joenforcer

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joenforcer,

“Biden wins the election. Here’s why that’s bad for Biden.”

joenforcer,

Bro has never owned a piece of clothing made of linen in his life.

joenforcer,

RIP anything made of linen.

joenforcer,

Why was it worth it? What benefits did you gain from the change?

joenforcer,

That is quite simple. You’re the only one to provide a coherent answer so far so thanks for that.

I’m looking for a bit more info though. Did you get any other benefits besides the equivalent of warm fuzzies? Sounds like an extremely outsized cost/benefit assessment you had to confirm.

joenforcer,

Ah yes, let’s link up a college town with a bunch of drunk kids with a complete lack of inhibition and a similar perceived lack of consequences. It will surely work great.

joenforcer,

I’m sure you and the five other people who agree with you can have a riveting conversation about how wrong the millions of fans are.

Please, for the love of God, VOTE! (pawb.social)

I don’t like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in...

joenforcer,

The Green Party and the Libertarian Party are how we got Trump the first time around. The stakes are too high.

joenforcer,

The traction she got in 2016 is the reason we’re having this conversation.

joenforcer,

He can’t do it because Congress is too divided because you didn’t fucking vote.

joenforcer,

What’s your plan that makes the endgame not genocidal? Remember to make it fit reality.

joenforcer, (edited )

Edit: Disregard. Previous comment broke site rules and I take it back. I apologize.

joenforcer,

You’re right. Forgot where I was. Apologies.

joenforcer,

Simultaneously infuriating and perfect.

joenforcer,

You didn’t watch the State of the Union speech, huh?

joenforcer,

They can’t bother you if you block them.

For example I just blocked the entire Linux lemmy.ml community 1 minute ago.

joenforcer,

Fani fucked up big time. Apologists will come out and try to say that she handled it perfectly, but no, there shouldn’t have been a scandal to handle in the first place. These cases need to be airtight inside and out, and this was an incredibly stupid, easy to avoid issue. The Georgia case is arguably the most important because it’s a state crime. Regardless of the case itself, Fani already lost in the court of public opinion.

joenforcer,

Look up Project 2025. There will not be a 2028 election if Trump wins 2024. One Day Dictator Donnie won’t stop at one day.

joenforcer,

When your representatives are Republicans, that’s pretty much true. My blue representatives actually seem to care and I have first-hand experience with this.

joenforcer,

Unless I’m getting wooshed on sarcasm… you realize Israel is full of the descendants of the Jewish people Hitler displaced, right?

joenforcer,

Sir, this is Lemmy. Everything bad past, present, and future is the fault of capitalism.

Oh yeah, everything bad is the fault of cars too. Almost forgot that one.

joenforcer,

GDPR is no joke. Storing a handful of comments is not worth the penalty if they get caught.

Note that I speak from experience as part of a company that needs to comply with the regulations. We do it because the risk of violation is 10000000% not worth it no matter how annoying and arduous it is to comply.

joenforcer,

There is something to be said for the game to be hyped for YEARS and to come out being much less than what the hype seemed to imply. Running on the old and tired poorly-optimized “not Gamebryo” engine, a bunch of fetch quests punctuated by fast travel “exploration”, and mostly empty procedurally-generated planets bolted in to make Todd Howard’s vision of 1000 planets a hollow reality… all of that can get people feeling pretty underwhelmed with the game.

It isn’t necessarily that Starfield is bad, but that it is not great, and that it continues to be pushed as some amazing experience it isn’t. Sorry Todd, but I’ve been to some of the Wonders of the World before. I’m not going to be in awe of your virtual empty planet and the vastness of space and how beautiful it is through a computer screen. It just doesn’t hit the same way that you want it to, especially in the way most gamers will experience it.

Here’s the kicker, though… some parts of Starfield can become great. Fallout 76 was bad and got better when Wastelanders added NPCs, so it stands to reason they could make some sizable shifts that make the game more enjoyable.

joenforcer,

Ah, yes, the IGN rating scale.

joenforcer,

It has DLSS already.

joenforcer,

Keep in mind that I haven’t played Starfield despite getting excited by the hype, and then tempering my expectations after remembering getting burned by the hype and purchase of the Collector’s Edition of Fallout 76. My opinions are more of a collective skepticism bolstered by post-hype reactions. The unfortunate reality of the game is that it is a “Bethesda game” with a lot of the magic stripped out.

The promise of 1000 planets rings pretty hollow when a vast majority of them are desolate chucks of rock, and procedural generation is just an exceedingly lazy way to achieve a bullet point on the hype sheet. The only reason I know it’s 1000 planets is because Todd would not shut up about it like it was some type of huge achievement.

The fun of “discovery by exploration” – going to continue on a quest and getting stopped by a dozen different interesting things along the way – is completely broken by “fast travel”. A “Bethesda game” that requires you to skip a lot of the in-between and not lose focus on a singular objective does not feel like a “Bethesda game” to me.

Some of the Bethesda charm comes from the jank of the 20-year-old Frankenstein “not Gamebryo” engine their games are built on. We give them a pass on a lot of this because it can add to the fun. Unfortunately, they spent a lot of time hyping their pride on being their “least buggy” game on release. For a game that cooked as long as Starfield did, they should’ve spent that time rebuilding something modern from the ground up instead of cramming their ambition into their aging platform. Given the time it took, this may be my biggest disappointment.

joenforcer,

Sir, this is Lemmy. The correct terms are “fuck cars” and “capitalism bad”.

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