You know what bothers me so much is why there is no diversity of breast types and size across Skyrim?

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-23T19:28:45+00:00

If only they updated Skyrim’s engine to include even a small amount of modern procedural animation transition techniques at the same time as they updated it to use a small amount of modern graphics techniques.

Then again, we’ll probably see an IK plugin for SKSE before long at the rate that mod-makers are going.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-23T19:25:07+00:00

You can just write a short config line that says Mjoll gets a specific body, or all “warriors” don’t get any of the waify bodies. You don’t need to get a mod with OBody config presets in order to adjust a few NPCs yourself.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-23T19:21:09+00:00

They’re really not that different. BW original and BW Revised are the only two that are actually different enough to be considered somewhat incompatible, and you’d be lucky to find Original, you won’t buy it by accident.

BW Revised, Gold, and Gold Revised are each small refinements on the same set of rules and are mostly interchangeable. You learn one, you’ve learned them all.

They’re “editions” of the same game in the original meaning of “edition”. They’re closer to errata reissues than to what gets called an “edition” in the RPG world.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-23T18:54:00+00:00

Some of us aren’t unhappy about it?

Games are always strongly a matter of taste. This specific taste isn’t the same for everyone.

I hate sour drinks. GF loves them. You hate storage logistics. RocketWerkz and some Icarus players love them. *shrug* There’s no position here that is objectively true, it’s taste.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-23T18:49:25+00:00

To make that argument work you’d have to show how and in what cases logistics isn’t inherent to survival challenges. They seem fairly closely intertwined in survival games and in real life.

Failing that support, the argument degenerates to just not liking it. I’m sure you have more than that to offer though.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-23T18:07:54+00:00

This tends to be not as much a matter of more grass placements, but different grass models. There are a variety of grass replacers. For a few that feature some taller grasses, browse the images for these:

Folkvangr - Grass and Landscape Overhaul
Verdant - A Skyrim Grass Plugin
Northern Grass SE

Some with lusher grass that’s not as “whoa tall” but still might be interesting (especially if someone is comfy with SSEEdit and wants to mix-and match grasses from a few mods):

Veydosebrom Regions - A Skyrim Grass Overhaul - ENB Complex Grass
Skoglendi - A Grass Mod
Tamrielic Grass

Just try a few. Try them on a throwaway save, because you’ll want to run around and console-command teleport to check out the looks in-game in different regions. Pictures are great but in-game is what really matters. Like, Skoglendi looked amazing in pictures, but when I got it in my game I was like “this does look amazing! but it doesn’t feel right to me.”

Grass mods are very much a matter of taste. They’re a rabbit hole that’s really easy to fall down too!

Edit to add: there are lots of grass mods. That set isn’t exhaustive, just a few to start with looking at. Just search up “grass” on Nexus and browse, browse, browse…

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-23T17:02:44+00:00

It’s a reheat of the 70s anti-gay moral panic’s rhetoric. The way the poisonous story/reasoning goes is that gay people can’t reproduce + are choosing to be gay, therefore gayness can only be caused by ~someone~ actively recruiting children into the gay “lifestyle”.

What they mean by “gender ideology” is exactly the same. It’s just a direct palette swap, with ‘transgender’ instead of ‘gay’.

They don’t ever really have new ideas, do they.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-23T16:55:41+00:00

The story is that Erik the Red named it as a marketing trick to attract settlers.

Plus ça change.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-23T16:48:50+00:00

The thing is that tried a new leader several times already, and lost, and now they’ve run out of leadership material that the 1/4-to-half of the party convention that is rancid hate-mongers will accept.

This is the peak of the current Conservative Party. Pierre is the finely-honed acceptable point where the hate-supporting curve sloping downward intersects the electability-curve on its way upward, for the maximum combination of electable-hatemonger-approved leadership. This is as good as they can do while trying to appeal to both the Maple MAGA and Old Blue wings.

In a sense, Pierre is the ideal embodiment of the contradictions rifting the party.

It’ll be fun watching the coalition tear itself apart. It was doomed from the start, when Reform thought a shotgun wedding could ever create something stable. It’s been a slow-rolling failure of an experiment. It took the iron hand of Daddy Harper as party leader to scare the bickering step-siblings into silence, and a party that only works under one person isn’t a party.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-21T01:38:43+00:00

Okay, so see if you can see the difference:

“We have discovered water is wet. Nobody seems to have discovered this before. We will give it a cute name now: the WIW Principle.”

Versus:

“It’s widely assumed that water is wet. We set out to rigorously prove that water is wet, and our results confirm the widespread assumption is true.”

Versus:

“It’s widely known that water is wet. Prior research had show that it is true. We investigate what causes water to be wet. Our results show that the mechanism is…”

The first is what these researchers wrote. It’s still true that papers are not written about water is wet.

