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Drain the swamp? Is that some kind of troll? Look at Trump's cabinet picks so far: Secretary of State - Rex Tillerson, CEO ExxonMobil Corporation Attorney General - Sen. Jeff Sessions Secretary of Health and Human Services - Rep. Tom Price (the ACA will be defunded immediately) Secretary of Commerce - Wilbur Ross (aka "King of Bankruptcy") Secretary of Defense - Gen. James Mattis Secretary of "Department of Homeland Security" - Gen. John Kelly Secretary of Energy - Rick Perry (think fracked and permanently polluted Texas) Etc. Trump is draining the swamp directly into the White House. Simply watch what happens. As mentioned elsewhere I give Trump six months in office before impeachment proceedings begin due to incompetence and/or legal scandal, and if he starts getting in the way of the machine's agenda it will happen even sooner. IMO we've been electing outright despots to lead our country since Nixon, regardless of party, and I can think of nobody more appropriate to see a failed, bankrupt and now outright fascist federal government to its final demise than the very king of the prostitutes. If that sounds extreme, Ben Franklin predicted exactly this eventual fate, well over two centuries ago. Our corrupted political system allows for no option other than electing despots and traitors. So imo the only option is to abolish our Executive Branch entirely. Again if it sounds extreme, according to history it's a natural progression in government that countries from Britain to China have gone through. It had an essential function during our revolutionary years, in absence of formal declarations of war from Congress it's become nothing but a playground for fascism, military adventurism and special interest corruption. Yes, because top people in their fields must have gotten there dishonestly. /sarc/ For the first time in my lifetime, we have an incoming administration that is filling the cabinet with top people from the private sector rather than career politicians (with a few notable exceptions.) I, for one, have gotten sick a tiered of the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the left side of the aisle. Trump won because of a rejection of the liberal ideas that have been shoved down the American people's throats for the past eight years. You mentioned the ACA? Also say goodbye to Obamacare, police consent decrees, the war on energy in the name of AGW, and (I strongly suspect) a large portion of the current civil service. To me, this looks like a return to 1980, but without an obstructionist congress to clog up the works. As the current president so infamously said, "Elections have consequences." Go back to your "safe space" for the next four years and let Trump get on with the Herculean task of undoing the damage the left has done over the past fifty. You can try to vote him out in 2020, but I have a strong suspicion that will not happen. -A

Also imo the first step to rebuilding America's political system is to rehabilitate the intentionally corrupted terms liberal and conservative. We've had a century of intentional polarization on virtually all issues by a two-party cartel that has maintained its power almost exclusively by keeping us pointing fingers at each other, instead of where the fingers of blame belong: the two-party cartel itself. Runaway, tax-and-spend government is not "liberal", it's socialist. And borrow-and-spend bankrupting of America's federal government, by pretending fair trade with enslaved Communist countries is even possible, is not "conservative", it's treason to our Constitution. Have you actually listened to anything Trump has said, or are you just relying on other people telling you what he said? I ask because you condemn him in one paragraph, and then come out with this in the next. A paragraph that could have been lifted from one of Trump's many speeches. The man will not take office for another month. His announced cabinet picks give me great hope that he really does mean to "drain the swamp." Remember, for the first time in more than a century we have a President elect who is not beholden to either political party or to a special interest. I was a reluctant Trump voter (I wasn't sure what he was going to do, but I was almost certain what Hillary was planning to do,) but given the six week temper tantrum the left has been throwing since the election, I'm still shaking from how big of a bullet the country just dodged.

I always heard it as a conservative who won the lottery, but that's another one of my favorites.

To jump in and try to answer the original question, I think the reason Trump won was Hillary's "...Put a lot of coal miners out of work." comment. I know we've had a West Virginian explain to us that coal is dying anyway, and she promised retraining, but that is missing what actually happened. Hillary never had a chance to carry coal country, not after eight years of Obama's war on coal. What that remark did do was send a message to everyone employed in any type of manufacturing that their industry might be next. We've had a decade of government job retraining, and people now have a pretty good idea of exactly how useless that is. Hence the Rust Belt suddenly turned a little redder. "To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth." - Theodore Roosevelt

Oh, that's cute. I was deliberately not taking sides in a race I don't have a horse in. My point was that both sides in this debate are up on moral high-horses trying to save us from nonexistent problems. If the past couple of years have taught us anything it is that the left wing can be just as dogmatic and intolerant as the worst of the moral majority. -A

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”- C.S.Lewis

Icelandjedi, This sounds like a problem with a missing mesh/tetures. What mods are you running?

