I run into that same issue from time to time. Another one I run into is when I click on items on the task bar it doesn’t bring it up as the active window even when everything else is working. I have to ALT+tab to bring up any Window or minimize every window just to find the one I want and it is absolutely infuriating.

I use windows 10 at home while I use windows 11 at work. The only thing I like about windows 11 is tabs in the file explorer. Besides that I’ve had to deal with Windows Explorer crashing on a daily basis, task bar freezing completely multiple times a week, certain software straight up not working that I need to get work done, programs crashing that work perfectly fine on 10, internet connectivity issues (usually DNS for some fucking reason), periodically hearing the disconnect sound for a device even when everything is still working, awful drop down menus, needing to change the registry just to get basic features that 10 has, and the list goes on and on. At home everything just works. I’ve been testing Linux and have been getting better stability than Windows 11 and I feel like every week there’s a new problem.

What I find the most ridiculous about men like him that are aggressively misogynistic (and racist) is that they claim they are the superior sex (and race) while they look like unfuckable twinks. Like, I’m 90% sure this dude has shoulder pads in the suits he wears to make him look bigger. He talks about taking shit over while he looks like he’d cry for an hour if you slapped him in the face. I have more muscle than him and I haven’t been to the gym in 10 years.

My point is I have no idea why people take him seriously. He’s basically the antithesis of what would be considered superior. He’s like the 2% milk of white people.

With how much external funding gets shoved into AI startups these days, I feel like 90% of AI startups are basically just a pump and dump with extra steps and targeted at investors. He’s probably already gotten millions in investments already just by this announcement.

Well, yeah, I know that. The problem is that I do want to finish them, I just never do. I want to know the storyline, the lore, the ending, the plot twist, the emotional scenes, I love it all as an experience. I just know that if I don’t lock in I’ll never know the story and how it ends. And as long as I stay locked in I enjoy it thoroughly. If anything, taking breaks from the game makes it not my main focus and then it does become a chore which is when I lose interest. I’m grinding it out while I enjoy it specifically so it does not become a chore.

I mostly go for quality of life and stability ones. There are some decent guides on the Steam forums which I usually go through when I’m modding it. I usually just go for the unofficial patch, the view distance one, and a few more small ones. I’m kind of a purist so I don’t like all the graphics update ones but there are some that are just essential. You’ll have to get the MWSE (Morrowind Script Extender) in order to get some of them to work. I’ll link one of the guides that I usually skim through to pick and choose which ones I want. The one for view distance is called Distant Land and requires the enhanced graphics mod.

It’ll be a bit of work, but once your done you’ll have a much better time.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2208675449

I definitely recommend heavily modding it. One I cannot live without when playing is the one that let’s you increase the view distance further than two feet in front of your face. Its such a beautiful game and it’s kind of a shame that the hardware limited the view distance in the first place.

Same for me but with Shadow of Mordor. I beat it eventually after a few years but now I wanna replay it before I go to Shadow of War even though I know I’ll never get around to it. Such is life I guess. :)

You can have friends too. Do you wanna be friends?

I did that with Final Fantasy X twice before I finally beat it. I was literally two boss fights from the end of the game and just dropped it for no reason both times even though I absolutely love that game. Glad I finally beat it though because that game is amazing.

I didn’t beat the main quest Skyrim, Oblivion, or Morrowind until at least a decade after I bought them. Didn’t even beat Morrowind until just a couple years ago. :P

I do this with games too. It takes literal years for me to beat games because I always reach a point where I get distracted by something else and then drop my current game for over a year and feel no motivation to continue once I’ve pivoted. These days if I want to beat a game I’ll lock in and do nothing but play that game for days on end. New game came out? Nah, I gotta stay locked. Friends hanging out online playing games together? Nope. Locked in. I’ll even turn off my phone and other monitors just to make sure I don’t get distracted.

With TV shows it’s almost impossible to lock in sometimes because they just take too long. I can keep my attention on one thing for a few weeks at a time but I can’t do it for the amount of time a show requires unless I somehow habitualize it into my day like watching it when I eat dinner. And even then I’ll often times switch shows about halfway through.

