Promiseland

[Fetian]

Weird touch I appreciate, that I don't know is original to the remaster or was in the old version, is that doors only open one way instead of always opening away from you

[Fetian]

Alright, I've taken my final exam. First try got 54/69, reviewed what I got wrong, re-took it and got 69/69. There's a couple of essay questions I can do for extra points, and I may go back and do that, but I'm getting an A no matter what I do and the rubric doesn't go up to A+ -- I'm at minimum getting 91.91% in this class. Still I feel a little bad checking out as hard as I've done -- I don't know if I mentioned but since the lowest scores on discussion board posts are getting dropped anyway I just didn't bother doing the last one at all, I'm ending the class with four missing assignments -- and it could be interesting to think about and articulate those thoughts on the essay topics.

That said, excepting the potentiality of doing that extra credit, I am done with this class! I was pretty disappointed with it, honestly. I didn't learn very much and I found the quality kind of lacking -- typos and missing words everywhere. But I have squirrelled away all the resources from it, aside from the lectures which I may go through and grab

Anyway, it got late while I was doing that so I'm going to go get ready for bed.

[erikavonkaiser]

I did not play it and don't plan to! My first Elder Scrolls was Skyrim so the nostalgia factor doesn't grab me, and I currently get my Bethesda RPG itch scratched by ESO.

I did watch Sophie play maybe the first hour of it, though!

My impression of the graphics is that I'm glad they didn't waste a bunch of time completely restructuring the faces/people but also..........good lord they are very unpleasantly doughy???? and the mouth/eye ratio is equally unpleasant???? ick

I also agree chasing photorealistic textures is boring and a waste of time/money/processing power/hard drive space, I will be impressed by the grass flowing in the wind for a few minutes and then likely not notice again

[Fetian]

Ah, I must have misunderstood something! Of the more retro-y Elder Scrolls it's definitely the easiest to pick up (much as I love Morrowind) so I do recommend it if you ever change your mind, but if you watched an hour of it and it didn't grab you I don't blame you for not throwing $50 at it

Then again even if you were interested I'd probably recommend just throwing the $15 down for the original version, or I think the remaster is currently on gamepass? But yeah, it's not like any of us are lacking games to be playing these days, I'm sure

[Fetian]

Oof ouch owie my everything

[erikavonkaiser]

also Sophie thought you were gr8

[Fetian]

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this would fix me

[Fetian]

I need to be fed through a pasta maker

[Fetian]

Can't sleep, brain's too full

[Fetian]

I'm very sad, there are no more cherries left on the tree. I wasn't going out there because I didn't want to risk bringing pests back into the house -- I've been suspicious that the detritus under the tree from not raking this season was a, if not the, source of the flea problem -- and now I've missed out completely. I've been waiting two years for those cherries, I even bought a fruit picker to get some of the higher-up ones, and now I'll have to wait another two years, if we even still live here and the tree still exists in that time.

Super, super bummed.