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Oh he's a beauty! It's such a shame the ears get cropped - I know it can be practical for coursing but your little girl is just adorable with her big flopsy ears! Having seen the way the dog bodies have been manipulated a little so far - such as adding floppy ears to Dogmeat - I'm sure someone could make a pretty convincing replica of your boy there, or guide you in the right way. You could perhaps snip the ears off Dogmeat (!) and tag them on to the head of the rotti - I'm far better with textures than nifs, I'm afraid, or I'd offer to help :( Second welcome from me o/

Well as a stop gap you could give MO2 a try - some people have problems with it, personally I've had nothing go wrong (aside from when I moved it - had some registry issues I had to clean up). It's much more reliable when it comes to installing/uninstalling textures at least, as nothing is every permanently overwritten.

Honestly you could probably skip the high-res DLC, there are plenty of alternatives on Nexus and that DLC is considered to be poorly optimised.

You only moved your NMM from Program Files, right? Assume FO4 is installed on G also? Or am I assuming badly?

Do either of you have xEdit installed? If so, is xEdit finding your plugins ok? This might be a bit out there but possibly worth a shot. You said you removed "Read Me" from the plugin.txt in AppData - have you tried deleting the FO4 folder there and allowing it to regenerate (make a backup first of course). Also remove anything relating to your mod manager and then try again. I mention this because there have been a couple of occasions where I've moved something or there has been an update that has confused my MO and this needs to be done. You're not using MO but, for the purposes of this problem, the programs are not that different. If this doesn't work, then the next thing you may want to check is regedit - NMM or FO4 may have left something in the registry that isn't lining up well with your current version of the game. When you're in regedit you want to look, for example, in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and then SOFTWARE. Find NMM there and under the "Data" column check that the path is pointing to the correct drive - it may be, especially in your case, DJ, that it's still trying to find the information in the Program Files location that you uninstalled from. Once you've found and checked this, if it's wrong then you'll likely want to perform a search to correct all of the wrong entries - either go to the top of the window and go Edit>Find, or press ctrl+F and type in part of the path you're trying to find, i.e. nexus mod manager\Fallout4, and correct the path for each instance. Finally, go to where NMM is installed and if it has a settings/config file (like nmm.ini or similar - as I said I use MO so I'm not sure if NMM does), open this up and make sure the path is correct there as well. You may think you set this up via the client but it's worth doing a manual check just in case. If you're not sure how to run regedit it's pretty simple - go to start, type regedit in the search box and it should come up on the list. This might not be any help but hey, it's something, and it's previously worked for me.

Another good example, this time using Strong. I'm hesitatingly saying that I think it's a problem with how the game is responding to _s maps, but given it's not a problem in the textures themselves I'm not sure what to do about it. No light Light

So I have another slightly weird one. Whenever characters are in very low light (night time, caves and so on) their faces go strangely pink and indistinct. Their features are sort of blurred. It's a little hard to explain to be honest so I'll post some images. If anyone else has had this problem or solved this problem I'd be very interested in finding out more about it. EDIT: I've narrowed it down to NAC having something to do with the problem, as with all other mods turned off the problem persists, but with NAC turned off the problem disappears. Hmm... EDIT 2: Yep, definintely NAC. Disabled it (leaving NAI on) and the problem went away. Still no idea what about NAC was causing it. Still, if anyone else ever runs into the same problem, perhaps this will help narrow it down. These two pictures show the issue I'm having. This one is with my PipBoy light on - not a great pic but shows the difference.

Under point 8. Yes Bethesda... that triple buggering can be a pain in the arse!

Most users are 18-21? That makes me feel ancient. I'm 30... though I still use my Shawn the Sheep backpack as a handbag. Does that make me young inside or just mentally deficient?

As Faelrin said, you'd be better off using a different mod manager. It's a little alien feeling if you've played the newer games like Skyrim/FO4 and used NMM or MO, but also rather necessary to get everything working well. I seem to be having a problem getting the STEP site to load right now but there are some very good, indepth guides/walkthroughs for modding Oblivion there as well. Are you making sure you've locked your FPS to 60 or below? TES games (and FO games) get hinky if they're running too fast.

