If a Catholic school has a DEI officer, is it really Catholic?
My daughter chose to go to a Lutheran college. It had a professor who claimed Jesus was Muslim. Fortunately my daughter turned out OK and is now a stay at home mom.
Marathon was great for its time. When it came out I was working at an advertising agency so all of the artists had high end Macs. Marathon came free with Filemaker Pro at the time, which we used for job management, so we all installed it. Good times ensued.
Love him or hate him, and I've never been an Apple fan, Jobs was a wizard at creating new markets. The IPod and IPhone were revolutionary, partially because of product design and partially because of Turtleneck's ability to wow millions of people. Once Jobs died, Apple became just another giant corporation. The magic is gone.
Any religion which is not conservative is not a religion, it's a cult. Any religion which changes beliefs means it belief system is fallible, and therefore shouldn't be trusted. If they were wrong in the past, then the odds of them being right today are zero, because their beliefs will change again in the future, and future adherents will claim claim that today's beliefs were wrong.
I've played both.
Empyrion I've played about 10 hours, it just hasn't hooked me. It has an interesting building engine, and the way all of the systems work together with power and processing. It can be a little janky at times. If one really wanted to get into it you could probably build some cool things. But I'm not sure there's much to do with the cool thing you built.
I've played a fair amount of NMS, I stuck with it from the Kickstarter, even after they were doing refunds. I never seem to get very far though. A new major update will come out, I'll start a new game, play for 5-10 hours, then get distracted and not come back to it. They keep adding more to the game, so I think there's plenty of entertainment to be had.
I don't have anything against either game, I wouldn't put them in the top of my list, they're both just OK.
I'll probably buy Light No Fire, the next game from the NMS guys, because I like the studio and want to see what they do with that.
The original One was underpowered. I did upgrade to a One X and it was decent as consoles go. It's still my goto for couch gaming. But I've never even considered buying one of the new ones with the increasingly confusing names, and mostly play on PC these days. I have such a massive library of Xbox games though, between Gold and things I bought, I don't want to abandon it entirely.
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