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11 hours ago, Nessa said:

M$ really is adversarial in their approach.

Nothing specific to M$, that is capitalism, in this so-called "free market" every actor inherently desires to become a monopoly to maximize their profits. And what do they do when they have? Simple, they start looking for ways to milk customers, when that's not enough they start sucking their blood. Apple, Google, Steam, Epic, Adobe, you name it, they are all the same shit.

At this point, if anyone has been trying to cripple Windows in order to continue using it, they should already realize that it's a losing battle. Linux is also cancer, but the alternative is death.
 

11 hours ago, Nessa said:

I was originally planning on my new machine to be dual boot

Microsoft confirms August updates break Linux boot in dual-boot systems

Windows update breaks Linux dual boot - but there is a fix for some users

I have encountered this strange bug many times before and have always treated it as a random temporary glitch, but today I realized that it is absolutely reproducible and not at all random. As far I can see only a couple of other people have talked about it before, apparently the  "Anniversary Edition" also has it.

Here's the problem:  When you drop one item from your inventory, "any" item...

Normal (expected) Behavior:
The item should normally go straight ahead and then drop to the ground once out of your inventory.
Glitching Behavior:
The item comes right out of the middle point of the 3D player model (while in 3rd person view) and goes directly down below and hurts the player.

The really "weird" part is that this glitch only seems to occur in certain locations. Here's one, and the steps to reproduce the problem:

1. Go to Pinewatch (coc Pinewatch01 should work).

2. Go inside the house.

3. Take the big kettle (cauldron), should be on the first floor.

4. Drop the big kettle and observe how it behaves when dropped. (i.e. the glitch)

5. Take the big kettle again and go outside.

6. Drop the kettle again now while you're outside and observe how it drops (i.e. normal behavior)

7. Go inside and drop the kettle again, and observe how the glitch is reproduced when inside.

Note 1: Save/load, restarting the game etc. won't fix the issue.

Has anyone else here encountered this bug before? Any ideas what could be the cause? Any solutions?

EDIT:

The problem is in the vanilla Skyrim, nothing to do with mods. Had to fire it up to test after more than a decade. Tested the issue in vanilla Skyrim, no mods, not even the unofficial patches, just Skyrim LE (Skyrim and all 3 DLCs) + SKSE, and I got the same result.

While inside the Pinewatch shack (and I've read that there are other cells in the game behaving this way) anything dropped from the inventory appears right on the player model instead of in front of it and it is propelled towards the ground, instead of forward. No issues doing the same thing outside the shack.

EDIT 2:

Just a wild guess but maybe the X-Y-Z orientation is messed up for this particular cell, in other words, the cell was designed in the incorrect orientation, therefore dropped items probably still follow the horizontal axis (X or Y) but the horizontal axis is somehow vertical in this cell, acts like the Z axis everywhere else. Could be some other cell parameter affecting the physics behavior, don't know. Checked the Pinewatch01 cell and its location records in TES5Edit and didn't see anything particularly odd looking.

Still finding new bugs in a 13 year old game...

I don't know of any mod that changes head parts either on the fly or via a menu (e.g. RaceMenu, ECE) and DOESN'T rely on SKSE. Whatever the vanilla game uses to do it, on the character creation screen for instance, must be a built-in function that can't be accessed via a script, which is most likely why SKSE needed to implement the ChangeHeadPart function.

Looks like Recall will be recalled in October.

"Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/microsoft-will-try-the-data-scraping-windows-recall-feature-again-in-october/

Josh "Go watch porn!" Sawyer should never open his bloody mouth, ever, about anything.

As for Chris Avellon...

On 10/18/2018 at 5:50 PM, bjornk said:

Chris Avellone tweeted this shit yesterday...

https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1052777362444582914

Reeeally? So you've never heard of the multiplayer Fallout games before, such as FOnline? Which had existed long before Bethesda even thought about MP. Oh, wait... maybe you meant micro-transactions and shit... Well, I already knew you were a sellout. Anyway, fuck you!

https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1052405197421522944

Shill...

I had completely forgotten this guy, except the fact that I never really liked him. I remember that he also was a spineless guy just like Cain. I'm sure there's a reason why he's critical now about the lore and shit, he's never opened his mouth for anything about the "lore" that Bethesda shat upon in Fallout 76.

