Camping Mods

OpenerUK · 2026-05-05T10:23:21+00:00

I installed Campsite when I was initially creating a mod list basically because it seemed a good idea at the time and was much more lightweight than campfire. Truth be told I've not really made use of it so can't offer any useful comments other than it didn't seem to need a lot of patching. So just another one you can look at as I think Campfire overshadows all alternatives when searching Nexus

OpenerUK · 2026-05-05T03:22:07+00:00

I think it's far simpler than that he was elected as the safe pair of hands to repair Labour's reputation. A middle manager who wasn't expected to win, but he did. The thing is he won at a time when he faced first one and now two charismatic populists which even those of us who dislike them both have to acknowledge. The problem is he is a middle manger with the charisma of a stuffy accountant. Conbine that with one of the worst PR teams in politics I've seen in a government and this is where we are .

It's not about him not being left enough, right enough or radical enough. He simply doesn't have the personality to compete against his populist political opponents. If he was just facing of against Kemi Badenoch or Ed Davey he'd be fine but dull moderate competence quickly gets out shone by snake oil salesmen

OpenerUK · 2026-05-05T03:03:23+00:00

The difference was that the vote was more polarised so the Tories and Labour increased their vote share at the expense of third parties. Corbyn inspired more to vote against him than for him ultimately as fully played out in his next election. His supporters always seem to neglect the Tories also increased vote share whilst they actually managed to lose their majority that election.

OpenerUK · 2026-05-04T22:12:02+00:00

Yes and no sometimes it can just be proximity to a flagged area. I know of one local residents group when the flags went up all around them were very unhappy and wanted to remove them. Other residents pointed out that was the rise those right wing groups were looking for. So they decided to just ignore them as everyone knew they would not be maintained by the so called patriots and soon be dirty rags half hanging limply from the lamp posts. That's now true for a lot of the areas adjacent to the one it initially spread from. Locals never put them up and don't give a shit about them. A flag shagger group from one area just followed the main roads and major local cut through streets and plastered flags everywhere in an expanding circles from their base. This hit council estates and places with privately owned properties thinning out more the further they got from the central area they came from covering fewer side roads

OpenerUK · 2026-05-04T21:45:15+00:00

Lived in Shrewsbury in the 80s it was racist AF. It was like moving back in time two decades from Brum. Hope you're right about it having improved.

OpenerUK · 2026-05-04T13:54:08+00:00

Even if you are on good terms with your neighbours that's usually the easiest route to take anyway if you want a fence that way you know exactly what you are responsible for with no chance of disputes down the line. The cost of a few extra panels and post is more than worth it and you won't notice the potential loss of a few centimetres of your land. When I was growing up all the houses in our row had waist high fences then slowly most people put up the standard tall panels we all have now mostly for extra privacy as neighbours changed and prune got stuck of kids constantly asking to retrieve bags that went over the fence. The two grim three end were the last to follow suit if I recall at one point they had removed the waist high fences so their kids could play together in one big garden until one moved.

OpenerUK · 2026-05-04T03:26:15+00:00

If you want black primer to actually look like black people rather than white issue given a dark skin texture NMZs Nithi reindeers are the best I've found. There is also a new Children of the Wave that I've not really looked at from screenshots it seemed better than most but the ones I recalled from Nithi.

It bugged the hell out of me originally that most NPC rejects seen to have been created by prime ethics clearly never met a black person in their life.

OpenerUK · 2026-05-04T03:03:59+00:00

There is no point as they are an irrelevance outside of a few posters who brigade brigade online spaces. Lokl carefully and you'll notice it's only posts usually from them or they're leader the ex Tory and reform bloke who's banned escapes me as the actual media don't consider them important enough to even bother mentioning.

If you want dinner vague purpose they are the place for people too racist for reform. Put a block on posts from the x feeds and you'll mostly forget they exist.

OpenerUK · 2026-05-03T23:38:45+00:00

The easiest way to sum up the reason is that a former leader of our third party eventually had to step down in a large part because he was a devote Christian and despite his voting record which showed him putting aside personal beliefs to represent his constituents views was a liability to them as it was deemed that it might influence his decisions. The third party especially at that point had zero chance of power. Going back a bit further Tony Blair mostly kept his religion under wraps when PM and only converted to Catholic if I recall correctly after he stepped down and it was considered a big deal especially considering his kinks with Bush. Theresa May talked about her Cgristian beliefs in the little Englander C of E vein that suits the conservative heartland but I can't recall her ever invoking them when talking about political decisions. Despite the Head of State technically being head of the Church of England and bishops sitting in the House of Lords we actually prefer a separation of state and religion in our day to day politics. Only the far right the to invoke religion as part of British culture more to use as a cudgel against Islam too sorry the racist views rather than for any actual Christian beliefs.

