There’s also the Luigi route.

THEY died so YOU could be distracted from the Epstein files. Remember that, and never take it for granted!

Another poster addressed that, I’ll just point you to their post/my reply instead of starting the conversation over:

https://slrpnk.net/post/40388810/23372085

Yes.

Glad you had a better experience. It was a real disappointment for me - not just the game, but Bethesda still stood out as company that’s passionate about games. Seeing them abandon that for a quick buck really did sting.

Yeah but the latter will render you incapable of caring that it’s a problem if you hit it hard enough.

It showcases how little pride they put into their franchise. Like… if I need a frame built for a new house construction, and the local meth addict offers to do it for 1/10th the cost of the cheapest actual framing company, and I say “Sweet! Let’s have the meth addict do it!” …and he does a predictably shit and unfinished job despite claiming he could do it just as well as professional framers… the main problem here isn’t that a guy who’s brain was fried by meth framed my house, the problem is that I hired someone who’s brain was cooked by meth to frame my house!

Shitting on Zenimax Online Studies is like pinning the situation on the addict.

Launch wasn’t as bumpy as FO76, but it was still pretty bad in the sense that the gaming community realized it was another false-advertising cash grab very clearly built around a microtransaction sales model, which they switched to after the first wave of misguided subscribers realized we’d been duped. They leaned heavily on Skyrim’s success, citing things like combat having that kind of weighty feel - swing a sword into a shield and you get that rebound like two items with real mass just hit eachother. ESO didn’t even attempt to replicate that like they promised, but delivered combat animations that felt more like a bad WoW knockoff, with two models just swinging at eachother but not actually responding to the contact in any way other than the healthbar ticking down.

It’s another example of over-promising and under-delivering. If it didn’t have the Elder Scrolls stamp on it and was marked as the C-tier medieval fantasy MMO that it was, and priced accordingly, it would have been received just fine.

But their initial charge was $60 plus a $15/mo subscription AND microtransaction bs… which for the ‘Skyrim but an MMO’ experience we were sold, many of us stood ready with the wallet open. Didn’t take long at all for the gaming community to notice the difference between the brand new Lamborghini we were sold didn’t exactly match the third-hand Honda Civic we received.

Elder Scrolls enshittified. I won’t complain if they make a comeback, but I’m not holding my breath either.

After the shit shows of Fallout 76 and Elder Scrolls Online, I don’t think I actually give a shit about either anymore.

I’ll be pleasantly surprised if it’s not shit.

In our defense, most of us can’t even speak English.

Now in all new MANDATORY flavor!

They still don’t seem to get it.

Murican here. Assuming we don’t get it is the best case explanation for our collective bullshit, and frankly we don’t deserve that kind of benefit of the doubt. Ignorance detracts from intent. We all knew exactly what we voted for: the warnings sounded like an air raid siren. The nosedive we’re stuck in is because the majority of our voters are evil. …not that there’s any shortage of stupid going around here, but innocent stupidity cannot explain the consistent storm of human rights violations coming from our country.

And before anyone starts spitting up Hanlon’s Razor, that philosophy is a nice fantasy, but simply doesn’t apply to the reality we’re stuck in.

Anyway, we’ll get what’s coming to us, and we’ll deserve it. Sucks that the rest of the world has to deal with our bullshit though - y’all deserve a better neighbor.

Honestly I think the bigger problem for theater revenue is less the quality of the film, and more the theaters themselves.

They charge three months rent for a bag of popcorn, a kidney for the ticket, and the remainder of your life of slave labor for medium soda.

Even smuggling in the noms, the cost of the ticket alone isn’t worth the experience… the experience being shitty, squeaky seats, the smell of butter, cigarettes, and BO, obnoxious customers who are incapable of shutting the fuck up, and some fucking redneck sitting right in front of you with a 10 gallon cowboy hat that’s obstructing about a quarter of the screen.

The live action lazy remakes are just icing on the cake.

Timothy Mcveigh likely broke the law when he bombed the post office in Oklahoma.

It’s only warm for a second; then it’s cool!

We took a personification of disease, and made him Health Secretary. Dafuq did we expect would happen?

Shitting ourselves is far from the worst case scenario here.

Oh fuck no. There are a handful of people from highschool I wouldn’t mind catching up with, but the vast majority of them I either never met well enough to form an opinion, or actively disliked.

…and as long as it’s been, every single one of us is a completely different person now. It’d basically be like meeting a few hundred complete strangers. And at that point, I can just go to a bar or something and meet complete strangers right here - why travel to reunion for that?

Excellent! *champagne*

Can we still celebrate the sudden reduction in evil secondary to his death?