. Unfortunately, SOE got bought out and the new owners were whackos who didn’t care. It’s sad because nothing has come close since then. Only GW2 and ESO have even a fraction of the concepts of EQN.

TES combat may be plain but I’d take a grounded and easy to grasp combat system over hair-tearing frustration. There’s a reason I don’t buy soulslikes. I like to enjoy and unwind with video games, not torture myself until I ‘git gud’. Soulslike combat will utterly ruin this remake for me.

Hardly comparable. The bag wasn’t the centerpiece, it was barely even advertised in the first place… and people whined because an ancillary feature of a much larger package wasn’t the material they wanted. That seems awfully pathetic and vain to me.

Try Stellaris. It’s similar gameplay, but it’s realtime and the space battles you can get yourself into can be truly epic.

That whole canvas bag thing was a load of crap. “Ouh, my bag wasn’t in the material I wanted it to be in. I’m gonna throw a tantrum and sue the company.”

I’m very excited for this project, but what concerns me are the lack of color in those screenshots and the rumor that it’s gonna have soulslike combat. I do not want soulslike combat. We don’t need soulslike combat in every freaking game.

Delusion isn’t a good look!

With the exception of chat, try Old School RuneScape. Good game for passive gameplay as well as more intensive/focused gameplay.

I’d say a reasonable amount of this is due to how many of them shove their own ideologies into their reporting, with not even a slight attempt to remain objective or neutral.

Not in every game. Some games make it reasonably fair, such as Elder Scrolls Online which makes it possible to obtain the lootbox items in other ways.

And this is exactly why Ubisoft is dying. Good riddance.

No, if anything, we need to boycott games with battle passes. I’m not a fan of lootboxes but I’d take them any day over a battle pass. Don’t pressure me to play specific ways, don’t exploit FOMO to try to get me to grind or spend money. I find that a LOT more predatory than lootboxes, at least in games where they’re optional.

Ah, didn’t know that it’s on Steam. Well, there’s that at least. Still not a fan of console exclusivity either way, though.

Both. The future isn’t in consoles, it’s in console-like PCs. Just wait until Valve drops the Fremont, I believe it’ll change absolutely everything.

I hope they’re prepared to have a fraction of the success they would have if they didn’t continue the absurd concept of console exclusivity.