If you can't find a donate button for an author but would really like to donate to them you could always contact them - if they don't want your money directly, perhaps they'd appreciate a donation to a cause or charity. And if they don't want anything at all, maybe they'd just get a happy feeling from your thank you note!

So I've started having an issue I have no idea how to fix. Usually my game is absolutely fine. I have a pretty huge mod list at the moment so I'm not going to post it just yet - I don't think it's going to be that relevant to this particular problem anyway (could be wrong of course). I use NAC for weather, am using Subtle ENB, have no other weather or cloud texture related things. My googling has not led me to a similar issue yet... so does anyone have any ideas? Edit: Additional note. I rebooted the game but the fussy weird cloud persisted. Then I reset all effects with the NAC holotape and multicoloured dots went away but the lower layer of cloud is still made of squares. Only now they're dark grey squares!

It's a good example but let's look that that in context... the US has used two... the only two ever to be used offensively. So in actual effect the US is the only country to follow through on a threat of nuclear weapons. But again, in context, we could say that at the time they didn't actually know the full extent of what they were doing. Sure, some eggheads had said it was probably not a good idea, but you don't know until you try, right? Also TheMasterSon didn't specify nukes - they said "development and sales of these military weapons and systems." And to say the US doesn't sell a variety of weapons to potentially "terrorist" states is like saying the sun doesn't set in the west. Arms deals with various countries are publically reported. And it's not like the US only sells weapons to countries with installed democracies - they sell to several countries with atrocious human rights records, countries that treat their own people with scorn and execute them for even thinking about protesting. Obvious case of this: Saudi Arabia. But god forbid putting human interest above good oil prices. But you clearly know that from the rest of what you said. The idea that some countries get to have nukes and others don't is a pretty huge injustice. Who gets to say who is a terrorist anyway? I'm sure the tens of thousands of Afghani civilians who died as some sort of vengeance for 9/11 didn't feel like they were being liberated or that they were being justifiably punished. An indiscriminate bombing campaign against their country because a faction that was also terrorising them had decided to attack America? Was that fair? Of course, this is meant to be about what can defuse America now. But it's still relevant to a degree. A problem with the US and its involvment in everyone elses wars (or starting them because apparently other peoples' political ideologies are enough reason to attack them) is that none of it is at home. The human cost of these conflicts largely only affects the military, it's not happening in the streets. Many other countries involved in global conflicts have seen hundreds of years of wars at home and abroad, they have a history as aggressors and as victims, and their people have been directly affected in their daily lives by war, whether it was hunkering down in a pig sty to avoid being bombed or by taking refugees into their homes and seeing the suffering of not knowing what had happened to their friends and families. Without that experience to relate to, it may be a little too easy to support going to war. It's not in your back yard, so why should you care that much? Let's not forget Trump's threat to "rain down fire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen" when it comes to making threats. Perhaps everyone needs to have more patience and understanding, and less hate in their hearts. That's too idealistic though, isn't it?

I could possibly help you with your old problem - running enBoost but NOT messing with how much video memory the game has access to can fix it. It's a known problem with certain nVidia cards at least - had it all the time with my 970. As for the current problem... when are you CTDing? Can you play at all?

