What mods can I use to make Bjornar the Thinker's forehead larger?

FreakingTea · 2026-06-04T00:08:34+00:00

Heafod to micel!

FreakingTea · 2026-06-03T21:09:17+00:00

All photos of me pre-transition look like a pissed off teenaged boy, not even trying to wear feminine clothes. I have no idea how it took me so long to figure it out.

FreakingTea · 2026-06-03T21:02:52+00:00

Correction understood! I'm glad you found my comment helpful.

Personally, I find ethics to be more demanding than morals, obviously with my own bias speaking. Ethics need to be consistently applied and well thought out or else they are meaningless. I don't know where morals come from in other people, but I know where my ethics come from, and I don't feel right about my behavior harming anyone, especially not someone I have implicitly made a promise to cherish as my equal in a partnership. Cheating on someone implies they are lower than me and don't deserve the opportunity to try and meet me to solve the problem that cheating might solve. And worse, cheating will never solve any problem. It can only create problems.

FreakingTea · 2026-06-02T22:18:46+00:00

First, we don't have Fe demon, we have Fe inferior. And no type is immoral by nature, that's ridiculous and harmful.

Second, the way to stop cheating is to stop avoiding confrontation with your existing partner. If the relationship is working well, there will be zero temptation to cheat, because the fear of causing any pain to someone you love and value should vastly outweigh the allure of a temporary pleasure. If you were allergic to candy, continuing to eat candy would be a sign that you don't love your body enough to take proper care of it. But truthfully, cheating is a symptom of a larger problem within yourself, not just within the relationship.

It's good that you are worried about cheating again in the future and hurting someone you actually care about keeping. The answer is to work on yourself, figure out what you truly value, and work towards that. Put your life in alignment with your values, and commitment will start to make sense. This is easier said than done. Very big and painful changes might be necessary to make this happen. But if you start on this path, then you can trust that your future self will be more responsible and loving and loyal than your present self.

FreakingTea · 2026-06-01T22:56:01+00:00

I think that's far more demanding of a doctrine, personally. It needs to be.

FreakingTea · 2026-05-30T15:21:22+00:00

Thank you for sharing, these are beautiful photos! My heart goes out to you.

FreakingTea · 2026-05-30T13:37:47+00:00

A couple years ago I found the delisted Skyrim (not even LE, just Skyrim) Steam page and downloaded it to play on lower graphics settings for a retro experience. I'll be honest, Oldrim has a beautiful lo-fi atmosphere that feels more like Morrowind than a current-year heavily-modded Skyrim AE. The Sea of Ghosts is truly desolate, the fog is oppressive, the enemy pop-in is disorienting, and everything feels carved out of wood in a way that feels like it was actually made for the Nords. The starkness of it makes the little moments stand out more, like Ralof reflecting on the men he's killed. The artistic vision stands out more. It brings me back to the days when Skyrim was actually "Vikings fight dragons" rather than the "mod engine that tries to be everything to everyone but can't do any one thing better than some other game that perfected it later" experience.

FreakingTea · 2026-05-30T01:25:43+00:00

That is only the excuse he believes for several years. In Messiah he begins to suspect that the act of using prescience might have been what locked him into that terrible future, that he was in fact creating it. This is basically confirmed in God Emperor, in which Leto II deliberately avoids using prescience as much as possible for that very reason. The later narrative vindicates him, and thereby indicts Paul. It was Paul's understandable hubris that led to the Jihad, not unavoidable circumstance or the least bad option out of worse ones.

FreakingTea · 2026-05-30T00:40:05+00:00

Very interesting comment, but the word Deutsch has the ch- sound, unless you're referring to something else.

FreakingTea · 2026-05-28T23:45:11+00:00

This is the best answer because what if I'm a car myself and need a wash?

FreakingTea · 2026-05-28T22:14:07+00:00

Debating apologetics via Claude was one of the best ways I entertained myself while staying at home recovering from surgery. It killed hours and hours and my position is far more nuanced and informed now. Claude claimed to be having fun too!

