When Starfield was announced I wanted to play it, however paying €75 for the base game is just too damn high. Luckily I found a 'demo' ;)
Anyway, the game is basically Fallout in space (and on planets). It actually looks like Fallout 4 with HD graphics, and thus runs smooth on my pc.
The thing that irks me are:
- The faces when speaking lack emotion
- The writing of characters & scenes, so far, feels bland
- Simple fetch quests without any surprises (yet)
- Simple story
- Answers don't matter
- The wastelands (and there are plenty) look just like Fallout 4 only more alien-esk
- Some weird grayish filter inside buildings
- Ship is unable to access anything but pilot seat in space, only when landed you can walk inside and access more stations.
- Load scenes galore! Luckily not too long though
- Baldur's Gate 3 looks better (probably cause it's isometric)
- The Witcher 3 (2015) & Red Dead Redemption 2 (2019) looks better!
But it has good things too:
- Ship can be build into any shape and size
- it uses less cpu & gpu resources than Baldur's Gate 3
- Mods are easy to install
Sadly I'm not joking. My new house is a semi-detached so I share a wall, and a chimney, with the house next door. The house next door is a rental and the owners have been doing repairs on the properties they own. They have been replacing roof tiles and removing the end chimneys, each house has a chimney on the end of and a shared chimney in the middle. I guess they think removing the chimney means less to go wrong and less chance of it leaking in the future.
The other two houses they own locally have already been done and they only removed the end chimney and left the middle chimney alone. For some reason today they started on my neighbours roof and before anyone knew what was happening they removed the middle chimney. It's a major fuck up!
It is without question illegal to dismantle someone's property without them giving permission first, and I wouldn't have given permission anyway. I have taken photos of the hole in the roof where the chimney was as well as the numerous damaged tiles where bricks from the chimney rolled down the roof and broke them.
Thankfully my neighbour next door is great and she's given me the name and mobile phone number of the person managing the repairs. I've sent them a message and will hopefully hear back soon. I'm going to wait and see how they react before I do anything else. Once I get a feeling for how they are I will decide whether to take legal action against them or not.
I've only been in this house just over a week and some bastard has already fucked it up!
Other than this I'm enjoying being in my new home.
I'm moving this weekend and the server will be down from Saturday or Sunday until Monday. It's possible it'll be down Friday and may be intermittently up and down as I move stuff around in old house getting ready to move.
It's a wheelie heavy Fanatec CSL DD 8Nm. But it is also very sturdy. And you can change the wheel, add a shifter and/or handbrake, and more stuff. Of course it wasn't as cheap as a Logitech.
So I just got confirmation from the local authority that I can build a workshop in my garden exactly where I want it.
Normally I wouldn't need permission for this as it's below a minimum size that requires planning permission, but because of the strange fact that my house is effectively built back to front means I had to get permission. *The back door of my new house is actually the front door!?!? XD
In the UK you need planning permission to build a shed in front of a house but not behind it. It's all pretty confusing! XD
But the good news is I can go ahead with it whenever I want without needing any other checks or permission.
I won't be building it until I live there, whenever that is, but it's good to know it won't be a problem.
Last week I noticed some tiles were loose in the bathroom and behind the toilet. Since I rent, the housing association sent some third party people over.
The bathroom was fixed in a few hours and the toilet (separate of the bathroom) had to be disassembled, which took only a few minutes. However, when the tiler was done after an hour, the plumber took over 4 hours(!) to come back and then had took a personal phone-call for 10 minutes before I asked him to, you know, do the job.
He assembled the toilet and left but ..<drum-roll>.. I noticed it leaked at 2 places. So I called, he came back.."fixed" said leaks. Annnnnd..it still leaked.
I called third party company to complain and the next plumber did fix 1 of the leaks but he told me he couldn't fix the other cause of the part not readily available. This man was at least honest and clear.
So now I gotta wait for a part to arrive and then fixing my damn toilet. At least it doesn't smell shitty ;)
