@supershaft777 I found Morrowind the TES high water mark for me personally. The politics, the environment, levitation all amounted to a great single player experience. When Daggerfall was released free a few years ago I tried to get into it but it's technical obsolescence made it hard for me to stick with it long enough to become involved in the experience. Oblivion was kind of dull but had some good parts. Skyrim was pretty good but side quests were a bit dumbed down and combat was too easy.
For mmo folks who are looking forward to ESO enjoy your new game. I personally won't spend a nickel on this travesty because I enjoy the single player experience from past games and want THAT format.
If you want the single player experience please DO NOT blindly support this "experiment" prior to launch. Wait a month for the marketing hype to wear off and the warts to appear. If Zeni/Beth get even a scintilla of profit from this travesty it will delay ES6 for years because of a fear of competition with ESO. Worse still, Fallout will likely be converted to a MMO theme park as well.
Disclaimer: If (and it's a very big IF), this thing is an amazing out-of-this-world-must-play-experience then I'll admit I was wrong, say Zeni/Beth are geniuses, RIP single player, and fork over my $$ like 10 million of other people.
@Azernus @cratecruncher Ever notice those who rationalize their purchase decisions based on the highest benefit always seem to wind up with all the stuff? Yet people that brag about their purchasing power quickly wind up without any.
My first lucid dream was several years ago when I realized I was being chased by vampires through the Paris sewers. I recognized the event as one that had happened to me while playing Oblivion and I realized I wasn't scared anymore. I decided to have a little fun with those undead jerks by leading them into a chamber that I then flooded by turning a valve that suddenly appeared on the wall. That solution was borrowed from an event in Half Life 2 by the way!
I've been training myself to lucid dream ever since. To recall dreams I always replay each in my memory as soon as I wake up. Recalling events as far back into the dream as possible helps me see how ridiculous it was, see radical swings in the story and helps me to recognize my dream state while asleep. I still have no temporal reference in my dreams. What seemed like hours may have only lasted a few minutes.
I find that my chances of becoming lucid in a dream are best when I'm snoozing on a weekend morning just before getting up. I'm completely rested yet still in the mood to sleep so my mind can enter a very light sleep state.
When I'm able to recognize the dream state (about 10% now) I can fly now nearly 100% at will. I just spread my arms and start to levitate and have complete control. But the scenery flashing by is totally made up and often nonsensical. I can sometimes change my scale at will too. I can shrink down to the size of a bug or grow to the size of Godzilla and terrorize a city if I want. But if I get too ambitious and try to have sex with a hot girl or something the scripting effort raises my consciousness to the point where I always wake up. That's really frustrating.
If anyone wants to get better practice your recall and do the same trick over and over. For example, while trying to fall asleep at night think about shrinking down to the size of an insect and all the things you would see from that perspective. Eventually you will be so accustomed to the sensation you won't wake yourself up if you try it in a dream.
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