Well, he has an internet connection. Everything you need to know to hack you can learn online. It’s mainly just knowing the ins and outs of code and how to manipulate it - and basically every language has online courses for it, usually free (always free if you’re a marginally competent pirate and can torrent coding…

Well, you certainly could in HoI2 and HoI3. I don’t know if that functionality exists right now, either through official converters or mods, but I suspect it will in the future.

Well, no, not precisely. It’s not specifically set up as an alt history game. It just can easily go that direction. Just like any other grand strategy Paradox game.

Luke answered, but seriously: anyone. Literally anyone. Did the country exist in the time period you start in? Yes? You can play it.

Back in the days of Hearts of Iron 2, for example, one of my most strangely satisfying and successful campaigns was when I created a South-and-Central American empire... as Haiti.

In fact,…

I mean, I’m a backer and I fully expect to really enjoy this game, but...

...good god that voice acting is terrible. Like, “Makes Mount & Blade voice acting seem award-winning in comparison” levels of terrible.

Personally, my issue is that what they’re doing is basically unprecedented for them. Creating a fully realized and fleshed out major faction, but forcing you to pre-order or pay extra for it? That’s sort of ridiculous. We’re not talking “we revamped the Celtic tribes and are now charging to play as proto-Ireland” in…

As a Radio Shack employee in the late ‘00s, I sold an unopened ham radio from the early 1980s at full retail price. It had been found in a warehouse that was shutting down, and we got a lot of weird crap.

On the other hand, a 1980s ham radio is still perfectly functional, and full retail price was lower on account of…

God damn it, Kevin J. Anderson!

...bloggers can be reporters, and reporters can be bloggers. They’re not even remotely mutually exclusive. Reporters are not specific to newspapers or broadcast journalism. If they report on the news, then they’re reporters. This is news. He’s reporting on it. He’s a reporter. He just happens to be reporting by way of…

Look at the bright side: you learned to use cover!

You don’t even need to wear the outfit. At all. The only time it matters is during dialogue. So, if you want the best possible story but the least chance of death, you can wear your normal gear while killing things and then switch back into the outfit during conversations.

Well... it is post-apocalyptic. But no zombies, or aliens, or anything like that. Just, at some point in the past, society fell.

Banish her to Spectacle Island. It’s what I did. It’s big enough that you can fast travel there and she’ll be wandering around on the other side of the island and will never speak to you. It’s also where Preston is.

As one of the (apparently) very few people who actually preferred to play New Vegas with Hardcore Mode on, I can’t wait. I especially like the fact that the no fast travel thing suddenly makes the Vertibird flares incredibly useful. I’m wondering how they’ll handle the Institute teleporter, though - maybe you have to…

Yes. DOSBox is pure emulation. Your actual hardware/operating system doesn’t matter outside of being able to run DOSBox itself.

...and the award for “Most Brutal Sucker Punch of a Kicker” goes to this article right here!

Sandbox, through and through. There is story, but it’s much more of a background metaplot thing. Though to the credit of the devs, the actions of players can directly affect and change the meta.

Incidentally, you don’t have to go back to Preston. After a while of sitting in your quest log, the quest will auto-complete, provided you’ve told the settlers themselves.

...wait, where in the world did you get that she hates Fallout 4? The most she’s said is that it’s a great game, but not a good Fallout game. Which is both true and not at all the same thing as saying she hates it.

Yeah, 1 Liberty Prime would have been a reasonable fight. 10 is beyond overkill.