If you click "help" in the GECK, it will take you to the GECK wiki, which contains a complete list of functions available for scripting (including NVSE functions.) You may also find this Utility handy: http://fallout3.nexusmods.com/mods/17404/?. It doesn't have a list of functions you can look up, but if you start typing a function, it will start to auto-complete the function (much like Excel does.) I haven't tried it with NV only scripts, but there are relatively few of those.

Other than not placing the entire structure within C:\program files, where you make the folders is immaterial, as long as you make them and can remember where you put them.

My experience with scripts is limited, but have you tried moving the assignment of the randone variable outside of the nested if statement? (i.e. assign a random percentage to the variable before you check the quest stage,and then use that variable only after you've checked the quest stage.) It should mean an additional call every time the script is run, but the hit should be minimal.

First of all, before you do anything I talk about here, make sure to make backups of your mod files. That way, if something does go wrong, you can revert to your current status. Secondly, if you're using Lings, you've got quite a large selection of female hairs to choose from already. Try setting Lings.esm as a master to NVWillow.esp (Open Willow in the Geck, but also check Lings.esm in the "Open File" dialogue. Finally, it's not enough just to have the hair in the game, you have to edit the custom race so it knows to use the hair you want Willow to have. Under the Character menu in the GECK, you need to open the Hair submenu (this will bring up a window) and then go and open Race in the same menu. Down near the bottom of the Race listings, you will see an entry for "WillowRace". Select this entry, make sure the check box is set to female, and navigate to the FaceData tab. Now, select the hair you want Willow to have from the List in the "Hair" window we pulled up earlier and drag it to the "Hair Styles List." Almost done, now we need to assign the new hairstyle to Willow in the game. Close the Race and Hair windows out with the "Okay" button, and navigate to the Actors/NPC entry in the tree on the left of the object window. If you click the + sign next to the NPC entry, it will expand and show you all of the installed races. Again, near the bottom, you are looking for "WillowRace". Expanding with the + sign and selecting "Female" from the newly expanded list should show only one entry, Willow. Open her record by double clicking, and navigate to the "Head Parts" tab. Here there is a drop-box labeled "Hair" that should allow you to assign Willow her new hair style. (Clicking the "Head" preview box at the bottom of this window will allow you to confirm that she's now using the hair style you want her to use.) You can also change her hair color, on the "Face" tab. (Don't bother messing with the "Hair Length" slider, it appears to have no effect on the game. Hope that helped.

Yes, to avoid confusion, make those folders in the GEMM directory.

And you definitely want to include Moose's work in your game. IMHO, he's one of the best adventure writers in the Nexus community.

You'll need to manually insert the "actor effects" information into your merged patch. The FO3Edit training manual: http://fallout3.nexusmods.com/mods/8629/? starting on page 40. The procedure is simple. Just drag the info you want to include in your merged patch into the corresponding field in the patch. In this case, clicking on the blank field next to "Actor Effects" in FWE's column and dragging the information into the corresponding field in your merged patch's column should do the trick.

And I apologize for using computer terms you're not familiar with. In a way, you could think of this as an education in computer terminology. (Although I suspect you're much more interested in getting your game running) Older versions of FOMM are available on the Nexus download page for the mod. Just scroll down past the current versions section, and you'll see a list of older versions of the mod. You are spot on in interpreting what root means. C:\GEMM is said to be "Off the root" or root for short. Likewise, if you create a directory within GEMM, say for instance C:\GEMM\mods, the "mods" directory is said to be off GEMM. BTW, you may want to create to subdirectories ("Off GEMM", as we just discussed,) C:\GEMM\mods and C:\GEMM\Fomods, and using these to store your mods list and fomods when you install FOMM. (Don't worry about having to move anything into these directories, FOMM will take care of that automatically, we just need to tell FOMM where to put things. This way, you will have everything related to FOMM's operation contained in the single "GEMM" directory. This could save you on headaches down the road if you run into a "Where did I put....?" question.)