tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23613765223165580722012-02-14T08:51:17.940-08:00Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.comBlogger6361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-15288179824185112962012-02-12T19:40:00.000-08:002012-02-12T19:40:40.396-08:00

Got a couple hours testing in on a new FNV game this morning. Was initially pleased -- as we were finishing up the "tutorial" with Sunny (which I always play through to get the extra ammo) the girls stopped me, each in turn notifying me that she was thirsty, but had a drink on hand. The code fired. Once. Never happened again. Nor did the hunger state ever appear at all. I know the code is

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-39406468407334619092012-02-10T04:19:00.000-08:002012-02-10T04:49:15.480-08:00

Finished off the HC dialogue this morning. Contained in its own quest for the sake of my sanity, it was easy to check the counter and see how many lines of dialogue were involved in this rather basic endeavor. The answer? 201. For three personalities. I had figured on six for NCCS general; plus seven new personalities; plus four or five extras here and there. Assuming the number of lines

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-35524304621152281052012-02-09T00:35:00.001-08:002012-02-09T00:40:11.966-08:00

Bored enough this morning that I'm working on the preliminary version of NCCS' Hardcore Mode again. Three lines of dialogue per companion (one response for each 'tier' of survival skill); times nineteen possible options, equals a metric fucktonne of dialogue (the metric, or "long" fucktonne, of course being more than the Imperial, or "short" fuckton). I have to say, this right here is what

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-34892288296444577412012-02-08T09:23:00.000-08:002012-02-08T09:23:05.837-08:00

So, got the SuCK last night; alas, had a sinus headache from Hell and wasn't in the mood to play with it. You know, one of those where you've already had your Soccermom-allowed dose of antihistamine for the day and it still hurts and you're down to hoping a convenient terrorist will pop by and shoot you in the head as some kind of political statement? Feeling somewhat less death-seeking this

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-26429065256100029562012-02-03T03:07:00.000-08:002012-02-03T03:09:07.473-08:00

...or will in the near future, anyway. Over the two years and change I've been running this blog, I've linked numerous times to screenshots or occasionally even files hosted on non-English sites; image boards, forums, blogs, and so on. Sadly, these are dropping like whores during an outbreak of the Black Death. One of the better ones that hosted a great many of the original Lovers series mods

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-81899359466806951742012-01-19T13:11:00.000-08:002012-01-19T15:00:21.163-08:00

Well, looks like Megaupload is no more. I suppose those of us who used it for legally uploading files can just go fuck ourselves. For the time being, all the mods I've released here on the blog are apparently un-released, until I find another decent file-sharing service to upload them to. Once I have found such, I will update the relevant posts with corrected links. Edit: and a thought just

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-83476741677977833022012-01-07T10:46:00.000-08:002012-01-07T10:48:08.274-08:00

For many years I've been a considerable fan of the Hitman series of stealth assassination games. While the series has been saddled with poor controls that effectively make it impossible to play it like an FPS; the games are nonetheless glorious -- perfect "hits" often end up as orchestras of planning, timing, and a little luck. It's been some years since the last title (Blood Money) was

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-48141263720730129762011-12-29T16:49:00.000-08:002011-12-29T16:50:58.332-08:00

May be a bit early to really announce that as imminent, but it's the next version, so yeah... Anyhow, doing some scripting this afternoon; as the petulant whining accusing me of having that house mod pulled has already lost its amusement. I keep forgetting how horrifically boring scripting is. Still, I had a couple good ideas today that I felt bore inclusion into the test package. 1) I came

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-36181454300748293742011-12-28T15:10:00.000-08:002011-12-28T15:10:21.914-08:00

So... long(er) time readers of my "petty ranting" here may recall near a year ago when the author of some shitty house mod in New Vegas (sorry, can't remember the exact title) seriously maligned NCCS, claiming all the dialogue problems with his mod were my fault. This was before my new policy of repressing my anti-social tendencies, and I did not react well. Aside from some whiny comments here

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-15187188526222235382011-12-21T21:21:00.000-08:002011-12-21T21:24:01.564-08:00

As I mentioned in the previous post, my interest in Skyrim is waning quickly. I still don't think it's a bad game... it's just missing too much without proper mod tools. The other day, I trashed the save-set I'd been playing on since first running the game. It clocked some 85 hours and change. The saves weren't corrupt; none of the game was "broken" (at least, any more so than it's supposed to

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-58953893065676278222011-12-21T01:05:00.000-08:002011-12-21T01:09:21.526-08:00

So, first off I've got to mention a milestone. My current FNV game has exceeded 100 hours now, and is still fully playable. I'm pretty sure that's a first for me in any Gamebryo title. Anyway, with my interest in Skyrim rapidly winding down, I fired up FNV again the other morning. Before Skyrim hit, I had finished the initial draft of the 'hardcore' code for one of my personal companions; but

