“I see you’re exploring the galaxy.” A Starfield player made this insane Clippy space ship, taking the old school Microsoft assistant interstellar.
Clippy heads to the stars, in this fun space ship build from Starfield.
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Happy Monday gamers and Microsoft 365 users everywhere. None of the other editors have logged in yet, so I’m abusing the lack of oversight to post something fun and fanciful to get your week started.
If you’re of a certain age (potentially with back pain), you may rememberClippy, Microsoft’s fun and friendly Office assistant of yore. Clippy would pop up over the top of Word and other application documents, offering tips and tricks, sometimes unwantedly so, while you were working. These days we haveMicrosoft Copilotand the promise of AI tools likeWindows Recallpopping up unwantedly on our Microsoft documents, and they’re certainly far less fun than Clippy was. Alas, Clippy is gone, consigned to the ancient past of Microsoft’s vast and expanding graveyard of products no longer with us.
Clippy may have gone to software heaven, but what if Clippy had the capability to literallytravelthe heavens? OneStarfieldplayer over on reddit named/u/lililiilillil dared to imagine.
Starfield is the latest game from Bethesda Softworks, now owned by Microsoft under the firm’s Xbox gaming division. Bethesda is known for megahits like Fallout 3, 4, and The Elder Scrolls franchise, and its latest outing took players to one of the most expansive playgrounds the industry has seen, comprised of dozens of planets in a wide open galaxy.
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To travel around, players build their own ships (or use the basic one provided in the story). The ships are essentially comprised of blocks that connect together intuitively almost like Lego, but have limitations. A bigger ship needs more power to escape planetary gravity, inter-system flight requires bigger fuel storage capacity, and so on. UsingStarfield mods, however, you can circumvent some of the restrictions on PC, and createmonstrositiesawesome ships like reddit’s friendly Clippy ship up there.
On September 30, 2024 (today, in fact),Bethesda is launching Shattered Space, its first story DLC expansion for Starfield. The game proved controversial at launch, with some users criticizing the game’s over-reliance on procedurally-generated planets. Shattered Space conversely is an entirely hand-crafted experience, with heavy horror vibes, where players help (or hinder) a space cult in crisis.
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I long for Clippy, but this will do
Clippy is essentially a meme these days, at least among users of a certain age (you and me, probably), but I can’t help but reminisce about its impact. It represents a more “fun” and less “corporate” time for Microsoft in some ways. Microsoft Copilot might be infinitely more useful thanks to itsChatGPTback end, but Clippy or evenCortanawere morefun.Ultimately, I know people don’t really want work tools to be fun, right? Maybe they do, which would explain whyMicrosoft put games in Microsoft Teamsand LinkedIn.
Clippy lives on in tributes like the above, but also in Microsoft’s ownWindows 11emoji (📎), at least on the latest versions. I can’t help but feel like Microsoft Copilot or even Bing itself would be far better received if it had a dash of Clippy in it, though. Maybe I’m just overly nostalgic. What do you think?
Either way, have an awesome week, Windows Central friends.
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Investigate the planet of Va’ruun’kai, and the shadowy cult that worships a so-called Great Serpent. Space myth, or space reality?
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