My impression from playing both was that Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas were pretty solid when you started playing a game
well, okay, if you get the post-release patches in place
but that the game became less-stable over the course of a run.
The loading times also got a lot more painful over the course of a run. Fallout 76 and Starfield did much better in that respect.
As much as I hate the idea of remastering all their games instead of just making another fucking game,
I would pretty happily buy the 3D Fallout games remastered for the Starfield engine. Higher texture resolution. Use some of the features that were added to their engine in the years subsequent to release. Capable of being rendered at frame rates that modern monitors can display. Eliminate some of the weird ragdoll stuff they used to have. Modders have improved the models a lot, and I'm sure that that's doable. Another popular change for Skyrim modders was doing things like opening up the world (because you didn't need to load towns separately from the outside world on modern computers), adding more foliage and other things that computers couldn't handle back at release, adding modern shader effects, and all that.
I mean, sure, I'd also like to have Fallout 5, but I suspect that the cost of doing a remaster is a lot less than a new game, and the earlier games are getting old enough that they're kinda hard to recommend. I mean, if they release Fallout 5 in the early 2030s, the last game in the mainline series will be Fallout 4, 2015, and before that, Fallout: New Vegas from 2010 and Fallout 3 from 2008. That'll be a huge gap, if you hope to get players to play the series. If you rewind a comparable 15 years from Fallout 3, you're at 1993. That's the original Doom release. That's a pretty enormous gap.
Skyrim got the LE->SE (well, and AE) path, so it got updated to be more-playable over the years. The Fallout games are still running on the old stuff.
Death by having the balloon roll over and smother you would probably be kind of horrific.
Ehhhh. I mean, I broadly agree that tariffs are not a good idea, and for China, even untargeted tariffs. And end of the day, this is bullshit political theater.
However, it's not crazy to decouple from China, particularly for a number of important goods. It's probably not a wildly-unreasonable expectation that economic pressure will be used more in future conflicts than in the past, given the global nature of the economies and the longer supply chains. Like, concerns over that aren't something that Trump just pulled up.
All that being said, if he actually goes through with this and holds this in place, I think that it's going to be interesting to see how well the public takes it. These are effectively large consumption taxes. Sure, that's great if you're wealthy, because those are regressive, but they're going to suck if you're poor, and a major part of the reason that the public voted for Trump was because of upset over inflation under Biden.
So, this is from a couple months back, talking about his earlier tariff packages:
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/15/nx-s1-5467331/trump-tariffs-low-income-households
President Trump has argued that his "America First" trade policy is intended to balance what he feels is an unfair global trade scheme that hurts U.S. workers.
As things stand, there's a 10% tariff on almost everything the U.S. imports, though there are some exceptions. On goods from China, there's a 30% tariff rate. Last year, China was the third largest source of imported goods to the U.S.
Tariffs are a kind of tax that hit poorer households more than higher earning ones
Tedeschi said most U.S. taxes, especially federal taxes, are progressive.
"That means that they pinch higher income families more than they do lower income families," Tedeschi said. "Our income tax is a great example of that. When we run the numbers on tariffs, we find that that's the opposite."
According to the Budget Lab's analysis of Trump's tariffs, prices would rise by more than 2%. Tedeschi said that could lead to an almost 4% drop in purchasing power of lower-income families, costing them about $1,500 annually.
I mean, you ramp tariffs up, you're ramping up taxes on the poor. Okay, sure, Trump has worked at framing this as "China paying taxes, not you" or "standing up for America". But you can't hide the prices that people wind up paying in stores.
And I'm pretty sure that consumer good prices are
though not obviously linked to taxes
pretty visible, because we look at them a lot. Like why gasoline prices matter a lot, because there are signs with them all over. If you pay a tax at the end of the year, you see a number once. If prices are up, you're constantly looking at higher price tags.
I kind of suspect that it's not safety driving his concern
this isn't exactly something that would warrant state-level concern
but I do think that it's a bad precedent to be modifying street markings for political reasons.
I doubt that this particular incident is likely all that risky, but if it becomes normalized to modify street markings, someone sooner or later is going to do something that they think is clever and really does muck up drivers.
