As of 2 days ago, FSR 4 works on a Steam Deck, w/Cyberpunk:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0er-7pyMr3Q

FSR4 INT8

OptiScaler PreRelease

This will also work on AMD 6000s and 7000s series cards.

And if you’d like a linux native mod manager:

Limo

… a shit post.

… sigh …

Retired Detective in Blade Runner:

Contractual obligations.

plus: they expect it to continue losing them money.

plus plus: oh and the show is now being produced by a soon to be immensely indebted corporate entity that’s getting a massive management shake up.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/foreign-investments-in-paramount-warner-bros-deal-flagged-by-senators/ar-AA1Zf2Yb

The senators, in a letter to the FCC on Monday, called for a “full and independent” probe of the merger, citing concerns that financing from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and Chinese gaming giant Tencent could give them influence over editorial decisions at CBS News and CNN.

“This constellation of foreign investment from China and from Gulf states, with complex and sometimes competing relationships with the United States, demands rigorous, not perfunctory, review,” the letter reads.

Saudia Arabi’s Public Investment Fund, the Qatar Investment Authority and Abud Dhabi Investment Authority are collectively providing roughly $24 billion in funds to help bankroll Paramount’s bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, according to SEC filings. Oh neat!

Saudi blood money and possibly Tencent, the best owners anyone could ever ask for.

Good thing that consumers are just flush with money these days, and will certainly be eager to keep paying subscription fees.

And if anything with this goes wrong, well, the US Private Equity/Private Investment sector isn’t like, going through a mass panic bankrun or anything like that, so there will definitely be a solid backup plan in case any of this funding turns out to be too fishy!

(/s)

… It is much funnier to imagine the evil step sisters cutting off chunks of their feet, to try to fit into a croc.

Half the things you are describing here are basically just core game systems that should already exist within the product you paid for.

The reason that a lot of more comprehensive mods exist and work for older Bethesda games is that they’ve been around long enough that people have figured out how to essentially hijack the exe itself, and input custom low level c++ commands, usually via a higher level scripting language.

This category of mods is generally called a script extender.

Script extenders exist because the game is fundamentally so limited and/or broken, and proper modding tools do not exist.

Then, people build the fancier mods on top of the script extender mods.

Bethesda is not capable of creating proper modding tools, because their engine and games are fundamentally too unstable, they’re a spaghetti code mess.

Poke one thing here, and something seemingly completely unrelated breaks somewhere else, because they used a hacky solution 4 years ago once, and then that got forgotten about… multiply that by 100 or 1000.

They would have to actually have a base game and engine that is stable and follows consistent rules, ie, they’d have to refactor everything.

But refactoring everything is expensive and takes time and does not produce more money within a a quarter of its completion.

And also, with Fallout 4 recently, well they actually tried to refactor it, and basically they failed; game just has all new classes and categories of bugs now.

They’re literally not capable of meaningfully improving the situation.

Also, a Wabbajack type solution will never work stably and consistently for the same reason that Nexus Mod Collections very often don’t work:

Now you are just compounding the spaghetti code problem with 10s to 100s of different mod authors, of varying levels of competency, using varying kinds of hacky solutions, which may or may not ‘poke’ each other in essentially random places.

You could maybe get something like that working on only a console, but its basically impossible to also get that stably and consistently working on every possible arrary of hardware and software that a PC user could be using.

Unless of course they actually sucessfully refactored everything, and then has a mod verification system that involved extensive testing.

But basically no one in the software industry has done thorough testing in over a decade now, because it is expensive and time consuming.

Don’t forget to put a few rivets into Rosie:

Did not, I did.

No.

Because an actual therapist would teach you skills in the way of being able to learn and recognize your triggers, help coach you into calmly but firmly asserting your boundaries, to thus lessen the chance of you being triggered, and would also teach you skills for recognizing and managing when you flip over into that pure fight or flight, rage and terror mode.

If there isn’t anything like that, you’re not experiencieng therapy.

You’re just paying too much money to vent at someone.

Also just fyi I guess at this point, the original usage of ‘triggered’ and ‘triggering’ was specifically in reference to people being flipped back into that state of essentially aggrevated panic, as a result of being reminded, either consciously or subconsciously, or previously experienced extreme trauma.

Thats… actually what the term means, not … what the internet / social media has turned it into, basically just meaning ‘angry/embarassed’.

Ah! The lyrics page I copied from must have messed that up, hah!

… the verses get increasingly ridiculous.

By the end, you have:

And I’ve never licked a spark plug

And I’ve never sniffed a stink bug

And I’ve never painted daisies on a big red rubber ball

And I’ve never bathed in yogurt

And I don’t look good in leggings

…

And we’ve never been to Boston in the fall!

… this is all being sung by a 90s CGI/cartoon cucumber with a face, amongst a bunch of other CGI fruits and vegetables, dressed as pirates, basically on beach lounge chairs, on a moored like, galleass or something.

I think ostensibly the joke for the adults is supposed to be like, a guy or some guys who just own a boat, but never actually take it out, just use it as an excuse to get away from the house.

I feel like the “raised fairly extreme Christian -> fuck basically all that noise” demographic is uh, kinda either underrepresented or unacknowledged on lemmy.

I may no longer be religious, but, goddamnit, that song is a banger.

I’ve previously … apparently just completely introduced a fair amount of people to the NRA’s uh Eddie Eagle, the gun safety mascot.

I’m guessing there is actually a fairly large amount of nerds who were raised American Christian in the 90s, who also basically had dysfunctional families, and thus spent a lot of time on their computers and the internet, trying to escape that.