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-65262316634023824022011-12-16T01:09:00.000-08:002011-12-16T01:09:09.701-08:00

Reading around the internetz this mornin', happened across a new term: "Skyrimmer"; referencing, of course, people who play Skyrim. Now, rather than add this to the 'ol mental lexicon for future attempts to appear edgy and cool, I just sat and giggled. Maybe I've been around the darker side of the 'net too long now, but whenever I say or type the word 'Skyrimmer' I can't help but think it

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-65197343089689094672011-12-12T20:22:00.000-08:002011-12-12T20:22:43.719-08:00

I'm posting this here rather than on my own gaming blog because this is one of Nos' pet peeves (to put it mildly) though it is now becoming one of my own as well. THIS is this person's first post on the Nexus Forums, ever, and it's a request to not only make a companion character for him, but to rip dialog from a movie for the companion's voice. He's wanting Short Round, the boy sidekick from

Herculinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02762210820428273110noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-9580775590222877772011-12-07T00:20:00.000-08:002011-12-07T00:42:10.585-08:00

I haven't really been hitting Skyrim hard lately. Unlike my favorite Neko who's been going retro (edited to remove the link; as Herculine apparently pulled a Nos and deleted the post while I was typing this one up), I haven't really been gaming much at all for reasons I won't bore anyone by going into. Still, I've run this game up to just shy of 67 hours, and am currently level 39, I think it

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-34708465549461546962011-12-01T13:23:00.000-08:002011-12-01T13:25:14.100-08:00

http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2011/12/01/skyrim-what-were-working-on/ "Creation Kit — Beginning in January, PC players will be able to download the same development tools we used at Bethesda Game Studios to create Skyrim." So much for December third. Is anyone surprised at this point? Well, at least it can't get much worse... "We’re excited to share news that we’ve been working closely

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-40923786882876506092011-11-27T02:48:00.000-08:002011-11-27T10:50:00.646-08:00

According to the handy-dandy save counter, I'm up to 46+ hours on the game now, so I thought I'd throw out a few more observations -- as well as stuff I missed in the last run-down (hate it when I get rushed during a post). Being who I am, and playing the game the way I do, I'm primarily interested in companion NPCs -- their capabilities, functions, and the AI in general. And it seems that AI

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-6676899409896732942011-11-26T18:26:00.000-08:002011-11-26T18:26:48.597-08:00

Reading around the Lovers Lab forum tonight... because I'm, well, severely bored. Normally just keep track of Oblivion stuffs, but I happened to pop into the FO3/NV section. Looking over a thread on a mod called "Sexout" which is a general perverse addon for NV; apparently based on some half-finished Japanese mod for FO3. The thread was about "what do you want to see in the mod?" Glancing down

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-63353452321570918382011-11-24T19:38:00.000-08:002011-11-24T19:38:22.221-08:00

And while there seems to be no mention of it around the forums of a particular site network I shall not explicitly name, there's apparently already a Script Extender in the works for Skyrim. Players current and future will probably want to bookmark the future home of the package.

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-53376895029072462612011-11-24T19:21:00.000-08:002011-11-24T19:22:16.321-08:00

Pursuant to my policy of posting crap no one really cares about, I thought I'd share this statement I came across this evening trawling forums: "The Creation Kit is Skyrim's Mod Kit. In an interview with Todd Howard prior to release, it was said that there is a lot to explore and that he can't wait to see what people come up with. He also stated that he had hoped to have it released on opening

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-16236777545433180042011-11-23T13:15:00.000-08:002011-11-23T13:17:43.973-08:00

...Or: packin' up the family, and move to... Skyrim. (kind of kills the melody, doesn't it? I've got to hire new writers...) So... I will now confess that my interest in Tamriel and Vvardenfell being available (after a fashion) in TESV wasn't purely curiosity. I do have the game, yes. And before you ask: yes, I pretty much take Herculine at face value whenever she tells me I can run a game. On

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-28208524166616821322011-11-23T00:20:00.000-08:002011-11-23T00:20:10.676-08:00

Reading around the intarwebz this morning, I came across this link, detailing how a player discovered Vvardenfell and Tamriel past the set borders of the Skyrim world. I'm not sure I agree with his idea that the extra lands are there for modders. Bethsoft has really half-assed their mod support lately; despite, as he correctly notes, their heavy reliance on the mod community to sell their

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-36653145205379483422011-11-17T08:19:00.000-08:002011-11-17T08:19:06.159-08:00

