Oblivion was the only game that came close to how I felt the first time I stepped out of the dungeon and opened the world map of Daggerfall. I couldn't stop making new characters that I wanted to explore the world with.
But Oblivion really was something special too. Felt like an alive fantasy world.
I spent months modding Skyrim to be as realistic as possible. Nutrition, calories, temperature, disease, frostbite, starvation, injuries, infection, no level scaling, dangerous combat, one life. Took a week to gather and prepare for a dungeon dive.
Frost Troll greeted me when I entered the dungeon. One swipe killed me.
That's when I learned that the modding was the part I had the most fun with.
Another tax haven, Luxembourg
I had is only get a small number of licenses to try out. While it has become more useful over the year, it's definitely not worth the $30 a month. Especially on top of the cheaper M365 license. Microsoft has once again missed the mark by filtering everything through its corporate culture.
Do something or go somewhere neither of you has been or done before.
If it's enjoyable for both of you, you win. If it's not fun, you get to bond with each other over not liking it.
People naturally bond when experiencing something together for the first time and feel the same way about it. If you feel the opposite about the experience, then you know you are less likely to be compatible.
The most important part is to be honest about how you feel about the experience, and be honest immediately if you don't like it. "This is terrible, right?"
My marriage is the result of several weeks exploring the town. Other dates were not honest about not liking something, and the relationship didn't last. Wife to be felt the same way about places we tried as I did. If it was a terrible experience and we both thought so, it would bring us closer together just as much as a positive one. In fact, the terrible experiences were sometimes the best because we would laugh together about how bad it was. It's like taking a compatibility test.
Project 2028, Project Projection
Consider the implication of a countries military denying the commands of the officials elected by the civilian population. The military is armed. That would completely destabilize the countries economy and it's security on the world stage. The chain reaction of consequences is terrifying. It's up to the people.
As is halls of torment
Why we should kill each other
The defense budget is basically unlimited
Fair point
Can't wait for engineering, this better be a feature
If you make a box and then complain that nothing fits perfectly into the box you made, it doesn't mean that box shaped things don't exist.