The tweets linked above in case you can't see them:

I mean, normally you'd expect the player to open the door of a cell first -by whatever means- and then check the containers inside the cell, that is the procedure most "normal" people would follow, as it is realistic. Otherwise you'd be either curious enough or randomly decide to check what is inside the accessible containers in the cell before you unlock the door. Even if Bethesda wanted to place the key to the door somewhere for the dumb and/or uninterested players, placing it into a container inside the cell kind of defeats that purpose. Not to mention would annoy everyone else who found the key in a container after struggling to open the lock. 

1 hour ago, Kendo 2 said:

 I THINK there's a trapped grate above the lizard's cell and if you trip it you end up in the cell with him.  Circle back to the player can't/won't pick the lock.  All of this Bethesda dev fuckery could have been avoided by the lizard having a force greet package to tell the player to look for the key.  Regardless, you have to talk to him to get to the 'who are you?' and 'follow me' dialogue.

The cell has a hidden stone door which opens by a lever I believe, then you go down following some stairs, the top part of the cell isn't a trap door, doesn't open. It is just there so that you can see the lizard below. The annoying thing is that the lizard sometimes stands too far away so you can't even initiate dialogue without going inside the cell.

2 hours ago, ritualclarity said:

Why does it have to be one or the other?  LOL

4 minutes ago, Kendo 2 said:

Both are true.

I disagree. Both can't be true. I don't think the writers/designers at Bethesda are smart enough to give you subtle clues to imply that the NPC you're rescuing is an idiot and I also don't see why they would do that for this particular NPC. I simply didn't think of the possibility that they placed the key intentionally for players who couldn't or wouldn't bother to pick the lock, which is a clear proof that they are treating players like morons, I completely agree. They could've placed the key somewhere outside the cell however, which is no doubt Bethesda's stupidity, although wouldn't expect anything less from them.

Bethesda being Bethesda or they're just telling you that you're rescuing a complete idiot?

Tim Cain has really outdated ideas about games and turned out to be quite a spineless guy for approving and even enjoying every dump Bethesda has taken on Fallout as an IP. Of course he would do that why wouldn't he? He seems to enjoy being invited to Bethesda's fancy Fallout related premieres and meeting idiotic celebrities there. I'm also pretty sure that acting like a politically correct sycophant throughout his career must have become a second nature for him at this point.

On 8/8/2024 at 1:25 AM, Kendo 2 said:

TES6 RANT

This is what TES fans should realistically feel about TES6 at this point...

One of the reasons I'm not interested in TES6 anymore is that since Jeremy Soule was also M2'ed, he won't be making the music for it. Jeremy Soule's music was literally the "soul" (pun intended) of TES since Morrowind. Well, it's the end of an era...

...was another great theme by Soule.

On 6/13/2024 at 9:13 PM, Doublezero said:

I'm installing Linux on my next PC and if I like it, I'll be done with Windows.

Just like the case with Mozilla, Linux also has been going downhill for quite a while now.

7 hours ago, ritualclarity said:

Yep, I am reminded every day. Especially by certain people on this site.

A textbook example of how to be hypocritical. Don't know why you decided to post this passive aggressive BS, which is certainly uncalled for. The reason why I posted those videos, which had nothing to do with you or your post, it was simply to prove that the woke, SJW types we complain about today started to appear all the way back in the 90's and that there was a direct connection between what was happening in the world at the end of the 80's and in the 90's and their effects on human society since then. Something which I talked about in one of my previous posts. Then I didn't feel like writing a wall of text, now I'm glad I didn't, cause I no longer see the point.

I bet the character played by Jim in this early 90's show seems awfully familiar to you too.

The one above is also very similar in the sense that they're both attention seeking, self-important types, similar to certain people of today.
 

3 hours ago, ritualclarity said:

Of course it isn't good. However, until a section of our society starts rationally thinking and stop tring to control everybody and every action, it is best if they stay together so they can have less an impact on the rest of society.  Like the businesses that this damages, it damages political environments as well. Look at Portland  

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/portlands-population-drops-crime-homelessness-other-woes

 

 

Was this idea right out of the ass of a stupid woke millennial or something? Like DDLM - Drug Dealer Lives Matter, type of thing? Sounds like you're gonna experience the dystopian Detroit of Robocop sooner than expected.

32 minutes ago, ritualclarity said:

It is time for conservatives to move and let California fall into the ocean.  The SJWs should stay there.

No good can come out identity politics of any kind, none. All it would ever do is to polarize the human society, as clearly seen in your sentiment, which will then make all problems more difficult to solve and create additional ones. There's no difference between forcing anti-abortion laws on women and punishing parents for doing proper parenting for their children, they both defy rationality and logic and are products of self-centered, self-righteous, hypocritical and delusional minds.

