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  • it would have to be some serious quality of life changes to make me shell out for it again.

    Eh, I first bought it 20 years ago, and have bought it a couple times since on different platforms.

    If it’s $30 bucks I’m buying it regardless. Maybe not right at first, but eventually I will.

    That’s also why I don’t think any game shouldnt be able to run “maxxed out” on release. A great game people are still gonna want to run it a decade later. It doesn’t hurt anyone if the dial turns to 11 if 10 is the same setting it’s always been.

    So make games that in a decade still look decent on settings no one could enable all at once on release. It doesn’t change the quality on release, just gives it legs to look good longer.


  • Oblivion was alright, but I remember seeing most players topped out at like 5 hours played.

    It was fun to see it all again, but the novelty wore off quick…

    This tho, I could see sinking 10s likely 100s if hours into.

    4 years newer doesn’t sound like much these days, but 2002 to 2006 was a huge jump. NV has a much better starting point for an update, and could feel like a truly modern game that pulls people in without having to drastically change the experience.

    Plus the desert setting makes it easy to hide graphical shortcomings. So even after cranking the resolution up, it’s not gonna take a lot more resources, there’s plenty of room to improve other stuff too.




  • No it wasn’t…

    America was “founded” because the people who got rich early from none forcement of smuggling didn’t want to just stand by while the English government started to finally collect on due taxes.

    It’s fucking crazy people still believe the shit we learned in elementary school.

    It was “new money” revolting against “old money” and they only won because the French royal family wouldn’t too piss off the English royal so much it cost them their heads.





  • I’d say uniqueness more.

    If one species of 47 different kind of European Swallows go extinct, it’s just not a big deal because the niche will be refilled in a few generations and in a decade they’d be pretty much the same as the OG.

    If something like a platypus was threatened with extinction, a lot more people would care, because what the actual fuck is a platypus?!

    That weird fuck survived when everything tangentially related to it except one animal half a world away that looks nothing like it died off long ago.

    That shit we need to protect. And I’d go farther and say we should encourage diversification of those species so an entire branch of our planets genetic history is pruned.

    Like those tiny pools of water that have been separated from all other life for millenia, it’s not enough to protect those organisms and their tiny natural habitats. We should be encouraging their growth and evolution, because absolutely nothing else would increase our planets genetic diversity as much as those weird living fossils.




  • Stop burning the planet down to generate social media comments

    I mean, I thought it would be obvious my issue was with using AI to do so…

    Even if it had been a serious question.

    But, to be fair I was thinking of what a normal.person would be able to parse, and not people who’s critical thinking had already atrophied from offloading to AI.

    They probably don’t have any idea what I meant and would need it explicitly spelled out.