Rocket fall down Mr Musk.

As a Morrowind lover who didn’t like Fallout 4…this feels a lot like Fallout 4. The universe seems dead, the loading screens and third person transitions make it feel small.

The lore is occasionally interesting so far but I actively hate all the factions while Morrowind even evil factions like the Morag Tong had fascinating justifications. The main quest is showing some interesting stuff but the side content Is. So. Bland.

This is why a lot of communists are very clear that the point of getting elected isn’t to succeed in reforms (thought that is nice) it’s to get inside the glass house so you can commence rock throwing.

What kind of shit tier person aims at the officers? You attack the NCO’s if you want to screw with the enemy. French should have learned that from Sharpe.

Also there’s a reason the other anglo nations refer to the US as “all the gear and no idea”

All of them were pretty bleak with no real good people and no way out of a mutually genocidal war of violence that…well…humans started.

Yeah. BG3 was better but not by much. (Why can’t I wear the pointy sleeved medieval dress the pregant lady in the hag den has?! No it isn’t practical, but I’m a bard so that ship has sailed. I want to ride sidesaddle on a white horse playing the Ballad of Enemy Explodes while my companions roll their eyes at me!)

I don’t think it’s the fault of feminism more than a lot of male designers having no clue about what femininity in design even is beyond “makes me horny”.

Starfield though seems to really commit to the “no pretty things ever” bit. Do they not realise that if ordinary people go to space there will be lace on spacesuits before the week is out?

Yeah, agreed. That said as annoyed as I am with constant horniness I’d have liked at least some feminine clothes.

I’ve been to every shop in every major city and I’ve found 1 dress and two shapeless tunics out of close to 100 variants.

This game fucking shits me. The three main factions are technocratic capitalism and Libertarian petty bourgeois capitalism and hyper libertarian cyberpunk corp capitalism.

Theres a small faction of yeoman farmers but thats as close as you get

There’s a fucking town called Gagarin Landing that’s currently being literally midgar’d by a corp and there’s a literal statue of Gagarin and still, still, they couldn’t commit to some socialism.

It’s provably the oldest engine still in triple A use, unless you count the Quake 1 code still around in bits of HL:Alyx

Its so bad. Even on a 3090 I dread opening a menu

Remember when they did Tribes Vengence and it had an awesome Earthsiege canon singleplayer and a meh multiplayer?

Also remember Cyberstorm? Amazing Hex based mech game.

Tribes 2. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a great game, amazing even. But Tribes was a more focused experience.

One answer is alienation. Pre 1940 politicians would personally apprentice ideological successors. Later, party machines would ensure transfers of power to popular candidates with similar views that could continue the older member’s political projects, while the older member retired and became an elder statesperson controlling party strategy and acting as an advisor.

But the Democrats and republicans have elided all political cohesion away, and candidates get in either through party stacking or via personal rhetoric.

So there are no political projects or institutional ideological continuity, there’s only the institution, blowing whichever way the loudest faction of capital says.

Thus ossification and gerontocracy as senior party members need to stay on because their machine will collapse if they don’t.

You see this in a lot of other organisations as well. We all know of the Trot org with 4 80 year olds at the top, a bunch of students who will bail after uni at the bottom, and no long term junior cadre.

It’d be pretty easy to stop abuse just by limiting dry weight to, say, 30kg.

Yeah, kids were all about the terribly, terribly illegal petrol scooters, though I was a bit young for that fad.

Dugin almost sounds like he’s quoting Luxemburg here, though I bet he’s not willing to follow her to her conclusions.

Nah, industrial and infrastructure should mostly use BSD. And “Never see a command line” consumer OS’s should generally be forks from Linux or other FOSS. Most Linux distros have come a long way and are ready for gaming prime time, but fail the “80 year old grandma who wants to digitise her record collection but is a bit unclear on double-clicking” test.

I’m having fun. Would like to see some of the niche hobbyist coms get more visibility.

I had a terrible dream where a Sky Marshal had a full dance number.