My expectations of Bethesda, since Oblivion, has been as a mod platform.

Gimme a new engine with updated graphics and great mod support and let the community does what it does best.

Wait and Bleed in my ass.

Waited all summer for the Mexican place in Gardiner to open when I worked in Yellowstone. Gardiner is on the border with the park.

Anyway, myself and two friends, all of us from Texas, were very vocally disappointment. It was so bad. The pizza place was great though.

I will cheat in single player games. I give it a solid “first time” unmodded play through. If it’s good, I’ll do other “paths” or “builds” depending on the game.

Then make it a little more… interesting, or different even.

Then you work up to Total Conversions, and thats fucking great for longevity.

Then at a certain point, its quality of life. I don’t want to spend 20 hours getting to the “interesting” part of the game. I can no longer get even just an hour to dive into a game uninterrupted. I love immersion; in the past it was an unhealthy escape mechanism, now when I get it, its a breath of not dealing with my day to day shit for just a little bit. Life always gets in the way of living, at least the way we want or need to in the moment. But I digress…

But cheating in a multiplayer game really defeats the purpose of multiplayer. An unbalanced play field isn’t fun for anyone.

I’d like to see more games embrace a modding community. If you and a few friends want to play with mods A, B, D, and F, more power to you guys. Keep enjoying that game.

Just don’t force an imbalance on other people.

Yeah, Dave Stage made that band what it was.

I didn’t get the chance to meet him, but when I was active in the metal community I heard nothing but good things. I guess I should say Drowning Pool was a local band before they blew up.

I knew a Bubba. Legal first name.

He had a rat tail, of course.

Went to play at his house one day (fourth grade), and it was a typical suburban house. I rode past it on my bike to get to school.

Not a hint of white-trash about the situation.

It still perplexes me.

I have no idea what that means.

The article presumes it’s an issue with nudity or sex.

I don’t see anything from the developer stating that.

My first thought is the first witcher game was clunky as fuck.

They put out a third person action slasher with PG elements.

They built it on the Neverwinter removedhts engine.

It wasn’t made to work like that, at all. So yeah, it’s clunky and outdated.

I personally dislike the freewheel scroll overall.

Then again, the only time I’m really thinking about what features a mouse has, it’s for gaming so I like a little more precision and tactile feedback.

For everything else I do, a mouse is a mouse.

Unless it’s one of those BS apple ones with no right click. Those make me unreasonably upset.

See with the leathery skin, I was totally getting a Githyanki/Githzerai vibe.

Don’t work in medical IT.

It has been literally life and death before.

I don’t.

I don’t think they even sell winter tires here.

And if winter tires are the little studded ones… Yeah, those aren’t street legal here.

That being said, we tend to shut down the state if someone drops an icecube.

So a previous employer’s direction to store all of the bloated batteries together in a network closet WAS a bad idea?

Someone should have told them that. Oh wait, I did.

Just glad I’m not there anymore.

You’re not necesarrily wrong, but modders currently have a more difficult time than with Skyrim.

As far as I’m aware, modding tools from Bethesda haven’t been released yet, kinda limiting what people can do.

Not that it can’t be done, its just more difficult and time consuming than using producer built tools. People were modding games before any one put out tools for that purpose. Notepad and a hex editor can get you a long way if you know what you’re doing, at least back then.

I guess I should say this is from the perspective of a PC gamer, primarily. I’ve used consoles in the past, sure, but my last console was an Xbox 360 and before that a PS2.

The same technique works back home in the US too.

Foreign immigrant, but they’re not brown enough to shoot on sight? Louder and slower while you assess the foreign devil… Just because they’re white doesnt mean they can’t be a commie.

This was meant as a joke, but living in the south this has certainly happened recently somewhere nearby.

My record is 9 days without sleep.

At that point I had seen a doc who just loaded me down with large doses of like 3 different benzos.

Slept for 2 days straight.

The creepist hallucinations were dark figures in the corner of dark rooms chanting in some language that didnt sound human in origin, just reproduced by humans.

The oddest was a stop sign that turned into buddy Christ from Dogma (I think) and then back into a stop sign.

I wasn’t religious at all at that point in time, though I went through elementary in a private christian school before transferring to public schools, and the area is certainly part of the bible belt.

Of course this leads me to ponder how much of our beliefs and such is shaped by the cultural norms of the area we’re in, even if your own family doesn’t participate.

Then again, what is “normal” is viewed through the lense of the community being studied.

So realizing this, I have to wonder how much of my beliefs and morals stems from the area that I was raised in versus what I have actually experienced and value.

Just how much of “me” has been brainwashed into me, subtly over time and reinforced by various methods of society. Then that moves the thought to how much of me is just directly rebelling against that force, but wouldn’t be present without that external force. Which all boils down to essential philosophical questions that man has been asking for centuries with no real answer.

Maybe this is why I have trouble sleeping.

How about if the government shuts down there is an emergency re-election of all members of whatever segment of government caused it.

All of them, all sides. Not eligible for re-election because they obviously FAILED at their job.

The average working person doesn’t get a chance if they shut down their “company.”

Performance isn’t key. But I like performance, lol. I also wasn’t aware of their more recent practices. So thank you.

I’ll have to check out the HP mini. As I said, just barely scratched the surface on researching this, and its more of a thought than a project at the moment, lol.

I just can’t afford (and cool) enterprise level stuff at home. It was free (to me) so no big loss other than buying a better CPU used ~50 bucks. I’ve spent more on worse ideas lol.

Cost and a personal bias, also I’ve seen more helpful communities amongst Linux and FOSS advocates than trying to deal with a big brand.

I’ve done a lot of IT stuff in my life, even before working in IT.

I’ve seen too many issues from big brands, and its usually caused by the company.

I have a Pi 2 from way back. I’ve thrown so many distros at that thing over time, and without fail I don’t run into any problems I didn’t personally create while learning or through human error.

I understand all too well that those big brands have support for businesses, warranties, etc. It makes them cost effective long term for business. At a personal level I just don’t see the benefits outweighing the negatives.

Again, personal bias. Same core reason I avoid apple products, bias, though I mainly dislike apples cost combined with their closed off, well, everything.

I’ve got enterprise level hardware, rack moubtable all that jazz.

Between the cost of power, and the heat it generates (which uses more AC and thus power) its not feasible to run it.

I’m looking into clustering some raspberry pis for a more power (and heat) efficient hardware as my next project. Barely scratched the surface of research though.

So hey, if anyone has any tips or links, it would be much appreciated.