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Yeah that's the smart move. Most of you probably know about this gem but here goes for the smart ones that never will play FO4: Found my way south of Boston. Yep, the "ghoul child in a fridge" quest. So there's this whiny ghoul kid that's.... been trapped in a fridge for 200 years. Setting aside the sanity issue, I'm sure you're thinking: "What did he eat!?" Well no worries, the writers thought of that! Not by asking the kid, oh no. That would mean a functioning dialog system. Instead, some weirdo shows up out of nowhere and force greets the player (3 times thanks to said dialog system) and mentions ghouls weirdly don't require food to survive! (You of course get force greeted whether hidden or invisible! Was sneaking in that stealth suit at the time! ) Wow! That's some interesting new lore! Except... for the ghoul settlement in the north. Or Goodneighbor. Or most of the rest of the game. To say nothing of EVERY. SINGLE. OTHER. FALLOUT. But let's assume it's just ghouls in this area! So I move my way south and there's an adult ghoul holed up in a vault. Makes sense I think, because ghouls here don't need food! Only... she tells you she survived thanks to an abundance of food left in the vault. ..... I think toddlers would come up with better writing.

Hah, yeah the writing was awful. A favorite of mine is Dawnguard. Especially when sitting in Fort Dawnguard. There's a point in the quest where you have to find that idiot monk priest. Poor Serana says "Where can we find a Monk priest!?" I wanted to say: "Their monastery is just a bit to the south of us in Cyrodiil." Ah Bethsoft! They don't even put in the bare minimum!! (A monastery where you do *&#$-all even in Oblivion. ) Recently trying to get through FO4. To an extent, I'm avoiding most of the main plot and just trying to get strong enough for Nukaworld. But I've been quickly reminded that as bad as Skyrim is, it can get much worse. There's so much in FO4 that is just pointless. What little dialog or interaction there is with NPCs is easily broken by their garbage dialog system. For instance, say you save a couple settlers (the idea of "settlers" being named that at all should be another rant) from super muties. WELL, one of them is supposed to walk up to you and say thanks and then you can send them to one of your places to be slave labor whiny workers. Thing is, the dialog system frequently screws up. They'll walk up to you, the dialog won't "catch" and THEY walk away severing the conversation. (Before a mod that lets you barter with one key, I had to talk to vendors typically 3 times before they'd finally show the barter dialog options.) And they didn't have a dialog made for when the player makes contact, which is dialog 101, so they walk away like the dumb whiners they are. Here's one that I'm still laughing over. Brotherhood of Steel. First major mission after the airship shows up. You're supposed to hop on a vertibird, fly over to a fort full of muties, kill them all and land. (Then proceed to the interior.) I saved right before hopping on the vertibird. (Little did I know how important that would be!) Try 1: I get in, fly over to the fort. Doing a pretty good job at wiping out muties with the minigun. Suddenly the pilot decides to fly.... RIGHT INTO THE SEA! Can't get out. So... reload. Try 2: The vertibird is gone! It's somehow warped down to the surface! I hop down there. Save. Get in. Doing pretty good, but the pilot suddenly runs right into the other vertibird helping us out, BAM! I end up blown over to that beach settlement. (In reality I think what happened was the behemoth threw two rocks that hit both vertibirds. Pretty sure there is no collision as you'll see shortly.) Try 3: The vertibird takes off.... and goes up to the airship! OK, I warp up (via the vertibird in the airport). I materialize outside the gangway and fall to my death. Try 4: I TCL my way up there. SAVE AGAIN. OK. Just as I hit ride... suddenly the vertibird takes off... without me. I watch it fly all the way over there and get dead. (This ended up being the save that I kept going with.) Try 5: Lo and behold, I finally get in the stupid vertibird again! And we actually fly over to the fort. Seems to be working... suddenly vertibird 2 flies RIGHT THROUGH US, then BAM! (Again I think it was the behemoth.) Double vertibird explosion! My poor character ends up flying past the nearby Libertalia (raider boat thing) almost all the way to the manor settlement!! Oddly enough, this was vastly more entertainment than I ever got out of any other part of the game.

Saw a Youtube vid sort of along these lines a week or so ago. It was comparing Fallout New Vegas to FO3. In terms of quests. Obsidian had a very limited time and created a whole heaping load of quests in the much smaller FONV setting when compared to FO3. Nothing new really, just more confirmation that Bugthesda is extremely poorly managed. That and they don't give a damn. At this point I'm kind of seeing why. If idiots line up to buy this crap every time, why should they care? Just push out some mostly unfinished crap, get sales, and Todd can get another fleet of maxed out Teslas. Rinse, repeat. That said, I believe there's a mod to fix that.

