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Closed doors are the least of the annoying bugs I've seen. Right now in my game on Neon, there is a live chasmbass suspended in mid air in the center of the Underbelly. I still run into the odd no clip bug as there are items like utility barricades that are half in and half out of the ground. Bethesda likes to hide vendor inventories underground or inside the walls near their shops and sometimes they forget to make structures and surfaces completely solid for all objects. In a bit of fitting irony, I was out in the ocean looking for more chasmbass to scan to complete my Neon fauna profile and found a roll of toilet paper floating in the water. It was probably flung into space from somewhere and landed under the city platform.

Just finished the Neon mission, Unjustified, and now I need butter pecan ice cream to cheer me up. I did not get closure for myself, but I did get street justice for Mrs. Luzion. There is also bug associated with the mission. The first time you go to see to Mrs. Luzion, she does not feel like talking to you and asks you to come see her the next day. If you don't expend all of the options in her dialogue tree, she will always say "come back tomorrow" even if you have waited or slept away an entire game day before going back to see her.

One of the segments of John Carpenter's Body Bags is entitled (duh) "Hair" and features Stacy Keach. It it totally fucking great. The entire anthology is awesome, actually. There is also a fairly decent Afro-centric horror comedy joint entitled Bad Hair where the main character is a black woman who has a haunted weave. It sounds silly but it is actually pretty good. There are probably hundreds of J-Horror and K-Horror movies like 0.0 Mhz featuring female angry revenge ghosts with creepy animated hair, but the examples I gave are actually about killer hair.

What the fuck, AEW? You look at the card on paper and you go "Eh, I might be able to skip this one," but you buy the PPV anyway and then bonkers shit goes down that makes this show seem just as important as Forbidden Door or All In. Is that your plan? Weaponize my FOMO to drain my bank account. Because it's a good plan. The shit is working.

Oh, and don't listen to the fucking vids that tell you that you need to pickpocket Frankie in order to get your hands on the Syndicate Enforcer sword before the Ryujin mission. If you climb the stairwells and get as high as you can, you will be able to access an HVAC vent on the roof of the building where Frankie's Grab & Go is. It is a Novice lock so even if you have no points in Security, you should be able to use a digipick and get inside. Once you're in, jump down a series of ledges and you will be inside the Syndicate's hideout. After that you should have free reign of the place. Syndicate enemies will not aggro unless they catch you stealing something. If you have Stealth, you will automatically know when you are Hidden and when you are Detected. Crouch down to activate Stealth and once you're clear, open the case and take the sword. If you don't have Stealth, then take a save before your grab attempt and reload if the gangsters catch you. Remember to sell the sword to the Trade Authority and buy it back in order to get the Stolen tag removed. Otherwise, Neon Security will bust you if you take a stolen item through the scanners at the Spaceport. And there is one caveat. In order to exit the Syndicate hideout the way you came in aka up the ledges and out of the ventilation grid, you will need at least one dose of Amp because one of the ledges is just out of arm's length so you cannot mantle and pull yourself back up. I kinda figured that Congress might do the right thing. It's too close to the Fall / Winter holiday season for anyone to be fucking up. The next cliff's edge will be in mid-November and I'm betting that none of those assholes wants to take an L that close to Thanksgiving. They will most likely sign another CR and kick the can down the road until after the first of the year. If that happens, the CR will last another 45 days so Dems and Repubs won't have to fear being blamed as the political party that ruined Christmas. If there is more brinksmanship, it will go down around mid-January. I think that's when the danger of a furlough will rear its ugly head again. Clearly the folks at the NEC were counting on a shutdown. Every NIPR machine on post has non-compliance banners. Apparently someone made the call not to push any IAVAs over the weekend.

Strange. I had no problems joining the Strikers or completing their entire mission line. One issue I have is multiple pathing bugs. Owen Drexler was momentarily trapped in the warehouse where the final Strikers mission took place, and I have also noticed that random robots in some places will occasionally get stuck and stop traveling along their routes. Fucking dumbass Johann walked in front of the security bot at UC Distribution in New Atlantis and now it is stuck in the corner. I have also noticed that random cosmetic items just launch themselves through the air for no reason. It's back to the Skyrim days where if you weren't careful, the Iron Sword on the sales counter of Bersi Honey-Hand's store would fly through the air and kill his wife. You say that like it's a good thing. My job is a pain in the ass sometimes, but I prefer that the paychecks arrive when they are supposed to. Well, at least we learned this morning that black mold was detected in our building, so most likely non-exercise staff will be given telework until it is cleaned up. I don't start pulling mid-shift duty until the middle of the month, so a week and a half of telework is fine by me.

