I’m sorry and appreciate your nuanced response, thank you for taking the time to explain.

For my part, I played generally low chaos just because I found it very fun to blink in, knock out a guard on their own, blink away and end up with all the guards in piles up in the rafters, on the chandelers, stuffed into corners of closets etc lmao. I haven’t replayed 1 in a couple years but I think all the main targets have non-lethal as an option and generally require some set up to achieve which gives more time for world exploring. There are also a lot of powers that work very well with non-lethal and more stealth oriented play throughs.

Like the other commentor pointed out, the guard and good amount of the general folk are not really enemies because they are “bad”, they’re simply manipulated by propaganda and think Corvo is the one who murdered the empress in cold blood. So from a bystanders prospective, the boatman in this case, he’s seeing a high chaos player murder a bunch of at least morally neutral guards and is understandably disgusted. For high chaos you’d definitely have to kill a good percentage of the guards as, from my understanding, you can still kill every target and achieve a low chaos ending. Corvo is given the choice to do what’s needed, but at a point it’s more like a slaughter and the characters are effected by it. Not to mention murdering the majority of the police and leadership of an empire is going to throw an already strained empire into… Chaos has. Not enough guards left to keep the peace. It felt less to me (in high chaos runs) like the game is chastizing me, and more like understandable consequences to my annihilation tactics lol, more rats because of all the bodies, characters becoming disillusioned and turning away, the guards absolutely know I’m a monster now, etc…

You indicated you felt the tools you were given pushed you more towards a lethal playstyle, however what about the non lethal tools you were given? There’s a stun mine, sleep bolts, ability to choke guards unconcious, several powers as I mentioned… Plus you get to choose what you upgrade, most runs I didn’t upgrade the lethal options much at all. 🤷

Idk, I went in expecting a stealth game and it overdelivered and had the bonus of also being open to a less stealth oriented call of duty or dark souls style kill all in your way option with a bunch of completely different powers I didn’t use on my stealth run.

Reading your experience it feels like you might have gone in with a different mindset or maybe misundertstood something about how you can play the game and that it clouded your experience with a game I so thoroughly enjoyed, It’s one of those I go back and play every few years.

It’s silly that I pushed so much on it because of course in the grand scheme it doesn’t matter lol its just a videogame, but eh.

Edit: My wife pointed out to me there’s some additional moral points around how the Outsider basically tempts you with power just to see if you’ll succumb to the “easy route” with the lethal powers. It is kind of the point that it’s harder to do/be morally good in ethically complex situations.

Lol fair enough, idk like you called the boatman traitorous, view it from his angle, you would have to have gone around murdering a LOT of people for him to turn his back on you. The whole plot is about the govt being suoplanted and you’re supposed to be part of the “good guys” yet it doesn’t feel that you’re (a player with high chaos) is being a “good guy” I can totally get why he’d be like… Dude in done with helping you, this isn’t right what you’re doing

Because your qualm of “they gave me the tools but don’t want me to use them” is plain wrong.

It’s like playing FO3 or NV and getting upset that killing random people in a city results in everyone getting angry with you and losing karma. “They let me kill them so why should there be any consequences?”

What you’re not understanding is its not “don’t use these tools” its, “if you’re a murder hobo you’re going to get a darker ending narratively” there’s not a real consequence otherwise, you can play however you want still.

I used these guides to get set up https://www.simplehomelab.com/

That’s how I use it, cloudflare handles my DNS and traefik does all the routing, I’d have to look again (been a year since I set it up) but it dynamically updates with my IP

Check out traefik, not sure how easy or the process to switch but configuring it is relatively easy

It seems more it comes in waves, and not all at once but over time. Through my life things like the internet and smartphones becoming ubiquitous and becoming staples of life, likely AI is another one of those.

I mean… Tariffs…?

You’re really not getting this lol

The cpu is below min specs but not by a crazy amount performance-wise, maybe “demo” it before you buy, not many people using that cpu these days.

I used to have one though too :) broke several pins on it and I decided to upgrade to Ryzen lol

My wife loves the Sims and Rimworld, but mostly the simulation and building aspects, you can tone the difficulty down, every run doesn’t have to be extreme randy lol

My wife played a little and one of the coolest features was the ability to “design” a pattern on clothes by just typing what you want in and having it generate it.

Its fun with friends, very silly and potentially infuriating at times but that’s part of the fun lol

I feel like having a toggle for overworld/underground similar to in the base game would have been very very nice.

Coromon seems pretty similar, I only played a small portion so far though

I’m not sure why you’re latching onto that part of the argument, the point he’s making is Larian is still relatively small and spends less on games then AAA studios.

You’re not wrong, it’s just nuts no one has specifically worked on a method of transferring digital licenses, which seems crazy considering how long steam and such have been around.

I know everyone hates Nfts but it’s literally made for exactly this kind of thing, verifying and transferable ownership

That’d be a funny mechanic for forgiving mistakes

The anticheat runs all the time unless you specifically exit it and requires a reboot of the computer for the exit to take, the reverse is true to turn it back on as well.

It’s so nice fr, it helps I had sorta “prepared” by learning Bazzite on my spare laptop prior, so got very familiar with the immutable aspects and flatpaks/appimages

This is why I bought a deck oled even with the other more powerful handhelds already out.

True, given past history it’s just a nice excuse

Wasn’t the activist group Australian?

Depends on which one, old bitcoin? Yeah. And don’t even talk about lightning network, I hate it so much lol.

Unironically crypto

It’s cool! No worries, just want to point out when an actually good use for Gen Ai is put in place :P

The Ai features in Inzoi are pretty nifty tho, generating any texture for clothing in-game with only a prompt is insanely cool.

Yeah they’d never shill for Nintendo and fail to disclose it was an ad https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V10wHzV5zp0

I was really hoping they’d release a next generation with some of the issues I read online ironed out.

Not having to pay a subscription to access my games is the simple answer lol

Lol grew up reading a lot of books and such, so very similar and I am usually bad at assumed pronunciation, such as godot which I just learned thanks to this thread.

Again, if you know going in that is an absolute requirement, processes can be put in place to ensure things like that doesn’t happen. (at least not as often) vs what you’re thinking of trying to do it after the game is already shipped.

I don’t see how gamepass is particularly bad, I can still buy games without it (I don’t sub to gamepass) and as long as there’s no exclusivity crap where I literally can’t play the game otherwise…

It’s nice when I want to play a game with a friend and the game happens to be on gp, thus I don’t have to buy the game for them lol.

There are 2 sequels lol

Isnt catfishing misrepresenting yourself by using fake photos/descriptions not gold digging per-say.

Ah so because you’re familiar with it it’s easier? Interesting

This could be smart if the largest mobile OS, Android, didn’t have dozens of GUIs/Styles depending on the manufacturer’s whim

I obviously mean with software support, though also https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23960345/microsoft-cpu-gpu-ai-chips-azure-maia-cobalt-specifications-cloud-infrastructure