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Education system here took a serious dump when the fed decided to base school funding on student performance. So, if you had poorly performing students, it was in the schools best interest to give the appearance they were doing better than they actually were.... so, kids that had actually failed exams/classes/etc, were STILL passed on to the next grade. Particularly any of those students that showed a modicum of athletic ability....... folks went to a great deal of trouble to see that they passed their classes. (and sometimes that involved having other folks do their work for them......) Teachers pay was also based on student performance..... so, teachers were motivated to make sure their students 'looked good on paper' as well. Grading on curves, LOTS of 'extra credit' work..... giving a good deal of credit for simply showing up in class on a regular basis, etc. It was stupid, and I knew it was stupid the first time the president talked about it. (and I was in my 20's at the time.....) I was dumbfounded that folks couldn't see exactly what was going to happen...... and it did. The US used to be rated in the top 10 on education, now, we are down in the mid 30's....... It didn't help that schools became 'babysitters' for working class parents...... When I grew up, both parents working was a rarity. By the time I graduated, it was becoming more common. Few years later, it pretty much required two incomes to support a middle class household.... Schools started offering breakfast programs to 'under privileged' kids, then they started offering lunch programs as well.... then, just about EVERYONE qualified for the free meals.... and school budgets suffered for it. That money had to come from somewhere.... They stopped teaching 'useful skills' classes. No more Home Economics. No more shop classes. Arts and humanities were next on the chopping block. Schools became nothing more than 'testing centers'. Kids were taught how to pass the test the fed mandated. (on which, school funding was based....) Everything else fell by the wayside. Except sports programs, of course...... Those were pretty much exempt from ANY budget cuts. A school in a town north of me a ways, built a new school. Then decided they needed a new sports stadium. Put the millage increase (tax to pay for it) to a vote. It was declined. School built the place anyway.... Something just north of 5 million dollars (back in the late 90's) for a stadium that DIDN'T HAVE BATHROOMS...... The sheer stupidity of it all was outrageous. But it's typical of school administration.... Truly scary. And all the while, the government decided that they knew better how to raise and discipline kids, than their parents did. They also decided that it wasn't the schools place to discipline ANYONE, and the inmates took over the asylum. Teachers had no authority in their own classrooms. The students did..... You can guess how that turned out..... When things started going bad, the powers-that-be wondered what was going wrong, so, more counselors/social workers appeared in schools. (and there's that budget thing again.....) Things still didn't get better. Then we got 'safe spaces', and other such nonsense. And it went downhill from there... I actually feel sorry for kids going to school today. They don't really get a quality education.... They get a great indoctrination though..... But, I graduated back in the late 70's. (yeah, I'm an old fart too. :) ) Things were MUCH different then. And having an education MEANT something.

Trouble is, what the folks in DC think should be the 'standard' for education, is a major part of the problem...... Due to the way schools are allocated money, it is now more important to see that kids advance to the next grade level every year, whether they passed their classes or not...... My dad was an english professor at a local small college, and he was outright disgusted watching the number of incoming students that couldn't read at a fourth grade level, or do basic math, increased every year...... I agree, something definitely needs to change with college/university financing/student loans/etc. Roping these kids into spending a hundred grand to get a degree that will only get them 25K a year after graduation..... and then most of their income goes to repaying the student loans? That's idiotic. (though, I am NOT a fan of student loan forgiveness.....) The UN is pretty useless. They have no power, no authority, and their troops aren't even allowed to carry loaded weapons...... they are observers, and sometimes participants in the atrocities, and that's about it. So of their programs are actually pretty good, but, "peace-keeping"?? They are pretty worthless. Yeah, expecting politicians to essentially cut off their own gravy train is a pretty far stretch. :D Much as I would like to see it, I am not holding my breath. :D

I am thinkin' if we could just cut back on government waste, our budgets would be a lot healthier..... but, that is just a pipe dream. Too many people making too much money off of all that 'waste'. Dumping the Department of Education wouldn't hurt my feelings either. That would save a fair chunk of change, and maybe our education system would start improving again...... Shutting down a selection of our military bases on foreign soil would be another great money saver...... along with getting ourselves OUT of a bunch of wars that aren't accomplishing anything at all. Revamping our tax system could also help..... But, in the end, I think the BEST thing we could do for our country is to implement term limits for congress. :) Some of those guys have been there WAY too long, and that is a large part of the problem in Washington D.C.

Windows will automagically cache some stuff in ram, whether you are using it or not.... As you play, yeah, memory usage will go up, but, it *should* drop back down to more normal levels once you exit the game. It appears your is not. Wonder if you have a mod causing a memory leak in there somewhere.

