Erk

joined 1 year ago
[–] Erk@cdda.social 2 points 1 year ago

Ouch. The primary care situation in some parts of Canada is grim too but at least my appointment wait times are 1-2 weeks

[–] Erk@cdda.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A new engine would just have to have a new mod API. Plenty of engines have mod APIs. Nothing's really stopping them, but they really love driving creation engine onward for some reason.

[–] Erk@cdda.social 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They've already killed people.

[–] Erk@cdda.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"I can't fathom it" doesn't mean "I haven't heard the criticisms of this movie". I mean that I remain surprised at how long lasting and vitriolic the hate for it is, as you're demonstrating by popping in to complain about how toxic last jedi fans are while also trying to tell me what you hate about a thing I love.

And I know you don't mean it that way but goddamn am I tired of having a conversation like this every time I mention liking the movie online for more than half a decade.

[–] Erk@cdda.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wasn't asking for someone to explain why they didn't like it thanks. We went through that six years ago.

[–] Erk@cdda.social 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Was scrolling for this comment. I spent a few nights excitedly going over it with my friends before I learned about the internet meltdown, it was utterly baffling. I still can't really fathom it, it's one of the best SW movies ever made imo.

[–] Erk@cdda.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'm loving starfield and I'll agree with this. It's a mid eighties score kind of game. If it's what you want it's amazing, but the people calling it game of the century and whatnot are buying their own hype.

On the other hand, it's likely to have serious staying power as an all time classic game, Bethesda is great at that and there's a ton of room for people to use it as an incredible mod canvas. I don't think that should affect launch reviews though.

[–] Erk@cdda.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this is it. I enjoy making fun of the NPCs in starfield but mostly when I'm playing I don't notice them at all. I do have a few very pretty screenshots of the game. It's not perfect by any stretch but the scope is impressive and most of it really is pretty good

I don't think Bethesda has ever sold based on graphics no matter how much they want to pretend it. Morrowind and oblivion both looked under par when they came out as well.

[–] Erk@cdda.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not a fan of Bethesda's reliance on mods to do basic shit, like fix a broken UI and inventory management system, by honestly I also think this argument is overused. People pay for these games because they want to mod the shit out of them, it's like ninety percent of the appeal. Nobody is forcing modders to work on them, either. That argument can only stretch so far. For comparison, No Man's Sky is actively hostile to modding, and as a result I probably won't be going back to it despite loving it. They're not going to add the kind of content I want, they're likely never going to, and they're not letting anyone else do it either. I wish they'd allow free volunteers to finish off some of their 75%-of-the-way-to-greatness features.

With starfield, I'm excited for the mods, and the game is far from flawless goodness knows, but I've had a friggin good time and definitely got my money's worth on vanilla. Now I look forward to spicing it as I like.

[–] Erk@cdda.social 2 points 1 year ago

The upper whites thing has led to some of the funniest memes I've seen in ages, not gonna complain about that one.

[–] Erk@cdda.social 5 points 1 year ago

It's literally not possible to ride my bike home from work without going through traffic on one of the busiest streets. They force us into the car traffic and then portray us as getting in the way. It's infuriating

[–] Erk@cdda.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Assigned snake at birth, it's a yuan-ti thing

 

I've been finding a little time to do micro PRs with just a bit of small talk for NPCs I write. Having been out of commission for months, it feels good. I've added a little small talk for Jenny Forcette, Uyen Tran, and Mandeep Singh in the refugee centre.

If there's an NPC, particularly in the refugee center but I'm open to other suggestions, who you would love to get a little more characterization and dialogue, feel free to suggest. Or, if there's a short-answer question you'd like to ask a particular NPC, let me know. In my next pass I am going to try to add a bit of dialogue where you can ask Rubik about where they came from, for example.

 

See title. If you could just instantly implement one thing exactly as it works in your mind, what would you add?

 

Due to life circumstances I haven't been able to play or follow development closely since a few months after G stable. Any interesting developments in H-experimental?

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