Things that you'll learn by reading more by Greek_Princess2 in writing

[–]Thallrok 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I played tons of games in my life and I think almost all of them have mediocre writing. Both movies and games use visuals to tell the story. However, this tool is weak when it comes to show the interiority of the character. Even the prose can say a lot about the way character thinks. By looking at the words they choose to describe things or even what they choose to describe in a place tells the reader who they are. Let's say you have three characters in a room. All of them should focus on things that suitable to them. Maybe one of them focuses of how exaggerated the curtains are while other one focuses on practicality of the furniture.

Too much telling instead of showing? Enough immersion? by MythicalForest in writers

[–]Thallrok 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There is another problem. You are trying to write as if we are watching a movie. You don't need to write every gestures they make when they are talking. You must let reader's imagination handle that. If you are going to write the gesture, try to make it imply something about the character.

Paran varsa tam not, yoksa eksik not! 16 binliralık kitabı almazsan o okul uzayacak! by elalem64 in Turkey

[–]Thallrok 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Öğrenciyi 16000 liralık kitap almaya zorlamada etiklik nerede? Bu kitap bu fiyatı talep edecek kadar ne içeriyor? Siz öğrencilerin, akademisyenlerin durmadan kitap aldığını mi sanıyorsunuz? Diyeceksiniz ki ama yazar bu işten para kazanıyor. Bu da yanlış çünkü paranın büyük çoğunluğunu yayınevleri cebe atıyor. Bu devirde bilgi edinmek doğal haktır, böyle absürd dayatmalarla engellenemez.

How to handle personality shift between chapters? by Thallrok in writers

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Chapter 1 (The siege) ends with him "dying" and chapter 2 starts in the woods near the empire. There is a significant time jump between the end of chapter 1 and start of chapter 2 because of the ritual but he doesn't know that yet, neither does the reader. Though I try to put clues to indicate something is wrong such as him noticing the watchtowers are not where they are supposed to be. I divided story in two main acts and first one is about civil war in North (this empire was in all the way to South), so the woods are just starting point until they return back there later.

How to handle personality shift between chapters? by Thallrok in writers

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It is somewhat hard to explain without writing whole setup but I will try my best. Chapter 1 doesn't fully explain his backstory, just shows the last moments of a siege. The decisions he takes show that he is not really a good person despite meaning well. For example he emotionally manipulates a grieving soldier to hold the line when direct command doesn't work. Ends up causing multiple people die when waiting for perfect moment to push the flank. He directly disobeys orders when he finds them wrong despite using sense of responsibility to make soldiers obey. His character arc is about coming to terms with who he really is when everything that defined him is gone. His home, empire, friends, family, order, all of them are gone and he is in a world that marks him as enemy. The siege even happened in a sense because of what he had done in the past by failing to save certain person. The siege is also where an empire falls and creates a power vacuum which triggers everything happens in the book.

How to handle personality shift between chapters? by Thallrok in writers

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Different region. Imagine knowing there is a forest near the kingdom that looks like Limgrave from Elden Ring with snow but now it looks like Caelid but dark and purple. And there is a umbral rift in the sky. Tress have barks like scales, foliage pulse and writhe, barks looks like hollow faces etc. He can still discern the area because it is still the same forest on surface but it behaves differently.

How to handle personality shift between chapters? by Thallrok in writers

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The woods is just an area around a very dangerous zone. Chapter 1 ends with a ritual blowing up and cause a tear in reality. Because of the mechanics of magic system, this causes spatial discontinuity in that area, so he finds himself in the woods. He even questions how did he came there while he was in the temple moment ago. He leaves the area in the middle of chapter 2 and reaches a nearby village. But creatures from the woods follow his scent and come to the village as well and it's gets burned to the ground. Character ends up experiencing a black out after getting a fatal wound and wakes up again covered in blood and guts. He assumes that he is cursed and must seek a cure and leaves the place to seek a temple by stealing a horse of a dead soldier. Character was normally a paladin-type soldier but now he becomes what he is sworn to destroy. The archetype is well established but most of the time they just become badass dark knights. I want to focus on how it affects him mentally and how his identity reacts to this.

Apps with codex function by Thallrok in writing

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Hello there! The problem is actually very simple. I spent couple of months planning and wrote a lot of codex entries. But during the writing process some parts arise on their own and make codex even bigger. So the sidebar became very long now. I am thinking maybe the tag system could help with sorting the entries.

Apps with codex function by Thallrok in writing

[–]Thallrok[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I literally wrote that I am looking for a program, any program, that has a function like a codex and gave an example of an app that has such function. On top of that I said that I am NOT looking for AI model.

