My dad has worked in the same white collar job since he graduated highschool and he doesn’t get paid anything super great or have a pension or anything, but he has like 5 weeks of vacation a year. Ever since I was a little kid he’s always taken 2 weeks off every fall and just spent it puttering around in the yard, going for walks, and enjoying the weather.

It’s very long if you take the time to explore the whole map and do all the side quests, but the main quest is leveled so that you don’t have to do most of the side quests if you don’t want to, unlike some games where you kind of have to do most of the side quests in order to level up enough to keep up with the required level for the main quest. If you do choose to side quest you can be way overpowered and breeze through the main quest line with no problem.

I’m working on a playthrough right now and I’m less than halfway through and I’ve only done maybe 1/3 or less of the side quests so far and I’m already 7 levels above where the main quest wants me to be.

I think it’s worth it because I love the world, the characters, and the story, but every nerd has their special fandom and the Witcher is mine.

This is my favorite game ever, I’m sorry you’re finding it boring and slow paced. There’s so many little things to discover. I have more hours and more playthroughs into it than I’d like to admit.

I’d happily pay that if it allowed me to not have to deal with it.

I’m not a technological idiot, it’s just not my thing and I find it very stressful to deal with. It would be worth it to me to not have to.

Your Control screenshots all look like you’ve taken actual photos of a bunch of minis in lovingly created dioramas. I’m not sure what it is that is so different from other games that look like either plain screenshots or actual hyper realistic photos of life sized people, but all of these just look like incredibly detailed miniatures to me. I played a little bit of Control and I don’t remember the game having that effect while playing.

It’s lovely and interesting and I’m curious if anyone else sees it too.

I had heard it was an issue in Linux. I’m running Lost Legacy and Yggdrasil (Skyrim VR) which are both 100+ gb mod packs (and highly recommend them both, Lost Legacy is breathtakingly beautiful). Lost Legacy is also very stable and runs very smoothly, especially compared to some of the other pre built mod packs I’ve tried.

If I did get brave and make the switch, is this something that theoretically could be run in a Windows VM or would it be better to dual boot and keep Windows hanging around for Skyrim?

Honestly, here’s the thing. My PC is still running Win10. It just works. My life is stressful and chaotic and my escape is gaming. I love modded Skyrim and I love gaming and when I get a chance to sit down at my computer I just want to fucking escape. I don’t want to troubleshoot, I don’t want to fiddle, I just want to load my game and have fun.

That is what has been keeping me from switching to Linux these past few years. I have Win10 tweaked in the registry so it can’t run copilot or AI, the start menu can’t connect to the Internet so it can’t show me ads, it’s still Microsoft and I don’t love it but I don’t have to think about it.

If someone came along and said hey, for $100 I’ll install Linux on your computer, make sure all your drivers are installed, make sure all your hardware works, and get your games and files moved over, tested and working, and be around to troubleshoot in the future and teach you basic troubleshooting if you need me (for an additional reasonable fee), I’d pay it. I’m not made of money, but I don’t want to spend my time or limited brain power doing that stuff and I’d be more than happy to offload it to someone else.

I got laughed at and called paranoid and alarmist before Trump was re-elected when I talked about project 2025 and how terrifying it was.

One day in the summer before the election I had an interaction at work with a member of the public. An older white gentleman from a conservative area that has a lot of racists. He started talking to me and bringing the conversation around to politics, and I was mentally bracing myself to grit my teeth and remain professional. He told me how he was a lifelong Christian and then he surprised the living fuck out of me. He actually teared up and asked if I had heard of Project 2025. When I told him I had he said that it scared him so badly, that they were laying out how they wanted to oppress and kill his fellow Americans just because they were different and he was terrified that it was going to be enacted and that he didn’t believe in any of that and wanted to stand up against it and would not vote for it.

I think about him every once in awhile and wish we had more people like him in this country.

Sounds eco friendly to me