That’s unfortunate. A nice gesture but it’s a bit late. Kind of like removing online DRM immediately before a game becomes abandonware.

Any reason they are releasing it now instead of when the game or the show released?

Yeah it doesn’t help that the Steam version would likely try to auto-update and I don’t believe there is an easy way to downgrade.

I could be wrong about that latter point. There might be an option in the properties menu similar to how you can opt into betas.

I’ll have to watch the BBC interview. The way the article is worded makes it sounds like they’ve been in communication with Bethesda while creating Fallout London.

You might be interested in Portal on the N64 while you’re at it.

I’d check out Narbacular Drop. Pretty sure that’s the game that I’m talking about that became Portal, in a way, later.

There was a good YouTube video about it a while ago but I think it had a clickbait title that makes it hard to find.

I’m not sure. Portal and Team Fortress both have really interesting back stories that I think have a bit to do with Valve acquisitions

What a shame. I feel like mods are an example of how passionate fans are and it’s not impacting Nintendo’s profits if some 12 year old wants to play as Zelda in Trouble in Terrorist Town.

I wonder how long it will be until Nintendo starts targeting other games with a rich workshop community like Teardown.

Same. I was real happy when the MIG Switch came out. I might actually buy a (used) Switch now.

I don’t think it’s required by law for a publicly traded company to increase profits. I think that’s a side effect of shareholders voting.

If Microsoft held a vote on whether or not disclose a report covering diversity I feel like the board would recommend against it and a majority of voters would agree because it could mean decreasing their stock’s value.

There is a thing called ethical investing but that can mean investing in stocks that will see lower gains.

All-in-all I feel like it depends a lot on the core of the company and what percentage of the company belongs to different people.

To be clear: I am not a professional and am drunk. This is just my two cents on the topic.

Another catalyst is one company buying another. I cannot think of one example where the acquired company’s product/services got better after a M and A.

I feel like there have been some positive outcomes of mergers and acquisitions but I am having trouble thinking of them. What comes to my mind is Meta acquiring Oculus, Activision merging with Blizzard, and Microsoft acquiring Minecraft. All of those have led to a shitty Russian nesting doll of launchers and DRM.

The positives might be harder to note though. There must have been a couple times where some kind of acquisition has brought a series into the mainstream.

I know a lot of people prefer the classic Fallout games but I do wonder how people would be aware of the series if it weren’t for Bethesda buying the right to Fallout for example.

“Yeah girl you’re so hot you could eat bread and poop toast”

Is another classic.

Thanks for the response! I think I’ll probably give the news a go eventually. Do you recommend I watch a playthrough of two and three so I can fully understand the story?

I’m still playing the God of War collection for PS Vita. I am not a huge fan of the gameplay so I’m not sure if I will play the sequel. I’m wondering if the new God of War games play similarly.

Do you play any other Doom WADs?

One thing I’ve gotten into doing is instead of starting a new game I just run off in some random direction for an hour. It’s neat to stumble across things you built years ago

I definitely get what you mean

What do you like about Control? That’s one game I’ve been thinking about revisiting

Do you mind talking a bit more about the Morrowind multiplayer? I’d be interested to hear how it works and your experience

What about green hell brings you back? It’s one of those games that has been on my wishlist for a while now

What were the results of your most recent trial?

Here’s an Action Retro video on HaikuOS that briefly talks about the Fallon browser. It compares it to other web browsers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-NMDYT-hCOk