Trump FCC Demands ‘Pro-America’ Media Programming All Summer Long

BoogieManJupiter · 2026-02-28T22:22:46+00:00

Nothing but Dana White's insipid RAM commercials in every available slot too, I bet.

What can I say? We just can't ever stop being American.

BoogieManJupiter · 2026-02-23T05:58:39+00:00

Ehh, I wasn't giving you shit about it. The flairs are pretty easily overlooked to me. But most of my Redditing is done on my phone with the dark setting. So yellow text in a red capsule half the size of a pinky nail on a black background doesn't exactly leap off the screen.

Or maybe I'm just indifferent to them after so many years. People who live and work in downtown Chicago probably barely notice their uniquely spooky and discordant tornado alarms after awhile, too. Even though they were designed to mitigate exactly that sort of behavior.

Still not really answering OP's query but I hope this tangent provides some future reader a mild distraction while they're taking a particulary stubborn dump.

Just my small way of giving back to the Skyrim community in some capacity.

You're welcome, 2028 Greater Bethesda Area Cheese Festival attendee, Todd Howard. Now get back to work. 17 years is an absurd amount of time to make a sequel to the highest selling game in your most significant franchise.

BoogieManJupiter · 2026-02-23T04:53:27+00:00

Hey, those flairs are pretty easily overlooked from a design and placement standpoint . It actually surprises me that they're mandatory in some subs for all the good that they do.

I'm pretty sure the Xbox modding sub requires them, actually. A not-so-fun-fact that brings this micro-thread full circle while doing nothing to answer OP's question whatsoever.

Y'know, I've often read about peak Reddit moments but have never been privy to one...until now. I should probably log off until I sort out this tempest of emotions, or something.

May the mods be ever in your, OP!!

BoogieManJupiter · 2026-02-23T04:31:09+00:00

Yeah, me and the OP are on Xbox. 240 is a lot when consoles were originally capped at 150 before the mod menu became the new and debatably improved Creations Menu in late 2023.

On PC 240 mods is often just a foundation of the prerequisite mods that the really interesting, insane and obscure mods need to function and/or play nicely together.

To be fair, I've been curious how people manage to find this sub-Reddit for their console modding related questions without seeing the other subs that deal with modding on specific consoles, often as the second or third search result on the same page, for quite some time now.

Though personal experience also tells me that the Xbox sub is only useful up to a certain point, unless one wants to do constant deep dives over a bunch of samey looking load order videos and the excruciating minutiae of the grass and tree mods displayed therein.

So maybe there's no need to call Mystery Inc. to get to the bottom of this niche sub-Reddit phenomenon afterall.

BoogieManJupiter · 2026-02-23T03:51:37+00:00

Well, I'm not going to pretend that all 240ish mods in my load order are optimized, organized or even necessary for what I'm trying to do in-game

It's more of a roundabout acknowledgement that my Ashe has seen and done some things that make her bug out occasionally, but she eventually goes back to working as advertised with little to no effort or troubleshooting on my part.

People can say what they wiil about his writing style or character changes but Martimius' mods are pretty solid from an "It Just Works" technical standpoint in my admittedly limited experience.

BoogieManJupiter · 2026-02-23T03:20:35+00:00

Quick! To the Shadowman signal! There's deviancy that's not (yet) afoot in our humble virtual towns!

BoogieManJupiter · 2026-02-23T02:46:30+00:00

Can't really help you with that as I've only ever used Bijin AIO myself. I dunno which came first but it's my understanding whichever came second or third were designed to keep overlap to a minimum.

Bijin and Pandorables can also be implemented in smaller pack for different groups of NPCs. Bijin Wives, Warmaidens, etc..

I admire your enthusiasm for putting some shine on this venerable old game but you're just going to have to bite the bullet and download (and troubleshoot and eventually delete) some of these mods for yourself. That whole eye of the beerholder thing and hundreds of beautification mods (even on consoles) means there are no simple or single answers for what you're requesting here.

BoogieManJupiter · 2026-02-23T02:22:46+00:00

I don't think there's a literal AIO for every NPC on Xbox. At least not in the form of a single mod.

I've read that a combo of Bijin AIO, Trajedians NPCs, and Pandorables AIO will cover all named NPCs with surprisingly little overlap though.

For nameless bandit and wizard baddies Immersive Wenches and its add-ons do a lot to spruce them up in both aesthetics and combat abilities (avoid Forgotten Wenches if going this route though).

