WizardOfAtlantis
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It doesn't necessarily make people perverts, no. I play female characters and make mods for females, but, surprise surprise, I've no actual interest in going to bed with a female IRL. Why don't people just ignore things they disapprove of?
I think there's too much tension inside of these people that they can't deal with and so they let it out at the Face in the Mirror, who they mistake for being someone else.
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But how heavily and how often are your long term high achievers using? The sort of use I am seeing with these low achievers is every day and five or more spliffs a day, they start when they get up and finish when they crash out. I have worked in the law in the past myself and you just would not get on if you were that stoned all of the time. I can just imagine what would happen if you stood up in front of the learned judge reeking of weed and off your face, he'd have you in the dock yourself. In the end when people are using to that extent as I describe, they have no willpower to do anything as they are chilled to the point of comatose, and just don't care, and that is why they don't achieve their potential. To put it another way, it makes them lazy.
I am ALWAYS uncomfortable with the using of the generalization about coming from a poor and broken family as a reason for under achieving. I feel that this is setting up people from poor backgrounds to fail, encouraging them to give up before they even start out in life. As I have said before, some of our highest achievers in both commerce and academia have arrived in the UK as refugees with no more than the shirt on their backs. Some of my own forebears and relatives have done so. The same holds true for the United States. But nowadays, we are encouraging them TO FAIL, fostering the idea that there is no hope, and that makes me sad.
Yeah, I hear where you're coming from, but again, it's not what they're doing (in a categorical sense) but rather how much and why and what then they are capable of achieving in that state. Some people can smoke the wacky tabaccy multiple times a day for decades and be all right with it. I have seen that to be the exception, of course, if it's a morning to night thing. Most people around the world, I think, can responsibly smoke at home after work and be all right for as long as they desire. It depends on what you have to do, how much/when you smoke, how you can handle it, etc. Some lines of work/living are most suitable, others are not. I don't want soldiers getting high on anything, pills, booze, joints, anything, however creative types and mystics can get stuff done that way. Most people can relax a bit, at the right time and in the right setting.
I totally agree with you that those people in your examples are smoking too much for themselves to be able to achieve much by normal, societal standards. Obviously, though, they don't want to do anything else. The stuff they smoke is just the tool they use to effect their will upon their world. However, it's not marijuana's fault. Just like it's not a gun's fault if I ever had to shoot something/someone with it. That's my "fault" (and his, if it's a someone), as in my decision (and knowing me, it would be my decision based on his fault, lolhttp://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/tongue.gif).
I don't like generalizations, either. I don't see it as an explanation, but as a way of keeping something in mind. It's good to keep an eye on what cards someone has in their deck, but it can never be an excuse. Failure is failure, and I too believe sympathy is a misused coin. I am sympathetic over children in foreign countries who have to fight at the age of 6 in order to have a handful of rice to eat a day, if they're lucky. And I am sympathetic, too, to the kid in the US/UK or wherever who's had a rough upbringing though to a much lesser degree, of course. However, at some point, I think there deserves to be a fair amount of Kick-in-the-Ass treatment as well, for people growing up in developed countries.
Too many people use excuses to justify the fact that they're weak-willed. And that goes for home life, being overly fat, whatever.
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After I starting seeing Star Trek Enterprise as not really Star Trek at all, I began to enjoy it more for some of the merits it did have.
I'd take it farther. I think that is a very important "right" we have in the modern world, where we can judge ourselves what is official or not based upon our own personal tastes.
At times, I think writers simply drop the ball/story, and frag up in a way that is not only completely out of character but also out of "story", if you get my drift. Not only Star Trek is subject to this, but also works by single authors...Rowling comes to mind with Harry Potter quite quickly as an example of someone who at times suffers from literary brain farts, things to which we just have to say, "well, no, not in MY Harry Potter Universe did you just do that."
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...I have a picture of the two-hand idle. You can see the body position in here. *snip*
Looks like Pretty Woman - Animation Replacer to me.
*had a hard time reading with those "<br>"s cluttering around. -.-
Yeah, you know, it does look like that, doesn't it? Not that I can ever remember installing that mod, but what do I know? Thanks, I'll look into it. And I don't know what caused all of those glitches in the response you read...must've happened when I edited it for spelling, commands and such not being carried out or something.
Edit: hmm, strange, though. I never had my girls walk that way. Too undignified for my warriors, imo. Weird! Oh, and I think I figured out the br's...editing without using the full editor and posting. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/biggrin.gif
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Professor Iverson refers to that study that I linked, and to others, to propose the view, of which I have seen much evidence with my own eyes, that long term, heavy users of cannabis often under achieve and earn less.
