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  • Unless things change drastically for their RPG division, I’ll repeat what I’ve said since oblivion. Bethesda makes great modding platforms, the content within the game is a loose theme that modders can play with.

    Yes the new Fallouts are just TES in the Apocalypse.

    Yes starfield is little more than TES in space.

    I buy Bethesda games for mod potential.

    If they said no mods to all future games I wouldn’t buy another one. I don’t play ESO and I have never touched fallout 76 for this reason.








  • I went from hourly call center to on call 24/7 and being the only point of contact.

    When my phone notifies me, just any notification, I panic. The phone rings, I panic. Its been over a year since I left.

    Yes, its part and parcel to other issues of mental health, but… Man, do you know how often you get notifications? I’ve turned most off and still some days I’m ready to smash my phone so it will shut up and I can breathe normally.





  • Kali was built out as a penetration testing distro, though it does contain some diagnostic tools.

    Not a bad place to start if you’re used to Debian, but it is a rolling release so it may break unexpectedly, or have new bugs introduced with each update.

    A persistent USB with just Debian could have all the same tools installed but have a longer support scope on releases so you don’t have to update daily (bleeding edge) which is nice to reduce read/writes to the flash drive it’s on.

    That being said, I keep a Kali live image (persistent) but thats becauae its home - my first introduction to Linux was 5 minutes with Red Hat, but aside from a brief intro in highschool, I really started with Linux in Backtrack, offensive security’s predecessor to Kali.

    Yes, I have to learn things the hard way lol.



  • I’ve been on a decade long hiatus from multiplayer aspect of games - aside from games I was with people I knew in RL.

    I only occasionally get a twinge for the comraderie of some epic raid in an MMO, or tight unspoken squad tactics where everyone just does their job as expected (not necessarily well lol) and came out on top.

    But really, I don’t have the time to commit to either of those.

    Then I hear about my friend in GW2 (RL friend) who is going through some toxic guild BS and I don’t miss it.


  • Everquest did this to me.

    I mained a bard, and back then you had to stop a song and start a new one every so often…

    Mathematically it translates to a button press ever 1.5 seconds, ignoring movement, other combat abilities, etc.

    I also refused to compromise on spelling and grammar at the time.

    I got real good at typing accurately and quickly.

    I have lost a lot of that speed, but at comfortable pace I’m probably 80-90 words a minute, and the last time it was measured was a keyboarding class requisite. 121 GWAM for an eighth grader isn’t too shabby. As long as I fixed the printer I got to play games in that class.