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SKYRIM DELETED MOD SEARCH

I'm resurrecting this sideblog for the briefest of attempts to find something that's making me go mad:

Can ANYONE link me to a download of Mystery Modder's 'Ultra HD Texture Pack' and 'Beautiful Whiterun' files? The internet is failing me and all the links provided after the author disappeared almost a decade ago are now broken or have been taken down. I've got probably around half of the texture pack's component mods, and I even scored a Russian translation of the mushroom retexture, but I've definitely hit a wall at this point.

These are the original links: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/30878/ http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/35507/

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Ok so I was thinking about that post you reblogged about the ideal Star Wars viewing order, and I agree with 4 5 1 2 3 6, but to update it with the new movies, should it go Rogue 1, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7? Or would Rogue 1 go after Revenge of the Sith? Maybe I'm just confusing myself...

Actually, I’d put Rogue One first.  To me, it feels more like a prologue than a prequel.  It basically introduces us to the “normal person’s eye view” of the setting.  We get introduced to the Rebels and the Empire.  We get a nice glimpse of exactly how scary the Death Star and Darth Vader are.  And it doesn’t spoil anything from either main trilogy.

So, we get Rogue One to set up the stakes.  It strengthens A New Hope, because it adds context, particularly to Leia’s arc.  And I think it also helps us appreciate why exactly Leia, and so many others in the Rebel Alliance, latched onto Luke so quickly.  When you look at how weary, jaded, and desperate characters like Jyn and Cassian are, and you realize that the same is probably true of almost every other person in that alliance.  And then you see Luke, someone who is all but untouched by this war: pure, idealistic, unbowed.  And the fact that he openly wears a Jedi’s name and lightsaber.  Imagine the symbol he must have made.

So, I’d go: R1, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7.  :-)

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I was getting pretty fed up with links and generators with very general and overused weapons and superpowers and what have you for characters so:

Here is a page for premodern weapons, broken down into a ton of subcategories, with the weapon’s region of origin. 

Here is a page of medieval weapons.

Here is a page of just about every conceived superpower.

Here is a page for legendary creatures and their regions of origin.

Here are some gemstones.

Here is a bunch of Greek legends, including monsters, gods, nymphs, heroes, and so on. 

Here is a website with a ton of (legally attained, don’t worry) information about the black market.

Here is a website with information about forensic science and cases of death. Discretion advised. 

Here is every religion in the world. 

Here is every language in the world.

Here are methods of torture. Discretion advised.

Here are descriptions of the various methods used for the death penalty. Discretion advised.

Here are poisonous plants.

Here are plants in general.

Feel free to add more to this!

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i’ve stopped trash talking comic sans after learning the font is actually one of the only dyslexia-friendly fonts that come standard with most computers and i advocate for others doing the same

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How to Handle Having TOO MUCH To Do

So let’s say you’re in the same boat I am (this is a running theme, have you noticed?) and you’ve just got, like, SO MUCH STUFF that HAS to get done YESTERDAY or you will DIE (or fail/get fired/mope). Everything needs to be done yesterday, you’re sick, and for whatever reason you are focusing on the least important stuff first. What to do!

Take a deep breath, because this is a boot camp in prioritization.

Make a 3 by 4 grid. Make it pretty big. The line above your top row goes like this: Due YESTERDAY - due TOMORROW - due LATER. Along the side, write: Takes 5 min - Takes 30 min - Takes hours - Takes DAYS.

Divide ALL your tasks into one of these squares, based on how much work you still have to do. A thank you note for a present you received two weeks ago? That takes 5 minutes and was due YESTERDAY. Put it in that square. A five page paper that’s due tomorrow? That takes an hour/hours, place it appropriately. Tomorrow’s speech you just need to rehearse? Half an hour, due TOMORROW. Do the same for ALL of your tasks

Your priority goes like this:

5 minutes due YESTERDAY

5 minutes due TOMORROW

Half-hour due YESTERDAY

Half-hour due TOMORROW

Hours due YESTERDAY

Hours due TOMORROW

5 minutes due LATER

Half-hour due LATER

Hours due LATER

DAYS due YESTERDAY

DAYS due TOMORROW

DAYS due LATER

At this point you just go down the list in each section. If something feels especially urgent, for whatever reason - a certain professor is hounding you, you’re especially worried about that speech, whatever - you can bump that up to the top of the entire list. However, going through the list like this is what I find most efficient.