I think the technology has a LONG way to go before we no longer "need" to repay debts..... I don't see that happening any time in the near future..... But, I would also point out that there have already been several countries that have had 'austerity measures' forced on them, for significantly less debt than what the US holds now.... The US could have paid off those debts (for several countries...) and it wouldn't even have been a blip on our financial Radar..... yet here we are, 22 TRILLION dollars in debt, (and climbing at an alarming rate) and no one seems to care. China made some noise about it a few years back...... but, since then, I haven't heard so much as a squeak about it. Even our politicians don't bring it up....

I am waiting for the rest of the world to figure out that the US is NEVER going to be able to repay it's debts. The government continues to operate at a deficit, and no one seems to care. At least, not yet...... Currently, debt service accounts for around 8% of the national budget. But, that is with rather low interest rates.......

Not immediately, but, it's coming....... ten, fifteen years? 20 at most I would think.

Personally, I don't think Fallout 76 has much consequence to the modding community, considering how beth is treating mods for the game. But then, the game was a disaster from the get go. Even worse than usual for beth. 76 was a money grab, pure and simple. My guess is, it worked, but, not nearly so well as beth hoped.

If you are starting a new game, you can reshuffle your mods to your hearts content, BEFORE you start the game. :)

Did you regenerate your ini files after changing your video card? (did it get replaced with the same model?) Drivers up to date? Temps good?

Why not ask Gopher to do it? Or at least, if he would, or alternatively, allow someone else to.

My gf is wondering about the source for your claim friend. I was wondering if you could enlighten us to it :D When windows goes into hibernation, it writes pretty much everything in RAM, to the disk, so when you wake it up, the machine is in the same state as when you left. That can be a fair bit of data. On older SSD's, I can see how that might potentially cause issues, but, the technology has improved dramatically over the years, and today, I don't think it matters at all. My biggest thing with hibernation is, windows does not always recover nicely. For a while, some laptops wouldn't wake up out of hibernation....... some windows update broke it. Supposedly, they fixed that...... but, I still see them every now and again. And in that same vein, lets talk about Windows "Fast Start". A 'feature' of win 10. If it is enabled, your machine never really shuts down, when you tell it to, it actually goes into a state very similar to hibernation, as in, it writes everything in RAM to the HDD, so when you 'restart', it looks just like it did when you shut it down. Not really a fan of that particular trick, so, on my machines, I usually turn it off.

I just want to point out that, while you may think Bethesda is trying to make something for you specifically, that's untrue, obviously. They offer an experience, they offer a game, and in their wisdom and grace they also say, if you don't like what we offer, we also offer the tool to help you tailor your experience as well. Just be sure you remember that tidbit. Bethesda is the only company that does this. Not even CDPR developed their devtools for Witcher 3, they're barebones. That's why I mod by the way. I mod at any chance given to me. If a game is gracious enough to allow me into the files and let me tweak, I instantly do so. I am not one of these puritans who wants or even has the time anymore to experience a game at it's own pace. Once I find the games systems, loops and mechanics, I understand overall what the game will be 1 hour in and 100 hours in. So I play as much as I can, as much as I want, and drop it. Lots of games to play, lots of life to live, but at the end of the day, Fallout 4/Skyrim/Bethesda Games have always drawn me back in with the constant tinkering I can do inside of them. I work in CG, and trouble shooting issues on a daily basis is a fun thing to do. Some other people work as Generalists, who just kind of shift between departments, from modeling, surfacing, animation, rigging, etc, usually bug fixing. I kind of like that work ethic, just kind of looking at a list of what needs doing, and doing what you feel like that day, modding is similar. It's satisfying when you solve a problem. I am well aware that beth isn't making the games for me specifically, that's why I find it necessary to mod the games.....

Yer gonna like it. :D Have fun with it. :)

Thank you for perfectly illustrating my point. You do not have a clue. It seems that you couldn't get clue, even if you stood in field of clues, drowned in clue musk, giving the clue mating call. You have no idea what you are talking about. You are simply spouting off what you have been indoctrinated with. Your handlers should be proud.

I would like to think that even Beth isn't that stupid. Free mods is the REASON their games have been so long-lived. If they do away with free mods, they will lose their modding community, and some customers for their games. Including their main audience, console players. The console players are now buying beth games BECAUSE they can get free mods.

