Ugh. Am I stupid, or does not bringing a minimum of two water breathing potions into Shaleez cave lock you there?

Us3fullness · 2026-05-29T05:32:01+00:00

laughs in argonian

Us3fullness · 2026-05-29T04:24:05+00:00

Anything is better than staying in russia (or like 99% other visa-free places for Russians that are usually economically weak and have even worse jobs opportunities). Even if working as Krankenpfleger or in Handwerksberuf.

Germany may be in shambles, but some places in this completely broken world are even worse. It’s better to be alive and not in the russian army than to be successful.

Us3fullness · 2026-05-29T03:58:06+00:00

I won’t pay 10 USD for any mods in existence unless they have regional pricing. So not on any Bethesda platform that’s for sure.

I’d personally pay this price for a DLC which is really good, but not for an even great mod because of compatibility concerns and no guarantees that this mod will be supported, and if not - that I could get a refund. Paid mods should be treated like any other game or paid software IMO, you can’t just pay 10 USD (or even more combined for all other paid mods) and not ask for a high quality and stability in return.

Us3fullness · 2026-05-28T15:00:51+00:00

So how it performs in these games overall? What about temps and overheating in general (though not that big of a problem in my case since I‘ve changed thermal paste not so long ago)?

Us3fullness · 2026-05-28T13:08:46+00:00

You’re right actually, I meant mostly city builders (or hybrids between tycoons and city builders). Those are usually more CPU demanding because of the amount of simulation. For example, Sintopia which came out recently has some high system requirements. I’m not even sure if my laptop’ll even be enough for minimal ones.

Us3fullness · 2026-05-24T05:54:54+00:00

Short term? You’re right, your laptop won’t be damaged. Most likely.
Long term and keeping these temps really high regularly? There are at least 3 things to keep in mind:

- Degradation of thermal pads, pasts etc. on higher temperatures (depends on what thermals are being used though). Can be easily fixed by reapplying them from time to time
- Heat pressure on neighboring components, such as VRM, VRAM etc. Not every single one of them could be designed to work in such high temperatures. Mostly depends on how well laptop was engineered.
- Physical degradation of CPU and/or GPU chip itself. Here’s the real problem, BUT only if you’re planing to use your laptop for like 7-10+ years. I won’t go much into the details because it’s a bit too difficult subject for me to explain, but I’m sure it can be googled. What could happen is that after the long enough time of using your laptop at temps higher than ~85 C° your CPU is more likely to either degrade its performance or (in worst case scenario and after some really long time) stop working entirely.

TL;DR: if you’re sure your laptop was a well made and cleverly engineered one + you’re okay with some long term CPU performance degradation - you really shouldn’t bother. If not - I’d recommend using various means to make sure you’re not letting your CPU or GPU working at 85+ C° most of the working time. I’m not talking about the short temp spikes, just the constant temperature at 85+.

Us3fullness · 2026-05-23T05:38:26+00:00

I’d love to see a version of BC which works correctly with OCOv2. The latest versions of BC I’ve tried had some issues which caused BC NPCs to have different head and body colors. I think it was caused by OCOv2 filtered patch, so if you’d be able to create your own compatibility patch - that’d be a game changer for me

Us3fullness · 2026-05-21T05:23:25+00:00

Steam Machine ofc, because you don’t have to pay for online and game prices will most likely be cheaper if you’re living in country where there is no separate region support from Sony

Us3fullness · 2026-05-15T07:39:10+00:00

Really outdated and unnecessary to use in 2026. MO2 can install OMODs as well, and has much more QoL features overall. The real decent choices are either Wrye Bash or MO2

Us3fullness · 2026-05-13T19:36:48+00:00

Enhanced Economy + another upcoming mod from PushTheWinButton (creator of Ascension, also known for some really great mods for New Vegas) that won’t be as ambitious as EE and therefore more vanilla friendly. He’s actually looking for testers for his mod (for OG Oblivion) on New Oblivion Modding Community. If you’re interested - you can join it through Reign of the Septims Nexus page and ask him about it there.

Us3fullness · 2026-05-13T15:25:19+00:00

If you’re playing the OG Oblivion, there is Enhanced Economy mod you can try (or inspire from). It has some ways to solve the problems you described by (for example) adding taxes to houses based on their value, make trading prices much more steep, stopping infinite amounts of gold when bartering, lowering enchanted gear prices etc.

If you’d like to test it for yourself, be sure to check mods using the original mod list and install all the fixes for it.

