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Skyblivion has its own series of release date changes, but yes, at least a bigger team seems to be working there. Here’s hoping they will finish this year - but same as Skywind, I’ll be excited when I see it coming out.
Didn’t watch the Fallout modding closely, but heard something about it. Didn’t it face legal challenges? How’s it going now?
These TES Renewal projects are always “nearing release” and showing how they’re almost complete, so I wouldn’t have my hopes up too much. Either they are afraid that ending the project will put an end to their old hobby, or they don’t have enough people on the latter stages of development, or everyone got tired working on it. And every year, the project itself gets less relevant, as the Skyrim engine itself is ancient.
Either way, I hope to be wrong, and we’ll finally see it coming out. As someone who has met Morrowind’s release as an infant (yep, sorry, we are very much into adulthood now), I never accustomed to how the game looks, plays, and feels. At the same time, Skyrim offers an experience I can at least relate to. So, if it ever happens, I will welcome the release. But until then, I’m tired to be excited.
(Sorry if it sounds grim, I usually support community projects. But time after time I get disappointed with the release shifts, year after year after year)
As a third side to the discussion, I do have my reservations about age verification, but then I don’t mind such mechanics being banned completely. PEGI, to my mind, severely underplays the issues involved.
It’s extremely easy to cross the line between “oh, you’re back! Here’s something small and nice to set you for a good gaming session” and “oh no, you didn’t come to the game, now your weekly/monthly streak is gone and the main reward you wanted and all your friends have is now forever unattainable”.
Most games, unfortunately, opt for the latter, focusing on FOMO and driving anxiety as the key factor to force people to play. Games should be something unimportant, something that is there and waits for you to finish with what matters. Not a second job that it became for many.
…and yes, battle pass is also an engagement mechanic of a similar kind and needs to be eliminated for much the same reasons.
Patterns don’t have to be dark to be problematic.
You don’t need a high-end PC to get the console experience. Something in the range of $700-800 will run your games no worse than a console, except you’ll also get a fully functional computer that can use its full power for any other tasks.
Also, you won’t be limited to a certain game library, store, or even the OS. You’ll also be able to run any newer games indefinitely as long as your hardware can handle them. And if it can’t, you can upgrade the GPU/CPU/RAM specifically instead of replacing the whole unit, saving money, granting customization features, and helping the environment.
So, to each…their own…I guess?
Australia has plenty of insolation and most power consumers are packed densely enough not to worry about the upkeep of large grids.
Aside from uranium, we also have a much more plentiful thorium to use as a fission fuel. We definitely are not running out of that. But, thorium power plants can be more expensive, and byproducts of thorium cycle are less valuable, so it’s worth comparing that to running a renewables-based grid again.
Nuclear power is non-intermittent and can be used pretty much anywhere. With a push for small-scale reactors, there’s a good chance for smaller places to get their own nuclear power plant, reducing stress on the national grid, and for power plants to be constructed in a much shorter timeframe.
Also, both Russia and China have floating nuclear power plants that can be transported to regions with water access on demand.
Solar and wind are cool, and quite cheap by themselves, but energy storage is a massive and expensive headache and limited placement options mean the grid should be robust enough to accommodate them with minimal power losses.
My biggest issue with all these Markdown editors is that the format is text only, forcing other files to be stored independently. It does not support embedded pictures, formulas, etc.
My perfect option uses some format that would allow text, pictures, audio and video, optional LaTeX formatting all in one file, and wouldn’t be constrained to a single application that can run it all. At least some apps supporting it should be in a note-taking layout, not a standard office program.
Mobile support would be a banger, too, but is optional.
Essentially, I want a OneNote-like experience without walled garden, bundled in a way that would allow it to be painlessly exported into several other pieces of software, available on Linux.
Any ideas on that?
Honestly, many of them you know full well, but that’s because yes, they are that good:
- Minecraft
- TES III Morrowind and TES V Skyrim
- The Witcher 1 and 3
- Deus Ex Human Revolution and Mankind Divided
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Dishonored 1 and 2
- Warcraft III and World of Warcraft
Completely deserve their legendary status
Nice!