This stuff goes both ways. If you have the left modifying street markings and it's let stand, it's not as if streets are some sort of left-exclusive forum. You can be pretty sure that if this sort of thing is let stand, then the right is going to do so too. I'm pretty confident that if someone started painting anti-LGBTQ markings on streets, plenty of people here would be pretty unhappy. I don't really want political discourse to wind up being who is willing to throw more graffiti down.
It should be possible to find plenty of places in Austin that are okay with putting up signs or murals
things that aren't street markings
that are pro-LGBT messages. That avoids the whole issue that they're arguing over.
kagis
After an LGBTQ+-inclusive church in Austin, Texas, was vandalized on Thursday, the community came together to transform the act of hate into something beautiful.
The vandals tore down the Pride flag at Life in the City UMC and graffitied “Pride was the 1st sin” on the front of the building. Afterward, volunteers joined the church for a “creative restoration project” to transform the graffiti into a mural featuring two Progress Pride flags flanking the church doorway.
I really think that this is a better approach if one wants to put out a message.
EDIT: Also, on purely-pragmatic grounds, I suspect that the road surface is probably about the most wear-heavy place to paint something. Like, paint something on a wall, and it doesn't have vehicle tires tearing it up and requiring frequent repainting to look decent.
EDIT2: You can even see a mural on a building about ten feet behind the rainbow crosswalk in the article's picture. Which one looks in better condition to you, the crosswalk or the mural?
If someone lower-ranked is sleeping with a superior, they should at least get some authority in return.
To clarify, I don’t mean an employee sleeping with their literal direct boss. Here is what I mean: if a 23-year-old police officer is in a romantic or sexual relationship with a 57-year-old police captain, sergeant or lieutenant, then that 23-year-old police officer should be promoted to detective or something or at least have some authority in their unit.
A 21-23-year-old dating or sleeping with an older person doesn't automatically make the 21-23-year-old a "victim".
There’s a big difference between weird or questionable and criminal or abusive. Once someone is over 18—especially in their 20s—they have legal and moral agency. A 23-year-old dating a 40-year-old might raise eyebrows, but it’s not pedophilia, and calling it that cheapens what real victims go through.
And I'm pretty sure that I remember you submitting the current post, word-for-word, on !asklemmy@lemmy.world.
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Like, seriously, dude. Find something else to talk about. Whole world of topics out there.
Hmm. I think that it's hard to find games that really stand up on their own, and haven't had been outclassed in the intervening 35 years. I can think of a lot of games that I enjoyed then, but that's when they were competing against 1980s games and technology. Honestly, you got some of the ones that I'd have suggested, like Tetris and Pac-Man, and even there...I mean, original Tetris is perfectly playable, but I'd probably recommend Tetris Effect: Connected to a new player. Might as well have the extra glitz.
considers
Shmups have generally gotten more fast-moving and bullet-hell oriented. If you prefer slower shmups, you might enjoy playing 1942 or 1943: The Battle of Midway.
I agree with @emb@lemmy.world that Super Mario Brothers 3 for the NES is pretty decent, though I've never played fully through the game. Side-view platformers really did have their heyday in the 1980s and early 1990s, and that was a strong game.
kagis
These guys show marketshare of video game genres by year; platformers were really big in the 1980s:
https://savvystatistics.com/video-game-genres-by-year-1980-2016/
The arcade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) is probably fun if you can get some friends together. Probably need to emulate it with MAME or similar. I don't think that the beat-em-up genre has changed all that much or seen many entrants since.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jLO1upcd8w
The Simpsons would be a stronger arcade beat-em-up recommend, but that's 1991, a bit out of your timeframe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNpuIHbK3-I
Arcades really peaked in the 1980s, before home console systems and computers started cutting into them. There were some things that arcade games were better at than computers and consoles, like having custom-to-a-game input hardware. If you are willing to get ahold of some arcade-style hardware, like an arcade-style joystick (US-style Happ, or Japanese-style Sanwa), you could play some games that were designed around having a full-size arcade joystick.
There are trackball and spinner games as well.
I think that light gun games are out, unless you're willing to obtain a CRT. Maybe someone's made something that can deal with LCD/LED displays.
kagis
Apparently so: https://sindenlightgun.com/
There were a number from the 1980s:
You'd still need to turn it on if it's in hibernate. Well, you might not need to push the power button, might have a laptop that can, while off, key off the lid switch. But the laptop's still off when it's hibernated.