At first it’s funny. Then it’s cringe. Then it’s funny again. And then it’s absolutely horrifying when you realise this is what some people are actually doing with these chatbots. And I’ve seen people that make fun of those that fall into AI induced psychosis and I find that pretty sad, honestly. As someone that has gone through problems with depression, loneliness, and delusional thoughts in my past I am so thankful that these chatbots did not exist back than. You don’t have to be stupid to fall into this, you just have to be vulnerable. This type of shit can cause permanent damage to someone’s mind and these companies simply do not give a shit about us.

Don’t worry guys, they’re only putting these AI cameras in literally every city and doing it in shady ways without anyone knowing. And false flags like this happen very frequently.

https://youtu.be/mQxQpzNSNZU

This is purely anecdotal, but I have been running into a lot of DNS issues over the past couple months where I work. 3 of the computers and even one of the laptops for remote work were having DNS issues that needed to be fixed. One even needed Windows reinstalled after fixing the DNS issue (Which was probably unrelated, but worth mentioning)

I’m honestly starting to think that the internet in general might be imploding. Not sure why, but replacing so many developers and programmers with AI might be responsible. Who knows, but it’s definitely very strange.

I’ve never been able to enjoy any other stealth game because of Thief 1 + 2. I played them back in the early 2000s and they were the very first stealth games I ever played. I think because they are the grandfather of stealth games and are, in my opinion, the peak of stealth games, I ended up setting my expectations too high for other games and always left them slightly or even massively disappointed. Even the shitty parts of Thief 1 where it feels barely even like a stealth game are still better than games that call themselves stealth games like Assassin’s Creed.

In modern stealth games it doesn’t really punish you for being clumsy or getting caught. In most of those circumstances it just turns into an action game. Even some of the good stealth games like Dishonered very rarely punish you. In Thief if you get caught 7 out of 10 times you are just screwed. Garrett isn’t a strong and well trained fighter like you are in most games, he’s just a Thief and that’s what he’s best at. Combat is never the smart or reliable option. And in harder difficulties you straight up fail the mission if you kill anyone.

Another thing that sets Thief apart is that it treats you like a regular dude and not some badass super human that always has all the info you need for a mission. Sometimes you get incomplete maps that you have to take notes on yourself. Sometimes you don’t even get a map that is reliable and you have to use it based on vibes. Sometimes you get thrown into a mission completely unprepared and go up against enemies and situations that are extremely difficult. Sometimes you get missions that are super straight forward and easy if you know how to be a thief.

All in all, these games are definitely peak stealth games. The first one is waaay more painful and some of the missions are just awful. But the good ones stand out and you definitely feel relieved when you get to them. The second game is 10x better than the first and has a lot less bullshit and a lot more stealth. Plus you get all kinds of cooler stuff because of lore reasons and it just makes it so much more enjoyable. I highly recommend to anyone that truly likes stealth games to play them if you haven’t. Thief 1 is a decent 8/10 for me and Thief 2 is an easy 10/10, especially for the stealth genre.

You’d be surprised how many people actually need that. My boss is one of them and I constantly have to explain to him why shit like this is bad for us. We’re currently in the process of upgrading all our PCs to Windows 11 and I’m trying to convince him to let me install Linux on all the computers that don’t meet the hardware requirements. Fortunately we use an older version of Microsoft Office that doesn’t come with all the bullshit, but there will eventually be a day where we will have to “upgrade” that too. And because of this, I’m also trying to convince him to switch to something like LibreOffice.

Uploading all of our shit to OneDrive is not only a bad idea because we have our own secure servers in house, but it’s also a bad idea because we deal with a lot of files that could get us sued if it was leaked online. We don’t even let our servers connect to the internet for that very purpose. And it’s not a matter of if, but when windows starts uploading all of our shit to OneDrive it will be a complete disaster. And I’m sure there are a lot of guys doing IT at various other companies all trying to explain to their boss the same thing I am while they ignore the issue.

Oh no it’s that thing everyone would say would happen!

You are so naive it’s almost impressive.

Alright, then show me your text messages and location data over the past year. If you have nothing to hide then it should be no big deal, right?