I’m getting to the time of year I do my superhero binge. Right now is my Bethesda binge and then I’ll do the Batman Arkham games followed by the Spider-Man games.

I’ve relapsed too, I’m back to modding Skyrim again. It’s been a while for me, but after talking about it on lemmy a few days ago I got the itch. I’m currently running an evil mage build. Used Alternate Start to start with Windstad Manor, which actually comes fully furnished aside from the add-ons. It’s in the swamp which I think adds to the vibe of my character. I’m also messing around with the Ordinator Perk Overhaul and Apocalypse Magic mods, along with a bunch of graphics mods and smaller gameplay mods. I’m going to explore Bruma again soon too, haven’t played with that mod in several years.

I’ve seen it mentioned a lot on lemmy recently, I’m pleasantly surprised. I haven’t played it in a few years but really enjoyed my time with it. It had a really rough launch but even after they fixed it I felt it was quite under-appreciated. I’m glad it’s getting more attention now.

Enjoy! I’ve been wanting to get back into the ME series again, but the stupid EA launcher requirements have halted me. I know you can modify some files to get around it, and I did do that and it worked, but the next time I tried to open the game steam verified the files and corrected them. I haven’t gotten around to removing the launcher requirements again yet.

I just got back into modding Skyrim again. It’s my first time modding on Linux, it’s been far smoother than I was told it would be. I’m using ModOrganizer2, it’s been great for the most part. It’s a little iffy to start up, sometimes it forgets I’ve used it before and I need to reboot a couple times which is pretty annoying, but as long as I don’t fully close MO2 it works as expected.

Right now if you’re in the UK (or your IP says you’re in the UK) imgur won’t load due to a recent law going into effect. I’m not British so I don’t 100% know all the details but that’s all that’s important for this joke. Anyway, this shows a colour blind test but it says “fuck the imgur blind”. I’m thinking this image is being hosted on imgur so only people who aren’t British (and therefore aren’t “imgur blind”) can see it, therefore fuck the imgur blind because they can’t see it.

At least that’s how I took it. I may be wrong.

The dark bits? Likely shredded cheese that burnt on the tray.

A good chunk of that is modding but I’d still say a majority is playing the game. I’ve got somewhere in the realm of 50-100 playthroughs of Skyrim, some of which are a few hundred hours. Almost all of them are modded.

I haven’t. It’s on my wishlist though, so maybe on the next sale I’ll pick it up.

Alternate Start is the one I always use. 5k hours and 4.9k probably with that mod.

That sounds awesome, I’m looking forward to it.

I’ve bookmarked this website. That’s so cool. One of my new favourites now. Thanks for making it.

Probably a decent amount of music stuff.

I used to play piano at an ARCT level, and used to be pretty knowledgeable about theory and music history but I’ve forgotten a lot of it now. I haven’t practiced or studied since COVID hit so unfortunately a lot of it is gone now.

The music that I listen to, I have basically an encyclopedic knowledge of. I know when they were born or when the band formed, when each of their albums came out, and generally know a lot of trivia about them.

I collect records and have been learning a lot about record players and audio equipment over the last couple years. Not as good as an audio engineer but better than the average lemming I’d say.

I used to do classical music composition pre-COVID. Again, probably not as good at it anymore, but I got quite good for a while. My music instructor at the time said I was the most impressive composer he ever taught. I’m still sorta riding that high from 2019. Very unfortunately, I had all that stored offline on a hard drive with no backup, and I’m sure you can guess what happened next. Since then I’ve been dissuaded from composing.

I used to help teach and tutor music courses when I was in school. I was basically the music teacher’s pet, and this was at a music school. The music teacher in question happened to be the head of music at that school too (there were several music teachers at that school).

A friend of mine, who was also into music and knew a lot of music students, once told me I was the only person he’s ever met that should’ve absolutely done a degree in music. This was at a time where he had a strong opinion that you should only go to school for a “real” degree that pays well afterwards. He’s since changed his opinion, but it was a big deal for him to say that to me at the time.

The worst part of all this is my severe AuDHD meant that as soon as COVID hit and I paused music courses and lessons, I couldn’t get myself to continue. Now I live in a place too small for a piano so I can’t practice unless I visit my parents or in-laws, and I have different hyper-focuses now, instead of theory. I wish I could change my brain sometimes.

Don’t crucify me, but Control.

I absolutely love creepy atmospheric games that aren’t outright horror. If you’ve ever played the Playdead games (Limbo and Inside) you know what I’m talking about. BioShock does it a bit too. Anyway, due to this being my absolute favourite type of media to consume, and not at all knowing how to find more of it, I made a post on here a couple years ago asking for advice, as well as a few friends and other communities, and Control was the overwhelming majority suggestion. So obviously I gave it a shot, but I just didn’t enjoy the way it, ahem, controlled. Not sure how well to describe it other than that, but movement just felt off to me. Maybe I’ll have to give it a try again in the future, but I couldn’t put in more than an hour or two without getting annoyed. It looked pretty neat, and I’ve seen screenshots of later points in the game which look pretty awesome, but for whatever reason I couldn’t get past the movement. It’s not an issue I’ve had in any other game and I’m not sure why it bugs me so much in this one.

Battlefield 4 and 1 are some of my favourite modern shooter games but I can’t justify buying 6. First of all it can’t run on Linux so I’d have to buy it on PlayStation but also I’ve heard very mixed things. It’s disappointing, I really wanted to have another Battlefield 4 experience again.

They both score. At least according to the rule book in my version.

The board game? It’s Carcassonne, a game where you build the board as you play. I’ve got the big box which has all 11 expansions and I think I paid around $120 CAD for it (approx $85 USD) but the base game is obviously much cheaper.

On your turn, you place a piece to add it to the board, then if you want you can add a meeple (those little wooden guys) on a road, castle, or farm. When a road or castle gets completed, whoever is on it gets points from it. At the end of the game, if you have a farmer, any completed castles on your land also gets you points. There’s obviously more to it than that but that’s the basics. It’s my wife’s favourite game and it’s pretty easy to learn so it’s good for games nights when we have people over, but it’s also playable with just two people as well.

If a curse is the price to pay for him, he’s worth it to me.

Not sure about Christmas but it was Canadian thanksgiving today.

But yes I agree, happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day.