While that would be ideal and it makes me feel a bit gross when I catch myself thinking the same things sometimes, it's inevitable. Retribution is one of the easiest ways to exact a punishment, violent or not.
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It's very much inline with how wine makers pivoted during the US alcohol prohibition era by instead selling concentrated blocks of grape juice and a nice little pamphlet with a warning on how to avoid turning said grape juice into wine.
Stop watching the high budget movies then. Higher budgets creates higher risks, thus prioritizing methods to getting a return on their investment rather than just what would make the movie better.
Or better yet, just watch the movies that you think look cool and stop worrying about the underlying political mind games of the film industry.
I was under the impression that instead of using an adblocker, they've just used a VPN, even before adblockers being blocked, and now it's stopped working because of these changes.
I'm not super familiar with how it's suppose to work, but do they even need "taxpayer's money?" Couldn't they just decide the debt is paid (or like remove $10,000) and then call it a day?
That's a oddly specific way to block ads, why not just use a regular adblocker?
I've seen other games add a secondary loading bar for the individual task at each step. So, sure, its stuck at 5/7, but then the second loading bar shows it's still processing.
Perhaps the best indication is just telling the user what it's doing rather than an arbitrary progress bar.
Edit: Just gonna add, I've been playing Bannerlord and the game (while heavily modded) just silently freezes when starting a new game. Outside of task manager and watching the game just not do anything for a while, you wouldn't even realize it was frozen.
Once in my life? Please, I'm coming on to my third jury duty, 3 times too many if you ask me to basically not get paid for however long it is.
Is there a context or theme for it? Honestly, if you just want to convey a pure healer, then just a cross would work. As was suggested, the rod fo Asclepius works, though better suited for more modern times or roles suited more towards a medical practioner rather than just a healer.
Oh good. Because I didn't already spend hundreds of hours on DOS2 already.
Maybe just me, but I totally want to see a Reddit where everyone actually is a bot.
Anything is possible if you have the infinite time and infinite resources, but they don't. Not to mention, what would ladders even bring?
Honestly though, I hope the land to space transition isn't just a take-off cutscene. Elevators in Fallout 4 were actually just seamless loading screens, so I hope they do the same in Starfield.