Beth is all about making money, that's what the creation club was for. No idea how well that is working out for them...... As for the 'free' mods..... Xbox has pretty free reign on what they can add to their game, limited only by the amount of space Microsoft allows them to use for 'third party content'. No real idea just why MS put such a restriction in place though..... Hardware related? No clue. PS/4, on the other hand, is severely restricted on what free mods they can use. (and also have a limited amount of space for them.) But, again, those restrictions are in place from Sony. So, PS/4 only gets .esp/.esm mods. No additional assets allowed. THAT puts a severe restriction on just what they can do. Neither of those situations does beth have any control over. From my perspective, I think the console players are just happy to have ANY modding capability at all. I am sure the PS/4 folks would dearly love for Sony to relax the restrictions some... (quite a bit....) but, as it hasn't happened yet, I am not holding my breath that it ever will. Beth will never allow Nexus to sell mods, regardless of the source of the content. It is my understanding that MS, and Sony, won't allow their consoles to download from third party sites either, only directly from the game publisher. So, while Nexus likely wouldn't mind getting that opportunity, I don't see it happening. Ever. :D That said, Nexus does a MUCH better job of hosting, and supporting mod authors. Beth has been improving, but, when you start at the very bottom of the barrel, improvement really isn't all that hard to come by. Don't recall if I have said it before in this thread.... but, Beths original site for forums/hosting was absolutely terrible. Three teenagers with a zero dollar budget could have done a better job. (and they have.....)

If they weren't oppressed by a dictator supported by the US government or any other government, if the bosses didn't loot their country's wealth while turning the fertile soils into deserts through the intensive monocultures filled with pesticides many persons woud stay in their country istead of immigrating to the US or anywhere else. So they immigrate to the very country they blame for all their problems? In what world does that make any sense at all? Like I explained on the previous page and you don't have any argument to oppose me. I see you have as much honesty as you have courage ; that's to say none. I don't need an argument to oppose you. It is patently obvious that you have never been here, and don't have the first clue what life is like here. You likely base all your opinions (and that is ALL they are) on what you read in whatever extreme left-wing rags you subscribe to. You have nothing to back up your 'arguments', just your most certainly biased opinions. Stop your pathetic bull$hit comedy, if you're so sure to be right show me an american law that forces the american bosses to apply their work-related laws abroad like in the maquiladoras for example. You so funny..... :) Corporations have to abide by the laws of the countries that they are operating in. If some country or other doesn't have much in the way of worker protections, then guess what, the workers aren't really protected. And it isn't just american corporations doing it either. ALL of them do. Free Trade agreements aren't really 'free'. Here at home, we have a pretty significant population of illegal immigrants coming from those countries that you accuse us of 'exploiting'.... (and you aren't far from the mark there, I'll give you that.) The illegals don't get the protections offered by the law, as they are, by definition, outside the law already. So, employers go to where these folks congregate, looking for work, and hire them on the spot, at wages far lower than what a legal citizen would get. They also don't get OSHA protections, workmans comp, or insurance on the job either. And for the most part, they don't pay taxes either. They are paid cash. Completely off the books. End result? They are exploited here, just like they were at home. Plus, they get the added bonus of pissing off the LEGAL workers, whose jobs they are taking.

I remember seeing a mod that added weapon/armor degradation, but, it was a beta release, had some interesting requirements, and wasn't the most stable....... No idea if they are still working on it or not. (I seem to recall it hadn't been updated for quite some time.....) Beth games are notorious for making it very easy to get incredibly rich...... All the way back to Morrowind. (and maybe even earlier.....) So far, I haven't seen any mods designed as money pits for FO4.

Brand doesn't really matter. Crucial, Sony, Samsung, Western Digital are all pretty decent. If you customize the machine when you order it, the manufacturer will install the right stuff, and you can be assured it will be compatible.

If they weren't oppressed by a dictator supported by the US government or any other government, if the bosses didn't loot their country's wealth while turning the fertile soils into deserts through the intensive monocultures filled with pesticides many persons woud stay in their country istead of immigrating to the US or anywhere else. So they immigrate to the very country they blame for all their problems? In what world does that make any sense at all? Like I explained on the previous page and you don't have any argument to oppose me. I see you have as much honesty as you have courage ; that's to say none. I don't need an argument to oppose you. It is patently obvious that you have never been here, and don't have the first clue what life is like here. You likely base all your opinions (and that is ALL they are) on what you read in whatever extreme left-wing rags you subscribe to. You have nothing to back up your 'arguments', just your most certainly biased opinions.

If they weren't oppressed by a dictator supported by the US government or any other government, if the bosses didn't loot their country's wealth while turning the fertile soils into deserts through the intensive monocultures filled with pesticides many persons woud stay in their country istead of immigrating to the US or anywhere else. So they immigrate to the very country they blame for all their problems? In what world does that make any sense at all?

