Thanks for the detailed description. I’m on linux (bazzite) though, and my PC is a little on the older side, AND I have no dedicated GPU. I’m already pushing the CPU to the limit just to get a good FPS. This game is basically the upper limit of what I can run, so I’m not going to do anything that would add tasks to the CPU.
Holy batflaps this game needs a lot of storage!!! I have some mods installed (YAML stuff, biomes, etc.) And it’s at 144 GB. I had to make space by removing some other games and cleaning house on the hard drive just to update it.
I love this game, but it is going to feel like Christmas when I finish it and uninstall it to make space.
It’s good, but not amazing. Each of the 5 main fractions has It’s own main quest line with 5 quests, and any given character can only do one of the lines. There isn’t much dialog, and don’t expect a giant tree of options and alternate endings in each line, but the writing is solid and the themes are varied and interesting. After the main quest line there is a DLC quest about rebuilding a town with some lackluster town-building mechanics. I ended up not finishing this with my first character, it was too tedious. It wasn’t horrible either though, I just don’t have that much free time.
There are lots of side quests spread over the land, but there is a lot of open space in this game, so you will end up referring to the fandom wiki in order to find some of them. The focus is more on exploration, survival, crafting, and optimization than a detailed and branching story.
Still Outward. I love this game, probably going to be playing it for a while to come. I want to try a flamethrower mage build next, or perhaps an archer/off-hand dagger build. There are still two entire regions I’ve not yet visited in 60+ hours of gameplay.
I only play solo, I don’t have much time for gaming, and it’s a pleasure to not have to consider others needs etc. for a little while.
Now that I know the mechanics better I have built a stronger character. I also used splitscreen to give my new character a few nice items from my first character, that makes solo a little easier and more fun.
I’m playing through Outward a second time. It is such a beautiful game, and I really enjoy some of the unique aspects of it like the lack of fast travel.
Dammit I meant Morrowind! I’m getting old.
The worst for me was elder scrolls: oblivion. I played it on xbox back when it came out. I played nothing else for about 18 months. I must have had thousands of hours by the time it got old.
I use a remarkable 2 to take notes during meetings and brainstorm, and until now I’ve been using it for todo lists as well. But I’m going to start using obsidian for the lists (and documentation, etc.) as of tomorrow. I already use it to organize TTRPG campaigns, and it’s high time I started organizing my work life as well as my fantasy hobby. (>n<)
I use a britta-type generica, but inky for the water that goes in the coffee machine. All drinking water goes through a local water carbon filter.
I never was. I had an account until about 2012, but rarely used it.
I certianly agree with your concern in principle, but I also think that not all corporations are evil by default. It’s important to be sceptical, but in my experience the e/OS is extremely privacy and user focused.
They partner with fairphone, they support some older hardware (etc. Samsung galaxy S7), and they have an installer app and installation intructions complete with the OS files freely available.
You even do not have to use a murena account to use the phone at all. If you perfer, you can get your apps 100% from APKs & F-Droid, and Murena doesn’t know you exist.
For me that’s enough.
You may also want to check out Murena. I have a fai-phone 5 with thier E/OS on it, I’m very happy with it, and 100% google-free.
Thanks to you too. But my PC is a laptop, so I’m not going to be doing any upgrades. I knew what I was doing. Portability is important to me, as is a touchscreen for drawing. I’m usually playing games like pillars eternity, caves of qud, and such. Nothing that needs powerful hardware.