I was looking for some reference pictures the other day and the image search results were packed with shitty AI art.

We’re on an underground forum built by some crazy communists to discuss Virtual Reality, complaining about AI.

Welcome to cyberpunk.

You got off easy. I drowned the supplies in the reserve since I just couldn’t kill Casey while he’s talking to me on a radio, even though the supplies would probably end up saving more lives ultimately. Then I killed him to protect May because I didn’t realise it was him, assuming I’d be able to talk her down, then I shot her to prevent her from ringing the bell.

After that I shot myself in the head since that felt like the proper ending. (Of course, I reloaded after that and let it play out the same way to get to the actual ending).

The point of building a rapport with the characters is exactly to make the ending such a gut punch. This is a shitty and cruel world, and you can’t expect things to work out great even if you go in with the best intentions. That said, supposedly you can save both May and Casey by standing between them and blocking his aim. I’m actually on my second playthrough now and want to try doing that this timr. She will ring the bell, but screw the bastards outside. The way I see it, all that shooting would have attracted a horde anyway.

The ending will always be bleak though, because it is a bleak game in a bleak setting. It is what you signed up for, whether you know it or not.

That would have been true if legit crypto existed.

That’s not a problem. That’s the correct reaction.

Badum tish!

I’m quite scared of how AI apparently pushes people in favour of significantly stricter copyrights. This is not a good trend.

Half-Life Alyx still has some flickering light code from the original Quake. Couldn’t find a good gif that would include Alyx, but here’s a couple other games:

That’s USA only. Visit the rest of the world at some point, maybe.

Holy shit that guy’s whole profile got nuked for some reason.

Not sure what having an account has to do with anything. I get the objection on the grounds of Meta being a shit company and it’s perfectly reasonable, but having to make an account specifically for the device (and possibly nothing else - you don’t have to link it to facebook or anything) doesn’t magically give them any more power over you.

There’s plenty of amazing VR games of other genres. IMO the lack of wireless options was holding it back. Why would you turn with a stick when you can just… turn around.

It’s not for gaming and it’s not for porn… what were they thinking?

Starfleet as fuck

For me it’s the fundamental difference in design philosophy. Bethesda does power fantasies, which works great for TES, but not for Fallout. You should be barely scraping by, not making the wasteland your bitch.

You mean the game that shipped with a bug breaking the main questline?

Quest 3, no doubt. The Index is old and overpriced at this point. HP Reverb G2 has great picture quality, but the controller tracking isn’t great and the cable is super thick. Plus Microsoft stopped supporting its mixed reality stuff. Vision Pro is not for gaming, just forget about it even if you can afford it. PSVR 2 might be a choice now that it supports PCVR, but I dunno. Its future support is kinda in doubt.

The only real downside of Q3 is being owned by Meta, which is obviously blech, but it’s an amazing piece of technology otherwise, and the price is a steal, since it’s heavily subsidized to grow the market.

A cheaper version is expected to be announced soon, so that might be an alternative. But otherwise there isn’t much competition unless you’re looking into a very particular niche.

Get VR.

As much of a joke as all the re-releases are, I’m super happy Skyrim VR exists. It’s one of the best VR experiences with the right mods that make it an actual VR game instead of a cheap cash-grab…

Fallout 3 and beyond are not really sequels, they’re a completely different series set in the same universe.

I would argue they’re not even the same universe. While F1 had its share of of people living in post-war rubble, by F2 the world was mostly newly-build cities or primitive societies but there was a sense of progress, like having actual money (and by Tactics paper money was in everyday use). Then F3 comes and everyone is living in a pile of rubbish, with unreadable burnt pre-war books on their shelves like they want to pretend the world is how it used to be, nevermind that generations have passed, and everyone is back to trading in caps.

Might have happened in this case too, you never know.