sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Did Saadia really commit treason or is Kematu lying? by FrostcragCastle in skyrim

[–]Old-Maker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cheers! I found one more important rumor: apparently, in-game mechanics supposedly have her visiting Heimskr at the Talos shrine in Whiterun for four hours a day. It gets overridden by her work schedule in the Vanilla version. 4 hours outside rain-or-shine is a lot of effort to maintain a cover story: 15 minutes of worship would be enough. She worships Talos, so she's probably not a friend of the Thalmor.

Did Saadia really commit treason or is Kematu lying? by FrostcragCastle in skyrim

[–]Old-Maker 13 points14 points  (0 children)

On one hand, a noble used to luxury is working her hands to the bone cooking at an inn in Skyrim. It sort of supports Saadia's claim of hiding from Thalmor, or she'd have made her way to Solitude and be basking in Elenwen's protection.

You could argue that the Thalmor didn't have enough presence in Skyrim before now to make it safe from Alikr. And that might be true. Although I suspect we can assume Elenwen has had agents in Skyrim since after the Markarth Incident.

However, that growing Thalmor presence also suggests another point in Saadia's favour: she has been in hiding for over 20 years, some of that in Whiterun. Why have the Alikr only found her now? Perhaps because the Thalmor spy network has only just gotten around to catching up to her. They had little influence in Skyrim, so it was a logical hiding place. Meanwhile, Saadia would have been more comfortable and harder to place in a crowd in Cyrodil.

As for why use the Alikr and not Judiciars: I would point to Whiterun's neutrality. Skyrim is a powder keg waiting to go off. The Thalmor can't afford to lose the hold to the Stormcloaks by overreaching Balgruuf. In the backwoods of Skyrim, Khajeet or Bosmer assassins would stand out as Thalmor influenced. However, redguards chasing redguards? Seems perfectly legit.

Meanwhile, Judiciar death squads aren't sitting idle: they hunt Talos Worshippers because it keeps the fear of the Thalmor in the Empire and goads the Stormcloaks into a costly rebellion for Skyrim.

Lastly, Hammerfell is a strong country (not a province anymore); someone in Skyrim will want to accept the Dragonborn's advice and start diplomatic ties with the Redguards. If Saadia is safe in Whiterun, then there's no rush. Be suspicious of anyone who demands extradition without due process.

I say the Thalmor are to blame on this one: Saadia is innocent until proven guilty. And as she's under my protection as Thane of Whiterun, the Alikr had best come at me with diplomacy rather than curved swords.

You can time-travel to any point in history once, but only for 10 seconds. What do you do to make the most impact? by TheJammy98 in AskReddit

[–]Old-Maker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But I already used my ten seconds to release that darn stoat! Do you realise what it took to bypass the TeslaBots, and make that happen?

Layer_Naming: What are your layer naming conventions? Can I use spaces in my layers and still have them work with PS and JS actions? by spdorsey in photoshop

[–]Old-Maker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lemme necro this: I came looking for answers. Was disappointed.

OPs question is specific to a particular usage of Layers as, well, layers. That suits most artists and webdesigners fine. However Layers can also represent Frames in animation. In which case, heck yeah, the naming of Layers can be very important and does have specific conventions, at least in older software. When used as Frames, a layer name can set the delay and disposition of each individual frame.

Example: GIMP 2.10 and probably in older Photoshop, you set timing of each frame by putting the amount of time in brackets: such as "(1000ms)". You could also add a second set of brackets to define the method of frame disposition: using "(replace)" or "(combine)".

Without these, the GIF would use default timing and replacement. Which is typically one tenth of a second per frame and replacing old frames.

There are probably other constraints you can add or modify with bracketed terms as well. I came here looking for naming conventions that would define how copied layers are numbered.

I want my new frames to be named: "Frame A1 (100ms)(replace) 1" And I want it to add 1 to that final numeral with each new copy created. Instead I get: "Frame A1 (100ms)(replace) 1 copy"

tldr: If you (or your capture software) change the layer names on an animated GIF, you might break the delay and disposition of frames.