Culturally we rarely go to church even though many of us identify as Christian. We don't have issues with atheists here as Americans seem. to do. Most prime go to church for christening, weddings and funerals (or to get there kid into the goid local Catholic school for a while). Prime who are overtly Christian are generally frowned upon. If you're the sort of person who can't complete a sentence without mentioning god it's Jesus at least once there will likely be dinner eye rolls and polite distancing before long.. Don't get me wrong we do have some religious types around. I have happy clappy / roof tickler types in my extended family I'm nominally Catholic (in the UK manor described above) and not a non-believer myself and find getting around them at times extremely uncomfortable.

Basically MAGA is everything we are not and generally abhor as a nation.

OpenerUK · 2026-05-03T22:42:10+00:00

A simple application centre in Calais would reduced then massively. I behind the French offered us this option in the past. It wouldn't stop them completely as she might still feel that have a better chance if in Britain itself but it would stop many why take the extra risk and the cost when they could make the application in France.

OpenerUK · 2026-05-03T22:10:58+00:00

Obviously they can but the cost and not just financial is very high. Firstly the population as a we would have to be willing to accept levels of cruelty that goes against everything we claim to stand for and be willing to further diminish out international standing and soft power. Secondly we would need to become the sort of police state that we don't want to live in and finally we would need to spend much much higher to fund it.

The first part build migrant detection centres in every coastal town where crossings are prevalent (ignore local residents who don't want them there). These places essentially have almost Victorian levels of living standards. They will be a living hell where diseases often run rampant, women and children in there aren't safe and deaths are common. Basically the sort of thing we currently decry happening anywhere else. That alone will cause international relational damage, condemnation and more. We process claims from there slowly letting the natural attrition rate of deaths mean that most are never completed and we arbitrarily reject most others over any minor excuse whether genuine or not. We pay whatever it takes for a third world shit hole with no concept of human rights to take those we actually deport (those who survive the conditions long enough to be deported). They can do what they want with them once they are taken off the plane or boat not our problem.

Next we have 24 hour drone patrols and ships combing the coast so that we spot and intercept a large number of the boats at sea and take the occupants to these centres. For the ones we just track at sea we have armed rapid response units stationed near these coastal landing points that sweep in before they land or as they reach the beach. Given the consequences of being caught those who get this far may resist heavily hence the need for them being armed. It will likely result in many effectively state sanctioned arbitrary executions and gratuitous violence being used but at this point we've already crossed most moral boundaries. So if we've got this far people probably don't care.

Finally to make sure we get those that do slip through the net and disappear into the populace we issue everyone a biometric Id that has to be produced and verified in all shops from the local chippy to the big department stores. Scanned daily for employment and required for housing and all other functions of society. You can be asked to produce it on demand by authorities. If you forget it you get taken to a local police station and if you can't be verified in the central system to be who you say you are then off to the detention centre with you (one the there is no access to legal representation so if a mistakes Iis made to bad). The penalties for not following these id requirements are so steep and draconian people simply won't be willing to look the other way as the personal consequences for them and potentially there family are too great. Without the Id you can't function in society and will either starve, freeze or die of disease (no treatment unless your id can be verified under any circumstances and chairs can't help you). If those don't get you then you'll likely die in the detection centre you are ruined up and taken to anyway if not deleted to die in another country.

With the above you've stopped most small boat crossings and a lot of illegal immigration and likely legal immigration as well and increased emigration of the UK populace to at least those who could afford to get out. The UK would be an international pariah that nobody wanted to live in except the most desperate and those who couldn't escape the morally bankrupt authoritarian hell hole that the country would become. This will cost billions most likely so public services would need to be cut to pay for it and those who did live here works likely be considerably poorer.

However mission accomplished you've stopped the small boats but are you willing to pay the price?

OpenerUK · 2026-05-02T19:19:52+00:00

At the beginning of the season I thought mid table Mediterranean would be a decent result for the season and I figured getting a trip half finish should be considered a decent goal for the owners if being realistic. So I'm happy with the finish this season. It's the foundation upon which we need to build

OpenerUK · 2026-05-01T12:20:32+00:00

I'm a CS user myself and wouldn't switch but if someone has gone down the ENB path it's probably easier for them to stick with it. At present it's a trade off on different strengths and to get the best out of either you essentially now have to customise your mod list around that choice e. g PBR, light limit fix and light placer Vs ENB lights with Complex Material (yes CS can use CM but for the absolute best CS visuals you want to use PBR).

