Yep, was the case in all TES games before Oblivion as well, typically more strength in starting male characters but more intelligence in female characters varying depending on the character’s race. Only went away in Skyrim as they’d simplified the stats so much that starting stats were more uniform.

I’ve seen a few of the famous quotes, but the Marathon itself is too spherical to be the old flying Space Spud. Bungie has often referred back to Old Marathon but this feels off. It’s like someone is doing this only reading Wikiquote and a few summaries. I did see hints of Tau Ceti’s spaceport being nuked, and the involvement of MIDA as a contractor, so there’s a few hints of the deep lore.

They’re cagey about the story as well, suggesting they don’t have a written one yet. I’ll bet they were starting towards a proper story and an author keen on the original Marathon left with the pieces sat idle in the meantime as the game grew.

It also feels incomplete, lots of pve features despite pvp extraction as the stated goal. I think this was intended to have multiple game modes, several factions trying to find something left behind, Tycho making a move on the ruins controlled by fragments of Leela. Throw in a bonus UESC force Sent by a hint from Durandal who is still off having his own brand of fun elsewhere. Perhaps Straus’s plans with the Colony long term come up.

A dream perhaps. On an Idea for a new Aleph One Scenario.

The counter is that all of a sudden instead of windows 10 it was 10 from 2020, then 10 from 2022 and so on. Instead of only being the last version it became a succession of short lived versions that people still weren’t upgrading.

Usually it’s wise to placate the people you screw. One of my favourite sayings is, “Friends come and go, enemies accumulate.” You don’t want too many, especially those who have little to lose.

Building good will after the fact is very wise, even if it only buys a grudging acceptance. The prestige is also a major bonus in smoothing over business dealings.

Getting a bad rep leads to cautious or worse terms in deals, if not being outright bypassed in favour of a competitor.

As jia_tan said, in theory it should be fine if the hardware is up to scratch. I could see it becoming an issue for plane traffic, especially if passengers don’t turn on flight mode. Lots of very eager LTE phones switching between towers and sat com. Airplane gear has improved over the years so phone traffic doesn’t annoy it, but it’ll be something to watch for. Gotta test the theory in practice some time.

Thanks for surfacing this one, it’s always fun to get the older perspective and realising they’re very human.

Or you add the chip and it still doesn’t want to upgrade because you don’t have secure boot enabled.