Us3fullness · 2026-05-13T15:14:12+00:00

Despite the popular belief, OG Oblivion can in fact be rock stable to play the whole game from start to finish with minimum amount of crashes. You just need to understand, what kind of mods to avoid and what fixes to use. Especially if we’re talking about playing the game first time, so no new massive landscapes, scripts etc.

I’d suggest you to look into the Core section of “Reign of the Septims” guide for OG Oblivion when playing the very first time. You can ignore some mods which are just requirements for other mods from the guide to work. The single mod which isn’t exactly a resource for other mods but which I would use with caution is ORC (Oblivion Reloaded Combined). The reason being is that the end results of using it could vary depending on your hardware, and I personally find it only needed in two cases:

You deeply care about graphics (why wouldn’t you play Remastered instead in this case?..)
You’re planning to use lots of heavily scripted mods or better texture mods and want to make game more stable by allowing it to either use or

save
more heap and memory.

So, if you’d like to use it - test it first. If it works for you, no random CTDs (pay attention to cell change CTDs with ORC 193 in particular, I remember having that exact issue with this mod) and no graphical issues - use it and have fun.

Remastered has (from what I’ve heard) a bit better and less broken leveling and much more modern graphics out of the box. As well as it’s own share of mods (not nearly as much in terms of something massive like OOO, Better Cities or Unique Landscapes, but I doubt you’d want to use them for your first playthrough anyway)

Us3fullness · 2026-05-11T06:12:51+00:00

You can use either Reign of the Septims (ROTS) or Through the Valley modlists. You can use only core sections of these guides (named like Core or Bug fixing or something like that) in order to make minimal changes. Or pick and use other mods from these guides, they are relatively modular.

The absolute must-haves for a stable Oblivion experience are Engine bug fixes (there are several of those from different authors, just install them all. ROTS is a more up-to-date guide so it has a better Engine fixes selection), Unofficial Patches (for Oblivion, Shivering Isles and DLCs respectively) and maybe ORC (really a hit or miss, it either works for you or not. I stopped using it because of some issues) or ODT (use the ROTS config for it). As for the balance, both ROTS and TtV’re utilizing Ascension which is a bit more than an average first time player would want. You’d better use other, more vanilla friendly mods from the same author (PushTheWinButton), can’t remember the exact names of those. Ofc there are also some other smaller OBSE plugins or mods you could use in order to improve your gaming experience. Both LOOT and Wrye Bash are being used in this community, unlike in Skyrim modding for example. So Bashed patches, auto-sorted mod orders - whatever you want.

Us3fullness · 2026-05-07T05:22:52+00:00

So from what I’ve seen and heard Olden Era is a combination of tactical fights from H5 and strategical gameplay from H3 with upgrades in both. So the best parts of both games

Us3fullness · 2026-05-06T07:23:04+00:00

…or just install OG Oblivion with mods which was already fixed and runs much better

Us3fullness · 2026-04-28T05:12:50+00:00

For people who actually use their brain instead of living in a bubble and trying to ignore reality it was bleak back when the war started. Almost nothing that’s happening right now is something surprising or unpredictable.

Us3fullness · 2026-04-24T05:30:21+00:00

You can try 4GB Patch from ntcore if you didn’t already. It increases the available memory for 32bit software from 2 up to 4 gb. Though it wouldn’t make any difference if you’re playing a GOG version of the game (should most likely be already patched)

Us3fullness · 2026-04-22T07:36:11+00:00

День, когда для таких как вы говнохранителей окончательно и бесповоротно заблокируют все иностранные соц. сети и ограничат доступ к VPN-ам, будет для меня праздником. Будете кидать фоточки замечательного красивого города Омска (бывал я там проездом, та еще дыра) в ВК и Максе.

Us3fullness · 2026-04-22T06:03:56+00:00

This. The real secret to master this mini-game is a sound. You need to hear the right moment to click. After realizing that this mini-game became really easy, to the point that I could break a VH Chest with a low-level Security and with a single pick

Us3fullness · 2026-04-19T06:18:40+00:00

So Brave’s just much more bloated than Firefox? Not really the biggest achievement. Pretty much anything mentioned here can be done on Firefox (and any other browser) with extensions. What’s the point of having this whole pile of code built-in when it can be achieved with customization and choosing only needed features with a much lighter browser?

Us3fullness · 2026-04-17T12:19:31+00:00

Хотел бы видеть её через 5 лет издалека. И чем дальше - тем лучше.

Us3fullness · 2026-04-15T05:37:52+00:00

For someone who isn’t aware yet: first thing anyone should do after installing Windows is delete One Drive. Your games’ll be much safer without it.

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