Lurker > FigureOfSpeech

onions are disgusting in most but not all cases

cilantro is an automatic deal breaker and makes any dish inedible (this applies to 10% of the population)

fuck any variety of bone-in meat.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

thanks. i am not playing blind btw, so i figured out some of this stuff but there's lots of useful tips there. i will keep the value:weight ratio in mind especially because i carry a lot of iron ore around. muffle is good to know as well, my illusion is 15...

If you have Anniversary, Hendrahelm (sp?) is my favorite home. It's out of the way, but that's nothing if you're not playing Survival and can use fast travel. It's a mead hall style property with tons of storage, all crafting including a smelter, both types of cooking locations, lots of gear display options and a collectors' room for things like Dragon Claws, Masks and Daedra items. iirc it costs nothing to get, but you have to be at a certain level and take out the previous owner, who is fairly tough. It's also susceptable to dragon attacks outside.

Finding it won't be a problem though, because iirc, when you are at the minimum level to get it, you get a courier letter about it and it's auto-marked on your map to pursue whenever you feel like it.

Also, adopting kids is a good idea. They can randomly give you stuff, like alchemy ingredients or jewelry, as well as some temporary perk that I think helps with speech? If you didn't already know, there's an orphan kid in Whiterun who you can adopt as soon as you have a home. I would recommend girls only though. Boys are programmed to this annoying thing where if you cast a spell near them, they'll spam questions about magic and it gets annoying, especially if you're at home spamming spells to level up magic. It's disruptive. Girls won't do that.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Got any tips?

oh do I ever

When it comes to what to pick up/loot and what to leave behind, I typically use a loose 10:1 ratio strategy for value:weight. So anything worth 10x or more of its carry weight, I keep to sell. If the listed value is high enough, I don't stick to that ratio (for example, Iron Armor is valued at 125, but has a weight of 30. I pick it up anyway). This helps me make the most money while not over-encumbering myself too frequently.

To level up Smithing (which is very important), focus on making Gold Ingots and smithing Gold Rings. NNW of Whiterun is a bandit camp where you can find a book to learn a unique spell to transform Iron Ore into Silver Ore and Silver Ore into Gold Ore. At Smithing level 30, get the Dwarven Smithing perk, then find Dwemer Ruins and take as much materials as you can (especially heavier ones like Struts and Solid Dwemer Metal. They weigh a lot and have low value, but can be smelted to make LOTS of Dwarven Metal). From there, cut Firewood (stumps can be found in towns and at some home locations where you can make firewood so long as you have a Woodcutter's Axe). With Dwarven Metal and Firewood, you can spam-smith Dwarven Arrows. This will level up Smithing faster and the arrows themselves are pretty decent if you have a good bow, and you can make so many of them that you won't have to worry about ever running out of arrows (I have like 50k of them in one file).

Muffle is great for levelling up Illusion. Even if you don't use Illusion, you can level it up so fast that it will help your character level up overall more quickly.

Same with Telekinesis for Alteration (and it's fun as hell to fuck around with that spell)

Get a house/property and horde stuff using containers available on site. I recommending organazing. Hoarde alchemy materials. You're gonna want them. Hoarde food and cook it whenever you can (ALWAYS TAKE EVERY SALE PILE YOU FIND ANYWHERE) as cooked food heals you more. With enough food, you can conserve potions by eating to restore health instead. This is especially helpful for Survival Mode, though you probably aren't trying that on your first playthrough lol.

Get a good follower and know how they operate. Some followers are unkillable. Others will never die to enemies, but can be killed by friendly fire at low health, so know how to move around them and engage in combat without hurting your follower, otherwise you risk resets due to accidentally killing follower.

Get good at lockpicking. Lightly jiggle a lot at different positions on the lock until you get some movement. You can minimize broken picks this way and then micro-adjust when you get close. I like to use specific visual points on the lock to narrow down where the appropriate section is. Once you master the technique as a player, you won't ever need to buy lockpicks or use perks that making lockpicking easy. You can get it done like a pro with the picks you find through looting and exploration and never run out. I can pick Master level locks without too much trouble even with a new character.

Pickpocket is super easy to level up, but it requires patience. It's always a good idea to level it up enough for the "Extra Pockets" perk. That gives you an automatic 100 carry weight bonus, which is HUGE early on. Gemstones are among the best items to steal in the early game. They are valuable, they level up the skill super fast and they are lightweight, so even if you can't sell them right away (stolen goods require unlocking Fences through quests and/or a Speech perk), they won't weigh you down.

