Very kind of you 💚

I'm not particularly fond of how the skin turned out. The texture of the model and the contrast paint I used for it ended up sort of grainy. I'd also have liked to make his blades look better, but that was the smoothest I was able to get them.

Still, the bits of skin enhancement on the knuckles, lips, and ears, I quite like. I also found that I really like Vallejo's Strong Tone, so that was nice. Also, the model looks far better in person!

I changed my first name in part because of this kind of nonsense. In the old days companies would refer to you as Mr. Surname, these days they're gross and chummy. Stay in your lane, we're not friends, you can use my paperwork name that I have no emotional connection to.

I only played through the second one but the thing that got me was just how ambitious it was. It ruined many other games for me as I was left thinking "Where's the rest of the game?".

I was going to guess Vindolanda, but they don't have trees like that in the valley.

The opening act of Little Big Adventure 2 gets my vote.

Housesteads?

Odd idiom to take issue with...

I don't think I've ever signed anything when a card is involved. Cheques back when they were a thing, sure, but they were all but irrelevant fifteen years ago.

The French do not fuck around when it comes to strike action. Hang those execs out to dry.

Something I've not seen anyone else comment on Fallout 4 is that the voiced protagonist could have been used to fill in the world.

As in, when I visited the remains of Boston airport, it'd be great if my character could talk to themselves (or voice effect to imply thoughts) about how s/he had memories there. Give me a feeling for their life before they were frozen.

The spore lore was only implemented in 1997. Before that their reproduction worked differently.

Is there a single canonical citation for this? It feels like a meme.

Which Ork models have nipples?

I can't say my knowledge of the current range is exhaustive, but I can't think of a single model that has one from the 1998 - 2016 era. There's a runtherd with a piercing where a nipple would be, but no nipple.

How long are they planning to be hamstrung by the tech debt they've accrued? Sooner or later they're going to have to do something about it, surely?

Their games all look the same, in that it's always obvious that it's a Bethesda-engine game (whatever they're calling it this week). They're always janky, usually at least a console generation behind their contemporaries, and they always feel held together with duct tape and prayers.

Playing their games is an exercise in sighing and trying to ignore the jank. Everything always feels like it's wheezing along and trying to do anything beyond the obviously intended actions is likely to cause instability in the quest scripting.

I'm reminded of how Deus Ex players would try something only to find that the game was built to take that into account and allow for it. It's the opposite of how it feels playing Bethesda's games.

This takes me back to How to Kill a Brand in the PS3 era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfmBzllkbUM

I played through it on my Xbox One X some years ago and had fun with it. It didn't run at 60 fps, but 2160p30 was a very cinematic experience regardless.

Edit - here's a screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/nQcge1u.jpeg

I'd completely forgotten about that TV show. I watched all of it, so that's rather telling.

-There's a good chance you can beat Nintendo, but you've got to visualize how you're going to win, okay?
-Gotcha...
A CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT HAS APPARENTLY FELLED NINTENDO'S LAWYER MOMENTS BEFORE THEY COULD STEP INTO THE COURTROOM

To quote Bernard Black: "Well expect away!"

I wish, I wish I hadn't killed that fish.