FarceOfWill
@FarceOfWill@infosec.pub
- Comment on Anyone else reckon Bethesda will go the way of Bioware? 1 week ago:
Its good enough to spend time moaning about it not being great.
It has two or three issues, and the problem is theyre buried so deep in the design they compromise everything and are essentially unfixable.
The art, setting, bespoke quests are all great. Even the gunplay really, which is a shock but its honestly fun.
Ship building is possibly the best ship design system ever made. And its completely pointless, you will never see the inside of the ship as you teleport to PoIs and barely see the outside.
Inventory management is hell. Building your own mining base depends on very large inventory usage. And the reward is more materials for your inventory to do upgrades to weapons and armour you barely need.
The environmental damage system is incomprehensible so luckily it almost never matters. You take damage breathing in your sealed space suit?? Ridiculous.
The skill system does not feel good, all it can do is unlock stuff above that doesnt feel like it really matters, or gives more inventory management nonsense; or give incremental improvements to damage etc that do not feel good.
Skyrim draws you in by promising and delivering more and more new places to explore and once thats replaced with random pois the entire game collapses around it.
- Comment on Toblerone owner sues British vegan chocolate brand over chunky shape 1 week ago:
Also green and blacks is now cadburies so on the list.
- Comment on Toblerone owner sues British vegan chocolate brand over chunky shape 1 week ago:
Fyi poundland now owned by the finance vultures that killed borders.
Not that its very relevant but we had a warning about mondelez above and i wanted to continue the theme of calling out awful companies.
- Comment on Online safety laws have failed to protect children in UK, Ofcom admits 2 weeks ago:
In many countries too
- Comment on Online safety laws have failed to protect children in UK, Ofcom admits 2 weeks ago:
It was first proposed by tories when they were in power.
I cant tell who is actually behind it, but youd expect some mix of the civil service, paid advisors/cobsultants and the big tech lobby groups.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
This looks like some classic vintage modder drama with someone claiming only they can use what they publish, for a game the makers let them make mods for.
Just more so as ai means so many people can get involved and make that molehill into a really, really big mountain.
- Comment on How would you integrate AGI into society? 1 month ago:
Theyll just charge as much as each individual can afford and pocket the difference.
If these guys make agi were getting the worst people in the world owning all human knowledge and renting it back to us
- Comment on The truth about UK prisons and organised crime: ‘They’re your good lads. Respectful. Keep their noses clean’ 1 month ago:
This is excellent. Pointless comment but it deserved something.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Its a members bill, its not expectes to pass. Id love to know who put them up to it though
- Comment on Police seize £200k Lamborghini under tightened antisocial driving laws 2 months ago:
I only really notice them late at night, screaming around a residential road at 11pm is what matters.
During the day its just people having a hobby as you say.
- Comment on Police seize £200k Lamborghini under tightened antisocial driving laws 2 months ago:
Id guess certain exhaust mods. Plenty of bikes around me need confiscating.
- Comment on Far-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK 2 months ago:
Ok fine, but you’re keeping piers morgan and steve hilton right?
- Comment on Andy Burnham defends Home Office booklet urging asylum seekers not to rape women 2 months ago:
Isnt the issue that it tells them taking photos of people in public is illegal when it isnt?
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 months ago:
Upvotes on lemmy posts…
- Comment on Count Binface: My Clacton Victory Speech! 2 months ago:
He can put a hole on the top and say its a very big collar
- Comment on Burnham ‘personally intervened’ over possible early prison release of grooming gang perpetrators 2 months ago:
Strong sign burnham might actually be half decent at comms
- Comment on ‘The market is dead’: why aren’t flats in England selling? 2 months ago:
I think many will be waiting for the planned change to leasehold coming this government.
- Comment on "I didn’t fully appreciate the scope of it": a year on from taking over, Nexus Mods owners reflect on the challenges of their push to minimise modding hassle 3 months ago:
I think so yeah, i have lifetime from ages ago
- Comment on "I didn’t fully appreciate the scope of it": a year on from taking over, Nexus Mods owners reflect on the challenges of their push to minimise modding hassle 3 months ago:
You control your own disk but by putting it on nexus you’ve put it into their repo and said others can depend on it.
- Comment on "I didn’t fully appreciate the scope of it": a year on from taking over, Nexus Mods owners reflect on the challenges of their push to minimise modding hassle 3 months ago:
Preventing removal (from lists) was just necessary.
Its not unreasonable to say if you release a mod and others depend on it you cant change your mind. Imagine if anyone could remove their contribution to the linux kernel at any point.
Its not about them taking ownership, its about them preventing petty drama which is actually the most important job for a mod site.
- Comment on "I didn’t fully appreciate the scope of it": a year on from taking over, Nexus Mods owners reflect on the challenges of their push to minimise modding hassle 3 months ago:
Nexus does have collections, modpacks installed via its own modding tool.
- Comment on Man, 28, charged with murder of former UK MP Ann Widdecombe 3 months ago:
Ita possible they found a piece of paper saying “palastine action” in his flat
- Comment on Man, 28, charged with murder of former UK MP Ann Widdecombe 3 months ago:
Intrigued that theyve charged him with terrorism, but still dont say anything about the motive.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 3 months ago:
I feel like you shoukd play games by other companies
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 3 months ago:
That jank engine is what makes the bethesda games modding community work.
If they give it up theyre throwing away a huge advantage, and we will get worse mods.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Tyranno dactyl chump
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 3 months ago:
Wait, the plan was to get recurring revenue out of single player games by tying them to gamepass.
This failed, for entirely predictable reasons, and now MS is holding a load of very mature, stable game studios and needs them to male checks notes double the revenue (actually, profit). This simply isnt posssible.
Theres a story out from early in the year about MS requiring a 30% profit margin across the firm which when applied to games is just nonsense. Not ambitious or unrealistic, nonsense.
Games is a terrible fit for MS and the companies who allowed it to buy them for stability are realising that.
- Comment on "You Can't Rule Out The Possibility That Executives Are Idiots" - John Carmack On Microsoft's Gutting Of id Software 3 months ago:
"You can’t rule out the possibility that executives are idiots, but that shouldn’t be your default belief. I don’t think there is any obvious path that would have doubled the revenue from Id games.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Equal parts textures and arranging duplicate data next to each other for fast streaming
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 4 months ago:
Some of us quit when we couldn’t use RiF. Literally dozens of us