I put the link on the Daggerfall word, it’s this one - https://www.dfworkshop.net/

Others have mentioned Elder Scrolls, but nobody recommended Daggerfall yet, so it’s one of my picks. Yes, the 1996 game, which you can play on Unity for a much, much better experience overall. Since the game is free, you don’t need to pay a thing. Combat won’t feel good, tho.

If you enjoy space games, X3 Albion Prelude might be a good option. It’s “open world” in that you can go anywhere right from the start, but the main gist of the game is to get rich so you can get the capital ships. Ship to ship combat is fine, each ship class has strengths and weaknesses. It has a learning curve and can feel needlessly convoluted at times

Kingdoms of Amalur isn’t really open world, but its combat is awesome. Get the original, non-remastered version, and it should run on your stronger PC, hopefully.

+1 for Morrowind. Be sure to play via OpenMW. It fixes a LOT of stuff and gives many quality of life improvements

Where’s the train? Why is there no train in the solution?

Don’t forget the pitch is “free to taxpayers”, so you gotta tax kindly ask for money from people who aren’t paying taxes and most likely will never use said bridge.

“Help us fund the next bridge disaster!” Is certain to attract money

I love theory, it can completely sidestep reality and sell a solution nonetheless. It works in theory!

but in the past you needed to log in to your phone at least once a month for the web session to keep working. Is it that still the case?

Yes, unfortunately. From my limited experience trying to get it off a smartphone, leaving the number on a dumb phone and trying to activate on a sim-less smartphone, it simply won’t work if doesn’t detect a mobile number in its host Android

It doesn’t use servers to keep messages, so when you first access from outside the “original device”, it downloads the last few received messages of every conversation still in your phone, but rarely everything.

Of note, Playtron’s CEO is Kirt McMaster, the asshole who destroyed CyanogenMod for profit. Ars Technica’s comment section isn’t holding any punches on how unlikely this is to even become a finished product, much less something actually competitive against Steam Deck

Which crypto is the easiest to actually use (send/receive), can handle 1k transactions per second (a bit under 5% of VISA’s TPS) and is least likely to suffer wild price fluctuation? Honest question

I wonder how often Visa and Mastercard had to deal with those problems up to the early 2000s, with nearly every porn site being paid access and none of them accepting Paypal, as far as I remember.

Crypto would be great if the idea wasn’t “zero-trust money exchange”. That is the root of the problems with high payment fees, super slow transaction throughput and excessive resource (storage space, energy) consumption

How are these companies so out of touch?

Skinner’s voice: No, it is the customers who are wrong!

Translation: making very shit console games gives little returns, whereas making mobile f2p shit is not only cheaper, but with better returns.

Nah, I think he’ll have lots of fun in a 2x2 jail cell with unhealthy doses of CO2 and CO for the rest of his life.

the tone around the (Microsoft-Actiblizzard) merger was largely dominated by vocally supportive Xbox players and commentators

Excuse me, what? I guess my social bubble is thick as fuck, because I didn’t see a single person supporting that megacorp scale merger.

These two concurrent pushes (of marketing good vibes image) resulted in a landscape that was, at best, reluctant to discuss the potential harm of its acquisitions and, at worst, actively rejected it because Xbox’s “good guy” image and messaging had so thoroughly seeped into the foundations of shared community spaces and broader gaming consciousness

Feels like a load of bullshit, then again I don’t even know where the cool kids hang out, so it could be me.

The superficial artifice of Xbox’s brand permeates every corner of video game marketing. It’s an endless parade of phrases that don’t quite mean anything and campaigns designed to romanticise and humanise the company’s seemingly bottomless appetite for growth at all costs.

I guess this is why I didn’t buy into the previous paragraphs, I just assumed people were “too smart” to fall for so much corporate bullshit.

Microsoft closed the day with a $3 trillion valuation for the first time in the company’s history.

3 trillion with roughly 20k employees now. I wonder how much of that value is assigned to its workforce, like “of the 3 trillion our company’s worth, our workers are worth 100 billion” or something.

“Those freeloaders were eating from my profit pie!”

I doubt the people behind it were expecting to hit 300k concurrent players within the first weekend of the early access. Even Craftopia’s launch only hit around 26k

Saw that the game was made by the folks that are behind Craftopia, which definitely explains why it looks and plays the way it does, “without a vision”. Here’s to hoping this one actually gets finished and released.

Please bring back cheat codes.

They exist behind paywalls nowadays.

Perhaps the real irony is that only PC still lets you cheat for free in single player games nowadays, but you have to download a trainer (which might have dubious origin), or just learn how to use CheatEngine and look up for ready tables for games

So the game is essentially Gotham Knights but with guns