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I mean it wasn’t a meme. Bethesda games are buggy on release. The PS3 edition of Skyrim was notoriously not fit for release, I honestly do not think that level of bugs would ever have been tolerated nowawdays. It’s also something that Microsoft’s QA team really ought to be credited for because it seems they are the reason this game stands out amongst Bethesda releases in recent years.

That said imma wait till a few days afterwards just in case. And the story getting bad reviews is not unsurprising as Bethesda has not really had a good one since Morrowind, or maybe Point Lookout in F3.

He’s talking about Lemmy of Motorhead who is one of the reasons Lemmy is called Lemmy.

Honestly from the memorabilia I just think that was Lemmy’s passion, I was never a big motorhead fan but I’ve seen more than enough instances of his political thoughts to not really look down on him for his collection. He was a dude really passionate about that part of history and loved collecting stuff from it because he thought that the Nazis “looked mean”. By that he meant cool. He got rich and instantly started trying to pick stuff up.

I suppose you could say his collection and widespread appreciation for the aesthetic was a bit tone-deaf and strange but I never thought you could look at his work and his life and call him a Nazi. He clearly wasn’t racist giving his romantic history and had a few interviews where he talked about his disdain for racism.

Fun fact Lemmy actually owned a german tank destroyer called the Hetzer, or the Jagdpanzer 38. His collection was extreme to be honest. He had artifacts from all the axis countries in Europe iirc. I often, when I was younger, wished I was so rich I could collection historical artifacts from ww2 like that. I was wanted a King Tiger, a Pershing and an IS-3, never actually saw service in WW2 in combat but was in the Soviet victory parade. I liked big tanks. Sadly I don’t think I’ll ever get any of those.

I use Kbin over Lemmy for the record.

I totally forgot that I got the Spoilers phasmid myself on my first run, that was another stand out to me. It’s such a beautiful and strange moment, in any other game it would feel out of place but for me the phasmid is arguably the greatest part of the game for me. I felt like hope and a miracle that something like that could exist in the crapsack world of Elysium and Revachol. With the fear of the Pale overwhelming everything and a constant state of drudgery and decline of a failed revolution it was nice to see that there are still things worth finding in the world. Harry speaking with it is a great thing as it lets him understand and overcome his self-hatred and shame.

Loved having Kim there.

“I see it, too”

I actually have played Disco Elysium and agree that it’s writing is consistently higher than Cyberpunk’s but I remember doing the devil ending in Cyberpunk and hearing male V express his fear of death, and the desperation to escape it at all costs felt so real to me in a way I’ve never seen. I’ve dealt with terminally ill patients and idk I’ve never seen someone capture the denial and bargaining as well as I felt it myself playing the character.

My favourite moment of writing in Disco Elysium was probably speaking to the boat lady who spits out some very harsh truths and for sure represents best the idea of “absords all critiques into itself” idea.

I must play Planetscape Torment because it’s the other big rpg that I’ve heard lots tell me is the pinnacle of writing in the genre.

Yeah the writing in Cyberpunk 2077 is honestly phenomenal, and the setting is really good. I was honestly shocked by how good the writing and VA in this game actually are. Maybe it’s because it’s more relevant to me, but it’s the first time since FNV I really felt the writing in a game was gripping and interesting to me on a serious level.

It’s gameplay is honestly decent enough as well. Gunplay isn’t bad, and with the large amount of mobility makes the gunplay even more fun. Hacking and stealth are a bit op but fun, my biggest problem is the melee combat feels a bit weightless.

I am for sure looking forward to Phantom Liberty and the perk rework. Maybe my view of cyberpunk is tailored by the fact I never bought into the hype so I was never let down by it. I just watched Edgerunners, loved it. Played the game and was further impressed.

Kbin already is, it was very much a side project by Ernest that was no where near as mature as Lemmy. As it stands it is growing extremely fast, proportionally it is way more active and grows faster than Lemmy itself. Kbin.social iirc is neck and neck with Lemmy World.

There can only be benefits to wider Linux acceptance in gaming, as it stands it’s shocking that it isn’t already there. Linux imo will never be window’s equal in distribution, too many people use windows compared to the various distros. But more people seem to use Linux now than before so there’s an untapped market here.

I’d think you’d struggle to get even his immediate, hopefully liberal, successors to give it up. There are even more liberal Russians that support Crimea’s annexation on account of it historically and ethnically being seen as Russian, obviously the ethnic cleansing practiced during Stalin’s time helped ensure this. The Crimeans themselves are hard to say because nearly any poll that has actually been conducted on them has been biased one way or the other. I’d still guesstimate that a good majority of them will possibly want to stay with Russia since war support seems decently high there. I don’t think there is an easy path for Crimea to come back to Ukraine even if the Russians agree to relinquish it.

True, but reddit’s portion of bots is also massive. Anecdotally I saw bots constantly in reddit’s comments. I have yet to see one in the fediverse so far.

Prigozhin is probably upset about the war in Ukraine because it isn’t in their interests. They are PMCs, mercenaries. They have no interest in fighing a long protracted war and suffering large-scaled casualties for little gain either politically or monetarily. He also likely smells blood in the water, Putin is in the weakest position he has ever been in as we talk abou tthis even.

Wagner in contrast whilst suffering is in ascendancy. They are the strongest and largest they’ve ever been and seem to be doing a lot of heavy lifting in Ukraine for the Russians. So they’re disastisfied but also seem to have the means to do something about it.

They’d much rather be deployed to fight the more conventional wars that Mercenaries fight these days in the global south. And as long as Putin is in charge there is a good chance Wagner isn’t going to get back to fighting those wars. So it would make sense that they mutiny.