Okay, so it's serious question time, Kiddies. I'm in the process of writing in the prototype hunger/thirst code for companions. What I want to know is what everyone thinks. I know I don't have enough of a readership to build much of a consensus; but I'm also not taking this question onto the Nexii forums. So, here's what I want to know: How "hardcore" should it be? Same numbers/rate of

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-7350803885169084822011-11-17T07:10:00.000-08:002011-11-17T07:10:38.603-08:00

So, I've made it no secret that one of my eventual goals with NCCS is a "hardcore" mode -- that is, where the companions need food and drink as well. With some of the recent prototype code I've gotten running on my personal companions, I'm pretty close to making that a reality. One of the things that I'm still plotting on is how to determine when they need food and drink. I could run it as a

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-71160202944785440182011-11-14T11:31:00.000-08:002011-11-14T11:31:54.548-08:00

With NCCS out of the way for the immediate future, I've been doing all sorts of stuff with the game lately. As I mentioned the other day, I added about seventy lines of code to one of my personal companions' scripts, so that she'll harass me when bored. The odds of the conversations coming up were kept fairly low so I didn't have to worry about it annoying me by happening every cell change.

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-77587397484060885242011-11-14T10:08:00.000-08:002011-11-14T11:00:16.217-08:00

So, I played through Old World Blues yesterday; and the main thing I wished I had done differently was get the NosCo NV Weapons Collection up and running before heading into the DLC. Why? Everything short of the brush gun was like spitballs on those damned robo-scorpions; and the brush gun didn't have the rate of fire to keep up with attacking heavily armored bots five and ten at a time. I'd

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-84046225339861959302011-11-13T00:06:00.000-08:002011-11-13T00:06:08.418-08:00

It is amazing the amount of trouble you have to go to to get certain simple things done in these games, sometimes. So, I wanted one of my companions to talk to me at random. Not that "play a sound while following" that Clover did to bitch incessantly in FO3; but rather I wanted the companion to come up to me at random, and start a semi-randomly chosen conversation -- essentially mimicking the

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-48122750774146428522011-11-10T22:19:00.000-08:002011-11-10T22:19:35.444-08:00

NCCS v0.8 has been uploaded. Although next to no one still reads this blog, so you're probably more likely to find out from the Nexus updated file listing than here. *V0.8: Note: The companions' backpacks have been removed in this version! Please remove all items from the backpacks before upgrading to v0.8. Replacing the backpacks is a set of communal containers: one each for armor, general,

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-69049650135631584812011-11-10T19:55:00.000-08:002011-11-10T20:05:20.883-08:00

So, the yearly Day of No Nos Modding starts in a bit over four hours. I'm throwing the final touches onto NCCS v0.8 to go ahead and get it uploaded (since the whole "release an early alpha and get testing data" thing seems to have been a massive bust) before I go dark. No new code, I'm just throwing in some new dialogue. Greetings at the moment. Specialist "packaged" companions will get special

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-79272457966403088262011-11-04T17:09:00.000-07:002011-11-04T17:09:27.744-07:00

As Druuler successfully guessed, I did in fact kill the post "1975 things Mr. Welch can no longer do during an RPG", around an hour after it was originally posted this morning. It's actually only one in a series (this one was fifth or sixth) of banter-y, snarky posts of me and the girls being stupid. None have survived more than an hour live; most get killed before publish is ever hit. I

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-32554376389206677262011-10-28T07:16:00.000-07:002011-10-28T08:10:28.092-07:00

NCCS has taken a major step forward this morning; further eclipsing its would-be "competition". Firstly, the Nellis artillery issue has been fixed -- and without touching a single base game reference or script. How I did it would be boring technical minutiae, so I'll spare you all; except to say that in-party companions now exist in a perpetual state of being considered the player's teammate --

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-91810206663721275632011-10-27T22:49:00.000-07:002011-10-27T22:50:33.528-07:00

So... I'm cruising that Japanese mod database/imagestore for FONV that I mention from time to time -- because hey, you never know when you'll run across some neat armor or a body mod that will never see the Nexus -- and running new screenshots, and I hit this one. Now, most people would probably be looking at the redhead with the weird forehead tattoo... but eh; my redheads are way hotter; and

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-68559639064205162572011-10-26T16:29:00.000-07:002011-10-26T18:53:11.843-07:00

Get the bright idea this afternoon (since the cleaning is done, I have a bit of time to mod for the first time this week) to run NCCS through FNVEdit and see if it maybe detects some error the GECK doesn't mention that would explain why an apparently completely valid script is refusing to run. The result? ...Well, it's nice to see FNVEdit isn't jeopardizing its standing record of being nigh

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-33192008649501699612011-10-21T02:26:00.000-07:002011-10-21T02:26:48.313-07:00