Would you rather live poor on welfare the rest of your life or to get a good career supporting yourself? I'm responding to your whole post but not quoting the whole thing because that would take up a whole lot of space :tongue: I understand the core concept you're highlighting here, but it's oversimplified isn't it? The generalisations of "Democrat" and "Republican" are also dated, as nowadays you'll have your conservative leaning individuals voting Republican, your liberal leaning individuals voting Democrat. There is an extremely warped vision of what being liberal is. Sure, there are extremes, and people do love to fall back on history of "democrats" to highlight where the ideology has been wrong (your point about slavery is a good example). But that's not what modern liberalism represents at all. The core of liberalism is equality. Women, LBTQ+, varied races etc, should have the same rights and the same pay as white men. A true liberal does not want to tell you how to feel because actually, your thoughts are your own and you're free to think them. On the other hand, we/they would like it if you didn't go around telling other people how they should behave or perform acts of violence against them because their religion is not the same as yours, or they're a woman who likes women (or a woman who thinks she should be paid as much as a man for doing the same job), or their forefathers were from Zimbabwe. Everyone should be able to go to a hospital when they're sick and not worry about being evicted because that hospital trip cost them the rent money. They should be able to be treated so that they're not just left to die. The poorest of society should be given aid to tide them over - and yes, some people WILL take advantage of that "help," but it's a skewed perception that it's the system that's the problem - the problem is with the people who don't want to make more of their lives. That's a social and educational issue, not an issue with trying to help people who can't afford food. It's not always a person's fault that they've been fired or made redundant - life throws spanners into the works sometimes, and just because you've been unlucky, why should you lose everything you've worked for until that point? The grades story, whilst entertaining, is also fairly irrelevant to the larger ideology. Can I point out here that many nurses work 12+ hour days, many went to college/university, and they get paid extremely poorly. A banker, on the other hand, can do a nine to five and earn upwards of ten times as much. Is that fair? No, I wouldn't say most liberal thinkers would say that EVERYTHING a person has worked for should be taken from them and redistributed (although in a truly functional communist society such a thing could happen, and potentially in a way that would benefit everyone - redistribution of a large amount of personal wealth to support health care, police services, fire services, education etc, to help everyone have the same opportunities). But this story also assumes that person A has worked hard and person B has not. What if person A got better grades because they had a loving and supportive family who could afford to put them into private education and get them tutors to support an area they were struggling in, whilst person B grew up in a foster home with six other children, no support, not parental guidance, and had to do everything themselves? Why should a child like person B know how to self study or work hard? Who taught them how to do that? Who helped them when things were going wrong? They're a child. It's their fault that they're not prepared for life? When I was younger I worked in a Job Centre (UK thing - people out of work report in every week or every other week dependant on how long they've been on benefits, give a statement on what they've done to look for work and then a Job Centre worker will authorise the release of their out of work benefit if their statement is satisfactory). I saw people who really didn't care if they found work, but those people represented less than half of my clients. Most people were trying, even if they felt hopeless - this was in 2009, when we were entrenched in the global recession. The ones who stuck with me were the ones who were utterly humiliated that they had to be in a Job Centre at all. They were angry with me (yes, with me apparently) that they were stuck in this situation, that they had to be in a room with what they saw as the dregs of society, that they didn't have jobs. I often managed to calm them down by pointing out that actually, I didn't want to be working there, I had a degree and had worked hard at my education, but this was the only job I'd managed to get after dozens of interviews and hundreds of applications. When they realised they were talking to "an equal" they'd tell me what happened to them, what they hoped to do in the future, and sometimes I could help them with further information or by demonstrating how to get through the JC tedium as efficiently as possible. And here's another fun life time story. I grew up in an academically minded house. My dad got a first in pure mathematics after he was crippled in a car accident (someone drove into him at traffic lights - not his fault - broke his spine). I was lucky to an extent as this meant I had a parent at home a lot of the time, and I had a lot of encouragement in my studies. My little sister became seriously ill as I entered my teens and I helped care for her and for my dad. I was bullied at school. But I still did well, and got a scholarship to a private sixth form (senior high?) based on my academic ability. From there I went to university, graduated in 2008 into the aforementioned recession, and struggled getting a job. And then, after I'd been at my job for a while, the pain condition I'd had most of my life (the one that affected my sister very badly) started to get worse. It got to a point where I couldn't stand, let alone walk. I got very depressed and became suicidal, at which point I quit my job. Fastforward a few years of worsening pain and physical limitations, I now can't get out of the house to work and besides that, I get tired and unfocused if I have to sit for too long (I need to lie down). So... am I employable? If I can't get out of bed due to pain, how can I work? I live with someone, but that person is also ill, so where's my support system? How do I get out of the house to socialise, let alone work? And how could I afford food if it wasn't for the social system that gives me a little money? When one of our politicians decided he was going to make the disability benefits system "better" by increasing the hoops we had to jump through (ha!) to claim them, as well as increase the number of claims turned down, almost thirty thousand disabled people, who had had their benefits sanctioned, died within a year. I'm sure they'd have been glad of being given a fish, as teaching them how to fish led to them being eaten by a metaphorical shark. My anecdotal evidence in this post is just a highlight to be honest, because I actually think my life is ok, and I'm glad I'm educated and had the opportunities I did. On the other hand, I'm sad that I'll never have my own children (I don't have the money, and with my health the way it is it would be irresponsible to potentially inflict the same illnesses on a child), it's a shame I won't get to travel, and above all else it's disappointing that I'll always feel guilty that I'm "living off the state" when I'd love to work. But there are hundreds of thousands of people who are like me. Insisting that we're bone idle and just don't want jobs is not only extremely hurtful but also untrue. But rather than have industries create more home based jobs or trying to ensure health services are not only available but affordable, those on the right seem more inclined to brand us as lazy lost causes who should be left to die. Healthcare is clearly a big issue in America given the number of people who want to abolish Obamacare - even though not everyone knows what it is. I remember a great post on Twitter where a guy posted a pic of congress debating the healthcare bill when it was in the early stages of potentially being repealed, saying how great it was that they were "finally" getting rid of Obamacare. When he was questioned on this, asked how he could be so callous, he said it was great that "millions of Americans" like him were already covered by the American Care Act. He fell strangely silent when it was pointed out to him that the ACA WAS Obamacare. There seems to be a lot of that sort of confusion in the Rep. vs. Dem., "them vs. us" stuff going on in America. It's not just a two sided argument. Not every Republican wants to be likened to a member of the KKK, but in the currently "alt-right" climate not everyone is seeing the difference between a conservative American and an automatic weapon wielding white supremacist maniac. And not every Liberal wants to be thought of as an anarchist. There's a middle ground, and I'd be tempted to say most humans at least circle that middle ground, but the extremism is what's always highlighted, and the greater the fear of this extremism gets, the more likely people are to not want to talk, which makes it less likely anything will be peacefully resolved. Also, Donald Trump in charge when North Korea are messing about with missiles? f***ing terrifying.

