Main menu only.

That’s the default string in the game files. It’s normally matched to a localization strings table in the game’s data directory, but you most likely have it replaced by a mod designed for an earlier version of the game, before the Creation Club-specific strings were added. I believe the old-style dialogue menu mod…

This mod is entirely pointless. I totally understand being irritated by the way Bethesda implemented the Creation Club, but this “mod” doesn’t do anything that just deleting the preloaded files would do.

The Apple IIGS was amazing. A GUI that surpassed the Mac’s (with full color, at that) and was more extensible, audio and video hardware that was legitimately impressive for the mid-1980s, and full backwards compatibility with the entire Apple II line of software? It should have killed the Mac in its infancy and…

I don’t think the Borg and the Cybermen are even really speaking to the same concepts/fears, honestly. The Cybermen are fundamentally about the erosion of humanity. They were created out of Kit Pedler’s (who had a medical backround) insecurities surrounding the then-emergent field of organ transplant and artificial…

That’s always been an issue with the Cybermen. They’re invariably presented as a more or less uniform height. But they’re also actively converting humans, who tend to vary in height quite a bit. You pretty much need to assume the conversion proccess evens out their height somehow to make sense of it.

Trying to insist that FA2 didn’t look dry and arid all over, in spite of having more plantlife than the first game, is just banging your head against wall.

Oh, and to return my original point, which was less about water per se and more about vegetation (though of course the two concepts are closely related), Fallout 4 even has rain and thunderstorms in-game. Which means that it’s that much harder to rely on lack of water as an explanation for the general lifelessness of…

And they could have had more if they felt the need for it. Since even the most fertile regions in both games are relatively arid, there was no need.

Yes, the footprint of the trees is an engine limitation, but they could have made the leafy parts as big as they liked, and just render them transparent like they do with walls, when you pass behind them.

The size of the trees is pretty clearly down to limitations of the engine. Look at Vault City: it’s canonically described as a lush oasis (and actually has the only green grass in the game). It also has the same trees as everywhere else, and, if anything, in less concentration than places like Klamath.

I honestly think you’re misremembering the game. The ground is brown in most places (probably due to the aforementioned drought), but there are trees all over the place.

They also shot those films almost universally in deserts and sandpits to keep the budget low. The sandy wasteland look is extremely common in that genre.

1950s pulp science generally associated radiation with runaway, cancerous growth, not lifelessness and desertification. It was the era of giant insects, lizards, and the Amazing Colossal Man, after all.

I’ve always compared Electro from Amazing Spider-Man 2 to the villains from Tim Burton’s Batman films. He’s broadly inspired by the comic book original, but with so many alterations to character and motivation that it almost feels misleading to say that he’s directly adapted from it.

Wait, Oberon’s dead? Oh god damn it. He was one of my favorite comic book supporting characters, going back to his appearances in Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis’s old Justice League International/Justice League America book. Now I’m all depressed.

Yep. The Game Boy Color remakes were among the final North American releases to sport the “Dragon Warrior” moniker, before someone else’s “Dragonquest” trademark expired and Enix could finally synchronize the Japanese and worldwide names.

There’s a similar bit of wackiness in the first episode of Spearhead from Space, Pertwee’s first story. But in both cases it’s a bit ambiguous. Other than a very brief bit of clutching his head in Power of the Daleks it’s not clear that the second Doctor isn’t just toying with his companions. And the third Doctor is…

Hurndall: Bless his heart, he tried.

Yeah. Specifically, Baker was concerned that keeping his schedule open in order to do a regeneration story would have meant that he’d have had to pass up on other work, and he (quite reasonably) wasn’t able or willing to make that kind of financial sacrifice for a show that had treated him like rubbish.