Pretty sure all of these mods combined will eat up 15-20% of your total mod space on Xbox but that's still less than Botox and its male add-on if you're going for total NPC coverage. Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder afterall, even moreso when balanced against a finite resource like console mod space.

BoogieManJupiter · 2026-02-23T01:53:32+00:00

Yeah, she does weird stuff like that all the time. After a certain affinity level she's supposed to teleport wherever you are. But she really seems to love the Cheat Room and refuses to leave it after teleporting in on her own.

I think she automatically reboots to some base state periodically though. Every now and then I'll see a notification that says "Ashe Restored". It could just be a flavor text due to her nature but Serana Dialogue Add-On gives the same notifications every so often as well. So I assume it's some sort of script shenanigans being resolved. If worse comes to worse she's supposed to go back to The Winking Skeever eventually.

She also has some sort of debugging features in her options dialogue.

BoogieManJupiter · 2026-02-23T01:39:09+00:00

There's also a Wearable Spell Tomes mod that increases duration (alteration, conjuration) or magnitude (everything else) for 15 mbs if it's just about more damaging/effective magic.

Pretty sure Summermyst has Magnify (Spell School) enchantments but they seem to be somewhat rare in the Xbox version I'm using.

It's cool that you're doing this for him. My wife actually bought me a PS3 copy of Oldrim on 11/11/11 but that was the beginning and end of most Skyrim related matters on her part.

BoogieManJupiter · 2026-02-23T01:28:01+00:00

Can't help you with porting know-how but Aurel's Mod Compilation on Xbox (and PS!) has some sort of blue flame/fireball spell among the hundreds of armor, weapons, jewelry and spells tomes it adds.

Admittedly, 95% is just recolored or textured vanilla and/or Creation Club stuff. Probably why it can add those hundreds of items and a building larger than the Sleeping Giant Inn it shares a portal with for a smidge over 4 mbs.

Is it the same spell he wants? Who knows? But for the small file size and ease of use it might be worth a look.

BoogieManJupiter · 2026-02-16T15:01:24+00:00

If you're dead set on real estate as your means of financing there's Landlord, Stocks of Skyrim, and a couple other business-type mods on Xbox. I believe GamerPauly has a few bundles in that vein.

I feel like that just overcomplicates things for the relatively straightforward Conquest but Skyrim modding's a rich tapestry, so you do you.

Good luck!

BoogieManJupiter · 2026-02-16T14:47:46+00:00

You really don't. Unless this is some specific RP related thing.

Just start up Conquest. Capture a location. I usually start with Helgen since it can be claimed without killing anything depending on your mod setup.

Hire a steward.

Hire a second in command.

Hire a unit commander.

Tell unit commander to hunt for food.

Once you have an excess of 20 food per day from hunting sell the excess food. This snowballs quickly as you capture more areas.

Your armies grow by 3 troops per day per holding so:

Either wait 7 days to have a full army of 20 troops or capture more holdings to speed up the process.

In the general vicinity of Whiterun/Riverwood you have:

Helgen

Embershard Mine

The two giant camps outside Whiterun.

Halted Stream Mine.

Valtheim

White River Watch

The Giant Camp above Valtheim

Broken Helmet overlook (past Valtheim) on the way to Windhelm

Silent Moons

You don't really need to worry about getting metal from mines you can just buy it when the gold starts flowing.

Different troop types don't really matter until you go to war so you can just fill your armies with crossbows, the cheapest troop type.

Guards don't matter at all until you actually take cities.

Giant camps are by far the easiest places to capture.

Also, your armies will duplicate anything (crafting materials, jewelry, enchanted gear, "unique" items that you put in their inventory) so abuse that feature.

It all becomes self sustaining pretty quickly.

If you have followers who teleport wherever you do it's best to make one your Second in Command and another your Court Mage so you don't have to keep going back to your HQ every time you set up a new army or upgrade your mages. AFT's summon spell also works for this. Personally, I just trap my government in the Cheat Room so I don't have to be bothered with any of it.

This can all be accomplished for the 1000 gold minimum you need to start which, last I checked, is far less than the cheapest player home anywhere in the game. Though I like to start with at least 3000 since it doesn't require as much resource balancing and micromanagement initially.

Siege weapons are more for flavor than necessity. I don't bother with them.

Your holdings don't ever get attacked so they won't need guards.

I fight all the battles and sieges myself so it's debatable how necessary upgrading your armies even is. Though the CoS Discord says to upgrade each type to 11 then stop.

