
Daniel Arndt
124 posts




Elder Scrolls VI has a Crimson Desert problem. For 15 years Skyrim was the benchmark. Every open world RPG got compared to it. I think that just ended. Crimson Desert’s world is so dense that NPCs actually go to church on Sundays. Just Sundays. Rest of the week they’re doing other things. That level of detail is everywhere. Combat makes Skyrim’s look like a tech demo. I’m 48 hours in and still wandering the opening area. The scale is absurd. Pearl Abyss is also shipping daily updates and free DLC while Bethesda is still warming up on Elder Scrolls VI. So when ES6 finally drops, it’s not getting compared to a 15-year-old game. It’s getting compared to this one. More Skyrim won’t cut it. Full breakdown in my latest video, link in comments.








Crimson Desert world is so massive and diverse, it took John Linneman from Digital Foundry roughly 4 hours of traversal and exploration to go from the opening village to the desert. He also noted that he hasn't felt this need to explore since RDR2 and Breath of the Wild.


I'm starting to think that all the most profitable drugs of the last several decades have been disasters for patient health. Statins, SSRIs, insulin for T2D, ADHD drugs, vaccines, NSAIDs... How are these different than thalidomide or mercury drugs?



Intense exercise reverses atherosclerotic heart disease



Leg day in Austin.



















