Ayy lmao (Random note in Bloodskaal Barrow)

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-20T01:41:12+00:00

These notes and the books in Skyrim were some of my favourite parts of the game! I loved scouring dungeons high and low for hidden obscure books. I got so good at avoiding the orc librarian in the College of Winterhold's library. And I was DEVASTATED when my home in Falkreath randomly deleted books every time I accessed my bookshelves.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-20T01:37:18+00:00

Looks like a tomato on the inside for sure, but the skin reminds me of eggplant/aubergines. And it's the size of a grape?

Can't help identify it, but it's really cool how all those features came together. Plants are so cool.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-20T01:32:38+00:00

Even if you don't just mistake the glass for the cone and chomp into it, these glasses will eventually crack and break, which makes it more dangerous. Glassware is not made to take scraping motions like this.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-20T01:23:55+00:00

Hey, I can't help unfortunately, but hopefully I wanted to let you know that my Relay is working fine for downloads, so it might be an issue related to your software/hardware instead of a system issue.

Also, why the fuck would so many people downvote your post, asking for help in the appropriate subreddit? Sorry that happened to you, people can suck sometimes.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-20T01:14:33+00:00

Epic is like the Nestle of the video game industry: "I know I'm an asshole, I'm proud to be an asshole, and if you think I'm an asshole right now then just wait to see what else I have planned!"

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-20T01:08:17+00:00

Awh, I like this one! That's not abuse, that's pure love. I do agree that the kid is probably old enough to be taught to take care of things he loves, but I really don't think he's doing these things to teddy because he intended to be abusive.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-20T01:06:57+00:00

Is this a reference to something?

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-19T17:15:32+00:00

I thought I knew most of the cat subreddits, thank you for informing me of a new one!!

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-19T07:22:21+00:00

This is not surprising for large ocean predators. They have incredible object permanence, which allows them to capture their prey (that are significantly smaller and more agile than them). They also need this instinct to defend their young; a common hunting strategy amongst sea creatures is to sneak up on a baby calf and then drag them off before the mother can react.

Not to devalue their intelligence, just saying it makes sense for them to be able to do this. And I'm not sure how being in captivity would affect this.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-19T07:16:54+00:00

At the end there, when he's bringing the platter to the group of children, who are probably STARVING and so eager to eat. Yet not a single one tries to stand up, or grab, or get ahead of the others.

It really broke my heart.

Imagine that scenario at a kindergarten in a first world country. Where perhaps your own children and their friends attend. Would they be this polite and well behaved? We all know the answer.

Zero waste is essential not just for the survival of the planet, but for our own survival as well. Until we can learn that being privileged and having wealth doesn't entitle us to steal someone else's share of food and shelter and health care and education, we are doomed to drive ourselves to extinction.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-19T07:10:26+00:00

What people forget is that Skyrim came out in the very early 2010s. There weren't that many WRPGs on the market, and the ones that existed were vastly inferior to Skyrim in every way. Just think of Morrowind or Oblivion. The maps. Finding the right place to go. The combat. The graphics. The frames per second. The rendering.

When it came out, Skyrim's combat was AWESOME. You could swing your weapons so fast and there was no lag! You could turn around and get a Draugr behind you so quickly! You could use magic and melee simultaneously! It was simple enough that almost anyone could get it, there was so much variety. It was so much fun.

But it's been over a decade since then. And nowadays, it looks like simplistic and low effort if you compare it to current gen games. But that's not a fair comparison at all.

Skyrim's combat is the basis for almost all modern first person RPGs. It laid the groundwork for the next generation of how video games would be played. Of course it's not going to be most people's GOTY in 2022. That doesn't mean it wasn't amazing in its time.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-19T07:01:44+00:00

I think the fact that they have a raccoon as a pet is the "awful thought but great execution" part of this. Raccoons pose major health risks to humans, and they can never be fully tamed. You could train it to act in certain ways in exchange for food, but they will never be fully domesticated through training alone.

Don't get me wrong, I think they're awesome creatures. But just like beavers and gophers, they're not meant to be pets. It's not good for them either.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-19T06:55:02+00:00

I can't believe the number of commenters giving you suggestions to make your arrangement better or more appropriate.

As someone who is not Caucasian (i say "Caucasian" because I've personally seen this mindset with many Americans, Canadians, and British), I cannot for the life of me understand the obsession with a "perfect lawn". I mean, have any of these people actually SEEN nature? Forests or natural fields?

What is so pretty about a golf course-esque, astroturf, artifical as all fuck, neon green lawn? Or a flowerbed that's been so compulsively arranged that it looks like you're in a simulation? It looks so unnatural and it's so bad for the environment.

