Ah, I almost forgot it was officially called Max, they kept the brand ‘HBO Max’ here. During the rebrand they found out we already had a public broadcaster called ‘Omroep MAX’, which is often shortened to just MAX in the names of their programs. Trying to claim that name would probably have not gone well for HBO.

Impressive that it was implemented with just Lua and, from what I could see, without completely destroying the framerate.

Yeah, FO3 wasn’t perfect, but at least it had its darker edges. Feel like a slaver? Sure, no problem, you can enslave random wastelanders and sell them for profit. Screw over BoS? Broken Steel let you do that, RIP Citadel. The Pitt gave an antagonist with a motive which turned out to be a bit more nuanced than it initially seemed. You could roleplay a fat-shaming, racist PoS if you wanted to, instead of presenting only safe options.

Meanwhile a Bethesda game like Fallout 3 had its fair share of flaws, but gave you plenty of opportunity to decide if you wanted to be the good guy or not. Blow up a town? Kill off all residents of Tenpenny Tower, or whack all the ghouls that want to take up residence? Why not all of them? You decide!

It also wasn’t afraid of locking players out of quests if they behaved like an asshole. I liked that, why would somebody try to work with you after you just gave them the proverbial finger?

Far better than ‘oh golly, you just told me that I’m not a nice person. Well, that’s not very neighbourly of you, but I’ll pay you my life-long savings if you hop over to the next hub and return my package that I conveniently know is collecting dust over there, but can’t be bothered to fetch myself’.

Are you telling me we are filled with an industrial-strength solvent? 😱

Onscreen instructions unclear, pressed Shift+6+X. Still stuck in Nano.

I know, and the ‘fuck Microsoft’ is completely warranted for that. But shouting that and then coming up with a story where somebody enabled it themselves and subsequently lost their key, that doesn’t make a lot of sense. Unless it was to illustrate the dangers of FDE, but in that case the point could have been made a bit clearer.

But how is that relevant to your ‘Fuck Microsoft’ if he knowingly encrypted his device, which is how you make it sound?

I’ve enabled FDE on one of my Linux devices, I’ve already had to mount the filesystem in a rescue environment once because a failed update caused the system to be unable to boot. I would also have been hosed if I had lost the encryption key. Ok not really, because that’s what backups are for, but you hopefully get the point.

Good point, although admittedly I’ve had my fair share of Wayland-related issues with KDE. Unless you want those few extra FPS in a game or HDR, is there really a noticeable difference from an average user’s perspective?

KDE is allegedly better because it gives the user more options, but anyone who’s actually used it will tell you that it suffers from the same kind of bloat and braindead design decisions as gnome.

I’ve used KDE on and off for the past 20 years or so. These days I use KDE on my work laptop and Cinnamon on my personal one. Personally I think they both do their job just fine, but apparently I’m in the wrong.

Ah, Wacky Wheels. Played that so much with my little brother. Good memories.

Give DOSBox-X a try btw. DOSBox development became pretty stagnant unfortunately.

Morrowind.

Can you find this person whom wandered off into the ashlands? They went east-ish.

I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit in the Construction Kit to find out where in Vivec’s name I had to go this time. Usually it turned out I just barely missed the person or location I had to go before starting an hourlong search.

But despite that still a game I deeply love.

The only thing thats fake about this is a group of doctors being mystified by any of it.

Sounds more like a teaching opportunity, which was interpreted as an ‘ah, they have no idea what is going on’ moment.

They sure are, unfortunately.

I’m severely intolerant to onions, but I’d still save the taco. I hate wasting food, there’s always the possibility of making somebody else happy with it.

From what I read that actually wasn’t true , at least not for the ‘you wouldn’t steal a car’ (or more officially: ‘Piracy. It’s a crime.’) clip.

At some point everything seemed to use Havok, due to that I personally don’t really have a strong association between Havok and Bethesda games in specific. Just take a look at this (incomplete) list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_using_Havok.

Your comment does make me wonder if the Oblivion remaster kept the Bethesda physics jank, Oblivion wouldn’t be the same if clutter on the table doesn’t start flying the moment you pick up a fork. 😂

Tell me Donald, does your face only look like a Cheeto, or does it also tastes like one? Let’s find out, shall we?

Peak gaming performance you say? No sir, not without a CRT monitor filling that table and an IBM Model M to match. This is a rookie set-up.

With all that brown it’s as if they accidentally took the Fallout 3 colour palette instead of Oblivion’s. Doing a replay now and (Pip) boy, I forgot how bland the Capital Wasteland looks before you get used to it.