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Anybody playing on a higher difficulty? I think I'm playing on "normal" and Eredin is a cakewalk. Might switch to Deathmarch for the DLC.

Nah I need that experience for after my vacation - I'll be seeing my family so I need something for after to restore my sanity

Finally finished it... and only because I decided to finish it before I leave on vacation, so at one point I stopped doing side quests and finished the main. To my huge disappointment I got the BAD ending... completely unexpectedly because I thought I did everything right and was very supportive (before I finished it I had no idea what choices lead to what endings). Then I read the FAQs and realized I made one rushed bad choice which I had no idea it mattered that much, and that was enough. I will fault the game that the short few words describing each timed choice sometimes are so unclear you have no idea what your choice means until the cutscene plays through. Still at the end of the day I think they handled the "meaningful choice" thing a lot better than say Mass Effect where things are just blatantly gamey and fundamentally cosmetic. Also I wish they did a little more work so you can continue after the actual ending. All that's required is changing some flags and soldiers here and there and maybe a few more lines for the main characters. Anyway I'll redo the last couple hours to see the best ending (since I'm literally one different choice away from it) and I guess leave the DLC for after I come back from vacation.

Walls basically don't work because the pathfinding AI will teleport NPCs through walls at the drop of a hat. I've observed it several times (just sat and watched how NPCs deal with obstacles). It's just Bethesda.

https://warontherocks.com/2017/07/north-koreas-icbm-a-new-missile-and-a-new-era/ It only cites other sources though.

I think you didn't look at the article, he's focusing on other things, not whether it's liquid propellant. Later I read another article which is pretty much the opposite... so dunno.

http://breakingdefense.com/2017/07/this-is-not-the-icbm-you-are-looking-for-detailed-analysis-of-north-korean-missile/

I played too much during the holiday. Now I walk by a roll of duct tape on a shelf in my office and feel an urge to pocket it.

+1 They have no concept of "not acceptable". Chinese workers with western QC enforcers produce consistent quality, otherwise it's all over the map.

LOL the original Tomb Raider is actually from 1996 Apparently in relative time that's about the same time when the Pyramids were built...

Dawnguard. Skyrim's version of the BoS without the super cool armor that is... the top armors in Skyrim are basically evil (Daedric) and Dragonbone. Actually the Stormcloaks are also nazis (which is why I always go Empire, my character is an immigrant Redguard ) so you have plenty of lawful-but-not-really-all-that-good options there.

It's specific because of this https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/06/26/someone-made-a-ridiculous-video-about-nasa-finding-aliens-news-outlets-took-the-bait/?utm_term=.c62b2d981f2d

I joined the Space Marines. Cause they're cool and they gave me nice power armor. First I tried to do a moral choice but then I decided my character will be naive and take everything he's told at face value, so he just bought all the end justifies the means talk (actually he pretty much just ignored it while ogling the shiny power armor). * * * So anyway Skyrim is in many ways more immersive, it does feel like a whole continent (the climate differences between the north and south help a lot with the illusion), there's a lot of verticality on the map (probably more than any other game I've ever played) and you can definitely fire it up and do NOTHING for hours (just hike around, pick flowers and butterflies etc). FO4 is first and foremost a shooter.

You like it, very stable, once SKSE64 comes along it will be great. SKSE64 seems to be dead at the moment, unknown if development will ever continue.

One thing about mods, you "don't" have to install any but I STRONGLY recommend you get at least the unofficial patch. I'm going to install the FO4 unofficial patch now and see if it fixes my CTD. *** I'm not going to install the FO4 unofficial patch because it requires all DLC and I only bought the base game

Skyrim or Skyrim Special Edition? (I am not sure if they are sold separately)

BulgariaSat-1 launch window opens in about 2 hours. Live updates here https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42913.60

Not that I'm surprised or anything but... when my free trial ended I had just started the Valentine quest... so I just continued my save from then... well turns out it causes persistent CTDs when you get to 114... so basically I got to play my new purchase for about an hour before I hit a hard CTD wall...

FO4 base now $15 on Steam (summer sale). edit: not proud of myself but I bought it finally.

In 2016 Bulgaria supposedly ends up in the top 10 arms exporters in the world with about 850M euros worth of exports. The whole region around the arms factories has massively picked up. The trend is for the growth to continue for the next 5 years but they are trying to be smart and modernize the equipment as much as possible and also invest in tech education (serious shortage of skilled workers atm). Interestingly enough 10-20% of the exports are actually reexport from other eastern european countries because the factories can't keep up with the orders.

No argument. However, when Skyrim first came out it got multiple GOTY awards so apparently it was playable enough for the time. But mods are what made it perhaps the biggest game ever and are what's keeping it still alive. The special edition would have injected a lot more life in it if the script extender crew had the time to redo it but at this point it doesn't seem it's ever happening so I'm not sure where things are going now.

Dunno about FO4 but Skyrim at this point is all about mods. I'd be shocked if you can find even one player who plays pure vanilla Skyrim.

Sadly this is the future direction they will be taking (confirmed for TES6).

LOL I do remember I had a couple completely random crashes even just doing the free trial. You know, the one thing I actually didn't like (as opposed to being indifferent to) about FO4 was that it felt much more gamey than 3. 3 feels like you're exploring a bleak and hopeless world (as Fallout should IMO). With 4 it felt like the world is just a dressing for the crafting/settlement sandbox mechanics.

Btw FO3 with HD textures and ENB with some AO looks almost as good as FO4. I've been replaying it the past few days.