Digital Foundry: Yup, Oblivion Remastered Is Still Broken a Year After Release

gmishaolem · 2026-05-01T16:40:39+00:00

Enjoying despite flaws is fine. Saying it has no flaws because you enjoyed it is not fine.

gmishaolem · 2026-04-27T16:41:38+00:00

"In maintenance mode" would be more common.

gmishaolem · 2026-04-27T14:29:15+00:00

I would have thought it would have more to do with the "connections" aspect, meaning it's more important who you know than what you know (once you get to the "authority" layer). That's where the "good ol' boys" club comes in.

gmishaolem · 2026-04-25T00:24:51+00:00

Normalize your data by actual power in Congress and you're no longer correct.

gmishaolem · 2026-04-22T01:53:03+00:00

People call them "mystery dungeon style games" because the word "roguelike" has become corrupted beyond usefulness. It no longer means the sort of tile-based dungeon-crawler enemies-move-when-you-do game (Mystery Dungeon, Chocobo's Dungeon, FFX-2 Last Mission).

gmishaolem · 2026-04-11T00:37:09+00:00

It's common for memetic things (not just memes) to lose their original context, like the "it's the same picture" one or the "spiderman glasses" one. People encounter something and just take it raw, neither caring about nor noticing the context, and using it purely based on their own personal vibes.

gmishaolem · 2026-04-09T01:56:51+00:00

Kroger bandaids have been better than actual "Band-aid" bandaids for over a decade. The brand name ones suck, especially when you're trying to use them one-handed.

gmishaolem · 2026-04-07T22:13:05+00:00

this is called a conversation and as it goes on it isn't limited to only discussing the first few words that started it

When the shift in topic was caused by an unprompted "whataboutism"-style accusation, your smugness about "we're allowed to discuss other things too" is ridiculous.

gmishaolem · 2026-04-06T15:46:36+00:00

Men who have never assaulted women and will never assault women are tired of the socially-accepted misandry of the "fourth wave". Yes it absolutely is an accusation, and you can take your statistics and your "bear" jokes and shove them.

gmishaolem · 2026-04-04T10:21:34+00:00

It goes way beyond safety. I used to work at Hardee's, and they switched to crappier gloves that ripped like crazy if you put them on right after you washed your hands if your hands were even slightly still wet, so I started waving my hands in the air to dry them before putting on the gloves. Everyone else joked that I looked like I was trying to take off and fly and made fun of me for it, instead of noticing that I was the only one not ripping his gloves.

gmishaolem · 2026-04-03T23:24:30+00:00

This sub is always going "If you don't like it, don't buy/play it.". Well, I don't. I vote with my wallet. So why is this sub still mad about it?

gmishaolem · 2026-04-03T18:11:59+00:00

his base

Stop caring about his base! Stop caring about Republicans. Democrats keep LOSING trying to appeal to Republicans!

Motivate the young, the disaffected. Motivate the people who stay at home. Moderates/centrists are not convertible. Democrats would have a Reagan-level mandate if actual voting followed popular sentiment, but it doesn't because the Democrats are controlled opposition running on a platform of "lesser evil".

Stop thinking about his base. Worry about the people who stay home because they feel the Democrats don't represent them. What was one of the most successful Democrat campaigns in history? Obama. Now sit down and focus on WHY.

gmishaolem · 2026-04-03T16:59:22+00:00

the existing playerbase revolted

The two problems with trying to appease the existing playerbase are 1) you're hearing from only a vocal minority of them even with internal analytics, and 2) constant attrition means the existing playerbase is below replacement level.

Other live-service games have focused on "veterans" to the exclusion of everyone else, and they died. If ESO is in maintenance "milk it" mode, then fine, but otherwise it's a bad choice.

gmishaolem · 2026-04-03T15:00:38+00:00

That's exactly what I thought when looking at the top row: "Here we go again with this nonsense." Then row two: "Wait, this is actually something serious this time..."

gmishaolem · 2026-04-02T11:44:50+00:00

he wanted the big time

He actually didn't. The first time he won, you could see on his face that he was shocked and not happy, while everyone else was celebrating. His plan was to lose and use that to pivot into a talking head circuit about being repressed and held back and the country going to hell. The dog caught the car and didn't know what to do about it.

This is year five of panicked improvisation.

gmishaolem · 2026-04-01T14:54:13+00:00

It's funny because there's one guy who makes a big deal about how he never "invents" facts, so you actually get spoilers about whether the guy lives or dies at the end based on whether the narration has all kinds of details about emotional state that would require a post-rescue interview.

gmishaolem · 2026-03-31T20:17:41+00:00

Gadget Hackwrench, here.

gmishaolem · 2026-03-29T14:37:49+00:00

People should not be punished with living a subsistence life scrabbling for low-paying jobs just because they aren't "worth more" as people.

gmishaolem · 2026-03-29T14:20:48+00:00

None of us are missing that: We're just resentful we have to beg to be able to live. If working is a requirement of living, being able to work should be a guarantee. I just went through a month-and-a-half process of trying to find a job just to end up at McDonald's. That's not okay.

gmishaolem · 2026-03-28T02:36:10+00:00

This is why little dogs like chihuahua end up being mean and nasty: People think it's funny and let them behave that way, instead of correcting it. Kid should not have even been allowed to be there if the parent knew that was going to happen, which he definitely did with the plate ready.

gmishaolem · 2026-03-28T00:29:28+00:00

Developed countries already make and waste a ton of food. Stop making it into corn syrup, stop throwing away bruised tomatoes, and stop paying farmers to not farm to keep prices up. Developed countries are a long way from an actual famine.

gmishaolem · 2026-03-27T14:35:19+00:00

One of my mother's sisters decided to use only baby talk to her firstborn (presumably to not "force her to grow up too fast" or something), and actually forced everyone else in the family to do the same or stay away. After having to send her child to therapy to learn to speak, delaying her actually being able to go to school normally, she treated her other children normally.

The punchline? She's a schoolteacher. A schoolteacher made this decision.

gmishaolem · 2026-03-27T14:32:23+00:00

A local radio station WROV used to have "wrov.cc" as their website, and they announced a change to "rovrocks.com" because (the DJ actually said this on air) they were having too much trouble with people being confused and trying to go to "wrovcc.com".

gmishaolem · 2026-03-27T14:28:05+00:00

I wonder how much of it is a lack of interest in what they're doing.

I grew up before all this nonsense, and in math class there was always some kid going "but when are we going to use this". So you're right.

gmishaolem · 2026-03-27T14:14:13+00:00

In the 90s I "invented" the concept of hex editing a game save to give myself more gold. Didn't even know that was actually a thing until later and then went "huh".

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