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I don’t know which instance is doing this shit (world or ml, I assume), but it’s absolutely removed. 😤

You don’t seem to allow much of anything, lately. It’s all remove this, ban that.

Your instance truly makes Lemmy feel like Reddit at its worst.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Fascism isn’t a tolerable “opinion”.

*lead

Had to do x km/day on the static bike, because fat.

Got no time for that.

Old static bike, with mechanical revolution counter.

Unscrew spinning cable that feeds from the bike into the counter.

MacGyver Lego contraption, with motor, with a pointy bit that fits where the cable would go.

Motor goes brrr, do required km in seconds, plug cable back in, rinse and repeat;, parents never find out (I “exercised” while they were working).

Still fat. 😞

The set of all integers is not larger than the set of all odd integers.

The set of all real numbers, on the other hand, is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinality_of_the_continuum

Red button under the strip.

It’s because the people leaving negative reviews now are the opposite of haters.

We’re the people who still gave a damn, who were willing to put the effort to play the game, who found at least part of it entertaining enough to keep playing despite all the frustrations, who dared hope that the next quest or world or NPC would bring back the feeling of playing the old Bethesda games.

We’re the people who the game finally managed to break despite how much we tried to enjoy it. Who gave up in frustration after the last crash made us lose all the time we’d spent customizing our ship (my case), who lost the will to play after realising we knew what we’d find behind that corner or locked door because we’d already encountered them half a dozen times in exact copies of the same building in half as many planets, who after weeks of trying to find the same sense of wonder we’d found in previous Bethesda games finally gave up after the umpteenth unfulfilling quest bland generic NPC, or cookie cutter location.

And we’re the people who, even after all that, still had enough respect for a company that had once made games we’d loved not to post a negative review… until, instead of acknowledging the game’s faults and trying to fix them, Bethesda started attacking reviewers for their opinions and defending their poor design choices.

Shut up, Todd.

Your game might have been a 6/10 ten or fifteen years ago, but today it’s just outdated in every single aspect.

Not only that, but its characters and quests feel generic and uninspired even when compared to older Bethesda games, and the little background stories that made them great (I still remember that guy falling from the sky just out of Seyda Neen all these years later) are not only entirely absent, but their absence is highlighted by the sheer generic blandness and emptiness of the planets and the cookie cutter repetition of the locations you find randomly scattered on them (often without any consideration for the planet’s nature or environment; I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve facepalmed after finding an outdoors lounging area with sandwiches and whatnot in planets with no breathable atmosphere; and the time Gopher found life in a cookie cutter cave in Earth’s moon without the game acknowledging anything about it just made me feel all kinds of vicarious embarrassment for your game).

And to top that off there’s the bugs (I posted my negative review out of frustration after the last time the game crashed before I could save after spending way too long modifying my ship with that extremely poorly designed ship editor interface — though even that isn’t as bad as outposts; I entirely gave up on those after the first attempt), and Bethesda’s apparent absolute lack of interest in fixing them…

Which gets me to the main reason people are shitting on your game, your company, and you personally now, Todd: the sheer Elon Musk levels of lunacy you and your company have displayed in response to the first wave of negative reviews by telling the reviewers their opinions were wrong, and the fact that said lunacy apparently takes precedence over fixing the damn bugs.

This is no longer about a mediocre poorly written and lazily designed game running like shit on a decades old engine that should’ve been ditched after Morrowind, this is about Bethesda jumping the shark and losing any respect its customers might have once had for a company that used to produce great games. We gave you another chance after the horse armour debacle. We stood by you when your games became formulaic generic fantasy with Oblivion and Skyrim, because the stories were still good. We gave you many chances, because we remembered the good old times and we naively hoped they could come back. And then you showed your true colours (admittedly for the nth time, but hope is hard to break) and outright told us our genuine concerns were, against all evidence (in the year of games like Baldur’s Gate 3!) wrong.

Fuck you, Todd. You ruined it. And it’s quite possible Bethesda will never recover.

Seems like a reasonable demand.

Also, especially in Argentina’s case, because the other guys are literally the worst. ¹

¹ Except that this guy is somehow even more worst. But hey, at least it’s new ² worst.

² It’s not really new. Just the same old fascism ³, with a new shiny coat of paint. ⁴

³ Except somehow even more stupid and irrational than ever before.

⁴ It’s not really paint. ⁵

⁵ Shit. It’s shit. Brightly coloured shit, because of all the blood and other bodily fluids mixed in.

Majestic.

(Though probably not as much if you could smell it.)

Don’t the Asari just seem to look like whoever’s looking at them’s wet dream, due to psychic shenanigans…?

Top left one is just stretching. I’ve seen cats look exactly like that when stretching, same face and all, no stylisation required, other than what’s already naturally built-in due to them being cats.

Top right one is somewhat stylised, but mostly is just high on catnip.

The other two… yeah, those ain’t very good.

25 / 50. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

I don’t suck as much at programming as I suck at everything else.

Seriously, I’m sure we could find some shark with a faster terminal speed if dropped from high enough…

Problem is that stuff seems to be more lemonated caffeine than caffeinated lemonade.

Sounds more like an enlightened centrist to me, but same difference really.

If a maniac wanted to shoot someone ten times, and the victim wated not to be shot, the enlightened centrist would smugly proclaim that the maniac shooting the victim five times would be a just middle ground that’d be fair to both parties, and that the victim would be unreasonable, intolerant, and antidemocratic for not agreeing to it.

Same result, orders of magnitude more hypocrisy and idiocy, and of course you can’t criticise them, since by enabling the maniacs they’re just debating and trying to find a compromise, and disagreeing with them is being hostile and going against the very principles of democracy itself.

Malignant asshats, the whole lot of them, wouldn’t recognize the paradox of tolerance if you violently hit them in the head with it.

Must be a tumour, then. 😞