Strategize your selling based on vendors. Sell gear to smiths, duplicate spell books to mages, fancy clothes to clothes people, general goods to general stores. It's easier to unload unwanted stuff if you optimize your selling this way (eventually, you can get perks in Speech that will allow you to sell anything to any vendor and even increase the amount of money vendors have to barter).

When you get a Dragon Claw and find a door that the claw unlocks, the correct combination to the door is shown on the claw itself. A lot of new players don't realize this, and I didn't initially when I first played either, causing me to try every combination until I got it right >_>

If anything in a home or shop or dungeon or whatever says "Take <item>," it's safe to take. It's not stealing even if you're in someone's house and they're standing right in front of you. It's only a crime if it says "Steal <item>" with Steal being red. Often times, completing quests for NPCs will make them more friendly to you, so items that may have been Steal-only at first may become available for you to just take without any issue once the corresponding NPC(s) are friendly to you via anything you've done for them.

Supaitwo posted...

Allen admitted that they dont check why a user got suspended and just auto purge most of the time.

the new one clearly does, but he's new here, so it's understandable.

(also, and sorry to argue semantics, but really "purg" is a more appropriate term as short for purgatory. "Purge" is what happens to old topics on a board when they disappear after a certain time due to inactivity and lack of bumping, depending on the traffic level of the board they're on. It doesn't really make sense as a shorthand for purgatory >_>. That's just my opinion though).

Starks posted...

Wasn't it a fairly likely that the purge would be upgraded to a ban anyway?

I can't remember a ban having to be lobbied like this before.

well only admins can purg. Mods can only recommend punishment when suspending (which automatically goes to admin for review), so clearly users, probably some being mods, complained to other admins to get the punishment upgraded, which was absolutely the correct call, and the next admin agreed.

but yeah it has happened before. Someone posted about a "realistic-looking characters" mod for Skyrim and posted a link to a modding site and mentioned literal porn mods, including ones that included the children in the game, stating "I don't use any of those though" but the fact of the matter was that those types of mods were presumably accessible from the link. The user was reported and warned for it. There was some outrage because that punishment was too weak for what that user did. Someone emailed Allen about it. Allen upgraded the warning to a full ban after the fact and made a topic about it here, and kinda called out the mod (without naming them) for only warning instead of suspending (when the offense was clearly ban-worthy)

Supaitwo posted...

Shouldnt have taken PMs to the admins for this to happen.

my guess is that the new admin handled it first and let her off too easy with a purg and someone contacted Allen directly and I he read it and was like "OVERRULED!" and banned her... just like he did with that user who was only warned for joking about about Skyrim mods where the player could... do things to children in the game (and someone emailed Allen to say the punishment wasn't harsh enough)

UnfairRepresent posted...

He reminds me of Mal_Fet

but you and mal were buddies

good

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You do have... a certain history when it comes to jumping the gun about certain users, that's for sure. But in this case, I saw what he was saying and you did NOT seem to be in the wrong, so that wouldn't apply here.

KhlavicLanguage posted...

Can CE go one topic without having an endless circular argument about semantics

It's not circular! I am making sense if you take the time to think about what I'm actually saying -_-

@drizztlink didn't quote you and a few other posts came in, so @ ing you to clarify

that's cringing, and it's an adjective by virtue of being... I don't remember the word for a verb ending in 'ing' functioning as an adjective but it's literally just the same thing as that for all verbs.

"Those fucking assholes"

"I'm experiencing stinging pain"

"That performance was haunting"

"I have a really loving new pet"

for example.

Again, there's a term for that but I can't remember it. I'm talking about "cringe" proper, not other forms of it. I use other forms of it as adjectives all the time. I just don't approve of people being lazy and using it as an adjective as "cringe" without modifying it to make it more fitting as an adjective to separate it from the noun and verb forms.

I refuse to use 'cringe' as an adjective. It's a noun. It's a verb. Those things are confirmed. It is not an adjective, and I will never acknowledge it as such. I am happy to die on that hill.

VeggetaX posted...

But his heart is in the right place so he's allowed to be aggressive and hostile as he wants!

nah bro. His heart is in the right place but he can't help himself when it comes to breaking the rules with agression and hostility, so you were only half sarcastic.

