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Headed to Sky Haven Temple

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Nexus Mods was acquired by Chosen, a company focused on growth and monetization of gaming startups.

Reddit thread

Dark0ne, creator and ex-owner of Nexus Mods, stepped down today in an update post:

NexusMods post

Users on Resetera were able to found out more about this sudden change of ownership:

Resetera thread

Victor Folmann, CEO of Chosen, published this "Gaming Startup Monetization Cheat Sheet" on his LinkedIn

Link to the post

Users are already sharing their fear of NexusMods allowing more bigoted mods in the future, and taking down inclusive ones to follow the current "anti-woke" trend in the gaming industry

Reseta threada bout their change in moderation concerning bigoted mods following Oblivion Remastered launch

Another User, this time on NexusMods forum, noticed queer and inclusive mods being removed following Dark0ne's post

Link to the forum post

It is also worth mentioning that Chosen and its CEO are seen using AI generated images on their website (including generated images depicting Tracer from Overwatch) hyping up ChatGPT on his Linkedin account, and are including "rewarding gamers with crypto money"

Users speculate that Chosen buying out NexusMods is to potentially train an AI model that generates mods

More about Nvidia's AI "RTX Remix" and future projects

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Ysgramor axe and shield

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Art by Adam Adamowicz

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Mother morrowind as akatosh/auri-el/etc for the @tes-gala <3 the dress is heavily inspired by the mugler hummingbird dress(hopefully this gives dragon instead,,,)

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if they’re really going w the thalmor trying to undo reality thing i think it’d be funny if it turned out there were towers in akavir and they get all the ones in tamriel and stand there waiting for the dawn era chaos but nothing happens

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Skyrim foliage fans will quite cheerfully turn the Whiterun tundra into fields of wheat, lush green meadows, thick banks of lavender or a gigantic pine forest, anything except the scraggly red, yellow, green, brown, orange and more yellow symphony of tundra it's meant to be. Kynareth is crying. Are you happy now?

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hrnnnggggghhh.... Getting really into the weeds here, literally.

I want to run Seasons + Seasonal Landscapes, right? But I don't want to give up Veydosebrom Regions, but I'm also not satisfied by mashing up the textures between them. I'm leaning towards at least making seasonal variants of tundra and fall forest for spring and summer.

I hope at least someone else is interested in this patch, it will be a lot of work. Plus it puts off running NGIO (FOUR times, one for each season) until I finish up... perfectionism is a curse.

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thinking more and more about this alternate theory I had about the falmer in skyrim having a severe fucked up strain of vampirism and thinking how that makes sense

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Jib-jabbering about animal mods, with links if that kind of thing interests you.

I decided to cut SkyTest down to just adding two animals I don't have a mod for: farm geese and tiny river crabs. I'm using this goose model and sound replacer for it, it's so much better. Just trying out this light version since it only adds the behaviors, not new animals.

I also got separate mods for sheep and pigs. Look, I'm obsessed with its soulful gaze:

Ended up editing my own version of Diversified Chickens with mashups of Better Than Nando's plus RoboBirdie's models for more diversity. They aren't super HQ, but I don't think they really need to be. Look, variety! Including fluffy chickens like the one I had as a kid!

I know it's old, but I'm also keeping Birds of Skyrim with a few RoboBirdie model replacements for pheasants and this excellent one for chicks. Naturally have skyBirds as well, I've never really had issues with it.

Using Dynamic Animal Variants for everything but dogs and chickens, and edited the wolves a bit to be compatible with True Wolves. I even made a patch for Highland Cows More Wooly I'll probably release on my mod blog.

For dogs, I'm using Diverse Dogs with Vigilance Reborn (with edited textures to make him look like a Karthwolf), True Meeko, Snow Dogs, and Unique Barbas Retexture. Aside from the models, I also use Realistic Dog Sounds and Realistic Husky Sounds, as well as Conditional Dog Barking and Smart No More Stupid Dog Comments. For animations: Casual Dog Animations and New Husky Animations.

I'm finally gutting and remodeling the Dogs of Skyrim mod (something that I tried to do before I knew how to mod) and replacing the models so that NPCs can have a variety of dogs too.

(Believe it or not, I am a cat person. So much so that I'm not satisfied with any cat mods 😭)

I've also got a slew of critters brought in from other games (...mostly Morrowind.):

Vvardvarks

Guars, kagrouti, and nix hounds (plus fixes)

Bantam Guar (plus retexture)

Betty Netch

Shalks

Shroom Beetles (plus ENB glow)

Cliff Racers (ambient) (plus optimized textures)

Grahl

Blood Horkers

Udefrykte

Chub Loons*

Echatere (plus fix)

*I dug out an archived, long-deleted version of Chub Loons: I think the new model is too cartoony.

