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I wish Skyrim had more areas like your test level. Most of the time, it is me and maybe a companion inside a narrow tunnel or a small room with no tactics required. I have been using this one for a while now and it brought fun back into Skyrim, but I am really looking forward to see more of your work.

Why is it so difficult to tie speech tests to more than just speechcraft? Was it Fallout 3 or something else, that required you to have, say, medical skill of 30 to detect, that an NPC required healing during a conversation. I'd make this simple. Everything in Skyrim needs to be trained seperately, so in a conversation about Swords, you need a basic speechcraft as well as either one or two handed at a certain level. Want to intimmidate a daedric follower? You need to be champion of at least three devine entities. Conversation is generally very dull in skyrim, it's all about learning about the story (which is good), obtaining quests (which is also kind of like the butter on the bread) but nothing else. I never had the feeling, that my character develops during conversations. Basically all conversations follow one of the three routes (yes, no, more info). Most text adventures without a big budget have a more sophisticated conversation system. It would not be enough to add more gameplay depth to the speechcraft skill, because speech itself lacks depth in Skyrim. We also need proper consequences. I have in many hundred hours of playing vanilla skyrim not once had the feeling, that I will miss out anything, if I do not have the speechcraft skill to persuade or intimidate. You can usually talk yourself out of any situation without it and most of the time, gold prices are too low to hurt. That's another "problem" in Skyrim: After around ten hours in the game, I already swim in gold. What? 5k for a house? Maybe another 5k for the interiors? Why would I want to barter at such prices? For roleplay reasons, yes. I have to do so much RP, because most of the NPC are as shallow as they have been for the past 15 years. Okay, I see, while I typed this, my mood changed from "I have an idea" to "warrrgglgl!". Sometimes one should just not think about things too much.

Oops. I have the same problem (ENB vision looking like my char smoked bad pot). A few hours ago, a friend brought his AMD card, because he wanted to know, if his board is dead or his card. The card is fine, I tested it with Skyrim, then I tested ENB and there was no nasty foggy blur. Check your driver settings again for conflicting stuff, especially AF/AA settings.

The last time we had bad gateways, it cost us an entire dynasty and we almost lost Nirn to the Daedra.

I wonder what all the fuzz is about. I bought the game on the first day, never played online, only had the Javic DLC in the collectors edition and I could pick that ending of yours.

*nevermind, he found out by himself :-)*

That female orc is too sexy. Orc women are supposed to be ugly. That's their charm.

I wish they kept the "You just killed an essential character. Do you want to go on living in this doomed world you created" (or something like that) from morrowind. Smashing the head of a poor fella for a minute, wondering why I do no damage, is sort of weird. If an important NPC dies... well... load the game! *murmer murmer*

I think having a look at this might be a good idea. EDIT: My apologies, you seem to know more already, than most of this video might teach you. I think it depends on how much you mod. I have done some heavy modding and all I really needed so far was NMM, SKSE and BOSS. I use NMM and BOSS, because I am lazy, another mod manager could do the job as well (if it's compatible with the install scripts) and before I knew about BOSS, I ordered mods by applying simple logic and some trial and error. So, ultimately, what you really need is SKSE and/or Script Dragon (depending on what mods you use, of course). About cleaning the mods: While I am not experienced enough to make a general statement - I have been modding Skyrim for only roughly two months now - I have yet to encounter a problem, that could be fixed by cleaning mods. I tried this more than once (following different guides by the book) and never solved anything. I also often read in mod descriptions, that "this mod" does not require cleaning, no matter what this or that tool says. I have come to the conclusion, that cleaning mods and its magic effects is as much a legend as clean saves are. I think both should be used if you either really know what you are doing or if you have tried absolutely everything else and are at the end of your trick inventory. However, I will gladly stand corrected about the cleaning process, if I dismiss it too quickly, just because I cannot observe the benefits directly.

Maybe papyrus is a faint warm light of procedural programming in a cold harsh world of event driven games?

