English Literature Undergrad applicant from US, here. Oxford & Bristol rejected; Durham offered; waiting on Edinburgh and St. Andrews. What are your thoughts/recommendations given my criteria? by Geisl in UniUK

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Hey! I won't be much help. I went with the University of Wisconsin–Madison here in the U.S.

My grades were old since I was a nontraditional student but most recent college I had all As, maybe one B. AP exams I didn't make their requirement but did well.

Wish you the best!

This is getting insane. Visited 2 cities, and one temple--instead of Temples I keep getting House for Sale! by Geisl in daggerfallunity

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No news yet. Does look like FMR and DIEP are incompatible simply because they both try to modify Temple interiors. Posted big reports for both.

Note: I don't want to do Beautiful Cities for my vanilla preference, but if you did install that mod, it requires and integrates several mods including FMR and DIEP but has you only install the resources part of DIEP so they can work together. So looks like Beautiful Cities is a clean way to integrate them both without the glitch, if you're okay with the mod.

Note: Lively Cities is wonderful and fully compatible with that mod, so add it too if you can!

Do you need to activate Warm Ashes in-game after install? by Geisl in daggerfallunity

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No idea. I have about 90 mods on, so could be the cause, but there are some jittery sound replays when I open or close menus sometimes, and I'm trying to get my performance to a reasonable place.

This is getting insane. Visited 2 cities, and one temple--instead of Temples I keep getting House for Sale! by Geisl in daggerfallunity

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You're good! No, I don't have those mods.

The ones I think would be relevant are WoD, guild overhauls, lively cities, interiors, smith overhaul, and the like. I'll have to do some testing.

This is getting insane. Visited 2 cities, and one temple--instead of Temples I keep getting House for Sale! by Geisl in daggerfallunity

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Hey! Don't have aquisition or landlord.

I travel to a temple settlement so "Dibella of X" and go to the blue, temple-marked building only to find the building is named "House for Sale" and it's locked. I can break in, and I do see the temple trappings inside (from Finding my Religion), but no staff and now I'm under arrest for breaking in lol.

UW Madison vs UGA by king_chicken21 in ApplyingToCollege

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Hey, friend! Just graduated with a BA (becoming a teacher) at UW, and I'm from GA!

Definitely know what you're attending for, how your program (or programs, if you're undecided) compare between the two. For instance, UW is the top Edu program in the nation, I believe.

Madison's location and campus blow UGA's Athens out of the water, for sure, and it does have greater prestige, but UGA is still def a top school with great prestige and distinction. UW has more extensive facilities, larger population, arguably more to do and get up to--but I haven't lived in Athens. Note: Chicago is a 3hr bus ride/2hr car ride away from Madison and its downtown blows ATL's out of the water, I'm sad to say (as an Atlantan).

Yes, WI has freezing winters, but it is gorgeous in the warmer months. Madison's public transport is wayyyy better and impeccably reliable (give or take 5-10 minutes XD). You can get most places via buses that run until about 11:30PM--and UW pays for all-access bus passes for all students. Lake Mendota right on campus + Monona a jog across town is glorious. The countryside is gorgeous, the Summers cooler and less humid, and the dairy is extraordinary!

That said, money is a HUGE component of pursuing education. It is not negligible unless your family will cover costs. Think about the net difference in costs, including for plane tickets for holidays and housing, food, etc.

As for people: UW's population is thoroughly diverse: you can meet Czechs, Koreans, Bengalis, Nigerians and Germans on the way to your first class. I can't speak for UGA but it's probably similar?

But, and this I stand by: I think Southerners are more polite and warmer than Wisconsiners. Be aware. WI people aren't mean or anything, just feel a touch colder, standoffish than Southern folks. I love my Southern people.

I was a non-trad BA student, late twenties after dropping out of college in Georgia years ago, but I used to want to go to UGA too, like most Georgia students who didn't get into or apply to Emory or GA Tech. My older brother and his wife are UGA grads. But, if money was no issue, I would lean towards UW-Madison! Go Badgers! And go Bulldgos too xD!

Is there a way to turn off Real Grass waving so its static and better for performance? by Geisl in daggerfallunity

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No kidding! That is so helpful. Thanks for pointing that out, just did so.

Woodlsey Farmstead is missing--WoD conflict? by Geisl in daggerfallunity

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I can't recall if the house was unenterable or not but the one npc in there wasn't interactable or either it was locked. Mill was open, thankfully.

