Yup, that was what jumped out at me too. Dude was 100% using charity as a cover to surround himself with vulnerable potential victims.

I’d argue your solution is even worse, because that would actively punish players who had received large bonuses. It would also require more optimized builds, leaving little wiggle-room for mistakes. That was already an issue in the original game, because it assumed you were optimizing your characters well; It was very easy to accidentally wreck your character early on because you didn’t optimize your build, and end up getting one-shotted by mud crabs who were 10x stronger than you.

They did fix the leveling. Instead of getting bonuses based on which skills you leveled up, you simply get a flat 12 points to spend every time you level up. It makes for a much more consistent leveling experience. You don’t need to worry about stupid things like missing a +5 because you accidentally gained a level of Acrobatics, or missing out on bonuses entirely because you leveled twice in a dungeon and didn’t have a chance to sleep.

This mod fixes leveled quest rewards. By default, when you finish a quest, the rewards are scaled to your level. So if you go do the Mehrune’s Razor questline at level 1, you now have a level 1 dagger that is super underwhelming. The mod fixes it, so quests give a set reward, instead of scaling to your level. So now if you rush to get Mehrune’s Razor, you actually get a kickass dagger a level 1, which will carry you through combat for a long time.

But also, this is too little too late. Many students have already fled, and those that haven’t will never trust the government again. If you directly threaten someone’s livelihood to the point that they start making international travel plans to get away from you, simply going “oops my bad” isn’t enough to restore their trust.

It will likely have a chilling effect for this entire generation of students.

Mods are fully supported. The EULA is just a boilerplate “lol don’t cry about it to us when your Realistic Sex v4.20.69 mod breaks the game.”

With a 10 being “they’re already supported”? Like an 8 or a 9. Some of the graphical mods obviously won’t work, but the gameplay mods often just need some minor tweaking to point to updated file names. The biggest gameplay changes are primarily with the leveling system, so anything that deals with that will need to be overhauled.

There are already hundreds of mods for it, and Vortex works fine with it. The manual modding process is slightly different, but that’s only because there’s no launcher to select your active files or load order; You need to manually specify that in a .txt file. But Vortex can already edit that .txt file automatically, so you can just change your load order in that.

They even left massively obvious bugs intact, like how the magic store in the Imperial City is permanently locked after getting a certain DLC, because the DLC changes the door’s ownership so the shopkeeper can’t unlock it. The given fix is to stealthily break into the shop with lock picks, (which will get you into trouble with the guards if caught), pickpocket the key from the shopkeeper, (which will get you into trouble with the guards if caught), then use that key to open the front door from now on. Because using the key isn’t considered illegal as long as the store is open. So even though the door is still permanently locked, you can just use the key.

My very first thought was “wow, the pentagon really ran all of their best programmers away and now they’re scrambling.”

It means there are two separate chemicals inside of the building. Each chemical would have their individual labels on their containers, but these external signs are for first responders who haven’t entered the building yet.

Let’s say there’s a fire. The red diamond tells them how likely it is that the chemicals are the cause of the fire, and where they should direct their efforts. The blue corner tells them what kind of PPE they need to use if they enter. The yellow tells them what kind of potential explosive risks the chemicals have. And the white one is especially important, because the W means the chemical reacts with water; If there’s a fire at the facility, they can’t simply use fire hoses to fight it.

The reason for listing them separately is because each individual chemical has its own ratings. You can’t simply take the highest of each and combine them into a single sign. For instance, in this case one chemical isn’t flammable but is explosive when heated. The other chemical is flammable but not explosive. So if you see a chemical on fire, you know it’s the second chemical and isn’t explosive. But if you see something that isn’t burning in a room full of fire, you know it’s a potential powder keg waiting to explode.

Those are hazardous chemical markers. You commonly see them on tanker trucks as well.

The numbers range from 0 to 4, with higher numbers indicating more risk. The red top corner is flammability. The right yellow corner is instability; How likely it is to react with other things around it. The left blue corner is risk to health; Even if a chemical isn’t unstable or flammable, it can still be hazardous. The bottom white is for special markings. In this case, one of those chemicals is marked with a W, meaning it reacts to water.

So if there’s a fire at the warehouse, this tells the responding crew “hey just so you know, there’s some nasty shit in here. One presents a severe health hazard, becomes potentially explosive when heated, and reacts with water… But at least it isn’t flammable. The other is flammable and can present a moderate health risk. Because of the one on the left, it would be a bad idea to use water to fight this fire.”

Yeah, Ada’s modding may be seen as heavy-handed by some, but that’s largely because it’s a reaction to the fact basically nowhere is safe for people who are trans. Maintaining a truly trans-inclusive space requires active heavy-handed moderation, because going easy or remaining passive just leads to transphobes sneaking in.

Try moving it out of your Program Files folder. Some programs don’t do well in those folders, because writing requires admin rights. It looks like the game is trying to do some sort of operation on a game file, and that operation is failing because it can’t actually access the file. Maybe move it to something like C:\Games instead, which won’t require admin rights to access. You probably shouldn’t be installing games to Program Files anyways.

I suppose the quick and dirty way to test would be to run the game as administrator. If that solves the issue, you know it’s likely something to do with Program Files being write-protected.

We’re quickly approaching the soft start of a civil war, if things continue at their current trajectory. And all of the MAGA 2A “fuck yeah let’s do it” people have never had to face the reality of war or the omnipresent threat of guerrilla tactics.

I mean, if they can expect to be treated like a terrorist, they might as well act like it if the repercussions for notacting like it are the same.

I’ve personally had several of my friends say this same thing about how they’d react if ICE ever tried to nab them off the street. Basically “if I’m going to get abducted by the secret police, I might as well make them kill me in the street instead of doing it in a hidden cell. At least then someone might get some cellphone footage to send to the news.” All of them are packing heat 24/7 now.

One dude ghosted everyone about a decade ago. One day he got a phone call while hanging out with some friends, said he had some important family business pop up, and completely vanished. We had tried googling him, but didn’t get anything substantial… Until one of our friends remembered that he always went by his middle name. His legal first name was completely different. So we finally googled using his legal name…

Turns out, he’s doing 30 years for repeatedly raping his underage cousin. We started looking at trial and sentencing dates, and realized he got that phone call about a week before he was initially indicted. So we’re betting it was the cousin coming forward and telling someone, who then called to confront him.

Many people would be surprised/horrified to discover how many people end up majoring in psychology because they personally have massive mental issues.

Oh odd, all of my former classmates who transitioned became programmers.

That was actually where my mind went first too. The big issue with current drones is signal strength and jammers. But if you’re able to just plop a wired signal repeater anywhere you can get a drone, then that solves a lot of the issues with signal strength. The article even mentions that these fiber drones are being used for forested deployments, where trees would normally block signals. But what if you just use the fiber drone as a repeater? Now you can send out your wireless drones without any of the issues of carrying a wire.

Which is exactly why they’re called dog whistles. It’s so only certain people (the ones in the know) are able to find the true message. The entire point is to signal solidarity and find like-minded bigots, without exposing yourself. Because they know that if they just come out and blatantly say it, they’ll face a lot of backlash. So instead, they hide behind dog whistles.