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  • Starfield is where the studio died for me, and it’s not because it was a bad game. It’s actually nothing to do with Starfield directly, but more that I realized they just don’t know how to make any other type of game, and the world has left them behind.

    Skyrim came and went, and then Fallout 4, which was great, but then you got the Witcher 3, and Red Dead 2, and the bar has been raised for open world RPGs. It’s not that Bethesda is bad, it’s that they haven’t modernized their gameplay or engines.

    Starfield had a great idea, but they couldn’t execute on it. 16 loading screens to jump between planets, annoying clunky animations, the game felt like it came out in 2013, not 2023. Even if ES6 came out next year I wouldn’t trust it simply because I don’t think they know how to make a modern RPG anymore.

    This video did a decent job summing up my thoughts



  • I’ve learned it really depends on the device. It’s completely a mixed bag, and that’s why I can’t trust it. Half the time it lasts over a decade, the other half less than a year.

    For example, I got their “Enterprise” Switch 8 PoE with 2 SFP+ ports. I plugged it in in my garage, where it was 50 degrees (F) at the time, and it overheated. I googled it, apparently the SFP ports simply overheat. Turns out while it has a fan, it doesn’t turn on and simply overheats because they “Didn’t want a noisy fan on someone’s desk”. Which… uh, doesn’t matter if it doesn’t work. Their enterprise term means nothing.

    That being said, my rackmount switches have been solid, oldest one is 10 years old. However that unknown makes it hard to justify purchasing new equipment.