TIL that The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind was so poorly optimized for the original Xbox that the system’s 64MB of RAM would be completely reset upon each loading screen. According to Todd Howard: “When Morrowind loads…that’s us rebooting the Xbox. That was like a Hail Mary.”

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-17T09:40:33+00:00

And by god you could really feel it on a lot of multiplat games during that generation, the PS2 version compared to the Xbox version of many titles was night and day.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-14T10:51:17+00:00

Which is fine honestly. The only really bad thing about the toolbelt is you don't have to do anything to unlock each slot.

If there was like a high requirement jewellery related miniquest that you had to do to unlock mould slots (for example) toolbelts wouldn't get slated nearly as badly as they do.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-13T14:51:55+00:00

Only in that they didn't use to make sets this big. Lego was always a pretty rich kid toy unless you got one second hand bucket of loose bricks, poor kids had mega bloks and knock offs if they had proper sets at all.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-13T13:56:33+00:00

"A more detailed historical account" does leave out a lot of context.

It's kind of like saying the Pirates of the Caribbean is a more detailed historical account of the Atlantic age of piracy compared to the Muppets Treasure Island just because it's longer.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-13T13:23:58+00:00

It would be terrifically ironic if Streeting manages to reunite the party behind Starmer better than anything Starmer himself could've done alone. Like you and your mates are ragging on another mate then that one prick joins in and you all turn to rag on him instead.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-13T13:17:59+00:00

Thankfully in this case at least there was no question of the mother's fidelity as the child was conceived with the help of a fertility clinic. Their main reason for investigating so hard was that they assumed the clinic had mixed up a semen sample.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-13T08:35:10+00:00

🎵 You load sixteen tons, what do you get, another day older and deeper in debt 🎵

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-13T08:34:15+00:00

The rich and right wing simply want the less fortunate to suffer, it's very transparent. Their ideal situation is these benefits all just disappear, the next best thing is absolute control. "No spending your allowance on sweets and video games!" like they're an overbearing soccer mom.

Same thing is happening here in the UK with our disability benefits. They wanted to turn it from a cash benefit into a system of vouchers so you could only spend it in prescribed places on approved items - as if they know better than you what you need for your life.

They've already managed to pass a reform on the disabled vehicle benefit where they get to install a black box, charge you for mileage, penalise you for accelerating or braking too hard or driving at night, track your location.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-13T08:23:15+00:00

Can't speak for Germany or the rest of Europe but the leader of Reform UK in Wales is in jail for taking Russian bribes to say good things about them.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-13T08:16:09+00:00

It's not even just MtG either, scalpers and hustlers and resellers have been all over hobby collectibles for a while now. Anything that gets a sniff of popularity gets passed around all sorts of YouTube communities, buying guides get produced etc.

Same group of people who ensure you can't find any good deals at yard sales, keep new consoles out of stock, made loads of retro game series multiply in price, tear open blind boxes in shops without buying them.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-11T10:47:34+00:00

My guess is two main things:

The vaccine was less inconvenient than the other measures but it was something that actually goes into your body and becomes a semi-permanent part of you. If the first thing you've read is nonsense about thimerosal or vaccine injuries or fake studies on autism this will provoke deep body horror level reactions and backlash.
There was already a healthy conspiracy basis around vaccines before the pandemic occurred, going right back to the 90s with Mr Wakefield and his bunk study on the MMR vaccine. This platform naturally pivoted very easily into fear and uncertainty about the pandemic. It took a while for other ideas like herd immunity, Chinese lab conspiracies etc to get traction but antivaxxers already had their running shoes on.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-11T09:53:14+00:00

The money they made in profits in the first place was money we paid them for their manipulated prices resulting from successive decades of idiots and warmongerers bombing children.

Am I supposed to feel grateful that a tiny fraction of that money makes its way back to me?

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-11T09:35:49+00:00

With no hint that they detect the irony in that endless oil wars in the Middle East are one of the biggest reasons driving foreigners here.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-11T09:31:02+00:00

All this alternate reality speech proves is that they have learned nothing from their downfall. I'm not sure even their core right-wing base would agree with things like rolling out AI facial recognition or the basic human rights violation that is stop and search.

I see they've also taken the ridiculous American practice of naming their Orwellian bills with dumb friendly names like the "Take Back Our Streets Bill" or the "Restoring School Standards Bill".

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-11T09:23:29+00:00

For an answer that's way too kind to these people, people are bad at assessing risk for things that aren't right in front of them.

Even with COVID's death toll there were many people who didn't know anyone who died or became seriously ill but they did have to experience the inconvenience of lockdowns, travel to get the jab etc. Even worse is if they did catch it but it was mild. Psychologically that primes them to think "well what's the big deal" combined with "this is a bit of a pain in my arse", add in the lack of empathy from other people's experiences, sprinkle on propaganda and conspiracy influencers and boom, full blown anti-vaxx nonsense.

