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@Gidiot Glad they resonate with you mate!

@LoneWonderer Thank you for the feature, I appreciate you, Leo and everyone else in this awesome community. I'm happy to be of service and strive to make my content even more insightful and in-depth going forward. I wish I could genuinely do more, but in a strange twist of fate I am suffering from health problems akin to Leo's that prevents me from really putting my all into the channel. I am glad what I am doing at this current point in time regardless of my own self-critique is worthy of recognition though, I hope the stuff I make helps any of you guys and the wider world towards pursuing God, truth and love :-)

I dunno if I'm some extreme edge case or if it's where I live but I've met plenty of women who are God-realized. Some have only scratched the surface for sure, but there is one amongst them who I am deeply close to that definitely knows they are God. We have tripped together and it is blatantly evident when we talk that we recognise the God within eachother. She is an exceptionally gifted human being. Meeting a truly God-realized woman is remarkably profound, I couldn't even begin to describe the depth of conversation that is possible between a God-realized man & woman. Our talks are legitimately transcendental. Fascinating stuff, it's surreal. One of the craziest experiences in life for me is speaking to someone in person that recognises that they are You. My best mate (male) is God-realized, we have had many strange and wonderful telepathic communications over the course of our friendship and they only continue to deepen over time. I am very blessed to know these people within my slither of reality.

It was ugly then and it's ugly now.

@Basman I'm not a boomer by any means, but I can happily jump on and enjoy Morrowind & the classic Fallout games without any mods. I prefer their aesthetic ofc, but that's not what makes them so amazing to experience, the gameplay is just so much more in-depth and nuanced than anything being made today imo. The level of ingenuity in terms of choice making, combat, writing, world building atmosphere and the various gameplay systems struck a chord with me after allowing myself to get lost in the games. I think maybe people today can't get into Morrowind and other CRPG's of that calibre and era is because most gamers have been trained to expect dopamine surging gameplay mechanics within the first few minutes of play, whereas Morrowind and Fallout 1 & 2 require way more patience to reap some form of long term deeper pleasure out of the experience. I didn't even play these games when they came out either, I just delved into them in my teens out of curiosity and fell in love with everything they were doing. Modded Morrowind is cool and all but the base game has never gotten old for me. Every minute of Oblivion Remastered that I play right now just makes me appreciate Morrowind's intricacies more and more. Honestly the only reason I'm still playing Oblivion is because I like to shatter my rose tinted glasses with these nostalgia trip type rereleases to sort of prove to myself that they really are as middling as I remember them being.

Bro I'd eat that up like mad hahaha please do

Happy birthday mate!

No remake of the Lost Spires for this remastered edition then? 😉 @Leo Gura

Despite all my gripes with Oblivion being a Morrowind fan boi, the artistic vision on display here from the devs is refreshing to see, especially in contrast to modern game development.

@Leo Gura Fully agreed that Bethesda has lost their spark. I'm playing the Oblivion remastered right now for a nostalgia trip, but I'm very cognizant of how utterly flat and lifeless most of the world building is. I didn't know that as a kid of course, but now it's blatantly obvious how shallow the game is. In fact, playing this remake only makes me appreciate the magic of Morrowind even more. I know there will never be a remake of that game, because gamers today would have to have Morrowind's gameplay systems, quest design etc. tailor fitted to the modern gamer brain, a brain that has no idea how to interface with a game world that isn't littered with objective markers and other hand holding bs, which morrowind was the antithesis of. I don't think Bethesda is callous enough to step on Morrowind and remake it in that fashion, they know that it was a thinking man's video game and that is not their target audience anymore and hasn't been for a very long time. Oblivion was the beginning of the end for Bethesda.

@Leo Gura Duly noted mate!