Just gonna vent a little, don't mind me. I don't hate AI. I hate how it's being used. In a vacuum, AI is fine. But we don't live in a vacuum, we live in a capitalist hellscape where everyone saw how AI was going to be abused even before corporations started jumping on every chance they got to do so. Now we're stuck in the timeline where the public consensus is that using AI for any reason at all is seen as fundamentally unethical. People are zealously anti-AI and the nail is only getting pounded in further with new reasons to hate it appearing every other day. And it didn't have to be this way. Photography didn't try to pass itself off as painting, it had time to develop into its own art form. But AI didn't. Out the gate, it was being used deceptively, and continuously became worse. People want to abolish AI as a whole, but it isn't the problem. The problems run way deeper. Our world is a sinking boat and AI is showing us where all the leaks are. Lack of education, lack of access to mental health professionals, those in power using every chance they get to screw over the working class by cutting every corner. Any new technology in any form that can be used to exploit people, WILL be used to exploit people. The hate on AI may be justified but it's too generalized and unfocused to bring about any meaningful change. There needs to be regulation, but I fear that any laws that are passed will only benefit the rich and horrible.
Kataelyna
OG Oblivion has the most utterly broken and unplayable version of this problem that I've seen. Every bandit wearing glass or daedric, every enemy the strongest version, eliminating all variety. And their idea of difficulty? Just make them take longer to kill. All fun dissolves into a slog.
Tunnel Snakes rule!
One thing that annoys me is when the "bad" guy not only has all the style and charisma, but also starts making too much sense and ends up completely in the right, but they can't let them win because that would change the sacred status quo. So they gotta make them do something really fucked up so everyone can see that they're supposed to be the bad guy, even if the thing they do is random, out of character, and/or has nothing to do with the entirely valid point they're making. Like what they want is basic civil rights, but they also murder orphans. So the good guys gotta stop their nefarious plan to give everyone basic civil rights.
We didn't even have lockers, ever. School still had them but no one was allowed to use them. So instead we all had back problems from carrying everything in our backpacks all day. I heard it was because of kids keeping drugs in their lockers, but getting rid of them just meant they kept them in their backpacks along with everything else. Probably made distribution easier, tbh.
I actually made a wallpaper like this by moving icons and screenshotting until the whole screen was filled. Was funny trying to figure out which shortcuts were the real ones. Now I have enough stuff that I don't need to fake it. The trick is to have everything important in the taskbar, the rest is just there to fill space.
They do general giveaways all the time, this one is specific to a cause and is therefore flavored as such. There's a discord bot I use to track giveaways from GOG, Epic, and Steam, there is always a giveaway happening at pretty much any given moment from at least one of them. You could look into that or similar if you just want free games.
The screenplay for the Princess Bride was written by the writer of the book iirc and just seems like a later draft of the same story but edited to be much better. And with the added bonus of having absolutely iconic performances.
My computer's specs are just under the minimum for new games released these days. It will probably be able to handle Skyblivion, but almost definitely not the remake. So that's the one that has my attention
This is why I quit playing Magic the Gathering, the one person I regularly played against was the sorest possible loser. Every win I got was because I "just got lucky" and every win he got was "strategy" (his strategy was pouring hundreds of dollars into the game for the most expensive and broken cards).
I will always be thankful to Fallout for allowing me bond with my grandmother over songs she hadn't heard in decades
I'm pretty sure you can headcannon Stargate to link Star Wars to Star Trek. Star Wars shows alien worlds in the distant past with advanced technology, Stargate shows modern people discovering that ancient alien technology and starting to become aware of the wider universe (iirc) and Star Trek shows people in the future that have become a part of that wider universe