Had to watch it a couple times in slow motion myself. Yeah, that red truck appears out of nowhere!

Better to laugh as it all comes crashing down. Misanthropy. It just works.

Wile E. Coyote's plans weren't bad, they just weren't implemented correctly.

Oh yay. Just what I want to do. Play myself in a video game. You know, there's this little... sometimes rather annoying thing called.... REALITY where I do that anyway! And these lunatics want me to pay them so I can continue to play myself in a stupid game!? Besides, I can't be myself if the female characters dress, walk, and act like guys. So they can't even manage that!!

Regarding the GPUs, they're not THAT bad here! 15,000!? They're just elevated here. Something that should be around 700ish is now from 1500 to 3000 if you go private. (Crazy Euros of course.) Definitely spells some bad things for PC gaming if they don't get things under control. That said, I think hell will freeze over before I buy a console. I pretty much mod any game I play for any length of time. And I know I'm probably a minority but consoles ... why? You pay an inflated price for hardware that is obsolete by the time they release it. (Same argument could be made for GPUs too!) Then you have to deal with games that don't run well because they're pushing the garbage hardware beyond its limit OR they just can't code. (OK, same argument applies for PC too!) BUT.... at least with a PC you can deal with the bad engineering by getting overpowered hardware. No way to deal with garbage writing though. If only there was hardware for that! It occurs to me if China does invade Taiwan then it's really going to get messy. For graphics cards. To say nothing of other concerns.

The best cringe ever? Skyrim is getting a new Super Duper Anniversary of the Anniversary Special Spectacular Edition!

So... was setting up Stellaris for a new game and I noticed the devs had United Nations of Earth! Only they sure screwed up on setting it up. Originally they set it up as fanatic egalitarian and a "beacon" of liberty!? Well that's a bunch of bull that needed fixing: Then I was looking at human species traits. Adaptive, Nomadic, and Wasteful? That doesn't sound like the humans I hear about today. Fixed that too:

So, they make it California but can't ship it to California. Building your own is the way to go anyway. Also I'm curious about servers. Those things have to remain always on by design. Are they banning THAT too?

I think I needed a theme song today! Regarding the incoming demonization of all who don't have the "vaccine", they're instating the vaccine passports here around August ... something or other. Basically restricts people from doing anything annoying like concerts or visiting museums. (Another reason not to visit any, thanks Authoritarians!) The one curious bit is you can't eat indoors without carrying another piece of idiotic identification. I'm told Moscow tried this recently and had to stop because all the restaurants were going out of business. (Haven't checked if that's true. Could be false.) We'll see how it goes here. Demonstrations all over the place. There have been large protests in both the cities closest to us. It's going to be a very interesting year. So far, don't really give a damn. I hate crowds and if I can't eat out.... well.. more money saved! (Actually what's happening is suddenly NO restaurants in our area have indoor seating. The morons here expected the restaurant staff to do the policing! What is their next Galaxy Brained idea? ) They're not restricting markets or anything. Though I figure if they're allowed to continue that will be next. Hello food delivery. Stupid thing is, I'd have been open to taking the damn thing if somebody could show me what the benefit was for me personally. They sealed their fate when they started using coercion. I just don't react well to that. And since I'm already rural and don't like crowds... the hell with them.

Haven't logged in myself for a long time. Though I'd demand the "pronoun": Empress of Earth.

Good info! It's always interesting what can cause issues in Skyrim!! (I think maybe more interesting than the game itself! )

Oh right, that's the one where a small team set out to try and make a AAA-esque title! Seems they succeeded. Not really my sort of game buuut the background on how they made it was certainly interesting. A good example of what a small team can accomplish with a fraction of a budget of the big guys who can't manage to get anything released but crap.

If you look in the DD zip file, there's a mod_data folder. Drop that in your mods folder.

What the.... !? I learned most of the cuss words I know on LL!

https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-man/ If that's not cringe, I don't know what is. There's an Italian saying used when you get to the point where it's so bad nothing can be done. "We are at the fruit" is what it literally translates into. Fruit is generally the last thing you eat at lunch in Italy. Well...... Siamo alla frutta!!

