Bimfred

Definitely a mission to keep an eye on, but when Orion drive?

Your personal hatred is blinding you, OP.

Hate to disappoint, but it’s far more than you could possibly imagine. You could dump the equivalent mass of the entire human civilization, every single person and everything we’ve ever made, on the Moon and it wouldn’t have a noticeable effect.

And the gravitational pull of all the other planets. I’m sure Jupiter is totally cool with us trying to precisely align and balance a satellite swarm on the point of a needle.

Even if the US and EU pony up the not insignificant amount of cash to do it, there’s still nothing that can put 1000t into orbit, let alone L1. And splitting it up into 100t segments isn’t a solution, since L1 is unstable. The segments will need power, thrusters, gyros, propellant and guidance for station-keeping, so there goes a large chunk of your mass budget. To compensate for that, you need more mirrors. And they need to be continuously replaced as they break down or run out of propellant.

Peter Parker as a Prime Warframe.

Horizon: Zero Dawn. I got absolute shite aim on the best of days and playing on a controller just makes it worse. Switched to m+kb eventually, but by then, the experience was already marred. Think I’ll give it some more time, then try again.

Most likely? Nostalgia and familiarity. We’ll probably never know if the decision to make it Baldur’s Gate 3 was WotC/Hasbro’s or Larian’s.

There’s precedent, though. Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance had less of a connection to Bioware’s BG than this one does.

And it shouldn’t be. Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 are amazing games that pioneered or popularized many things we’ve come to expect in modern RPGs, but they’re also 20+ years old. If Bioware’s Baldur’s Gate was released today, it wouldn’t be revolutionary. It would be an excellently made throwback to how RPGs used to be.

BG3 isn’t made by the same studio, let alone the same people. Their admiration of what they’re building upon is clear as a sunny day, though. So let this carry on the spirit of what was and be the foundation of something new.

And how well do 3dsMax and Solidworks work? Cause Blender was the first modeling program I ever tried and couldn’t stand the UI, so that’s straight up not an option after 20 years of experience.

Nope. I have my doubts if it’d be immortality for me or a separate consciousness that believes it’s me. The distinction wouldn’t matter to literally anyone except me, but where it matters, it REALLY matters.