That makes sense. You don’t see many photos like this taken at twilight. It’s uncommon enough that it’s distracting to me.

Edit: *inexplicably was not the right word in that context.

Was it sunrise or sunset in this photo? I don’t know why I care.

I hope it’s multiple biomes per planet, or some other much needed terrain generational/exploratory update. I miss the terrain gen from Pathfinder. If we could get that with the assets the game uses now, I’d be pleased. Better if this could be implemented to only affect unexplored planets, so nobodies bases would be ruined.

I still like Xonar cards, like the Xonar DG (though it isn’t compatible with my new PC). I always liked their interface more than the competitors, and it puts out excellent volume on my Logitech headset that is otherwise way too quiet for me. Never been a big fan of the simulated 3D environments on any of these cards, though. The only game it ever sounded decent in was No Man’s Sky, but even that still had a distant tinny sound to it.

I think most people just use external amplifiers these days, but I’m still using a third-party sound card.

Well, that does sound better than the horseshit I’ve been served in the past.

Hard disagree. Gourmet mac just tastes like noodles and bland cheese gravy.

You should probably replace your detector.

There is nothing more pleasurable than swinging hard at a wasp and slapping that piece of shit with a killing blow. I also enjoy it when it doesn’t die immediately and has to think about it’s life and it’s choices.

I’ve tried to get into ESO multiple times, always hyping myself up to just ignore the combat/difficulty and pacing and do it for the story alone, but it wears me down quite quickly every time. The vibe is just entirely off in every way. It’s like playing with a cheap McDonald’s toy with stiff legs and a weird button that makes it move it’s arms vs. a licensed action figure.

Save for my issues with the lack of real risk or challenge anywhere outside of running end-game group content solo, I always get irritable with the weird class themes the developers went with. I think if they had three guardian base classes (Thief, Warrior, Mage) and allowed players to spend their limited pool of points into other Elder Scrolls trees (Destruction, Alteration, Restoration, Conjuration, Blunt, Blade, etc.) it could have been balanced well enough and felt true to what we’ve come to expect from that universe. But instead it feels like they made the game as an entirely different MMO, then at the last minute agreed to put an Elder Scrolls skin on it.

I’d like to be a Warrior with minor specialization in Restoration and Alteration, but if I want to play that sort or archetype I basically have to be a Templar who uses sun spells and does all of his fighting with aetherial javelins, maybe joining the Mage’s Guild or something to simulate some sort of Alteration type buffs. Or I roll a Dragonknight who is themed entirely around fire and lava spells. Or I run around labeled a Sorcerer and use daedric spells/buffs to simulate Alteration, and ignore the rest of that classes abilities to branch out into melee and armor abilities. It’s all just so convoluted and unusual.

Beautiful soundtrack, though… Moth, Butterfly and Torchbug really does things to my heart, and leaves me hopeful that even without Jeremy Soule, TES6 may still have the type of score it deserves.

I want to be positive and I’m trying to remain optimistic, but somehow I just know it in my bones that they’re going to further Fallout 4 the franchise and strip away even more skills and attributes. Hell, maybe they’ll get rid of dialogue entirely.

Most Christian males don’t know what a clit is, so this is understandable.

I work with a woman who believes she is the most wise and informed person alive, but is shockingly consistent in how very wrong she is about almost everything. Whether it’s a completely incorrect fact or a misunderstanding of how letters work, she’s always sure to hit you with a “Believe it or not, [insert either extremely common or wildly incorrect knowledge here]”.

Recently she went on for a day about the new Napoleon cake out bakery was selling, and wound up buying half a cake for herself. She invited several of us back to try this Napoleon cake (which was nice of her). As you have likely predicted, though, this was not a Napoleon cake.

I initially read this as “Yeah Josephine used to say Napoleon was a bone spirit”, and I got amped to talk about bone spirits.

“Pewtin here’s got a job! Pewtin’s got prospects!”

Well, we ain’t usin’ Fop, goddamnit.

Mediocre? He’s the goddamn paterfamilias!

Days off too. I used to stay up all night, sleep all morning, and work part time at 5pm. Now I start work at either 4am or 7am, and sleeping any later than that on my days off feels as though I’m squandering my freetime. My wife and I still lie to ourselves and say we’re going to sleep in, but then my 4-year-old wakes up at 6 like fucking clockwork, and it’s all downhill from there.

Thank you. This is a beautiful sentiment.

Sometimes it’s weird to look back on middle school, and the teachers who brought our generation up as young kids being told about the future. I’m an adult now, and I feel like an adult now, but in a way it feels like I’m still a part of that group of dumb and naive kids. It doesn’t feel that long ago at all. But the reality is that all of us are now pushing 40, and our time there is now wholly irrelevant, and we’re so far removed from those years that it’s fucking wild. A lot of those teachers are probably dead now.

I don’t know how to articulate what it is I’m meaning to say here. It’s just weird that we were kids so recently. I don’t feel like my life has gone by all that fast, but middle school to 40 somehow did all the same. I feel my age, and I feel as though I’ve lived to my age, but my memories don’t feel distant whatsoever. It feels like that was nine years ago.

Just like I feel like I was still living at home with my dad a few years ago, but I’ve been living in another country away from my parents for 7 years now, and my dad had been dead since last May.

He was such a good dad.

I’ve been trying to work on my internet ego. Leaving reddit a year ago did wonders for me. I still think every notification/reply I get on Lemmy is going to be a confrontation, and I can’t say that it ever is.

I hate to admit I still use Facebook, though. I live in a different country and it’s my lifeline back home to my friends and family, and it’s how I keep my daughter in their lives. But the algorithm knows how to bait me in. There’s so many obnoxious fucking douchebags on that platform. Somewhere out there in deep Facebook space is an Andrew Tate comment section where I dunked extremely hard on his fans. I no longer follow the replies on it, but I still get friend requests all the time from Tate bots, so I know it’s still active. One of these days, one of his followers will come to kill me.