The declaration "Fallout sucks" is not worthy of a post on its own, but I'm more curious about the state of media in general due to my generally ascetic lifestyle. I don't stream, I don't watch new movies, and other than a few games on Steam and my PS2 I don't game anymore either. I gave the new Fallout a shot through rather Frobisherian means and could only last two and a half episodes before Shift-Deleting the files from my computer.
My main complaint? The acting. The stiff, uninspired, stilted acting. The show up to the point that I quit felt like a comedy sketch done very poorly. I understand that they were trying to capture the lampooned 50s feel of Fallout as a whole yet they failed in that execution, mainly due to the acting.
I honestly can't think of one good acting performance. Maybe Titus, and only because Rapaport just played him like he plays everybody?
The thing is, I'm seeing praise for the show and I don't understand it so I'm wondering if those giving praise are used to wading through outhouse troughs and view this as a breath of fresh air? Are my expectations too high? Is this a me problem?
Bethesda updated FO4 in order to deliberately break mods, many of which are problematic and “unapproved”.
It's like a bunch of these shit companies are trying to bring back piracy's popularity.
It's getting harder and harder to justifying spending money to "own" a digital product when these fuckers get more and more brazen in telling us, "no, you don't own that...we own that. And we'll tell you what you can do with your singleplayer games, to boot!"
If purchasing isn't ownership, piracy isn't theft.
There is a reason why they are all pushing for legislation to make emulation more illegal, DRM to the point where you don't get to have "options" around it, and numerous other anti-consumer things.
They refuse to become good enough to prevent piracy, so instead they will use the government and fear to keep you from even considering it.
They were good enough to prevent or at least mitigate piracy. They've backslid to such an extent that piracy starts looking tasty again. Fucking incompetents.
The only form of piracy I really engage in is emulation, simply because the effort and absurd prices of older stuff is well beyond what I can justify on any budget.
Anything else I'm far more likely to just not play at all, because if its pissed me off enough to pirate then I don't even want to give them the word of mouth acknowledgement by engaging with it.