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I haven't bought much of anything from Amazon in ages but they keep messaging me like I made a minor factual error in a video essay.
Little known fact: the real "Riker Maneuver" ended up costing Starfleet a three million latinum bar settlement.
It's sobering every time a court case hits the national news and lawyers keep trying to reason the case out as though SCOTUS was behaving rationally.
Like the TikTok case is a 1st Amendment slam dunk, but they'll probably sentence them to 1000 years dungeon or some shit.
He's like their Anti-Santa Claus.
I would someday like a Soros Conspiracy person to explain how they can reconcile the numerous right-wing billionaires who are richer than Soros with Soros's supposed unstoppable power
(sigh) We'll start more Mothership Zeta soon, I'm dealing with cat nonsense again. Stay tuned.
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I mean it's been twenty years don't you think if George Soros was funding everything he'd be flat broke by now?
Shit Mike Lindell was only funding stuff for a few months and now he's living in a van down by the river ...
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You'll get a feel of something wrong you just can't put your finger on, and for me it was the fact it's in HD.
You can't really do "videotape scramble" with an HD picture. If they'd presented it in 460x240 like a real 70s show, it would have been much more more unsettling.
If you're concerned, there's not a ton of gore and I really wasn't unsettled by any of it much less truly frightened.
Again, being sloppy with the found footage device just ruins all the tension. It's like splitting the difference between reality and fiction, and failing both.
We go from "long lost shocking footage" to a climax that not only occurs entirely in one character's mind but somehow people watching TV at home can see it?
It's a little nitpick-y, but it does make the whole affair a lot less frightening and more silly than anything.
Seriously, whoever decided to add even that tiny bit of AI shit to the film did a huge disservice to all the performers and crew who had to live with that stupid-ass decision.
Aside from that the film repeatedly abandons its own found footage conceit, making it pointless.
Late Night With the Devil:
I really wish they'd not courted controversy with the AI horseshit, because it hangs over the film no matter what.
It's not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it's also really slick and stylish especially in terms of nailing the feel of the period.
Hard to say.
"Never" is at least six years out if not longer. Starfield is still being developed (no, really), and at the same time work behind the scenes is mainly Elder Scrolls VI.
So Fallout's going to be in the wilderness for a long time, much longer than between New Vegas and Fallout 4.
...We're never getting Fallout 5 at this point, are we? They've effectively turned this disaster into a money machine by introducing subs and the cash shop.
Personally if I wasn't a Fallout megafan, then Fallout 76 would be really off-putting compared to Fallout 4.
I really hope when they're able to release Fallout: London that it's everything we hope it could be, because Fallout 76 just isn't the same experience at all.
Do you want ceilings that aren't rotted wood garbage? Too bad, gotta pay for those. There's no ceiling tiles or anything.
And almost every single interior floor is still bare old wood on the bottom, so you can have nice carpet on floor two but the floor one ceiling is all rotting wood planks.
Plus there's other irritations here and there.
Do you want an interior wall with wallpaper on both sides? Too bad! Unless you learn an exploit that could be patched away someday, you get wallpaper on one side and bricks or wood or metal or whatever on the other.
Defnitely. I have two builds: a sneak/snipe build for when I'm alone, and a power armor/heavy weapons build for group events. I really hate heavy weapons, but little else is viable in a group.
And heavy weapons eat ammo, which you have to make from junk and has weight!
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yea from my playing I always felt that sneak/sniping was something you'd do when you solo explore but group content you want something that goes more loud which
I enjoy the sneak/sniping life, I thrive in fallout when I play a hunter-esque character so it took the fun out of playing group stuff.
In the end the best way to sum up the current state of Fallout 76 is that it's improved since launch, but there are a lot - I mean A LOT - of baked-in annoyances that you're either meant to pay money to avoid, or are limitations of the game itself that you can't mod away like a single player game.
Fallout 76 has really refined the building system, though. Going back to the one in Fallout 4 felt clunky and irritating in comparison.
But then you hit the build limit and, well ... either build a new camp or keep deciding what you want to delete in order to add anything new.
Oh, and there's still no text chat, only voice. And most people (me included) don't want to use voice. So mainly they communicate with emotes or not at all.
Text chat's only available as a mod that breaks every time the game updates, and not everyone uses it.
