Learning a language in itself is not a bad thing, as long as you have a lot of support and mix with the locals, but mixing it with integration politics, the R word will start to rear its head: by endlessly raising the bar to a fantasy “native” level of the target local language in business hiring, that a coded word meaning they don’t want expats. While the government is simultaneously pulling public funding away from language schools. Oh no, you will never be one of them. Realistically, you will also need some years to be at a native level; the pressure is real.

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Good to see some taffers here!

Bethesda is so behind the competition, I just don’t feel a point to play any of their games after FO4.

Or go with the No Man’s Sky model free update model, with slightly lower quality updates in a 4-months dev cycles, where one sprint could be a major update. Bug testing and marketing could be outsourced to the fanbase as an unwritten contract.

But since it is the developer’s only significant income, they have to keep the game going. Now, the game is quite bloated; too many ideas don’t fit the original idea, so it becomes your problem to ignore them.

That’s why I don’t play live service games; the product is never finished, and gets worse over time due to milking.

Wow, I am in the same situation as OP, Aurora 4x is a time sink for sure.

Still one of the best games with a story that subverts its own genre alongside KOTOR 2, definitely worth experiencing.

Off topic, but I read books, and I can tell publishers leverage " judging a book by its cover" extremely well, because it is true, otherwise I couldn’t tell an academic edition or a general edition. A book with an AI cover is, in general, a bad idea, and it conveys low quality to the reader. Some open source books use AI to format an epub file; some use text recognition without professional formatting, and it is a disaster to read. You are better off getting an old pdf edition or paying a premium for a publisher’s modernised version.

Am I understanding that you mean certain important locations are not fenced off until you find the clues that lead to such locations? This game is pretty wide open. I certainly went to some “useless” location, but if I remember right, there is one very important location that you may just find “accidentally”.

I like the game, but it took some considerable effort to like it, plus a saving bug at the beginning that I had to solve, so I can understand why someone does not like it.

The only game that I’ve refunded after 100 hrs, the breakup stings this one. When you realise it demands so much from your acceptance and tolerance of bad game design, wasted potential and cult-like fanbase. You may as well just do something else meaningful…oh well

Dark Souls 3…it is a bit hard to jump in after its slower predecessor, for some reason unknown, I just like the legacy combat system better, can’t find the rhythm in the new one…

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What the fuck…

I used to just use a cloud service like you years ago, but try sync them through GitHub, there is a 1gb limit on private repositories though, but it should be fine as long as you don’t put videos and sounds in there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu4-BPcveBI

There are tons of alternative ways for you to sync notes. I have used it for so long without spending a dime.

Oops, I didn’t even notice.

Man, you left out Obsidian, it is a godsend for studying and notetaking.

Get an ultra-wide monitor, split it into four panes, one pane to import the pdf you want to read, another for note-taking, and spare another one for the AI for Markdown formatting and explaining texts (optional). I can’t think of a more efficient workflow for studying digitally.

Hearts of Iron 2

When I realised Aurora 4x, a free space 4x game with an ugly UI, does ground trooper even more in-depth than a specialised WWII game, it starts to feel like a toy; there’s just no contest between these two when it comes to complexity in terms of moment-to-moment decision making.

This looks inspired by Condemned: Criminal Origins, alright, count me in.

Nice, reminds me of DMC.