Any long time TES fans here? There is a lot of discussion in Reddit about how older TES games seemed to have a larger variety of game mechanics that have been stripped on newer game releases. People getting really upset when saying Skyrim is a dumbed down Oblivion and Oblivion is a dumbed down Morrowind and Morrowind it a dumbed downed Daggerfall.

I didn't notice this as much when going from Morrowind to Oblivion. I never did play Daggerfall. But I did notice it quite a bit when going from Oblivion to Skyrim. It felt like arcadification and making it simpler for console players. Which is a reason I play modded to get more features back.

So I put it succinctly: Skyrim was made less sophisticated to appeal to larger less sophisticated audience.

I currently prefer playing Skyrim because of the large modding community adding new content, the amazing modded graphics, and the large amount of mods adding features from previous games. But I also realized something about myself when playing Skyrim. Part of the reason for its appeal is that the base game is less RPG like in the traditional sense. It is more visceral and hand on, gritty even. This appeals to my unga bunga side. While still giving me the RPG details I like out of games. On the flip side I play modded Minecraft because it is technical and requires thinking.

So for me: unga bunga game is Skyrim, technical game is Minecraft.

Did I go to far trying to describe the arcadification of Bethesda games?

Am i the only one who fucking loves it when YouTubers find old “call toll free” numbers or old numbers for various sweepstakes/contests, games, help hotlines whatever and actually call them? Especially when they still work….

so good to go back to code you wrote 6 years ago, and realize you improved both its readability and its computation complexity in a more recent rewrite

it's like you won bingo against yourself or something

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Most scary

What a distopia: https://youtu.be/X2sEoZG8EIw/...

I have so much words about this, don't even know where to start.

This made me angry, like really angry. Every minute is disturbing.

I don't know why, but the backrooms sound, e.g. the generic transformer hum, is so soothing to me. Call me crazy, but oh how I want my room, and maybe my entire apartment, to resemble a 2000's office. Think cs_office map, but for real!

I know it's probably because of my childhood, but I constantly feel like I'm being watched. Not just watched, but at any time a vague authority figure will rush into my room and make me do things because I'm long overdue on everything for some reason.

This notion somehow completely falls apart when I'm inside some office, the closer to 2000's in aesthetics, the better. I don't feel comfortable in luxurious interiors, or in Hygge-inducing Scandinavian interiors, or at "home" (I have no feeling of home). But 2000's office is my anxiety's kryptonite.

My dream is to have a cubicle at home. And that the door to my room should have that thing that automatically closes it. And the lock made by Abloy. Old office-style carpeted floor. Vertical metal shades. And let this paradise drown in soothing 60 cycle hum.

it's all about attention

im shitting so so much rn. friday may 9th was my birthday🦁🎈🎂 and today is my grandpas bday so all i did for the past 3 days is eat eat and eat so now all i do is shit shit and shit

Carpeted toilet seat.

I hate that ChatGPT pops up suggestions when one starts typing in the first prompt of a new chat. I really, really fucking hate it. I hate it so much I stopped renewing my Plus subscription months ago and won't renew it until they add a feature to disable this annoying feature. Until they introduced the auto-suggestions in new chats, ChatGPT had an edge over Copilot which has always been ADHD by default like everything else from M$. But now, idk. I guess I will just have to create my own distraction-free UX.

Worst part of looking for a job is that I don't actually want one

the devil can only exist when no one's looking

having a hard time doing music these days

but jesus christ sometime im listining to my own shit and this is such a banga

https://youtube.com/watch/...

maybe i should send it to some dj friendz so they can play it in rave

maybe the techno club

the thing is i feel like it's a bit of a one off, i cant seems to make something that good these dayz

maybe i should go to the wood and candyflip

wtf tf am i doing here

Going through my lore notes. And I'm playing a game with myself, so to speak: it's called "is this metal enough?", but with a side of quasi-metaphysical arcane technobabble plus mass wallmelting and nightmarishly psychedelic confusion.

