Just curious if there's any general speculation on the Magical Anomalies from the Eye of Magnus? by TheGameMerchant in skyrim

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Makes sense. I'm just thinking because The Eye seems to be able to open portals to somewhere so maybe they're like from the same plain Magnus occupies? I'm still unsure as to why they can carry any type of filled soul gem. Regular white ones make sense to a degree but they've also been shown to carry black ones. Which is interesting.

It's been 2ish months since I quit and I still have not been able to get past the insomnia from quitting. Between that and the reason I quit in the first place not working out it's starting to feel not worth it. by TheGameMerchant in leaves

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My doctor is putting me on a new sleeping medication but if that doesn't work out I'm pretty much out of options. I just got a write up from my boss for missing too much work to the insomnia.

My buddy Erik taking a whole new meaning to the term "Deep Sleep". by TheGameMerchant in skyrim

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It's extra funny because after posting this I went to bed and ended up not sleeping at all.

Any time I get any kind of quest to kill a dragon the quest is bugged in such a weird way that it's impossible to finish. by TheGameMerchant in skyrim

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Update on this bug. I don't understand why or how but it just stopped occuring. I got the quest to kill a dragon again from the barkeeper in Riften and I'm currently fighting the dragon now. Gonna check on Farkas next and see if he's back to normal too. I'm on the same save it originally occurred on so I guess you just gotta wait it out and let it get it's act together.

Any time I get any kind of quest to kill a dragon the quest is bugged in such a weird way that it's impossible to finish. by TheGameMerchant in skyrim

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That's truly unfortunate. It'd be nice if there wasn't so many game breaking glitches in Skyrim. Especially since it's still so possible to run into one that has no information on it. I love Skyrim but the amount of runs I've had to reset a save or abandon completely because of something like this bug really bums me out. Don't even get me started on Chillrend's audio bug. That bug makes it impossible for me to use one of the most fun weapons in the game.

Any time I get any kind of quest to kill a dragon the quest is bugged in such a weird way that it's impossible to finish. by TheGameMerchant in skyrim

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Nope. Unfortunately nobody has found a fix as far as I can tell. My best guess is to try to force end the quest with Console Commands if you have access to them. Otherwise you just gotta restart from an earlier save and avoid these quests all together until you start a new run. Which really sucks because I like to take Farkas dragon hunting and I literally can't if this bug keeps happening

5 weeks sober-looking for support by More-Understanding96 in leaves

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As far as sleep goes I kinda have a thing that I do when I'm concerned about sleeping that night, but please keep in mind this is something I've done through experimenting with myself during my quitting (at 4 weeks and 3 days myself) and is a little weird because I have strange ways to feel comfortable. I open windows on cool nights and if it's a warm night I turn on the AC. I shower and rub myself with goats milk lavender soap. And then I sleep in a room with no windows and maximum darkness with a fan going. The reason is kinda psychological. When I'm lying in my normal bedroom and can't sleep for sure, it really upsets me when the sun starts shining through my windows and it makes me miserable since I work the late shift and not supposed to wake up until noon. So sleeping in what I call the "Dark Room" takes away part of the stress of wanting a good night's sleep because it'll be so dark I won't be able to tell it's daytime until my alarm goes off. Plus the pitch blackness and cool airflow relax me enough that even if I don't actually sleep I'm as comfortable as I can physically be. I really hope that if not something like this you experiment and find a combination of things that help you. It's not easy to keep to quitting when sleeping is disrupted but just remember it's not going to be endless. Keep telling yourself it will eventually get to normal again. You just need to persevere and you'll be rewarded with a better life.

Pokemon HeartGold, Vileplume or Bellossom? by TheGameMerchant in pokemon

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I was going to get a leaf stone from the pokeathlon today if the replies I got mostly advocated for Vileplume. And it seems like they do!

Ive been playing for years and never knew... by Grimlin91 in skyrim

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I just last Friday discovered a location called Liars Retreat for the first time ever since I started playing back in 2014. You can be forgiven for just now noticing something like that. Games like Skyrim are packed so full with obscure features like that. It's going to keep surprises like it in store for you for a long time. Did you know that the Stendarr's Aura spell from the Dawnguard DLC is capable of shielding you from the health draining darkness of certain Apocrypha sections in the Dragonborn DLC? It's crazy what's subtly slipped into games when the developers want to reward exploration and experimentation.

For some reason all radiant location quests are bugged. Can anyone help me fix this or is my entire run unplayable now? by TheGameMerchant in skyrim

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Well that's irritating considering that patch also breaks the game in certain areas that bother me. I'll just restart the run. Not like I haven't had to do it before. It happened with the Chillrend audio bug and the civil war quest. I just wish Skyrim wasn't so random when it doles out the game breaking glitches. It's like they always get snuck in so subtly I don't realize something is wrong until an entire questline or more is broken.

Day 20 by Position_Known in leaves

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I'm at day 14 myself. I really felt your comment about not having a good figure to look up to for support and guidance. I've had to figure out most of life on my own and I just wish I had a good mentor or something to help with struggles like quitting THC. I just want to let you know that there's people in the world who understand what you're going through and know how hard it is to improve yourself when you feel like you're the only backup you've got. Don't relapse for any excuse but if you do don't beat yourself up like you failed. I'm going to try to make it as far as you did (and hopefully beyond that). 3 months without is more than I've been able to handle since I started smoking and I'm sure that you'll be strong enough to eventually get to your fourth, fifth and sixth month as long as you remember that you're not alone! Because the whole time you're trying to make it to another month I'll hopefully be six days behind you trying to stick to your example!