New Vegas is even worse as an open world game because Obsidian really don't have that level design sauce that Bethesda do. If you go for a wander in a random direction, you'll probably just find look at empty desert for five minutes then find a house with nothing in it.

FNV is unfortunately made in the gamebryo engine and it sucks ass. If Obsidian had been given time and permission to make n isometric 2d game like Fallout 1 and 2 it would have been so much better

The animation in this episode is pretty good too if I recall, certainly of the same quality as most other episodes

I had a group of Americans come into my bar a while ago (traditional Irish bar). One of them explained to the others, with a surprising amount of knowledge and a lot of confidence, that I was burning peat on the fire, and peat is harvested bog land which is rich in carbon and makes good fuel.

The best part was that my workplace absolutely cannot afford peat. I was burning broken wooden pallets. But I liked the confidence

I hope it hurts

"Ha! These brainwashed foreigners think we have functional infrastructure, those fools"

The last few weeks sure feel like decades. South Korean martial law, ceasefire with Hezbollah (for now), retreat of SAA, massive defeat for the democrats... big things are happening. Nobody can say that nothing ever happens anymore. Things are now happening

Honestly I thought this would be a slam dunk for Trump after the assassination photo, then he completely failed to capitalize on that, then I thought it would be a slam dunk for Harris, then she did absolutely nothing to make her likeable and got an endorsement from Cheney. How are both presidential candidates so bad at running for president

The first few days of COVID lockdowns, when it was only supposed to be for two weeks, is such an interesting time to look back at. No one in the world knew what was going to happen next

Israel launches strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen

"Our message is clear - for us, no place is too far," - Defence Minister Yoav Gallant

They are 1000000% trying to start an all-out regional war and get the US involved. Iran will be next unless there is retaliation

Ukraine - or rather, the Ukranian people - have already lost the war against Russia by basically every important metric. They have lost tens of thousands of soldiers, millions have emigrated, their domestic assets have been completely sold to and looted by American capitalists, and they are still likely to lose militarily. Ukraine will not recover for decades. But Zelensky and his ilk keep getting richer by selling off the country and the lives of the people to the American war machine, and the American capitalists keep getting richer by having a massive demand for their weapons and gathering information about the Russian military. Just fucking end the war, please.

The effort to bring her into the pantheon of neoliberal heroes was crazy. They had her speak at the UN and meet with so many politicians, and so clearly tried to get her on their side. But she actually has values, so she couldn't become another prop for them. Fucking based.