...you, uh... you do realize you can disable all of the “spyware” bits of Windows 10, right? Easily? In one settings window? And most of it is disabled by default? That’s been the case since shortly after it launched years ago.

Though if you have a Windows 7 install set up just right for you, more power to you. But…

Or he simply has higher standards than you and realized that this isn’t f*cking BROKE.

That’s DEFINITELY what it seems like to me, and I say that as someone who still marginally enjoys the game, despite it being an objectively bad product.

Incidentally, side note: That’s something people miss for some reason. You can like a bad product. Bad movies have their fans who realize they’re bad, and there are…

That’s precisely what it was at launch. It was pretty bad. It has, however, reinvented itself pretty thoroughly since launch. I played the ESO beta and post-launch a bit and left because it was garbage, but I came back when the Morrowind expansion launched last year, and it was basically a completely different game.

But…

...ailing? ESO’s been steadily growing since the Morrowind expansion dropped in 2017. It’s regularly among the top five most played MMOs, and it’s even occasionally in the top three. It’s doing remarkably well, thanks in no small part to basically re-inventing itself. Though, granted, when it launched it was utter…

While I can’t speak with authority, speaking as a one-time journalist: yes, almost certainly. Journalism, regardless of type, pretty much demands long hours for often mediocre to downright poor pay. 60-hour workweeks on a $30k salary is not uncommon in the industry. This is also why I speak as a one-time journalist;…

...that’s never been Bethesda’s style, though. Like, at all. They’ve always fully supported mod development, including overhaul mods like this one.

I doubt they’ll care. It’s not a subscription service or anything, so it’s not like they’d be losing money to people playing it offline. Although playing it offline does rather defeat the purpose... probably easier just to run the private servers that they plan on rolling out post-launch, given that Bethesda has…

“Now, Rowling has said that Anthony Goldstein was Jewish in the series, although it’s not mentioned in the books at all.”

To be fair, with a surname like Goldstein, it’s not hard to accept that she did, in fact, intend for him to be Jewish, and used a Jewish surname as a stand-in for actually explaining it more in the…

I’m not saying it’s okay for mobile gaming. I AM saying that the monetization schemes for PC/console gaming and mobile gaming are different. They objectively are. There literally isn’t a PC/console game from a mainstream developer that utilizes, say, the Dungeon Keeper monetization model. There isn’t even anything…

While I understand the utter distrust of all things EA, comparing mobile games and PC games is a bit disingenuous. It’s true that some mobile game monetization elements are working their way into PC gaming, but A.) they’ve been facing a whole lot of backlash when they do and B.) things like Dungeon Keeper are extreme…

Lost my mom to cancer when I was a teenager. So I thoroughly, wholeheartedly, completely 100% agree: fuck cancer.

Correct. That was physics at work - he went from however crazy fast he was going to a dead stop instantly.

I like your thinking.

No. Unfortunately it doesn’t. The repeal of Net Neutrality will continue as scheduled. If this passes both chambers of Congress and Trump, it will simply reinstate the Net Neutrality rules that are being repealed in June.

The same Trump that really likes winning, and who would see someone he appointed getting “defeated” by a Congress he doesn’t exactly have the best relationship with as losing. The same Trump who enjoys being contrarian, and so wouldn’t really give a damn if both chambers of Congress supported it. That Trump.

Statements do have power. Yes, he can (and almost certainly will) veto it in the unlikely event it gets to his desk, but this? This is an issue that a majority of voters in both parties agree on. Let me say that again, because in our current hyper-partisan political state, this is crazy: a majority of voters in both…

Well, there’s the fact that by vetoing it he’d be backing the guy he appointed to the FCC. Also the fact that Trump likes money and some very big and very wealthy companies would really like it if Net Neutrality would go and quietly die in a corner. Seems like two fairly solid reasons for him to veto it to me.…

Trump can and almost certainly will veto it.

I mean... there isn’t, really. Assuming it gets past the House - which is exceptionally unlikely - it will almost certainly be vetoed by Trump. And barring some dramatic full reversal in the GOP regarding their pro-corporate anti-consumer stance on things, there’s pretty much no way it gets a veto-proof majority.

It’s…