I had nothing to do with her death…though, she did plead for me to stay…I will avenge her death, in her clothes. 
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I imagined the name was something to do with festival toilets - but apparently it’s a local name for incomers to the Isle of Wight (your legs get wet getting off the boat). I liked the toilets idea better.
Good band, though.
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I like Wet Leg, their sound is reminiscent or echoes some college rock sound grom late eighties early nineties, even touches of The Breeders.
Lyrics are great…
“When I think about what you’ve become,
I feel sorry for your mum.”
And Chaise Longue is a new classic in my opinion.
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Well, I have been so burned by Starfield, I am not sure I will complete it.
My first save, I lost everything I collected after completing one of the Constellation missions.
My second save found me unable to escape the atmosphere of Bannoc and the exploding Legacy ship. No matter what I did, I could not power up my ship to jump.
I am going to bed.
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That sounds unexpectedly hard-core for a bethesda game… Usually they’re not big on enforcing consequences.
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It is a bug. People are losing all their items either in their purchased homes or in their outposts. Considering how hard it is to make items stay put when decorating, and the searching needed to find the items, and that some of them are not replaceable, it is a lot of hard work, gone. Poof!
So distressing it broke the game for me.
I will give it one more try. I will run on ‘very easy’ through the main quests line up to where I was. I will collect nothing. Build nothing. Just get the story done.
I lost some rare items stored on my ship too.
I don’t mind bugs in games, but these are some really really bad ones.
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Oh. Well, that sucks. I thought it was a consequence of the story… 
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Thanks for the heads up. I have yet to explore Starfield, and it sounds like they have a few things to fix before I do.
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Well, if I had not accidentally overwritten the wrong save file…I could just back up before these missions but… 
dummy me…
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I just started with Starfield, thanks for the bug warnings.
My PC is below specs and struggling and sometimes just crashes to desktop, but kudos to the devs for optimising it enough so I can at least experience it. I won’t do any boost pack jumping or fast fighting, because the game keeps stalling and streaming new data from the SSD. (SSD is essential!)
So I haven’t put any effort in base building yet, and just store everything in the lodge. (I’m looting toys and games this playthrough 
) The low image quality hampers immersion a bit, (again – at least it works!), on my screen everything looks like Half Life 1.
Any advice for space fights? I couldn’t find a setting that makes the mouse movement slower (or I haven’t made it slow enough). I have NPCs assigned to the ship who claim to be trained in weapons, how do I make them do anything?
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Not sure your crew really does anything. I think it is more of a stat boost thing.
I am on Xbox so I do not know about mouse speed.
The mission to beware of is one of the Constellation missions. A High Price to Pay. Just keep putting all your goodies in the Lodge’s bottomless chest and you should be okay. After that mission, you should be able to build and decorate without too much worry except for the old, ‘falling thru’ bugginess that was also in Skyrim. Some things can be recovered in Build Mode with the Move button but not always. So beware. Shelves you build are safest. Counters and other pre rendered items can swallow items whole and never be seen again.
The final Crimson Fleet mission left my ship so badly damaged, I could not escape. This did not happen with my starter ship. But did with the one you get for finishing the Freestar Ranger quest line.
Anyway, just keep a solid backup save and use quicksave a lot.
The game has some issues even on Xbox. It sometimes crashes in quicksave. Maybe because it autosaves at the same time?
I am starting again. All in all, I am still enjoying it.
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Fredrik Knudsen, the master of covering extremely deep rabbit holes, just uploaded a comprehensive video about EVE Online:
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Me, smuggly: “A comprehensive video about EVE online? What clickbait! That would have to be at least, like, 5 hours long or somethin’…” 
Me, looking at video runtime: 
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Cliff notes please. I don’t have that kind of time
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TLDR: It’s a successful attempt to create a functioning virtual economy, to the level that it can actually be used to study and test certain economic theories in a more easily observable environment than the real world.
Also to the level that it’s got to be played with the same dog-eat-dog mentality as the real economy if you want to make it to pretty much any level above wage-slave…
That’s not a summary of the video (I don’t have that time either), that’s my takeaway from superficially observing the game through its lifetime. I played a bit, but nowhere near enough to really get any deep insights, because that’s basically a second job…
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And that explains why I have never played…thanks for the short version.
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The video is more about the wars and alliances between different factions of players. It’s also about how the developers nearly ruined the game with more monetization; you know, like what happens with all big games that get popular.
Edit: I really like the part about the game currency casino websites slowly gaining power from the shadows by gathering trillions, and basically becoming an in-game mafia that would attack players to extort them, which culminated in The Casino War, where they paid mercenaries to destroy the Imperium, the most powerful player faction.
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The Invincible should be releasing tomorrow.
Not sure this game is for everyone, as it appears to mostly be a linear story telling experience, which some may find too slow paced. I am personally eagerly looking forward to playing this once I receive my physical copy for PC, as I am not much of a reader, or I would have bought the book instead. Great for those dark and rainy days 
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Yep, can’t wait!
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