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Bethesda/Zenimax has been one of the most consistent publishers in the PC space over the past few years. Especially for first-person games. Valve really dropped the ball by leaving that space, but I guess their engine tech had always been borrowed from id from back in the day. (Rage, Skyrim, Dishonored, Wolf:TNO, Fallout 4, Doom, Dishonored 2, Prey, Wolf 2:TNC, Rage 2) I certainly agree that Sony is leading things pretty whole handedly. You left out Death Stranding, and Dreams. I think Nintendo though for a first party delivers some really high quality and innovated stuff. If only Pokemon would actually evolve as a series just like it's main premise. Activision outside of Blizzard, and EA are basically dead to me. Ubisoft is only marginally better, I give them credit for taking the time to spruce up the AC series for origins but it's still not fantastic. The Eidos half of Square seems to be operating pretty well, but Square proper does a lot of outsourcing and their own projects seem to be a nightmare. There is a reason they have switched to using Epic's engine recently.

Hopefully the Starfield rumor ends up being true.

Ah, I have heard about that. Shocking if true, which it probably is. I hear terrible terrible things about Blizzcon and Comicon in that regard.

Except the World Cup usually involves human trafficking and hundreds of foreign workers dead or stranded from their homelands. But I guess booth babes are worse...

Don't be. E3 is best enjoyed when you're not expecting anything. Absolutely, though I've only been able to get to this point by maturing naturally. I knew the hype was bad for my expectations when I was young and I hyped myself for months anyways. Still love E3 though.

If you are talking about the portrayal of Chivalry, yeah then it's much closer to that, since the stories often revolved around romance and romance is portrayed based on the notions of a given time. Which is a problem that was pervasive in early works of Hollywood. The fantasy literature probably leans more sappy, though I'm sure there is some chauvinism displayed by particular authors in a non-expository manner. I don't actually read fiction based on this era, so I can't get too specific here.

Isn't that Obsidian's other project? Yes, aka Project Indiana.

For some reason they went to double precision floats, which makes sense for vast spaces. They probably should have figured out a way to use sub-local coordinate systems instead though, because that is a huge perf hit. Cuts your simd performance basically in half, and that's assuming simd is even being used where it can.

To clarify, the criticism is that chivalry is an inherently gendered term due to it's historical context referring to the expected courteous conduct of men at arms. Thus would feel out of place to reference woman, and therefor would be unsuitable for inclusive language. Note that chivalry doesn't have to be an asymmetric relationship, but in the manner that it was implemented it had far more to due with bearing reverence to the court and church as opposed to fair maidens. Perhaps we could dis-gender the word, but society isn't exactly looking to embrace chivalry, and outside of the occasional bemoaning op-ed or blog post lamenting the lack of good men, you don't see it seriously suggested. Which is why the criticism lies in the language more so than bringing chivalry back. It's dead for a reason. Another thing to remember about the past is how the world of men and woman often parted, different roles necessitated by raising a family. Most people were farmers and peasants. Political and economic power was few and far between, and woman of the courts were not without their influence. Control over woman's sexuality at this time would be an artifact of the lack of birth control and rather unsanitary conditions (not saying woman are unclean, but lack of sanitary understanding did lead to complications and thus strict counter-measures.) But such expectations would have been broadcast through the church and obeyed by woman through a sense of realism. Men likewise would be controlled in a similar appeal. This relation though was much different amongst the nobility which through wealth could keep to set's of books to live by. These noble woman would be amongst the most well off of their time, but it would not just be these woman whom nights would bear deference to. Most knights were upper lower class, the honor bestowed because they gallantly took up arms, which was a functional necessity at that time. Chivalry was necessary to maintain the chain of respectable authority and was thus expected of knights. Further knights represented kingdoms in conflict that played out on a smaller scale, where great lengths were taken to uphold a sense of honor amongst combat and contention. Castle's were well defended, expensive to siege. Kingdoms relied upon their populations, it made sense to spare as many lives and to fight in a more civilized manner. Much in the manner in which Native Americans have accounts of routine blood sports, which seem barbaric compared to sports but were a tame manner of combat. Knights were like any other modern professional were paid and hard working. They often were bestowed meager land holdings as payment. Land holdings it is true where typically limited to men at this time, when available land was expected to be put to work by an able body. This is highly common across antiquity as fertile land was limited, and needed worked, life of communities depended on this. Further, such a man who developed manners and discipline, with the physical training to excel at working his own land would have no doubt been above average in desirability when courting. These same traits in woman, would be a tie breaker between two woman that a man might be interested in, so it should not be surprising to appeal to many woman as well nor demeaning to suggest a woman would find fancy in such things. Thus knights would have made prime candidates to settle down with. Humans grant much of their own dignity through their hard work, so a woman finding dignity through marriage to a knight is not the sort of thing that I'd find demeaning to her as a woman. Especially one wishing to settle down and start a family. I think just about everyone wishes for dignity in romance in love. By far the biggest problem with chivalry was the institution of the Chivalric Orders themselves. What once was opportunity, became stratified rank hierarchies, with nobles becoming Knights out of heredity. In lieu of combat it became a court sport. Familiar with jousting? Knights at this later era would have simply been the well off noble bachelors that would have been the preferred suitors of other noble woman, and the fair common girl was probably not much in the way to complain by finding herself a knight. Today, just as then, wealth had a far bigger impact on power and political dignity. Chivalry was an expectation on men who serve at arms, ultimately reduced to elitist class defining etiquette, and noble fanfare as it's functional need vanished. In it's time it was far from being an institution of sexism in which dutiful knights were merely rewarded with complacent woman bored to tears in their dull chambers. It was in many respects the opposite, even though woman weren't given rank or power over Chivalric Orders. It's not the sort of institution that would have even appealed to woman during it's earliest years as it was for more in the line of labor, but if we can criticize it for anything is that it dies as in institution before opening it's doors to woman. Much of the romanticism of the archetypal knight actually comes from fiction writing, as the printing press was developed during the late years of Chivalry. The spectacle of the nobility was always enticing and the works reflected the collective interests of the time. For most of it's duration Chivalry rewarded men who were burdened to serve their kingdom, or in other-words their community, when there wasn't much in the way for material payment. Perhaps just some land, which which bring dignity to him and his family. Far less of an institution of male dominance, more so of monarchical dominance. The codes that went without it were civil expectations of someone filling such a post. It would be a stretch to say Chivalry actually remains, but the purpose of the order was not to deprive women of their rights. It would further be a stretch to suggests that Chivalry (as it usually refers to it's historic codes of conduct) were merely a form of chauvinism to win woman over on unfair grounds. These are the reasons by which my previous posts stand, that it's not that the code of chivalry are sexists, but that it does not reflect a neutral sense of common courtesy. Where other criticisms and characteristics of it's usage are misinformed language games meant to misconstrue and deny intended meaning, some of it's players no doubt victims of it themselves.

