I was Thinking, or Not

So I am playing this game, Roads of Rome III.  Well it is an alright game, I guess, not Skyrim by any stretch of the imagination, but alright just the same.  It is a resource management game (time management), which means you have to marshal your time and your resources to accomplish your goals.  So I wonder, why can’t we do this in real life? This is set in Roman times, and I realize we can not do this anymore, times have changed.  This is a completely different world today, or is it.  Is it that it is different, or has the ways changed. In this way you are controlling a property, and through various resources managing them to accomplish the goals that are set by the game.  There are very different things at play here.  One you can not just have people go out and do work for you, you have to pay them, at least a minimum wage.  Well not just a minimum wage, but a minimum wage, disability payments, workman’s compensation payments, unemplo...

I am on my way to making TesV Skyrim as difficult as it can be.  I am using available mods, and looking at what I will need to do to make it more difficult and deadly.  I am still having some problems with the playability, but I have lowered the graphics settings and that seems to have helped some.  I am still having mod issues, but I will work them out eventually.  Once I have built the new gaming rig I will then be able to pump the graphics up to the max and it will not only be brutal, but beautiful as well. One of the things I am doing is starting from nothing, with nothing, and with no help from either faction.  This is made possible by the Alternate Start Mod “Live Another Life”.  I like this mod, and have tried a couple different starting points, but the left for dead start is by far my favorite.  The only problem I have even with that is that it starts you still with the fire and health magic, but that is okay, you do not have to use them. I ha...