There are detailed in-world explanations for precisely where the magic comes from, who gets it, why, and how it relates to other physical systems.

It’s as much sci-fi as warp drives, planet cities, telecommunications aliens, ancient AIs, and space pirates…

Anyways, enjoy this quote:

There really is nothing to fear in fantasy unless you are afraid of the freedom of uncertainty. This is why it’s hard for me to imagine that anyone who likes science can dislike fantasy. Both are based so profoundly on the admission of uncertainty, the welcoming acceptance of unanswered questions. Of course the scientist seeks to ask how things are the way they are, not to imagine how they might be otherwise. But are the two operations opposed, or related?

Ursula K. Le Guin, “It Doesn’t Have To Be the Way It Is,” June 2011; collected in No Time to Spare (2017)

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/28-it-doesnt-have-to-be-the-way-it-is

Souls is just a polished version of kings field, so having played them all, I’m qualified to say it’s a major step up in the series

Yes, it’s easily the best of the three.

You owe it to yourself to borrow an oculus from a 14 year old and play Alyx.

We truly are in the Dreamcast vs. N64 years of VR gaming.

That was in 2011, 15 years ago.

It takes a little over 10 years to recognize that a game (or anything really) was revolutionary. You have to wait until all of the chaff has been forgotten, leaving only the revolutionary games behind.

Here are some of my top picks for what folks will look back on when they right the 2025-2035 had no good games version of your post.

Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. Vampire survivors. Hades. Elden Ring. Disco Elysium.

And one which will probably be a cult classic/sleeper hit: Return of the Obra Dinn.

Just for a start.

Easier to start with the plain truth, something you can see with your own eyes, and work your way to the subtler arguments.

https://archive.org/details/earth_not_a_globe_review_1893-1897_201804/mode/1up

The best part is, this dumb cheater has strictly reduced their odds of victory. This is bait.

Ah, that’s your problem, you’re buying Dell and HP laptops, which start off as e-waste. Their batteries have thermal issues while they’re still on the factory line and their laptop power supplies are engineered to die no more than 3 minutes after the warranty expires.

We’re probably talking past each other. I recommend switching to ASUS.

You’re arguing that something I’ve been doing for over a decade can’t be done.

Why? Look at my perspective. On one hand, I have 10+years of lived experience doing this thing, on the other hand there’s internet guy who says it can’t be done?

Just compare a mini-pc to a entry level laptop with the same specifications from any manufacturer.

An Asus NUC with no disk or ram and an Intel 250 (celeron) uses 65W of power and starts around $300. It has 2 cores at 1.8ghz and costs go up from there.

From the same manufacturer at the same time, I can find over 300 laptop SKUs at the below $300 price point to choose from including the entry level zenbook 14, which, in addition to being complete (having ram is nice) packs a significantly more powerful processor and only uses 45W.

Ok bro, you’re wrong and laptops haven’t come with removable batteries since before OP was born (probably).

Of course, I also took the lead acid batteries out of my ancient laptops before I e-wasted them and went down to the sock-hop and dinosaur ride.

Not sure, the battery doesn’t really get cycled, it doesn’t get hot, I have a few which are going strong after 10+ years (the useful life of the hardware).

It’s not a hypothetical for me.

I usually pick up the cheapest non-chromebook laptop I can find and put Linux on it.

There are a couple key advantages here:

1. It’s very cheap.
2. Battery Backup included.
3. Monitor and keyboard included.
4. Power efficient by design.
5. Available all the time from any vendor.
6. You can take it with you, update your server on the couch and slap it back on the rack.
7. Virtually any configuration you want in candy colors.
8. Did I mention these are very cheap?

It can be a bit tricky to find one with Ethernet and two SSDs is kinda exotic (especially because you could get two whole laptops for the cost of some NAS enclosures) but there are over 3000 different models under $300 on Amazon, I’m sure you can find something good.

I have always respected him the more because I know that he dislikes flattery as much as he deserves it. (Voltaire)

Not central, just suspicious, but… this is ‘house’ as in astrological house as in the first part of the word ‘horoscope’, not house like a house you live in.

My background in linguistics consists of a couple chompsky soft-science books and a love of tolkien, but if you actually know something and wanna chat I’d honestly love to dig in on this seriously. DM me.

My pet theory is (circa 10000 BCE) that ‘houses’ and ‘hours’ are related words, the 12 hour clock matched the zodiac, each hour/house was 1 Assyrian ‘watch’ and they had no trouble day or night (constellations at night, sundial during the day), they were easy to build, easy to communicate, easy to understand and efficient.

Then the Egyptians stole the technology (Circa 6000BCE) said ‘12 hours in a day? I got you bro’, fucked it up and it all went downhill from there.

Feel free to quote me in your prize winning scientific paper.