Well written comment, but I think all of it is absolutely wishful thinking. Bethesda will not replace the creation engine in any future releases for games to solve their games issues with stability and performance (and let’s be honest with ourselves, that is the only way they will be fixed), they will do the absolute bare minimum for curating any content or general bug testing (Fallout 76, need I say more), and to expect a public company with every incentive in the world to enshittify to provide a better user experience for user created content than the unofficial alternatives for the long term is hilarious.

For another example of a Microsoft owned property that has the same divide of community vs. official avenues of distributing and managing modded content, compare modded Minecraft Java Edition to Bedrock (sorry, Bugrock). I would not consider moving Bethesda’s modding scene closer to the Bugrock model to be “desireable”.

DuckDuckGo uses a basket of search indexes excluding google - so even if one of them enshittifies they can reallocate that portion to another source.

Grayjay’s kind of nice for that since it aggregates results from all platforms in a search - sometimes missing youtube videos (or stuff that got DMCA’d) can be found in peertube instead.

Nebula also works on it as well.

Snowden was in 2013, bro.

Use a client for video content like Grayjay (gets rid of the ads too).

Look at Tuta Mail or Proton Mail as viable privacy focused alternatives.

Nice to have it in writing.

The HEV suit might be more important ngl

Ah, thanks for the clarification. Granted I live in a state where this is unobtanium officially anyway.

3D printed (or hybrid material/improvised from everyday object) grenade launchers have existed for a very long time - just usually called “flare launchers” for obvious reasons.

Is that the same rule for destructive devices? Genuinely curious - I know privately made firearms have different rules.

Cheers then, add this to the “arsenal”.

This already would fall under an FFL for legal citizens anyway. As is the nature of the internet though, this open design will be preserved and available for those who seek it.

To a degree this is inevitable, though. Pipe bombs and general IEDs have existed for much longer than this creation, and we’ve long passed the point where the average individual can easily create reliable firearms and ammunition within their own home (FOSSCAD).

This is just the logical conclusion of those who wish to design a more refined and precise IED.

Probably would be the only way lol.

“You ain’t flying over this town ever again.”

Potentially could be used for things like spreading flame-retardent powder for putting out a wildfire or similar with more precision. Would also remove the risk of a human life in firefighting so areas might be cleared quicker.

“This is it, Luigi.”

I believe it’s just complexity and token/compute usage.

You end up chasing diminishing returns as well (100% or even 95% accuracy is just not possible for certain areas of study, especially for niche topics).

It’s also 100% unfixable as a premise for the technology. I can enjoy an upscaling algorithm for my retro games to look more detailed at the cost of an odd artifact, but I sure as shit am not taking that risk for information gathering and general study.

Librewolf doesn’t have an android port, full stop. If you want a Librewolf style fork on android use something like Ironfox.

I am not certain if Waterfox has a port on android, though.

I’d say it’s more of a dedicated following that just isn’t viral. Keep in mind crossplay means that the steam charts aren’t an accurate barometer by themselves.

Most of the devs from the Bad Company era left EA to form Embark Studios - maybe check out their games like The Finals?

I think steam support does offer refunds in those instances where the terms of sale were changed on you when mentioned in a ticket (see Helldivers and newer COD games)