I think we can all agree that covid is out there, it is spreading, and that it can kill...... To deny it, is just a bit disingenuous....... The news is filled with it, from both sides. (and rarely do they all agree on anything at all, even what color grass is...) As for 'prevention measures', staying away from everyone else is likely the most effective. If you aren't near anyone that is infected, then you are not real likely to contract it. Right? Now, avoiding ALL human interaction would be difficult, if not impossible..... at least, not for months on end. (unless you wanna do subsistence living out the woods, or some such.) Not to mention that some human interaction is required for our society to continue operating..... Wearing a mask? Just is still out on that one. It sure can't hurt though..... I keep seeing different opinions on gloves though... Some claim they help, others claim they don't, still others claim they actually INCREASE your odds of contracting it.... Seems odd, but, I haven't dug too far into that one.... At this point, we are still pretty much in the early stages of the pandemic. We won't know the true cost for some time yet. If we don't find a vaccine, we will continue paying the cost until the virus dies out naturally. Or, we will be stuck with it for the foreseeable future.... I don't recall seeing anything at all about a preventative measure that was truly effective. (aside from hiding at home, and not seeing anyone....) I saw a lot of rumors, and then I saw a lot of articles claiming it was misinformation. (and Trump REALLY isn't helping on that front.....) I also hear rumors of various companies selling vaccines...... Yet I haven't seen anything at all about their effectiveness, or even what testing they have gone thru. Folks seem to be spending huge piles of money on it though.... (well, governments, and corporations.....) What's the truth? I sure don't know. Not like I trust ANY of the mainstream media outlets........

Place Everywhere shouldn't have anything to do with it...... It's only really active when you are in build mode. I would more suspect there is a conflict between it, and one of your other FOSE plugins.

Ask yourself why we aren't stopping the spread. It's not because quarantines don't work, it's because we waited way to late to start quarantining. The president you elected, decided that instead of quarantining all of the countries that were affected by Covid, he was only going to quarantine China, for basically political reasons. That came back to bite us because as it turns out most of the spreading in America came from those returning from or touring from Europe. Then in month between banning Europe after banning China we did absolutely nothing, implemented no quarantines, and just let it spread. The whole point of an effective quarantine is to do it ASAP and be strict about. It's effectiveness is only as good as its implementation. We implemented it poorly and thus it isn't working out well. But here's the cool thing, we can see the data for this stuff in real time, and you know what that data shows us. States that practiced heavier and stricter quarantine and lockdowns ended up reducing both the spread and cases of the disease. Like, just read the news and follow the data, everything you need to know about how effective quarantine and lockdown is can be inferred from there. About your second point, yes. That's the unfortunate side effect of a global pandemic, people and businesses are going to suffer. But you know what? Recovery is going to happen, it's a given. Will it take time? Yes. Will some people be left worst off financially than before? Yes. But economies can be fixed, you know what's permanent? Death. You're also acting like the unemployment extras are going to continue after Covid is no longer considered a pandemic and people are are able to get back to work. It's not a permanent thing, it's a temporary solution to people unable to work or fired during a national pandemic so that they can still provide for their families. Acting like people are suddenly not going to want to continue working just because they are collecting unemployment is a disingenuous argument with no data backing it up. The whole reason that extra money was given is because typical unemployment benefits received were way to low to help people affected by the pandemic. So yes, in some cases people are going to make more money than they did in their regular jobs, but this PUA is temporary, it was going to end in July but got extended to January (I think), these people aren't going to be able to rely on it forever. But just taking it away will probably have a higher negative impact on the economy than keeping it going a while longer. And I haven't heard the fat lady sing yet. We are still right in the middle of the pandemic. Sure, quarantines SLOW the spread of the disease, but, will never STOP it. The disease isn't going to go away either. When quarantine is lifted/relaxed, we are going to see the numbers go up again. We still don't have a vaccine. In the end, the same number of folks are going to be infected. By slowing the spread, we *might* save a few lives.... but, that is one of those things we will never be able to measure. Trump is talking about signing an order to extend the unemployment benefits thru the end of the year. Then what? We are still going to be in the midst of the pandemic, and folks still won't be going back to work. Will they get extended again? And once the quarantine is lifted, how many of those folks are actually going to have jobs to go back to? The current unemployment rate is north of 13%.... which is significantly higher than it was during 'the great recession of 07-09... (10.6%) Do I have a solution? Nope. Should we drop the quarantine now, and try and save what's left of our economy? Probably not a good idea..... So, where does that leave us? Essentially, we get to look forward to a recovery from a downturn worse than the great recession. Once some of the measures preventing banks/landlords from filing on all those folks that haven't been paying rent/mortgage payments....... things are going to get even worse.... It will make the bursting of the housing bubble back in 08 look like a party in the park. (hopefully, everyone will be wearing their masks......) Yep. It's gonna suck. It will likely take years to recover, and that assumes we don't get another round of covid. (we REALLY need a vaccine....) So, prepare now, and be ready for what we KNOW is coming.