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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Less annoying than I remember them. This amount of dialogue and explicit and precise directions, instead of quest markers, seem to be rare in the AAA titles.

I like NMS. It allows me to play a solitary, introverted owner of mobile repair shop where I fix salvaged spaceships and later sell them. Sometimes I'm just in the mood to chill somewhere pretty and sci-fi, with space synths of eighties soundtrack and NMS is perfect for that.

TESIII: Morrowind. Spent about an hour wandering Dwemer ruins, because I missed a "staircase" (a fallen column). Also got to level 2 and found some decent weapons. There was a scanned (the pages were visibly folded) guide in the game's root folder, which introduction spoiled one of the major plot twists.

I honestly forgot about that, but you know, now that you mention it, I think that the Harpers' level of incompetence is directly proportional to how many bards they have...it all starts to makes sense.

You can't see it in the reflection in the bottle but I'm wearing shorts... Or am I? With Scotch you kinda have to spend some money. With some other liquors, vodka or rum for example, you can get relatively good quality for a fairly low price, but you can't cheap out on Scotch because cheap Scotch is raw sewage. @PK htiw klaw eriFI'm going to go ahead and recommend Chopin vodka to you. It ain't cheap but it's cheaper than Grey Goose and better IMHO, assuming you're down with a potato vodka. If you're adventurous and you can find it, I can't recommend Żubrówka enough, but that has a very specific flavor (from the blade of grass in the bottle) that's not going to do it for everybody, plus you're probably going to have to go to a big big liquor store to find it. I will also recommend Nikka Whisky From The Barrel, it's a Japanese whisky and it burns like hell going down (it's 51.4% it comes with the territory) but I thoroughly enjoy the flavor. I've only had 3 or 4 different Japanese whiskies but that's my favorite of the bunch.

Put some pants on man! I wish I enjoyed Scotch more, or maybe Ive only ever had crap quality.

I thought it was kinda strange that they want to check my blood every six months, after all I went ~25 years without visiting a doctor, but my neighbor explained that it should be covered by my insurance. I guess they just like to keep on top of things, but I know me and theres no way Im going to maintain this regularity. I still walk around the blocks a few times a week and not stuffing my piehole with delicious candies keeps me at my natural fighting weight of 209 Lb (94800.8g for you weirdos).

I enjoyed the first season of SNW. Of the new ST shows I've seen (Discovery season 1 & 2, Picard season 1, Lower Decks Seasons 1-3), I'd say its the most classic Trek feeling of the shows. If you get caught up in continuity minutiae or why the bridge looks fancier ~10 years before TOS, it might not be for you though.

NMS is worth the price. They released a ton of huge extra content for free. I've had some good fun with the game.

Yeah, stuff like that is why - well, let's say that in my experience, generally speaking - plus including "female" things and my parent's experience with father's multiple sclerosis - doctors have this tendency to assume/brush many things off (initially) without even really checking anything, and you typically have to be pretty aggressive even re: insisting on diagnosis and elimination from the get go. I'm not all that concerned, he has a history of his back "going out" so it's not completely out of the blue/new or anything. But I'd still insist on the elimination processes available, because you don't want to waste your time if the assumption- even if it's a good assumption based on history - is wrong.

I prefer the same. I wouldn't even mind the loading screens. But unfortunately the game is very expensive and I also need to upgrade my pc. Btw, No Man's Sky is almost a fifth of the price on GOG right now and I'm not sure I wanna buy and play it.

Those faces are ****ing horrifying. What the ****, they make the Mystery Man look comforting.

Developer Explains Why Starfield NPCs Look Like They’re Dead Inside

sad music which nevertheless comforts? am knowing there is studies which explain the brain chemistry, but for us the studies don't change the primal strangeness. top o' the list is gonna be arvo pärt, samuel barber... maybe ryuichi sakamoto songs? roberta flack were probable the artist who gut punched us at the earliest age. edit: is worth noting the linked song were the inspiration for the roberta flack piece and it also reached us on a fundamental level. a more recent top choice. HA! Good Fun!

It's the latter, yes. No one has to have 19 on their own. And it's for... Correct. And it's for... There is some mildly ugly code digging for strings before and after each check, but sometimes a check ends the whole interaction and then there is no later string. If a check is -NONE FOUND- x3, it probably doesn't actually exist. There can be other reasons for not finding anything. The code isn't perfect but should generally provide you some nice context. I'm glad you like it I wanted to do even more, especially writing code that always figures out if a string is the result of a skill check or the trigger for one, but my situation has changed and I don't see myself returning to this project anytime soon.

You're just saying that because they're disproportionately bards. Though you're not wrong, the dissonance between their secret agent hype and incompetent scrub in game reality is disappointing. I'm not expecting them to drop a big gun archwizard on every problem but when your idea for an iron crisis is to send a married couple to grab a teenager and then check it out later instead of a decently seasoned party then someone at your organization makes very poor decisions.

I finally went around to beat the "mini campaign" after the end of the main story of King Arthur: Knight's Tale. In the end the boss fights were very anti-climatic, as my max level team of Mordred, Sir Balan, Queen Morgawse, and Queen Guinevere needed three turns to kill any boss at that point. I could have probably swapped Morgawse for Boudica and cut one turn with some well placed backstabs. Then again, it isn't the worst thing in a game to see the characters you spend many hours building to be efficient killing machines actually perform exactly that way.