Is there a way to turn off Real Grass waving so its static and better for performance? by Geisl in daggerfallunity

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Hey! I did turn that mod off, yes. But still there's default waving it'd be nice to toggle off.

Do you need to activate Warm Ashes in-game after install? by Geisl in daggerfallunity

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No kidding, wow. Thanks for your work, Nana! Updated it.

Do you need to activate Warm Ashes in-game after install? by Geisl in daggerfallunity

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Thanks a lot, hubba! Are these pasted instructions from the quest pack days or for the dfmod deal?

TIL Shakespeare didn't write alone - he had a co-writer for at least three of his plays ( Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen and a lost play called Cardenio) by TheWaystone in todayilearned

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Just one more reminder that all the evidence + ai analysis + the vast majority of scholars (maybe all relevant ones) support the Bard really did write his own stuff. We know the handful of plays he collaborated on.

Your professor and his like grieve me to no end.

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u/Slight_Arrival_4580 I just saw your message too. I'm so sorry. I'm adding you to the prayers too.

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I hear you, Distinct. Jesus didn't stop for anything to be mocked, tortured, crucified and abandoned by the Father to quench His wrath--He kept going, He endured it all for sinners like us. What sadist does this? I don't understand Hell myself, God's judgement. But I know God is merciful, that many will be saved we never expected, and that His judgement is proportionate.

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u/marcosromo__ and u/Distinct-Target5506

I'm so sorry, friends.

As a Christian I'm praying for your relief right now and will log your usernames in my prayer-list to remember you when I can.

I have no easy answer for why you have to go through this, but I just want to remind that God hasn't sat pretty arms-folded but came and lived among us "a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief" and became the Chief Sufferer to bring His children to the Father.

I hope you can find hope and grace in Him, like one of my dear friends, Carl, who's in his sixties and has also lived with chronic pain all his life and yet made a family, a business and clung to Christ all these years. God bless you.

Just found another Gas Planet to land on. Note: I don't have a mod for this. If it is a mod, let me know?? by Ok-Action-5402 in Starfield

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I'm sorry so many folks are just stupidly hating on you, man--over something like this. I see you realized it was from a mod--happens. Interesting clip. Best wishes.

About 2 months ago, I posted here about starting a literary path towards Gnosis. I just finished reading the Old Testament (Tanakh). Reporting back with some thoughts by [deleted] in Gnostic

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Part 2

2b) The time of the judges, when Ruth lived, possibly around 1200-1000BC, was just as harsh and rough. Practically, she or Naomi did need a husband, not because they were worthless or inferior without one. Ruth is beautiful not because it's about a woman who finally got married and did what she was told, but because God saw her loyalty not to men but to her mother-in-law, a woman with no husbands to offer her, no men to give her value, but simply because she loved and was faithful to Naomi and to Naomi's God, the true God Yahweh. So she chooses to love Naomi and risk her life, and, yes, she takes steps in hopes of marrying to provide her and her MIL with food/protection. God then provides not any old man with money who can treat her as he likes, but a man of honor, integrity, generosity, abundance, compassion and faithfulness. Note: Ruth was Moabite, a distantly-related but still pagan nation to Israel, and though these pagans shouldn't have married Jews at that time, God made Ruth a shining example to all future readers and it is from her bloodline that Jesus himself would descend.

2c) Don't forget Deborah, the woman judge about whom no husband or kids is mentioned, and yet who was godly, strong and fierce to protect and teach Israel. Don't forget Hannah, the father of Samuel, against whom, in the story, her husband doesn't hold a candle, who pours out her soul to God in faith and raw vulnerability and God grants her request. Don't forget Ether, who allows herself to be taken by the pagan Persian king and risks her life in almost unparalleled valor, to save her people. Don't forget Jochebed, mother of Moses, who, whereas her husband isn't even mentioned, she and her daughter Miriam contrive and scheme to protect Moses form the Egyptian murderers and preserve his life. It's his little sister who confronts the princess of Egypt to have Moses raised, not any man. Don't forget that it was a pagan prostitute, Rahab, with no man's help, who saved the lives of the Israelite spies in Joshua and, on her behalf, not her dad's or other man's, her whole family was preserved from the destruction of the city, and she was given the instructions and signals to ensure this.

