Skyrim

I went outside O_o Also games

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We finally had some good weather today, so I decided to take a little walk. Also played a bit of TF2 with someone who was visiting one of my servers. It looked like they came for the custom maps. I played as a pyro and I have to say it looks like I haven’t lost my touch. 😛

Finished off the day with some Skyrimming. Defeated King Olaf and got the verse. I crafted myself a fur collar to wear.

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Apparently I’m turning into a furry. Which is funny because I figured that was established in ESO:

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What do my Skyrim characters and I have in common? All of our left eyes suck.

From Warriors Vail to Solitude

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I spent most of this rainy day adventuring into new worlds. I came across Warriors Vail, which is hidden inside the temple of redemption, a huge haven for vampire cultists… until I showed up. Warriors Vail seemed rather friendly once I entered through the portal from the temple, although this world a bit lacking in a few places. Like on the hunting grounds.

After claiming ownership of a house in the Vail I traveled to Solitude where I had a bath, and then laid with my best friend looking up at the beautiful night sky.

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I was really distraught when I came back the next day in game to find that my corpse buddy had gone away. Did we not bond well that night?!?!?! CORPSE BUDDY WHY?!?!?!?!?!

My friends have been listening to my small bits of commentary during gameplay while we’re chatting in Mumble, and we think I should keep what I spout out in a journal. So that we can place my words into another book for the potential mod we’re working on. I’ve also been toying with the idea of an In Character Skyrim blog, but I’m still not sure. I’d center it around my current Skyrim Character, which isn’t exactly a lore friendly, and parts of my adventures aren’t always lore friendly either. I think for now I’ll keep my ideas in a notepad until I either decide to go through with it, or when the mod is done. I’ll just sit and mull it over for the time being.

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Today I defused a console war between two co-workers of mine… by declaring myself the winner.

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One of my co-workers came in to buy the new Tom Clancy game for his XBox One, and my boss is a PS4 user. He started trolling him about how PS4 is the superior platform. So I raised my hand and said “You both lose, PC Master Race FTW” and they couldn’t argue. :v Although my boss for some reason thought PC Gaming wasn’t popular. Which is true, it isn’t popular…. among people who don’t know how to mod. You know, console users.

I also heard today about a guy my father knows. He built him a high end PC for video rendering a couple years back. i5 2500k processor and I can’t remember what type of GPU… but I know it’s an NVidia, a powerful one. He happens to also like playing Skyrim… on console. That was a lot for me to take in first thing in the morning while eating my breakfast. Turns out his reasoning was because he didn’t like the idea of using a keyboard and mouse instead of a controller. And modding? That’s really hard too because apparently you have to use torrents. Yeah I don’t know what he’s smoking either. Sure isn’t what I’ve been smoking.

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I can understand someone playing Skyrim on a console if they couldn’t afford a PC to play it on, but when you have an extremely beefy expensive build and continue to resort to the console version because a keyboard and a mouse are too hard that is just astonishing. Mind blowing, simply mind blowing.

It feels like the first time

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Last Saturday evening my Skyrim character could no longer save once I returned to Wyrmstooth. But much like the mighty pheonix my character was reborn anew. Starting over again isn’t so bad considering there are lots of different ways of playing the game, even morseo if you add tons and tons of mods. My friends recommended some to me that add extra lands and objects to the game, and I even ventured out on my own to make the game “fabulous”.

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That armor…. That hair!

I found an interesting lair today a bit outside Whiterun.

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Going inside leads you to a gem dragon. Upon destroying it you’ll earn it’s head and some other swag.

I’ve also added some different children to the game. One thing that always bothered me was that you had all these races you could play as and run into… but the children are so plain and look so much alike. So I added a mod that improves how the children look, added extra children’s clothing, and even added little khajits.

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My new character is completely different! I added a scarf…

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My playstyle is a bit different this time around. I’m taking the time to learn more about alchemy, and doing some enchanting here and there. I’m not sure how anyone can properly claim to “finish” this game. It feels like it never ends.

Managing my modded nightmare.

