Skryim was generation-defining more thanks to its moddability and the massive loads of content it offered than what it did. Four years later, Witcher 3 was released and showed animations and facial design that Bethesda couldn’t even match with Fallout 4 and an open world both larger AND richer.

So they continue on the road of fulfilling every power-gamer’s fantasy of having their PC a universal genius who can do everything, knows everything and can show to any professional in any trade that they are a rank amateur.

“I don’t know how [Bethesda] made [Skyrim]. It doesn’t make sense to me,” a former employee told Kotaku. “Like it had to have been like monkeys with a typewriter creating Shakespeare. I don’t know how things can be so chaotic and people are still able to do their jobs.”

Let’s be clear here... Musk is an asshole, but he’s not stupid. He has his eyes on the future and whatever potential businesses he may some day own. He just hates the idea that COVID opened the worlds eyes (particularly the US) to the fact that capitalism sucks. He knows that workers have more leverage now than we…

The obvious solution here is to make sure everyone is under a big old non-compete agreement and are not allowed to work anywhere else again if they quit.

If you are rich, you can afford to take vacation, afford child care, afford good health care, and a number of luxuries that people who are not as well off can’ have access to. So they easily run the risk of burn out. And don’t even get me started on people who have to work several jobs just to bring food to the table.

1. Zip2 ($22m), PayPal ($165m), Tesla ($8.5b), SpaceX ($100+b)

Nice, a troll defending trolling and believing throwing expletives constitutes “innovation”.

The Stanford Prison Experiment isn’t remotely as easily interpretable as you make it to be.

“The thing about the world today is there is a lot of division,

The fact that the game was an inoperable joke on PS4 and that CDPR knowingly misled reviewers about its level of console compatibility in no way invalidates the fact that on PC, and running the PS4 version on PS5, it worked pretty much fine at launch and was (and remains) an absolute blast. If you went in expecting…

since one major and pointed absence from the tally is former reality show star Donald Trump.

Yeah, totally impactful to have complete fantasy problems. Can’t have anything that relates to the real world.

Shadowrun, for all its faults and silliness, always nailed the Cyberpunk genre far better then the Cyberpunk 2020 did. A lot of that came down to better writers hired to write the RPGs and fiction.

Weird as it might seem, the fantasy elements help make it ‘feel’ more realistic: no matter how powerful your character becomes, the head of those megacorps is still a LITERAL dragon, and thus always an enemy you must respect to best. Ecological damage doesn’t just give you cancer that will kill you in three decades,…

Like it’s definitely got that 80's-90's cyberpunk flavor but that’s because it’s based on an existing TRPG property and aesthetic.

If you want to know what the structure of cyberpunk is, you’re on the internet - go look things up and do some reading. You might find some slight variation in opinion, but cyberpunk has been around for over half a century - there’s a pretty firmly established historical consensus on what goes into something being…

The surface pleasure was always there. And it’s part of what’s great about a Gibson novel or a film like Ghost in the Shell. But I think you can say that those works have more to say, more going on, without condemning the obvious allure of that surface pleasure.

defining is not gatekeeping. it’s time to stop conflating the two concepts.

A spade is a spade and fabrication is fabrication and bad faith arguments are bad faith arguments.