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BurntWits

@ BurntWits @sh.itjust.works

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  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • You should really give it a shot. It’s the most modded game on Nexus by a very large margin. To give you an idea, there are 18.7b downloads and 766.5k mods on Nexus. Skyrim Special Edition is in first place with 9.2b/118.9k. Fallout 4 is number two with 1.9b/68.4k, and Oldrim (Skyrim non-special edition) is at third with 1.9b/72.5k. SSE alone is just under half of all downloads, and combine the two Skyrim versions and you’re at nearly 60% of all mod downloads being for Skyrim. Pretty crazy.

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  • I’m getting to the time of year I do my superhero binge. Right now is my Bethesda binge and then I’ll do the Batman Arkham games followed by the Spider-Man games.

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  • I’ve relapsed too, I’m back to modding Skyrim again. It’s been a while for me, but after talking about it on lemmy a few days ago I got the itch. I’m currently running an evil mage build. Used Alternate Start to start with Windstad Manor, which actually comes fully furnished aside from the add-ons. It’s in the swamp which I think adds to the vibe of my character. I’m also messing around with the Ordinator Perk Overhaul and Apocalypse Magic mods, along with a bunch of graphics mods and smaller gameplay mods. I’m going to explore Bruma again soon too, haven’t played with that mod in several years.

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  • I’ve seen it mentioned a lot on lemmy recently, I’m pleasantly surprised. I haven’t played it in a few years but really enjoyed my time with it. It had a really rough launch but even after they fixed it I felt it was quite under-appreciated. I’m glad it’s getting more attention now.

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  • Enjoy! I’ve been wanting to get back into the ME series again, but the stupid EA launcher requirements have halted me. I know you can modify some files to get around it, and I did do that and it worked, but the next time I tried to open the game steam verified the files and corrected them. I haven’t gotten around to removing the launcher requirements again yet.

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  • I just got back into modding Skyrim again. It’s my first time modding on Linux, it’s been far smoother than I was told it would be. I’m using ModOrganizer2, it’s been great for the most part. It’s a little iffy to start up, sometimes it forgets I’ve used it before and I need to reboot a couple times which is pretty annoying, but as long as I don’t fully close MO2 it works as expected.

  • When a tutorial in a game stretches out far too long, do you also picture yourself punching the tutorial npc in the throat and running away?

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  • A good chunk of that is modding but I’d still say a majority is playing the game. I’ve got somewhere in the realm of 50-100 playthroughs of Skyrim, some of which are a few hundred hours. Almost all of them are modded.

  • They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?

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  • I haven’t. It’s on my wishlist though, so maybe on the next sale I’ll pick it up.

  • When a tutorial in a game stretches out far too long, do you also picture yourself punching the tutorial npc in the throat and running away?

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  • Alternate Start is the one I always use. 5k hours and 4.9k probably with that mod.

  • What's a subject you (think) you know more about than the average Lemmy user?

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  • Probably a decent amount of music stuff.

    I used to play piano at an ARCT level, and used to be pretty knowledgeable about theory and music history but I’ve forgotten a lot of it now. I haven’t practiced or studied since COVID hit so unfortunately a lot of it is gone now.

    The music that I listen to, I have basically an encyclopedic knowledge of. I know when they were born or when the band formed, when each of their albums came out, and generally know a lot of trivia about them.

    I collect records and have been learning a lot about record players and audio equipment over the last couple years. Not as good as an audio engineer but better than the average lemming I’d say.

    I used to do classical music composition pre-COVID. Again, probably not as good at it anymore, but I got quite good for a while. My music instructor at the time said I was the most impressive composer he ever taught. I’m still sorta riding that high from 2019. Very unfortunately, I had all that stored offline on a hard drive with no backup, and I’m sure you can guess what happened next. Since then I’ve been dissuaded from composing.

    I used to help teach and tutor music courses when I was in school. I was basically the music teacher’s pet, and this was at a music school. The music teacher in question happened to be the head of music at that school too (there were several music teachers at that school).

    A friend of mine, who was also into music and knew a lot of music students, once told me I was the only person he’s ever met that should’ve absolutely done a degree in music. This was at a time where he had a strong opinion that you should only go to school for a “real” degree that pays well afterwards. He’s since changed his opinion, but it was a big deal for him to say that to me at the time.

    The worst part of all this is my severe AuDHD meant that as soon as COVID hit and I paused music courses and lessons, I couldn’t get myself to continue. Now I live in a place too small for a piano so I can’t practice unless I visit my parents or in-laws, and I have different hyper-focuses now, instead of theory. I wish I could change my brain sometimes.

