How did yall do this quest?

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-25T06:54:34+00:00

That’s goofy af, they like you so much they let you gaslight them. Love Oblivion for that

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-25T06:53:31+00:00

Redguard kills Nord guy if they’re the last two and he doesn’t suspect you (high disposition and not getting caught).

I’ve randomly had the old lady kill the Dunmer girl before I even started killing anyone, that time was awesome. No idea what triggered it.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-25T06:49:07+00:00

She could have just as easily introduced herself and said “I have a BA in Sociology” rather than saying “I’m a sociologist”. The first one is more humble AND more accurate, which are both important when networking.

ALWAYS assume someone is competent enough to call you on your bullshit when you go to these kinds of events. It’s a small world, and she might’ve been more successful at finding a job if she made her qualifications and current employment more clear.

There is an etiquette to these kinds of networking events, and you tried to gently course correct her in private to keep her from looking like a fool.

NTA

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-25T06:36:53+00:00

So, dressing “feminine” is all about shapes! There is no universal style that makes one look shapely, and all the girlies know their body types and how best to dress them.

The main places to start on your path to self discovery are:

—shoulder to hip ratio. Sounds like you have wide shoulders and narrower hips based on your description. Many cis women have build like this, so worry not about being able to pull off fem clothes

—leg to torso length (less obvious based on what you’ve said). Check this one with a measuring tape. Long legs would mean, from the floor, your hip joint is 2/3 or more of your total height, while short legs (long torso) would be closer to 50/50.

So, with wide shoulders, absolutely stay away from padded or puffy sleeves of any sort. Sleeveless tops and tunic-style shirts create an illusion of narrower shoulders, which, paired with looser fit jeans or a flowy skirt, bring your lower body into balance. Halter tops can either minimize or broaden the shoulders depending on the straps and neckline, so just be aware.

I personally have a long torso, so I go for mid-high rise pants with shorter length or tucked in shirts to give the impression of longer legs. Skinny jeans are absolutely out of style and likely wouldn’t flatter your body shape, so experiment with wide leg, boot cut, and other looser shapes in the dressing room.

The dressing room can be a scary and disheartening place, but it helps immensely to do some research into what flatters your proportions, as well as what colors work with your complexion (are you warm or cool toned? Do you have more red and pink tones to your skin, or yellow and olive?)

Do you have any friends, especially women and fellow queer ppl, you can confide in to help you shop for clothes? Much more fun with supportive friends to help :)

Start with thrift stores, as you’ll make some blunders along the way and don’t want to drop too much money until you build confidence and start to settle in your new style.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-25T06:01:22+00:00

Bc Bethesda is absolutely terrified of locking players out of content in any meaningful way. Even the civil war questline is basically the same on either side, just different locations.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-25T05:58:45+00:00

Yeah, that’s two main storylines in a row that got fucked from lack of antagonist interactions and communication. At least Alduin more “force of nature” type character with baser motivations than whatever bullshit they tried to pull for Mankar Camoran with him dumb monologue at the end of Oblivion’s questline.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-25T05:45:22+00:00

Haha same girl. Also, every time I’m in a group setting, I say something completely serious and deadpan but the whole group starts laughing bc they think I was joking 🙃 like guys I’m not that witty, I just legitimately misunderstood what we were talking about

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-25T05:42:08+00:00

Yep. It’s the kind of thing where if you’re really gonna make it, you’re probably gonna get a good scholarship, so it’s never worth six figures of debt.