For example... why are shadow gates a thing? Well, because of the undoing of time caused a multiplicity of parallel cycles that will, inevitably, slowly collapse upon themselves through a sequence of irreducible asynchronicities. But of course!

Now, as for the metal part, that's the undoing of time. You see, the Somberlain attempted to cast the most sinful signa in order to restore the desolate mortal realm as it stood on the brink of a world-ending cataclysm, this was after a decade of brutal, reckless litechnical abuse during the civil war fought amongst the first undecimvirate...

Now, he intended to roll back time itself as a way to avoid the cataclysm and restore life to the mortal realm, but the cost was immense: time was not rolled back, but rather __forcefully__ torn apart; it was effectively shredded, shattered, and undone.

Countless lives were lost as nearly six hundred years of Being were __erased__ in an instant, the most heinous large-scale blood sacrifice in history, spanning the entirety of the lower fragment of reality. I mean is this too dark, I'm not sure. How about I clarify: he didn't just snuff out their lives, no, they CEASED TO EXIST. THEY NEVER EXISTED. GONE. UNBECOMED INTO A TRUE IMMEMORIAL. OVER FIVE CENTURIES OF EVERY CONSCIOUS MOMENT ON EARTH DEVOURED TO FUEL HIS DARK MAGIC.

That's gotta have consequences, right? Well, obviously you'll get temporal distortions after that shit, I mean duh...

But wait, I'm lost, you say the undecimvirate deified themselves but were cast down after the whole superman spinning the earth backwards thing went full bathory and erased entire centuries from the fabric of the cosmos, so they were turned into the eleven thrones to guard over the eleven circles of the night eternal... but how is that linked to natural occurrences of teleportation?

First off, because *natural* teleportation is distinct from *artificial* teleportation. Failed experiments with (and miscasts of) mass transference of living matter are one of the leading causes of death among litarchs. It is not an instant transmission, just very, very quick, moreso than a mortal mind can process, that's why the "dilate" and "delay" sigils are added, so as to make the journey seem slowed down to the perceptions of whomever is teletransported, this is meant to ensure their brains don't __melt__ from the experience.

Similar reason as to why you have to give the _approximate_ total weight to carry when inscribing the ritual circle, you *do* know that it is __highly__ recommended to use accurate weighing scales to approximate this quantity, as under or overestimating it can lead to _FATAL_ consequences... do you not?

No, *natural* occurrences of teleportation do not have these constraints for two reasons: one, because both ends of the gateway are _fixed_ in both time and space due to the logic-defying occurrence of a future event being undeniably the cause of the past it revisited. Put on this toga. They are inextricably linked through the metaphorical and *literal* corpse of infinite collapsed timelines, which generates a conduit through the first circle of the night eternal, which *is* the domain of both forgetfulness and horror immemorial.

Second, the final layer on our stratified reality, that is, the final circle before the INVIOLABLE divine veil, wraps around the night eternal, which is why we call it "the shell". Or "Crisalida" if you dig Luis Alberto. It is a realm entirely outside of time, which is why the patriarchs can grant immortality, you see. By proximity to this sacred shell of existence, the timeline-corpse-conduit that links both ends of a shadow gate is, for all intents and purposes, approaching total chronostasis, therefore making it so bypassing physical space in a few seconds doesn't give you permanent loss of the sense of self as your brain turns into liquified jelly.

I don't remember what I was getting at and I don't care.

Systemd has telemetry now!

I have a 30 minute drive each way to work. This is an opportunity to relax and listen to my wife. Sometimes she isn't available and I just drive quiet. No radio. This helps me be more aware I think.

These drives have allowed me to notice how drivers seems to be getting worse. My biggest peeve being the tailgaters. It just makes zero sense to do this. My theory is there is a lack of knowledge about physical consequences to mechanical interactions. They don't have the frame of reference to understand the danger they put themselves or others into. Or they don't care. I dunno which. Probably some kind of combination.