Some people do like to save the 5 minute tasks for kind of a break between longer-running tasks. If that’s what you want to try, go for it! You’re the one studying here.

So that’s how to prioritize. Now, how to actually do shit? That’s where the 20/10 method comes in. It’s simple: do stuff like a stuff-doing FIEND for 20 minutes, then take a ten minute break and do whatever you want. Repeat ad infinitum. It’s how I’ve gotten through my to do list, concussed and everything.

You’ve got this. Get a drink and start - we can do our stuff together!

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Pomegranate world

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For your followers who have asked:

So here’s a free for noncommercial use pattern for a hood.

Here’s how to make a flowy swoopy cloak.

And my favorite in sweater weather, the Wrap or shawl cloak. They call it a Celtic Ruana but Ruana is a word from Peru where they wear wraps the same way so let’s just be honest and call it a short cloak because it is one. I have several of these in many nice soft wools and colors. I get compliments all the time because they look very elegant.

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So with regards to tanning hides, you scrape the membrane off the inner side, if desired you scrape the fur off the outer hide, and then soak in a tannin bath? How do you know when to take the hide out of the bath? (And for that matter, how do you make the tannin bath in the first place? Just soak your oak/acorns/walnut husks? For how long?) Asking for a me. Sorry for the twenty questions.

No prob, this is the sorta nerd shit I will not shut the fuck up about if you encourage me at all.

Peg out the hide (aka nail it to the ground, all stretched out) and scrape it down with a dull knife to get any flesh or membrane and grease out. If you don’t want the hair on, scrape that off too. Some people put them in a borax bath for a day or so to help this process.

To make the bath, you can just soak a bunch of stuff in water for a long time, or can boil up walnut husks and oak bark and acorns in a bigass pot for an hour or so. Make the solution strong. Then cool and dump into your tanning container, AKA a big rubbermaid tote. Hide goes in too.

Let soak for a week or two, until when you cut a little bit off the edge for a test you can see the tannins have soaked all the way through. The hide will be sorta pale beforehand, and once tanned will be tannin-brown all the way through.

Then take it out and let it dry. I’ll be all stiff now. If you want to, roll it into a cone, pin it like that, and smoke it over a smoky fire. This’ll help preserve it even better, and will also make it smell great. After a day or so of smoke on one side, do the other.

Now, work it soft. Rubbing it over a split rail fence works great for this, or pounding it between some rocks, or punching the shit out of it, or even chewing it.

And now you’ve got leather.

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Plauntie, Plauntie! I have been seized by the uncontrollable desire to make a waterproof woolen cloak! I have heard good things about Calamanco, but I don’t know where to get it. Help me please!

TBH, it’s easy to waterproof fabric once you make the thing. Wool is naturally water-resistant, so a close weave will already help mist bead off of you. TBH, wool can absorb a whole honking lot of water and still just feel kinda damp, and even if soaked it’ll still keep you warm.

If you can find wool with the lanolin left in, then u good to go. If you can’t find wool cloth woven ‘in the grease’, here’s a guide on how to re-lanolin up some wool fabric!

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black walnuts and black walnut hulls have been aqquired, and black walnuts cleaned and dried and are in a bag in the pantry to eat later.

Black walnut hulls and the bottle of iron and water are ready. Come my next days off, we dying silk black. (And maybe trying some walnut dye on some wool I’ve got, because I like walnut brown and think it would make lovely socks.)

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Distill this blend to meet the gods

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Free Sewer Map Assets

Grab our new, free Sewer Map tiles and assets, available today on our web gallery! Big thanks to our Patrons for making these possible. 

Downloads at the bottom: http://bit.ly/2M97jTY

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Hi! I’m a new DM and in my campaign, the players meet an NPC who’s been Dominated by a bad guy, but it’s not immediately obvious or suspicious (like “kill this player right now” or “steal this item”). The rules say a perception check can notice odd behavior, but I’m blanking on what to describe to my players. Any ideas?? If it helps, the NPC is generally outgoing and charming.