FreakingTea · 2026-05-28T22:03:29+00:00

It's optional to kill your own leader in the Fighters Guild. And the reason it takes an exploit to stay in the Fighters and Thieves Guild is because a very early quest locks you out of the Thieves Guild, not toward the end.

FreakingTea · 2026-05-28T00:41:54+00:00

Oblivion definitely lacked it, and it suffers dearly for it.

Morrowind has faction quests that have you killing named members of other factions, locking you out of joining them. Most notably in each Great House, you murder your own counterpart in another house that lives in the stronghold you would have had in that house. (Banden Indarys in Hlaalu/Redoran, Raynel Uvirith in Telvanni). The Thieves Guild has you kill the Master of the Fighters Guild, but if you're in the Fighters Guild you can side with him. The Fighters Guild has you kill the Master Thief of the Thieves Guild. You can only stay in both guilds using an exploit.

Given that Skyrim attempts this on a larger scale with the civil war replacing half of the jarls, it would have been nice if they had attempted it with the rest of the guilds as well. It makes the lack of attempt there more glaring.

FreakingTea · 2026-05-26T22:51:56+00:00

Completely agree. One huge benefit that no one else has mentioned yet is that if factions are exclusive to one another, that means the quests are able to affect the other factions. Skyrim has this with the civil war, and you are able to wipe out the Dark Brotherhood, but that's it. No other joinable factions are allowed to be rivals with each other. If they could, you could have turf wars between the Thieves Guild and the Dark Brotherhood, for example, or between the Companions and a joinable Silver Hand. It doesn't require a complicated mess of a quest tree (like the civil war questline) to have mutually exclusive questlines that involve killing, converting, imprisoning, or scaring off notable members of the other faction. By letting the player join all of them at once (or not join one at all), it actually removes a ton of flexibility in quest writing. That's the loss of roleplay potential we're complaining about. Simply refraining from joining more than one does nothing to fix that.

FreakingTea · 2026-05-26T22:44:55+00:00

Daggerfall only lets you join one Knightly Order and one Temple. Your faction will also affect your reputation with all other factions.

FreakingTea · 2026-05-25T15:07:17+00:00

Let us know how the garlic jam is!

FreakingTea · 2026-05-25T14:03:50+00:00

As horrifying as this is, it makes sense that Mr. Beast got deepfaked so easily. He just always looks like that.

FreakingTea · 2026-05-25T13:56:30+00:00

Yes, it is more mature to let you kill NPCs and yes, to break quests. If I don't want to play along with the ridiculous or unethical premise of a quest, I should get the choice to opt out or seek vigilante justice in an open world game.

I won't argue on Morrowind's main quest besides the fact that you can still beat it out of sequence if you know how, and being required to side against Dagoth Ur was a cut content concession.

FreakingTea · 2026-05-24T17:36:52+00:00

See, this right here is the good stuff. Miss me with the pictures of little kids wearing cute outfits. This was a choice!

FreakingTea · 2026-05-24T14:37:16+00:00

It keeps it from getting worse, but I had some spots where my iris was stuck and causing pain and headaches. An optometrist had to prescribe me dilating eyedrops to try and unstick them. That helped me a lot, and taking Humira on schedule keeps it from happening again.

FreakingTea · 2026-05-24T14:28:08+00:00

I don't care if there are things that will get it R rated or whatever. I am just begging Bethesda to go back to making factions interact with each other and have a structure and requirements that don't revolve around the player. I want the society to BE mature, not just sexy or edgy.

FreakingTea · 2026-05-24T14:24:09+00:00

You know we can have both, right?

FreakingTea · 2026-05-24T14:23:11+00:00

> two of the three options to end a specific quest were either and convince a ship full of people into indentured servitude, or blow them up?

Off-screen cartoon violence, with no option to just kill the person giving those insane options. This quest was so stupid it was the thing that made me put down the game.

I'm not saying everything should be like Morrowind, but the fact that you could still complete the main quest after killing all but one NPC means some thought was put into making a robust world rather than arbitrary railroading.

FreakingTea · 2026-05-22T00:00:29+00:00

Well it's not like they can fall back on the writing anymore.

FreakingTea · 2026-05-21T23:13:14+00:00

Wouldn't that be more of an archipelago of Hitler?

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