wow - even the minibosses in Elden Ring are like three steps up in difficulty from the most difficult boss in Dark Souls 1. I don’t know how anyone can play this game unless they’ve trained on every single FromSoft game before this point

also they nerfed the shit out of parrying and blocking T_T

first impressions of Oblivion Remastered are… pretty meh?

first of all it is visually gorgeous. in terms of graphical fidelity it’s definitely the best-looking game my computer has ever run, and it also has a pretty good aesthetic too

unfortunately it has some performance issues and graphical glitches that are moderately annoying. also the UI is kinda clunky to use, but so was the original Oblivion’s so that’s fair I guess

but the main thing is… the magical feeling I get from playing Skyrim just feels missing from this game somehow. idk; I can’t put my finger on what, exactly, I want this game to have. I do feel like the fantasy stuff is pretty insipid - which is a criticism I’ve always had about Oblivion. but I think there might be something else missing too. something important. I just don’t know what it is yet

maybe I just miss being able to mod the game and have new mods to get excited about? maybe I miss having a DLC entirely focused on vampires lol. maybe it’s just the unfamiliarity, and I’m going to warm up to it over time. but for now all I know is that Oblivion Remastered isn’t pulling me in the way that Skyrim always does

@pharmafemboy you know what? words to live by

inventor of the skateboard showing it off for the first time:

“check out this new movement tech I found”

@eclairwolf noo omg. I hope it won’t be too expensive to repair or replace

yeah, sounds like something a fedizen would say

I think the real lesson to learn from Jaiden’s success is that if you’re stuck in a Squid Hunger Royale Dystopian Death Game, the best way to survive is to avoid - at all costs - doing something interesting /hj

@Shivaekul yess they are! I had some scary moments where I thought things were going to go terribly wrong, but everything is working fantastically now and my computer (or, I guess this is a new computer now? it’s a Computer of Theseus) is running so. much. faster. it’s a night-and-day difference

I definitely considered doing a live boot, too! the problem is that I’m very averse to turning off or rebooting my computer since everything has to be closed to do that. I really like being able to keep everything open so that there isn’t any cost to booting into Linux if that makes sense. but thank you for the suggestion!

lol today I’ve been trying to play modern AAA games on my new hardware but by the time they’re done compiling shaders I’m already halfway through a youtube video on my phone and don’t want to stop so I just alt-f4 and tell myself I’ll play it later

now that I have a modern CPU, I bet I can run virtual machines smoothly again! for a while virtual machines got slower and shittier for me and I think it’s because they were optimized for modern CPUs that have hardware-level virtualization acceleration

so I’m thinking about eventually setting up some kind of Linux install that can run inside of Windows - that way I can tinker with it but if everything is borked then I can just turn it off and not face any consequences

I’m definitely not going to work on this now though lol. my patience for technical problems, after setting up my new hardware, is exactly zero

@rowan gfdkjnasdfjnkl omggg I was like “ooh she’s adding imsim-style box stacking??” and then

Star

'poly-' means many
'-est' means most
'-er' means more

'polyester' lots and lots and lots and lots

computer to computer communication

@hellpie that is fucking wild. I’ve never heard of any component intentionally getting so hot that it throttles itself like that. but very good to know - thank you