This has to be a Yank centric question. Very few places in Europe in the last 120 years would have had dirt floors unless they were very poor and rural.

What century is this post from? Even my great great grandparents would have had floors in Victorian London. My dad had an outside toilet growing up, but the floor of it was concrete.

If marrying cousins is the criteria, it’s probably somewhere like Leeds in the UK, not because of any British culture of cousin marriage but the high Asian populations there that have a lot of arranged marriage between cousins.

That’s a pretty good line up. Couple of games I was going to get anyway, and some I was less sure off so will happily try as part of the sub.

This is one of the few games I was planning to get at launch this year, so this is welcome news.

Yeah, I’d like to know where that comes from, especially when so many people buy FIFA and Cod and that’s it for the year.

Over one game? I thought Fallout 4 was a disappointing step back from New Vegas and 76 was a misjudged project that turned up messy and broken and I’ve never even looked at playing. The last game of theirs I truly enjoyed pre Starfield was Skyrim, over a decade ago. I’m not white knighting them, you clearly have an irrational hatred of them and are unable to admit when they do something positive, a common issue today when people turn hating something into their identity and are unable to ever move from the stance. Like most Devs, they’ve had their ups and downs and the ups should be praised and the downs criticised.

How do you think marketing works? Someone posts a cool thing they’ve done in Starfield, and someone else gets some FOMO and decides to buy the game, sub to Gamepass, get an Xbox to play it, etc.

No not everyone is pirating the game, a lot of people on Lemmy may be as this is an echo chamber of techie types, but the general audience don’t even know how to, and if they prefer to play on console, can’t.

Clearly you have beef with Bethesda, and are letting it cloud your judgement here, but the fact of the matter is lots of people are playing and enjoying the game as is, out the box before any mods are officially available.

If you don’t think a company as big as MS did a cost/benefit analysis before they made the decision I don’t know what to tell you. Of course any product available to more people sells better, but MS are playing a longer game. If previous Bethesda games are anything to go on, people will be talking about, modding, posting clips, etc of this game for a while and that’s tons of free advertising for XB and Gamepass.

If I haven’t eaten meat for over 20 years and don’t drive can I continue to take the moral highground on testing?

No, but Oblivion came to PS3 later and Skyrim was outright broken on PS3, then Sony scuppered their console mod plans by not allowing deep enough system access. Safe to say they probably didn’t have the best relationship.

Gaming isn’t bedroom coders knocking out games in basic for microcomputers any more, it’s a huge entertainment industry and that’s how those industries work.

This is no different from Disney pulling Fox properties of other steaming platforms to put them on Disney+ since they brought them out.

But you made that decision knowing that Bethesda games were going to be exclusive to the MS ecosystem.

Yeah, but MS games aren’t console exclusive. They come out on PC day one two which is a bigger audience than both consoles combined. Given the player numbers Starfield really hasn’t suffered due to not being on PS. In some countries it’s doing exactly what a console exclusive should and getting people to pick up an Xbox.

Yeah, it took me ages to realise the prompt was at the bottom of the screen, I didn’t even want to change them, I was just wondering why it set off such a wobbler with the bald bloke.

I wonder if this is what the internet was like in the 90s when everyone on it was lien the Lone Gunmen from the X-files?

At some point we need to make a decision though, Covid is in the ecosystem now, and it’s not going away, most people will have little to no symptoms worse than a cold due to natural immunity or being vaccinated. While in an ideal world people should isolate when they have something infectious, it’s not always feasible.

Is it not on the immunocompromised to protect themselves rather than the rest of society having to change. Surely this has been an issue with other illnesses prior to 2020 and we didn’t always expect people to isolate then when they had a cold, flu, etc.

Yeah, some made paranoia going on in some communities. The amount of people telling me I shouldn’t use the apps on my smart TV due to privacy yesterday was mental.

I get this.

I was raised entirely non-religiously, but I still still celebrate “cultural Christmas” since that’s what we do in the UK. I don’t go to midnight mass or watch Songs of Praise, but putting up the tree and having a big roast dinner is good times.