Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/e2PyeXRwhCE#t=33s

Open the scanner and quicktravel everywhere…

“Characters: Fixed an issue that could cause some characters to not be in their proper location.”

Ooh, I wonder if I can finally pick up that guy in the medbay…

Edit No, no they did not. :(

I’ve been playing it back and forth with Baldur’s Gate 3 (Baldur’s Field!) and I have to say, I’m enjoying it more than BG.

Things like combat are just so much easier than in a turn based game controlling multiple characters. I get EXHAUSTED playing BG3. Starfield I can plug in for hours and not really think about it.

If I could tune the other characters in my party in BG so they could run autonomously and all I had to worry about was my character, it would be a lot less tiring.

For quick turns, reduce the speed. I know, I know, counter intuitive.

I’m somewhat ashamed to admit that it took me ENTIRELY too long to figure out that pushing the left stick up and down accelerates/decelerates the ship. :( I had been using the boost to go anywhere and didn’t know how to slow down.

Remember when instruction manuals were a thing?

You’d think it should be easy:

1. Is the call coming into the US from a foreign exchange?

2. Does the caller ID indicate a local US area code?

If both are true, block the call.

Text encoding is SUPER basic and anyone looking to get involved in Linux or scripting absolutely should know that stuff FIRST.

Source: I was teaching Linux 23 years ago before it was cool.

Here’s a good primer:

ASCII:
https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/ASCII-American-Standard-Code-for-Information-Interchange

URL encoding:
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.ASP

Entity encoding:
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp

Really, ALL of the W3Schools stuff is just fantastic. Anyone remotely interested in this stuff should start at the beginning there and work up.

Not in HTML. Never has worked that way.

Special reserved characters have always been handled this way because you don’t want to accidentally interpret something the wrong way.

Same for URL encoding. You upload “Clever Name.PDF” to a website and it generates a URL of “Clever%20Name.PDF” because spaces aren’t valid in URLs. %20 is the code for a space.

Extended Mag Coachman. ;)

OP noted: “Don’t get me started on how this messes up linux commands and scripts”

If you’re running linux commands and scripts, you’re not a normal user and should know this already. :) It’s only been the standard for 30 years or so.

& is how & is represented in HTML.

https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/showthread.php/105012-What-does-amp-amp-mean-see-it-a-lot-and-its-not-in-the-acronym-page

If you need a literal &, then preceed it with an escape character like “\”.

“you can finally find the elevator to the Well without a quest arrow.”

Land at the Spaceport.

Go to the mercantile:

https://www.polygon.com/starfield-guide/23862929/jemison-mercantile-location-new-atlantis

Around the corner to the right is an elevator to the Well.

Here’s the trick… the Nashville shooter had no criminal record and bought the guns 100% legally. There is no gun restriction that would block someone who passes the background check from buying a gun.

BUT:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Nashville_school_shooting

“Hale was under care for an emotional disorder and had legally purchased seven firearms, including three recovered from the shooting scene, between October 2020 and June 2022.[1]”

If someone is under psychological care, should that be allowed to pop up on a background check? Maybe not as an instant disqualification the way a court ordered commitment or conviction would, but as an advisory note? Leave it to the discretion of the firearms seller? “By the way, this person is undergoing psych care, you could be held liable if they use this firearm in a crime.” That kind of thing?

Because right now, the only stuff that shows up on the background check are things that were ruled on by a judge, and sometimes not even all of those.

For example:

The guy who shot up Michigan State University:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Michigan_State_University_shooting

“McRae was arrested in June 2019 for carrying a weapon without a concealed pistol license.[38] Initially charged with a felony, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor unlawful possession of a loaded firearm as part of a plea agreement in November 2019.[39] He was originally sentenced to twelve months’ probation, which was later extended to 18 months, and in May 2021, he was discharged from probation.[35] Because McRae was not convicted of a felony, his ban on possessing weapons ended with the end of his probation.[40]”

Arrested for a felony gun charge, pled out to a misdemeanor, did his time, did his probation, was allowed to buy guns again.

Had he been convicted of the felony, he would have been blocked from owning a gun. The misdemeanor was not a barrier and did not appear on the background check.

Maybe it should have? Maybe ANY gun charges, felony OR misdemeanor should bar you from gun ownership?

“Circassian” isn’t a word I’ve heard before, but it has an ethnography:

https://study.com/academy/lesson/circassians-history-culture.html

Looking at it, it looks like just busywork for Lin and Heller. Looks like Andromeda has an outpost specialty too.

https://www.polygon.com/starfield-guide/23853471/companion-crew-member-hire-recruit

This is immediately obvious to anyone who followed the timeline of events.

Removing Shokin didn’t STOP the Burisma investigation. It allowed it to move forward! Shokin was the guy slow-walking it.

https://www.justsecurity.org/66271/timeline-trump-giuliani-bidens-and-ukrainegate/

I’m probably 20 hours in and haven’t noticed any problem with pronouns to speak of.

Makes sense:

Xbox - 2001
Xbox 360 - 2005
Xbox One - 2013
Xbox One S - 2016
Xbox One X - 2017
Xbox Series S|X - 2020

4 years, 8 years, 3 years, 1 year, 3 years.

2028 would be on the long side but not unheard of. The reason for the big gap between 2005 and 2013 was the 2008 economic crisis.

2020 was the covid/supply chain crisis.

Going in and looking now…

Types for each:

Mercury - Barren
Venus - Rock
Earth - Rock
Mars - Rock
Jupiter - Gas Giant
Saturn - Gas Giant
Uranus - Ice Giant
Neptune - Ice Giant
Pluto - Ice

It doesn’t distinguish it as a dwarf planet and no other dwarf planets (Ceres, Eris) are listed.