And since all your in-game unlocks are tied to a single character (not the ones you pay for through the cash store, but the plans and recipes you find in game), the only way to enjoy the quests again is a whole new character.
But it's not like starting over in Fallout 4. It's a big drag.
Once you hit like level 200 or so (which comes faster than you'd think) ... well, you're mostly done.
You can collect new items to build or new armor and weapons now and then, but you have a giant pile of perk cards, your build is essentially locked in and there's not much left to do.
Without the Scrapbox (subscriber only benefit), yup.
You need to store junk to build, but you're so limited on how much you can store that without the Scrapbox it becomes an exercise in frustration.
If you mean to play the game, subscribe. If you don't want to subscribe, just stick to Fallout 4.
It's shocking how quickly you hit the storage limit without being a subscriber.
Essentially, all the stuff in every Bethesda Fallout game to date that can be sorted by the freedom of the console and an unlimited array of mods are essentially hampered on Fallout 76. You're stuck trying to find workarounds just to get to the fun parts and not the chores.
And speaking of builds, but swapping your perk card loadout is a GIANT PAIN IN THE ASS without the Perk Loadout Manager mod. Otherwise you have to swap all your cards in and out manually every. Single. time. www.nexusmods.com/fallout76/mo...
Adds the ability to import custom Perk Card loadouts and swap between them as needed.
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The storage limit also affects experimenting with other builds or play styles because you can only hold on to so many different weapons and armor. Usually three full sets or so.
But that doesn't matter because everyone plays Bloodied builds.
There's also still the storage limit on junk you can only get around by subscribing, and even then you're still limited on storage for everything that's *not* junk: weapons, armor, etc. If you want to collect trophies, tough shit.
Inventory management is 7/10 of the game.
The gameplay itself is very similar to Fallout 4 Survival Mode in most ways, which may not be to your liking. You can't move objects around or interact with the environment like you can in Fallout 4.
The quests are much better than release, but not really great either.
Shelters were meant to fix this, but unfortunately there's a slew of items you can't place in shelters. Vendors? Nope. Resource generating items? Nope. Allies? Nope. So there's little to functional point of ever entering one.
There are things I enjoy about Fallout 76. I love the building aspect, though unfortunately you quickly hit a build limit above ground. Think of it as encumbrance except it's for your design capacity.
The very fact that a Fallout game now has a meta is just irritating.
Do you like sneaking/sniping? Too bad, completely ineffective in group events. If you want to deal high level damage, it's Bloodied or nothing. None of the other builds are anywhere close to its effectiveness.
The very fact that a Fallout game now has a meta is just irritating.
Do you like sneaking/sniping? Too bad, completely ineffective in group events. If you want to deal high level damage, it's Bloodied or nothing. None of the other builds are anywhere close to its effectiveness.
As someone who actively plays Fallout 76 from time to time, I'm going to say ... no.
The author even mentions the one game-breaking meta that's persisted for years as though it's a positive, when instead it just means there's only one effective path to playing the game.
Fallout 76 is good now. Actually, it’s always been good.
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Adding FSR/DLSS to Fallout 4 would have been a slam dunk, especially considering it's effectively a plugin now. It wouldn't have been zero work, but it would have been less work than other things. The performance benefit on PC would have been huge.
Nope.
I'm hearing reports that the update has FINALLY fixed the way settlements incorrectly report happiness and resources, but can't confirm yet.
On the other hand, beyond F4SE it seems to have broken the popular "Rebuild" series of mods in a serious way.
Like here's a chance for a major motion picture to show a healthy and functional polyamorous relationship and NOPE everybody's possessive and playing the other two against each other and "If you don't win this match I'll leave you for the other guy" just fuck you movie
NOW it makes sense.
"Letting deeply psychotic people run rampant through regular society" seems to be a motif.
Ultra-wide stretches the UI to unreadability, the game won't save properly on some Windows 11 installations, and for me personally even though I blocked the update it hosed all my Creation Club stuff.
I had to go find illegal copies of stuff I paid for just to keep playing.
Word's coming down that the Fallout 4 Next Gen patch on PC has been a disaster.
Even if people aren't playing with mods, they're having trouble with saves and crashes. The FPS-tied-to-engine-timing still isn't fixed. Old bugs are reappearing. No performance improvements, no DLSS.
A comedy tour *and* a fucking Netflix special?
Holy shit can I be kicked out of show business too it sounds awesome