I've got a mid-grade PC and haven't had any issues except the potato people with weird speaking animations and that ugly green filter over everything. Used a mod to take care of the second thing. While I am enjoying the game quite a bit, I've long wished that Bethesda could up their art style and animations. Thank fuck they got more than 5 voice actors now.
I cut off contact with my narcissist father and stepmother about 8 or 9 years ago. I had previously cut off contact for a year or two at a time, but would feel guilty and reconnect and nothing changed. This time it's permanent.
Since then, my mental and emotional health has vastly improved. I have accomplished more in these years than in all the previous ones. I now have a great writing gig and life isn't perfect, but it's better now than ever before. If I ever did speak to them, the only thing I'd say is, "I couldn't have done it with you."
I'm certainly enjoying playing. I just wish Bethesda could stop making potato people with weird talking animations and the whole muted, grainy, weird Bethesda art style, but that aside it's pretty fun. I wasn't watching a bunch of footage beforehand, so I didn't build up expectations to get let down. I think paying too much attention to things said during development (which is where lots of changes happen) is pretty dumb.
I went a couple of times years ago when it was just starting to turn into what you describe. Had a great time, but it quickly priced me out. Now, it sounds like an influencer-laden hellscape. The addition of premium plug and play sites was the nail in the coffin. That said, a lot of the old time Burners are fucking amazing, creative, resourceful, and helpful people.
In Arizona, we all do. We have to.
The struggle isn't men vs women. It's different mindsets. There are men, women, and other identities who view things in an us vs them bigoted way and then there are those who don't look at what someone is, but how they treat others. The latter tend to be capable of getting along just fine together and use communication skills and emotional maturity to create solidarity with each other rather than pointing fingers at each other and creating absolutist rules and narratives. They show what is possible and are creating change and progress through being the solution of unity and solidarity by simply being cool with each other and not assuming anything about each other based on whatever identities they have.
At least they could have the social courtesy to hop on the digital bandwagon and use autotone.
That's the thing about partisan politics being intertwined with social issues. Everyone's so fixated on arguing with "them" that they aren't open to anything that is less than hostile.
He looks like he was made by Nintendo.
It's funny how I use this guy as an example of what's actually effective rather than just making noise, and the usual response is a LOT of noise. I just ask them, how many people have you convinced to stop being racist and leave the KKK with your current "efforts". Kindness is not weakness, it's effective.
I'm having a blast with a Bard character. So many dialogue options open up and I get like +7 on many dialogue rolls. This is the best D&D experience I've had in a video game.
No you won't, you'll just yell at them anonymously online. We know your tricks!