Posts

Showing posts from November, 2023

Starfield: A Little Story about Boredom and Potatoes

Image
 Anyone who has followed my Twitter account might tell you that I can develop some weird obsessions in video games. No game has given me more to obsess over than Starfield. Collecting potatoes is just one of these things. The photo below was taken while exploring Huygens III in the Huygens system. At the top of the stairs and an elevator lies an Abandoned Freestar Collective Garrison. Now I may have visited one of these facilities before but if so, it was long ago and I have forgotten. It wasn't marked on the planetary map as a point of interest so I assume it was deposited there when I landed. Shortly after dispatching the usual Spacer scum I discovered this slate belonging to Freestar Pvt. Brown.  Touch or click to expand. To summarize Pvt. Brown was a recent arrival who was very bored, questioned the mission and felt excluded by his colleagues. However he knows how to distill liquor and believed that might be his ticket to acceptance. He mentions using potatoes in his final para