Yeah whatever they improved for the remaster, it pales in comparison to the upgrades available in modded Skyrim.

the doomed king and his armed guards need to escape through a secret passage that just so happens to cut through my jail cell seems a little too convenient

I remember playing it for the first time in 2006 and I had completely forgotten about that guff by the time I got out of the tutorial. My character went on to ignore the main quest for many dozens of hours.

Of course several of those hours were spent struggling to defeat boars that started appearing on the road at level 5. They were insanely tough since I’d accidentally made the most difficult possible custom class. At least the remaster doesn’t have that problem. Instead the combat is very easy — unless you go up one level in difficulty in which case you’ll probably be killed by a mudcrab.

Lemmy would be decimated.

Okay cattywampas, if that even is your real name.

Long may I continue to be proven wrong.

Turns out it’s nowhere near as complicated as everyone said it would be to change the constitution. All you’ve got to do is buy yourself a Supreme Court.

The audience participating in the performance by pretending that it’s real is central to the meaning of kayfabe. That never changed, even if it only recently expanded to some media that’s in your news feed.

How do people even say that kind of thing with a straight face? It’s like claiming that coal is “net zero” if you use solar power to feed it into the furnace.

It might. If some day they don’t control the browser, whoever does control it might be hesitant to build in features that are only there to spy on users for Google. Cookies do at least have some other uses.

As I heard about it — mostly from people who migrated to mastodon — the “verified” nonsense on old Twitter was the cause of many problems. But I was never there myself, so all I really know is that I’d want no part of it.

Come on Bluesky, try to hold it together long enough to finish taking out Twitter before you go for complete enshittification.

ACE sure did go downhill since they released Ace Stream.

That’s technically within your legal rights I guess, just like (depending what the fine print says) it’s within their rights to throttle all your traffic one way or another to a low speed including the stuff you actually need to go faster. The places that always have low speeds for everyone are like that because they’re designed to cater to people who don’t give a shit about what their fair share might be and just want to max out their connection. Those services are fine for torrenting, useless for everything else. Windscribe isn’t one of those but it could become one if enough of its users think like you and insist on it.

Hopefully they’ll set a soft 2TB limit or something before they do that, though.

Them calling it “unlimited” when there’s a limit is wrong, but so is using all of the available upload bandwidth 100% of the time on a cheap home VPN service when you consider the current market prices for data transfer. Mine’s limited to 2Mbps. Seems fair for $7/month or whatever it is.

Edit: Oh right it was 2Mbps. I spent 20 minutes surveying datacentre prices around the world to come up with that number, but bandwidth prices vary widely and might’ve changed by now.

I don’t understand the downvotes and lack of logical answers. I genuinely don’t know what they could be trying to say there. Maybe that an American (way above average in driving and eating meat) could reduce their impact by an amount equal to the total GHG of an average world citizen? But it wouldn’t really cancel anything out and why would it be relevant to the rest of what’s being said?

behavior changes, such as driving less or eating less meat, could theoretically cancel out all the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions an average person produces each year

Driving less and eating less meat means you’d still be driving and eating meat, so how does that work?

“wokism” — now there’s a good clean beautiful American-made word.

Thanks to the heroic efforts of law enforcement, several mass murderers have dramatically cut plans to increase the rate at which they murder people.

All other avenues have been exhausted, let’s try giving a billion dollars to lawyers and see if that fixes everything.

Just needs a slight tweak to be a little less historically inaccurate: Nobody has ever been “hunted for sport” by a Zoroastrian.