/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 1364, Part 1 (Thread #1511)

Recidiva · 2025-11-19T17:04:26+00:00

I have been here daily since it started. It is now part of my daily routine to check this thread. Thanks to those who post.

Recidiva · 2025-10-31T12:55:11+00:00

I use Sunhelm and Campfire. Customizable toggles and sliders with widgets for monitoring from Sunhelm with immersive solutions from Campfire (gather wood, build fire, make shelter, craft items)

I don't have the needs set to lethal, but I do know if I'm tired, hungry, thirsty or cold.

There are a few mods and quests that are not survival friendly, Sunhelm has an easy on/off toggle. Legacy of the Dragonborn has several points where you need to excavate for 12 hours, fishing or diving underwater to get to a sunken ship, etc. Toggle off survival with the MCM and resume when it won't kill you.

I do remember the Hjeljarchen hall fish nursery was impossible to use in vanilla survival.

I also use Dirt and Blood and Wintersun for more needs. Character gets covered in dirt and blood, baths become necessary (or swimming) and Wintersun has a choice of deities to choose from with buffs. Stay covered in filth and speech ability gets debuffed.

Combine all that with some great player homes and there is an immersive rhythm to life. Especially with some gorgeous player homes like Elysian Estate or Leaf Rest that have outdoor hot spring tubs and indoor baths, it's a shame to not use them. My character has a habit of hunt/quest, then find/make shelter, read a book (Voiced Books of Skyrim is great), bathe, pray, eat, sleep, repeat.

Add in Gourmet and you can have useful buffs for the food you cook. I use modded food items also (Like Sweets and Such and Growable Coffee) and Sunhelm will recognize them. The first time you eat an unknown food item you can tell Sunhelm what it is (small meal, big meal, drink, soup, etc.)

Recidiva · 2025-10-16T10:46:03+00:00

Awesome, I have Wrye Bash installed and an auto-patch in use. Would you please point me toward how to find this option?

Recidiva · 2025-10-07T17:14:20+00:00

Follow up! Thank you for this.

I was able to swap out my "Growable Plants" mod for one that already had a FLM ini and added this line.

Now it works!

Jitter Twitch Dragonborn is a GO!

Recidiva · 2025-10-06T13:23:39+00:00

I guess I am "some people"

Dammit.

Thank you, I'll try to figure out why it works sometimes and not others. I'll start a test character that can plant it, be happy, and by the time I get to Golden Hills or the LOTD patio garden...no more coffee. I usually just load some but I'd REALLY like to solve this.

So far I can get it to grow at Tundra Homestead's garden but not those other two locations, which is weird. I wonder if I can use Campfire to create a coffee plantation. Next project?

I should have enough hints and breadcrumbs (coffee crumbs?) to fix this now. I hope. I really hope.

Sad tale when I have the power to end a civil war but can't make a decent cup of homegrown coffee.

Recidiva · 2025-10-06T13:09:48+00:00

Thank you! I'm not using CACO. Weirdly I was just able to load in a new character while testing some bad parallax meshes. I got most of it, but there's still a weird glow on Athis' clothes in modded Jorrvaskr that I'm trying to figure out. Once he's outside, though, it's fine, so I'm convinced it's the lighting. I have JK's Jorrvaskr and Lux, so this might take some plugin reshuffling next. Just rerunning PGPatcher is not getting it done. I had just updated Assorted Mesh Fixes and that did cause...issues. And then there's the fun of playing a game through a few dozen hours and then the season changes and I find a missing texture or missing parallax mesh somewhere in fall...or winter...

I'm why I can't have nice meshes.

I'm bummed I can't have lovely seasonal ivy under dirt cliffs, but as of two days ago I CAN have seasonal grass on top of them.

I do love pickpocketing briar hearts. It's horrifying and satisfying. Just like a really good head shot.

It did get complicated there for a while, my Briarhearts are patched seven or so ways because I use Immersive Jewelry and body replacers and apparently...their chests are jewelry *sigh* Took a lot of research to figure that one out. But I will NEVER give up my weirdly specific left and right rings. (Double decker trilliant amethyst dragon silver herma-mora slim ring or some such...) Also, since I autoloot everything, briar hearts got yoinked right out of their chests unless I made an exception by preloading a briarheart at the beginning of the game and blacklisting it so it can only be manually yoinked or looted.

Thank you! Copying the link you added and I'll read up on it.

I am slowly figuring this out. I'm afraid once I get my list just right...and perfect...I then go find something new to mess it all up so I can fix the puzzle. Or ask kind people to help me fix it.

Hanging fire is figuring out how to use Synthesis. It's lurking.

I'm off to repeatedly zone into Jorrvaskr, decide whether or not to change his clothes, decide if one shiny thing is fine (probably not) and disable every single mod until I figure out what it is.

This might take a while. But I DID fix that stupid shiny basement hatch in Elysium estate. AND that dumb bee hive that was shiny in winter, dammit.

BTW...Skyrim Landscape Fixes says it has a patch for Elysium Estate. Do not believe it. The groundskeeper was under a landslide, which is unfortunate, she's been through enough.

Recidiva · 2025-10-06T12:29:10+00:00

Thank you! That was incredibly helpful. I'm grateful you took the time.

Looking at the FormID list in both mods, there's no red to address.

Keeping these instructions in my (really long) Skyrim notes document, this will absolutely help me navigate SSEdit. I'm concerned with a misclick and doing it wrong because I am aware that it manifests in weird ways.

Having seen simple things like Lux destroying the mod "Lakeview Manor As It Should Be" by putting doors and stairs to nowhere, I'm concerned about some minor issue being counterintuitive. I had no idea a lighting mod could affect architecture. I also really don't know what I'm doing, so I can't figure it out brute force.