Windows Defender does not, what an anti virus software is supposed to do. Stop playing with his mind, that's not nice =) But yes, it depdends on what mods you use, in what order they load and if your computer has other issues. Yesterday, Skyrim started to hang for a second every time a kill animation is expected. I did not change anything concerning mods, the only difference is, that I am now running around in Falskaar, which seems to be a lot more VRAM hungry on high textures and far drawing distances. I would check the file system for fragmentation, see if the hard disk has enough free space, any graphics driver settings are unnormal converning VRAM use. Then I'd go a little deeper. Does it only happen indoors or in big rooms? Do you run Skyrim in fullscreen or borderless window? Do you have any mods, that alter companion appearance? Are they installed and/or loaded in the right order? Is it just companions or every NPC? Is your CPU fine while playing? Mine never climbs over 25%, the bottlenecks are the hard disk (no lags on the SSD) and the GFX card (GPU-Z keeps telling me 100% use and a full 1.2 GB VRAM). Do you have any companion behavior modifying mods? Other behavior files, like revenge of the enemies?

If a mod alters the gameplay, so Skyrim becomes more harsh and hostile, then I would consider it even more lore-friendly than the original. I consider quick travel not lore friendly, for example. How can I jump from an area of the game to a safe place, just because I can see the sky, even if it is in the middle of a crater or canyon? Am I not supposed to watch for bandits on my way? Say, a mod that adds random encounters when you quick travel would be more lore-friendly, than just beaming across the country. There was once Mark and Recall, well-established spells in Morrowind, how come nobody in Skyrim has ever heard of it? Are they banned by the Synod and even if so, why should a Nord mage care? How is not having an Athletics skill lore-friendly, even if we can establish, that my character starts as a farmer, who happens to be cought with the rebels and slowly learns how to be a great warrior over months and years? It depends on what kind of gameplay is added. A friend of mine discovered the AP mod and decided, that he will only be validated as the true Hero of Skyrim, if he has all Jarls bent over for his mighty club. What has the lore to say about the Bungholeborn? I am sure the Aldmeri would make sure, that nobody ever forgets.

Maybe you could run to the closest mine and get a shovel there. I am almost sure, that there is a shovel in every mine.

Do you use windowed mode? If so, can you try fullscreen and report back?