A little birdie told me he was asking for trouble

s0nicfan posted...

FWIW the original 1972 Devilman manga goes that hard too. A lot of people don't really like Crybaby, partially for how it modernizes the material, but its actually the closest anime adaptation to the manga out of all of them due to how it sees the plot all the way through.

I didn't know for sure that there was an older one, but there's that one scene where he's watching an older "original" anime version of Devilman so I figured the source material probably was older and Crybaby was a remake or sequel or something. I never looked into it though. I also went in not knowing what to expect. I didn't dislike the over the top nature and the story was great. I only really had an issue with one scene. It was the, uh... dream scene with the succubus demon, specifically... after he woke up >_>. I was like... "bruh..." It was funny though.

I liked it but holy fuck was it so much further over the top than I was expecting...

throw out the meat and the waffles and just eat the bones.

Trumble posted...

I'm pretty sure he does meth too tbh

The tribunal (I think that's what they're called?) didn't know that when the senator first mentioned him though. Just like how they didn't know anything about Deathklok other than the lyrics to the opening song.

Axiom posted...

Dr Rockzo the rock and roll clown

He does cocaine. I'm afraid that's all we know.

where have I seen you before when you were not yet a mod? (my main is Machete and my original main was Caelus. This is a serious question because I recognize your name but I can't remember from where, but I remember you were not a mod at the time >_>)

CE_gonna_CE posted...

Who?

261 refugee that was shitting generic far right talking points on a community board before the owner ran out of patience and yeeted him to the mods, who agreed.

-_rustykranz_- posted...

Nice Oracles reference

thanks lol. I liked the Magnet Gloves even better. Those games had some great items. Bosses too.

WTGHookshot posted...

Hoping we get an Oracles remake like we got for Link's Awakening.

best thing you've said all topic

WTGHookshot posted...

Folks can choose to take me seriously or not. I am not changing my posting style for other people. If me elaborating in my posts makes people not take my posts seriously, then so be it. I write a lot. It's who I am. I'm not changing who I am for anyone.

Switch Hook > Hookshot tbqh

royic posted...

Does anybody actually like 2D Mario. I thought those were just games you downloaded on your phone emulators just in case and then never played for more than 10 minutes

I liked land because it was new-ish when I got it. I would not have been able to download it on my parents' landline at the time though because it was like '91 or '92 I think

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Oh, I thought it was the other way around

I had to look it up a bunch of time before I could finally remember which was which lol

UnholyMudcrab posted...

I think that's locked, not blocked

nah, suicidal posting is blocked. Locked is suspected hacking

land was the first mario game I owned and the first that I beat. I have an absolute shit ton of nostalgia for it.

VeggetaX posted...

I'm loving this finger pointing shit show you guys are displaying here. Please don't stop.

I'm not even halfway through the topic. It still had only 1 page when I posted last night. This is some wild reading.

EdwardSnowedIn posted...

Sigh what did she do now

are you serious?

PurpleTurtle posted...

That was pretty weird and gross

This is the diet version of an understatement

Vicious_Dios posted...

I still have 77 subs on mine and I haven't uploaded anything in years lol

I had 1 subscriber at one point and I never posted a single video. I think someone liked a comment I made or something lol

SomeGuyUO posted...

Remember this Burger King one
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PiupfW_Qw6A&pp=ygUfdGVuZGVyY3Jpc3AgYmFjb24gY2hlZGRhciByYW5jaA%3D%3D

what about this burger king one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72LzxNIqz48

jeez she is not gonna get many more chances. Needs to take some time off from the site even after this purg ends imo

It's fucking stupid and annoying, but not offensive. I wouldn't be mad at someone for calling me it, but I'd lose respect for them because there are so many better ways they could have insulted me if they had just put in even the slightest effort.

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lmao

what the fuck is eggcorn talking about and what the fuck is hyena_20 talking about?

webcyte > webcite > websight

TheHoldSteady posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/6/8/AARjV_AAEfIE.jpg

lmao

VeggetaX posted...

Get use to the word.

*Get use two the word.

26 is too young to have that much power on gamefaqs tbh

ai123 posted...

The idea is to match the pasta shape to the sauce

this

Priere posted...

They closed my acemos one

ah okay. I saw that one earlier but I didn't click on it since that one tends to get suspended for the same stuff over and over. Probably doesn't have many chances left.