Other fauna:

Baby Mammoths (plus this mod that adds more random colors :) and also a fix for their footsteps)

Sewer Rats (plus optimized meshes and smaller size)

Crows and Ravens (plus optimized mesh)

Flying Crows

Crabs

Snow Hares of Skyrim

Otters (plus non-aggressive patch and sound edits)

Crystal Mudcrabs

Seagulls of Skyrim

Nocturnal Moths

Lepidoptera - More Butterflies and Moths

Frogs (plus optimized mesh, quieter sounds, and this one for glowing Blackreach frogs :) )

Some more vanilla animals edits:

Better Bats

Real Rabbits HD

Better Foxes

Hulking Horkers

Boars Unbound

Bristleback Boars

Bears and Werebears

Steeds of Skyrim (obsessed with the Nordic unicorn 😍)

SpiRally's Beautiful Butterflies Enhanced

MM - Real Elks

Birds and Flocks

Solstheim Mudcrabs Variant

Highland Cows More Wooly

Holy Cows

Dragons:

Higher Poly Vanilla Dragons

Diverse Dragons

Chaos Dragons (plus tweaks)

KS Dragon Overhaul 2

Dragon Animation Replace (plus DAR/OAR integration)

Creatures Preview

Dragon Combat Animations

Kojak's Inquisitive Dragons (Inquisitive ones only)

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i don't even begrudge almalexia her megalomania she has been a ruler from a very very young age i don't think she has once in her life been able to conceptualise herself-- her wants, her needs-- as separate from her duties to her people and the needs of her country. if you sat her down and asked her what she wanted or what she'd like she'd give you an expertly crafted political speech on how the prosperity of morrowind brings her more joy than anything and if you tried to push past that and ask what she, as a person, really wants, she'd stare at you blankly for thirty seconds and then have you hauled off by ordinators

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taking a break from drawing my morrowind character for a breath of fresh air (read: drawing someone else's morrowind character)

@grinningmouths's Dragoon ov Redoran, Azirra!

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Morrowind - A Pair of Silt Striders in the Grazelands

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Been replaying Vicn's VIGILANT mod lately, I had to draw Pelinal

I know he has different armor in-game, I wanted to be a little more faithful to the official depiction

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big improvement i would put in the elder scrolls story wise if we rebuilt it would be an actual dragon cult faction. no you dont have to be able to join it (though i would like that and think it would be cool lol) but i feel it would make sense and add more to the setting. 

currently the dragon cult is made up of just undead. draugar and dragon priests etc. people entombed since the merethic era waiting for their gods to come back. i think it would be better if real people just up and decided “fuck it. i hate everything going on right now. i hate the war, i hate the thalmor, i hate this empire now, and i hate the stormcloaks. let alduin come back. if he wants to rule the world or end it so be it this place sucks” and just decided to start the cult back up. or maybe its villagers in small settlements who give tribute to dragons in exchange for not being turned into charred corpses–the empire and stormcloaks sure as shit cant supply enough soldiers to keep them safe, and all they have to do is hail the dragons and give them some cattle to keep from being the next helgen.

because as it stands right now the dragons arent imposing or scary they just seem like big monsters that show up to destroy shit for no reason. everyone stands around after you killed one going “wow the dragonborn” and then goes on with their day. they dont even run and hide inside during a dragon attack consistently without a mod. dragons are just annoyances. i think it would be better to see the real effects of them. have them be basically a third faction like in the civil war, they start claiming cities after alduin brings them back. have to keep hushed about being dragonborn there. be able to talk to dragons in those settlements who have their own opinions about you being dragonborn and about alduin in there. 

also i think the civil war should have been more important. have patrols along the roads. if you progress far enough they attack you on sight in enemy territory. taxes, screenings, etc. forts should be important strategic points and not just bandit dens. bridges could have been destroyed and rebuilt in the conflict and you can see evidence of it. have different ways you can go about doing it, like you can be a spy, an open fighter, an archer, etc etc. gives a lot of replay value if its not just picking which npcs you wanna install in cities and who you wanna take orders to but instead its own challenges and ways of accomplishing taking a city. each questline should also involve real issues each faction has, like how the empire cant spare more troops so they need to make due with what they have and stormcloaks having limited supplies so they have many soldiers to feed and not enough metal and food to arm and feed them. 

basically everyone suggests redoing skyrim in the way of gutting the dragons and making the thalmor the big bad and stopping the civil war altogether or whatever. i think the bare bones is fine the biggest problem with skyrim is that Nothing Ever Happens. random encounters mean nothing. dragon attacks except for the tower and helgen Mean Nothing. dragons are just big monsters and bandits are just random enemies and you can only talk to like 3 dragons in the entire game and you dont even really get to understand dragon culture and morality. the civil war doesn’t feel like a war and everything is more filmsy than a disney park. giving some remote realism, branching options of things to go to accomplish the same things, and more depth would go along way to help the game not feel dead and shallow. because an RPG should have. role play in it. choices you make. those choices at least SEEMING like they actually matter when you think about it longer than 5 minutes 

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some daggerfall clothes for your consideration

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Exotic Locals in - Chasing Ends

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Luciana Pullo, my fave of the clockwork city dlc in Eso