Why?

The Bethesda that made good games is dead and gone. It’s just several shareholders and Tom in a trench coat wearing its skin like a poncho hoping you won’t notice the smell.

People are going to buy it. It’s going to have “Mixed” reviews and support will be dropped by 2026. It’s going to be a broken, buggy mess on release, break modding and be an overall weak experience.

Why buy it? It’s gonna suck.

Possibly unpopular opinion: You shouldn’t be allowed to refund Bethesda games. You should just be told that any reasonable person would know better than to buy a post Fallout 4 Bethesda game within a year of launch and you should not be covered under any refund policy.

Do you think they would willingly allow that to happen?

I view it from the opposite. Parents know best what their kids would want. Let the parents buy stuff for their kids.

However, this is a great excuse to pick up a craft or hobby that you enjoy and make something for the special people in your life.

I enjoy woodworking, so what I end up doing is getting some small bits of nice hardwoods. Oak, maple, what have you. I buy through the year and I’ll make something like a cute notebook using two pieces of wood and some metal rings. Each one costs me only a few dollars. I spend some time in the workshop and you give someone something that’s unique.

The point is, home made gifts will always be more special than random doodads and widgets.

I made a friend last year who makes cheese. You know what I’m getting for Christmas? A fat wheel of smoked cheese and I gotta say, I’ll take that over whatever can be found on a store shelf.

If you’re also a millennial, I think we all grew up with the mindset of “home made gifts are from poor people”. But today I think it’s the complete opposite. Anyone can hop on Temu, Amazon, Wish or any other sweatshop marketplace and get literally endless amount of plastic trash. But not everyone can make jar cakes or home made marshmallows, a nice loaf of fresh bread or even a jar of home made mead.

Find something you like and spread some good cheer. That’s what it’s all about. While my little wooden notebooks may go unused. A small thoughtful chochky that adorns a shelf still holds a lot of nice memories of Christmas last. While my future cheese won’t make it to the new year (it’s very good cheese) I’ll never forget the best cheese I ever had… especially when I’m making orders for more!

Ah yes. The individual needs to feel guilty about their climate affects.

One billionaire who signed off on this piece of AI slop will have a greater affect on the climate in 90 minutes than I could ever try to achieve in my entire life.

Go to hell.

Such a unique and fun design is going to stand out in our collective culture. Kids are going to love this thing.

Okay…so…I don’t understand how this ties back to community colleges being bad?

I mean. Good luck at real school I spose’

So you tested out of remedial math, but wanted to take it anyway. But it was full. Got it-tracking

So you checked later and slots opened up which is…normal? And you didn’t take it?

And this is the fault of community colleges everywhere?

I don’t get it.

I mean…that sounds like maybe a bad teacher. Not really a reflection of the school.

Why not?

Jeez there’s been a shit ton of astroturfing happening lately. I guess Lemmy is finally big enough to be targeted by these guys.

How much do you all get paid? I’m interested.

Lol

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For everyone who’s posting but didn’t actually read the CVE…

You need Malware with Kernel level access Already. Besides Anti Cheat for modern games, if you have malware with Kernel level access you’re already really fucked.

In addition, this just appears to be a way for that Kernel malware to persist in a device. It’s not impossible to detect. I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw Windows Defender signatures for malware using it within the month.

I haven’t seen the Def Con presentation, but the CVE is a “Maybe”. There is no PoC (Proof of Concept, showing that an exploit works)…yet. keep an eye on that.

The CVE claims this “Could Maybe” allow based on logic, but none of the sources i found showed anyone actually using it. Maybe the Def Con presentation will. But unless I see someone post a repeatable exploit in a real world scenario, it feels superficial.

I want to reiterate that this IS a flaw and it IS a problem. But I would highly doubt you, rando consumer, will be affected.

Mitigations are to not be dumb on the Internet. Keep your browser updated and make sure your sensitive data is backed up and encrypted, basic stuff.

Happy to go in to it more. This is my jam.

I’ve made a comment before in the past when dealing with game publishing. All of the things Steam provides, including worldwide distribution to a lot of regions EGS, MS store, etc don’t sell in because of a variety of laws, Steam just does better.

You pay less because you get less. I’m selling a product. The last thing I’m going to cheap out in is sales. I’m not going to see great sales from the EGS because A)Nobody uses it and B) the shopping experience is terrible. I don’t have access to the same makers and (hearsay) the actual process of getting your game distributed is a pain. I wouldn’t know, I don’t sell on EGS.

Further, we were having a conversation about a problem that doesn’t exist. You’re more than welcome to use Steam and other storefronts.

Hell, you can handle all of the sales yourself AND put it on steam. Most people will buy it on steam simply because that’s where all of the customers are.

Asking Steam to lower their prices because that’s where you’d make the most money is a mind bender.

It’s like trying to sell your hand made Combs. The gas station on the corner is happy to take only 20% of the profit. They’re all over the place and accessible. But you really want to sell it at the boutique shops because they have more comb-seeking customers. But then when they ask for 30% of sales, you balk and tell them that’s too high and they should lower their cut to that of the gas station.

That you’re like, 12 years old? Or at least have the fundamental world view of a 12 year old.

Fukkin lmao “steam is a necessity they owe me to make it cheaper”

Get the fuck back to reddit child. Enjoy your block.

Lmao, thanks for demonstrating my point for me better than I ever could.

This thread contains a lot of great bangers. But let’s play devil’s advocate for just a minute.

Let me know when you build a global distribution platform with 5-9 uptime, credit card processing, full compliance with all of the various laws in all the countries you serve and also provide a cdn for my game for free.

I’ll be waiting. You better pull through on this, you owe the community your labor

“All of these disgusting men use anecdotal evidence to claim they aren’t deadbeat scum. To prove it, here’s my anecdotal evidence!”