I also went to see Saw X with my daughter and one of her friends while visiting her for Friend & Family Weekend at JMU. I enjoyed it more than I expected to, as did my daughter. For once, we had a coherent story and Jigsaw's extra screen time allows him to wax poetic on his motives and remind us why the first installment was so great. Tobin Bell is a national treasure. The action in Saw X takes place in the interim between the first movie and Saw III as we eventually learn that All I wanted was a Saw sequel that put the story first and the death traps second and I think we finally got it. We almost had it with Spiral, but Spiral decided to merely offer more of the same instead of telling an innovative story like this movie does. Jigsaw is human. Who knew?

I rarely use the anti-grav unless it is for the example you gave, or I am fighting some aggressive alien critter like an Ashta and want to get some free shots in before it recovers. Same as in Skyrim when you would Fus-Ro-Dah some asshole giant that aggros on you, stab the fucker with a weapon covered in Paralysis poison while he's on the ground, and then dog pile on his ass. No matter how high level I get, mean beasties like Ashta still put some wear and tear on my ass so I can't sleep on them. Void Form (invisibility) and Grav-Dash have turned my wakizashi wielding Ronin into a fucking space ninja, so I use those powers quite often. Precognition and Personal Atmosphere are also extremely helpful in most situations.

SPACE FROGS FROM OUTER SPACE~!! Holy shit, the Neon missions are fun AF. It's good to be back home. How did Bethesda out-CDPR CDPR and made Neon just as interesting and nihilistic as Night City in city with far ground to cover? I did the Ebbside Strikers missions a couple of days ago, but now I have gotten in tight with the local merchants, possibly signed a man's death warrant by convincing him to go out solo drinking in Ebbside while on his bachelor party, gotten a Seokguh thug named Headlock to respect the blade and stop shaking down a local luxury goods establishment, and i still have to talk to DJ BorealUS, go visit some Aurora smuggling asshole in the local lockdown, and maybe solve a murder case. The creds I will make during the side gigs will recover the investment I made in Shielded Cargo Bays for the Frontier. I consider myself to be quite the badass and i don't think I'd fuck with Manaia Adams. She obviously works as a pro cleaner and could probably kill me with her eyes closed, space magic or no. I also decided to be brave and try to gain data on the local fauna aka chasmbass and whalesharks so I jumped into the ocean and started swimming. Discovered that your character can only swim on the surface. No diving underwater so no fear of drowning. Fish are docile so far but I am still scared shitless of getting eaten while trying to scan whalesharks.

So you can get rid of the Wanted trait by talking to a Tracking Alliance Agent aka the vendors that offer bounty hunting missions. They will smooth things over with the other trackers and mercs for a convenience fee. The agent on Neon asked me for a payment of 3K creds which is a fairly small sum for me right now, but where is the fun in not being a blade on the run? I am just curious if the fee will increase the longer I stay a fugitive? I know that the sum being offered for my murder appears to be going up. There are trackers fighting other trackers to make sure the price goes higher so that they can try to collect when I have a Vash the Stampede sized price on my head. If Annie Wilcox finds out, I'll be a permanent name on THE LIST~!

I SEE WHAT YOU DID~!

You can always add a scan jammer to your vessel to slightly improve your chance to fool a contraband scan, but it's not a practical addition for Class-A ships, IMO. It just adds unnecessary mass to your ship. Also, in order to gain access to more advanced scan jammers, you need to invest in Starship Design. By the time you are investing in that skill, you probably already have a nicely modded Class-B or are working on a nicely modded Class-C. For the purposes of effectiveness / efficiency / economy, I wouldn't bother with scan jammers unless I was adding one to a Class-B or Class C starship. Just be mindful of your contraband / cargo space ratio for your Class-A and you should be mostly okay.

I don't think you could make Takeshita and Guevara a prettier or more hated tag-team unless you made Ezra Miller their manager.