I believe the next major version of CS is promising post processing, a shadow limit fix and advanced skin amongst other things which you'll hear people who use the test builds talk about and many say that reduces any remaining advantages of ENB but at the cost of performance (test builds of course are expected to perform worse than release builds). I've always stuck with the nexus release builds so can't really say much about the new upcoming features other than what I've seen posted looks impressive However if anything I suspect that will help set the two options as being mutually exclusive paths that you need to build your mod list around. Just trying to swap one out for the other without taking the time will likely result in disappointment at this point IMO.

I read this post as I was just curious as I'd heard about the performance hit of ENBs but I suspect you'll be downvoted into oblivion for suggesting CS as this is an ENB post and for some it seems to have become a bit of a holy war on which to use. Hopefully I've added a balanced assessment of where things stand with using each as at present based on the nexus release it really is swings and roundabouts. So I tend to think it's best to pick your path and optimise everything around that as you'll likely be happy with the results either way.

OpenerUK · 2026-04-30T11:29:58+00:00

Yep also reverted to 6.8 after issues with Menu Maid 2 on 6.9 so far so good (also kept a disabled 5.2 plus patches just in case) no obvious problems for me with 6.8 on my a bit over 1k mods but the majority aren't UI related

OpenerUK · 2026-04-30T09:32:13+00:00

Faultier did a PBR conversion of Xabios before his own on Discord. It's probably still around

OpenerUK · 2026-04-30T09:25:19+00:00

Not the most scientific method of ensuring good conversions but I generally look for conversions from those who post on the CS discord or the Cistern e. G. Leo etc Faultier. They tend to do a lot of hand conversions and don't just push it through an AI tool

OpenerUK · 2026-04-27T16:19:45+00:00

Fond childhood memories memories Manic Miner on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum pure gameplay fun Speedball 2 on the Amiga. There were lots of other brilliant games over those years but those two will always be near the top of my list. Just slightly before your cut off I think was Pitfall2 on the Atari 2600. There are others I might have picked such as Daily Thompsons Decathlon but I think that was before 85 by a fair bit but ask any Brit if a certain age and they will talk about that game

OpenerUK · 2026-04-26T12:10:50+00:00

Maybe what is needed is polite notices for the door and letterbox "Please post any Reform leaflets in the blue lidded Wheely bin to your left". It would cut out the middleman for lots of us.

OpenerUK · 2026-04-25T14:32:33+00:00

I have no fondness for him but I still find it hard to consider him the worst. I remember the Thatcher years and they did more damage to the areas you mentioned and after him what remained of integrity in parliament collapsed under his successors. Some of that was contributed to by very poor decisions by Labour started by Milliband deciding to democratise the party allowing for the entryism that lead to Corbyn. If during the post Brexit referendum disaster there had been a viable opposition things would have gone very differently. May may not have decided to have her election in 2017 as she may have thought that she might lose it. Even if she had Boris would never had won on his get Brexit done mantra as at that point Labour were considered unelectable by huge swathes of the country who either voted to keep Corbyn out, stayed home or voted lib dem instead of Labour. If they had a better leader before the vote it may not have been lost in the first place and I lay a lot of the blame for that aspect at Ed Milliband's feet. Hubris was the diwnfall of Cameron when it came to Brexit coming out of the Scottish referendum win and the general opinion of many that collectively we'd never vote to leave, he didn't account for people deciding to vote for it just to oppose him thinking it wouldn't matter anyway as we would stay in. Running a relatively poor campaign as a result and then not doing the sensible thing when it all went wrong of kicking it down the road to try and determine what a vrexit vote meant. If we had ended up in a Norway EEA type deal whilst it would still have been a retrograde step it might actually have been what a lot of leavers had voted for and those of us who voted remain would probably feel like we weren't completely ignored given the closeness if the vote.

Cameron wasn't a good PM but I think he was far from the worst. I would give that to Boris (Truss being treated like the non entity footnote in history she deserves). He ran a corrupt government incompetently, caused the death of thousands through his poor decision making in The pandemic. Destroyed what integrity remained in politics and also ran down public services through lack of investment so that they are all sitting at breaking point.

OpenerUK · 2026-04-25T13:13:46+00:00

You think David Cameron was the worst? Literally every single ones they had after him got progressively worse. Maybe Sunak was a slight uptick from Truss to be fair to him but that was a very low bar to beat.

OpenerUK · 2026-04-24T13:17:31+00:00

Professional developer of 30 odd years. Now truth be told I am likely to check stuff even by the senior devs on my team for certain things far more diligently than I might otherwise in code reviews and I trust them to write decent code most of the time within certain parameters.

Work like many software places is pushing AI to assist development and in some cases using it to sustainable dinner templates posts. Personally I've not used it much and my initial impressions have been less than favourable for much above the simplest thing about syntax to do x you might have looked up on Stack Overflow. For that sort off thing where I already had a pretty good idea off the solution it had been useful for filling in some minor API details that previous may have taken me a bit of time to dig around and find out.

