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Beth Hesda" in Hebrew means the house of mercy. But it also can mean the house of shame, and scholars view this ambiguous translation as appropriate. In ancient times, invalids and disabled people (who society shunned back then) would visit the spring for healing, so ancient people viewed it as a place of both shame and mercy..
 

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Not sure about mercy, they had none of it for Fallout, but house of shame sounds pretty accurate.
 

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Beth Hesda" in Hebrew means the house of mercy. But it also can mean the house of shame,

Seems about right. They feigned mercy for Fallout, resurrecting it, then brought shame to it.
 

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Beth Hesda" in Hebrew means the house of mercy. But it also can mean the house of shame, and scholars view this ambiguous translation as appropriate. In ancient times, invalids and disabled people (who society shunned back then) would visit the spring for healing, so ancient people viewed it as a place of both shame and mercy..

Are you married to Bethesda or something?
 

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Not a real town (as in "incorporated"), but yeah, just outside of Washington, DC. The NIH has a big building there, too.

The town was even featured in Fallout 3, as far as I know (never played the game).
 
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They're close to Chevy Chase, another name with deep implications ripped from Holy Writ.
 

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Beth Hesda" in Hebrew means the house of mercy

In Codexian Bet Its Shit Duh means the house of sin, debauchery of RPG, rape of past Incline, birthplace of present Decline

So yeah...Decline was conceived through rape of Incline... giving birth to new Golden age of Popamole

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The sad thing about Bethesda is that its line of games was originally inspired by the combination of Ultima VII: The Black Gate and Ultima Underworld, if I remember correctly. Ultima VII provided the inspiration for the open world, and UU for the first person perspective.

It's as if two brilliant geniuses inspired a complete retard, who completely misunderstood everything they stood for and regurgitated their achievements in a bunch of nonsense, and then, when they both disappeared into the mists of the past, became emperor for life.
 

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The sad thing about Bethesda is that its line of games was originally inspired by the combination of Ultima VII: The Black Gate and Ultima Underworld, if I remember correctly. Ultima VII provided the inspiration for the open world, and UU for the first person perspective.

It's as if two brilliant geniuses inspired a complete retard, who completely misunderstood everything they stood for and regurgitated their achievements in a bunch of nonsense, and then, when they both disappeared into the mists of the past, became emperor for life.
That is because they never got the core of what made Ultima great.

It wasn't Byzantine politics or Thanatos pile-ups a la Elder Scrolls. It wasn't a cast of thousands, each with its own VA. It wasn't 3D animation.

At its heart, Ultima was about the human condition. The 4-6 trilogy did this well: The betterment and good that comes from following a set of moral and ethical codes, the oppression and evil that comes from forcing that code on people without their willing participation, and the misinterpretation and misunderstandings and bigotry that comes when two diverse cultures meet.

Ultima 7 was a continuation of this. In it, Gariott actually protrayed something that is happening today IRL: The Fellowship profess to do good deeds and their creed seems to be benign and even uplifting, but a closer examination shows the rot lying within the flowers. And the leaders of the Fellowship were using their message of peace, unity and tolerance to further their own power, greed, lust and dark aims. It is an analogy of political correctness.

What do Bethesda have? Err... well, you get to become a living god for a bunch of dark elves, and you get to be an errand boy for the true protagonist of the story, and... you get to detonate a nuclear bomb!
 

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The sad thing about Bethesda is that its line of games was originally inspired by the combination of Ultima VII: The Black Gate and Ultima Underworld, if I remember correctly. Ultima VII provided the inspiration for the open world, and UU for the first person perspective.

It's as if two brilliant geniuses inspired a complete retard, who completely misunderstood everything they stood for and regurgitated their achievements in a bunch of nonsense, and then, when they both disappeared into the mists of the past, became emperor for life.
That is because they never got the core of what made Ultima great.

It wasn't Byzantine politics or Thanatos pile-ups a la Elder Scrolls. It wasn't a cast of thousands, each with its own VA. It wasn't 3D animation.

At its heart, Ultima was about the human condition. The 4-6 trilogy did this well: The betterment and good that comes from following a set of moral and ethical codes, the oppression and evil that comes from forcing that code on people without their willing participation, and the misinterpretation and misunderstandings and bigotry that comes when two diverse cultures meet.

Ultima 7 was a continuation of this. In it, Gariott actually protrayed something that is happening today IRL: The Fellowship profess to do good deeds and their creed seems to be benign and even uplifting, but a closer examination shows the rot lying within the flowers. And the leaders of the Fellowship were using their message of peace, unity and tolerance to further their own power, greed, lust and dark aims. It is an analogy of political correctness.

What do Bethesda have? Err... well, you get to become a living god for a bunch of dark elves, and you get to be an errand boy for the true protagonist of the story, and... you get to detonate a nuclear bomb!

I hope you are not serious.

The setting, universe, and philosophy was the cherry on the cake of Ultima games. The solid foundation, the basis to their success, was their cutting-edge technology, advanced gameplay&immersive world, the exploration and then the characters.
 

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I hope you are not serious.

The setting, universe, and philosophy was the cherry on the cake of Ultima games. The solid foundation, the basis to their success, was their cutting-edge technology, advanced gameplay&immersive world, the exploration and then the characters.
When you are someone brought up on games like Karateka and Tetris and Ultima 4, cutting-edge technology and advanced gameplay doesn't mean squat. It is the world building, the story and the engaging characters that make it for you. In Ultima 5, it was the scribe's account of the ill-fated Lord British journey to the underworld that still resonates with me. Central to all that is the core of the three Principles and the eight Virtues.

Every Ultima from 4 onwards has a central theme and a moral they were trying to impart to you. That was what made Ultima engaging. It was what EA destroyed with Pagan-Jumpalot and Ascension-Whatisapaladin.
 

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It's a suburb of DC, but it's not even located there anymore, it's Rockville, MD. And Zenimax is iirc located in Timonium, MD, just north of Baltimore.
 

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Considering you can have a town named Fucking in Austria, all bets are off
 

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