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Frankly, I think it's just an honest mistake. I wouldn't call it "libshit". Veganism carries all of the hallmarks of the things I dislike about the Religious Right, religious zeal bleeding into policy decisions until "I think it's immoral" becomes "the world will fall apart without it".

I see no difference between that and the "sex before marriage ruins families" attitudes, or some middle-eastern countries' reasons for banning alcohol. Etc.

I'm approaching that, but I have to admit I take my time and revisit towns a lot.

I've only gone to a dozen dungeons so far that were hand-crafted. There were literally hundreds of them in Skyrim. I'd love to get real numbers.

So far, I am enjoying the hell out of the game, if my lack of twitch reflexes is hurting that a lot. I keep having to juggle between ship upgrades (my Mantis keeps dying to small fleets more than 10 levels lower than me) and face-to-face. Usually by now in other Bethesda games, dying is rare. I'm too stubborn to drop the difficulty, though, so I suppose that's on me.

There's a pirate fleet in orbit around the planet I want to build my first output. Last 5 times I tried to go there, fleet keeps showing up and killing me. That's somewhat annoying.

My experience is that the college foundation I got over 20 years ago is still incredibly useful as a developer, architect, and manager.

That said, the thing you need to learn the most is how to constantly keep up with the changes in technology, and my college at least did an ok job at that.

Did a shit job helping me get my first job, though.

Some folks say there's only about 25 hours of handcrafted stuff. I'm not late enough in to know for sure.

I had agoraphobia growing up. I know exactly what it is. And I had moments of it exploring the planets. I found myself hugging to keep buildings in range and not wanting to stray out into the great wide open. For some odd reason, I got more of that in Starfield than in NMS.

I'm also still fairly early into the game, so perhaps I'll spend more time indoors than I have so far.

EDIT, also, it kinda is the opposite of claustrophobia in some ways. There are some overlaps and nuances (both fears sometimes include fear of crowds). I had a grandparent with really bad claustrophobia who never used an elevator in her life. Ironically, we could relate on a lot. But they were still opposite issues.

While I agree, I've been saying that about NMS for years. Not that we want to be comparing Starfield to NMS, of course.

So far, Starfield is exactly like Skyrim in space to me. There's as many carefully crafted cities, and quite a few carefully crafted locales. There's just a lot more space in Starfield (estimated about 500x more. Skyrim is 15sq miles, and those 1000 planets are each a couple square miles ingame). Sounds like there may be less hand-crafted content in Starfield than Skyrim, but that's hard to tell.

I'm definitely not finding Starfield to be claustrophic. On the contrary, a bit agoraphobic.

All that makes sense. I remember him defending P2W action games. And I did stumble onto a reaction video of him laughing at random things that CP2077 thought of but weren't in Starfield. Fair enough.

With the exception of a few of the "grad" communities, Lemmy has just been a whole lot less toxic. I don't deny occasionally slipping back into reddit for exactly two subs that don't seem to have any chance of taking off in Lemmy. But Lemmy has really killed my reddit urge permanently. Every time I enter reddit, I see a message trolling or attacking me or whatever.

Asmongold gets on my nerves despite the fact he usually has well-conceived opinions. Offhand, do you have a summary of what his complaints are?

Except that nuclear isn't the only, or even the cheapest, alternative to fossil fuels.

I know this is the wrong server to say it, but there were some things I liked about Hillary. I am still convinced that her gender played far more of a role in people's hatred of her than they will ever be able to accept.

Yes, she's still a neo-liberal, but she's further left than most of the Democrats, and we consistently see that the supermajority of non-Republican voters are simply not as progressive as most of us are. Hillary had a well-conceived labor plan and respected unions. She liked the idea of single-payer, if not enough to spend too much political capital on it. She was left of Obama and of Biden, if still to the right of her "progressive" so-called roots.

Here's my non-opinionated counterpoint. Trump bested Hillary on Labor when his plan was "kick out immigrants and deregulate coal so you get your dangerous job back", and she had a 100 page labor plan that involved things like subsidized retraining of coal workers. The Democrats have learned that you will not win Labor by favoring them. A bad lesson.