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[miauw62]

Terry. Motherfucking. Prachett.
Pyramids, page 289:

"Of course it's a dream", he said, "The world is the Creator's dream!"

Terry Prachett knew about CHIM before TES even existed.

[Xantalos]

HP Lovecraft.
Azathoth.
Wut now Pratchett

[Putnam]

Pratchett wrote lines for the Vilja mod in Oblivion.

Because he liked playing Oblivion with Vilja and contacted them.

That's cool.

[Ultimuh]

Just when I thought I solved my crashing problem..
I get a crash on my way to Whiterun, shortly after that

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

space core

fell.
It might however simply be a regular crash, rather than a zone-specific one.

[umiman]

I have a funny crash where if I kill a forsworn wearing that antler helmet with a sword, my game CTDs.

So all Forsworn have to be killed via anything except swords.

[PanH]

I have a funny crash where if I kill a forsworn wearing that antler helmet with a sword, my game CTDs.

So all Forsworn have to be killed via anything except swords.

Ohh, a powerful alteration spell ?

[umiman]

I've noticed more interesting things about the combat mods I'm using.

My character's head staggers and swerves about during combat. It's quite hard to explain. For example, if I strafe to the side and get hit, my character's head-screen will fall close to the ground as if I've been knocked down, then it'll put itself back to the right position like he's righting himself. There's all these kinds of movements depending on how I attack or how I take hits.

It's extremely immersive. It makes it feel like I'm scrambling around and not just a walking rectangle. The fact that I can see my own blood splash on the floorboards as I scramble is very awesome indeed.

Also, because I started in the Reach and haven't been anywhere near Whiterun... I kinda forgot there are dragons in the game. I don't have any shouts. No one is aware of any dragon problems and the world is perfectly alright except for the civil war. It's quite refreshing. I can imagine Alduin just sitting around picking his teeth, waiting for the Dragonborn to activate him.

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Also, I like how the AI actually has some brains now. I can't make archers waste their arrows on hitting me behind cover anymore for one thing. They just wait until I show my face before shooting.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

HP Lovecraft.
Azathoth.
Wut now Pratchett

Lord Dunsany wrote stuff about reality being the dream of some god in 1905. Lovecraft's first book was in 1916 and it doesn't look like it had anything to do with the subject.

Pretty sure the topic has been around a lot longer than that, probably a direct rip from some religion.

It's very unlikely that (Insert Favorite Author Here) wrote about something absolutely without antecedent. And what worlds have we lost to rust, mold, and fire? Perhaps some caveman told a story that because he could create a world when he dreamt, so this world could be the dream of someone else.

Heck, we could quote Shakespeare for this conversation about literary borrowing.

[WillowLuman]

Far older than any 20th century author, the idea of reality being someone else's dream shows up in Hinduism, Budhism, and a few other venerable religions.

[Xantalos]

I was going to mention that. Para-Brahman, I think.

[Bauglir]

Well, this has gone well. It took about 5 minutes after CharGen to get a story, which I shall tell in black greentext.

>Be me, level 1 beatstick sort of character
>Bear sitting on only road out of town, because enemies aren't scaled to my level anymore
>That goes about as well as you'd expect
>Construct elaborate plan to lure bear back into town so not-level-1 NPCs can handle it
>Get too close to a dragon on the way back, it aggros
>Nobody's essential
>Everyone's dead and it's all my fault
>The bear is fine

[miauw62]

Best way to fight bears is to jump on a piece of gemoetry that they can't path to.

[IronTomato]

Best way to fight bears is to shoot 'em in the head

FTFY

[Bauglir]

AI tweaks seem to have it running to effective cover when I try shooting it from somewhere it can't reach, and charging back toward me the instant I set foot on accessible earth. It's surprisingly fast. And its skull seems resilient to the iron arrows of a level 1 archer, stealth or otherwise. On account of being a bear. Having escaped the Orc stronghold, I will one day return to liberate my people from this vicious tyrant.

[Eotyrannus]

Hey, guys. I wanna do magery and use Alteration and Healing, but I'm yet to decide on my weapons. Destruction or stabbing?