Most likely the idiots in Congress will hand us at least one day of unpaid vacation next week. I should be able to watch my movie before the end of the weekend and have a review done by next Wednesday.

Your deductive skills are impeccable. I always enter The Well from the MAST NAT Station elevator since that is the route I first took to get there to help Louisa with the brown-out problem. I knew where Apex was and went in there to talk to Heinrik and grab the skill mag out of his shop, but I never bothered talking to Vincinte. I thought he was just a random citizen. The braided hair shoulda clued me in that he was a mission NPC. I probably coulda used Acid Rain like seven levels ago, but not now.

Well, shit. Looks like I didn't talk to as many people as I should have last time I was in The Well. There is a guy in Heinrik's shop, Apex Electronics, named Vincinte. He will send you out to Porrima III to retrieve a package for him behind the dumpsters of Red Mile. The Porrima star system is three jumps away from Alpha Centauri (AC->Olympia->Volii->Porrima). It looks sketchy, but it's not contraband. When you return to him and give him the package, he becomes an active merchant and will sell his inventory to you. His selection of weapons is impressive if you are a lowbie and he also sells a unique blue Grendel with Corrosive Rounds, appropriately named Acid Rain. I could've done double duty and just handled this when I went to buy my Shielded Cargo Holds for the Frontier if I'd have talked to this guy earlier on. I never turn away XP and creds but at this point in my game, there is absolutely nothing in his inventory that I need to buy.

The Crimson Fleet missions line is the example that the edgelord murder hobo players on Reddit cite whenever they argue that the Adoring Fan is one of the best companions in the game. You could push a barrel full of Yorkies into a river and watch them all drown and the Adoring Fan will still love you.

Upgrades to your Grav Drive, Reactor and HE3 tank should buff your minimum jump distance by an LY or two, but you should be close to the point where the investment in creds won't squeeze that much more performance out of the Frontier. In order to travel further and fight tougher enemies, we will need to invest in Class-B and Class-C ships. Now that we know that there are Class-M ships in the game, I imagine that those will be added in the DLC coming next March along with maybe a new mission line and some other stuff. All I want are more facial hair options. Fashion stubble with no sideburns would be nice since my Ronin has a dagger tattoo on the side of his face near his right ear and having stubble covering the tattoo looks really stupid. I also hate that the facial stubble options in the game come with neckbeards. Ick. Soul patches and more goatee styles would be even better.

Bethesda appears to hate the edgelord "I WANNA BE EEEEVILLL~!" playstyle to a certain extent. I also have a lot of shit outstanding. Too much to mention. Yeah, there are a lot of steps. How's that new Frontier build treating you?

Yeah, that makes no sense. That's a bug.

Little things in this game make it so great. The gun nut in me got annoyed with the design of the Old Earth Shotgun (WHY IS THE PUMP SO FAR BACK~? ARGH~!!) until I realized I was being a total dumbass. The reason it has the appearance it does is because it is a recreation of Hicks's custom shotgun from Aliens. That's why the default look in the gun shop has the MP40 pistol grip and Ithica parts from the original prop. Starfield OES: Hick's prop shotgun from Aliens. Replacing the Default Barrel with the Short Barrel makes it look nearly identical to the movie prop.

Are you sure you weren't actually trespassing and didn't realize it? I got a Trespassing Warning when i entered an empty area near Euphoria in Ebbside when I first arrived on Neon. I thought it was a bug but when I returned to the area to do the mission, The Showdown, it was crawling with Disciples gang members trying to kill me. They gunned down a poor Chunks employee that got caught in the crossfire. You may have found a zone in the game where something has yet to occur and are getting a Trespassing Warning because you don't have the mission associated with that location. Technically, I would call that a bug, but it does kinda make sense that you would get a preemptive Trespassing Warning for being someplace you probably shouldn't be.

RIP Michael Gambon. And the folks citing Harry Potter as a career reference apparently have never seen a single episode of Maigret and let's not forget his appearances on Top Gear.

For the one or two people here who know who Byf is, check out thenthapple's YouTube channel. He seems to be the guy who has taken it upon himself to be the chronicler of Starfield lore, much like Byf is the guy to go to for all things Destiny 2. He has put many hours into the game, so his vids may be spoilery for those not that far in.

Oh yeah. Swarmlings can eat a bag of goat dicks.