While this is an explosives manufacturing plant in the US that just exploded
I saw the story on !news@lemmy.world
I’m cross-posting it here as apparently they produced filler for 155 mm shells. If it turns out that this is sabotage from Russian intelligence, as with the explosions in Czechia some time back, this will obviously have some substantial implications for the Ukraine situation.
EDIT: https://www.aesys.biz/supplementary-charges
Accurate Energetic Systems, LLC (AES), a prime contractor to the US Government, specializes in the production of high-grade supplementary charges for military applications. Our extensive experience and advanced manufacturing capabilities allow us to supply top-quality explosive products, including TNT and PBXN-9 Supplementary Charges, primarily used in 155 mm artillery systems.
While this is an explosives manufacturing plant in the US that just exploded
I saw it on !news@lemmy.world
I'm cross-posting it here as apparently they produced filler for 155 mm shells. If it turns out that this is sabotage from Russian intelligence, as with the explosions in Czechia some time back, this will obviously have some substantial implications for the Ukraine situation.
EDIT: https://www.aesys.biz/supplementary-charges
Accurate Energetic Systems, LLC (AES), a prime contractor to the US Government, specializes in the production of high-grade supplementary charges for military applications. Our extensive experience and advanced manufacturing capabilities allow us to supply top-quality explosive products, including TNT and PBXN-9 Supplementary Charges, primarily used in 155 mm artillery systems.
Be interesting to see whether they manufactured stuff going to Ukraine. If it turns out that this is Russian intelligence, this has considerable shitstorm potential.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tom_explosion
The Black Tom explosion was an act of arson by field agents of the Office of Naval Intelligence of the German Empire, to destroy U.S.-made munitions that were about to be shipped to the Allies during World War I. The explosions occurred on July 30, 1916, in New York Harbor, killing at least 7 people and wounding hundreds more.[1] It also caused damage of military goods worth some $20,000,000 ($580 million in 2024 dollars).[2][3] This incident, which happened prior to U.S. entry into World War I, also damaged the Statue of Liberty.[4] It is one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in history.
This attack was one of many during the German sabotage campaign against the neutral United States, and it is notable for its contribution to the shift of public opinion against Germany, which eventually resulted in American approval for participating with World War I.[4]
They appear to make military explosives.
TRINITROTOLUENE (TNT): A VERSATILE ENERGETIC COMPOUND
At Accurate Energetic Systems, LLC (AES), we specialize in the manufacture and supply of Trinitrotoluene, commonly known as TNT. Renowned for its stability and reliability, TNT is one of the most widely used explosives in both military and commercial sectors. Our high-quality TNT formulations meet stringent safety and performance standards, making them ideal for a variety of applications, from demolition to munitions.
TNT'S ROLE IN AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE
TNT has been a staple in the aerospace and defense industries due to its excellent balance of explosive power and safety. It is frequently used in munitions such as artillery shells, bombs, and grenades. At AES, we provide pure TNT as well as advanced compositions, including Tritonal and Torpex, which combine TNT with other materials to enhance blast effects and performance characteristics.
looks further
Yup. They made 155 mm artillery shell filler.
https://www.aesys.biz/supplementary-charges
Accurate Energetic Systems, LLC (AES), a prime contractor to the US Government, specializes in the production of high-grade supplementary charges for military applications. Our extensive experience and advanced manufacturing capabilities allow us to supply top-quality explosive products, including TNT and PBXN-9 Supplementary Charges, primarily used in 155 mm artillery systems.
EDIT2: I'm going to cross-post this to a few other potentially-relevant communities.
EDIT3: Cross-posted to !ukraine@sopuli.xyz and !europe@feddit.org. Note that Russian intelligence did blow up munitions storage depots back in 2014 in Czechia that were being used to ship munitions to Ukraine, but if this is them hitting a production facility in the US, it'd be a pretty serious expansion.
Starfield was very stable for me.
Fallout: New Vegas was unstable, especially near the end of a run. And I'd swear that it was worse on the XBox than on the PC. Not just longer load times, but plenty of times that the thing would die when loading an area.