OK, now what do you REALLY think? (And hey, not banned as of writing this! Yay? ) DorkOne. I like that. I've taken to calling that other jerk Limp Biscuit. I remember that "I got banned" thread! I posted a couple times in it myself I think. There were some hilarious posts in there! Downright criminal if they deleted it. Bad form. I saw a little of the Nexus backlash on Discord. A modder made a new server over it and it was one big cluster *&#$ of complaining. Very amusing at first but got old after a week of complaints with no doing. I mean, I get it for the first few days. The Nexus staff are absolutely awful and idiotic. But maybe after a few days take some action and tell the Nexus to #*(&$# it on your way out. Drawing it out when the Nexus staff act like petulant teen dictators is just stupid. I do get a real kick reading the Nexus corporate-speak BS announcements. Their problem is they don't.... proactively self actualize synergistically with the community in positive needs based ways. Also it shouldn't be a news flash to these people that the Nexus is run by slimy creeps. This is just the latest in a long line of slime that began all the way back with the queen of slime. (Well, he identifies as a queen anyway. )

Good question! I have like 40 browsers now. Probably not the best but here's my layout. For Fatfox: Noscript uBlock (ad blocker) Cookie AutoDelete Anti-Adblock Blocker I Don't Care About Cookies (Ironic considering I have the cookie auto-delete thing. I think this is only for us EU suckers. Almost every damn website has an annoying popup reminding us about cookies. And of course they make it as hard as possible to "reject all". So I accept all automatically and then automatically delete them. ) Used to use Ghostery as well but I heard some negative rumblings about it. Just haven't installed it for now. (I haven't checked about it myself however so those rumors could be totally bogus!) Safari: Adblock Ghostery Javascript Blacklist Brave: Nothing here yet. The base adblocker seems to work very well so I haven't had a need to tweak it yet. I think Brave is based on Chromium so Chrome add-ons should work I think. Of course, VPN always on. And when I'm really wanting to be silent: TOR Browser + onion over VPN. I have a heard a lot lately about browser isolation. Where you have a profile setup (with it's own separate set of settings and such) just for certain tasks so it's even harder to track you. Even with a VPN they can identify the browser to some extent. I'm all for making it as hard as possible for the spying twerps to do their job. What does everyone else use? Any pros or cons anybody has heard of stuff in my list?

Who said I paid them? Got LTSB from the job. (I guess it's hard to get a hold of otherwise? Or I suppose there is the method.) About Defender, yes that is still an issue even on LTSB. No matter what I've done, from registry to security settings it will always turn itself back on at startup. The current workaround I'm using now is a thing that disables it on login. The issue about Defender is it labels things that are perfectly safe and needed as "dangerous". It does this for a couple small utilities for Skyrim even! To say nothing of all the small utilities I've used for eons all the way back to XP. As far as use is concerned, I've had no compatibility problems yet. (Which means I'll have a huge one now that I mentioned it! ) The only thing I really do with Windows is games and modding though. And even modding is somewhat limited. Modelling and texture work are all done on my work machine which is a Mac. About the only thing I do with Maya now on Windows is import the finished model and set it up for export. (The current exporter I use is only for Maya 2016. Work machine is 2020. And -of course- you can't just save to an older version. Oh no, that's not how Autodesk works. ) Though if we're talking what Windows version is best? I was happiest (or rather as "happy" as one can ever be with Windows) back on Win 2000. Come to think of it, I was only on Win7 for the last 4ish years. Was XP before that and only switched due to getting a bunch of new SSDs. My only exposure to Win8 was a work laptop and that was short since we switched it to Linux. Reading about full Win 10 though? Yeah I can definitely understand never upgrading to that kind of mess. And the spyware crap! What. The. Hell!? Even Macs are getting annoying too with the iCloud nonsense. (Can barely turn a new one on without it whining about "What's your account so we can spy???") It's definitely looking like the real future of decent computing will be flavors of Linux.

My gaming machine recently went kaput (translated: I wanted a new one) and I was faced with the Windows debacle as well. Win 10 is a piece of literal garbage with so much crap that just wasn't going to happen. Soooo.... I went with Win 10 LTSB. ... After a good 4 months of it, I of course can't say I like it (nobody with a brain likes Windows period) but it's "not too bad". It will do until I finally get totally divorced from Windows and switch to Linux full time.

Well.... there is another way. I've heard.

Just what the world needs. ANOTHER stupid launcher.