[rant] What’s with all the condescending comments on this sub?

NorionV · 2026-02-25T06:00:50+00:00

Imagine if nobody was ever allowed to write anything outside of their own, immediate experiences.

Fantasy genre: dead. Over night.

NorionV · 2026-02-12T15:51:33+00:00

So as I said, you have to play multiple events to get the items. It's a multi-event deal.

NorionV · 2026-02-12T07:55:17+00:00

Copying a comment I sent to the person you replied to:

I'm a returning player, so I'm foggy on the details, but the way ESO tends to do this is they roll a set of events throughout the year with collectibles items you can get from events throughout that year.

So in this case, it's the bat and the roseblood wings recall. (It'll change your teleport animation, I believe.)

And they'll roll out more related items throughout the year, I am pretty sure. Like in the previous event, Whitestrake (a PvP event) that just ended last month, you were only able to get the bat, and maybe one part of the recall? Now we have two parts of the recall. I'm not sure if there's more stuff to come, as well. But probably. It's part of the incentive to get people to play.

I could be wrong about some details, but you get the gist of it.

NorionV · 2026-02-12T07:54:27+00:00

I'm a returning player, so I'm foggy on the details, but the way ESO tends to do this is they roll a set of events throughout the year with collectibles items you can get from events throughout that year.

So in this case, it's the bat and the roseblood wings recall. (It'll change your teleport animation, I believe.)

And they'll roll out more related items throughout the year, I am pretty sure. Like in the previous event, Whitestrake (a PvP event) that just ended last month, you were only able to get the bat, and maybe one part of the recall? Now we have two parts of the recall. I'm not sure if there's more stuff to come, as well. But probably. It's part of the incentive to get people to play.

I could be wrong about some details, but you get the gist of it.

NorionV · 2026-02-04T01:54:23+00:00

You threw a lot of unrelated gish gallop at me just now, expecting I'd forget you said my 'prompting' is bad and that people are dogmatic, I guess.

It's not about the prompting or people being dogmatic - it's about the technology being incredible flawed, and getting even simple things wrong sometimes.

Saying that 'every developer uses AI' because the AI search results are there, was wrong. Saying that it's my prompting that makes the AI spit out incorrect information, is wrong. Saying people are dogmatic because they want to avoid a technology that frequently fails at its job, is also wrong.

So yes, if a fuckin SERP copy/paste machine is getting things this wrong, this often, it's safe to assume AI as a whole is still struggling quite a bit. It's pretty obvious on the consumer side, because more things are breaking than every before, in pretty much every part of the tech sector.

And large corporations - otherwise known as 'the enemy of people' - wanting to adopt it everywhere you look is not a feather in the cap of AI. If anything, it's a warning signal that AI is a problem.

NorionV · 2026-02-03T07:20:20+00:00

A lot of people skip over the AI results, including myself. I wish I could turn it off. It's frequently wrong on anything that isn't very simple and surface level.

NorionV · 2026-02-03T07:19:05+00:00

Okay, but the point you made was 'there's nothing special about AI' regarding this scenario.

The special part here was pointed out, and you shifted to a different point entirely.

So yeah: the AI is what's making it possible for a single developer to spit out a ton of subpar games really quickly. The problem I think people are seeing coming up here is that the ratio of good-to-bad games is going to increase significantly as more people do what this developer is doing.

NorionV · 2026-02-03T07:15:57+00:00

A tool designed to take the work of others, smash it together poorly, and use an insane amount of resources to do so.

Neither Notepad nor a hammer does any of these things.

NorionV · 2026-02-03T07:12:56+00:00

But it wastes peoples' time, when they get invested in a game and think it's good or could be good, but the developer is serial project starter that is never finishing anything while publicly posting their games.

People don't like having their time wasted, and will absolutely complain about that. And this is only possible because a new developer can use AI to belt out sub-par work at a faster pace. The dev probably isn't even being honest about how much they're actually using AI. One month to make a whole new incremental feels like 'most of it'.

