Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

I know it's existed for 15 1/2 years, but it still bothers me that Imperial Coffee doesn't give the effect of Barsleep.

Book Cover is complete!

That's your book? :O

I see your "What a horrible night to have a curse" and raise you a "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets."

It's gross, I blame rednecks

CONGRRRATS!

this *** guy LMAO

How is this game still alive and getting DLC lol, I'm still waiting on 3 but I'll try the DLC.

Because leveling up in Skyrim is boring AF until the end perks and trees, and it comes with the added ***in your face bonus of making the rest of the world more powerful. Leveling anything not related to combat? Congratulations, you played yourself.

Also there's certain perk trees that have more or less useless perks. You can lockpick a master lock with no lockpicking skill, due to the ease of the mini-game. That basically invalidates that entire skill tree, unless you're a lockpicking enthusiast.

Till now I'd never taken a character over level 40

Also, you're alive! :O

I have two files on Skyrim at lv 252, one on PS3, one on PS4, I don't know if I'd actually say I'm "alive."

I do rather miss Oblivion Gate sealing. Course being able to get the highest level Sigil Stones and put master level enchantments on anything gets really broken, really fast. >_>

Me and my friend made 100% Chameleon suits.

Also used all the max healing potions from the Malacath tournament quest or whatever to swim so far out into the lava behind an Oblivion Gate that the game stopped loading the lava, and I was swimming through the stars.

Elder Scrolls games, at least the ones I've played (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim) are all sand boxes. So you make your own fun, which is why mods in them are so appealing.

The everything leveling with you since Oblivion though really missed the mark though, if you ask me.

The idea is that the world is always challenging to you, but depending on how you play, it ranges from nearly impossible to contend with to so mind numbingly trivial that you might as well not be playing. Either extreme reflecting how much you understand the leveling mechanics.

For example, my buddy Ben loves Sneak and Sneak Attacks and Bows. In Oblivion he decided that he needed to level sneak to 100 in the tutorial, so he taped his control stick forward, and did just that.

Only, he made Sneak a Major Skill, so he came out of the tutorial at 100 Sneak, and already like level 9 with no other real stat gains beyond agility. Since Vitality/Willpower and other stats determine HP/Magicka/Stamina he was basically a twig. He was also immediately encoutnered bandits/marauders in elven/dwarven armor, and his leather/fur shiz from the tutorial was not doing him any favors in that regard.

He wound up turning the difficulty down, because Archery, Athletics, Acrobatics, and other Agility/Speed based things were his other major skills. Basically this guy could only deal damage with a bow and sneak attacks, and to be found was certain death. Reduced to almost certain death after he turned the difficulty down.

He wondered for a long time how I made direct combat look so easy. He figured it out eventually, and had more fun in future playthroughs at higher difficulty settings. He still has a strong disdain for direct combat, and still gets fearful when he has to partake in it, unless he's specifically building the character that way(See: Almost Never).

Admittedly we were both dumb teenagers, and I'd had familiarity with how level ups worked from Morrowind at my other friend's house.

My Orc's life went the other way. By level 19 I was Arena Grand Champion, and I was 2~3 shotting even things like Daedroths and Xevulais(or however it's spelled), and Goblin Warlords with my Ebony Battleaxe.

Fast forward to level 38. Goblin Warlords literally take so long for me to kill, I might as well be assaulting them with a pool noodle. My Bersker Rage no longer enhances my damage, as in Oblivion STR over 100 merely adds to carry weight to prevent letting the player one shot everything like in Morrowind. *feelsbadman*

Man, and I thought my GF and her sisters loved Skyrim.

Sarah's character is around level 60. It's her third or so character she's had to make, because around this time on previous characters she managed to irreversibly break their files with mods.

Her sister has one in the early 70s... She's done everything in game, except the Ebony Warrior, but she feels like it's, "Too much of a grind." to get to 80+.

Easiest way is what? Legendary Block against Delphine for like 3 days or something?

its dragon ball its easy money what do you mean !!! XD

after oblivion and skyrim i'm convinced bethesda is primarily outstanding at marketing.

the only good thing that ever came from those games was the thiefs/assassins guild quest lines of oblivion and this animation.

I disagree. There was also these animations.

Galka on a iron giant

I remember I found one time someone modded FFXI's Eisenplatte armor set for Skyrim. It doesn't look half bad.

It's always been one of my favourite-looking sets in XI.

Has to be the hair.

I had that for Oblivion.

Detect Life, go into either Windhelm or Solitude palace and put a rubber band on your controller, walk away.

work is being pretty not-nice to me, or should i say my manager really screwed me...

generally it takes 1-2 months to complete an audit of this size, but i have been given a week and a half (as my manager was kind enough to have this audit sit while i was away on vacation for 3 weeks), no staff and my manager is nowhere to be seen for any questions i have (horrible messy client)

but the good news is that aerogarden held up on their 1year warranty for me, and are sending a new garden free of charge... so then i can fill it with my tears... but, still a win i guess

it's been a busy day answering those linkedin recruiter messages, phew

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