A huge part of it is they are literally idiots, dumb stupid assholes who cannot think good.

Or you can just tell the primarily fear motivated idiots to be afraid of things, and then their brains stop working, they just don’t like the scary thing and want scary thing to suffer because scary thing is bad.

You can’t win an argument with an idiot; they bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Remember the whole… they go low, we go high, rhetoric?

Assanine. Literally an in-group signalling feel good hugbox measure, doesn’t actually work at all on the out group. Vanity and smugness as a strategy, a strategy that repeatedly fails in a political system that is rigged to over represent the local yokel ya’ll qaeda types, and is rigged to disenfranchise the working poor and minority groups of all kinds.

You think that you’re playing an unrigged game, for some reason, maybe because thats a comforting thing to hold onto, that democracy is inevitable and rules and norms are just and eternal, because they seem nice and fair to you.

Well guess what?

We got 1/3 of the country that effectively gets 1/2 the voting power.

The game isn’t fair, the rules are always changing, and this 1/3 of people would and literally has willingly voted to destroy democracy itself and replace it with tyranny.

You gotta change the rules you are willing to play by… if the real game is how you rig the apparent game, you need to think outside your comfort zone, or just admit defeat right now.

Yep, its pretty much that stupid.

But… if its stupid… and it works…

… it isn’t stupid.

Playing chess with a pigeon and getting mad that it isn’t playing by the rules and then flaps over the pieces?

You’re the fool.

Just get some bird seed and also a broom, apply positive and negative reinforcement toward the desired result.

You fundamentally don’t get it.

Being an asshole about it is the tactic that works.

You’d want to avoid me just like you’d want to avoid the assholes this would work on, because you’re not like them, and you don’t like them.

You can’t reason with everyone. That tactic, reasoning, doesn’t work on or with everyone. Some people just do need to be rhetorically slapped around, all pathos and ethos, because logos has no real effect on them.

People like you would hand wave away a brash boistrous blustering bloviation of bullshit.

People like them, that’s the real language that speaks to them, the only thing that makes an impact on not their conscious thoughts, but their subconscious that gives rise to those conscious thoughts.

Stop acting as if everyone else is like you.

The whole point here is what tactic convinces people that are not like you and cannot be convinced by reason? That that tactic wouldn’t work on you is irrelevant. Get over yourself.

Trust me I wish I was wrong.

Tried for 2 decades to do the reasoning thing.

It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t work.

They don’t argue in good faith, because most of them literally are not capable of arguing in good faith.

You make them your bitch, and force or trick them to realize your way is better for both you and them.

Most others do see it this way.

They just got you convinced you’re outnumbered.

You’re not.

They just own the media, the social media, and only ever get better and better at determining who does and doesn’t get to vote.

No point in conceeding shit to bullies, they’ll just keep bullying you.

You got the life experience of a 12 yo if you think being reasonable to a diehard conservative will have any effect on them other than making them internally chuckle that you’re trying to take them seriously, in good faith.

I’ll meet them where they’re at and tell them they’re a fucking moron.

I also don’t get to vote, because of them, so maybe stop pretending this is a fair fight.

Because you keep conceeding to idiot racists and petty narcissist tyrants who don’t even believe in democracy whom you will never be able to meaningfully convince of anything anyway.

I’m from these dumb fuck regressives.

I know what I’m talking about.

You speak to them with insults, violence and threats, just barely polite enough to not immediately incite them to assault you on the spot, otherwise, they do not listen.

We keep losing because the 1/3rd of this country that the entire political system is rigged to over represent will always default to being dumbfuck greedy idiots.

You can’t convince them of anything consciously because they are the world grand masters at cognitive dissonance and delusion. They are too stupid to formulate a coherent worldview, you will not be able to change their worldview without making their lizard brain activate.

You can spend 10x the effort of explaining things to them like theyre a baby, it’ll stick for a day, then they’ll hear a shiboleth style conservative ‘joke’, a cultic thought stopping cliche, and that understanding you imparted them with immediately evaporates.

I repeat, they are literally too stupid to actually have a coherent worldview.

The Republicans know this.

Its why they consistently do racist/socialist/lqbtq scaremongering, and it consistently works.

They literally have enlarged amygdalas, the fear processing center of the brain.

They literally only truly understand fear.

Like its kinda sad that it is the best shooter FO in terms of controls and basically movement/weapon feel and such…

But like, HL2 exists. FEAR exists. TitanFall 2 exists. Literally: ‘insert retro boomer shooter here’ exists.

Congrats guys, good job, you made a solid, basic FPS, with tons of weapon customization (that barely actually matters in gameplay).

While also like, how is any of this supposed to be balanced with your RPG character system?

Auto balancing removes the point, there are basically no enemies or situations that actually demand you have a certain kind of build and/or strategic/tactical approach to defeat a certain enemy or scenario.

The whole point of a traditional western rpg is that the choices you make about your character’s build/skill progression govern the options you’ll have in future situations.