Well, I’ve never been [to] Greenland

And I’ve never been to Denver

And I’ve never buried treasure in St. Louis or St. Paul

And I’ve never been to Moscow

And I’ve never been to Tampa

And I’ve never been to Boston in the fall

'Cause we’re the Pirates

Who don’t do anything

We just stay home and lie around

And if you ask us to do anything

We’ll just tell you:

…

We don’t do anything.

EDIT:

Viking Hippie found a typo!

If you liked STALKER, maybe revisit it with Stalker GAMMA.

More or less, its a huge compilation of mods, tweaks… … i think they may have actually rewritten/repaired significant chunks of the engine itself… its kinda sorta like Deus Ex Revision, its basically a whole bunch of modules and different mods, with an easier way than fumbling with an external mod manager and load orders to try and make shit work.

https://www.stalkergamma.com/

On that tangent, while its… not exactly as thoroughly combat / survival focused, and is certainly clunky by modern standards… the original Deus Ex is maybe a good recommend, as it comes fairly close to hitting all the other things you mention liking, although… from a different angle, basically.

Also, now… this might sound like a bit of an oddball but… State of Decay 2.

Yeah, its humans vs zombies, yeah, its got Microsoft bs in the way of just being able to play the game (unless you acquire a cough custom version cough)…

But it actually has pretty darn good combat mechanics, for a console native game, can actually meaningfully difficulty scale from ‘baby easy’ to ‘this is actually impossible’, and whats more, a whole sort of set of subsystems for actually managing your survivors and your resources and maintaining and improving your kind of home base…

I find it to be a similsr kind of… high tensions, pretty immsersive, pretty brutal, pretty dark, kind of game that can basically grab hold of you and not let go.

But, it doesn’t really have much of a proper ‘story’… in the way of most single player games… but but, it kinda sorta makes up for that in that characters in your party, they’ll get stressed out or be in good moods, they can have fights, have rivalries kinda…

And this can kind of generate a kind of emergent plot, if you care to keep track of it, maybe in something like how you could say the show ‘Survivor’ has a plot.

Play with your band of survivors enough, and you will have emotions when something really bad happens to one of em.

I dunno. Maybe its a bit of a reach, for what you were asking for, but it lit up enough of the same parts of my brain.

Oh, here’s another oddball suggestion that might either totally be your thing, or not your thing at all:

G-STRING

Yep, weird name, no, not a porn game.

This game spent like… 15 fucking years being an in development Half Life 2 mod, by apparently a solo dev?.. and it… its weird, but its certainly a story driven, action shooter, in an extremely oppressive dystopian setting.

Yup, gotta x2 this one.

Maybe not perfect in a gameplay sense… but holy shit, its arguably actually a horror game just wearing the skin of an action shooter.

For the love of god, do not do this while the thing is plugged in.

I mean… sounds pretty interesting to me!

Why would anyone want root kernel access to a PC?

Oh, uh, to be able to read anything on the entire PC, also be able to interdict and then modify literally any ongoing process or command.

… Palantir is very very hungry for data, after all.

And you can make money, if you sell it to them.

I can only imagine that somewhere, there is an incredibly anti-systemd person screaming I told you! I told ALL OF YOU!!!

Either that or they gave up on that a while back and already switched to BSD.

We just call this a ‘glow up’ these days.

Dark Academia flavored glow up?

Cottage Core?

(Has that one just fully turned into ‘TradWife’ yet?)

GothAltEmoPunk?

(Because Gen Z apparently can’t figure out the difference between these things, because they sorta look the same, and personalities don’t exist, only aesthetics do.)

MomJeans Core?

(JFC, I made that up as a joke, apparently ‘MomCore’ actually is a thing… as are ‘Momiforms’ … smdh…)

I know why she has to have exposed skin, but… it still doesn’t constitute exhibitionism.

As far as the in universe explanation goes…

I mean, does it biologically make sense?

No, not really, but also, its sci-fi.

Does it thematically make sense?

Entirely yes.

All of MGSV rotates around questions of identity, connection/relation to yourself, and others.

Yep, she basically appears to be handcrafted as a beautiful woman who has a ludicrous reason she has to be scantily clad, and she can’t talk back, for roughly equally contrived reasons.

… Can you see past that?

Can you see the person inside, beyond the distracting skin, deeper than that?

Do you grow to respect her and her choices, as a person?

As the game progresses, and she’s in more ludicrous scenes… do you actually find youself feeling disgust as a voyeur… because she shouldn’t be treated that way?

If you just get stuck on the ‘Kojima is just a horndog’ angle, I’d argue you missed the point he was trying to make.

Basically, he keeps trying to get you to objectify her so hard, view her as nothing other than over the top fan service.

But there’s a person in there, a kind of strange, awkward person, but one with a ferocious sense of duty and responsibility, who is extremely capable.

She ‘speaks’ through actions.

Do you see her, or only her outward, superficial appearance?

Its… fairly notable that Kojima’s whole way of doing many ‘cutscenes’ is that they’re often in first person, or can be, and where you are looking, what you are focusing on… can significantly alter the actual scene you experience. Characters react differently, say different things, depending on where you are looking, at what point in the ‘cutscene’.

You’re the often the one choosing or not choosing to oogle her.

You can just not.

As to Paz… yeah, RIP, life and war are full of horrible tragedies, they hurt more when you care about them, when you can empathize with them, when you trust them.

What, did we… think war and conspiracies of power… did not involve innocent young women being forced into impossible situations with basically 0 ‘good’ possible outcomes?

… Have you heard of maybe this whole Epstein files thing?

Tiny smidgen of the amount of horrific shit that’s been done to women in war, that’s happening somewhere right now.