Just keep in mind, you're the one intruding on their environment. Don't use a cat to kill the native birds. We've had many extinct species from us letting our cats out into the environment.

Yeah, that's totally fine if you've actually been open to it and given it a shot! That's great. I just hate when people drink shitty beer (or anything else) and decide they don't like it. You aren't supposed to like those. They're just cheap.

(You can also not want to consume something and not have an opinion on if you like it or not, for those who just want to avoid them for whatever reason you have. That's perfectly good too.)

You start local. I can't help you with that unless you live near me.

Presumably this is referring to using the online portal to use it. I don't trust any of those, Chinese or otherwise. I run it locally.

LMStudio is the current software I use to manage LLMs, and I really like it. There's a user-made app for Android that let's you use it if you're on the same network (or if you set it up to use on the internet) There are other options though.

A lot of people think coffee has one taste. It does not. It isn't all that burnt to hell flavor like you get from Starbucks or most other places. A nice light roast will be more fruity. If you get the chance, I'd recommend trying a naturally processed coffee, which is where the seed is left in the fruit while it ferments and is then removed, so it gets a lot more of the fruit flavors.

I'd also say the same thing for beer, but even more so. Beer is like soup. There's so many different ways to make it with different ingredients. Budweiser, or similar, is what most people try, and it's shit. There's a massive world of beer though, with things like sours that can taste like wine, fruit juice, or candy, to stouts that can have coffee or chocolate notes, and so much more.

You have to have an open mind and explore. There may not be coffee you like (the number of flavors is broad, but still more limited), but I can promise you I could find beer you like. My mom used to say she hates beer, but I've found a good number that she enjoys because there isn't just one flavor.

Someone should make a folding dildo.

You need to get one of those pens with multiple colors, then add a mechanism that can select between them.

It could still connect it to your region. It'd be best to grab one while you're traveling somewhere ideally so even if they trace it it'll take them to a place that's fairly inaccurate.

Yep. I remembering hearing they were going to try to get it back to where you could use keyboard only (though the binds would likely change), but I don't know if that's still the plan. The mouse option is great to have for users who refuse to learn keyboard (or just haven't yet), but it's so much slower, and it also limits what the macro tool can do.

I only used it once a while ago. What doesn't it do that Discord does that you also need?

Yes and no. Part of the issue is that more people wanted more stuff cheaper. These items were expensive, and paying for a few more hours of work didn't substantially effect the price, so they did it. Now, that amount of added work would probably cost the same as the enitre item before it's done, so they don't do it.

When price becomes the primary component of shopping, items become cheaper and craft work becomes (as a ratio to the total cost) more expensive. It's not worth the effort unless you're paying thousands of dollars for it, which those items are still being made but we aren't the customers for them.

Element is almost identical.

https://element.io/

I disagree. It's been done well before. Where Morrowind fails is only in that it doesn't display success or failure well. If your character did an animation where they fumbled their attack, or the enemy dodged or blocked, then it would be fine. Instead you just spam attacks that all look the same but only some make your targets health bar go down.

Feedback is always critical. Instead of implementing proper feedback, Bethesda instead simplified it so they don't have to and all attacks succeed. It still looks and feels bad, but it made it so it doesn't need to show failures.

That's true. It's still on Bethesda, but yeah they could have an agreement. Skyblivion has been in development longer than this though I'm sure, and Bethesda was aware of it and said it was OK, so I'm assuming there's no agreement like that. If there were then Bethesda would have done something that will make them look really bad, which they do tend to do so it is a possibility.

I totally agree. Morrowind gets a lot of hate for it's combat (some deserved), but most of the time it's people not understanding what it's trying to do. You don't complain in BG3 when an attack fails, and that's the same thing Morrowind was doing. It cared about character skills, not player skill.

Yeah, if you create a scrawny character who has never held a blade, grab a dagger, run into a dungeon until you're exhausted, then try to fight then you should miss. The later games, especially Skyrim, not caring about the character makes every playthrough feel the same and no one has a unique experience.

Morrowind needed animations to convey what was happening, but the foundation is very solid. It's just the technology at the time limited it and it didn't communicate what it was doing well.

They don't have any rights to Oblivion as an IP. They've been contracted to make this game and that's where their rights end.

It can't if they've made legally binding agreements, which I would hope that they have.

I know they've said combat is overhauled to be more like Dark Souls. I don't think we know much else though.

I love when people are just totally confident and wrong on things that are well known and easy to find.

That's probably why it's slowly trying to leave us! We need to take better care of it and it might stay!