Sort of. I understand not wanting to deal with the difficulties of attempting ethical consumption, but you’re so much closer to being one of those people working in a sweatshop than you are being financially stable. It feels like you’re actively shooting yourself in the foot honestly.

How do we live in a world where being a major financial boon for your company isn’t enough, this is bullshit.

It’s still up in the air for now, but Microsoft has been shifting away from games for a bit now. It’s looking like there may not be a dedicated Xbox console ever again, instead they look to be going down a different path with their recent announcement that “everything is an Xbox”

It might be a CPU throttled if it’s doing that, it’s surprisingly not too GPU intensive. I was able to pull +60 with a 3070, not that I’d expect equal performance, but a 2070 should be about to get at least 30.

I feel this, my frustration isn’t that people aren’t smart enough to use tech, but that smart people panic around tech and can’t learn or experiment. Like I get it, but you have to dive in at some point surely

You’re doing gods work my dude

You mean Christmas dishes you woke commie /s

Idk man I was running on a 5 year old i9, it’s a hard comparison. I can only imagine it’s gotten better.

I’m not sure if you actually didn’t know, but bloodborne has been pretty great on shad since about a year ago? I got most of the way through it without issue.

Yeah bloodflame, it’s something to do with the formless mother. You lose eyes, have horns, and stare at the stars, you might get unsolicited contact from an interdimensional blood ocean. No I’m not joking, the lore is a wild time.

Yeah for sure, but security through obscurity only works until it’s actually important or exploitable for monetary gain. I wouldn’t even mind that, but e-mail can do so much better and it’s treated like a giant security risk.

Is it good so far?

Fax operates as data over phone line, similar to dialup. If you can get a wiretap on a phone line, you essentially can get everything that passes over it. Technically you could encrypt it, but it’s usually not required you do legally.

It’s considered a secure method of document transfer over email, despite email being able to be secured and fax can be hacked with like a length of wire and a knife. Fucking irks me.

Poetry

That’s entirely fair. I think it suffers a lot from most of the interesting stuff getting hidden in the codex. I totally get your experience though, I’ve had a few games that have been good, but I’ve seen the concept done enough for it but to hook me in.

I cannot do balders gate 3, or any rpg of that style. I suspect it’s to do with trying to roleplay a character while simultaneously viewing them in that top-down third person perspective. I can do X-COM, strategy, I can do roleplay in third person, but that particular combination just kills it for me. It’s bizarre.

Personal opinion here obviously: Mass effect, or at least the first one, was actually surprisingly well written and internally consistent. Kind of like a star trek lite. There was interspecies tension, people expressing feelings on the state of the universe, but also enough moustache twirling to keep it interesting as well. It struck a good balance between that and a decent looter shooter/RPG combo, at least for my tastes.

The later games lost a lot of that and overly relied on what the first game setup up without expanding much on it, but that first game was just chefs kiss.

Not saying you’re wrong or anything, more just this is what I personally get out of it.

Honestly I’m finding their falling outs funnier each time it’s happened. What is this, number 3?