AgentSeven

Huh, I just switched to Quad9 this morning. Weird that this popped up.

Things I know I signed up for, on purpose or inadvertently, get one attempt at unsubscribing. If it fails, they're spam and get treated as such. I never actually sign up for these things, but I accept that they put me on these lists when I make purchases or engage with them in some other way. I accept it, but I don't like it - and my patience with them when I try to unsubscribe is extremely limited.

But things I "signed up" for and things Gmail asks me if I want to unsubscribe from - are two very different things. Gmail asks me that question several times a week. I "sign up" for things at a rate more like several times a year. Things that I didn't subscribe to that want me to unsubscribe are just scammers trying to polish their lists up and I'm not gonna help them.

33% of this country thinks everything is going great and so would this asshole if his brother was still alive. I'll feel a shred of sympathy for the first one I ever see say "I want to apologize to everyone whose lives were affected by my vote, I didn't care about what happened to you, only me. I won't make that mistake again." I'm still waiting and I'll be waiting forever because these sociopaths have not the slightest trace of empathy.

15 years later and the Photos app on iOS is still the same nearly useless pile of shit.

I'd say she did or he wouldn't have been so mad. But really by default she would be declared the winner, because he's fuckin' dead.

It's not even in question. Closeted self-loathing homosexuals out themselves all the time with their constant, endless obsession with gay sex. Everything is gay sex. Cat's kibble is low? Gay sex. Nice weather expected? Gay sex.

I can't imagine that this is controversial. The OP doesn't make any sense to me.

Sorry, I hadn't heard anything about CE3 being done. I knew CE1 was Skyrim, I didn't realize that FO4 was still considered to be on CE1, it was a pretty big step up, I'm surprised. So CE2 is Starfield, my thought process still stands, which is: I wouldn't be surprised if they used Starfield as the basis for the Obsidian project, in much the same way as they used FO3 for FONV.

Anyway, it's not important whether they use CE3 or however it washes out, I'm just actually excited by Obsidian doing a new Fallout. Todd can suck it.

What the hell. Some people prefer working on weekends for a whole host of reasons. Legislating days that a business can't do business is stupid and when it's a Sunday, it's almost always the religious morons who pushed for it. It's not coming from some altruistic give-people-more-time-off ideal.

I don't believe that Obsidian will be using CE3, I believe they will use the same engine as FO4/Starfield. I don't think they will be tasked with pushing the technology further now any more than they were tasked with it for FONV. They may extend it a bit (like how they added weapon mods in FONV) but their focus will only be on releasing an entertaining title quickly (and I think the whole idea to bring Obsidian in was a great decision on Microsoft's part). I think the other group will be tasked with moving the engine forward for FO5 and ESVI.

I agree with your assessments of both FO76 and Starfield. I played them both, but only because I got free accounts for both of them, FO76 on Xbox and Starfield I got a month's worth of free Game Pass and played it via streaming. They're both terrible. FO4 was also pretty terrible, imo. I've enjoyed replaying the Oblivion remaster more than anything they've done since Skyrim. So, I'm also not holding my breath for what comes next and you might be 100% right, but I do like the Obsidian angle for this reason, if nothing else: the competition will put Todd's incompetence on display. Todd's not the only game in town now, and for the first time in over a decade, he might be feeling some heat.

Edit: if they do use the FO4 engine, I hope they correct every stupid mistake they made in FO4 the way you can do it yourself with mods.

They knew what they were doing.

Also what, like, Bethesda is going to somehow make the Creation Engine not a giant pile of shit, with now 15 more years of acculumated technical debt from never doing a full ground up rebuild... ?

We've been saying this since Morrowind: Oblivion, Fallout 3, Skyrim, Fallout NV, Fallout 4 - Gamebryo sucks, what are they going to do to this wheezing trash heap etc etc - and every time they do the same thing: update the graphics and gameplay marginally, introduce new elements (dual wielding magic, radiant quests, settlement building, whatever) release it as the "new" version (outrageously buggy ofc) and largely let the mod community fix it. I'll go out on a limb here and say that's probably what FO5 and ESVI will also do, it's the path of least resistance and nobody will be bringing out their surprised Pikachu faces.

I don't really care all that much because I like the games, none more than FONV, so I'd be happy for Obsidian to hot rod FO4 into something equally interesting.