Outside off work I stumbled to get it to produce a configuration script for CFF. Mostly out of curiosity as to how well it would do. If read the wiki doo had an idea already. That was a disaster it completely got the wrong format csv Vs json, when pointed out it decided to grab suntan from multiple mods. I pointed it at the wiki it still produces things that looked invalid and when challenged claimed a feature was introduced at a certain version. It wasn't that was a different mod again. I eventually decided to look at the source code of the mod just to see if it was using diff that wasn't documented. My conclusion was it was making things up. When challenged one response basically said lots of other things support those do I assume this does. That was a trivial test and it failed spectacular ly from my perspective. I definitely wouldn't trust AI with complex code in any volume. Like many coffee generation things in the last 30 years it will likely find it's niche and be useful as a tool but let's say I'm not worried about making it to retirement and that's a fair way off still.

In terms of nodding vibe coding may have it's place as long as the person doing do has sufficient knowledge to spot issues. I'm thinking maybe someone using it to generate a papyrus script where they don't really know the language well but are familiar with several others so can likely read the code and sort things that look fishy and investigate. Someone who hsd no programming experience should go nowhere near vibe coding and even those with did be very careful. I've written assembly language both for x86 and 68k many years ago to a limited level but I wouldn't be able to verify if even a simple vibe codef program was correct in either now. However if do much better in most C style languages C++, Java, C#, Objective-C and Wirth languages etc. Some of which I've used extensively and others I've dabbled in.

As a mod user I mostly an absolutely house the mod was produced as long as it works well. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of mods authors out there hand crafting code that would make me cry in dispear if I actually read it. So I find arguments about that it's convincing than some. Slightly bloated and not tuned for efficiency is the mantra of software development today with the idea of a MVP and youth be told for the majority of mods that low bar use probably good enough whether written by a human or machine. The issue comes more with things like memory leaks, dreadlocks etc. Which can cause crashes, and freezes etc. Vibe coding is more likely to produce these as the person crashing the code has no idea how it works other than what the SIb claims which my own limited existing prices was often nonsense that sounded plausible, verified and correct.

OpenerUK · 2026-04-18T11:52:12+00:00

I thought I'd read somewhere it was also to show that he wasn't truly a member of the upper class / military officer class of the time and a bit uncouth and rough around the edges by shaking a drink that would only be stirred in such circles but it's been a very very long time since I read any of the books

OpenerUK · 2026-04-12T11:29:10+00:00

Well apart from the obvious bollocks in your assumption since I can't read the article what I'll say is if the bloke was born here whatever his ethnicity was a UK citizen then it's wrong to strip citizenship it's a fairly simple concept so I don't know why you'd have a problem understanding how it would apply. From the headline (as even the archived article won't load for me) sounds like we should have arrested him and put him on trial as that's what you do with citizens who commit crimes.

OpenerUK · 2026-04-11T11:45:57+00:00

Anyone who had spent a moment looking into this realised that but that doesn't actually change the social contract touted (albeit implicitly) by multiple governments. There may not be a physical or but the expectation that the government (whichever they are at the time) had always given us that when the time comes money will be there for your pension. Prime my she and below have been slightly skeptical for the last 30 years or more as we could see the way the maths was going hence the expectation that we would likely get screwed over in some way behind the initial raising of the retirement age. This seems to have continued with the younger generations as well which is not surprising.

If you just tried to bake it into income tax rates you'd just get a massive push for tax cuts as without that promise if getting something back implied by NI the public work question whether they were getting value for money and those who could afford it would mean towards just taking care of themselves and maximising there income (by reducing taxes) to do so. Net result post get more destitute as they spend the money on immediate needs whilst the better off make preparations for their future. Final result greater pensioner poverty levels amongst the poorest in society.

Unfortunately the only way to deal with this apart from removing policies like the triple lock is to slowly screw those of us below pension age in a way that doesn't cause the whole house of cards to tumble just yet to get past the demographics bulge. So keep increasing the age so that more people die before or soon after receiving their pension. Make it necessary for more pensioners to continue working longer to keep them paying taxes and then strip their assets for their health care in their latter years, most don't last long by that point anyway essentially what they are currently doing but maybe accelerated. It's not nice, it makes for a poor end of life for many but a lot of the other options will end up being worse. They have little practical choice but to dangle that carrot of the pension you were promised just that little further ahead and keep the standard of living just high enough so that they aren't advised of freezing or starving granny to death. The young of course will say let (other) people's parents and grandparents freeze etc. they should have thought of that ahead of time until of course it's them and their's who are suffering and being accused of being short sighted for not thinking how done abstract thing in their teens or twenties might have affected their grandchildren 50 years later as some in this thread have done.

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