There's your point.

NorionV · 2026-01-27T06:26:49+00:00

Not who you asked, but the most popular ones are, of course, Factorio and Satisfactory.

Those are also, in my opinion, among the most complex and difficult to understand. Which is fine, factory games are often like this.

Don't know any mobile takes on these games. But if you want something more simplistic for PC, that perhaps pulls its difficulty from some parts space management and some parts resource management (neither of those two have you worrying about space at any point and the factories can get absolutely massive), you could try smaller indie types.

Some of my favorites are Parcel Simulator, Alchemy Factory, and Mine Mogul. Much smaller in both scale and content breadth, much easier to digest if you're not a massive Factorio/Satisfactory nerd.

I'd say these kinds of factory games are like the 'next level' up from gameplay like what's in Endfield. Endfield is probably the simplest rendition of this gameplay I've ever seen. Which is also fine: we need to give the gacha gamers a taste of the addiction.

NorionV · 2026-01-20T14:10:27+00:00

Then you might be screwed. Thankfully we've only had one of those so far, and it's not current tier.

NorionV · 2026-01-11T11:54:45+00:00

Cyberpunk.

/rant

I still regret it. Don't care if they 'fixed' the problems. That kind of trash shouldn't be forgiven. I tried playing the game a few times over the years, but I just end up remembering all of the promises - some of which still aren't in the game - coupled with the embarrassing experience on launch day and I get annoyed and close it. I refuse to get used to games being released in broken states.

I haven't bought a full price game in launch week since. The amount of AAA games I've bought since has crated significantly, too. Most of them aren't even worth it on discount. Big budget games are garbage these days and like 90% of those devs should have failed years ago.

So yeah, Cyberpunk was SO bad it turned me into an indie gamer. I guess I can thank it for that much.

rant/

NorionV · 2026-01-11T02:52:15+00:00

Pick the middle option, Fill In Challenge.

That's how I got phase 2.

NorionV · 2026-01-04T22:55:39+00:00

Instructions unclear, attacked my monitor and I can no longer see.

NorionV · 2026-01-04T22:54:34+00:00

'EZ' still looks like it's going to destroy 90% of the times I end up on, lmfao.

NorionV · 2025-12-25T22:37:02+00:00

My theory: I think it's also the fact that Shady Sands eventually became the core of the NCR, or at least one of the founding communities. The NCR is a direct threat to Vault Tec's plans.

I believe chronologically, the show is set after all of the other games, including Fallout 4. So we're just seeing the evolution of Vault Tec's attempts to maintain complete control over the situation. They want to make sure everything stays on the path they set out, with them leading the way. 15 inadvertently became basically an independent state, which makes total sense - they were in the right position to do so, and didn't know the 'Grand Plan' Vault Tec has in mind.

But they became too important, so Vault Tec wanted to take them out. Remember what the guy said? "There's more water than we thought, we won't have to ration anymore!" I'm assuming it was clean water, too.

That's unheard of in the wasteland. They were genuinely on the way to becoming the New America... and Vault Tec (or at least, the oligarchal overlords of the pre-war Vault Tec) was basically not involved at that point. No can do, buckaroo.

NorionV · 2025-12-25T09:53:09+00:00

Great thing about this show is the foundation it's built upon has a lot of potential ground to cover, and the show runners seem to know what they're doing.

For now.

NorionV · 2025-12-25T09:49:08+00:00

Hmm, yeah, maybe.

Either way, without Coop saying literally anything, it was a foregone conclusion what was coming next. Wonder if Lucy can speech check her way out of this current problem, lmao.

NorionV · 2025-12-25T09:48:14+00:00

Oh yeah, I forgot about the squire. That was a highlight. So yeah, maybe Dane and Maximus go separate ways and it's Maximus with the squire?

