A lot of Nintendo remasters have done retranslating or merging of several languages’ translation choices lately so it is a possibility

Top ten lifestyle choices that raise the odds of you discovering an SCP irl

Yep! That was another long running drama that I think he eventually got argued down into adding an MCM toggle for the portal ruins lol

The Skyrim Unofficial Patch primary contributor and maintainer Arthmoor is a talented modder but also very controlling of his mods.

Basically there are a number of instances of Arthmoor trying to shut down mods that try and fix or revert various more subjective changes of the Skyrim Unofficial Patch, and also instances of him issuing DMCA takedowns of people rehosting a removed version of the Unofficial Patch (because it was the last version still compatible with Skyrim VR).

(Just don’t look too closely at the clusterfuck drama that surrounds the Skyrim Unofficial Patch in particular…)

I need to know the Silent Hill 3 explanation. Like what’s the bit or what’s the reason, one of the two

Again, I am not talking about what’s going to happen tomorrow or next year. It might not be ten years from now either (at least I hope not). We are already seeing the impacts now, yes, but we’re not at 1.5 C yet nor at 2 C yet.

These events do happen already, just not globally. Drought in the US in 2021 destroyed some states’ grain harvests, some states saw an almost 50% drop compared to 2020. For now, other states pick up the slack, or other seasons’ planting does, but as we get closer to 2 C, the extreme weather events become more frequent and more widespread.

I don’t know what “very, very” is supposed to mean here. What is the lynchpin of domestic agricultural production in the US or China that would result in a 50% fall in crop yields?

Drought, heat killing plants, floods, soil erosion and disruption in fertilizer production and supply lines.

China is not currently preparing for 50% crop shortfall globally, but food security and independence is a major concern for China and Xi has talked about it repeatedly.

You’re not thinking long term enough. What if, over the course of the year, all the biggest producers of staple foods see a 50% loss of crop yield? That there’s just not enough to go around, full stop. Some countries who normally export their yields won’t. Countries that depend on imports will not have enough food to go around, amd the richest will do their best to buy up whatever is available because the alternative is becoming a failed state. There will be failed states.

Some countries will have stored grain, corn, etc as a buffer against this. But then what happens when there’s a 50% loss in global crop yield two years in a row?

China is already considering this scenario and is trying to make plans to prepare against it, but we’re all running out of time and nitrogen fertilizer is both very energy (ie fossil fuels) dependent and necessary for the crop yields the global population needs to survive.

Our food production is very, very vulnerable and is going to be one of the biggest instigators to everything falling apart.

Yeah, I relate to all of this so I appreciate you posting this. Sometimes it feels like the more I’m out touching grass, the more I’m thinking about all this.

Everything that makes me happy has this expiration date hanging overhead and it keeps making me think about how long it’ll last, what things will be like ten years from now, if I’ll even remember or look back fondly on any of this.

I don’t even have a conclusion to my thoughts or this post, just that you’re not the only one.

Look, I get why people say this, but ‘There will be 100k or so humans living in a dead biosphere filled with plastic and unexploded ordinance with an increasingly out of control climate’ isn’t exactly a comforting thought when we are looking at the magnitude of unimaginable human suffering that everyone who lives that long will be witness to before humanity gets to that point.

Extinction? Yes, it’s possible that humans avoid it. But that seems irrelevant to the whole seeing the apocalypse before we die thing.

I don’t know if I agree with that. If we see mass simultaneous famines (and we’re already seeing worrying impacts on crops this year), shit will hit the fan really, really fast, and I don’t think there’s any guessing what comes out of the other end of that process.

Don’t play pokemon picross it’s a bad game 💔

Only play it if you feel like expending the effort to hack yourself 9999 of the premium currency (that you can no longer buy legit anyways lolllll)

That headline had me primed to expect The Hard Times lmao

Sure, I’ll add that to my worldview

To quote comrade Finger, they had a good thing going. Whales would dump money into remote raiding and that backbone supported dolphins and minnows who could both host and join raids via pokegenie, which was a completely independent third party organization that Niantic didn’t have to manage or moderate. All Niantic had to do was continue their normally scheduled content treadmill and reap the benefits.

The whole ‘but the whales are burning through content too fast, Niantic had to stop them’ explanation doesn’t hold water for me. Wouldn’t Niantic rather have some portion of whales get burnt out and drop off the game for a while until the next content release rather than shut off that revenue stream entirely?

I dunno, to me the only explanation that makes sense is there’s something about human movement tracking that Niantic really, really wants.

The feds are running Pokémon Go (and possibly other copycat AR games) to harvest data on human movement and shopping patterns, and the feds are the ones who forced Niantic to dismantle the remote raiding economy and focus almost entirely on in person raids.

A development studio deliberately stopping whales from dumping money into them (ie the previously unlimited remote raid passes) is kind of a jaw dropping moment.

To be fair, Red Dead Redemption had the whole Dead Eye mechanic which is somewhat similar. Bethesda could have included a bootleg tweaked/reskinned VATS called ‘ultrafocus’ or whatever.

The worst part of this is that the fundamental problem with leaving it up to the modders is that the modders need a framework to go off of, the more robust the base game, the more robust the mods, otherwise everyone’s stuck waiting around for a programming wizard to come up with solutions.

Custom animation framework in Skyrim was a nightmare for years before community effort finally got a good system going. Changing seasons in Skyrim was a floated possibility during a developer game jam circa 2013 but without that ever being released it took modders ten years to implement their own version.

The Fallout 4 weapon system actually ended up being a huge hindrance to the modding community, not to mention what a pain in the butt handling power armor weapon animations was.

Could modders implement a version of spacewalking eventually? Maybe there’s an elegant solution, maybe it’ll be something super jank and only ironed out five years from now. Could modders implement more modular ship furniture? Yeah, I bet, but imagine how much better the mods could be if Bethesda had done it themselves?

I have to wonder if Bethesda’s content frameworks were more concerned with future proofing their own walled garden downloadable content shop and leaving the rest of the modding community to fend for itself.

Death Stranding is one of those games I consider to be good but at the same time I also believe that the vast majority of people will not enjoy playing it. Like Elite Dangerous.

Why do you have to jiggle the control stick in order to detach parts from constructs. Why not just have a dedicated button. Why include an intentionally unpleasant and sadistic game mechanic like that. Why