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Sorry, I should have rephrased. Tobacco companies used propaganda to counter claims about health issues caused by using tobacco - ads with "doctors" making claims that tobacco was safe, etc. You can find tons of that shit in the mid 20th century

Thr irony of this post is glossing over that tobacco companies used propaganda to make people smoke

It does, although it's sort of a lame copout that they have such a big aversion to confirming a canon ending on the show. I sort of get it, because it gives Bethesda more time while designing Fallout 5 to pick a canon ending for NV or 4 or whatever if needed themselves when developing the...

I was joking the Commonwealth BOS that show up might be synths before, but that name drop got me thinking there is a real possibility. It would be a hell of a coincidence or outright red herring to use that name otherwise Commonwealth BOS existing narrows down Fallout 4 to 2 possible canon...

The funny part about that old commercial is the actor was Italian They were effective, though. American roads/highways looked like trash dumps before the “keep America clean” push in the 60s/70s

They’re kind of limited in what they can do if they don’t want to stray from the art design philosophy of “retro future 70s/early 80s post-apocalypse”

In other news, looks like Thomas Jane was cast as Bones for the SNW finale. They also cast a Sulu, which seems to imply the final episode will probably involve the Enterprise fully swapping over to Kirk's crew https://blog.trekcore.com/2025/12/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-casting-mccoy-sulu/...

That was one thing I disliked when visiting Japan years ago - I've gotten so used to no smoking in restaurants that it was kind of a shock when I went to a few and half the booths are puffing away at their tables.

Japan mostly started in the aftermath of WW2 - it was viewed as a way to get more food into the country. It’s fallen out of favor with younger generations, much like how dog meat isn’t as acceptable to younger people in places like Korea or China. Norway and Iceland still did it, although...

North America solo queue is usually pretty chill if you get matched with other chill solos. Just don’t attack people first if possible and you’ll eventually get matched more often than not with chill people who are more interested in PvE than PvP

It’s not a big problem tbh - full naked has no shield

Ultimately you need sort of an end game. Only way the current cycle ends is 1) Earth is suddenly incapable of launching missions for some reason or 2) Pandora somehow gets a tactical advantage that negates Earth's technological superiority which in turn allows negotiation

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I don't doubt it was fun, but that fun is also relative. If everyone playing had the same mindset, sure. But they don't, which is why the past 20 years have shown if you take a fundamentally PVE-style game, but add PVP elements to it and the PVP element cannot be opted out of, then eventually...

Garriot himself mentioned that population in UO increases 60% after Trammel came out. Point is that people were more willing to play when you couldn't just get shanked out in the woods and lose all your shit

Huh? You must have done something or said something wrong, because it's pretty easy to get the "we live together in a cabin in the woods" relationship ending. Also I am seeing a recurring theme - people murdering characters then complaining about not getting into the game. You're literally...

Trammel saved UO - the population was on a downward spiral until they released Trammel. Even back then it was clear that when people play games, they don't enjoy the digital experience of walking in the bad part of town at 3am

I saw that - he gets a lot of things wrong about the game, which to me says he didn't have a lot of personal experience with it and he also missed a lot of community complaints. I can tell you what killed the game population just from having played it for hundreds of hours 1) Unsatisfying...

They started to course correct in 7.2 (was too late for 7.1). 7.2 and 7.3 she is there, but not in an oversized role and they tone her down. She gets a heroic moment in 7.3, but it feels more like a team effort heroic moment rather than a "lul kill steal!" moment that 7.0 came across as. 7.4...

PTR notes for the newest update https://duneawakening.com/news/public-test-client-patch-1-3-0-0/

Well we know a few things. Calyx and Sphene were contemporaries and Alexandria suffered the calamity over 400+ years ago. Oblivion was formed after Calyx formed Preservation and they created the means to make endless. If I recall, Endless research was still ongoing when Sphene was originally...

Yes, there are a bunch of quests similar to DMZ

It was a repost of an older post

His dad was in the Vietnam war, but he wasn’t an army brat in the sense of growing up with active military parents

I’ve seen speculation online that the House we see in the bar at the start of the episode is Anthony House, not Robert, because his s personality is more like Anthony and he seems to really like H&H tools Seems plausible

Only 10 years? Pfft, amateurs

The new trial was pretty fun As for MSQ

A while back they realized that PVE needs a different endgame than Deep Desert, I suspect they'll try to flesh out PVP more after they address the PVE stuff

Starfield IMO should have leaned into the multiverse stuff earlier - reduce the scope of MSQ/systems, let the player experience the "base story", then you start jumping to alternate universes that range between "what if?" scenarios to show deviations from the base story to completely off the...

Some good changes there - Lansgrad moving to a personal advancement system makes it more interesting. Some new melee weapons/reworks and scalable dungeons/overland map locations seems cool too. Hopefully it can bring people back.

The show is supposed to be in the game timeline, so fallout 5 acknowledging the show isn’t a huge revelation

They still seem to have the highest drop rates in residential loot containers

They also added the base storage tool - I'm trying to get guildmates to log on and use it so I don't have to login once a week to fuel and pay taxes on shit since they're pretty much in break mode until/if more endgame stuff gets added

The alternative is make them rare, but that discourages people from rerolling and regrinding stuff. Plus them being rare means getting duplicates feels even worse

Assuming you never watched a single trailer, the viewer might not know the guy at the start of the episode was Mr. House because he looks different than the guy in season 1 (who they show in flashback again). So we're working with outside knowledge on who Mr. House is and therefore can connect...

That Firefox CEO is fucking clueless. He also mentioned potentially not allowing ad blockers Dude is going to speed run the abandonment of the browser due to not understanding why people use Firefox

Regarding Clue, I never saw it in the theater but they played it all the time on HBO in the 80s. Butler was my favorite character as a kid so I didn’t like that he died in the “real” ending. Curry was in a bunch of shit in the 80s. Remember that movie “the worst witch”? To this day I’m...