The thing about mental domination is that the subject is aware it is being dominated and resists it.  Imagine being stuck inside your own head watching yourself do things you don’t want to… I imagine your eyes would take on a desperate, haunted look.  This is a fun sign to use because there’s so many ways it could be interpreted by the players.

Dominated creatures also carry out their orders to the exclusion of all other activities except those needed to survive.  So, that would be pretty odd.  Even if a subject were ordered to “Do this evil thing for me, but act as natural as possible”, that would still force the subject to have to reject certain invitations or activities they might normally engage in.  So, having the character act very hesitant or make lots of strange excuses could be another sign.

I don’t know what system you’re running, but most of them have some way to guess at another creatures intentions or feelings, whether it be though intuition or sense motive or something like that. So if any of your players attempt such an empathetic check, you can tell them that they get the sense that the character really doesn’t want to do what they’re doing.

If your goal is to hide the domination as long as possible for dramatic effect, my recommendation is to have good plausible reasons for the NPC to not be able to interact with the players for very long.  That way, they’ll only get small hints, and only if they’re looking for them.  I hope that was helpful.  Good luck!

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This you can even make with a cereal box, pop bottles, a craft or box cutter knife, and some duct tape.  For those who are trying to beat the heat and don’t have an AC unit, or are trying to save money on their electricity bill.

To make your own, please follow the following steps for a window strip:

Materials:  Cardboard (i used a cereal box), Duct tape (in the colour of your choice), pop bottles or water bottles (just the tops as you can see how they were cut), some cutting device to cut cardboard and/or tape, and a marker, or marking device of your choice that will mark onto cardboard 

Step 1)  Cut off your pop or water off at the widest point so it makes kind of a funnel shape

Step 2) you can make these bigger, but I made mine into a strip.  Cut the cardboard into how big you want your panel or strip.  Trace the base of your cap and mark the centre of where the lid goes with an X (thats where the opening will go.  In the picture, I made mine just a bit wider than the pop bottle tops

Step 3)  Cut the X where you marked it, and make it so it’s cut big enough to push the smallest part of your bottle through the X

Step 4) Secure all the spout parts with Duct tape (in the colour of your choice.  Mine’s purple.)  You do not have to do step 4, but it is advised so the pop bottle tops dont pop out of the openings you made.

Step 5) Place your strip or panel with the biggest part facing the screen or opening of your window, and have the smallest part facing the inside of the building.

The science:  as the air blows into the wider part of the pop bottle cone, it compresses the air and cools it down as it goes through the smaller part, hence cooling the air around you without having to use any electricity to make this work.

I hope this tutorial helps you to beat the heat!

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Let me tell you about my panda mini-washer

As an apartment dweller, this is a game changer. My current apartment doesn’t have a laundry facility and the closest Laundromat about a 30 min bus ride which is just not practical. The mini-washer is a life saver

The panda mini washer hooks up to the sink, is incredibly lightweight (about 28 pounds, so light even I can lift it) and easy to use. 

It has a surprisingly large capacity. The basket from the first picture represents about one and a half loads. The jeans took up a whole load while the rest filled the bin only half way. 

Here’s the inside. The left is the washer the right is the spin dryer. Yes, it even drys.

Basically you shove your cloths into the washer, fill it up with water and let it go. I use my shower head to fill it up so it goes faster, the sink hook up took about five minutes to fill the whole tub, with the shower head is is down to a minute an a half. I do it in three wash cycles, a five minute rinse with baking soda, a five minute wash with soap and a three minute rinse with water. You have to drain and refill between each cycle so it’s a little more labor intensive than a traditional washer. 

That’s the spin dryer. It’s about half the capacity of the washer so one wash takes about two loads to dry. The spinner is much more effective than I was expecting. A three minute spin gets my cloths about 90% dry. I hang them up to air dry for that last 10%. 

The machine cost me about 150$. When you factor in two dollars for the bus, five for the machines (per week), the mini-washer pays for its self after only about six months worth of laundry. 

I’m not great at expressing emotion, but I’m hoping you can tell how excited I am.  Let me just say that the panda mini-washer is great and I highly recommend it to anyone currently using a Laundromat.  

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If anyone was wondering, sprinkling a bit of powdered milk around the base of your tomato plants absolutely does prevent blossom end rot!