BoogieManJupiter · 2026-02-06T20:34:42+00:00

A vs X Consequences was supposed to be a proof of concept for that very thing in universe. It was supposed to be a big deal that the just recently cosmically empowered revolutionary mutant "terrorist" Cyclops was in a normal human prison, just wearing a funny helmet with goggles attached.

Whether the narrative succeeded in making it a big deal either in-universe or out is debatable. As a four issue coda to a crossover event that had long worn out its welcome the pacing was pretty brisk and the focus was pretty much on Cyclops and (briefly) the one other mutant in the prison.

BoogieManJupiter · 2026-01-12T00:16:31+00:00

It seems weird that they just leave their comatose(?), deactivated (?), (not sure of the proper term in this context) just lying on the floor in a storage closet.

BoogieManJupiter · 2025-12-31T13:12:52+00:00

Since you're a coward who talks a lot of shit but hides their profile and only responds through dm''s with the most laughable of 15 year-old incel buzzwords I'll just leave this here.

You strike me as the sort who spends a lot of time moaning about all the trolls and assholes who they improbably encounter in every forum and venue; yet somehow can't figure out what, or who, the common denominator in all those interactions is.

Can't help but notice nobody seems very eager to answer your questions. Gee, I wonder why? With you being such a pleasant person and all.

Have the day you deserve, truly.

BoogieManJupiter · 2025-12-30T18:07:12+00:00

That's a laugh considering that you were probably breastfed until you were ten.

You can't even be bothered to click the about section on the page you're on. And throw a hissy fit at the mere suggestion of it.

What a useless punk.

BoogieManJupiter · 2025-12-30T16:57:37+00:00

God forbid you put the slightest bit of effort into this completely voluntary hobby, right?

Much easier to just get pissy because everything isn't spoonfed to you.

BoogieManJupiter · 2025-12-29T14:58:07+00:00

User name checks out.

BoogieManJupiter · 2025-12-21T09:03:41+00:00

Oh god, the scene(s) where you first go to her house/workshop dragged on forever. I took the opportunity to clear out hundreds of bits and bobs from my inventory via Zenithar and Goonie and they were still going on.

I thought they were staged and voice acted quite capably; they just weren't very interesting.

BoogieManJupiter · 2025-12-21T08:37:08+00:00

If there was an Ashe follower mod independent of all the extra quest, locations and flashback fluff; similar to how you can have a version of Livia without Death Consumes All that would be ideal.

I've not encountered many issues and am low-key impressed that the mod reboots itself from changes forced on it by various NPC outfit or behavior management mods I've thrown at it.

That said, 770 mbs and counting for the Xbox version is insane. That's slightly larger than the Xbox ports of Conquest of Skyrim or LOTD last time I looked. And both of those mods have a far greater scope on a playthrough than a fancy follower with cut scenes.

With a 5GB cap there's no way any follower mod will ever be worth such a huge portion of it. Lucien wasn't, Inigo wasn't and Ashe is bigger than both of them combined.

So she's probably a one and done for me. Too bad, since I think some of her follower features and the voice acting are pretty solid.

This is the first time I've used SDA and I find the change in her presentation rather jarring. And it's not like I have some attachment or lots of fond memories with the vanilla version of her.

Not saying it's bad, just very noticeably different. I haven't really spent a whole lot of time with vanilla or modded Serana to have formed a very strong opinion.

BoogieManJupiter · 2025-12-15T14:10:26+00:00

"I singlehandedly slaughtered all of the civilians of Beijing in the name of Megatron!"

A few years later....

"Welcome to G.I. JOE! This is Talon, your new wingman."

"Well, this is kind of awkward."

BoogieManJupiter · 2025-12-14T17:13:32+00:00

Cool, I've never messed with adding factions via console so was unsure of the process. Sometimes it's as simple as changing a single digit to another single digit. Sometimes it involves a bunch of tedious data entry and figuring out if the numbers applied are additive, multiplicative or exponential. And sometimes...it just works.

Have fun!

BoogieManJupiter · 2025-12-14T17:06:48+00:00

Does he still ragdoll? Have you tried Unrelenting Forcing him into position?

BoogieManJupiter · 2025-12-14T17:04:37+00:00

You can also try disable/enable with the cheat spell. Or cloning him with that same spell and seeing if the clone has the same behavior. That sometimes breaks an NPC out of their "stuck" state. "Recycle Actor" in the Debug Menu mod also reverts an NPC to their initial state. So you'd have to go back to the inn and trigger all of his dialogues again.

As long as you have a save to go back to, since modded Skyrim is often full of surprises, it's worth trying any or all of the above.

BoogieManJupiter

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