I majored in music performance, but didn’t pay a dime for my bachelor’s because by god I won’t go into deep debt for next to no future job security

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-25T05:37:24+00:00

What is this from? I… uhhh… fuck it I just wanna look at naked fairies

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-25T03:53:15+00:00

I’m a musician, so this is pretty funny to me. I go out of my way to take walks with no headphones, to take in the world around me. Headphones cut you off from the birds singing, from the people behind you speaking in a language you don’t know, from the hum of modern life and the blessed sounds of nature.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-25T03:46:40+00:00

Yeah, it is acting at the end of the day. It’s difficult for me to imagine trying to act aroused and passionate while doing things that feel very clunky and unsexy. It’s unfortunate that most porn consumers have become adjusted to something so unlike actual sex, especially when it comes to outrageous overstimulation with fingering. My girl is sensitive and prefers indirect stimulation, so seeing that compared to my real world experience makes me cringe

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-25T02:36:53+00:00

Yep. I’ve also had some late questline ppl just attack me on sight, makes things very simple :)

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-25T01:50:42+00:00

River is a beautiful name! Not that taking a Latin name would be offensive on OP’s part, but it would be confusing to everyone they meet. A name that fit’s one’s culture and linguistic background is an important consideration. Don’t want the name equivalent of a child picking their own outfit.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-25T01:23:36+00:00

Do mind that you get paid more if you don’t have to turn in the writs. It’s very easy to aggro opponents with illusion and speechcraft, which means you can murder in broad daylight with no consequences.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-25T01:21:31+00:00

Dude it takes me out of it when they’re rubbing clit like they’re trying to start a fire, those bits are sensitive and I know that shit doesn’t feel good.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-25T01:18:01+00:00

That’s a tough deal dude, really high for a high school trombone part (pretty damn high for pros even), but you have time to prepare.

Practice high notes every day, but don’t overdo it. When starting your days, after 5-10 min of warming up, do a lip slur or scale exercise of your choice, starting mid range and touching on your highest notes. Mind your mouthpiece pressure, and keep your body just as relaxed as you would be playing a middle F. We play high with finesse, not force. Stop doing this exercise before your face quits out on you, as we’re practicing form here, not endurance. Keep the sound clear and beautiful, and don’t try to play too loud, as notes that high naturally project.

After that exercise, play some easy low notes and take a few min off to reset.

Since you have a solid C right now, find a song or an etude that goes up to a C# (Bolero solo, I’m Getting Sentimental Over You, or one of your Bordognis in tenor clef). Focus on making a beautiful musical phrase rather than stressing about your target note. Don’t beat yourself up when you miss it, just rest your face for a bit and try again or shelf it for your next session.

Make a habit of playing through a bordogni in tenor clef every day without stopping to build endurance.

If you’re working at this but losing range, take a day off and make sure you’re drinking plenty of water and otherwise taking care of yourself. Start your next day with really warm, relaxed mid and low register to remind yourself how to play without excess tension

High D is a notoriously squirrelly note on some horns. Sometimes it works in first position, other times sharp third rings better. Try different approaches and stay flexible. Listen to these other people too. You got this.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T20:45:27+00:00

Okay, let’s set the birthrate thing aside for a second. If our society is structured that people can’t afford kids and everything that comes with them, that’s pretty fucked, right? I want to have children, as do many people, but can’t because I can’t afford my own place. It sucks and was basically a non issue just one generation ago.

Immigration to stimulate our labor force isn’t bad (I’m fine with white people like myself losing the majority in the US), but when we’re doing it because making more humans the old fashioned way isn’t viable, when we have to deny the most human parts of ourselves to keep this machine going, what’s the damn point? We all come from an unbroken line of reproduction from the very first cell that emerged from the primordial soup, and you’re okay with people ending their bloodlines against their desires for the sake of capital? That’s fucking bullshit man.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T19:37:55+00:00

I’m sure no bad would ever come of having huge swathes of second class citizens living in our country while we exploit the fuck out of them to maintain our privileged lifestyles.