There are several modders making pretty good money via Patreon - Gopher, for instance, makes >$3k a month. He is the exception and not the rule to be fair, but there are others making reasonable amounts too - Elianora makes >$400, the creator of 3DNPCs >$100, Kryptopyr >$100, Chesko almost $400, Icecreamassassin almost $400, Enai Siaion $300, Arthmoor almost $100. The amount of work (in terms of production and then support) that goes into these peoples' individual mods is quite varied according to their own accounts (their comments about the work that I could find, anyway). These are also just a handful of examples I picked out knowing that the content they create was different to each other on the whole. But really, unless we did an indepth survey of almost every active mod author who has the "donate" options enabled on their mods, I don't think anyone can say whether or not donations are "working" exactly. I don't know if anyone has ever donated to the tiny mods I've made because I link to a couple of charities and ask people to donate there if they feel like they want to, so it's rather out of my control and ability to track. Nor do I really care, anything I've made hasn't been a big project or taken up a lot of time, and I only share things I've made for myself. If someone is designing stuff because they want to attract downloads then I can see why they might be into the idea of making money from it, as it gives their time value beyond an inner feeling of happiness if their mod is a success. Also, if the thing that makes them happy is sitting at their desk doing something creative, sure it would be great to make money from that - if it could become a real income then they could do it all the time and stop having to go outside and interact with *shudder* 3D people. Personally, I like the idea of a sort of subscription service where, for instance, the sub fee is divvied up and allocated according to downloads each month. If you wanted to sub to something like "Bethesda" or "Nexus" Premium each month and the fee was reasonable (what's reasonable these days? Say $2-5 a month?) it would eliminate some of the shitty feeling that comes with not being a gorgeous and/or charismatic person who can plug their stuff on YouTube because you'd be getting paid based on how many people decided to download your mod. Or it could be based on endorsements, so the "customer" can try out the mod and see if it's good before whacking the button, which makes the customer feel less ripped off if the mod explodes their heatsink and stabs needles into their eyeballs. People don't want to endorse? Have that little "Hey, you haven't endorsed/rejected these mods!" come up a bit more often, or introduce a cap of downloading maybe 25 mods without leaving an endorsement - after that, you can't download anything until you've endorsed or rejected at least 1-5 mods. Getting a cut of the fee if your mods are downloaded/endorsed potentially encourages authors to maintain and create more content as well. Obviously there would need to be benefits to being a subscriber... but that could be anything from exclusive subscriber content (authors could decide whether or not they want their mods to be that) to the current benefits of being a Nexus Premium member, access to "help" channels via Discord or something where they can get some advice on making their own mods or troubleshooting game issues, access to... I don't know, themed screen shot competitions! Tthere are probably a lot of things people would enjoy as perks. The launch of the CC as it is at the moment seems a bit embarassing and not at all delivering what they said they would - a PA skin for $5? Get out. Of course, as PC (and even XBOX to a degree) users we could just ignore it as "something for the PlayStation."