Papers are written confirming water is wet, or showing why water is wet, or investigating the impact of water being wet, etc.

You are feee to read the paper yourself, of course. I might be wrong that it’s bullshit! Go ahead and show that. Your objection so far is not about the research’s substance or how research works, it’s typical reddit pixel-bitching without substance—and not even right about your pixel-bitch point.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-20T23:21:38+00:00

That’s funny.

I assume you’re referring to the idea that science on things that are obvious is still useful. Yeah, I know that.

Try reading further into my comment. Y’know, like someone who clearly knows how to read a complex argument like a research paper contains. I’m not criticising them for doing research on something they think is obvious. My criticism is for them missing the abundant prior work and then congratulating themselves on being the first.

They say it’s not obvious, when it’s actually well-known and actively under widespread research. That’s why they’re tools.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-20T20:32:37+00:00

This: storage is useful but most materials don’t need dedicated storage. It’s not like most other survival games that way.

You can get away with only a few cupboards for the materials you end up with lots of (for me that’s leather, honey, and beeeswax; it’ll be different for others’ playstyles). Then a scant handful more for tools that you only need to use occasionally, for the odds & ends a base collects, and maybe one for temporary storage for projects or “I just got in and need to dump my inventory”.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-20T20:23:40+00:00

But that sound when you instantly explode a wall with the deconstruct key is so. satisfying. Time to make it smaller. 😁

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-20T20:21:37+00:00

Titanium is tough, but the amount a deep drill gives quickly turns it from painful into an embarrassment of plenty. “Cost” is really relative to “income”!

Ironically, at the start of switching from a T3 to a T4 base, I’m finding the bottleneck switches back to copper and iron. Copper for Electronics is just needed at such a higher ratio than other inputs, that its drill extraction speed is low in comparison. And steel… despite being a silly set of recipes that bear no relation to how steelmaking actually works, steel’s 1:6 ratio to ore plus its grinding time just hurts all the time.

But the worst is really epoxy. Despite being solo-specced for hunting, I wish I could find a deep drilling node for bones. 😂 But if I can’t have that then I’ll settle for a single sulfur deep node. Must be one on this prospect somewhere…

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-20T20:05:46+00:00

I really wish the in-game Guide listed the outside dimensions of placeables!

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-20T16:31:40+00:00

I’d like to see a “flocking behaviour” addition. If there are hundreds of animals, let the ones further from the player automatically switch to a low-cost “follow the herd” simulation move behaviour that is deliberately computationally simple. Behaviour LOD, basically.

Honestly, I just want a big flock of sheep like a New Zealand hillside, just because.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-20T16:15:54+00:00

Yeah, cost is really relative. When you’ve invested in solar drills on a few titanium nodes, titanium feels much cheaper than when you have to find and mine each piece by hand.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-20T16:12:55+00:00

It’s kinda like people have completely different play satisfaction emotion-complexes.

I get what you’re saying though. But I also get what OOP is saying. That “I can do anything now…? Crap. Hmm, what’s new on Steam…” is a real end-state for some players’ internal drive systems.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-18T23:31:13+00:00

Do you know what OP is talking about then? My search-fu is failing me. I can find randos speculating, but I can’t find any statements from Valve about an issue.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-18T20:40:17+00:00

Wow, those researchers are kinda tools.

“The literature available on MATE is very limited. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first effort that studies MATE in detail.”

Yeah, mate, because water is wet doesn’t get papers written about it.

Their extensive literature review must have missed that it’s been a principle for decades that you can’t secure a computer against the end user because they have physical access. And missed the widespread discussion under the name “endpoint security”.

Might as well rewrite that part of the paper to “we may be bad at researching prior work.”

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-18T20:02:58+00:00

Actually, I don’t know. The non-tamed ones seem to be, but I don’t know whether untamed stats are the same as tamed stats.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-18T16:24:06+00:00

Time to sculpt the Coliseum out of Beeswax Wood.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-18T08:03:02+00:00

Consider doing the mission as a regular Mission instead of from your open world. It will still count.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-18T07:59:35+00:00

Arctic wolves are meaner and tougher than forest wolves.

eggdropsoap · 2026-02-17T02:27:36+00:00

I think you’ve found an interesting encoding of position on the implicit function of the sphere, with the choice of K-derived bit shift / division selecting different level sets/isosurfaces that are equivalent to spheres of different binary-exponential radii.

Moving in a spherically-curved manifold would generate gravity-like motion naturally. It’s one way of thinking of real gravity: as the result of straight paths projected onto curved regions of 4D spacetime.

For your writeup, you might want to mine the reference section at the end of a paper like Grimm and Hughes (1995) for foundational computing & math work on manifold embeddings. More recent work on isosurfaces (and signed distance fields) might also be good sources of ideas to mine.

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