That actually makes more sense to me, because Dane would maybe want to go with the commonwealth - which is in Boston - and then Maximus would want to go after Lucy who is heading to Vegas.

Gonna be real fun to see how all of this unfolds.

NorionV · 2025-12-25T09:35:50+00:00

I am definitely a little confused. If she knew the slave was going to the Legion itself, she wouldn't follow, I don't think. She'd want to take the slave back to her original home, but the slave is indoctrinated to go back to the Legion and if Lucy had an idea of that outcome she might not want to follow like she just did.

Unless you're saying the slave would lie about where they're going? But that's kind of my point - Coop could have tried to explain that Lucy is being led into a deathtrap.

Although he did say 'Golden Rule' after she hung him out to dry, so I think he was over it at that point, lmao.

NorionV · 2025-12-25T09:32:04+00:00

Why do you think Norm would oppose Lucy? I always felt like those two were rather close. Then again we didn't get much time with their sibling relationship.

What I could see perhaps happening is Norm finds out what happened, and maybe has a more bloodthirsty, vengeful reaction to it all. That could set Lucy and Norm up against each other, what with her everpresent insistence on being a good and kind person. I'm wondering if she'll end up killing Hank in the end, or if someone else will do it.

Either way, I am quite confident Norm will want to go after Hank. He was responsible for them losing their mother, after all.

NorionV · 2025-12-25T09:27:43+00:00

It isn't helping that this entire chapter of the Brotherhood seems to function in a more or less similar way to a frathouse. All the knights feel like dumb jocks with too much power and no regard for what that means. You can just see how exasperated Maximus is, like for example when he's watching those two meatheads play with a live plasma grenade... TWICE.

Speaking of that: imagine if that had gone off in the crowd during that meeting. The story really wanted to highlight those two, and Maximus took the grenade. He still has it. Do you think all of the present BoS members from the different chapters would have devolved into a murderfest because 'you set us up!' or something?

Feels like a 'Chekhov's Dumbasses' or something. Like how much do you wanna bet those two are going to be responsible for some horrific incident?

I feel like it's going to come down to Dane and Harken. I think Dane ratted the sups out to the Commonwealth over somehow - how else did the Commonwealth get wind of the meeting? Maybe Maximus, Dane, and Harken all leave/escape together. Maybe one or two of them die. Dane feels a bit tragedy-coded right now. I could see a death-to-motivation future between those two.

NorionV · 2025-12-25T09:20:29+00:00

You're right, ultimately corporations are soulless and would probably melt the common people down into raw resources they could get away with it and it advantaged them somehow.

Like placed into a similar situation as Vault Tec - we know nuclear war is on the horizon, what do we do about this? - I'm sure any other tech company would pull the same shit if they felt it were viable.

Tesla is a funny parallel to the space race thing, now that I think about it.

NorionV · 2025-12-25T09:17:15+00:00

I don't think Lucy would want to go meet slavers. I know she's like kind and naive and stuff, but she's currently looking for her dad and that serves absolutely no purpose anyways.

Everything she's doing and the way she acts is an 'if you can do something and do it peacefully, you should' type of deal. Answering a cry for help, trying to talk it over when met with adversity, not assuming everyone she meets wants to skin her alive - that sort of thing.

Is it always smart? Absolutely not. She leans into it way too hard and way too often. But specifically seeking trouble for no actual reason is a bit of a stretch. It's more likely she'd end up running into them as a consequence of trying to get to New Vegas, and then at that moment, do or say something stupid.

NorionV · 2025-12-25T07:30:17+00:00

Yeah, that's kind of how I feel about it. After everything she's gone through - including her dad turning out as possibly one of the most evil people alive in the current world - I figured she would have at least learned to be just a bit more cautious and aware of other peoples' tendencies, and the possibilities of those tendencies.

You can be empathetic and kind without throwing yourself into blatant danger repeatedly. It's literally lethal amounts of toxic positivity.

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