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I stopped at the Trapper's Cabin on my way from Pleasant Valley to Forlorn Muskeg. It felt a little like seeing an old friend after a long time apart.

Enjoying a clear night on Pensive Pond.

Back in the Valley after exploring Timber Wolf Mountain.

So good, and also works for sprains!

So this happened to me a couple of weeks ago after sleeping, when the game should normally save. Oh no, my progress towards 500 days is doomed! I knew I had plenty of hard drive space, but no matter what I did, I could not make the game save my progress anymore. I submitted a report, but after a few days I decided to do more research. I found some posts, both here and on the Steam forums, but nothing consistent or specific, except that a few them mentioned Steam as the problem (although this message had also popped up on consoles). So I checked the properties and decided to get rid of the cloud synch, since I only play on one machine anyways. Success! My save file can save again, my progress has resumed. I have no idea how this happened, why this worked, and if the problem will return, so if anyone has good info on this, please reply. Also, I wanted to get a potential solution out there in case this happens to anyone else. I mean, I can't be that special, can I? Maybe I should play lotto.

Tail section silhouetted by aurora.

It's a beautiful day to open cargo containers.

Trippy

That's a good call, the barrel and ejector rod shroud match up a lot better visually.

Yes, except, unlike longitude and latitude, the coordinate system makes no use of the cardinal directions (North, South, East, West), hence the positive and negative numbers along the x and y axis lines.

Player-crafted maps like these were created by using the debug screenshot (F8) , which provides the current map position of the player, so the numbers refer to the x and y coordinate system it uses.

A google image search located this artwork on Jared Purrington's site. http://www.jaredpurrington.com/paodjtl8ocq8m9tk14gm4r66p6v06z

I remember when my journal kinda looked like a journal, as opposed to a terminal window.

Angry Aurora-Mouth Face Thing, with a single lock of hair.

I can't speak to the performance aspect, but the visual model of the revolver looks similar to a Smith & Wesson Model 29 , although the grip is a bit more stretched out and less vertical. The S&W Model 29, using the .44 Magnum cartridge, became crazy famous in the seventies after the Clint Eastwood movie Dirty Harry. The one in the game uses one of the shorter barrels, I think. Anyways, I'm not saying it IS this specific revolver, I'm just saying the visual model looks very similar, and the Model 29 is the likely inspiration.

I think the color is from the flare, the sky was overcast when I ended that run. I was also doing other random stuff like firing arrows straight up just to see how long it took them to come back down.

F10 hides the onscreen icons and saves the image to your drive while F12 keeps them and puts the images in a steam folder for uploading.

Long fall from the railroad trestle in the ravine. Decided to do it last night to save my longest sandbox journal before the wipe.

It seems fine to me. The challenge feels designed as a grand tour to show new players a variety of locations across different maps. If you already know all the locations well, or use external maps during play, then it's obviously not that difficult. I think Pillock has the right idea about loot, though. Nomad is mostly about scavenging, there's really no need to get into any of the crafting to make it through the challenge. I think all I crafted were old man bandages. As far as boredom while waiting inside a location, I either perform an activity (cooking, harvesting, mending, sharpening, cleaning) or use the pass time function on the radial menu. If there was no way to accelerate time then yes, it would be boring to sit inside waiting to sleep, but that's not the case.

Subscribed to the pod and looking forward to more episodes. Something that might be fun to hear is anecdotes about game development, either from TLD or past projects.

Awake in the night I strike a flare to push back A dark full of eyes

All this talk of low temperature made me curious, so I looked up the coldest recorded temperature on Earth (as measured by ground personnel, not satellite measurements). Turns out it's −89.2 °C, from Vostok Station in Antarctica on July 21, 1983. There's also a tradition called the 300 club among scientists at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. They wait for a day when the temperature drops to −100°F (-73°C), then they first warm up in the sauna to 200°F, and then run outside naked to the geographic south pole marker, thus enduring a temperature change of 300°F.

No Way Out

I Didn't Choose the Hut Life... ...ok, well actually I did, but only for a few days.