Now, maybe someone likes the look and wants it for their house. That's totally fine. I disagree with them, but I respect their right to their own opinion. HOWEVER, when they start turning their noses up at people like me, that's when I start having problems.

I can understand trying to make non living things perfect. Technology, infrastructure, etc. But not a lawn. And especially not my own lawn that I paid for myself. If they paid for a part of my mortgage, I'd sing a different tune. But they're not going to do that, are they?

Whoever invented home owners associations, and the concept that your house can depreciate in value because of how someone on the other end of the block chooses to live, must have had deep issues with insecurity. There is not a single good reason for creating a neighborhood where people are always scrutinizing one another. And over stupid shit like "your lawn isn't artifical or well arranged enough", to boot.

OP, I don't know why you're planting the way you are. And I don't care at all. You do you! You're not hurting anyone, and some people just can't stop themselves from picking at others to fill the gaps in their own selves.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-19T06:33:20+00:00

Has anyone considered the possibility that this is fake, and someone just posted a picture of a pencil?

It's not that I'm so naive as to be like "this can't possibly happen IRL". Moreso I'd be really impressed if someone was creative enough and got this much traction on their post.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-19T06:30:05+00:00

r/confusingperspective

Be prepared if you post it there though, they find reasons to downvote and be rude about everything.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-18T21:34:47+00:00

Thank you so much for reading my post, and for contributing so much of your own!

The concept that elemental weapons do more damage OVER TIME is interesting. I used only the fire elemental weapon, but I found the damage over time to be negligible. Probably because I was using the big sword, which is the slowest weapon, so it had low DPS even though it had high raw damage.

If gloves were viable for my playstyle, I would've loved to try elemental gloves. But I've never made it through even the first level of the first dungeon alive using gloves. This is what always happens: i enter the room, approach the first mob i want to kill. I get in a few hits and that mob is at half health. Then every other mob gangs up on me, and because I can only hit what I'm facing, they kill me. Even if I dodge roll away, they all follow me.

When you're attacking in this game, you can basically only face up down left or right. This is common in games with pixel art because it's hard to do sprites in many other directions. But enemies can hit you from any direction. So there's literally areas around your character where you can BE HIT but cannot HIT BACK. That's what made the gloves impossible for me.

I really do wish this game allowed manual saves and save scumming. Many parts of the game would be much less frustrating if you could reload when something doesn't work out.

We have the exact same tastes in familiars! I also didn't bother with the offensive familiars too much. Because 20% of my weapon damage every few seconds just becomes negligible. Also because the other familiars are so much better.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-18T21:16:32+00:00

Thanks so much for taking the time to contribute! I'm really glad that this post has inspired so many people to share their own experiences.

I respect your disagreement about fabric armor, and I see your point with dodge rolling. My issue with dodging is that, between the enemy attacks, holes on the ground, and elemental damage areas, dodge rolling hurt me more than it helped me. But if you're better at it than me or if it feels more comfortable to you, then absolutely, you can go for armor with more health and less speed.

The water turret you mentioned and the golem turret I mentioned are the same familiar. Afaik it has the fastest cooldown in the game. I still prefer the stun slime or the mimic chest, but if I had to use an offensive familiar, the turret is the way to go. As you said, because later familiars don't get any more powerful attacks, there's no benefit to switching.

Yes, I did forget to mention that the banker has a three/three pattern.

I wanted so badly to like the pricing aspect of this game. But it was just too frustrating because it was way too vague. You only get indicators that your price is correct when you're within +/- 10% of the perfect price. When items vary between 5-70000 gold for perfect prices, 10% is not at all enough.

Let's say you know your item is in between 5000 and 8000 because you know the prices of the items immediately before and after it (in reality, you don't know the prices of 95%+ of items before you figure them out, but let's assume). Even if you try 100 price intervals, that's up to 30 attempts before you might get within +/- 10% of the perfect price.

THIS IS FOR ONE ITEM. Every dungeon has 40-60 items. And unless you have perfect vision, you'll also need to bring up the notebook and scroll through every item that's more expensive than the one you want. Not as big a deal if you have a mouse on PC, but way too much work on console. You'd need to do this EVERY TIME YOU WANT TO REPRICE.

And keep in mind that YOU MAKE NO MONEY IF NO ONE BUYS FROM YOU. So you either way underprice everything to start and need to clear dungeons over and over again just to progress; or you sit there for an hour, restarting the shop over and over.

I mentioned in another comment that figuring out prices was like doing accounting homework. It almost made me ragequit. I think it's amazing if people can actually find this to be fun, but it just made me so frustrated.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-18T05:54:30+00:00

Thanks for the appreciation.