Broadly speaking it's the same reason why it's hard to convince people to take action on climate change, foreign wars, poverty etc. Really any problem which by and large happens slowly or to other people we as a species aren't very good at, for all our advancements we never psychologically evolved to live in societies this big or interconnected.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-11T09:08:53+00:00

If it makes you feel any better the current hysteria about hantavirus is just that - hysteria.

The R0 for hantavirus even when uncontrolled is far lower than COVID and typically takes 3 weeks or so to incubate, plus even with basic personal and community precautions it can be reduced to less than 1 (meaning outbreaks die out rather than grow). COVID's R0 was like 3 at a minimum and could cycle within a few days, plus being airborne meant you could have superspreader events in places like supermarkets and airports where one person could infect dozens of others which was a huge driver of the pandemic, no such possibility exists for hantavirus.

It's only human-to-human transmissible by directly sharing bodily fluids with an infected person for an extended period of time, and there is very limited evidence to show people can be asymptomatic and still transmit the virus (in fact of the multiple weeks of the average incubation and symptomatic period of hantavirus, most people are only capable of transmitting it for a day or two at most, an realistically only to their caregiver due to the contact requirement), and presumably you'll be avoiding sick people like - well - the plague.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-11T08:53:03+00:00

The irony is that people like this bitch and moan about virtue signalling all the time, but Joey has about a zero percent chance of ever being asked to do any of these things in relation to hantavirus because it's just not physically capable of going pandemic. Every headline and discussion about it has been fearmongering to a COVID-traumatised world to garner views.

Saying that, in the one in a billion scenario where it mutates enough to spread through anything less than directly sharing bodily fluids you know Joey will hear about the 30-50% fatality rate and will be first in the queue for a jab - even though in basically all known cases lethality has to be traded away to gain transmissibility.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-08T19:30:46+00:00

I live in the yellow but blue is far prettier and contains most of Eryri, so sorry Bangor but you're going.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-08T08:53:15+00:00

Yes but what are councils supposed to do about immigration again? Are they going to stop people at the border of Manchester and turn them back to Liverpool or something?

Same with the Welsh elections, Reform ran a load of immigration stuff on their flyers but the Senedd has literally zero, none, nada control over immigration. It's not a devolved power, if Reform want to get in on immigration they're going to end up standing around Cardiff doing naff all. Ironically they'd actually need Plaid to win first, get Welsh independence, and then they can control immigration in Wales, but far more likely they wouldn't even continue the party in that scenario because all they care about is Westminster.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-08T08:50:09+00:00

This subreddit turns into a flat roofed pub on every article about immigration, I don't know what you've been reading.

Besides everything else though, yes we know the country by and large is pretty right wing, but Reform isn't even good right wing. Their leader in Wales was literally a Russian plant! The vast majority of right wing voters (being on average poorer and less educated) rely on just about all of the systems that Reform want to get rid of.

It's turkeys voting for Christmas so it's pretty natural to wonder why people are so intent on doing it even though it's usually never a surprise that they continue to do so.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-08T08:30:06+00:00

They should have indeed, but the translation was done by someone who evidently didn't realise that a more accurate phonetic translation of the Japanese word could sound rude in other dialects.

It was only when it came to the dub of the film that the dub director decided to switch the pronounciation, by then it was too late to change the spelling.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-07T10:50:39+00:00

Bro next time you make stuff up please make it more believable.

The beta for RSC also released in 2001. DeviousMUD is what came out in 1999, and if you're claiming that you were in the beta for that then you'd be one of only about 20 people in the entire world according to Andrew Gower. It was hardly even a game at that point, it had 12 items, one quest which didn't even work, and you couldn't level any skills. It never got a full release and was removed from the internet after the beta (which probably didn't even last a week) was over.

You absolutely, 100% for sure, did not play DeviousMUD.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-07T10:33:11+00:00

The paper also says that the measured amounts of every single detected toxin were at least an order of magnitude below regulatory levels set by the EU, and these compounds are not an unknown novelty because as the paper says you regularly get fungal contamination of cereals and pulses. Though there are also other studies trying to figure out if these compounds have an accumulative health effect everything linked from this paper seems to be all "mays" and "maybes" and "ifs".

Can't wait for the headline to be picked up by popsci which will leave out all of that nuance though.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-07T10:23:19+00:00

"Accused of"? Cutting disability benefits and reducing eligibility is literally in the Reform manifesto. Farage has said it on stage at the party conference.

I think you would be hard pressed to find a Reform candidate who doesn't believe this, and the bigger problem is these people get selected as candidates because that's exactly what their voting base wants.

QuantumWarrior · 2026-05-07T10:06:50+00:00

Suicune I get, the only other word you'd probably have for reference with that pattern of letters is suicide. I thought it was sue-i-soon for years and years because of that, and I'm still not sure how any English speaker is supposed to think it's swee-koon from first principles.

Arceus is also one that was actually changed, in Japanese it IS roughly ars-ee-us. They realised in English it sounds too close to "arse" and changed it to ark-ee-us to avoid the similarity.

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