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The sad thing about Oblivion is that there are in-game books in Morrowind and previous games that describe the empire as being in the middle of a bamboo jungle. The vibe comes off as the Roman Empire in South East Asia.

Instead we got generic high fantasy with the occasional guy wearing Roman armor.

Only as far as storyline and setting go. Other than that, it was an okay shooter.

Cutting costs and laying people off makes the books look slightly better (more cash on hand) which makes the stock price jump, which is all these ghouls want because they’re going to sell off on the high, and then bail out.

That’s not how it works. Making money today is the only thing these ghouls care about, ruining a company or brand is just dandy because they won’t be holding the bag when it bursts. They’ll have passed it to someone else. Someone else who will then work to gut the company even more before selling it to someone who will gut it and close it down.

And nothing of real value will have been made, but lots of rich asshats will be slightly richer.

Yup, kbin for the win.

Just wish it had a mobile app…

A bit sad that it didn’t work out for you.

I know the classic “it’s worked fine for me” doesn’t help.

It uses the Arch based rolling release, so give it a few weeks and try again? Or not, if you find a distro you like before then.

Garuda is literally designed as a gaming distro.

It has auto installers for retro and modern gaming (emulators, Steam, Gog, etc.)

That’s what multiple genocides get you. A language rated as Vulnerable in UNESCO.

Still, there are about 170,000 people who speak Navajo, with about 8000 who only speak Navajo.

Likud isn’t just a continuation of Herut, they merged with the remnants of Lehi, a full on terrorist organization from before the 1949 war.

A surviving member of Lehi then became the first leader of Likud, and his first act in power was to give all the surviving terrorists commendation medals.

That terrorist turned prime minister was also Netenyahu’s mentor.

Brother is the go to because their stuff is basic and functional.

All the other companies have “innovated” to the point where their shit is unusable for daily use.

I’ve never actually had problems with Manuskript, but then I don’t write anywhere near as much as I tell myself I should.

I also once paid for Scrivener, back when I still used windows regularly.

I seem to have a history of looking for an interesting piece of writing software, and then using it to write a chapter or two, then nothing more.

Another fun writing program (that goes to the other UI extreme) is FocusWriter. I actually managed four or five chapters of a story using it.

A program that’s similar in many ways is Manuskript

I’d say it does exactly the same thing, except you just download it and go. There are linux, windows, and mac os versions.

Then for the closed source world, there’s Scrivener. I’ll not link it because it doesn’t support linux. But same concept.

You sound like someone who has never ridden a bike through broken terrain.

I’ll argue that the “flat” used by the comment above might be better taken on a more granular level. You can go up and down mountains just fine so long as there are no logs, large rocks, pits, or gullies that are in the way.

I was doing some D&D world building a while back and wanted to really dive into transportation of people/goods and found the same problem. Tenser’s Floating Disk is a very low level wizard spell that basically does away with all but the heaviest ships and carts.

It’s the same for the trek universe. They have personal transportation methods that mean there’s literally zero need for a bicycle for anything other than recreation.

Hell, Lower Decks opens with Mariner pushing around a hover cart full of stuff. It’s literally the cold open of the entire series.

If you can have a hover cart like that, then why bother with a bike? Need to move stuff to a remote area? Get the hover cart, you don’t need to cut a trail, just go over the obstacles. And that’s if the transporter doesn’t work if the first place to beam the people and equipment to a nearby area.

He’s directed two already, well, two Trek movies. First Contact and Insurrection.

He’s had episodes as director in every live action Trek property except Enterprise. He even directed two episodes of The Orville.

This gives you some idea of who Nimoy was.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BC35cQKHwzg

Another bonus of that community, actual discussions about the shows in the comments. Well, sometimes.

I automatically block most meme communities, there’s almost never anything worthwhile to them, just pointless nonsense.

I do admit to keeping one or two of the really niche ones around, like risa@startrek.website

I really don’t think you played New Vegas much if you think it wasn’t about exploring and finding new shit all over the place.

Fallout 3 had the quest hubs. Also, the fact that water was super important to the story, but aside from one beggar, no one seemed to care about it much.

But New Vegas, well, everyone wanted power from that dam.

It comes down to, what do they eat? Fallout 3, nothing. NPCs don’t eat, so there’s no need to actually put that into the game, and since that part isn’t in the game, a lot of other shit likely isn’t.

New Vegas, they have farms and ecology and all sorts of other shit, and it’s all over the place.

The main issue with the pre-war food is that it’s been 250+ years. Sure, you might find a cache or two, but overall, it will have been scavenged already.

The honest truth is, food and water sources for anyone in the capital wastes was never seen as important to the writers of the story, So it was cut. Well, it was cut if it was ever written at all in the first place.

The story of Fallout 3 is very linear. Which means that it can be tightened up and polished, and it was. But if you go even a little bit off the rails, it starts showing cracks that are immersion breaking.

New Vegas didn’t have that fully polished main story. Instead, it had a polished game world. One that felt alive and vibrant.

It’s the reason why people have x amount of time playing Fallout 3, and three or four times that amount playing New Vegas.

Evidence of farming, or any food source for the NPCs shows that the makers of the game were actually thinking about the world as a livable space.

Fallout 3 devs were just thinking about a world where the story happens, nothing more. And it often shows. You run into little immersion breaking moments, especially if you go too far off the rails. Stay on the rails and it was a solid game.

New Vegas had devs who really paid attention to the details of the world, and if you went off the rails, it became an amazing game.