I just eventually got comfortable moving the difficulty slider whenever I needed. Any other game it feels like cheating, in OG Oblivion it felt required to not drive myself insane minmaxing
Initiateofthevoid
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Agreed. Super convenient fast travel takes something away from the game. It turns an adventure into a handful of loading screens, which is egregious in Starfield because "travel through space" boiled down to "here's 4 more loading screens every single time you want to do anything."
... And one day, Jesus saw a fig tree. It was not the season for figs, and so there were no figs on the fig tree. But still, Jesus wanted a fig. He was upset there were no figs, and so he cursed the tree to never bear fruit again. If he couldn't have a fig, no one could! Probably bathed its roots in a thin stream of uric acid, I don't know.
Point is, that fig tree never made another fig, and when his followers asked how, Jesus zipped up his pants and said "if you believe in me, you can do anything. Not only can you totally curse trees to death, you can fuckin' teleport mountains into the ocean. That'd be sick, dude."
- The Book of Dave, 69:66-6
If someone doesn’t want to live and doesn't have anything to live for
This is a temporary problem that can change. Depression isn't a feeling. It's a disorder, an imbalance, a prolonged neurochemical misfire. It's horrible, and feels inescapable.
But any thoughts you have about the past - and any beliefs you have about the future - are directly influenced by that imbalance. There is no true depiction of the past in our heads. No future in front of our eyes. We simulate the past and future in the present moment.
When we access memories, we re-experience them all over again.
Depression prevents you from feeling good, so even your own memories feel hollow and devoid of meaning. A happy memory is filtered through the same process as a happy experience, and both are temporarily (and reversibly) stripped of emotional value while you are depressed.
The same is true for the future. You simulate your predictions as if they are artificial memories of the future, but they are also filtered through your present context.
While depressed, it is much, much harder to imagine a happy future. Not because you have pulled away the rosy glasses and seen truth. Not because you have found cold logic. No. You are, ever and always, an emotional animal, and you are defined even by your lack of an emotion.
To imagine a happy future is to simulate a happy experience. It's required - to imagine oneself happy later, they literally have to experience that 'potential' happiness now.
With depression, the past feels faded and the future feels hopeless. But - unlike depression - those are just feelings. Those are literally just in your head.
Your perceived past and predicted future are defined by the range of experience you can have in the present moment. If you can't feel happy now, you can't fully process that your life was ever happy or will ever be happy again. But those are just feelings.
It might not feel like it now, but you have been happy before. You can be happy again, as long as you live. Not for as long as you live... but only if you live. The only thing that can stop you is death.
This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you. . . You will be warm again.
- Wit, a Brandon Sanderson treasure.
No bugs? In my bethesda game?
Literally ~~un~~playable!
That's unacceptable!
Bethesda "supports" modders the way WOTC "supports" D&D content creators. They profit immensely off of other people's work without lifting a finger but also try to exploit those same creators for even more profit at every possible opportunity. Usually in such a way that it does permanent harm to an otherwise thriving community.
They're just playing games within games, people! Trying to delay the release of Skyblivion by getting the devs to start another 200 hour playthrough!
Jokes aside, I hope the remaster is good.
They like to flout the law in real time because they know there are no real consequences, but Musk still doesn't want to leave an opening for a federal or state DA to sue him for financial disclosure and conflict of interest, if only to avoid the PR scandals from discovery.
He's probably going to 'officially' bow out, but maintain a totally-not-suspicious amount of digital communications with the army of fuckup loyalists he installed.
You know, just like that time the fuckup in chief relinquished control of his extraordinary number of conflicts of interest.
It's a device - full of hydrogen - that explodes. Do you really believe it's just clickbait to call that a hydrogen bomb?
Not like this, no. Please consider reading articles further before making such statements. I cannot speak for the veracity of the experimental claims, but it isn't a simple clickbait about hydrogen gas - it's a breakthrough in chemical engineering.
In a controlled field test, as reported by the South China Morning Post, the 2kg device produced a white-hot inferno exceeding 1,000C for over two seconds—15 times longer than equivalent TNT blasts
This is similar to napalm in temperature, but rather than spraying hot burning goo, you're effectively igniting the air itself. For two entire seconds, which is a lot longer than it sounds when discussing a literal ball of fire.
When triggered by conventional explosives, the material fractures into micron-scale particles, releasing hydrogen gas that mixes with air and ignites. This creates a self-sustaining combustion loop: the heat from the initial explosion propagates further decomposition of magnesium hydride, releasing more hydrogen and extending the fireball’s duration.
This isn't an article about a hydrogen gas experiment like in school. It's about them finding a way to mass produce the amount of magnesium hydride required for such a potentially devastating firebomb. It's more hydrogen-dense (and therefore more energy dense) than pure liquid hydrogen, which is used as rocket fuel.
For comparison, one cubic meter can contain 45 kg of hydrogen pressurized at 700 atm, 70 kg of liquid hydrogen, or up to 106 kg of hydrogen bound in magnesium hydride
Here's the inverse