BTGBullseye

Well, here's my review for the game... Pros: Everything that isn't in the cons list. Literally. It is a great game. If the rating system had more granularity, it's be closer to a 4.8 for me. Visuals are excellent, sound design excellent, story elements and progression excellent. Cons: 1. The camera constantly zooms in during dialogue, and doesn't automatically zoom out to where you had it. In addition, it doesn't quite zoom out far enough for my tastes. 2. The outfits are comically proportioned, and make it look like you're dealing with cartoon characters that have normal human heads. (this does not apply to most NPCs) 3. The unlimited shared, weightless inventory, while something I would really like the option to have in most games, doesn't quite feel like it is a thing that should be on all the time for all difficulty levels. I'd switch that to a startup option that is enabled for the easiest two difficulties, and disabled for the hardest. (just give it a max weight/space limit based on all character's strength put together, no need for seperate inventories) 4. Dialogue progression (not dialogue option selection) requires you to click in certain areas of the screen, (above or below the on-screen text box that is not clearly defined) and it's not intuitive to do. This is likely to be a sticking point for some players, and an annoyance to players that play the game regularly. 5. The game loses focus to Windows in the background during loading screens. This causes flickering of the Windows taskbar to show over the game itself, and the Windows loading cursor to show instead of the in-game one. ?. GOG Galaxy failed to properly download and apply the icon for the shortcut on the desktop. (this doesn't count against the game itself) I hope some of the issues get fixed, but even if they don't, this game is worth the money IMO. The setting is much less bron, and feels more alive and realistic to me than Wasteland 2.

That's not Satan, that's Kane. He's lying.

Took me about 10 minutes to dial it in. You don't want to reuse the values if updating to a newer driver... It can cause issues. As for recovering if lost, the AMD driver software has profile saving built in, and you can just reload it any time.

Not quite. Joining means they would have to submit to the UFP for governance, much like states in the USA have to submit to the federal government. The Klingon Empire does not do that ever. It's more like a United Nations situation, if the UN actually worked, and it was in space.

I like that it's an option, but I miss having a searchable user list. (I like seeing who's most actively posting in the forums)

No, it's not right. It's left, which is no.

Of course, that's only like $20USD...

Think of it like this... I had to undervolt to reduce the temps, which reduced performance, so I overclocked to regain the lost performance. Therefore, same performance, lower heat.

They aren't a part of the Federation at any point in any Star Trek timeline. There are individual Klingons that are either born in Federation territory, or are outcast from the Klingon Empire for dishonorable acts, who join Starfleet, but the Klingons as a race are not part of the Federation. The closest they get is a permanent alliance made in the 27th century, and effectively all ships for both the UFP and the Klingon Empire become jointly crewed Alliance ships.

No. The radiation left behind really isn't as bad as the "documentaries" make it seem. While it might be dangerous for a couple decades, the rest of nature won't care, and humans can move back in after that time. If they drink a lot of alcohol regularly, they can move in sooner. (alcohol chelates radiation better than any anti-rad meds) And it wouldn't matter anyways, because those aren't humans. We're talking about how much it takes for humans to be able to live there. That is an extremely apt example. More like, it leaves almost no radiation whatsoever, unless you add a tamper to boost the damage beyond the 50MT it already does. (see the Tsar Bomba for an excellent example)

Nope.

Not likely.

Just as speedy as before, but now significantly cooler, so the fan doesn't get as annoying. On topic: Getting ready for bed.

Those estimates are for taking every part of the planet back to background radiation levels only... We don't even have that now, and we've never had a nuclear war. Most scientific estimates that are worth a damn, and have realistic expectations, say that there will be significant areas of the planet left habitable, and restoring ~90% of affected landmass is likely in under 500 years. (this is partly based on real life radiation cleanup results, like with Chernobyl)

Not nonsense, "no" makes perfect sense.

No, they don't have credits, except in Star Trek Online... Because an MMO with no currency is boring. Technically speaking, Starfleet isn't a military per-se... More of a scientific and police armada. Think of them as AAA, the Red Cross, NASA and local police, all rolled into one. Nobody anywhere has to pay for a meal (except on certain planets that have "issues") in the UFP. Replicators make that an obsolete concept in its entirety. That holodeck thing is in place because you have to make reservations when you have a ship with over 1000 people on board, and only 16 holodecks. Planetside it's not as much of an issue, and most homes have their own holodecks. (or a few communal ones for apartments)

Now I'm stress testing my repaste of my GPU, and the "new" washer mod I did to it. I used to have stainless steel washers on it with a plastic bag layer to prevent shorting, but apparently the washers worked their way through and prevented my GPU from working right. Took me several hours to figure out the problem.

No.

Me? No.

Hmmm...

Were you also not allowed to bring in books? I'd have at least 2 novels sitting there if I were doing that job.

That "aliens" theory is based on the assumption that we actually know everything there is to know about how hydrogen icebergs form in space... We definitely don't. Astrophysicists are updating their models for the solar system we exist in now on a weekly basis due to new finding about stuff we've seen for hundreds of years, so why should "but molecular clouds that we know almost nothing about are the ONLY place they can form" be taken seriously?

Technically speaking, that is the economic system being used in Star Trek for the UFP... They are a post-scarcity society, and have no use for capitalist methods.

I don't know, it's a preorder, and I haven't decided if I want to spend $33 on it... I really want to though. The soundtrack itself is quite good though, as is the show.