  • They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?

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  • Don’t crucify me, but Control.

    I absolutely love creepy atmospheric games that aren’t outright horror. If you’ve ever played the Playdead games (Limbo and Inside) you know what I’m talking about. BioShock does it a bit too. Anyway, due to this being my absolute favourite type of media to consume, and not at all knowing how to find more of it, I made a post on here a couple years ago asking for advice, as well as a few friends and other communities, and Control was the overwhelming majority suggestion. So obviously I gave it a shot, but I just didn’t enjoy the way it, ahem, controlled. Not sure how well to describe it other than that, but movement just felt off to me. Maybe I’ll have to give it a try again in the future, but I couldn’t put in more than an hour or two without getting annoyed. It looked pretty neat, and I’ve seen screenshots of later points in the game which look pretty awesome, but for whatever reason I couldn’t get past the movement. It’s not an issue I’ve had in any other game and I’m not sure why it bugs me so much in this one.

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  • Battlefield 4 and 1 are some of my favourite modern shooter games but I can’t justify buying 6. First of all it can’t run on Linux so I’d have to buy it on PlayStation but also I’ve heard very mixed things. It’s disappointing, I really wanted to have another Battlefield 4 experience again.

  • Leaving food on the counter - the absolute survey

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  • I only really do it for Christmas now. It’s one of my favourite parts of Christmas though. Christmas Eve we do fish and brewis, Christmas Day breakfast is fishcakes with the leftover salt fish, potatoes, and drawn butter.

  • Leaving food on the counter - the absolute survey

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  • In Newfoundland (and I’m assuming other historically fish-based economies) it was really common before refrigeration existed to split your fish (open it like a book on a drying rack) and heavily salt it to store it long term. The drying process could take days with flies swarming around before getting moved to a shack. You’d then soak the fish before cooking to extract some of the salt. It’s no longer necessary but we still do it for the tradition. I’ve eaten it many, many times and never got sick from it, and I can guarantee it was more than 30 mins between the fish dying and it being salted. Especially these days with the codfish population dwindling, it could take a couple hours sometimes to catch all your fish. We kill the fish as soon as it enters the boat so the first fish of the day could be 3+ hours before being treated at all.

    That being said, food safety is still important. I’ve seen some people say it’s fine to leave stuff out for a while if you’re cooking it after because it’ll kill the bacteria when you cook it, but that’s not entirely true. I had to take some food safety courses and was considering being an inspector for a while, I can’t remember it all now but the idea was, bacteria can grow after 30 mins at room temperature and while that bacteria can die at 74°C/165°F, it can grow spores during that time that are heat resistant. You’re not gonna die from food that’s been out for 31 minutes but if you often eat food that’s been sitting out for an hour or more, eventually you might get sick. It’s a game of chance, really. I don’t worry about it too much for myself but if I’m feeding others, I try to stick to the rules. If I get sick from my own carelessness, fair enough, that’s on me. If I get someone else sick though, I’d feel awful.

  • Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?

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  • I dress for my wife.

    Strangers aren’t gonna fuck me for looking nice.

  • Anxiety bologna

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  • In Newfoundland we do fried bologna with rhubarb pickles/rhubarb relish on top. Best way to do it imo

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    People aged 25+ How often do you hang out/see friends?

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  • I’ve got one friend who’s super social but doesn’t have many friends herself, so she tries to see me almost every day. Realistically I probably see her 2-3 times per month. Other than her, I only really have two friends I hang out with in person. Each one is probably once a month or so, maybe every other month. I’ve also got a friend I like to play games online with, that used to be a weekly thing one time but we haven’t played together in a few months. I’ve got a little bit of time off work right now so I should probably try to hop on with him before I go back.

  • What's yours?

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  • Any of my nearly endless hobbies, but mostly stuff related to music. I also love video games and have been getting more into movies recently. I think I know every fact there is to know about the Lord of the Rings movies (2001-2003), and I’m getting there with Alien (1979) too. I also really like watches. Used to be into fashion but not these days. Probably many, many more niche things too.

    OP, what about you?

  • Should I get rid of my VHS collection

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  • Tangentially related, and mostly for others reading this, but if you have 4K blu-rays I’d definitely consider keeping them. Disc looks far better than compressed digital, and uncompressed 4K movies take up way too much space, unless you’ve got dozens of TB of storage or only have a few movies. I have a few 4K AV1 (and HEVC too) files where I also have the 4K disc for, and the disc looks so much better it’s not really close.