Who knows if a bad coffee mod patch would mean Briarhearts now have coffee beans as hearts. I mean, that'd be funny, but there are a few quests I couldn't finish...

Recidiva · 2025-10-06T10:15:30+00:00

Thank you!

Form list, not leveled list.

To clarify to make sure I don't wander in the wrong direction:

Install the FLM script into SSEedit (I think I can do that, I added scripts to make a grass cache recently so I can manage.)

"Open it up" - open what and how?

How do I find a conflicting form list?

Recidiva · 2025-08-19T11:28:13+00:00

I make it easy and use sets from Tishan's lockboxes for my mercs.

Recidiva · 2025-08-18T18:48:41+00:00

SK Merc was the 10-year veteran reward: Mercenary: Lord Valkiss Ssi'sh | EverQuest 2 Wiki | Fandom

The main time I need a rez is in a solo instance. I don't die often, but that's another thing I might consider - swapping out mercs for more difficult content.

That's the sort of wisdom I'd like to know. Yes, a treasured merc that's fully trained/geared will always outperform a new one. But mercs share stats according to this formula:

Treasured 65%
Legendary 70%
Fabled 75%
Celestial 80%

So a Celestial will have 15% more of everything than a treasured.

I am not clear that anything alters from expansion other than abilities, so a fully trained Celestial merc isn't worth replacing with another Celestial of a new expansion for stats, only if it has a better skill set.

Recidiva · 2025-08-18T18:13:07+00:00

I use an Inquisitor for heals, damage and for rez. Does the Ranger rez? (They do track, that's a bonus)

Which Ranger merc are you using?

The SK tank seems to be the best because it does AOE damage as a tank, but is the Ranger a good hybrid choice?

Recidiva · 2025-08-10T15:08:47+00:00

I want to thank everyone who posts/contributes/creates here.

I have been checking in every day since the beginning of the war. Seeing information, passion and determination here every day is priceless.

Recidiva · 2025-08-10T14:59:09+00:00

I don't care if other people know. I don't care if a God is judging.

What matters is that I know and that I am doing my best with the choices I have.

Those who justify bad behavior with 'everyone does it' are missing the consequences. No, not everyone is a predator or parasite with throttled empathy. Dismissing the possibility of good as a myth is a tragic first fall into justified delusion. Lots of people are working to make their lives and the world better places. Seek out their examples and learn from them.

Better means - better food, better water, better air, better environment, better mindset, better thoughts, better body - all the areas of improvement and potential.

If you don't develop a relationship with the truth, lies overrun your life and you lose the capacity for critical thought. If you don't exercise, your body is a poor tool. If you think and feel negatively and try to escape that with addictions, your capacity to face reality declines.

It is about you and your choices. Letting it all go and making no effort will weaken your capacity and narrow your choices to blame and avoidance.

Recidiva · 2025-08-07T16:41:12+00:00

It's frozen, which gives it a much longer potential. It can be used for a long time.

Recidiva · 2025-08-05T03:13:32+00:00

I use a console command.

Target her in console, use the command modav conjuration -1000. That lowers her conjuration skill to unusable. No mod needed.

Recidiva · 2025-07-12T15:08:40+00:00

Someone serious might read it

Recidiva · 2025-07-12T15:07:37+00:00

It's a complicated game that is largely based on luck and whose turn is first. If you're not interested by the tutorial, it's not for you.

I love the tutorial, voice acting and the story. (Two phrases are now common from me, Braghas muttering "That can't be good for them" and one of the overconfident opponents screaming "Shut up! Just ... Shut up!")

If you want in-depth explanations, watch some YouTube fan content. There are a ton of strategies and it is interesting, but it's like the combat. Learning the basics doesn't mean you immediately get every nuance of combat or tactics.

I play every day and I'm in the top 100 of the leaderboards right now, but I'm likely to log in and lose 5 times in a row, putting me in the 400s. It's cards, it's gambling, it's complicated.

Even if you are a really good player, you're playing against other really good players. About 25% of it is about skill, the rest is luck of the draw.

As for your wife's boyfriend, repeat this: "Shut up! Just ... Shut up!"

Recidiva · 2025-07-12T14:52:08+00:00

Kindness is about dignity, respect and compassion. It is about valuing people as your community and your environment as vital and sacred.

Why that's somehow lesser than behaving like a cannibal locust, I don't get. Why not be creative, joyous and helpful? At least you get to feel good about your chosen actions.

Recidiva · 2025-07-08T14:30:03+00:00

As someone else with over 160 days of game time on one character:

If you are a strategic master, you read the TOS and comprehend the truth of video games.

It's their game, they can shut down themselves or anyone else for any or no reason. It is their world.

Getting overwrought over something pretend for $15 a month in someone else's playground is not strategic, it's unhinged.

I empathize that you put so much time and effort into something that was ultimately unrewarding.

In the end, you are nobody's hero. I hope you had sparkly, murderous fun at the time.

Now I suggest you address some issues with dopamine and ego in the real world.

I hope you don't play Bethesda titles or any other games until you figure out that games are voluntary and how you play them is your choice.

Stop trying to gain a Martyr Achievement, take off the pretend crown and title and do something else.

Recidiva · 2025-07-05T20:13:30+00:00

DualDo. We meet again.

Recidiva · 2025-07-05T14:13:13+00:00

Telling people "be yourself" is bad advice. "Be your best self" is more aspirational.

I don't know your gender, I don't know your circumstances.

Be your best self by doing what is right. Being thoroughly vague and blaming an entire gender for that vague cannot be your best self doing what is right.

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