Speaking of doctors, my doctor assistant has been up my butt sideways about trying to schedule my "6 month follow up blood test". My first blood test revealed that Im healty as a healthy ox, so Ive blown off 4 voicemail to me, one to my wife, and an actual written letter to my home (madness!). But I respect her hustle and she broke me down enough to make an appointment. This preventative medicine BS better be covered by my insurance.

Mechs confirmed?

^ Yeah I think it's the length mostly, for me. It feels too extended. I love that film to pieces, but it's largely because of the music/soundtrack vs. plot/chrs - still have a cassette tape of that - and the humor bits. Levi Stubbs as AudreyII was so awesome (Mean Green is great but Suppertime is probably my fave). I've also listened to some of the broadway/stage versions - they have their very good moments performance wise, but Levi Stubbs is AudreyII, for me. Also:

My opinion of Starfield is going downhill the more I play it. I've gone from "Eh, a 7/10, maybe?", to "No more than a 6/10", so far. The UX is just atrocious, and clearly built around a very limited set of buttons ("press and hold" to exit the map, really?) to make it controller friendly, but they couldn't even be consistent in which button does what across UI elements (Tab? Hahaha, no, this time it is Escape). Needing a mod to disable the obnoxious "toggle to sprint" is mind boggling and, in my mind anyway, a clear indication the UX really was built around controllers. In summary Bethesda clearly learned nothing from the terrible UX of Skyrim and/or Fallout 4, and even managed to make it worse, somehow... Which brings us to lock picking which is now also much more annoying. Thankfully someone already modded it out. But can we, please, stop these obnoxious mini-games and just go back to skill checks, like in New Vegas? Especially for things you have to do every five steps? In a similar vein, outposts seem worse than the Fallout 4 implementation (outside buildings, like solar panels, don't snap to a grid, so things look like they are just haphazardly thrown around. But even inside decoration is an exercise in futility as the "rotate" granularity is abysmal, so aligning anything to a wall is borderline impossible). Additionally finding a good, resource rich, landing zone on a planet is just a dice roll since the granularity of the map isn't good enough to actually land where you intended, so you think you're landing on the intersection of 3, or 4, desirable resources but after touchdown one of them is nowhere to be found. I mean that spot may exist somewhere on that "the size of Fallout 4's map"-map that you can only traverse on foot. Which they clearly did to try to hide the inability of their engine to stream in entire planets by making it unreasonable to traverse the entire thing (well, until modders mod in vehicles or other faster ways of getting around, anyway). Especially since they're mostly empty and things are 700/1400m apart, so trudging on foot through vast tracts of nothingness to get to randomly generated events (to be fair, some of them are pretty good). Maybe if reviewers would start picking on the lazy choices Bethesda made instead of praising them to the moon for doing nothing new they'd actually try to make a better game next time. But for some reason Bethesda consistently releasing mediocrity is praiseworthy. Or am I simply unreasonable in expecting that if they make the same game every 10 years or so, it would at least have improved over its predecessor in some tangible way? Especially when they somehow think it's worth charging substantially more for it? As usual, underneath the technical/UX disaster is a decent enough game, but well, we are, once again, going to need the modders to do what Bethesda couldn't be bothered to, which is to actually make it enjoyable to play. At least by then the price should've come down, hopefully...

Well, I don't have Starfield, but I felt like being a cat again. Didn't last too long, just galloped around a bit, but yeah ... it's still cute.

The Pupil (2022). Rather bizarre Italian film about a bunch of young girls in a nunnery during World War II trying to make it through Christmas while being yelled at for their apparent wickedness by the nuns, selling their little orphan prayers to all the wives and moms worried about their boys in exchange for food and such. The concept is decidedly me, and the execution was...rather amusing. I mean, just look at them. Once a girl decides that cake is more important than Christ, I think that pretty much seals it.

I think they probably could have had a new character in deadfire. One thing I like about dragon age is that they have a new main character every installment. There was no real reason the watcher was back for deadfire imo. Deadfire did a decent job giving reason why you are level 1, but in general it's annoying when you start a sequel weaker than you ended the previous game. I really really hope we get a proper poe3

So I've run through most of my base liquor (except Cognac and dark rum) and looking to restock. Since some of yall have good taste, can I get some recs for the following 1. Tequila 2-3. Whiskey, two out of Bourbon, Rye, Scotch, Irish, or Japanese 4. White rum or chachaca 5. Vodka 6. Any wild cards like interesting liqueurs or whatever

Steam is 20 years old today. In a related story, I'm so old.

I think that storywise good organizations in these games require a certain level of incompetence so the adventurers in the video game/pnp can drive everything. While it would make more tactical sense for the Harpers to send in a well equipped team of level 10 veterans to deal with either situation in BG1 or BG3, it wouldn't really center the player enough to be relegated to cleaning up after them. So the orgs have to be incompetent for the player(s) to be rapidly rising hero(es) instead of interns cleaning up goblin **** until they get promoted. And you know who loves stories about plucky underdogs taking on challenges too big for them until they make it big? Bards. They're purposely making bad decisions so when it does turn out well they can make money selling books and putting on plays about it. The mother****ers are endangering the realms for a book deal.