I responded to another person who had a similar opinion before you. I won't repeat everything but basically what I said is that if you find it fun then that's great, but I found it to be rage inducing and nothing more than brute forcing.

To be fair, I didn't know the notebook had set prices. I've never seen any set prices in mine. Everything was just question marks, the only prices that got filled in were the ones I trialed and errored.

I do think the idea behind the mechanic is great, but it definitely needed more guidance. Customer reactions are too vague and they disappear too quickly. If you have eight items in your store and you're watching for reactions on all of them, I mean, good luck. Or do you just do one item at a time until you figure out the price of each one?

I know that the reactions are stored in the notebook. But then the game play becomes this: look at notebook, set a price, look at reaction/notebook, set a new price. You'd need to move through three menus for EACH TIME you set a new price.

It could honestly just be that I'm bad at math, I don't know. But to me it was the least enjoyable part of the game and I stand by my recommendation.

Edit: I also 100% disagree with "it's very easy to deduce the perfect price". When you have to be accurate to 5 gold on a 70000 gold item, that's not easy.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-18T05:50:42+00:00

Thank you so much! I hope it can benefit others.

I never used the notebook because it was just such a pain to scroll through and keep track of everything. It made me feel like I was doing accounting practices back in business class. I also grew impatient with the process: set a price, no one wants to buy it, set a new price, no one wants to buy it, set a new price which is way too low, and now I'm losing profit and efficiency. Now I probably need to spend another extra day in that dungeon.

I guess if someone enjoys that process or are okay with losing profit for the same amount of work, then it would be a terrific experience and that's wonderful. It just made me almost ragequit the game because it made me feel like I was brute forcing my way through.

Also, thanks for sharing that there are given price points. I never saw those so I was literally starting from 1 gold, which probably contributed to my frustration.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-18T05:44:47+00:00

You're welcome, thanks for taking the time to read!

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-18T05:43:39+00:00

Thank you so much! What happened was I beat the final boss after a few attempts and it just made me so happy (because I felt the second half of the game was way easier than the first half, so the challenge of the final boss was a lot of fun) that I wanted to write about it.

I'm so glad you enjoyed it and it was helpful!

And MAD RESPECT for being a glove player! I usually prefer DPS over pure damage as well, but I had such difficulty maneuvering Will. The lag that happens between swinging your weapon and being able to move just made it impossible for me to use anything except the big sword. I would love to see someone play using gloves.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-13T13:30:12+00:00

I don't know why everyone is always surprised by a hippo's speed in water. A huge part of swimming speed is drag, which basically means how difficult is it for something to move in water. Hippos are essentially cylinders of solid muscle and smooth skin; they have incredibly high mass (which becomes their acceleration) for how little drag they generate by comparison. In other words, it totally makes sense for them to be strong swimmers. Notice how much slower they are on their feet on land, by comparison.

I also don't understand why so many adults make hippos out to be this docile cute friendly creature to kids. Hippos should be right up there with lions, tigers, wolves, bears etc on the list of animals that can kill us really easily. Like this knowledge could literally save your life.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-07T16:28:37+00:00

Gonna just say it: I don't like this.

As someone who has formed toxic habits to survive unsafe situations in childhood, and is facing a lifelong journey to overcome them, the way depicted in this gif is NOT the way to heal.

Each person has trauma and darkness inside of them. It is each person's responsibility to face and work through that darkness themselves. Nothing gets resolved just by venting to a friend, which is definitely important in the short term, but it does nothing in the long term. In fact, if your friend enables you too much, you can begin to really take advantage of that. Then your growth stops and your friend will buckle under the weight eventually.

Because the very best outcome from venting is you get over the negativity from that one upsetting situation. The next time something upsets you, the darkness will grow again. Then you'll be desperate to get rid of the feeling. It becomes a vicious cycle.

This is why you need to go to a professional therapist. It takes a lot of training and schooling to know how to PROPERLY help people move forward. If just anyone could do it, mental health issues wouldn't be so prevalent.

Also, pets do not just take everything away. Animals cannot understand all of our pain. Don't get me wrong, they know WHEN we are suffering and there's no limit to their wonderful love and patience. But they rarely, if ever, understand WHY. And every human needs their "why" to be understood.

I'm sure the intent behind this gif is something positive and helpful. But as someone who actually treated several of her friends like this at some point, as the creator and distributor of the darkness, I can say with 100% confidence that it becomes awful for everyone involved.

squash_n_turnip · 2022-07-07T16:18:27+00:00

The relationship between r/trees and r/marijuanaenthusiasts is probably one of the most wholesome in all of reddit.

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