11 hours ago, Littlejeff said:

It really does look like we're reaching the end times, for those who are religious.

What you call the "end times" is called the Behavioral Sink, it's the collapse of society, population decline, ultimately extinction, all due to overpopulation. Nothing to do with religion, it's all our doing. All of those effects observed in mice experiments in enclosed spaces with limited resources have been manifesting themselves in human population too, although in slightly different ways sociologically and psychologically, because we have language, are more intelligent and live in a much more complex society. We certainly can cope with much more compared to mice because of that, but that doesn't mean we're immune to it. Increased mental issues, increased sexual deviation and homosexuality, the rise of identity politics and many other things you observe in today's world can easily be attributed to it. It's a vast and complex topic, look it up if you're interested and draw your own conclusions.

6 hours ago, Kendo 2 said:

There's an audio floating around where a teacher in Canada excoriates her Muslim students for skipping the compulsory 'Pride Day'.  She said something to the effect that respect goes both ways and then unintentionally compared Islam to wokism...like they're both religions and equal.  <_<

In a way they are comparable. Religions and feminism and the LGBT bullshit are all essentially identity politics. A state should be neutral towards any sort of identity politics, remove it from any place where the common denominator should be just being human, such as basic rights, education and healthcare, otherwise conflict is inevitable because as the state you'd be pandering to just one minority in the society by privileging them in a certain way, while pissing off all the others, which would slowly but surely polarize the society.

Also, this "Pride Day" is like, "We all suffer from gender confusion, let's celebrate it!". It's like colorblind people celebrating their colorblindness.

37 minutes ago, ritualclarity said:

What I heard was it was great.

Well, it was obvious from the start that it would be another woke shit and it was indeed "great" in that regard.
 

There's one thing I'd like to point out though, as much as I hate the "woke" shit of today, I've always thought the LoTR (the books) was quite pretentious and has pretty obvious "racist" undertones and while I enjoyed the books I never really was a "Tolkien fan". Also, while they didn't have the woke shit of today(*), Peter Jackson's movies, incl. The Hobbit, became increasingly childish, idiotic and cringy, just like the Star Wars movies. I didn't even want to see the The Hobbit "trilogy" because of it. [ (*) Only the first three, not The Hobbit ]

12 minutes ago, ritualclarity said:

I haven't seen him shoot himself in the foot (SJW) like other companies.

You haven't heard of The Rings of Power then.

5 hours ago, Kendo 2 said:

The force is female Star Wars tanked on Disney+.  AmazonPrime wouldn't be any different, but YEAH it'd be nice to see Bezos lose a few billion.

Wouldn't harm him and he'd own Indiana Jones IP as well in addition to all SW related stuff. Movies, tv series, animated stuff, toys, video games including all LucasArts games (Monkey Island series, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle etc.). He'd be making much more money with all these than Disney ever could.

1 hour ago, Kendo 2 said:

I can see Disney trying to sell off LucasFilms but who in their right mind would buy it?

Bezos

I was a 1st gen SW fan, possibly one of the youngest who were able to watch the first movie in a theater, but after the third movie I was like "meh", because despite being a teenager I found parts of the 3rd movie way too childish, which also made me realize that the first two films also had a fair dose of silliness, but I still loved the universe, the music etc. The thing about SW is that, at the time, it was really something and there were many 1st gen fans like me who then created a lot of fan-fic, the Expanded Universe, and many video games and because of that, SW seemed bigger, better, took a lot more space in pop culture than GL really deserved, and he benefited from it in every possible way. SW established a massive fanbase that kept growing which made it much easier for younger generations to join in the ranks of an already established fanbase. Fans took SW much more seriously than GL has ever had. In his mind the target audience of SW was most likely toddlers and it's no surprise he eventually sold it to Disney.

38 minutes ago, endgameaddiction said:

Can you tell me how he ruined Star Wars?

The guy literally turned SW into a movie for toddlers. The 2nd movie, Empire Strikes Back, is most people's favorite because it was the most "mature" one of all. Most of the stuff he added in his so called "Special Editions" back in the 90's were downright retarded if not insulting. Then of course came the prequels, with Jar Jar Binks, podracing, bad script, bad acting etc. which many people hated at the time, but of course, they're now forgotten, cause there's always worse.

8 hours ago, endgameaddiction said:

And some good news if this is true.

Why would it be good news? It was GL himself who had already ruined SW for many, and who sold it to Disney.