I just read through an entire month of discussion. First of all, I am amazed how civilized this community is, even when unleashed upon a topic far far away from meshes and cells. Such threads usually turn into a pissing contest after a couple of posts. I seem to live on both sides of the line. First and foremost, I am against any kind of cencorship. The most important reasons have already be listed here: Controlled speech is controlled thought. Who is able to decide, what should be allowed to say and what should be banned. I strongly believe, that everybody should be able to express any thought at any time. On the other hand, I have experienced the other side of the coin already. In our society, words are very important. At school, I have been under constant verbal opposition by those who disliked the way I was different from them. They made sure everybody noticed, how different I was and also spent a lot of time and energy into telling others, that my way of life is bad. Today, such things are called "mobbing", and while I went out of the entire thing strong willed, self assured and more eloquent, than I probably would have been without that, I observed other people collapsing under the pressure. One could say, that not the speech itself was to be dealt with, but the intention and effect. Their speech was damaging my value of life and I had to come up with something to stop that. I ended up starting my own campaigns, had the local authorities (teachers) punish them and developed a relatively strong right hook. Yes, sometimes I did not know what to do, other than punching the guy. That was bad, but I was far from grown up as a kid. Who would have thought? Sometimes it is wise, not to say something, although you would be perfectly fine hearing the words yourself. During my uni years, I was a part-time teacher at a, err, middle school (grades 5-10). I had to constantly watch my language, because a) I was raised with all sorts of curse words and b) teengage slang is so very different from what it was when I was that young. I would constantly either make them laugh like there was no tomorrow or feel strangely offended. I can also understand, that anybody would feel uneasy, if I called him a f@&#!t, n!@#&£, Apple user or something like that, it's all about the specific origin of the reciever of your speech, as well as who you are. We have a Turkish cabaret artist in Germany, who has a fair number of fans because of his Hitler impersonations, Mein Kamp readings and his general attitute of standing on stage, insulting everybody and then claiming, that he cannot be a racist, because he is one of those defamed minorities. Then I know a number of gay people, who keep using the word "f@&#!t" for a certain kind of gay person, claiming, that this certain demographic is responsible for the bad public picture of homosexuality. I also keep black people call each other n!@#&£ all day, but would sure be more or less disgruntled, if I, a white European, would use that word. Of course, if that artist I mentioned says it, it's perfectly fine for the white German audience, because he is Turkish and unable to be a racist because of that. Public perception makes words bad, not the original meaning. But we are not just talking about words here. Hate speech should be treated as what it is: A person or group uses lies or half-truth to defame another person, group, institution or ideology. Hate speech draws wrong conclusions. Hate speech is, by any means, a political device to harm other people and their interests. Therefore, hate speech should have consequences. Since we are not allowed to defend our honour and interests as we would have done a few centuries before, we need a jurisdictional system, that allows us to take any kind of bad action against our life, well-being, peace and honour in front of a jury. This is where another problem begins. While it is perfectly fine in, say, Russia, to be gainst homosexuals, you would be crucified publically for the same words in Germany. While public anti-jewish speeches are fine and probably common in Arabic or Persian countries, you will of course never hear the end of it in Europe or the US, if you even slip a gas joke in front of the wrong audience. On the other hand, those countries have their own taboos. I recently read, that the North Korean leader had his ex executed for creating porn and owning Bibles. I personally think, that Christianity sucks and porn is fun. I don't like the Islam, I don't like the deeper meaning of being a Jew. Can I say that? Most of the time I cannot. Even worse, I will be branded as an Atheist, expelled from any discussion with religious people. Is this already hate-speech? Am I allowed to find the spirituality of the majority of all people on this planet stupid? In public? Can I say, in public, that I support feminism and like watching porn? Most of the time I simply cannot. There is no real definition of hate speech, that would be applicable to a real life scenario. There is no way to identify hate-speech objectively. It is always a question of public perception and resonance. If the common sense is, that you do not eate mayonese with chocolate and anyone rebells against that, then it is just a normal social and socio-political effect. If someone somes along, preaching how eating mayo with chocolate is morally wrong, corrupt and eats your sould, dog and children, it would probably be hate-speech, if our own scale and context would be used to measure the implication of those statements. This needs to be handled without the subjective connotion of emotion, the judge, jury or whatever deciding instance has to be free of sympathy and own feelings. The only fair decision is based on cause and effect: Did A lobby against B to undermine B's interests? Did A lie in the process? Did A use any methods frowned upon by the respective society? Did A break the current local rules regarding competition in the process? Yes? A is to be punished and/or has to pay reperations for B's damage. But hate-speech is more complex. There is no proof, that Christianity is malicious, there is no proof, that Christianity is not malicious. There is no objective way of identifying a religion as an agent of either growth or destruction, no matter how much I dislike the very concept. How far am I allowed to go? Let's say I want to ban Christianity (Kim gave me the idea) and maybe the other religions as well (if we're at it now, why not go for the actual goal?), how far am I allowed to go? For a rather extensive example, I will create an organisation of like-minded people, who have the same goal. I am automatically validated in my thoughts, as there are others comming to the same conclusion. There will be a bureau, flyers, ads in newspapers, the internet and radio. There will be a website and info booths on every major public event. We will have an info hotline, where people, who suspect Christianity to be malicious can ask for help. Maybe somebody feels threatened by a mob of angry Christians and needs to lay low for a few days. I will personally try to catch every chance to go public and inform people about the dangers of monotheism. Is this hate-speech? For some people, even the frequency of the word "Christianity" in an example is hate-speech. Let's go even further: I will sell books, demanding, that the German people (or even international!) rises against Christian oppression, telling them, that the devine cancer needs to eradicated from our society. I list a number of famous Christians, who did bad bad things and inform about how "The Christian" looks like, how he moves, talks, eats and raises his children (Monogamy?! Seriously?!). I will even go a step further, stating, that Christianity is just a Jewish doomsday cult, that got elevated to power by even more power hungry politicians over the past 2000 years. Is this hate speech already? How about we reach out a little further, saying, that chopping off the end of a baby boy's dick was a reason to remove that child from that family and punish the parents. Oh, that's not the Christians? Never mind, we have already established, how they are just a Jewish cult and them Jews, they sure chop of dicks! From that point on, we will refer to all monotheists only as the "genital mutilators" and the final posters will read: "Love your dick? Say NO! to God!" I guess everybody has a certain point, where he would say, that my example contains or consists of hate speech. Some will draw this line earlier, some later. I bet there are those among us, who followed me until the dick chopping happened and I bet that at least one in every crowd would vote for me in a presidential election, if that was my program. I also bet, that there are a few, who will feel uneasy, beacuse I did not clearly state, that one of this is my actual opinion and that everything was just for the sake of an extreme, way out of proportion example. And I will not. There is something called competence, every reader should develop it at some point. Everyone listening to a speech should be able to evaluate the implications and especially the implicatures. To guess even more, I have no real answer to the original question. We cannot have people run around and lie to defame others. We cannot gag people, who run around and speak their mind. We cannot censor and not censor at the same time. We cannot simply force everybody to prove everything scientifically they say or state all the time, that their output is only an uneducated opinion. We cannot leash the human heart. Imagine, one day, when corporate control over our existence reaches orwelian climaxe, when the dystopy of large companies playing with us as you would with puppets, some people stood up, telling others about the dangers of big companies and we would have them gagged and arrested, because their opinions seem a little extreme to us. We would be lost. No chance. Hate speech has to be dealt with. You cannot un-say what has been said. You cannot imprision a thought, no matter how wrong it is. Mentality will return and hit you like a boomerang. Look at Germany: More than half a century of education and we have more real Nazis, who actually believe all that s#*!, than in the Third Reich. 30 years of integration politics and we have more people, who think, that all strangers have to leave the country, than back then, when it all started and it was still common and not frowned upon to publically blame the immigrants for all our problems. Why? People are not satisfied and go and find the next best reason. Blaming aliens is considered bad by the government and the media, so it must be the culprit! They are just trying to hide it from us! Or something like that, I guess, goes around in those heads. We cannot simply lock everybody away, who goes public and tells us, how all those strangers are responsible. The next one will come and pick up, where the last one was imprisoned. It must be true, they even locked him away for that! Bad bad government, working against our good cause! No, we need to deal with them. We need to show alternatives, demonstrate our dismay, dismatle them, lobby against them. Shunning them only makes them stronger in the long run, validating their cause, at least in their heads.

