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[nenjin]

I'll also remind everyone now that the minute this gets personal, the RAGE thread is taking a break. Just so we're all clear.

[Cthulhu]

Ooooooh. That was what you meant.

I think we do have a category for that, by the way. Do you mean it in the slang (necrophiliac) or desecrating dead bodies?

no


I don't like the pony show.  I watched it once, there was nothing there of value for me, an adult man.  Sure, if I were a twelve year old girl it'd be a great show, but I'm not.

I hate hate hate when people get so obsessed with something they start shoving it into everything.  You can't find a game forum today without a "Let's put ponies in this game" thread.  Everywhere I look, ponies. 

[kaijyuu]

That's ok, Cthulhu. Not everything appeals to everyone.

I'll also remind everyone now that the minute this gets personal, the RAGE thread is taking a break. Just so we're all clear.

Indeed! I at least am hitting the report button the moment anyone starts tossing insults or getting hypersensitive. Let's not have that.



Anywho, the category would probably be just generic Grimdark. Hefty violence and all that.

[Dsarker]

Well, of course!


We're currently working on genetic modification. We reckon it is not an infeasible goal to turn everyone into talking ponies


Seriously, though, I was replying to MoM.

[Leafsnail]

Ooooooh. That was what you meant.

You don't need to explain the joke.

[Dsarker]

I hadn't known that was the joke.

[nenjin]

Moving on-

Fuck you Bethesda. Whether you really earned everyone's hate with the patch may be debatable, but the impact of your decisions wasn't.

[scriver]

...what?

[kaijyuu]

They screw up a patch with skyrim or something?

[Aklyon]

Did they do too much of a patch?

[Urist Imiknorris]

All I know is that somewhere Bethesda is living up to their reputation.

[Blargityblarg]

Basically they neutered the 'use all of my goddamn RAM already' fix.

[Aklyon]

Wait, so they made it use less RAM for no apparent reason, or something like that?

[nenjin]

The Large Address Aware in the header file of the .exe. It allows an application to access more than 2gigs of memory at once.

Being that Skyrim actually has pretty forgiving requirements, those of us who had plenty of ram but maybe not screaming fast GPUs could use a tool to modify the Skyrim.exe to LAA. Made it run better and crash less for me. For those with kick ass machines, it allowed them to use high-res textures made by modders, 2000ish size textures instead of 1000ish. LAA made that possible.

Everything was hunkey dorey for a week. But even before fixing their own broken UI, they released a patch that upped the DRM specification of the game and made the LAA impossible. Steam had a problem with it and so did Bethesda apparently.

And rather than doing the sane thing, like making it a configuration option, or making it part of the configuration tool when Skyrim detects your settings.....they did the predictable. They patched the .exe and Steam locked it down so if you change the .exe to be LAA....Steam won't launch the game.

Reasons are myriad but it's my guess that Skyrim being so popular, combined with a ton of people using an .exe hack (for completely legitimate reasons) made Steam shit a brick. Because hey, how do they know if those modified .exes are just using LAA or are in fact modified to avoid Steam DRM? Last I checked on my favorite torrent site, there were 15,000 seeds of Skyrim.

So yeah. Pardon my lack exposition. It's just after discussing it in 12 places on the internet, I didn't come here to discuss much. I came here to say fuck and vent

[kaijyuu]

Ah ok.

If it's capable of something like that I don't see why it's not an option in the first place. Free optimization woo.