Oh yeah, I’m totally aware of that. I was more thought spinning a from the ground up redesigned remake taking advantage of knowing how far the tech and design knowledge has come. Change up the levels, mechanics, and weapons design with a profession game developer level of resources while still using a fairly retro engine and keeping the original spirit.

It’s a good thing to have the game faithfully remastered, though part of me does wonder what a more ambitious remake might have looked like.

Issues like the imprecise aiming seem like artifacts of having to work around the original game’s limitations. I don’t know how different the Jedi engine is to the Build engine, as they seem superficially similar. Seeing games like Ion Fury being made on the Build engine makes me curious how a from the ground up remake of Dark Forces on an improved Jedi or Build engine, with some unshackling in terms of redesigning game mechanics with lessons learned while still keeping the original atmosphere might have gone.

But I understand that’s a lot of money and dev time that’s way beyond the scope of these kinds of remasters.

Or more recently (and I suppose in the same wheelhouse as the topic at hand), Hunter Biden’s pardon was a blanket pardon for any potential crimes that may have been committed on January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024. It wasn’t just for what he had specifically been charged with at the time.

In FO1 you can’t push companions or tell them to move. If they block you in somewhere sometimes you end up stuck.

Oh yes. That’s totally different. I once did a 1 INT run. My character was too dumb to gamble, even with mentats.

Though sometimes I like playing a dumbass, too.

Can you elaborate? Are all combat playthroughs the dumbass way?

Yeah, but I’m thinking of multiple super mutants in a room. I’m not sure how you keep Dogmeat from dying. You’d basically have to alpha strike to keep him from being shredded in the crossfire by any of the minigun fire directed at you.

FWIW, I mostly commonly solo with a high luck, high AP sniper build with a Special Edition BB gun. It can fire three times a turn and not uncommonly one-hit kills super mutants. Even then I get a little return fire back which I assume would shred Dogmeat.

If meetings are happening so long and going in so frequently that nobody can make sense of them without an ai summary, might I suggest there are too many meetings?

I say this as someone who used to work at a place that had meetings about meetings to figure out why so much time was wasted in meetings.

For professional settings, I understand the theoretical appeal of ai writing. A lot of people don’t like writing emails, but they have to for work. Many of those same people fret about tone or presentation, because silly office politics reasons (real or one-sidedly imagined in their heads.)

The solution, really is workplaces just need to cut down on the useless drivel emails and people need to be ok with short, no frills emails.

By the end game areas, I am surprised you still find Dogmeat being useful, and especially so much that he’s important to combat planning.

Elaborate.

His eyes are portals to the laser dimension. Comics are weird.

In Fallout 1?

Big naturals.

Not fond of repeating myself, but:

Sometimes temp to hire works out, but in my experience only if the temp period is short as a probation period or if there is writing that after “x” time as a temp they either let you go or bring you on full time. Preferably both things.

told by HR that maybe after 6 months they would consider bringing me on FT.

Oh honey.

You should talk to the manager about it, but I suspect they will hem and haw, and say something vaguely about looking into it without providing you with any specifics.

Companies hire temps and dangle the “well maybe we’ll hire you some day” out there to string them along.

Sometimes temp to hire works out, but in my experience only if the temp period is short as a probation period or if there is writing that after “x” time as a temp they either let you go or bring you on full time. Preferably both things.

If I were you, I’d start tuning up your resume and sending it out now. If your current job comes through then nothing really lost, and if your job isn’t actually interested in making you an employee then you should spend this employed time to look for a job without the stress of no income.

I know of a great way to get gear early in the first STALKER game, but everyone hates me for it.

All you have to do is goad the military into getting into a firefight with the rookie camp and hide in the shop until the shooting is over and the military loses interest. Lots of dead rookie gear to sell, and at least a few dead soldiers to provide some mid-game rifles early.

Hyundai is doing some relevant things.