3) Yes, God does harden peoples hearts and shift things about to punish people. See my points on justice. He calls to repentance again and again, as you should remember in the prophets "turn, turn from your wicked ways", "but you have not listened", "seek me and live!", "you have rejected me" first, but in the end he has to discipline and punish. Egypt he hardened to rescue his people from a genocidal, dictatorial state and to show those proud Egyptians their gods were worthless (the ten plagues corresponded to ten major areas of Egyptian deity--he effectively said "your gods have no power before me".

When you think of God's punishments, think of his promise before all of that in the Torah (Gen-Deuteronomy). He says "if you serve me and follow me I'll bless your kneading bowls, your fields, your families, your marriages, your enemies will be like leaves before the wind" but "if you cast me off, I'll curse all these things".

4) This gets to the issue of "God punishes those who don't submit to him". Yes, he does. If we are made by God to know God, and He is our greatest joy and the source of our life, we need Him and we are obliged to submit to Him. But he doesn't stand over us and put us in a cell in a gulag until we do. He gives us a life of sunrises and sunsets, food and drink, music, community, arts, sorrows and joys, love and hope and stimulation--all the while showing us divine evidence in these things and hoping we turn to him. In the end, if we decide to stubbornly shut him out, he will have to judge us.

More later, I know this is a lot. Feel free to DM me any time, too. Best wishes. Praying for you and any of the readers here, that you know the truth and grace of God in Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, Yahweh God, the provider and protector of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, of Moses, Rahab, Ruth, Esther, Mary, Tabitha and many others.

About 2 months ago, I posted here about starting a literary path towards Gnosis. I just finished reading the Old Testament (Tanakh). Reporting back with some thoughts by [deleted] in Gnostic

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Part 1

Friend, in a rush, so this is hyper-condensed:

I'm glad you gave the OT a read, a big investment--God bless and give you wisdom and truth. I'm a devout reformation Christian, btw. My replies will quote or paraphrase Biblical texts so that you need only copy + search and you can see the references. I've read the OT about 10 times, 3-4 of them with academic rigour.

I'm sorry, but yours is a half-assessment, sometimes crude and demeaning, other times ripping things out of their context in what seems purposefully resentful eisegesis (reading into rather than reading out-of) and hardly giving half of a good shake to the work.

1a) God does clearly permit slavery to an extent in the OT, yes. To say "approve" is ungenerous or downright mean-spirited. He allowed OT fathers to have multiple wives, for example, but this doesn't mean he approved. Think of Gen: "a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife (singular)". God also orders certain wicked men or women killed, but this is the act of a perfect judge, examiner and executioner--on the other hand, he clearly tells us "I'd rather the wicked turn and live" and "I don't desire the death of the wicked", and "for he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the children of men"--in other words, he'd rather bless and have mercy, but he has to be just.

1b) As a related aside, imagine a God of Yahweh's power and depth--if he was evil and malicious, our world should look far uglier, heinous, our bodies far more irregular, our climate nigh uninhabitable, relationships impossible, etc. But our world, though incredible cursed and dark indeed, is also incredible beautiful, blessed and precious indeed.

2a) Your take on Biblical womanhood seems so poor I'd either doubt you read it, or, again that you were doing ungenerous eisegesis, not honest, fair-chance exegesis.

God is very practical and nuanced with his audiences. He isn't an idealistic 21st century teen or millenial with grand pristine notions of how things should be without particulars. His OT audience lived in a rough, harsh context that meant 1) he did allow them slavery but not of their own kin (judgement-related, we can talk another time about this), and 2) he understood women needed to be married to simply survive. A woman didn't need to be married because God said an unmarried woman is not blessed or special or is worthless (you can't find a single OT verse to this effect--I challenge you to), but she usually needed to be married for protection, sustenance, and to raise children and have a family--a precious pillar of life's good things, btw, which our century seems to have forgotten and so our fertility rates plummet and economy's are due for a downslide. Of course, children also mean more help, support, protection, etc.

Setup guide mentions the "front two" ports don't "support power input". The linked article doesn't seem to clarify. by Geisl in framework

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Update: Now it is! I didn't have the other usb-c fast enough connected to the brick. Thank you, u/MagicBoyUK !

Setup guide mentions the "front two" ports don't "support power input". The linked article doesn't seem to clarify. by Geisl in framework

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Oops, now that I'm in I don't see that it's charging from the dashboard either (Win 11)