Cethin

I like most of their games. Starfield is the one where I don't think it's got anything worth playing because it's all so disconnected and the writing is horrible.

I would say I love Morrowind, FO3, and Oblivion. Essentially, I like the games that give the player systems to play with, not ones that hold your hand and have a specific way they want them to be played.

As I guess a reasonably attractive man, as the other person mentions, it's probably a volume problem. I end up not messaging a lot of matches just out of apathy. If I don't think their profile is interesting enough, I often just won't message. I'm sure this is at least 10x worse for most women.

If the best you can do is say hello, that's pretty pethetic.

The complaint is that Bumble had something that made it unique: that women sent the first message. On other services anyone can message first, but 99.9% of the time that ends up being the man, which is fine but having something attempt to switch that up was cool. Bumble removing this makes it more like everything else.

Yeah, the old Bumble model was better (in my opinion as a man). It creates incentive to have an interesting profile with stuff people can comment on. The newer "opening move" thing incentivizes generic responses. Bumble (in my experience) still has women message first far more often than Tinder though. You may just have to wait and not message immediately.

Creating an opening message is only really difficult if someone has a generic boring profile, so if it's an issue for anyone maybe that's why.

To be fair, it isn't aware of what source it's using. It's not "referencing" anything in particular. It's just trained to replicate a bunch of data. It doesn't understand it or anything. It doesn't know what came from one source and what came from another, and how accurate any of those are, or what the context of it is. It just generates something that resembles it's data based on the input.

Absolutely not true. All the console creators, sure, but not all developers. There are so many good developers, especially indie.

There's issues with purchasing anything in capitalism. We have to deal with that as long as that's the case though. It doesn't mean Nestlé isn't significantly worse than other campanies though, for example. There are different degrees of bad, and Nintendo is basically the top for gaming.

I would have loved if they let another studio do something with the IP, since obviously there wasn't enough time for Bethesda to make a game for it. Let the Wasteland devs make a top-down classic style RPG with it or something, or maybe let someone make a Fallout Tactics style strategy game, or anything else. Maybe let Paradox make an official version of the HoI4 Old World Blues mod. The IP is big enough that it can be more than just Bethesda games.

You're saying that like there's one Bethesda game. I hate how banal Starfield is. I really don't like how FO4 isn't an RPG, though it's a good platform for content. Skyrim is pretty good with boring quests, especially the main quest. Oblivion is fairly good, though it started the trend of dumbing things down. Morrowind is spectacular. It gives players tools to play with and freedom to figure them out. The writing is generally fantastic. The world feels like it was a world and not a theme park.

I love Bethesda games. I hate the direction they've been heading for a long time. I doubt that's going to change, but it certainly won't if people keep quite about it.

Oh yeah, I didn't mean to imply it would. Just another activitypub platform.

It's not too hard to understand. Some people just like to pretend it's complicated. It's literally the same system email uses, and almost everyone has figured out how to use that. There's no marketing for it though. It's only word-of-mouth, and let's be honest, us fediverse users often aren't the best at communicating simply.

It'd be smart if some fediverse instances provided an email account with your account. Then we can just tell people to create an email account and they'd accidentally have a fediverse account.

There's this weird one I've heard some crazy people use called Lemmy or something. I don't know. They're too niche for me to consider thinking about.

Personally, I think 1 holds up better. 2 isn't bad by any means, but it was one of the first games with physics and the physics puzzles get old fast. It was amazing at the time, but now it's not as interesting because we've seen it a million times.