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There's some zero G combat areas you can come across. Like other Bethesda games, the main quest isn't where you have the best interactions.

Level up the ship building skills and turrets will kill in space battles sometimes too fast. I rarely get the chance to board and steal the ships unless I scale back and turn off weapons.

If you want to stay in the game, you can target planets and moons from the cockpit to travel without opening up the Star map. Only scanning has to bring up the map. Random space encounters can be more enjoyable than some of the Fallout 4 ones.

Just be careful not to kill the nice granny

Maybe they should pony up for another Trent Reznor score.

Don't worry, we'll let you become Americans. How does the state of North Montana sound?

Virtual Boy, it was a love-hate VR experience. Red wire-frames was very Cyberpunk.

I grew up dirt poor without healthcare until I got to the Army aat 18.

I've gone through many infections without antibiotics. Nearly died from sepsis once because I didn't go to the ER until the line in my arm was halfway to my shoulder.

Aren't they just following the ATF's example? The last people caught and never prosecuted were the ATF coopting a New Mexico gun store to smuggle weapons to Mexico.

Let's make sure he's just another nearly headless Tim...

You do understand that the parties we have today started as third parties 100+ years ago?

I would say, one of the most American things to do is to found another party when the original party loses their way.

We are already in the third presidential election where anyone to the left of corporate-neoliberalism are being pushed to ignore their own principles to keep the party at the status quo.

As bad as the Republican Party has been recently, slavery would still be around if people in the 1850's kept voting Whig to keep the slave-loving Democrats in check. The main problem with voting has been voter suppression and how somebody who has to work multiple jobs or extended hours can even find a place to vote.

Make every state run the Colorado mail-in election process and you will find that we might be able to actually vote away a lot of garbage and have fair elections with large enough voting numbers to possibly spit both parties.

I always say that personally, voting for the lesser of two evils still has people voting for evil. I still vote, but propping up the two-party system shouldn't be the only reason to keep the status quo.

I survived on one meal a day at McDonald's when I was stuck doing day labor in Seattle around the 2002 crash.

Back then it was actually cheap to get enough food to survive on for under 5 bucks. I remember the 20 cheeseburger and hamburger deals they had twice a week.

The price increases to cheeseburgers really hurts, when that was usually my main dollar menu deal.

TL/DR: I tested out of almost 3 years of High School classes in a week to graduate. The next year the canceled the program to test out of subjects you knew.

I went to an alternative style high school and spent my sophomore and junior years doing no real work. I spent most of my time managing the business computer lab and doing special projects with the Physics and Chemistry teacher.

A lot of learning IT was what I learned by doing in those computer labs. I even was part of a group that created a PowerPoint Presentation with manual animation to help secure some funding for the school.

I also showed them their flaws in the grading system when I hacked into their electronic database system showing how easily it was trying to help my friend out when he was accused of changing his grades. Because of that, they banned me from using any computer unsupervised and moved everything in the labs back to Windows 3.1, after I had moved everything to Windows 95.

The problem was that all testing was done on their computer systems, and I was effectively banned from being able to finish the 2+ years I was missing. I ended up dropping out to work tech support at a local dial-up ISP that was at a computer store. When that fell through, because I was unprepared to manage the entire tech support group at 17 I signed up to join the Army.

The Army needed me to have a High School diploma, so I needed to go back to the school with only a month

I found out that they allowed you to test out of each module if you believed you knew the subject. If you passed the final exams, you got to have that grade in the .125 credit module. 8 tests per semester class. If you failed the test, you had to redo all the actual work.

I ended up doing 8 hours a day of supervised testing, since I was still banned from touching a computer without a teacher watching. It took about a week to take every test for 3 years of High School so I could graduate. I missed graduation because I shipped out once I secured the paperwork saying I was going to graduate.

The next school year they didn't allow people to test out of classes. You were required to do all of the homework before taking the exams.

I had an issue with him finishing the Wheel of Time series.

He doesn't have the same grasp of description that Jordan had. That is the same problem I have with the Amazon Prime adaptation. The series adaptation is taken by people who haven't really been immersed in the books.

In the book The Great Hunt Thom opines about the idea of players acting out stories vs. the oral storytellers. In reading the original Jordan books his descriptions make you see every blade of grass and feel the wind on top of the towers.

I do admit Jordan drags on at times, especially during Lord of Chaos, but some people enjoy the more descriptive words over the simplistic writing.

He's not a bad writer, but I'm not a big fan of his style

I worked in a semiconductor plant. There isn't any special skill to it. You have a list that you do and nowadays the robots actually do all the difficult work.

In my time, you had to check and calculate by hand the offsets for the lithography machines. Now with it being done in self-contained robots because of the radiation x-ray process, a person just manages the robots.

Also, why isn't the new Intel plant being built having the same issues with qualified workers?

I personally think it's stupid to build a high water using plant in the middle of a desert, when the area hasn't ever monitored the water table.

Such a great movie. So many things to think about after watching.

Sadly whenever I tried to get people to see it, they took the government side. Spending my High School years in Utah was horribly stifling.

Because it's always been a rich vs. poor issue. He now loves the police because he can afford special treatment.

So happy we get to keep Peterson as the main Space Force base. All the infrastructure is already here and it looks like Colorado Springs won the Climate Change lottery with having daily rain since June instead of crushing heat that the Southeast has gotten.

Everything is just so green and wet here in Colorado Springs, while every other place burns.

I kind of miss those old Usenet days. Being 16 and waiting most of the night for a picture to load was great.

Back when I made sure to download the progressive JPEG, because loading single line top to bottom was hell. Unless there was a chance that the phone would be picked up, then I wanted regular JPEG, because then when I lost connection I still would have most of a picture.

You never knew what you were going to get.

I just really noticed how mild and wet this summer has been in Colorado Springs. As expensive as it is to live here, we're not roasting to death like the Southeast.

Plus we keep getting all of the regional fast food in one location.

Stargate SG-Fallout.

Probably froze overnight while sleeping. Between hypothermia and malnutrition, sometimes people just never wake up.

Just need mandatory retirement at 70 maximum. Term limits have too many downsides. We just need to make them ineligible when they're too old to think clearly.