VOCAB wars

[Tidus44]

My disappointment in missing the Oblivion Walker is assuaged (softened, lessened) by the award I found in the mod “Achieve That”. It didn’t fail to give me the award and further, I have sufficient points in the Hall of Glory to obtain a complete set of daedric armour.

[Aurielius]

My disappointment in missing the Oblivion Walker is assuaged (softened, lessened) by the award I found in the mod “Achieve That”. It didn’t fail to give me the award and further, I have sufficient points in the Hall of Glory to obtain a complete set of daedric armour.

No Daedric autographed posters? I especially like the selfies of Azura and Molag Bal That Noninclusion is very remiss of steam.

[Tidus44]

I had to take a look and the only Steam card for Skyrim I have is a Frost Troll. Wondering who I have to kill to earn a card on Steam or find those posters.

 

Regardless of Steam, I feel pancratic in Skyrim (accomplished in many forms or having a mastery over numerous subjects). I just completed the Thieves Guild quest "The Dainty Sload" without using a potion of invisibility and without killing any of the corsairs/sailors on the ship. In and out like a shadow, even the Mastery Lock on the chest was easy.

 

The daedric armour looks pretty good in the entry to my house located just outside of Solitude.

[Aurielius]

Venal accomplishments (minor) provide only Transitory (fleeting) satisfaction but then again I hate Steam with a passion and only play offline. Doesn't it affect your fps to leave it running in the background?

[Tidus44]

My previous playthroughs of Skyrim were done with Steam offline, but in doing so I didn’t receive the achievements that Skyrim/Steam awards for the various accomplishments within the game. Honestly, on initial playthroughs I wasn’t actually aware they existed and even if I did know, it wouldn’t have mattered.

However, my motivation for running Steam online and obtaining the achievement awards is just being a juvenile aretaloger; (one who boasts about their accomplishments, ie: “bragging rights”) in a friendly competition between me and a young lady who lives next door who re-introduced me to gaming some years back by giving me Morrowind and the Oblivion/Bioshock combo.

 

I suppose my computer is good enough as with Steam running I am getting 55-65 FPS (according to FRAPS) and the game runs smoothly; I have not noticed a stutter at all. The only place it seems to dip is in Whiterun and the FPS consistently drops to 40-45, but it still runs smoothly. I am at around 300 hours since restarting Skyrim in January and I have only had one CTD that seems to have been caused by a mod.

I am running 103 mods, but they don’t seem to impact anything with my current game setup as the game has been running pretty consistently since I started.

 

I would suggest that I am likely more “lucky” than skilled as far as having the game run so well.

[Aurielius]

Well since the Serendipitous heads up ( fortuitous accident) from a friend I'm playing The Tesla Effect, the return of Tex Murphy after an sixteen year absence.

[Tidus44]

I invented a new word today – plagiarism.

 

 

Looked up the Tex Murphy game and looks interesting.

Need to perform an additament (augment, addition/add to) my Steam account (Wolfenstein is coming) so I'm thinking I'll be downloading and installing The Tesla Effect on the weekend.

[Tidus44]

Apparently, a sick child can be suffering from bucolic (an idyllic rural setting) - at least according to the EMS call sheet I read this morning.

Edited May 10, 2014 by Tidus44

[Aurielius]

Feet wet- Flying over water ..which is what I'll be tomorrow. See you in a couple of weeks amigo.

[Tidus44]

I found it somewhat striking that camorra – meaning a secret society (such as the Mafia), and usually one that's breaking the law, is very similar to camonna as in Camonna Tong. I actually read the word as camonna initially. One wonders at the game developers if they do such things purposely.