I did think her use of a first person pronoun there was a bit odd, but I didn’t put that together. You might be onto something.

“All these porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists so desperate to get their hands on rape-my-little-sister incest games they’re now exchanging clues on how to find them so that they don’t all die overnight,” Collective Shout co-founder Melinda Tankard Reist tweeted on July 18th.

She sounds deranged.

i wonder what her own perversion is. It’s likely quite disturbing - nobody has that much anger and scorn over other people’s sex lives and a healthy sex life of their own.

How did you manage to miss the other six letters?

Mostly Fabled Lands. It’s fun exploration, but the dice roll mechanics get tiresome - especially when you need a particular dice roll to trigger or complete a quest, so you just end up triggering the dice roll over and over.

And sort of inspired by the remaster, I’ve been playing a bit of Oblivion lately. I have thousands of hours in the game, spread over about forty characters, but I haven’t played it in a couple of years now. I toyed with the idea of getting the remaster, but my game is so extensively modded - mostly landscape and gameplay changes - that I don’t think I could go back to the vanilla game, even remastered. But it did get me thinking about it…

I’d never thought of it in these specific terms before, but the essentially educational and fear-ameliorating nature of your post led me to realize that it’s likely that a lot of what Nintendo’s doing with all of this legal barnstorming is essentially PR, and that’s all it’s meant to be.

They have little hope of actually winning cases or of doing anything more than cutting off one head of the hydra if they do, and all of their safeguards can be and will be worked around, repeatedly if necessary, so from a practical standpoint, they’re fighting a losing battle. But all of their noise and aggressive posturing likely serves to scare a lot of less-informed gamers into not emulating in the first place, so it furthers their goals anyway.

That’s what I’ve used for years now, and I have no problems with them.

I actually have three of them, of varying ages, all of which still work fine. The older ones have simple switch shoulder buttons and the newer ones have analog triggers, and that’s pretty much the only notable change they’ve made over the years.

The only “problem” I’ve run into with them is that the buttons and/or the pad will accumulate dust over time and stop working dependably, so I have to take them apart and clean the contacts every year or two. Which is very easy to do.

Yes, and his name is Todd Howard.

The irony is that Beth pretty much set the standard for ambitious, weird and unexpected with Morrowind, and have been backing away ever since.

Which neatly sums up why I do not and will not even have a Steam account, but buy many games from GOG.