Why am I thinking about this today? Because I have identified a new class of dumb driver today. Motorcyclists that tailgate. I had this guy get behind me and was getting a little too close. Then the guy decides to get closer. Plenty of room to pass me for miles. I think he is taking the next exit. I am going about 2 or 3 over speed limit on cruise. So he gets between 1 to 3 motorcycle lengths behind my car.

Normally I would be peeved and lower my cruise speed with the decel button. But one of my biggest fears is hitting a bike. So I have no desire to change my speed at all. The guy already seems a bit daft. I also am a bit comforted that it is a bike tailgating me and not a car or truck. Why? Because at worst this bike would leave a "conversation dent" on the back of my car. Some story to tell people. Not a big threat to my safety.

We go past the exit and he is still behind me. Backs off a bit and isn't tailing so close. But he keeps getting close off and on. I get to my exit and he goes past continuing on his way. Thank you for not going the same way I was going today, stupid dumb fuck.

Motorcyclists like to complain we don't see them. We do, and a lot of them drive like shit. Doing unexpected things like this. We see you bro.

Then I see this video today:
https://reddit.com/r/WTF/...

You can judge the driver all you want. I can see both sides of this altercation claiming to be in the right. However, the motorcyclist did one thing that is stupid. He chose to pick a fight he couldn't win. This is survival 101. If you are outclassed don't be an aggressor. What is interesting about this is the driver of the van may have thought the cyclist was reaching for a weapon and acted accordingly. It was already a bad situation. Even if the cyclist was completely in the right he chose to make the situation worse, much worse.

The driver of the van was arrested. It will be interesting to see what happens in this case. The comments in the thread are really interesting. The bikers in the group saying the cyclist was being stupid. Bringing a bike to a van fight. My initial reaction was against the van. Having watched the video a few times I see how the van driver could see the biker as a threat.

The bottom line: neither of these drivers were in their right mind while driving. They should have chosen to deescalate the situation and not make it worse.

This kind of stuff reminds me I need to not get all pissed off when driving. I don't want random people thrust into my life. People are nuts and they just gotta be right. They will go to their grave insisting they had the right of way.

See this what I'm talking about

You all are either bots now or other peope copying and pastihg lines

But that's not the main point

Your dumb shit drives me crazy

Everything you people do is repetitive stupid mimicry of previous annoying disgusting degraded fucked up people

There is no reason I should have to run around like a mad fool all over my own fucking country putting out fires when my time isn't simply being wasted

And there is no reason you trashy people have to force me to lie to reinvent things when that's also just a bullshit trap intended to steal my things before you people either all die and or check out or bury tye truth

And there sure as fuck no reason this is necessary at all

Acknowledge the fucking year you fucks

I shouldn't be smelling disgusting things or listening to some fake fat fuck composite instead of enjoying private life around people who aren't fucking crazy apparently lying about horrific shit they did for fun trying to play pretend and cast doubt on other folks who eith3r don't remember or don't know they're just making some flimsy attempt to use them which is likely an enveloped deceit where another group is fucking the would be manipulators over

Fuck you

None of this worked before it just wastes time

I speak for many developers when I say: My life is way too fucking stressful right now. I don't even have time for hobbies.

Thanks industry!

Ever since MS Teams added the option to merge channels and chats together, every week they give me a new, differently phrased popup asking me if perhaps I considered having them separate instead. It's fucking hilarious, like a suitor who can't take no for an answer. I mean, it already contains a ton of dark patterns, they can just remove the feature again without my approval if they feel like it, but this miserable charade pretending to care about their users is frankly embarrassing.

Half a yard of UKX.

Sounds good? Well it's better than a kick in the testicles but nowhere near as good as it sounds.

I wish I knew how to sell things to people. I mean, it's intellectually bankrupt, but you could use the money for stuff that's not.

Of course, if I was the sort of person who knows how to sell things to people, then I wouldn't care about things being intellectually bankrupt, so I'd probably use the money for coke.