The sad truth about "science" is that anyone can prove anything, if you look in the right directions. I bet there were many other factors that could have been linked among those people to prove many other "facts" about them. I've read too many studies out to "prove" something that, of course, do just that.
As it seems to be from a wider eye, the truth, ginnyfizz, is that you are only exposed to those low-achievers because of circumstance (job, who you happen to know, etc).
My life experiences say the exact opposite, for example. I've known many more "normal" people and high-achievers (lawyers, artists, etc) that are long-term marijuana smokers than the low-achieving type (which, quite "coincidentally", are the people that generally came from abusive and/or broken families).
I'd say the relationship is rather casual instead of causal.
And I'll never stop repeating it whenever I get a chance: Amsterdam is the cleanest, most well-behaved and polite city I've visited yet. Period. Can't wait to go back, and it's not for doing the things stereotypically associated with the city. What a breath of responsible, fresh air, too. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/yes.gif
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So where are the system requisites for this game, then? I keep thinking about that but I haven't seen anything. You guys are speaking in certainties, so spill the beans! http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/biggrin.gif
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<br><br><br>Yeah, that's not it. It's nice, though...maybe I'll look into using some pieces of it somehow, like just the idles, as that replaces attack animations as well unless I'm mistaken and I wouldn't want prob's with Deadly Reflex. Thanks!<br><br>For curiosity, what was the body mod you got to have a similar idle? I don't remember at all what mod gave me those idles. <br><br>I have a picture of the two-hand idle. You can see the body position in here.<br>
<br>I don't think it was this<br><a href="http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=17909" class="bbc_url" title="External link" rel="nofollow external">http://www.tesnexus....le.php?id=17909</a><br>but the 1hander idle sounds like it. It's the 2handed idle I can't figure out. I have a similar idle, but it came with a body mod rather than a posing/idle/animation replacer.<br><br>Hello Mod Detective, and good work as always!<br><br>I just reinstalled my game after jumping to win 7 from xp, and I can't seem to figure out what mod gave me the weapon idles that I had before. The one-hand sword idle that I saw in-game in 3rd person and in menu had the sword held at the right leg, with the point down, but my char's face was held upright and straight, with a straight back. The 2-H idle had the sword at the right hip, with the blade horizontal and pointing back.<br><br>It's not Idles Poses Replace, for those slight differences I mentioned. Ach! it could be part of something larger, but I have no idea. Reinstalling (especially on a new OS) is making me figure out how to get what I do have working together again in and all new way, for that added difficulty) Help, please! <img src="http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/wallbash.gif"> And thanks<img src="http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/smile.gif"><br> -
I really cannot comprehend why anyone wants to force others {to play the game vanilla} aside from some base urge to exert control over people.
Brackets { }added by me in the above quote.
There's a lot of that going on in the worldhttp://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/pirate.gif
That's apparently where a whole lot of people have stopped their individual development as beings. Video games are a microcosm of the macrocosm.
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You can remove files in a number of ways, depending on the level of what you mean by "remove".
The first is to rebuild your bashed patch and in the process, untick the mod that you want taken out of it in the big list of possibilities that pops up when you first click "rebuild patch", and then rebuild the bashed patch without it, effectively removing it.
Removing the bashed patch itself is as easy as deleting it from the folder, or by using OBMM while you're looking at your load order. You have another in the Data/Mopy/extras folder if you need it. Just copy and paste it back into the Data folder if you want to use the bashed patch again in the future.
Another possibility, perhaps, if you're redoing your bashed patch and it recognizes masters that you no longer have, and by rebuilding the bashed patch it still wants to include them in the list of masters (which will cause your game to ctd, having masters in the patch that you no longer have in your load order), I just erased the bashed patch, copied and pasted a new one and started over like in the second option above.
Any of that help? It can be...wiggly...trying to figure some stuff out.
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Hello Mod Detective, and good work as always!
I just reinstalled my game after jumping to win 7 from xp, and I can't seem to figure out what mod gave me the weapon idles that I had before. The one-hand sword idle that I saw in-game in 3rd person and in menu had the sword held at the right leg, with the point down, but my char's face was held upright and straight, with a straight back. The 2-H idle had the sword at the right hip, with the blade horizontal and pointing back.
It's not Idles Poses Replace, for those slight differences I mentioned. Ach! it could be part of something larger, but I have no idea. Reinstalling (especially on a new OS) is making me figure out how to get what I do have working together again in and all new way, for that added difficulty) Help, please! http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/wallbash.gif And thankshttp://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/smile.gif
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For Skyrim it will surely be far less the case. Also, it all depends on if the Kit is released on the same day the game is released. It wasn't for FO3, so everyone did experience 'vanilla' FO3 for a good while.