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I reached a sad point in my Skyrim game that lead my game to crash every time I tried to save after awhile. It happened in one of my castle mods, then I backtracked to an earlier save and had issues again when trying to leave or save within the Soul Cairn.

With guidance of my friends I installed Mod Organizer and went through a clean reinstall of my mods. My goal was to get everything nice and neat, then create a new character. But I loaded my saves and the crashing was gone. So now I’m not so sure… I think I’ll just ride it out until I have problems again. So far I spent a good few hours running around the land doing quests and going about my business. So for now it seems my adventures haven’t been brought to a screeching halt.

The Skyrim is still strong in this one

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I’ve gotten back into Skyrim again over the last few days. Partly because there’s still so much to do in it, and so many more places to visit since I’ve installed more mods. We’ve also been taking ideas from my dreams, like throwing the idea around of creating a custom adventure. If this became an actual thing it would probably remain a private adventure because it wouldn’t make sense to anyone else. But basically we’re giving my character a story. We already have a book and a ring, so that’s pretty cool.

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I won’t go into full detail about it, as that could become a novel. But the ring is cursed and the book I found explains what the curse does among other things. The curse itself isn’t really terrible either. In fact it’s quite fabulous you could say, and overall strange. I can’t really explain it without going into full detail. And the details would ruin most peoples Skyrim immersions. :v

But ever since I was younger I’ve always liked taking my dreams and doing things with them. I would turn them into stories, and later on when software and computers became more powerful I would turn them into animations, now my Skyrim dreams seem to be transforming into a mod. 😀

Steam Controller Diary: Day 1

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Yesterday I spent a good portion of my time futzing about with the new Steam Controller. I took it slow at first and tested it out by playing some platformers like Abyss Odyssey and Blade Kitten, that handled well as expected, as did PacMan. Then I decided to kick things up a notch and try configuring Skyrim. That’s when things got a little confusing. At least until I decided to look up configs created by other users.

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Each game (if someone creates a config to share) has a config that you can use if you’re not sure what would be a good layout. I took one of the configs for Skyrim and made a slight edit to it and surprisingly it handled real well. Well enough that I could play it away from my desk if I so choose to.

After finding the community section for games I decided to look at other games in my collection. Surprisingly even PacMan has some user created configs for it. Even some old DOS games. Daikatana though? Forget it! 😛

I still have many more games to go through, but so far I’m pretty impressed with how Skyrim performed. I don’t think it’ll completely replace my Logitech Controllers, but for versatility this stands a good chance. I’ll have to see how some Hack n Slashes and FPS games perform with it. Perhaps today during my lunch hour I’ll play with it some more using the gaming laptop. I already put some configs on there for a few games I might play today, depending on my mood.

Yes I’m hyped, no I’m not pre-ordering.

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All has been calm on the western front. I’ve had some people ask me if I was going to preorder MGSV Phantom Pain, FallOut 4, Mad Max etc etc, and to that I say no. Mostly because for one the pre-order bonuses (when offered) aren’t worth it to me, and the amount spent on even one of these games is a bit much for me right now. That and I have a large collection of games to keep me busy, or the way my game habits have been lately I should say Skyrim has been keeping me busy.

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I imagine between modding that, server management, playing on said servers and just working in general I’ll be plenty busy by the time they all go on sale alongside all the other games that I want to buy.

So it’ll happen eventually. In the meantime I have no problems making sure I’m not bored. In fact I can’t even remember the last time I was bored. O_o

The obligatory what I’ve been doing in Skyrim thread

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I haven’t really had much to write about but I’ve had plenty to keep busy with. Things like what you don’t ask? How about some Skyplatoon?

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I’ve been having fun painting all of Skyrim and killing enemies with blue and orange inks. I even killed a dragon.

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I’m currently wandering the land of Wyrmstooth; it isn’t perfect but it’s still loads of fun. If you haven’t played it yet and want new land to explore you should download Wyrmstooth and Falskaar. Both are amazing new world mods with lots of looting and adventuring. I’ll probably wander around in it some more later. I also played some Skyrim during my lunch break the last couple days… I think I need mental help. That’s not really because of Skyrim though, I’ve needed mental help for years. 😛