Gaming

I now have over 30 mods installed. But I've hardly had time to play for all the mod hunting.

I find it rather fascinating to browse mods and see all these retextures that bring in way too much detail because the creators don't understand that if you look at a wall 20 metres away, you won't see every little microscopic grain and crack. Or the jewellery mods (of which I still got two, simply because something like what I'd rather want doesn't seem to exist) where they express surprise at Bethesda not making a ring or necklace etc for every possible gem/metal combination available to them. Like, just because you CAN make silver rings with flawless diamonds, maybe a realistic jeweller wouldn't consider it worthwhile? Or making a golden amulet with some cheap stones. Not that Bethesda actually seemed to follow such logic either, but still, it actually makes sense not to have a million different rings in game, just because that's how many possible combos there are. (Admittedly there seem to be 20 available combos in game and that's not a ridiculously high number...)

In my own little plan for jewellery (the one that prevented me from sleeping a few nights ago) which so far only considered earrings, I combined each metal with maybe 3 or 4 stones (plus plain versions). So the cheapest metals had some of the cheapest stones and the most valuable metal (ebony) had the most valuable gems. Mostly anyway. I ended up with rather a long list of items that would need to be made, anyway. All "my" metals with all "my" gemstones would probably allow for hundreds of combos for earrings alone.

And I don't get why people would want 1000 different hairdos. How would they ever even reach the end of the list to decide which one to use???

Can't have enough hairdos.
I remember one of those hairstyle mods being over 1GB.
The one I got for Oblivion (which was the smaller older version) was more MB than I would have wanted too.

Meanwhile my search for ceramics in the mountains is still a struggle.
Oh, but before that... That little stream near the terrorist camp was deeper than it looks.
Tried to ride through it on a bike that I'd found and got swept away. Lost the bike (sorry to whoever left it there) but thankfully saved the cargo.
Anyway I went back to the Waystation and began roadbuilding from the other side of the mountain. I managed to do three sections up to the incinerator but fell just short of the big cliff area where the useful ladder is. Until I get the road to go up there I can't do the heavy delivery from the Distribution Centre and doing the quick maths in my head....
.......
...well, quick-ish maths.
I'm about 200 short of ceramics.
I'll have to go all the way back to the Craftsman to stock up.


And I have claimed ESO.
It's gonna be a loooong install even if you do have room for it so I haven't bothered yet. Also I saw some people complaining that you need even more hard disk space to download an 80+ Gig patch after you've installed the game.

175 GB

I definitely need a new computer. But if they have like 1 TB of space, you can install 5 games like that and then you need yet another computer. Remember the time when we had floppy discs?

Once it's installed its apparently between 95 or 125 but during the installation it requires more space while packing the files. There's one person on Reddit that claims it needs over 300 during this process but perhaps they're exaggerating or have done something wrong.
Also there appears to be an occasional issue when installing to a location which isn't the C drive (which is what I would have to do) so I don't think I'll be trying it out just yet.

And I remember having to constantly change floppy disks while playing those point and click adventures.
Fate Of Atlantis had eleven!

I remember having ONE floppy with several games. It might have been mostly demos, though. I didn't really understand most of them.

I've still got some blank disks sat in the drawer next to me 

I think I might have some too. Or maybe I got rid of them in my last move.... But I'm fairly sure I have kept the ones where I saved stuff. Presumably in formats no longer accessible...

I think I will stop fiddling with the tomatoes, even though they don't seem to fit in. I mean, if I made them look worn and grubby like everything else, they'd go back to looking like peaches instead of tomatoes, wouldn't they?  
(My, Carlotta, what large tomatoes you have! )

And apparently I did find some sort of clothe replacer mod to install even if I can't remember being successful with anything but a few extras. Because suddenly the women of Whiterun are walking around in trousers and a top I haven't seen before.  

 

I used to be an adventurer like you until I put my back out trying to pick up a tomato 

...and of course I didn't stop and have ruined them again.

I changed the hue and transparency a bit on the normal map and I got that dividing line back, and then I changed hue and transparency back but the line remains. I also changed the diffuse colour because I figured maybe I just needed to desaturate them a bit to make them fit in better, and that's probably why the normal map is now not behaving as before, but by now I have no idea which direction to make changes in.

And I really should get to the store. After 4 days at home I'm starting to need a few things. Plus I should go see dad...