The naked model (M_HUM_ND01.fbx for human males for example) has a variety of submeshes. M_HUM_ND01_Body_Shorts01 for example is the trunks-like underwear human males wear by default, M_HUM_ND01_Body_Shorts02 would be the loincloth one an elf has, which is set to "hidden" for human characters, but could be easily activated instead of the other one. If you set both submeshes to "hidden", then the model is naked, but, um, incomplete. If you set the submesh M_HUM_ND01_BodyS_Package to "Hidden = 0", genitals are added. Additionally, you can activate the submesh M_HUM_ND01_BodyS_PHair01 for pubic hair if you want it. Kith sexual dimorphism is fascinating...

I certainly appreciate etymological shifts, I find them fascinating. However I think there are distinctions. Chivalry isn't a thing that is even alive and well in the modern age, we have etiquette and common courtesy. The use of chivalry was never to appropriate a dead word, nor is it the result of organic change. It was a concerted redefining of the historical concept under the lens of feminist theory (not all of which is bad, I feel I must add.) The problem though, is the analysis of old sensibilities don't account for the historic reasons and context. Since the code of conduct applied to male knights, it's seen as a gender asymmetric term and thus unsuitable for referencing courtesy in the modern age. Which would be a fine point if you are criticizing the clarity of someone's semantics. Instead, the use of the word is taken as a shibboleth for being sexists and old fashioned. In which clarifying that one's use is in the historic sense, can be meet with equal scorn. As the historical context has already been prejudged by a modern theory divorced from the historic context. Even if the term had evolved in an organic agreed upon manner, new parlance does not automatically supersede the old. Yet it's not uncommon for people to deny your intended meaning, and the conspiracies over what could be dog-whistles only seem to be increasing. I'm not a fan of people ascribing a person's intended use of a word to the being the one that they're their sphere takes as a shibboleth. It's very clear that this sort of use of language is a power game, where one creates a language with traps that only those in the in-crowd will be able to navigate cleanly. Chivalry is one of those marker words that if being used whether seriously or casually, is seen as an artifact of the pervasive and latent sexism throughout society. No doubt the word can also be used by white knights, pickup artists, and other ilk of that sort. I'm sure some people only know of he word through such usage, and could be excused on account of ignorance and generally being right minded as being against chauvinism. But if you think that in general it's agreed upon that chivalry is an expression of male dominance, than I think either you've drank the kool-aid or you're the one mixing it.

