I was thinking of starting a new playthrough mainly because of Fallout:London was around just the corner, but the moment they announced the update I knew I would have to either postpone a couple of months or do the Steam console downgrade. I'm mostly a Skyrim player (and know very well the update pains), since I'm already in the middle of a very long playthrough I'm waiting for things to be stable enough for Fallout:London to come out. I do have a couple of tricks up my sleve though, if you mod using MO2 (with a plugin called Root) you can basically make your Steam console downgrade look like a mod and make Steam think the game is up to date while the binaries and plugins you actually play with are in your version of choice. My current setup is for Skyrim 1.6.640 while the current version is 1.6.1170. I'm quite confident it would work for Fallout as well, I can give you some pointers if you are interested.

A couple of decades ago I had a siamese that could get from being perfecly still on the ground to the top of a 6"6' fridge without even touching the sides of it. Siamese are quite light and nimble tough...

I'm 41, I'm one o those 'lucky' ones that need very little sleep on a genetic level, I've been like this my whole life, even as a teen I already slept less than 7 hours a night. My normal is less than 5 hours a night usually in one solid dreamless block. I work in an office so in business days I go to bed a little before 3AM and get up around 7AM. If I'm left to my own devices (weekends, holidays and the like) sleep usually goes from a bit before 5AM to a bit after 9AM. Basically not exactly but almost night owl.

My work PC is a bit less than 2 years old and with 16gb of memory I was running in the same problems with SQL Server and VS2022 running together. What worked for me was disabling the fancy "AI" code suggestions, the background process for it was gobbling 1.5GB+ per VS instance, that's definitely not worth the couple extra lines of code I had to write.

I'm a huge fan of the lore in general, but not as much of the games per se. I did a couple of Fallout 4 playthroughs, and probably will do one for Fallout London when is out if I manage to be done with Starfield by then. I did try 3 and New Vegas but even with the QOL mods they become playable but definitely show their age for me...

I love Fallout from a lore perspective, but being an Elder Scrolls guy myself, is not the first thing that comes to mind to play when I got nothing to do. That said Fallout:London does look amazing, it gives me Enderal levels of content quality vibes from what I saw so far. As for the series, I basically gave up on American produced content a while back, but I got hope this will be one of the rare exceptions. The production quality seems on point from what I've seem, let's hope it doesn't fizzle out like Westworld did.

Here in Brazil sales taxes are Lovecraftian levels of nightmarish. We have a form in a shared Windows Forms library that we use in several of our "of the shelf" products that deals with invoicing and taxes of product sales that is 17K lines in and of itself, no counting helpers and specialized components and dialogs. Most of that code it to manage the interacion between the UI and the rules and calculations for taxes. You sometimes see people complaining about doing income tax declarations, they have no idea how it is like to sell a simple piece of candy in Brazil.

You should not feel bad treating yourself something nice from your hard earned money when you can afford it, I certainly don't. On that note, just updated my 1080 workhorse I got basically the week it came out with 4080 which is finally be able to drive my screen at full refresh rate and resolution. Much like you hardware I'm not using gets passed down the family tree after a revision, must have 3 or 4 generations of hardware still going somewhere with someone.

At least in plastic containers dates for things that don't spoil like water, honey and the like are not for the product itself but for the plastic container. Plastic begins to break down over time and will contaminate the water bottled within.

Ever tought of extending something like ZEdit? I only nibbled arround the edges with modding using it to adjust a couple o values in the form records but as I understand it has an extension API that can be used to make patchers using javascript. There is also the Synthesis patcher with the Mutagen libraries which are in .Net.