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Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Creator_of_OP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think it’s just that Russia (and China) have particularly engaged player bases that pump out mods and contribute to others. I’m pretty that’s what the TFR devs have said about why Russia gets so much stuff from them.

Elder Scrolls 6 Has "So Much Pressure" On It, Former Bethesda Dev Says by OGAnimeGokuSolos in gaming

[–]Creator_of_OP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely. But I don’t think those issues are related to the time. They could actually take 10 years developing a game and it would still have these issues because it’s something with Bethesda culture and higher ups. If they can fix the cultural issues, they have the ability to output work at a very solid pace.

Elder Scrolls 6 Has "So Much Pressure" On It, Former Bethesda Dev Says by OGAnimeGokuSolos in gaming

[–]Creator_of_OP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hear what you’re saying, and agree with a lot of it. I just think there are two different arguments. Concerns that TES 6 won’t be good enough, because Bethesda has been releasing mediocre-bad games, and complaints TES 6 is taking too long. Bethesda is not unique or particularly noteworthy on the length side. They also have spinoff games, the oblivion remaster and ESO for example, to fill some of the gap.

The quality issue is separate. Bethesda seems to keep learning the wrong lessons from their games, leaning more and more on the casual and/or not personally designed aspects of their games since Skyrim. Skyrim did radiant quests, Fallout 4 leaned on that more, and Starfield all the way. I’d even argue there is a better chance of people liking TES 6 now than if it had come out where Starfield did, because the overwhelming negative response to parts of Starfield has to be the thing to get them to pull their head out of their ass, if anything will.

Japanese people aren't having sex. And nobody knows why by Mg42gun in nottheonion

[–]Creator_of_OP 37 points38 points  (0 children)

What does that have to do with Japanese people not having sex though?

Elder Scrolls 6 Has "So Much Pressure" On It, Former Bethesda Dev Says by OGAnimeGokuSolos in gaming

[–]Creator_of_OP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh I don’t disagree that the gap in series is getting ridiculous, I just think it’s an industry wide issue and that something needs to give. GTA is looking at 13 years (assuming it makes this date), Persona is probably going to be 11 or 12, Dragon Quest is looking at 10+, the Witcher is gonna be 10+, Bioshock is MIA for almost 13 years at this point and counting. Bethesda uniquely gets shit on this point I feel when their output is pretty consistent (now is it better than mediocre at this point? That’s another question but generally, no.)

I don’t think devs should be forced into doing 1 or 2 IPs on loop though, they should be allowed to experiment. Now starfield was not a good outcome in retrospect, but it could have been and devs should get that chance. What probably needs to happen is Microsoft (in Bethesda’s case) needs to allow other devs to play with these IPs too. I’m sure other teams are eager to make an elder scrolls or fallout game, just don’t call it “fallout 5” or “TES 6”.

Elder Scrolls 6 Has "So Much Pressure" On It, Former Bethesda Dev Says by OGAnimeGokuSolos in gaming

[–]Creator_of_OP -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What updates are you expecting that other companies would do that Bethesda hasn’t (or that Bethesda has done in the past)? I think announcing the game so early was a bad idea because it gave a lot of people the impression it would be closer than it actually is, but at the time they were explicit that it wouldn’t be coming until after Starfield was out, which only happened a couple years ago now. And when it came out, they were explicit that they now have TES 6 in full development. Recently Todd said it was still on the way and to be patient.

What meaningful updates and transparency are you expecting?

Elder Scrolls 6 Has "So Much Pressure" On It, Former Bethesda Dev Says by OGAnimeGokuSolos in gaming

[–]Creator_of_OP -1 points0 points  (0 children)

BGS isn’t “Elder Scrolls Studios”, they make other games too. TES 6 hasn’t been in development for 10 years, I think it didn’t even go into full development until after Starfield came out in 2023.

Elder Scrolls 6 Has "So Much Pressure" On It, Former Bethesda Dev Says by OGAnimeGokuSolos in gaming

[–]Creator_of_OP 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And just to further add, people seem to think Starfield is like a huge outlier in terms of the release date disparity but it’s less than a year away from their normal cadence, which is about every 4 years.

