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You would have fought him in Brannoch Castle shortly before finding Beigis and Bartholomew and going to Mammon’s World.

Guilty got moved from being a story boss to being a secret superboss more befitting his actual lore, that’s all. References removed from Brannoch because he isn’t there anymore.

Quest 64 Hard Mode makes an attempt at fixing this. I’m not real far into it yet (Dondoran) but I’m enjoying what I’m seeing so far. I’m not sure how hard the “hard mode” is going to be late game though… Regular mode was already pretty oppressive without Magic Barrier.

I was skeptical about it. I saw a lot of it being compared with Final Fantasy and I’ve been largely pretty disappointed with most Final Fantasy offerings since X.

Picked it up recently on the recommendation of another Lemming and, holy shit, this might be the best RPG I’ve ever played. Hands down, it’s that good. God bless the French. This game is making me feel things I haven’t felt since I was a teenager.

Or how no one in security noticed a dude with a high powered rifle climbing over the fence.

This one, at least, I can explain.

They did see him! Secret Service just elected to ignore it, apparently.

Snippet taken from the relevant Wikipedia page :

At 4:26 p.m., a local law enforcement countersniper ended his shift and spotted Crooks around the southernmost warehouse of a complex owned by AGR International, in which police countersnipers were positioned. The countersniper text-messaged his colleagues about Crooks, noting that he may have known about the police presence inside the building. The New York Times retrospectively described the text messages as suggesting that Crooks aroused police suspicion more than 90 minutes before the shooting.[57] At 5:14 p.m., one of the countersnipers still in the building saw Crooks directly underneath the warehouse and photographed him. The countersniper saw him “scoping out” the rooftop of the building and carrying a golf rangefinder, which particularly alarmed officers. The countersniper text-messaged images of Crooks to other members of law enforcement before heading outside to find him and keep visual contact while backup arrived. Crooks ran from his position and evaded a search joined by four other local police officers.[58][59][45][60] Law enforcement officers spotted Crooks between 20 minutes and 30 minutes before the shooting.[61][62] Multiple local law enforcement officers identified Crooks and believed that he might have been acting suspiciously near the event’s magnetometer weapon detectors;[63] they expressed their suspicions over radio, and the Secret Service was informed of this at some point.[41] Trump arrived onstage at about 6:03 p.m.[64] At 6:05 p.m., he began speaking.[65] At 6:06 p.m., Crooks scaled an air-conditioning unit between the northernmost AGR International buildings to reach the roof of the complex, rather than using his ladder.[66] He walked across a series of interconnected roofs to reach his eventual firing position on the southernmost roof,[45][66] between 400 feet (120 meters) and 450 feet (140 meters) north of the venue stage.[2][11][12][67] The building housed three police snipers tasked with covering the rally, but none of them were on the roof due to a shortage of personnel.[68][69] Several bystanders witnessed Crooks on the roof and alerted the police about him minutes before shots were fired at Trump.[70][71][65]

It then goes on to tell how one of the local cops, not Secret Service, went up there to see what was going on, and spooked Crooks who then opened fire.

Hackintoshes have been around since the 80s and this has never happened.

In 2009-2012 Apple did levy a successful lawsuit against Psystar for doing this in a business environment. But they’ve never enforced bricking a consumer Hackintosh and I expect they never will.

Well it sure as hell didn’t work on my Tarnished in Elden Ring proper

Today OP is learning about a “local floor”

This is also the same sort of thing that brings us the terrifying concept of False Vacuum Decay

Oh, he’s been used, but that Tesla was new.

At this point you’re gonna have to do that first, and then I’ll elect you after, because we can’t trust any words spoken on the campaign trail by anyone anymore.

This is going to probably sound like a stupid idea, but I mean this earnestly:

Can we just make Internet 2? Just a new underlying protocol with less restrictive browser requirements, sure you might need to use Chrome to log in to your bank, but we could just host everything else on the fedinet. Just like back in the old days, webrings hosted on closet servers and rented racks.

Google didn’t build the internet so why do they have so much clout about how it’s run? We can just start over again with self hosting. This time we even have all the knowledge we gained from already doing it the first time. I’m picturing an entire second layer of internet unlinked with the first one. Kind of like onion sites I guess, the more I think about this the more I’m realizing that the tor network is probably exactly what I’m talking about. Just that, but instead of hosting pirated content or weird porn or bitcoin assassins it’s just a low stakes noncorporate internet protocol. You probably won’t want to do a lot of transactions on it, but social media or personal websites or video hosting would probably be fine.

Sounds like how Super Mario RPG did it which was overall pretty excellent.

I haven’t played the game but if that’s true I’d still consider that well and truly turn based.

This was me lmao. On my first playthrough of Morrowind as a teenager I dicked around and did everything except the main quest for ages. Around level 18 I decided to actually progress the main quest. Hasphat, check. Arkngthand, no sweat. Talk to Sharn Gra-Muzgob, she says to fetch the Skull of Llevule Andrano. Cool, go to Andrano’s tomb, looks kind of familiar. Where is the Skull of Llevule Andrano? Cause it sure ain’t here in his tomb. Whoopsie.

Never found the skull, never progressed the quest, had to start a new character to actually experience the main story. I wonder how many potential Nerevarines failed to ascend due to missing minor quest items. Wish I could ask em that inside the Cavern of the Incarnate.

There is at least one occasion where NPCs just straight up lie to you in quest directions though. I can’t think of it off the top of my head but I remember it existing because I complained about it on a forum.

On one hand - great worldbuilding! “Local dumbass gives you bad directions” is a funny and memorable point on top of what might otherwise be a forgettable side quest. On the other hand, I spent the better part of four hours looking for whatever egg mine or ancestral tomb or whatever it was he asked me to find before getting fed up and having UESP tell me “lol no actually it’s off in this complete other direction”, and I’m pretty sure I assassinated that NPC after I turned in his quest.

[…] that feels like the internet of old.

But this shit, this hatred, does not belong here.

Buddy I got some bad news for you about the internet of old, flame wars are some of the first things we ever got up to on the internet.

To be clear, I agree with you, fuck that noise - but I don’t think this is a hill you want to get too comfortable on. It’s best to just ignore them, or block them if you feel strongly about it. People have been and will continue to call each other stupid assholes on forums from the beginning until the end of the internet era.

Not since his mom died.

You can see a very tangible drop in cognition around the production and release of The Life of Pablo. Pretty sure he’s been unmedicated since then.

Studies? No, we don’t do studies here anymore. Now we just declare things. If you just declare something enough then it becomes true.

And don’t forget his second channel, https://youtube.com/@ExtractionsAndIre

In fact it does, the sixth amendment guarantees, and I quote, “to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.”

Because they don’t make money from mods and this was an obvious cash grab from the beginning. If Bethesda had any good ideas they’d be making a game out of them. They don’t, so instead they’re reselling you the same game they already sold you 19 years ago with a fresh coat of paint on it. A million people will buy it anyway because nostalgia, Bethesda gets their money, and whatever happens afterward is not their concern.