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Python team was ~10 people I think

The lake is actually ~99% on Norwegian territory, it's just a tiny edge on the end that's given to Sweden and Finland. We once tried to give Finland a mountain peak though (for their 100th anniversary of independence from Russia), but the constitution states the kingdom is indivisible so the legal work was deemed too much. It would have been their highest peak if it went through.

Buggy like most ambitious open world games, but still perfectly playable. It certainly lived up to expectations, it was one of the most praised games of its time, more than what I've seen about BG3. Granted I don't follow the industry as closely as I did back then.

Just because you didn't like 1 and 2 doesn't mean they didn't live up to expectations. CDPR was nobody before witcher 1 and a small studio before 2, so I really don't get how they didn't live up to expectations for those two games.

In what bizzaro world did the witcher series fail to live up to expectations? The first one was a masterclass of atmosphere and had zero expectations, the second were just fine and the third one still is the gold standard for quest design in open world games.

What's up with that one bad episode in season 6?

Damn. NHS struggling feels like being half the news coming out from the UK, but I never expected it to be this bad.

I feel like it's hard to truly comprehend the scale of pictures like this. They always make the world look so small.

I thought Fangorn was dangerous.

'Dangerous!' cried Gandalf. 'And so am I, very dangerous: more dangerous than anything you will ever meet, unless you are brought alive before the seat of the Dark Lord. And Aragorn is dangerous, and Legolas is dangerous. You are beset with dangers, Gimli son of Glóin; for you are dangerous yourself, in your own fashion. Certainly the forest of Fangorn is perilous — not least to those that are too ready with their axes; and Fangorn himself, he is perilous too; yet he is wise and kindly nonetheless.

I guess it's up to interpretation, but personally I interpret that as dangerous as in lethality. Only Sauron had the power to best Gandalf the White in direct confrontation.

Considering what Fingolfin did to Morgoth, you'd think so. Gandalf claimed he was the most dangerous person on Middle-Earth save for the dark lord himself though, which would imply he still held more power than the likes of Galadriel.

The new generation? I remember this stuff happening 15 years ago. People were camping outside before big game releases and had an incentive to ensure they got a copy of the game. The new generation that only buys digital is not to blame for the practice taking hold.

This is the landscape you will be mostly driving through

And the further north you get the worse the road conditions will be, not to mention parts of the "highway" up there goes through the towns with lower speed limit. People up north likes to joke about the infrastructure being bad up there just to slow down Russia if they ever decide to invade.

On the plus side, it's a beautiful road trip to make. Much more enjoyable than driving down south near the capital where it's less mountainous but better highway.

I'd also like to point out that 29 hours is 1 day and 5 hours, so not that far off from the fastest route if you go through Sweden.

They would be pretty far apart though

Eight space indentation should be crime, I'm not made out screen width over here.

If you want to be strict with indentation, use tabs as your standard instead of forcing others to use your preferred visual width.

Fastest route from south of Norway to north of Norway would be through Sweden and take you 1 day and 6 hours, if you want to stay in Norway for the whole route it would take you 1 day and 11 hours. Driving to Rome would be faster.

https://i.imgur.com/qPXeDeN.png

It's a shame, but people are asking for it when they buy, and therefore support, these kind of games. If people simply refused to buy always-online games, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Larian doesn't lock your save files to an online server. You can jump into appdata and save scum manually even in honour mode.

Even my 60 year old mother who needs tech support for her iPhone every other month had no problems setting up a matrix account when I asked her to use it instead of sms.

What are your issues Matrix?

Lol, alright dude

Your preference doesn't dictate what's industry standard is my point. It would be like someone only playing exclusively Total War games claiming the Warscape Engine is industry standard, sounds pretty stupid doesn't it.

The last AAA game I bought was Fallen Order,

A shame you missed out on Baldurs Gate 3 then. Alan Wake also got great criticism.

"ignoring the major players in the industry"

UE5 had turned into the standard whether you like it or not. I personally don't like the engine, but that doesn't mean I'll lie about its position in the market, and neither should you. You aren't doing Godot any favours with it