It’s partially a legal issue. There’s a number of potential risks with incorporating outside work. For one, if it turns out that the person who sold you that work was (consciously or unconsciously) infringing on a third party’s copyright, you open yourself up to liability. And there’s also the everpresent question of…

It’s not that simple. The rule of thumb when dealing with derivative works is that any character that can only exist by invoking another author’s copyrighted material are not protected. Sometimes that’s clear cut. If I create an otherwise original character and make her a student at Hogwarts, then I’m infringing on…

Main menu only.

That’s the default string in the game files. It’s normally matched to a localization strings table in the game’s data directory, but you most likely have it replaced by a mod designed for an earlier version of the game, before the Creation Club-specific strings were added. I believe the old-style dialogue menu mod…

This mod is entirely pointless. I totally understand being irritated by the way Bethesda implemented the Creation Club, but this “mod” doesn’t do anything that just deleting the preloaded files would do.

The Apple IIGS was amazing. A GUI that surpassed the Mac’s (with full color, at that) and was more extensible, audio and video hardware that was legitimately impressive for the mid-1980s, and full backwards compatibility with the entire Apple II line of software? It should have killed the Mac in its infancy and…

Trying to insist that FA2 didn’t look dry and arid all over, in spite of having more plantlife than the first game, is just banging your head against wall.

Oh, and to return my original point, which was less about water per se and more about vegetation (though of course the two concepts are closely related), Fallout 4 even has rain and thunderstorms in-game. Which means that it’s that much harder to rely on lack of water as an explanation for the general lifelessness of…

And they could have had more if they felt the need for it. Since even the most fertile regions in both games are relatively arid, there was no need.

Yes, the footprint of the trees is an engine limitation, but they could have made the leafy parts as big as they liked, and just render them transparent like they do with walls, when you pass behind them.

The size of the trees is pretty clearly down to limitations of the engine. Look at Vault City: it’s canonically described as a lush oasis (and actually has the only green grass in the game). It also has the same trees as everywhere else, and, if anything, in less concentration than places like Klamath.

I honestly think you’re misremembering the game. The ground is brown in most places (probably due to the aforementioned drought), but there are trees all over the place.

They also shot those films almost universally in deserts and sandpits to keep the budget low. The sandy wasteland look is extremely common in that genre.

1950s pulp science generally associated radiation with runaway, cancerous growth, not lifelessness and desertification. It was the era of giant insects, lizards, and the Amazing Colossal Man, after all.

Yep. The Game Boy Color remakes were among the final North American releases to sport the “Dragon Warrior” moniker, before someone else’s “Dragonquest” trademark expired and Enix could finally synchronize the Japanese and worldwide names.

And, like Blockbuster, they first take down the entire industry of non-terrible retail stores first. Jerks.

I actually really liked Haru, and thought she got some legitimately interesting development, even if it would have worked better in terms of pacing if you didn’t need to cram it all in during the last third of the game or so. Yusuke was godawful, though, and while I could understand where Ryuji was coming from most of…

Thank you. Yusuke is a creep. There’s the whole thing where his introduction involves blackmailing Ann into posing nude, which he is literally never called to task for throughout the rest of the game. And he’s just generally a collosal ass to everyone. Another key moment is when he criticizes Futaba’s appearance…

I think the fundamental difference with your examples is that it is a cop’s job to enforce laws on speeding. It’s a store store security guard is explicitly hired to stop shoplifters. It is not Kaldaien’s job to stop pirates of someone else’s game. I think there a lot of drivers who would react negatively to having…

Personally, the thing I found weird about this initially, and about the most vocal defenders of it in these comments, is that it isn’t the mod maker’s job to enforce someone else’s IP. I don’t condone piracy in the least, and I stress that I’m not really criticizing the idea that Kaldaien is fully justified to do…