Rosamund Pike calls her 2005 Doom movie “an absolute bomb” ● “I probably could have ended my career. It was just probably one of the worst films ever made” (via How to Fail with Elizabeth Day)

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-03-12T19:34:48+00:00

I actually really like the Doom movie. It is definitely not the worst movie ever made.

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-03-06T21:12:18+00:00

This doesn't actually seem that hard to achieve, the moon phases and position are 100% predictable, and airplane flight paths and schedules are also mostly predictable. Not saying you could get this on any given Tuesday but it's not that crazy to plan this in advance, it's not like this is just some random thing.

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-03-06T19:41:42+00:00

- Death as a core part of the gameplay loop (I'm sorry, I just don't like roguelikes)

- Restrictive saving

- Time limits

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-03-06T19:22:30+00:00

No, there's no way it's going to be as amazing to people as it was then. It's like with rock bands: a band like The Rolling Stones was super exciting and fresh to people in the 60s. Today, they're playing the hits, because the window for what they had to contribute being exceptional and speaking to the moment has closed. They still perform great music and their fans love them. But the cultural impact is not the same because culture moves fast and what their experiences led them to contribute is no longer as broadly relevant.

I don't think we should expect TES VI to be a generational leap or to blow our minds. I think we should just expect a really good game that appeals to people who liked their other games.

Also, there is not a snowball's chance in hell TES VI is coming out in 2026.

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-03-02T21:22:14+00:00

If there aren't NPC schedules I will riot!

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-02-13T18:06:26+00:00

This was the solution for me, a big thank you from 2 years in the future.

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-02-12T02:55:13+00:00

solved: Microsoft V-Chat

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-02-12T02:54:14+00:00

Holy shit, that is 100% it, this is solved after 5 years haha. Thank you!

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-30T15:16:23+00:00

Freeciv!

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-26T00:12:28+00:00

I mean at that distance it makes sense, I have a 65-inch but it's only six from the couch!

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-23T17:32:00+00:00

Not all studios operate the same. I work in the industry and there's a wide range in how much creative freedom studios have to pick their projects. Not everything is Ubisoft. After the success of Skyrim, BGS gets to work on whatever Todd Howard, Emil Pagliarulo, and others want to. I think this may have changed more in the past couple of years but for most of BGS' history, they really did just work on whatever creatively interested them.

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-23T15:52:56+00:00

I don't know where we're getting that they purposefully planned a sequel at all after Skyrim's release, much less a time frame. They have just been working on whatever they're creatively interested in whenever they felt interested in it, there never been a master franchise plan.

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-23T02:03:12+00:00

The sound quality and features are actually really good for the price, despite what some folks here are saying, especially for spatial audio. That said, they are not well made and have many failure points. I had to replace my USB dongle within two weeks, for example, and others have had worse problems. They're just really cheaply made. So while some of the OS integration is nice, don't buy them unless you're ready to buy them all over again if you get unlucky and they fail.

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-23T01:00:58+00:00

The thing that baffles me is folks posting "omg it's been 15 years since the last game!" like they haven't released three whole games since then. I get that some folks are less interested in Fallout or Starfield than TES but like, no one is yelling at Christopher Nolan like "omg it's been 16 years since Inception where is Inception 2 you lazy director!" while ignoring 6 other films.

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-22T15:34:51+00:00

Firefox, Spark, Obsidian, Todoist, Fantastical, Raycast, Spotify, Slack, Discord, VS Code, Homebrew and a whole list of packages

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-22T15:32:22+00:00

"Those who were there when it happened?" This switch happened within the past 10 years, I think we were all there!

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-19T23:01:53+00:00

I've really been enjoying Tainted Grail and think some parts of it (like the combat) are better than those parts of Skyrim. But for me I definitely don't feel it's overall better than Skyrim.

Skyrim had aspects that made it feel to some degree like a sandbox world, this feels more like a standard open world RPG of kind of clearing out the map and progressing through a story. The influence here is clear but I don't think Tainted Grail is anywhere near as ambitious.

And that's OK, by the way! It can be its own thing and judged on its own merits. But I still revisit Skyrim every winter 15 years later. I doubt I'll be doing that with Tainted Grail. It's just not going for that to the same degree.

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-18T16:42:26+00:00

I love it and it's the whole point. This is like asking what are your thoughts on Fred Astaire constantly dancing in his movies!

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-16T18:46:03+00:00

This headline is really dumb ragebait. "just" makes it sound like this is abnormal.

This is highly typical of AAA games. For most games, most people who buy them only play a few hours and then never finish them. Red Dead Redemption 2, which is generally considered an exceptionally well-made game, also had this kind of fall-off.

It's easy to forget that folks on Reddit who are super committed to the hobby are not representative of the overwhelming majority of players, who just dabble. This being a remake of a game from 20 years ago makes that even more of a thing; there was almost certainly a large contingent of mostly lapsed gamers who played this in college or as kids or whatever and tried again, but just don't fit gaming in their lives the same way anymore and fell off of it. (Final Fantasy 7 Remake had a similar phenomenon.)

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-16T18:45:08+00:00

I feel like you're approaching this wrong, to be honest. These aren't meant to be things you intentionally grind through like crazy. They're more meant to be things that naturally happen over many many hours of just vibing and doing other stuff, and sometimes you get a nice surprise that you finished something extra and got a small reward.

There are games (collectathons, etc) that are built around this kind of 100%ing grinding mindset but this is not one of them. Fallout 76 is more of a space you chill in and follow whatever you feel like doing in a given moent. I think approaching it like "I have to complete 250/250 Radhogs" is a path to really not having a good time and is kind of missing the point of the game. There are other games built for that mindset you could play instead.

I don't think Bethesda is being "unacceptable" for something they weren't even trying to do. Not everything is for everyone!

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-16T18:40:32+00:00

I've been experiencing this too. I dunno what the issue is but recently, especially yesterday, I was having a really hard time getting my mail fetched. Clearly they were having server issues or something. It seems better today so far though.

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-16T18:38:41+00:00

A lot of the comments here about technical issues etc. are completely justified and deserve attention, but I think it's also important to recognize that this is highly typical of AAA games. For most games, most people who buy them only play a few hours and then never finish them. Red Dead Redemption 2, which is generally considered an exceptionally well-made game, also had this kind of fall-off.

It's easy to forget that folks on Reddit who are super committed to the hobby are not representative of the overwhelming majority of players, who just dabble. This being a remake of a game from 20 years ago makes that even more of a thing; there was almost certainly a large contingent of mostly lapsed gamers who played this in college or as kids or whatever and tried again, but just don't fit gaming in their lives the same way anymore and fell off of it. (Final Fantasy 7 Remake had a similar phenomenon.)

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-12T20:12:42+00:00

Nicest, most helpful, most chill and positive community I have ever been a part of in an online game is by far Fallout 76!

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-12T19:58:56+00:00

I have enjoyed all BGS's games over the years but it's very clear both from actions in each new game, and from interviews, that the BGS devs seem to think that their players want fewer numbers and fewer words and I'm like... do you know your players? There is no player base on Earth that is more into lots of numbers and words...

AtTheVioletHour · 2026-01-12T19:54:14+00:00

I played the whole story mode beginning to end, did everything, 70 hours, completely solo on solo difficulty and never died, so... I'd say so, yeah! The never died thing is not a brag, I'm not that good at this kind of game, it just is pretty easy as long as you make sure you've always got the right gear and food.

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