Interesting point, Olurum! I was in the Dark Ages, I mean, I was on the ps3, when FO3 came out. I didn't remember that the GECK came out later...that is a good way to force vanilla play for a while, ins't it?!
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I'm sure everyone will experience vanilla Skyrim as it's meant to be experienced for their first character.
I seriously doubt that, to the point that I'd say, "No, they won't".
People will be making mods, and playing them, as soon as they can possibly crank them out. New Vegas was a modding Gold Rush, amplified by the similarities between FO3 and NV, surely, but it proved that people mod a.s.a.p. Skyrim won't be any different for a lot of people.
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I installed it out of the default folder (C program files) but got that error anyway. Just upped to windows 7 and I'm reinstalling everything. However, right-clicking and running as administrator fixed it. Thanks!
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Every article I read makes me worry more and more over the minimum system requirements.http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/blink.gif
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Well said post there Wiz and yes I was aware of George Clooney's efforts to set up an antigenocidal satelite monitoring system.A rather intelligent approach instead of focusing on the genocide after the fact.
I find it both cool and (perhaps?) a little creepy at the same time. On the one hand there's what some people could define an inordinate spying power set up by the hands of "privates"...then again, I find it really cool that there are rich people that want to use their money for the good of the human race. Way too many rich people simply hoard their dough or use their power to only further their own interests. I would like to see more rich and/or famous people trying to make the world a better place. Hollywooders certainly could if they wanted to.http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/thumbsup.gif
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Big breasts are caused usually by obesity, or implants...
You must not have ever been to Italy... http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/blink.gif
I just want the game to have a value for what it already is.
This is a VERY good point.
Fallout New Vegas came out, and it was a frickin' stampede to see who could port what mod the fastest. There were so many mods, you could hardly keep up with them and it was obvious that the game hadn't been thoroughly played through yet. Some things can be fixed immediately (poor anim's, etc) but many others are just jumping on the let's-recreate-FO3-through-mods bandwagon.
They do look nice in the scans, but I fear that they will not look so good in game. I bet those scans have been Photoshopped.
http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/blink.gif Blasphemer!
hahha. Really, you think so?
I find your lack of faith in the mod community disturbing.
Hahahahahttp://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/laugh.gif
Okay now everyone have stated about the exact same thing over and over again, I am well aware that mods are optional and that not all mods are bad and that you don't like my personal opinion but I don't want to ruin for anyone else thats not my point. Maybe skyrim will be so good it won't need mod? And if you want oblivion in hentai style then fine but wouldn't it be easier to buy a japanese RPG from the beginning??
I don't think it would be easier, actually. The platform that Bethesda gives could be the springboard for a score of different games.
Oh and just so it's been said. I fully plan to at some time have Skyrim full of attractive women in bikinis, not becuase I really need to but because it's fun and I'm an adult who enjoys adult things.
Hear, hear. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/thumbsup.gif it won't be how I play 99% of the time, but I want to see sooner or later some hot Valkyrie in a string bikini bouncing my way as a companion!
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Kinect or Move are both bad ideas for a game like TES. "Dude, look! I'm the best swordfighter ever!" "No... you look more like some guy who belongs in a crazy bin."
Hahahaha http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/laugh.gif
Maybe motion controllers aren't such a bad idea. All that jumping around, running in place and swinging an imaginary sword should be good exercise for the couch potatoes. :thumbsup:
The only problem with Kinect is that with all the different things you can do in TES you're going to run out of detectable movements and gestures that do something quickly. Accessing the inventory will then require a double summersault!
Yeah, and I don't want to step on my cats while I'm doing my spinning lvl 75 power attack. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/woot.gif
I guess what i'm trying to say is even though i know i'm going to be depressed for an unknown length of time after Skyrim is released i still Can't help Waiting for it's release, looking over everyones ideas, hoping it will be good and stay true to TES. (i still think the line "their defeat was meerly a delay" refers to the Akiviri's defeat at Pale pass (correct me if thats wrong i've been reading too many Oblivion/Morrowind Books and Pale pass was just stuck in my head.) Anyway. Thats my Little Rant/Whine i guess.:)
I'm really sorry to hear about your woes...that must really be spirit-breaking. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/mad.gif
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I am so glad they went back to Morrowind's theme, and used that as base. I actually still listen to the Morrowind music when I am at my computer, and I never get tired of that theme... I could probably set it on replay hundreds of times and still enjoy it... And if I queue all the music from Morrowind, Oblivion and the Skyrim Teaser theme - then I got the complete musical enjoyment! :D
Thank you Jeremy Soule, for making such great music!!!
