thekatbirdscrolls

[thekatbirdscrolls]

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

[thekatbirdscrolls]

Mod Release: Children of the Green

Wanting a new, lore-friendly look for Skyrim's Bosmer? Children of the Green, the first in a series of three mods covering all Elf NPCs, is now out! It's a lore-friendly, high poly re-imagining of every Wood Elf character. You will see a variety of antlers, sharp teeth, and star-pupil-ed eyes, as well as actual age variance.

Get it for Skyrim SE here. Also requires this resource mod.

[thekatbirdscrolls]

We would also like to pay our respects to Noah Nelson, the voice actor for male orcs in Skyrim who also provided voicing for male orcs in Oblivion Remastered. We didn't realize it at the time, but he passed away during the development of OBR, the game is dedicated to him.

[thekatbirdscrolls]

Morrowind

[thekatbirdscrolls]

The latest release of OpenTESArena is here. This open source reimplementation of the first Elder Scrolls game is making extremely rapid progress, with the latest highlight video being really spectacular.

[thekatbirdscrolls]

More TES conceptual drawings, here are their descriptions, in order from top to bottom and left to right: "Dunmer bandit brandishing a massive chitin blade.

Despite knowing little of swordplay, and barely being able to swing the massive sword, the size is often enough to scare the coin out of travelers without further confrontation."

"A few Colovian Imperial petitioners of noble blood. Their outfits are grand and intricate as a show of status."

"Veteran Orc showing the gifts Malacath has bequeathed him for his service.

The purple daedric armor is only given to those who most faithfully serve the prince. Its materials are unknown, but its theorized they come from the Madgod's Shivering Isles."

"Caius Avenicci, an Imperial reformist, showcasing that daedric artifacts are safe to handle with proper knowledge.

In the lecture, Caius goes as far as drawing blood from his finger on the blade. A more material view of the daedric world could greatly benefit Cyrodiil, he says."

(The original concept for the Orc's armor was done by Garrot)

[thekatbirdscrolls]

Questing in the Urshilaku Burial Caverns: skeleton hunting, mummy identification, and many, many levitation spells

This area in the game is one of the many gems you are rewarded with for all the adventuring you do. You get so much environmental storytelling in here from the attention to detail in how the level is laid out. It's one of those moments where you understand why Morrowind is still beloved.

[thekatbirdscrolls]

Rip Belethor you would love crypto

[thekatbirdscrolls]

We will get this masterpiece rendered in UE5.

[thekatbirdscrolls]

Hero of Kvatch: My husband turned into a dragon.

Baurus: That’s rough buddy

[thekatbirdscrolls]

Falmer mother and child

[thekatbirdscrolls]

[thekatbirdscrolls]

Vivec City

[thekatbirdscrolls]

The Last Dragonborn wasn't originally born as such, but became one by the blessing of Akatosh during the Incident at the Watchtower. With Akatosh's blessing, their bloodline was changed retroactively to have always been Dragonborn.

It works by the same principle as Talos's blood becoming Divine when it was shed before his apotheosis. By the same principle as the Nerevarine only becoming Nerevarine by passing the trials to prove they were. By the same principle as Cyrus the Restless being able to slay Nahfahlaar because he was the HoonDing, before wielding the Blade of A'tor and thus becoming them (both to his denial and displeasure)

By choosing to take up the mantle, it becomes predestined they always would. Prophecy is just weird like that.

[thekatbirdscrolls]

18:09 / 23 Autumn: Outside Windhelm

[thekatbirdscrolls]

[thekatbirdscrolls]

getting the yearly itch to mod and play skyrim again... ugggGGHH