288 points

I really felt cheated that no one was insulted, no rants were frothed, no theories conspiracied in this nfo. All we got was relevant information and kindness.

I’m kidding obvs

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Bland release notes.

I wanted some spicy ✨bipolar ranting

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Not even transphobia? But how will I justify my Vtuber hatemail now? /jk

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Starfield and Friends

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I can hear it

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Stars are there…

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We’re ready to party, we’re ready

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11 points

John…I’m watching you…

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9 points

Thank you for sharing

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I love that pirate groups still use ascii text art in their release notes. It’s like a little piece of the world that hasn’t changed in 30 years.

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I need to find out how to make these. Mostly just cause I like it.

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On Linux, you’ll want to install figlet and toilet (both available in the debian repos)

Alternatively you’ve got this online frontend

If you really want to get weird with it you can also play any video in ascii art through libcaca and mplayer. Looks like this

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On Linux, you’ll want to install figlet and toilet

I know you’re 100% serious, but this sentence sounds so made up and hilarious

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I use Arch btw Endeavour OS so don’t have Debian repos but I will definitely check them out. I especially like the fancy dark mode.

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it’s typically just a kind of pixel art with monospaced fonts¹. any characters you see that’s not typically shown on your keyboard (e.g a filled square) can be found in a character selection program in your OS. anything else related to texts, templating and line breaks you can probably find a program somewhere on places like crates.io or gitlab or write something of your own without much trouble.

¹ a monospaced font is a font where every letter and character has the same spacing from each other, and are the easiest to do ascii art. (ascii is just one character table, but you can also gather unicode chars all you want)

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And still include cheesy mp3s playing too loud in retro-futuristic-looking installers

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The music in the installers is the best part about installing cracks

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The track included in the Rune installer for Starfield was actually a banger

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I love that the installer has a cracktro, that’s the real good stuff.

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I bopped to that shit for ages.

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I pirated a cracked version of Adobe Acrobat Pro recently. First thing I had to crack in years. It had a sketchy crack installer , with music and everything. Like it was back in the 90s. Of course it worked perfectly lol.

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Chiptune/tracker/keygen music will all hold a special place in my heart.

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I really like the chip tunes, but I think they are not creating them anymore in the authentic way

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@JasonHears @Bloodyashes I miss the cracktros on old 8 bits and 16 bits computers

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Oh my too!

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Somehow I expect hackers to do cooler stuff these days. I want hackers to release a Switch version of the game.

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It can barely run on a gtx1070 man what kind of black magic do you expect a hacker to cast to make it run on a Switch

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123 points

Im not pre-ordering piracy either.

Im waiting for the reviews.

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The review embargo was lifted with the start of the early access, meaning that all the regular review channels that received review copies have already posted their content.

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That’s not “pre-ordering”. Go write the reviews

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Reviews hit yesterday, check your preferred gaming sites

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Go watch people actually play it in twitch or steam or YouTube. See if you like it. Why wait for someone else’s opinion?

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And also, the “early access” is just a way to get people to pay more for the game in the first week.

By all reasonable standards, the game has been fully released.

“Pre-ordering piracy”… What does that even mean?

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To be fair it’s the exact same bypass as any other Steam game. Any steam emulator would work.

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Bethesda the publisher does things differently than Bethesda the developer.

As a dev, they know their modding communities keep their games alive long, long past their expiration dates and will fuck with them as little as they possibly can - this takes them from games to household names to legends that everyone knows.

As a publisher pushing products that aren’t intended to be modded, they drink the koolaid.

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I disagree about the publishing side somewhat, every now and then the publishing team hits a home run. Like I’ve been playing Ghostwire: Tokyo recently which is published by Bethesda and it’s a pretty good game, and let’s not forget Prey which was an awesome game also published by Bethesda.

So tbey do get it right sometimes.

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WTF is/was this comment? It’s killing me lol

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Lol it was this “https://lemmy.zip/comment/2283511” /\ Did starfield not have denuvo drm. I thought most Bethesda games did. ", I tried to delete it but obviously not lol.

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