I was going to say at least they didn't try to bring Garrett back but then I watched the trailer.

Not too long ago, the government systematically collecting people's DNA would've been the subject of conspiracy theories. Now it's bipartisan policy. The next few decades are gonna be dark.

If James Earl Jones signed over the rights to his voice in the full knowledge it would be become the butt of jokes in some warped AI version of Darth Vader in a shitty videogame, that's one thing. But I have a feeling he had actual films and TV in mind.

Yeah I'm sure this mod is a huge threat to this obscenely wealthy company.

It's interesting how the perception of Oblivion has changed since 2006. Back then it was a popular game but there were a lot of criticisms of it. The repetitive nature of oblivion gates, the uninspired generic fantasy setting (compared to Morrowind), the level scaling, the horse armor. I remember the Dark Brotherhood questline being heralded as a bright spot in an otherwise dull game.

RogueSix wrote on Apr 26, 2025, 17:46:
So, Bethesda is making me a rapist by association if I play Oblivion IV Remastered? OK. Cool logic, PC Shitrag Gamer.

Phew. Glad I held off for a sale. But what does that make me when I finally get it? A cheap rapist? That it?

Or how about you simply go fuck yourselves, PC Toilet Paper Gamer?

What a bunch of fucksticks...

Unhinged.

Jim wrote on Apr 20, 2025, 15:19:
There are two trains of thought for AI.
The first is that AI will decimate jobs and make everyone worse off.
The second is that AI can support people doing existing jobs and make them better
Will be interesting to see which comes true.

There's a third one, kind of like the second one except it makes things worse.

AI's ushering in a culture comprised of meaningless Content For Content's Sake. Just a whole lot of "stuff" that says nothing, means nothing, contributes nothing. Look what we're talking about here, a demo of something entirely derived from things that already exist. There's no purpose to it. Just like the Studio Ghibli filters, a pointless act of content creation that someone glances at for half a second and then scrolls past.

Carmack's power tools analogy only goes so far because with power tools you still have a human tradesperson directing their use. If power tools were erecting buildings automatically but randomly used the wrong joins or something else risking building collapse because they fucked up every so often, the construction industry would probably ban their use.

Probably a good thing it's a remaster and not a full remake. Remember when someone tried to remake the midwife model and turned them into sexy big titted zombie babes? A light touch is what you want.

So anyway, Kotick was in Epstein's little black book.

Analyst feels urge to go viral.

What a shitshow of an industry.

FTW wrote on Feb 24, 2025, 01:34:

Squirmer wrote on Feb 23, 2025, 16:14:
We don't want to see censorship so it would be nice if westerners were capable of some introspection too. Try saying "free Palestine" in a western game and see how far you get. Western censorship is rife, it's just enacted in different ways.

You don't get put in prison, though. Stop with the moral equivalency inanity. You got your social credit points on your post. Take that win.

I didn't say anything about moral equivalency, I'm just saying censorship is enacted differently.

But if we're talking physical punishment by the state, we might look at how police forces were unleashed on peaceful Palestine protestors on college campuses in the US over the past year.

We don't want to see censorship so it would be nice if westerners were capable of some introspection too. Try saying "free Palestine" in a western game and see how far you get. Western censorship is rife, it's just enacted in different ways.

Razumen wrote on Dec 19, 2024, 20:11:

Squirmer wrote on Dec 19, 2024, 16:58:
"Hobbyist" is a very euphemistic way of saying "pedophile".

What an odd thing to immediately jump to...

Not sure why it's an odd thing to assume people will be using an "uncensored AI video model" for. If you're really that naive then I'm genuinely pleased for you.

"Hobbyist" is a very euphemistic way of saying "pedophile".

A female protagonist hey, looking forward to the next few years of gamer discourse on whether The Witcher has gone woke.

Anyone who doesn't acknowledge VR is a dead-end technology is fooling themselves. It didn't take off in the 90s, it didn't take off in the 2010s, it hasn't taken off in the 2020s. It never will. It's DOA.

"the device is not a product made for the masses, but for those who want to experience tomorrow’s technology today"

This is the typical garbage. VR is always tomorrow's technology, it's just over the horizon, it's the future, it'll happen one day!!! Thirty years later...dead as it ever was.

ForgedReality wrote on Oct 26, 2024, 18:14:

Squirmer wrote on Oct 26, 2024, 17:27:

ForgedReality wrote on Oct 26, 2024, 15:28:
Never played it because of how fugly the main character is. Also not a console gamer. 🤣

Genuinely curious, what's your mindset while playing a game with male player characters? Do you want to fuck all those men?

Who said anything about fucking? I just don't want to have to stare at something repulsive for an entire game where the main character is going to be featured the most. And what's with the homophobia? Big yikes. 😬

Nice try but you're the one suggesting you only want to look at characters you find attractive so I'm genuinely asking what your mindset is. Let's cut through the bullshit here, saying Aloy's character model is 'repulsive' is nonsense and you know it, it's just edgelord anti-woke gamer bullshit.

ForgedReality wrote on Oct 26, 2024, 15:28:
Never played it because of how fugly the main character is. Also not a console gamer. 🤣

Genuinely curious, what's your mindset while playing a game with male player characters? Do you want to fuck all those men?