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I renamed some characters when I got the urge to play over the summer. It was pretty simple, since plenty of names are available with the smaller player base. The fact they opened up all the classes for the storylines helped. I didn't like the playstyle of a few of the stories, but I found it much easier to enjoy the smuggler while using the skills of a dual pistol merc.

Ok, so Matt Gaetz has already given up on his AG dreams, but didn't he already resign his spot in the House? What a circus.

Yeah, I actually enjoyed Starfield. The setting and story were more engaging for me than Skyrim or Fallout 4. I played through it 1 and a half times. It's far from perfect. The scale and procedural generated stuff is problematic. But I'd argue that a lot of people went in with unrealistic expectations and were surprised when they weren't met. It's still just a video game. It also sold extremely well, so all this talk about it being a flop is overstated. Bethesda is nowhere near being in trouble as a developer. Heck, it sounds like the Fallout TV show managed to even turn their biggest recent flop, Fallout 76, into a modest success.

Nah, it's a quarter life 'cause multiplication. Trust me.

The Outer Worlds seems to have done pretty well for itself. It surpassed expectations. It will get a sequel. It was well-reviewed. I understand that Avowed has higher sales expectations, but I doubt the expectation is Skyrim. I was just making a joke, since Fallout 3 was always referred to as Skyrim with guns. Heck, Starfield didn't hit Skyrim levels, and that includes tons of modding stuff. It seems like an unrealistic expectation. I just hope it sells well and tells a great story. It's hard to judge that pre-release. The Outer Worlds certainly didn't have a ton of buzz before release, but it came out and surprised people.

Have you read up on the Crusades? Religious fervor and weapons don't exactly have a great history. This guy will be in charge of the biggest military in the world.

Avowed is Skyrim with muskets. Honestly I'm not worried. It will probably share a lot with Outer Worlds. Art style, writing, etc. But we spend too much time trying to put things in boxes.

We bought a new TV, so I was looking for a fun action movie to break it in with. We tried Infinite with Mark Wahlberg. It looked great on our TV, but it was really bad. We got about 20 minutes in before giving up. We ended up watching Chernobyl on HBO Max. Much better.

David Gaider probably had a long term plan, but I doubt that exists anymore.

Hah, like anyone in his cabinet will make 4 years. 1 year is about the max before the quit and write a memior.

Thanks to you and Shady, and any other veteran's we have here, for your service.

I typically make an avatar that reflects the way I look, right down to being bald. Of course, now that I'm much older, it can be a bit harder to find the settings that add some wrinkles and gray in the beard. It's also a bit awkward making an avatar that looks 46, and then starting the game as a young squire or whatever.

Enshrouded added a big update, with a snowy biome, rainy weather, and a ton of new NPC's. NPC's actually wander around your base and need beds now, so it has a lot more personality.

I wonder if maybe Biden stepped aside too early? Kamala had a big bump right when they switched, and it faded. But hey, armchair quarterbacking won't change the results.

The guy is almost 80 and eats McDonalds regularly. Natural causes have a good chance of running their course over the next 4 years. We should probably watch that Vance movie on Netflix to figure out what his deal is.

Kamala is plenty strong as a candidate. She won the debate, she brought energy. Hopefully it really is just the economy that screwed her over. It is starting to look like a woman just can't win, which is sad. Kamala is worlds apart from Hillary, and yet I keep seeing people online bringing the two up together. That all being said, it is a long night, so we will see what happens.

It looks exactly like it did in 2020. There are still a ton of states and counties to go.

As a bunch of people already stated, in California you have a voter roll, so you just show up to vote. I'm not a precinct manager or anything, so I don't know the details. Why would someone risk fake voting as me? Voter fraud is investigated and that would be a pretty easy case to solve. The idea that there are statistically relevant numbers voting fraudulently is a just a big red herring. Florida did a big investigation in the last election and spent a bunch of money to catch like 12 people. Driver's licenses and passports are not free. I don't even have a valid passport right now. The only documents in the US people are really expected to have are your birth certificate and Social Security card. But you shouldn't be carrying those around. The artist formally known as Gorgon already explained that though.

I played DA: Origins a couple months ago, and I was surprised how well the graphics have held up.

I played DA: Origins a couple months ago, and I was surprised how well the graphics have held up.

Thankfully it is typically done on a local level, not a federal level, so it's unlikely that these two will have much power over such things. Which I'm going to repeat, is a big reason to worry less about the Presidential outcome and more about your local measures

That's what I meant, yes. I've always gotten the impression an expat has retired to another country. Plenty of US citizens go to other countries to work, so the voting status would seem to still be important, as the expectation is they will return to the US at some point. Although I suppose an expat may still have financial interests in the US. Taxation without representation, and all that. People love to gatekeep.

Drova - The art style has grown on me, but I am rubbish at the combat. I am trying sword and shield because that is usually easy. It is not in this game.

It is a question I raise with my students every year as a writimg prompt. I start with voting age, which was 21 until the 1960's. They can usually puzzle out why that was changed with a few hints. Then we talk about voting with a criminal record. The last topic is voting and citizenship. Most of my students are either immigrants or children of immigrants, and a fair amount of them have parents without citizenship. So the question is: should a person who is here for years on something like a work visa, who is raising their kids in this country and paying taxes, have the right to vote on issues that affect them? Should a citizen living overseas have the right to vote? Anyways, I don't share my personal opinions on the matter to the kids, but my opinion is typically the more people voting, the better. I want as much input as we can get in these elections. My middle schoolers aren't really less informed than most adults. They should get to vote too.

Great, Inquisition was like a decade ago. All I remember was I had a cool granite table in my castle where I planned stuff.