How big are cells, anyway? Like, how far away from him do I have to be before it counts as being in different cells. You won't get there in time anyway, he'll be done talking by then.

We recently played a Borderlands 4 player splitscreen match using a beamer and a pretty big wall. It looked like crap, but still better than Goldeneye64, which was fine back then. Couch Coop is an important feature for us, because we want to celebrate our hobby together, in the same room, having a brew, bbq, watching the stars at midnight, make out a little, watch a movie together, play a game, without always carrying a tower around. I would be hit harder, if couch coop dissapeared entirely, than I currently am by the decline of LAN modes. But then again, I would like to have a LAN mode in every MP game. Once a year or maybe twice, I actually like carrying my tower with me, sit in a room with a few more friends and play games like Starcraft, Left4Dead and UT. We used to have such sessions at a friend's property out of town. It has a pond to cool off, a big fireplace, a tarte flambée oven and a small one room house with a kitchen, a bathroom and the necessary infrastructure to allow twenty people to just sit down, connect their gear and start playing, including chairs, power and network jacks, a fridge and a guest couch. We all helped him built this little gamer's paradise, when we were younger and spent entire summer holiday's there. This won't happen again too often from now on. It is too expensive to have an internet connection on a distant property, just because you go there once a month. Mobile is not an option either, I want to see that mobile connection, that allows twenty players to have a lag free experience.

I let him live. He never did anything to betray me and he was loyal to his cause until the end. The real traitor was the one, who put worldly needs before spiritual concepts. This was not acceptable for my character, who is a direct descendent of the Nerevarin, carrying on her ancestor's name, face and spirit.

This depends on you being in the same cell at this time.

Dude, a game has either split screen or you have to buy one copy for each device you want to use it on at the same time. Guess why there is no LAN mode anymore? Publishers found out about people, who don't want to buy their games for LAN events. Who has to suffer now? Everyone.