OH MY GOD…
SHIP BUILDING CONTROLS!
Seriously…
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An install fee? Seriously, Unity? I don’t think the tracker necessary for such nonsense can even pass through GoGs standard policy, so I guess no more Unity games on GoG? 
At least Godot seems mostly ready to take over. I’m glad I vowed to myself never to use a non-open source engine. You’re just throwing too much work into this shit to be able to afford it suddenly going away or the conditions of its use suddenly changing.
Aaaand reading the article in detail just gave me so many technical questions it’s not even funny anymore. I can’t see a way to properly, securely do what they say they’re doing. Only counting initial installs? Yeah, I don’t think you talked this through with your developers before announcing it.
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Anti-Piracy methods have never truly worked and only punish the consumer. I have bought a lot of DAW related software that requires a constant check in that effects flow, or not too long ago some companies were sending you out physical usb sticks etc that you had to plug in to unlock your software, this was standard for far too long as well (hey cubase!) , and there are still some companies at it.
I got some steinberg sample software with a midi keyboard I bought 4 years ago, needs me to plug in a usb to confirm “e-license”. I ended up going online and finding a crack so I wouldnt have to anymore…
When will they learn the people pirating are people who are price walled out of your software and would not have been a purchaser to begin with? It’s like they’re conveniently just pretending the poverty class does not exist when it suits them 
Life experience and talking to people during my college years tells me this, most people pirating are teens who can’t afford it but want to improve or learn a skill who then go on to do it professionally or as a hobby and become customers.
A friend from college I know for a fact learned to edit using pirated software on hand me down laptops from older siblings. This is something they directed recently 
Which is why open-source will always be my favourite methodology <3 Knowledge is freedom and it should thusly be free to those who seek it.
I came here to say I’m enjoying starfield but I’m having trouble harvesting Kelp Sacs from this
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Ha, adorable! Probably not a fraction as capable as the original, though… 
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So the 2nd disappointment in Starfield, for me anyway, is the storage system. I don’t mind the mass limit on my ship or in my suit, but I dislike it in the storage containers at my apartment. I was hoping for a Fallout 4 type storage where it was all stored in the workbenches. I already have 6 containers lined up against the wall. And I really dislike being required to have the needed items on me when I craft. If they were in the workbench… 
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What the hell is the red skull doing in fallout?
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Yep. I see the resemblence but, I think that is No Nose Bobbi’s boyfriend. jk
Apparently there was an easter egg in Fallout 4 tied into this somehow. It came with the Automatron DLC or something…no idea.
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Let me guess… You dress up as an Alien and scare some spacers off a claim or somethin’? Better hope none of them gets itchy on the trigger finger…
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Homestead is an early colony that prides itself on growing earth crops. They have a museum of earth artifacts and you can pay 100 credits to take a guided tour. I did. But not all colonists are happy about being gawked at for their old ways. So someone asked me to put on a suit as a joke and scare the tourists away. Neither of us thought it would really work but it did. Was an amusing mission. She asked me to come back later and help her again and she may let me keep the suit.
I will go back.
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I thought about it. Then I thought, “things are bad here, people are very poor, and tourism’s the only income they have - they can’t even afford to leave - and this lunatic idealogue wants to scare away their only chance of prosperity and/or escape”. So I turned her down.
Perhaps I’m taking this game too seriously…
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I have heard complaints about moral dilemas in the game. I try to remember it is just a game and I want to have fun. I would like to believe I am sane enough to seperate my real life from the game but, I too feel the old heart strings get pulled and the conscience twinge. There have been a few times my companion did not like the decision I made and my self-doubt grew, but in reality, I did not see why…unless there are facts I am not aware of, and there always are.
What did you do with Vae Victis? You do not have to answer that.
It’s an RPG, I sure hope there are some moral dilemmas…
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Unlike my spelling dilemma
I have taken my usual route through a Bethesda game. Firstly I completely ignored the quests and task programmed in, and wandered off exploring on my own.
Having satisfied some of that urge, I then ploughed ahead with the main quest, ignoring all the side quests I could. This turned out to be a mistake.
Bethesda have advertised this game as one that can be played in many different ways. It turns out, that’s not true. There are things you have to achieve in order to progress, and those things have to be done in a certain way, which means you have to acquire certain skills and experience. There are pinch points within the game, where you cannot progress unless you have certain levels and competencies. There are also points of no return, where, having made certain discoveries and/or achievements, the nature of the game changes, and you can’t play it the way you did before.
I fell foul of this during the main quest, and found myself in a place I didn’t want to be (well, not yet), and had to go back to a much earlier save.
All of which is a very roundabout way of saying that because of my chaotic and undisciplined playing style, whilst I have completed three-quarters of the main quest (at least I had - but I went back - now probably half) I haven’t come across Vae Victis yet.
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