Thank you for this article. I was never vocal with my complaints about recent Bethesda releases, but I admit I was always thinking along the line of “blame the game’s engine.” Now I have a better understanding. However, I will say this: when I look at Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 in comparison to other open-world games…

Call it an engine or whatever else you want but this:

This is actually an important part of the conversation that the article is glossing over.

There are some elementary ways we create our games and that will continue because that lets us be efficient and we think it works best.

I could not say it better. They look, feel, and perform the same. They start ugly as sin, and then modders make them look pretty. It’s a lazy way to work.

While I highly appreciate your reporting and every point you make in this article is sound, that doesn’t change the fact that every Bethesda game since oblivion looks and feels like oblivion and those of us who played oblivion to the ground in 2008 are getting tired of playing oblivion for the nth time in 2018.

“We will, however, never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job

...No they don’t? I’ve shopped at some stores for years that never change their layout. Heck, I went back home a few months ago, and the grocery store I remember from decades ago had the same layout.

I worked at a grocery store for years and they didn’t do this. I’ve been shopping at the same grocery store for five years (not the one where I worked) and they don’t do this either. The aforementioned seasonal items are on the seasonal aisles, but those are always in the same place. Everything else is pretty in the…

It’s not a choice. You want the selection and sizes and prices, you pay $50 for membership, and you DO what they say you to DO.... so you stand in lines, you pay for membership and you look desperately for parking... you NEED them, not they need you.

I call bullshit.

Either that, or simply go through the motions without even thinking about it.

They ain’t counting shit in the brief time they’re looking at the receipt.

I dunno. I find it hard to believe the cursory glance door checkers give is for anything other than psychological reasons.

What exactly do they mean by “cashier errors?” Only egregious things like “hey there’s some grossly incorrect number on the receipt” type things, e.g. being charged for 30 pounds of something instead of 3 pounds? Because it definitely seems like they take, like, 2 seconds tops to scan a receipt and I can’t imagine…

“Bowers eventually surrendered and was taken to a local hospital.”

I like how Trump does victim blaming. “Should’ve had armed guards.” How many houses of worship have armed guards? I don’t know, but it should be zero. Even if the synagogue did have armed guards, this “person” was armed to the teeth. He shot, what, four cops? I mean, you might as well hire an armored Marine battalion.…

In a simpler time, the POTUS would have just come out with a statement wholeheartedly condemning this act of violence and anti-Semitism in general.

Amazing how a white dude that critically wounds multiple cops can be taken alive

... that’s probably 150 more tickets than that show would have sold otherwise.