Hear, hear! I can't get enough of the music. On my Ipod, they go wherever I go, with specific playlists for emotional states to accompany whatever I might want to do, with appropriate soundtrack accompaniment.http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/tongue.gif
The GameInformer Skyrim Cover is coming to Europe!! :D (Oh, and Australia :P )
Whoah! Thanks for the heads-up, man! Seeing the screens has really made me like to get my hands on a copy. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/thumbsup.gif
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I would like to be able to sit down in a tavern, and have the serving wench come to me and ask me what I want. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/yes.gif
I would also like to experience the feeling of going UP in a building. Oblivion was so predominately DOWN. There just wasn't an equal feeling of Height. Even castles hardly ever seemed to go UP, maybe a floor but that's not enough.
On par with that is the return of Levitation, i.e. height.
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Everybody sells weapons to everybody. It's the way the world works (doesn't have to, but the people in power, whether elected or corporate, are much akin to Monsters...and we all know what should be done to monsters....).
I really can't assume, personally, that Africa would have been better off without any outside influence. That's a difficult parallel-history kind of argument. If they, for example only, had been more together with each other, holding hands (symbolically at least) instead of killing their neighbours, they might well have resisted such colonization much better. Numbers and home-town territory counted for more than older technology. Ask the Zulus and the Maori. They might have even stopped it. However, they weren't holding hands, they were killing each other off in genocidal-type warfare (much like many are doing still to this day), and they (the Africans in that region) were the main supplies for the slave trade those centuries ago. Not the Europeans, who were mostly dealers. I'm not saying that all Africans were doing that, but in the landing area of the Europeans (Ivory Coast), they were, and their habits didn't help them from being manipulated.
It's even possible, that without any outside influence whatsoever, that genocidal warfare would have continued for centuries. It's perhaps even likely (?), because it still is going on often enough today (Hutu/Tutsi for ex). Or maybe one side would have just killed off all the others, or it could even be an ever-going stalemate of reciprocal killing. Who knows? Maybe they would have eventually realized the error of their feeding-off-of-each-other ways and grown up.
And don't get me wrong, here. I apply the same logic to the damn Celts/Welsh/Scots who, if they would have put their blinking differences aside, might have resisted the English. But they didn't, and so they didn't. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/wallbash.gif
We humans are a curious race, sometimes little better than jumped-up monkeys (although I think monkeys generally make more sense).
Did you guys hear about George Clooney's satellite system watching the ground in near real-time for signs of genocide-type violence? " "We are the antigenocide paparazzi," the actor told Time magazine."
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It's a game, not a history lesson, but to deny all such connections between the Nords and the Norse as false or superficial leaves one wondering exactly what kind of an experience you expect from The Elder Scrolls V.
you know what? .... I'M BEGINNING TO LIKE YOU WIZOFATLANTIS :thumbsup: (in a non-gay way) :laugh: hahahaha
LOL http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/laugh.gif
What is it you actually are discussing? How "historical correct" the nords are to the norse? Or who can fill a page with most words?:S
I think we were trying to discuss how historically correct to the thread we can be since it was so many pages ago. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/rolleyes.gif
I'm glad you finally understand my original point and agree with me.
Yeah, we can leave it at thathttp://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/laugh.gif
Now let's try to revive the Norse! I mean, Nords...
I honestly think we have a good chance at "no guards" like in the previous games. Let's remember, we're 200 years into the future after Oblivion, and the Empire has collapsed. The Provinces (Skyrim, Black Marsh, et al) are in revolt. To me, it wouldn't make any sense that there would be Imperial garrisons in Skyrim after the Empire has collapsed.
Sure, if we start in prison again, that implies some sort of guard...it just doesn't tell us which kind. Could very well be the local head man who dumped us in for sticking his cousin in the gut with a knife at the last get-together in the village hall, and the guard is one of his men, and not an Imperial in plate armour.
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Dude, I understood your point to begin with. Get off your High Horse. Adding layers to the definition of a word doesn't change at all the essence of it such as I pointed out (arguments, logic, beliefs are relationships, in this case false...really not too hard to figure out that I summed up in a few words what you quoted many for).
As to the rest of what you wrote...you can speak as many words as you want, but you're not saying anything differently. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/no.gif
You for some reason think you're misunderstood. You are not. It's that some people don't agree with you, and/or they want to talk about ideas contrary to yours regardless.
