I take Amtrak frequently up and down the west coast for a couple reasons:

This is a fair point - it seems like it’s for the user but it’s more about dev outreach, maybe to justify that 30% cut.

Do you have some sort of wide-range weapon, like the chem launcher, that’s doing it? Because they’re skittish and run away and thankfully the drone and turret won’t target them. I guess if you’re using an LMG you could get some collateral.

I don’t care about who’s ‘evil’ or not here, and EGS is certainly very primitive at the moment. My point is that the Steam client is a long neglected, terrible UI piece of junk that they’ve had over a decade to make tolerable and haven’t. And they have billions of dollars, so money and resources aren’t an excuse.

Yeah, I’m sure there’s a lot of behind the scenes activity, but it’s interesting that right after Epic Store starts eating Steam’s lunch they suddenly announce one of the few user centered client upgrades we’ve seen in a long time. As a user, the client is primitive, long-neglected, ugly crap that needs a complete…

Yes, even if the company has been terrible I start resolutely polite. Usually it gets taken care of, maybe because they’re so relieved to be dealing with someone who’s not attacking them.

‘OHSHI Epic Games store guess we better get back to work on this heap o junk’

Apparently only when you hit lvl 30 and now you’re in the ‘play forever’ phase.  I thought for sure one of mine flipped after I totally neglected it, but other people say that doesn’t happen in early game.

Yeah, they have their little patrols that go out and resupply.

They run away as soon as they notice you, so you’d never get close enough to pet them without shooting them first - though it’d be nice to have pettable dogs at the settlements!

All dogs in this game just run away as soon as they notice you.  If they were Far Cry animals, yes, all must die - just because they attack on sight.

They don’t explain this very well at all (a lot of things aren’t explained well at all, like how to respond to those stupid ‘Agent needs assistance!’ popups), but if you don’t resupply control points they will eventually be re-taken by the bad guys when their resources hit zero.

I noticed this early on - a deer on the road, and suddenly I have a dilemma. I want to know if shooting a deer will actually kill it. But I don’t want to shoot the poor deer - it’s got enough problems.

Yes, got it on my shelf - and now I see prices for that have spiked.

It’s a joke because in Soviet times the official newspaper was named Pravda - which yes, means truth, but it was mostly lies.  Worse than the Daily Mail.

Supposedly they are, but the goal is for it to be built entirely in the US and they’re having trouble finding parts.

Using modern experiences, it seems like once you had a mega-society it would be inevitable that eventually some greedy/crafty ruler(s) or advisor(s) realized that a god whose policy is ‘The King is My chosen one, do whatever he says. Oh yeah, and work hard and be peaceful and I’ll make you wealthy.’ is a great way to…

Yellow is the Sun, blue is the earth, green is the asteroid, purple is Hayabusa 2.

Also on that temperature map, you could probably find a spot that wasn’t too hot or too cold. But you’d have no water or air and it’d be pretty boring.

And by ‘fake news’ we mean ‘real news’, Comrade. There is only Pravda.

Buying games on Stadia is right out, because I don’t think they’ll last 5 years (if 2).