Christ... is he laundering money or something? Maybe obsidian needs to pre-sell ships for Pillars 3 or something.

Chivalry has never been about male dominance over woman, it's structuring a knight to be worthy to fill the privileged roll that they have been granted. Knighthood was much more about religious piety, and being a servant soldier. As time went on the institution survived more as a form of noble distinction, and the social elements remained. But this did not grant a knight dominance over woman, it was about providence amongst one's peers. Because woman had certain rolls at that time, it's somehow seen as chivalry being the institution that maintained such things. Which is laughable. Only in modern times when people are insistent on changing things meaning in order to be correct, would your definition hold any water.

An affect is a causal relation. (verb) An effect describes that causation itself. (noun) The Tohoku earthquake affected the surrounding area. The effect was a tsunami. The Tohoku tsunami affected the Fukashima nuclear plant and the surrounding town. The effect was it's destruction, and a catastrophic failure of the nuclear plant, and the destruction of the surrounding town due to flooding. Fukashima affected thousands of people's lives. The effect of Fukashima was immediate uninhabitable due to nuclear radiation.

It's been out for six months now. The reviews are pretty good. And they seems to be selling well since there is a 60 day delay in shipping. But, what puts me off isn't the price. It what it can't do. Namely convert my hand written documents to print. If it could do that I'd be all in even at that price point. It also seems like it doesn't have a back light. I'd love to basically have this dual-role as my kindle-paperwhite. While the paperwhite is far better for just reading since it's small, I might not want to carry both devices and may need a backlight for reading. Hopefully they have a second generation line in the works, or hopefully someone (Amazon?) buys them out and incorporates all the latest tech into it. I could do with higher dpi as well, and while that screen looks to have a great response and refresh rate It could be better. I'm sure it's a fine balance though for such a niche device to stay economical. I guess I say all this because the price is still steep for me, and I can hold off. But this is practically the ultimate device for me, I love devices that cut-away all the modern busyness of the world. Which is what this does, it's "the basics 2.0" essentially.

Is everyone supposed to queue up and fully open their own door, then shut it fully behind them? You hold a door to maintain a flow of foot traffic and to prevent a door from slamming into someone. The only crime is holding a door for someone that is slightly too far away. Forcing them to make you wait, or forcing them to hustle. Holding doors is common courtesy, it behind being misplaced chivalry is indeed a myth.

I want that remarkable tablet. It's like a kindle on steroids, I'm surprised Amazon hasn't come out with something like that yet.

Societies around the world have had open "woman hating" in their art and dogma for a long time. Right up into the modern age of media art. It should not be surprising that as woman develop a stronger voice in media, that the corollary may creep in. In a rpg, such things are likely to be existential in-universe depictions. However, your examples seem to be based on projection no?

Imo, if Obsidian does patch in the fix, which it sounds like they will. They should have a console only toggle to revert the change. Pretty sure never-undies Mirke is now the official community head canon.

Now that is what I call a novel premise.

I'll have to catch Shoplifters. Also I Just watched Hellboy II for the first time last night. Solid film.

Well, if the PSU is failing that could have caused some memory corruptions. I agree about booting Ubuntu; burn a linux live-cd/usb, and diagnose your hardware. This will boot even if something is going on with your harddrives, and you can always burn one from someone else's computer. It will also allow you to backup any critical data you have, you'll have access to a browser so you'll have access to the cloud, just setup wifi. Since it's all running out of ram, it will be somewhat slow, if it's too slow try Lubuntu instead (it's lightweight.) Given you're running Win7, malware could be part of the cause as well. Often the best fix is just to backup your data and reformat the system. If it is a harddrive going bad, I've found Windows can be really flaky, but I've gotten an extra year out of a bad drive by switching to linux. Linux these days should be more than enough for practical matters, especially if most of your work can be done online. Reformatting will probably be the best solution for Windows as well. Not sure what you're situation is with you're windows license, but general advice is to reclaim the license before you reformat. I wouldn't want you to wipe it, then be without it. Of course this is all "proper means" advise.

Do you recall anything in particular going wrong prior to this happening? Updates, long boot times, etc?

Is that an emaciated Kratos I see?

What upcoming movies left this year are people looking forward to? Ive got: (Mostly) The Incredibles II & Fantastic Beasts 2, (Somewhat) Ant-Man & Wasp, (Will Probably See) Ocean's 8 & Jurassic World 2. (Hesitant) Alita Not a whole lot that I'm truly excited for. Really just one for Summer and one for the Holidays...