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Glad to see someone else getting into Daggerfall!

For the way people react to you: That's going to be based on your reputation with their faction that you set in character creation + your Personality stat. I just made a hoity-toity Paladin-eque character and I set his reputation with nobility really high and underworld really low, with commoners just a little bit low (-2)...Asking people in town for stuff results in a lot of turned up noses telling me to stuff it. Lol.

But also, for commoners, picking the Blunt option (your Streetwise skill) when speaking to them usually helps, and picking Polite (your Etiquette skill) usually makes them dislike you because it makes you talk like the upper class.

I spent hundreds of hours in the mid-to-late 90's playing Daggerfall, which meant using it's original control scheme; if you haven't tried that out...you should, just so you know what it was like (but I recommend using the Normal setting for reflexes because you will not be able to attack/do stuff as quickly). Pro tip: In that control scheme, to look with the mouse, press Enter to enter Mouse Look mode. Press it again to go back to movement/interaction mode. The Home key centers your character's view again, and Page Up/Page Down look up and down if you don't want to switch out of interaction mode. Holding down the mouse button and literally moving it in a direction to determine the type of attack (side to side for swipes, forward for stab, backward for overhead swing/kick) was certainly unique, even for the time. WASD controls didn't become standard until after Quake and Half Life exploded onto the scene.

I highly recommend the following mods which add great quality of life changes without changing fundamentals about the game or quests. If you don't want to load your game down with a ton of mods, I urge you to at least grab the top two in my list as they modernize the game in the same way that Daggerfall Unity modernized the overall controls with a WASD + Mouse Look control scheme:

• Cruise Control - This is one of the best QoL improvements here. It's important that you know about interaction modes, how to select them and how they work, but having them default in obvious situations makes it play a lot more like a modern TES game (such as defaulting to Steal mode when you are Sneaking, and Info mode when you're far way or something can't be Grabbed/Talked to, so you can walk around town looking at buildings and clicking to see what they are. This is the easiest way to fill up your map for shops and such if people don't like talking to you/you don't want to sit there and click on every single dialogue option over and over).
• Sneak and Crouch Combined - This is the other really big one in this list. Sneak and Crouch are two separate things in Daggerfall. Crouching does not necessarily help you sneak (though I think maybe a little since you move slower?), and you can Sneak while standing. Doing both slows you down even more, and you have to remember to stop sneaking and stand up afterwards. This mod just makes the key to do either always do both, like modern TES games.
• Multiple Quick Saves - There's no such thing as saving too often in Daggerfall.
• Simple Mini Map
• Rest Warning if Unwell - This will literally save your life, because if you catch a disease and then go to sleep, you will die.
• Viewable Skill Progress
• Autosaves* - No, seriously, there's no such thing as saving too often in Daggerfall.*
• Unofficial Block Location and Model Fixes - Fixes some actual graphical and interaction issues with some 3d models and such.
• World Tooltips - This makes everything show what it is when you mouse over it like in modern games. WARNING: This will reveal secret doors and switches to you. So, I consider this one to be much more optional in setting up a new DFU install than the others because that does change the way you play. However, with how insanely huge/labyrinthine the dungeons can be...let's just say I don't have the kind of time I did 30 years ago wander aimlessly clicking on every wall panel in the dungeon to find the one secret door I needed to open to get to the quest objective. Plus, the game's default 3D mini map often will load in such a way that it reveals many secret areas anyway.
• Subtitled Cinematics
• Convenient Clock
• Physical Combat and Armor Overhaul - Another optional one, IMO: If you want to not spend an inordinate amount of time missing enemies, this mod makes the combat work like modern TES games where you always hit, but all the numbers from weapon/armor/dodge skill/etc still factor in to the amount of damage done and such. It also fixes the Critical Hits skill to actually...do critical hits. In default Daggerfall, that skill actually affects your chance to hit, not how much damage you do. Meanwhile, the manual that came with the game was incorrect and told you that it affected your damage. >_<

Yeah, here in the U.S. at Blockbuster you would get a clear plastic case that held the game cartridge and that was it. They must have still kept some of the original boxes in their storage though, because I bought a used copy of Mega Man X for SNES from Blockbuster and it came in it's original box, but with no manual.

Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2.

Velocipastor is so much better than it has any right to be.

Helen Keller vs. Night Wolves has the most hilarious opening song and is the very definition of a B movie.

Super Hybrid is another B movie that has no right to be as good as it is. Highly recommend.

As mentioned in some other comments Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is an absolutely ridiculous romp from Troma.

I am about to switch over to this setup from a Roku myself. I had seen recommendations for Flauncher, but I'm glad to see another launcher recommendation. I will have to try out Project Ivy. Thanks!

Yo, wtf? And I quote from that wiki article:

"The first known vending machine, created in the 1st century CE by Hero of Alexandria, dispensed holy water. This invention predates the modern concept of vending machines by nearly 2,000 years, making it seem anachronistic in ancient history."

Saying "Oh boy" in the way you would say "Oh my" or "Oh wow" is not gendered in the sense that you aren't calling anyone around you "boy", but rather saying it to yourself as an exclamation; just like how religious people say "Oh God!" or "Oh my God!"; if you said "Oh God", you wouldn't be calling the other person "God".

Nope. That song came out when I was ten, so I had no clue it was about anything like that until probably a decade later.

Sadly, Chester grew up being horribly abused and then using a lot of drugs. He was super close with Chris Cornell, who had also killed himself some months prior to Chester. Chester had been sober for a time but ended up staying the night alone after traveling and drank a little and hung himself on Chris's birthday.

Mike Shinoda has stated in interviews that when he and Chester would write lyrics, they would focus on the emotion and not necessarily just the exact experience. So the lyrics would slowly evolve until they both could sing them truthfully while relating them to their own separate lived experiences, which is part of why they can be so universally related to - because none of their songs are truly only about one specific thing, but rather about the feelings people experience.

I didn't know it was about Crystal meth for a really long time because I only heard it on the radio for many many years and they only played a clean version where the phrase "Crystal Meth" is cut out in a way that's not really obvious it was edited so I just never understood the lyrics.

The "without being signed in" part of YouTube is now no longer completely true. I tried to watch a video tutorial at work the other day and it wouldn't play because I wasn't signed in and so "they couldn't be sure I wasn't a bot". I'm not signing into any personal stuff on my work computer, or wasting time creating a "work" Google account, so I guess YT can no longer be a place where I can get helpful programming info.

Aside from some of the other things people have already mentioned, going to or volunteering for various festivals and conventions can be a great way to meet random people and get out of the house. If you're volunteering you're more likely to end up meeting more local-ish people (like from whatever nearest Metro area the event is occurring in since you said you're super rural).

Even if you don't meet any cool new friends you want to stay in touch with, they can be a ton of fun and are a great reason to get out of the house. I've ended up having some really amazing experiences that I absolutely never thought possible just because I got out and went to Conventions (mostly anime or game conventions for me, but there are all kinds).