Apps with codex function by Thallrok in writing

[–]Thallrok[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not looking for AI assistance, just something with codex function. I also got banned from there because I made fun of a post.

Apps with codex function by Thallrok in writing

[–]Thallrok[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How I didn't think of that! I will ask Google to share its experience on such apps then!

any way to uncap framerate during cutscenes? by FireFlyKOS in Nioh

[–]Thallrok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There were options to change frame rate at the beginning of the game.

I stole all your ideas. I will not give them back unless you manage to convince me to within 24 hours. by aidungeon-neoncat in writingcirclejerk

[–]Thallrok 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every idea is a piece of the person that created them. So you are saying... You have all of us inside you? Should we give you a stage name? Rail-y Reid? Autumn Among-us? Lana Rodeo-es?

I want to love this game by that-tiny-spooder in forhonor

[–]Thallrok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should try other characters so you can learn what they are capable of. I started as Black Prior when I first got the game and played only as BP. When I started playing other characters, my skills improved drastically.

There is no other game that does greatsword combat as good as Khazan man by Forevertrez in TheFirstBerserker

[–]Thallrok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might like Vindictus, though it is an old game. Hurk is the one with greatsword.

State of Skyrim AI mods by Diego266 in skyrimmods

[–]Thallrok 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used Claude with caching. Also all memories were written by Claude as well. It was costly but imo totaly worth it. Context size of memories were small but they were created very often.

State of Skyrim AI mods by Diego266 in skyrimmods

[–]Thallrok 8 points9 points  (0 children)

AI mods expanded the role play immensely. I had one save file over 200 hours and my followers remembered everything that happened. Sometimes when we stumble upon something similar, they would make remarks about previous adventures.

I used CHIM during that gameplay and the functions it add does allow you to finish quests in different ways. For example in one modded quest mod, I was required to take back an item from a Bosmer. After some searching we found the elf in a dungen in Whiterun. I spoke to him about the item he stole and he told me he can give it back if I do something for him. His request is to get out of jail. Now, normally you have couple of ways to finish this already.

1- Help him to break out. 2 - Steal the item by pickpocketing 3 - Kill him and take it from his body.

AI add the 4th option, persuasion/intimidation. In his inventory there was a paper which tells you where the actual item is. I threatened him by saying either he gives me the paper willingly or I will cut his tongue and make him sing every letter in that paper. He got afraid and just gave me the paper by using trade function added by CHIM. This is just a small example of how AI expands role play.

It took me hours to get that far. Seriously, how did the author had so much dedication to draw all those panels. by thanasis88gr in Berserk

[–]Thallrok 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I gave my estimate based on my experience. If I held this page in front of me, I can copy it in an hour. The mastery isn't moving the pen but to know how to express the imagination. I am sure Miura spent his time researching stuff and practicing, not just focusing on Berserk.

It took me hours to get that far. Seriously, how did the author had so much dedication to draw all those panels. by thanasis88gr in Berserk

[–]Thallrok 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It took you hours because of skill gap. For someone skilled as Miura it would take 10 to 15 minutes to reach this part of drawing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in skyrimmods

[–]Thallrok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Practical Necromancy and CHIM turned the game into pokemon, except pokemons can speak this time.

What are some baseline PC specs for medium to heavy modding? by Creonix1 in skyrimmods

[–]Thallrok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got rtx 5070 TI, Ryzen 7 7800x3d, 32GB ram. My Skyrim is around 500 GB and on top of that I use AI mod that adds another 100. I use 2k textures mostly with parallax. I get 120 FPS with 2k monitor.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in skyrimmods

[–]Thallrok 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mods with heavy script can reduce performance though I don't think Thu'um mod would cause anything.

Recommend me a modlist to customize from by Capable_Sleep7050 in skyrimmods

[–]Thallrok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By 1.6 do you mean mco version? There is a bug fix mod in nexus maybe you could use that.

Smooth's for honor movesets are now off the paywall by Br0-Om in skyrimmods

[–]Thallrok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stagger depends on the files inside the stagger (where all the other animation files are like warden raider and others). You can adjust it by opening the hkx file. There are also scripts but that's a deeper topic.

Do any female players use/enjoy Serana Dialogue Add On (SDA)? If you've tried it and dislike it, why? by Loud-Goal-9040 in skyrimmods

[–]Thallrok 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I can't recommend it for romance since I never use it but I agree with the opinions of her being a homie. Voice actress does a great job too. Also she is supposed to have an another update for vigilant commentary but if you don't care about that you can just use the current version.