There's a good chance I've been doing it wrong, but I can't really bring myself to agree with this. The new Skyrim, for me at least, has been decidedly less inclined to crash when modded than the old one. Now, a CTD will annoy me but I'll still think "hey, that's weird!" rather than "oh God, not again!" The culture of modding seems to be changing. A few years ago, during the original paid mods debacle, many content creators absolutely refused to take part and any who did take part were largely ridiculed. Some of those same authors are now part of the Creation Club - which, to be fair, is a different beast, but still in the same vein. I've noticed that many content creators seem less willing to engage with their audience - they lock down comments or just don't post, don't update etc. Now of course it's their mod and their time and they're perfectly "entitled" to manage it however they please. However, and this is especially the case with mods that become very popular, it's not completely unreasonable to anticipate some backlash from leaving a project abandoned having previously stated that you are supporting it. When hundreds of users have integrated a mod into their game and a change or patch causes issues of course they'll be upset that the mod they've come to love or has become a core part of their game is no longer working or has problems. In the case of these mods I've often felt that the way we handle "copyright" should be reviewed, giving a broader scope for picking up abandoned projects, or at least some way of making a "legacy" mod that does the same thing as the original but can be supported by a new and active author. I'm not suggesting that an original work, and its creators intellectual copyright, should be circumvented or ignored completely, but with all appropriate credit given why is it such a big issue if someone makes a "redux" or "unofficial continuation" of something that has been left buggy/inoperative for some time? The work is an inspiration, and perhaps encorporating some of the original work just saves time and resources which could otherwise be spent on fixing or improving the mod. To be more specific, I'm not talking about, say, original works of art being copied, but things like fixing a seam in a body mod or tidying up some crash causing code. That being said, some end users are obnoxious and rude. Perhaps it's the sort of mods I use but I can't say I ever really see people "demanding" things from modders - questions, suggestions, requests for changes sure, but not "DO IT NAO!!!" I also find the word entitlement is overused and is starting to become bland and meaningless. It's slapped around in places it doesn't belong and that distorts the meaning. If we were talking about "growing rudeness to content creators" then I'd understand clearly what the issue was. Does anyone really think modders are "obliged" to provide their mods? That seems... well, illogical to say the least. Wanting a mod to function so it does not cause issues (and I mean issues that the author hasn't made clear - if an author has a "known issues" section so people are forewarned, that's great) is not really entitlement. I guess part of the problem is that people "DON'T READ THE DAMNED DESCRIPTION" let alone the sticky(ies). A lot of problems can be avoided by paying attention to the instructions (how true of most things in life, right? ) Of course, seeing a mod with 40+ unanswered bug reports can be off putting too. Just ticking them as "known issue" or "not a bug" would offer some reassurance to users that an author is still active. Or even stating "no longer in development" officially would be polite. That's part of the issue isn't it? Manners. If someone is thinking about using a mod in their game - and we all know what removing mods from your game can do to it! - then knowing they're not going to receive support before the fact is a lot better than running into a problem, asking for help and being ignored.