You understand the nature of a discussion thread, right? People have an idea that they want to talk about. You want to say something contrary, fine. Just don't keep going on like "nobody gets it" just because people don't all jump on your longship. Zaldir already stated pages ago in a very nice way everything potentially positive you might have had to say, which you didn't because you came across all negative and high-handed.
You can "simplify it" for me? You really think a lot of yourself. Once again, you're confusing understanding with agreement. It's a common problem with people that think too much of their own opinion.
For the record, I do happen to agree with a lot of the ideas that you said, actually, but it just has to be in another context (i.e. another thread). Your problem, however, is that you are entirely too arrogant, you're not really contributing to the discussion imo, and you seem to be spending all of your time trying to show how this entire thread is unmerited and false...and how people like me are too stupid to grasp your massive intellect.
These discussion threads are for positive talk about the OP's point. If you want to talk about a more historically accurate video game, then I suggest that maybe you start a new discussion somewhere else. I would like to read it, in fact. This discussion, however, is about TES V, which is about Nords and not Norse (though one comes from the other, whether you like it or not), and the fact that they like to take matters into their own hands like Real Men do. Or did at least, before being a pansy became the only thing that was socially acceptable.
Which, back on topic, is something I would like to continue talking about as I've wasted enough time.
Kendo 2's idea of Outlaw Points was pretty cool how it could work with faction play. FO: NV had the beginnings of some nice faction play. The other side of outlaw points could be some kind of system that adds reputation to your char like performing quests does, so that the more duels you fight, the more famous you are, the better deals you get from merchants, pretty much the flip-side of Outlaw Points. I get annoyed when no one in the game seems to realize who my character is regardless of how many dungeons I empty, just because I didn't save Peasant X's dog from the local sewer.
Ah, faction play could reach really dynamic levels with duels!
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This portrays a rather narrow interpretation a the Nordic cultures. if I make a fictional civilization with pyramids that lives around the silt fields of a large river, they must be very similar to the ancient Egyptians right? Hardly...
So, tell us. Just what do you expect exactly from a video game?
Of course it represents a narrow view of Nordic culture... It's a video game. It's not a virtual representation of Wiki-Vikingia or some kind of pretence at a history lesson. You're taking your analogies to extreme levels (there's pyramids so it's Egypt) to try and prove your point. The Nords are obviously based on the Viking era culture. If you want to try and deny that, go ahead, but that's pretty futile. Despite what you might think, it is not a fallacy. A fallacy means that a relationship is false, qualitatively false, and that no correct inferences can be made. This is obviously not the case. Everyone can see that there is a relationship between the Nords and the Norse.
What we are talking about here is How Much. Your attempts to ridicule that by coming into this discussion with the radical denial of any and all justifiable connections ("fallacy") are rather ungrounded. http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/rolleyes.gif
So, what exactly is your point, really? That this whole thread is unjustified because since the Nords aren't Norse-speaking Scandinavians we can't extrapolate issues for our own pleasure? Of course we can. Example in point. One might think, well the game is going to be set in Skyrim, the land of the obviously Viking-inspired Nords, then what else might we expect to see? Giants? Trolls? Dragons? Duels?
And you'd be right. Hypothesis tested and working.
Since they're in Skyrim, now there is the inclusion of other aspects of Nordic mythology and folklore, due to the inclusion of undead/draughr, trolls, giants and dragons but is that too shallow as well, since we...what? Since we see them? Video games are visual media. "Seeing stuff" is very important. If you, personally, want to have more substance than that--and by the way, that is exactly what we are talking about--we either have to wail until everybody speaks Norse in the game, there is no Empire, the Nine Divines don't exist, and we get to virtually celebrate a blot to Thor, at which point then we're all playing another game...OR we discuss what we like, don't like, and would like to change accordingly and then mod the Hel out of it, just like we're doing the first steps of now.
We can't pretend too much. No Odhinn, no Thor, no Midgard serpent. No oath rings (probably), no blots to the Aesire and Vanir (though maybe to the TES gods), not a lot of things, and that's all right.
It's a game, not a history lesson, but to deny all such connections between the Nords and the Norse as false or superficial leaves one wondering exactly what kind of an experience you expect from The Elder Scrolls V.
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The US has had soldiers (the "special" kind) fighting in various African locales for at least the last 20-30 years, afaik. They even made a movie about some of the fighting, Black Hawk Down, based on some of the events of the Battle of Mogadishu which resulted from the attempts at capturing some Somalian warlord. That happened (the battle) in 1993, and it was an operation with various sectors of the US armed forces in conjunction with the United Nations.
Now, if there was even the UN at that point (1993), how long were the special operations there before that? Those guys are always everywhere *before* anything ever becomes public.http://www.thenexusforums.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/pirate.gif