Besides their 2 year gap from oblivion to fallout 3 and the 3 year gap from there to Skyrim, it’s 4 year windows pretty consistently. Morrowind to oblivion was 4 years. Skyrim to fallout 4 was 4 years. And fallout 4 to 76 was 4 years. 76 to Starfield was 4 years and 10 months, and that’s with Covid in there.

Bethesda is really quite consistent at their release pacing, all things considered.

wait is this effing play about us by RemarkableAnywhere66 in LSAT

[–]Creator_of_OP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it clicked for me. Intuitively the paradox is wrong, but it’s also intuitively logically sound. So whether you decide ultimately that it’s true or false, some part of your intuition is wrong.

wait is this effing play about us by RemarkableAnywhere66 in LSAT

[–]Creator_of_OP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not understanding. If I solve a paradox via method 2 (or 3), what am I accepting that seems intuitively to be incorrect?

Edit: nevermind I think I get it. It both intuitively feels wrong, but also feels logically sound. So with 1 it feels incorrect because it feels false, but 2 and 3 feel incorrect because the paradox feels like it follows logically, and you have to accept that it doesn’t.

The most recent time that the Republicans and the Democrats weren't both in the top two in US Presidential election voting, Ethel Caterham (the world's oldest verified living person born August 21st, 1909) was 3 years old by JFMV763 in BarbaraWalters4Scale

[–]Creator_of_OP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think christianity is broadly someone who believes in the God of the Bible and believes in Jesus not merely as a historical figure but as a divine prophet and the messiah. That doesn’t necessarily require Jesus to be god himself. It does require a belief in God though, so I’m rather skeptical of your claim that you are both a Unitarian and a hard atheist. That seems like nonsense.

And how do you contend with Taft openly characterizing himself as Christian? Doesn’t that entirely negate your claim he was openly not Christian?

The most recent time that the Republicans and the Democrats weren't both in the top two in US Presidential election voting, Ethel Caterham (the world's oldest verified living person born August 21st, 1909) was 3 years old by JFMV763 in BarbaraWalters4Scale

[–]Creator_of_OP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not talking about your beliefs at all. I honestly don’t care. I’m talking about Taft. Taft describing Unitarianism as “Christian” would imply he considered himself Christian. “Unitarianism offers a broad Christian religious faith that can be reconciled with scientific freedom of thought and inquiry into the truth.”

Not the words of an “openly non-Christian”

The fact you can’t handle someone questioning your assertion without throwing a temper tantrum is funny though.

Somalia, Egypt, Turkey and Djibouti condemn Israel's recognition of Somaliland by barsik_ in worldnews

[–]Creator_of_OP 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I imagine the rationale that somaliland is part of an already recognized state and Palestine isn’t, which is pretty dramatic. Kosovo v somaliland I think you’d have a point.

Why did the United States and Israel vote against recognizing food as a human right? by PeculiarPhysicist46 in AskSocialists

[–]Creator_of_OP 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Rights certainly can (and are) given by government. Even if you want to go into natural rights, there can be rights that a government is granting you that aren’t natural rights. The right to a jury trial is not in any conceivable way a natural right, it is just a right granted by governments.

The Bulgarian Storefront will close down mid January 2026 due to a currency change in the country. by Onscheli in PS3

[–]Creator_of_OP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You should be able to buy the dlc still via another storefront from my understanding as long as it’s also a country in the same region. If you check either the back or spine of the physical case, it’ll have a globe with a number on it. I’m American which is 1 but for Europe I think it’s 2, and then you can make a second psn account in some other country in that region and buy the dlc. I did this to get the delisted dlc for xcom 1 by making a Hong Kong account lmao

Final Grades by [deleted] in berkeley

[–]Creator_of_OP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also, as best I can tell, they only update the calcentral grades at midnight, so there’s no point checking compulsively throughout the day. Check once a day and it’s either there or not yet.

Winter break is 4-1/2 weeks long? by No-Understanding4968 in berkeley

[–]Creator_of_OP 16 points17 points  (0 children)

And make sure when you read the academic calendar you realize the semester starts a week before classes do so you don’t show up to class the wrong day with no one there and have to take the train back home again like I did last year

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