PuddleOfKittens

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I love people with kids who are oblivious they're shitty parents. in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
Zelenskyy said NATO or nuclear and he ain’t wrong. in c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
[–] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

The right wing has been making loads of pro-Russia noise, but do also try not to alienate their popular support too much before they're in power.

Realistically, Trump will sell out Ukraine to Russia if he's offered a good deal, but there's no point publicly destroying his ability to welch on supporting Russia before he's paid to support them (if you can't afford to walk away, you can't afford to negotiate), and there's no point in Russia paying him before he's actually in power and able to make the US govt cave in the first place.

Elder Scrolls 6 likely won’t revert to “fiddly character sheets” after Baldur’s Gate 3 success, explains Skyrim lead in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

You don't just spam jump, you wedge yourself under an arch or something so that you can trigger more jumps per second.

Skyrim Lead Designer admits Bethesda shifting to Unreal would lose 'tech debt', but that 'is not the point' in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If Bethesda started giving a shit, they'd just overhaul+bugfix their existing engine, rather than switching. Switching engine is entirely unnecessary, because it's not the problem.

Anon gets trolled in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
[–] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Gay: Penetrative sex between a man and a woman, apparently.

Skyrim Lead Designer admits Bethesda shifting to Unreal would lose 'tech debt', but that 'is not the point' in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Their engine is not hamstringing them. Plenty of good games have shipped with Gamebryo/Creation engine, without massive numbers of bugs.

The problem is that Bethesda doesn't give a shit about fixing anything - they ship bugs that have been in previous games, that users have outright identified and fixed for said previous games. They apply the exact same we-don't-give-a-shit attitude to their engine.

Also every engine is "20 years old", Source2 has some code from GoldSrc and Quake Engine, because if the code works perfectly then you don't just rewrite it for no reason. You rewrite parts of the engine - the parts that are holding you back in some way. And Bethesda has been modifying and extending their engine.

But, ignoring all of that, suppose the engine really was the issue: it takes 5ish years to write an engine from scratch. Starfield was in development for 8 years. Skyrim released 13 years ago. Skyrim also released 2 years ago, and a couple of times in between those periods too. Bethesda could have rewritten their entire engine from scratch if they wanted to, in that time.

The problem is that Bethesda just doesn't give a shit about quality, they chose their engine development choice by development choice. The problem is that Bethesda.