My dad used to tell me that people voted Conservative (in the UK) because of their old fashioned faith in passing responsibility to their social "betters." It's quite frightening to see the poorer end of society (which is, technically, most of society) vote for things that hurt them financially, socially or personally. The use of propaganda is obvious really - for instance, Rupert Murdoch owns The Sun, Rupert Murdoch is a Tory supporter, The Sun is Tory leaning, Sun readers tend to vote Tory. In the States the same sort of news spread is seen - there's little middle ground, newspapers that appeal to one side go out of their way to pedal the agenda they're pushed to pedal. Part of the grander issue is lack of education. Many times I've had statistics rattled at me which have actually come from politician quotes and which are twisted by spin; given I tend to read a lot I often pick up on this, but not everyone does. If you believe what x politician or y paper is telling you, without further fact checking, then you're not really researching your topic or giving the matter much thought beyond face value. People who invest themselves in their political arguments might tend to educate themselves better about policy, but I think most people just don't care that much. They agree with such and such paper/politician because that view represents the environment they grew up in, the beliefs of their friends/family, and the more a certain view is pushed by the media the more people start accepting it as the norm. A good example of the phenomenon would be the leaning towards accepting very small sizes to be the ideal female - I don't mean, say, a healthy UK 8-16 (dependent on build/frame), but the relentless promotion of the 00. Now not EVERYONE was warped by this, but there was a steady increase in, especially young, women developing eating disorders. I generally think a lot of peace and understanding could be achieved by both sides if more were willing to talk to each other and less inclined to make sweeping generalisations about the opposite side. Sadly that sort of discourse is actually a sort of intellectual snobbery, because not everyone is truly capable of having informed and logical discussions. What I'll personally never understand is extremism in any way - extremely strong beliefs always contain an element of arrogance that I find baffling, although I do sometimes admire that anyone can be so sure of themselves. Still, what motivates people to join, say, the KKK? What's going on in a person's head to make them think that way, to hate so much? Again, many people who fall into those extreme areas don't do a lot of their own thinking, but even if you're a total idiot, how can you think attacking others based on race (or insert other factor) is a good idea? We're all people. Also, a big dose of what HeyYou said:

I looked through the T&Cs and they didn't clarify exactly what they'd want to use your YouTube account for - does anyone know? I know I don't have to go along with it but still, some clarification would be nice.

In response to post #49983627. Surely this is a pro point of the name?

Seriously, simple point: search filters aren't filtering because people don't tag their mods appropriately. This is a problem, in the sense that they are not performing their function as intended, rather than "oh no I need to set my eyes on fire." Better search filters would help to address the issue.

When you say mods or no mods, do you mean it crashes when you turn mods off and start a new game, or you've tried playing on a totally fresh install? When it comes to mods what method do you use to install/uninstall? Do you have any problems with your internet connection? Have you tried running the repair function through Steam to see if it's missed something? Sorry if these are boring questions, just don't really have enough to work with so far and I've not had this issue personally.

Skyrim SE comes with all the DLC. It's a more stable platform, has a good number of mods. There are a few I miss from Oldrim that required the script extender, but the game experience on the whole has been much better with SE.

All the time I've spent playing Skyrim and I've never actually made it to Frea (I always want to get more done before going, then I have a new character idea or something and start all over again) but at least I have one more reason to look forward to it.

I think what he's saying is that not all authors add tags to their mods which leads to mods getting past block filters. You can choose a category for your mods without adding extra tags that limit/expand the search filter, so potentially any mod you think you've filtered can still get bypass your filter because it isn't correctly tagged for the search function - at least that's how it would seem to work, I'm not a Nexus admin of course. The content you don't want to see is the content you don't want to see, adult or otherwise. Some people hate gore and use mods to filter it out, others want more gore. Some people have strong reactions to blood and want to make sure they see as little as possible. Others don't want hanging labia and breasts that could feed calves in their games. It's not so much about offense as personal taste - not to mention the various psychological impacts of adult themes which, in theory, search filters should allow you to account for. Category blocks are a reasonable solution. It's a shame that one might miss out on a lot of content with such inelegant search functions, but that's the compromise you'd have to make. Another option would be better or more obvious guidelines for tagging, smart tagging based on words in the mod title or description (harder, probably flawed), or forcing an uploader to include at least one tag.