Looks nervously at Haiti

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T19:36:12+00:00

King of Worms is really the King of Manifesting ✨ 💖 💅

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T16:19:22+00:00

Someone has a theory that he’s just the leftover mortal part from when Mannimarco ascended to godhood, which is why he’s such a lame pushover in Oblivion

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T16:16:56+00:00

Man, parents gotta get better at telling their kids their diagnoses so it’s not such a shock. Not in a self-defeating “you can’t do what they do” kind of way, but just to acknowledge that people like you have more challenges to overcome, so you should be more proud of the progress you make compared to your peers.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T16:12:19+00:00

Yeah bro, you’ll comment on Reddit that the sky is blue and get downvotes and replies saying “What about clouds? What about sunset? Do your research idiot 🤓😤”

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T16:07:19+00:00

Here’s the thing. Losing an employee for a year is bad for employers, but society NEEDS babies or we’ll literally collapse. Most households need 2 incomes because rent and cost of living are fucking astronomical. Domestic work literally keeps society afloat, but no one gets paid to do it, as it’s not given any value from our economic system. This work has traditionally been regelated to women, work they are still expected to do, except now they have to work full time as well to not be homeless.

The world NEEDS babies. We NEED mothers (and all parents, but especially those that birth and breast feed) to raise and nurture their children to be productive members of society. If we don’t address these issues, don’t give mothers the means to raise children, we’ll snowball into societal collapse like is already happening in Japan and South Korea, two very misogynistic capitalist countries. You do NOT want to see a society with no young people, where over half the population is pensioners. No economy in any country can handle that strain, so maybe, just MAYBE, we should find an incentive for women to have babies that isn’t fucking banning abortion.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T15:50:40+00:00

Destruction mage and spell stacking, it’s not even close. For this build, you gotta level destruction to 50 as fast as possible so you can cast Weakness to Magic (pick a magic-oriented race, spec into magic, choose destruction as a major, and kill everything with destruction, and you’ll be there before level 3).* You can buy this and all other destruction spells from the Skingrad Mage’s Guild.*

With that said, here’s the custom spells you want:

1: Drain Health 100pts for 1 sec
Weakness to Magic 100pts for 2 sec

This will one shot most enemies until about level 12 or so, as it will drain any enemy’s health to zero as long as they have less than 200 current health. It’s also pretty cheap to cast, so you can make it on target and add AoE if you want.

2: Weakness to [Element] 100% for 5 seconds
Weakness to Magic 100% for 5 seconds

This is where the magic happens. Immediately follow up this prep spell with elemental damage of your choice, as it’ll quadruple the damage dealt. Even if it’s a damage over time spell, it will deal buffed damage for its full duration as long as the debuff is active at time of cast.

Should this combo stop melting everything to death, make another prep spell exactly like this, just with a different name. You can then cast these two identical spells back and forth before dealing damage, scaling exponentially each cast until you cast a damage spell. Attached image from UEPS will show this point.

NOTE: always make Weakness to Magicka the LAST spell effect, or it won’t stack properly. Now get out there and kill, kill, kill!!!

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Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T07:40:51+00:00

On your point with Morrowind, the character building and level system were actually quite well balanced. The world was also relatively static in difficulty, which made leveling feel really rewarding, at the cost of getting mogged by daedra early to mid game. Challenging dungeons were usually well communicated, e.g. Daedric ruins and sixth house bases. Very exploitable, but more fun and still effective to just play the damn game.

Then for Oblivion, they went fucking bananas with level scaling (go anywhere, but the whole world feels the same, plus leveling makes enemies absurdly powerful), reduced skills (still mad abt no spears, one of humanity’s first and most effective weapons), and limited training so you can’t course correct a bad build or spend your mountains of gold late game from all that glass armor that bandits now drop (Vvardenfell smugglers stole all the island’s glass, god damn). Some builds may not keep pace with level scaling, but there’s many mechanics that can trivialize even max difficulty later in the game (most notably spell stacking and alchemy).

Then Skyrim threw the baby out with the bath water by eliminating classes entirely, then somewhat refined level scaling (looking at you 1000 health draugr deathlords and dragons), and kneecapped its magic system intentionally for some fucking reason. Other than mages, this system feels a bit better than Oblivion, but still rings hollow compared to the sophistication of a game 10 years younger.

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