But FO4 basically neuters the entire concept of this. Its genuienly baffling. They’re just flair, they’re damn near entirely pointless.

Im sorry no, fuck these fucking brain dead morons.

I have less than 0 desire to learn their idiot vernacular to try to convince them of anything.

Just ask them to do a simple algebra problem in their head, and then spell the word procrastinate.

If they cannot do that, just tell them they are too stupid to make decisions, sit down, shut the fuck up, we’re gonna do this other thing now, and it doesn’t matter if you’re too dumb to understand what that means.

… how many of them are closeted gays and cucks?

They want to be dominated, so just dominate them. They only understand and respect force, so be forceful.

So you’re saying you hate waffles?!?!?!

I completely agree.

FO4 showed to me that they are fundamentally unserious about Fallout as like, a setting of stories, and also that they have no idea how to make compelling gameplay.

Addictive maybe, sure, but not interesting.

I never understood why anyone would play FO76 at all. Just a mess, better alternatives existed at the time for very similar gameplay.

Yeah lol, FO76 is a game the way like, a dead MMO or SecondLife is a game hahaha, its a … digital space, hahaha!

What I’ve said in the past and I still think is that they should have, for FO4 done either:

A) totally drop the base construction schtick, completely redraft the main story, make it a lot more compelling.

Or

B) nearly totally drop the main story, and go full in on the base construction schtick. Other major factions have bases they are building and maintaining, they get different kinds of blue prints, need different kinds of resources, have different styles of overarching like strategic AI governing what the factions act like, what they value materially… turn the game into much more of a procedurally generated like, active sim, of a wasteland.

But they split the diff and went for half baked versions of both, and basically it was bland and boring.

Chaotic Good? Chaotic Neutral? Chaotic Evil?

… Chaotic Copper.

Just a copper gremlin, hahaha!

Yeah I mean like… a full on conversion at the level of Fallout London or something like that, but with access to more ‘guts’ of the engine… done by pros?

Yeah, I’d bet Obsidian can do something like that, at the least, and it would be broadly better than FO4, again at the least.

Also my absolute random bet for FO5/ES6 will be radiant enemies along the line of Spore creatures, hahahah!

Tbf I agree that their more recent games haven’t been great… but I do think they are both more lean as a studio, and their recent games have been of better quality than Bethesda’s recent slop.

Well the last time Obsidian got their hands on the then current Creation Engine, they hot rodded it and got it to do things that Bethesda had stated they wanted to be able to do but couldn’t figure out how to do.

What would a wholly updated FO5 even… have be different? What are the systems that would be reworked?

No one has any idea because no one has mentioned anything at that level of detail, at all, that I’m aware of.

Also what, like, Bethesda is going to somehow make the Creation Engine not a giant pile of shit, with now 15 more years of acculumated technical debt from never doing a full ground up rebuild… ?

Anyway my suspicion is that MSFT is generally pissed at Bethesda for spending stupendous amounts of money over the last decade and a half, making basically one decent game that was a commercial success, one maybe commerical success that was a PR disaster, and then a combo PR+commercial disaster.

That, all in addition to FO5 and ES VI are as best we can tell literally just dreams, concepts of a plan.

Sharma’s job is to make Xbox as profitable as it can be, partially to stem the damage from Xbox itself’s fuckups over the last decade, Spencer’s ‘buy every IP’ plan only works if that leads to actually profitable games…

… but Sharma also has to make Xbox as profitable as it can be to cover for the incredible amounts of money MSFT has spent on AI/LLMs, Windows itself going to shit, mass abandonment of Windows and Windows enterprise software thats been going on in Europe since Trump Round 2 started.

They also can’t build a mod manager to save their lives.

God help you if you think they understand anything about how to write any OS agnostic code.

In other news: ModDB still exists. Same with GameBanana.

Well I think Obsidian will be better able to do a Fallout game than Bethesda, but oof yeah maybe fire Emil and Todd, if you want to start fixing Bethesda’s problems.

See the primary problem with Bethesda is that its leadership are incompetent hacks that haven’t had a new idea muchless a good idea in a decade, and they’ve have promoted a hugbox culture with 0 accountability anywhere.

Thats how something like FO76 and Starfield and the FO4 update that broke everything happen.

In case anyone is unaware:

https://gamingpromax.com/obsidian-new-fallout-game-confirmed-bethesda-2026/

Yeah, Asha Sharma told Obsidian to drop basically everything they were doing, and now they’re tasked with making another Fallout game.

Bethesda is also tasked with making a new Fallout game. Well, more accurately, they’ve been tasked with that for years, got a head start.

… only one of these studios is currently publically pissing and shitting themselves over how difficult that will be.

And its not Obsidian. Haven’t heard much from them.

Probably because they are busy, you know, working.

Yep! In my own history, sometimes they just believe you without further explicit proof, but yeah, they do often ask for some kind of proof and usually that is just basically screenshots like this. Might take em a while to process it in the ‘escalated support’ tier, or what not, but yeah it generally does work.