SDDM (and GDM) can be a pain sometimes, so I welcome this.

The Fedora 42 Beta is looking very tempting right now…

The anti-Ferrari

I think Bethesda didn’t have a choice but to partner with someone, as they don’t have the in-house experience with UE5.

I imagine part of why they’re even doing this with an old (and internally well-understood) game is so that they can use it as a good starting point to learn UE.

I actually think this is why Sony keeps remastering The Last of Us anytime there’s new hardware. It’s not so much they feel the game needs it and it’s the only way they can keep people playing the series, it’s a way for their developers to properly test new hardware and software, using assets they broadly already understand and have on hand.

At least it’s not Skyrim again, but god damn it, Morrowind is what we really need a remaster of.

I tried to play it recently and it’s just one of those games that was great at the time but has aged extremely poorly. It’s not even about the graphics, more how ‘clunky’ everything is.

UE5 is interesting. Obviously a big change with a lot of benefits, but modding will certainly be more difficult. Bethesda will actually have to put serious effort into this – pushing a game out and letting the community fix it only works if your game is extremely easy to modify.

I also feel somewhat bad for the people who’ve worked tirelessly on the Skyblivion project.

Seeing this late, but thank you very much, that’s very kind ☺️

You’re right. People say “1984” to mean “dystopia” or “things I don’t like about modern society”.

Tangentially related, there was a survey a while back that found most people who say they have read 1984 haven’t actually read it. So that may be part of it.

Personally, if we’re going with the classic dystopian novels, I think we’re more aligned with:

• The anti-intellectualism/distraction from the real issues like we see in Fahrenheit 451. Arguably we have already started the book-burning. (Tbf, there’s also practically no pre-big brother material in 1984, so clearly they went down the same route, although Orwell didn’t go into that as deeply as Bradbury)

• Keeping people docile with an endless stream of entertainment content and consumerism like in Brave New World.

…than we are with the “Oppression through fear and brainwashing from an all-powerful, all-seeing government” that we see in 1984.

But even then there are significant differences. E.g. unlike in Brave New World, there’s no government-provided Soma drug to further placate us. Well, not unless you believe the chemtrail conspiracy theories lol

My birthday today too, although I’m unfortunately not 25…

I didn’t have a PS2 (Dreamcast and Xbox in my household), but I do remember frequently staying at my cousin’s house and playing NFS, GTA, Simpsons hit and run, and SpongeBob battle for bikini bottom on his

If most drivers said this I’d laugh and say yeah right. Lewis or Alonso say it, and I believe it.

Just comes down to whether he’s fine with not driving to win championships anymore.

I said it in another thread, but…

Good guy EA.

It is unlikely I will ever say that sentence again, but I hope they prove me wrong.

I don’t know how you could possibly come to that conclusion. The RB was pretty good last year. I don’t buy into the theory that the car was a piece of shit.

I don’t think it will be worse, but it obviously could be far worse

Good guy EA.

Weirdest sentence I’ve ever written lmao

2024 was certainly far from his best season, but in 2023 he was battling for 2nd in the WDC in the 4th best car, and in some races it was easily worse than that.

Even under regulations that don’t suit his style, Lewis can still be rapid.

Gee, I wonder why Verstappen, Red Bull, and Horner most of all would receive boos…

That said, I don’t see why the FIA feels the need to wade in on this? There’s not a lot they can do if fans decide they don’t like something. What are they gonna do, fine the fans now too?

The FIA should get back to governing motorsport, not trying to insert themselves into any and every drama. I feel they only give a shit about the booing because they themselves also got booed.

By extension this surely means that Hamilton is having to adapt too.

Both of them are fairly adaptable drivers IMO, so I’m sure they’ll be able to perform well with what they’re given.

Hahahaha

I’m sorry my corrections to all your many errors are bothering you.

You got a pro managing it?

\sigh

Spaces before a full stop? Really?

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