From the article it looks like that was an issue with ZeniMax Online Studios

Fallout76 was a bad game. Not really evil though. And I heard it got much better, admittedly long after launch. I really enjoyed Fallout 4 but I get that I was in the minority there. Either way, I don’t think a company should be totally panned just because they made the main character voiced instead of silent. Re-releasing Skyrim got old, but you don’t have to buy it, lol. I don’t know what you mean about their launcher. Was it bad? You could always start the games from the exe as well. You’ll be happy to know there’s no launcher for Starfield anyway.

I think they’ve made something amazing with Starfield, although it starts quite slowly.

Pirate the game if you want, no judgement from me, but don’t justify it by pretending its some moral good.

Oh why not, it’s a really good game. Did Beth do something evil or something?

To anticipate the next questions, IP stands for Iambic Pentameter, which is obviously self-explanatory.

Yep, it’s basically a sorting software that makes sure your IP is always sorted under the “somewhere else” tag, so the government can’t see where you are, or more accurately when you are.

Mind Your Dirigible, the dirigible in this case being your personal data. He’s saying you should use a VPN or other precautions when using those apps.

I think the new twitter logo cones from the font you used for your username. Just being silly

Hey I think you need to change your username. Musk baggsied that font for twitter, I mean X.

They are the Bug Bad Evil in my pirate themed DnD campaign. Or a proxy of them at least. What better justification for becoming a pirate than them? To quote a real pirate captain from the 1700, “They rob the poor under cover of law, we plunder the rich under the cover of our own courage.”

An old uni friend of mine from Northern Island made up a word for that thing when you drink in the afternoon and then stop for a bit and you get really tired: “Cafaggerhaggied”

It’s sounds much better in a NI accent, though

Some slang from York, UK that was common in my childhood:

Pushknacker - a bicycle, particularly a street bike. Best one on this list, tbh, it’s a great word.

Lagin - pronounced la-jin. Means rubbish. Like, “your pushknacker is lagin!”

Weeny - really, as in “that’s weeny lagin”

Chava - pronounced char-va, a derogatory term, to be honest I never had any idea what the actual meaning was but it’s an insult, as in “ya fuckin chava!”. I was confused when the word “chav” suddenly became a thing years later and I’ve always wondered if they are related or if it’s a coincidence.

Ding - what people would now call a chav, also used ad a general insult.

Dingraff - either the full for of ding, or an extension of it, no idea. General insult.

This is so cool!

Can we have some details from the 1st one please?

I’d say those things are more prevalent in many developing nations.

There’s a great podcast about this called Did Titanic Sink? It’s entertaining as well as interesting

Not received, but given…

One Christmas, I was truly skint. No way I could afford to buy even half eddecent pressies for everyone, so I decided to buy the worst presents I could find instead. I found a £1 shop that was having a ‘25% off’ sale. I bought my vegetarian sister in law a glue based mouse trap, I bought my dad some cleaning spray for car seat leather (his car had fabric seats), I got my brother a feather duster.

On Christmas eve I laid the groundwork by saying, “I didn’t have a lot to work with this year, but I think I’ve done pretty well!”.

On Christmas morning, I asked to give out ny presents first and bigger them up again with ,“I put anlot of thought into this and I think you’re all going to be very happy!”. I gave out the presents and watching them open them with an expectant, wide eyed grin, like “I did good, right?”.

It went perfectly. A slight awkward pause while they checked my expectant face, then everyone burst out laughing. They loved the joke, we were all happy. I have fonder memories of that morning than other times when I was able to give out actually good presents.

I love Discworld!

By which I mean, what was the phrase?

Also this is the second similar post I’ve seen recently. I think heblast one was, “iPhone users, why do you love your iPhone more than Android?” Or something. Made me suspicious of it being an ad. At the very least, I didn’t think a second thread was needed.

I don’t think it’s as bad as it used to be, though.

Thise are good points and I see the appeal, but I like that lemmy doesn’t track the total karma a user has generated. It discourages karma farming, people love sering the number go up! I know this isn’t that but it still makes me nervous cos it’s adjacent to that.

tl;dr you’re not wrong, but let’s be careful :)