I know it's two in the morning local, and I'm just tired and frustrated... but I can't help but seriously consider shit-cannning the entire NCCS project again. Ran the game again finally. One companion still locked up. Ran the game several more times. Same companion locks up every time; right after combat ends the first time. She'll still follow, still respond to threats; but once combat ends

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-20636381055793218602011-10-20T07:02:00.000-07:002011-10-20T07:02:38.046-07:00

I decided to try to fix the issue with the NCCS companions getting shelled at Nellis even when the player has done made friendly like. Nailed it on the first try, and without touching a single base game object or script. Damn, I'm good sometimes. However, the game continues to perplex me in ways no other game ever has. It's just so... badly made. After the test at Nellis, we were walking back

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-7051382427239433492011-10-20T05:54:00.000-07:002011-10-20T06:03:43.586-07:00

It's one of those mornings. 0414 as I type this, and I can't sleep. This week has sucked... and not in the definition I'm a fan of. So, as I sit here listening to Five Finger Death Punch's new album (which fucking rocks, by the way -- Under and Over It All is easily one of the best songs I've heard in years) I'm feeling a bit introspective; which granted I usually am when I'm in what my owner

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-42731633738602506682011-10-17T21:04:00.000-07:002011-10-17T21:04:52.639-07:00

So, a player noted in the Nexus comments that Nellis' arty continues to target NCCS companions even after the player makes nice. I had noted the issue myself when playing through that section of the Mojave this game, but had forgotten about it whilst pursuing other improvements (sorters, improved combat styles, et cetera). When it was reported, I remembered; and decided to take a closer look

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-39726227096311918582011-10-16T02:19:00.001-07:002011-10-16T02:19:57.999-07:00

Sooo... I've been holding off on releasing v0.8 because of the aforementioned issue with a script that refused to run. Fixed that this morning, finally.

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-70688781453302344102011-10-12T16:09:00.000-07:002011-10-12T16:09:09.617-07:00

I'm sure someone has wondered, with all the new stuff I've been adding, just how much bigger is v0.8 of NCCS? Well, I had to restore a backup of v0.7 today to open it in the GECK and disprove a claim that my scripting was faulty, so I took the opportunity to screenshot the overwrite: About double the size. That, for those of you who have never done it, is a lot of scripting.

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-58672407877875022002011-10-10T14:57:00.000-07:002011-10-10T14:57:10.834-07:00

Played a bit more this morning (once I had dealt with the latest bits of sky falling on the Nexus) and learned a bit more about the "locking" quest scripts. Clean saved NCCS from my game and re-enabled it, and the main quest was dead on activation. Never functioned at all this time. This tells me that the problem is something fundamental in the game itself -- whatever it is, the game has decided

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-38931256392536989712011-10-07T21:32:00.000-07:002011-10-08T01:13:21.848-07:00

So, few more updates that popped into my head today. Firstly, I've reworked the combat radii on some of the NCCS combat styles. The thought occurred to me after commenting back and forth with Darksong that I had switched the radii in my personal companions plugin to get rid of an issue similar to one he described; but had forgotten to switch all of the NCCS styles to match. It's a new issue

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-64767479553284582002011-10-02T23:31:00.000-07:002011-10-02T23:34:25.380-07:00

"Does NCCS only allow you to make human companions?" Hm. NCCS does not restrict you in any way -- you're still free to create whatever your modding skills and the GECK will allow while NCCS is active. ...No, that'll get me in trouble, no matter how funny it is... *deletedeletedelete* Yes, in v0.7 the only included framework is the one for NPC-type (human and non-feral ghoul) companions.

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-34271732872408828852011-09-29T12:07:00.000-07:002011-09-29T12:07:19.019-07:00

Otherwise titled: delays. For those who don't follow the sometimes meandering comments in other posts, an issue has developed with the sorters. An unresolvable one, as far as I can tell. I set up some diagnostics and resetter functions. The quest runs, the dialogue command to the quest script works... and then nothing. The script hangs before any actual sorting takes place. The problem is

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-520687773426387302011-09-26T14:12:00.000-07:002011-09-26T14:12:18.292-07:00

So, Herculine's probably going to be annoyed with me; 'cause she's going to be getting another alpha to test later today/tonight. I hadn't intended to, but I nonetheless ended up working some more on v0.8 this afternoon. I finally got around to adding working details to the repairer class and faction -- that some people have noticed, but reported not changing anything as a bug (protip: that's

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-35895255586860357582011-09-26T09:17:00.000-07:002011-09-26T09:49:11.519-07:00

...Or, "Why I hate this fucking game." So, last night just before packaging up the NCCS 0.8 Alpha for digital-pony-expressing to my partner, I had another idea. Well, two actually. One was when I saw a script in the base game that alludes to the fact that you don't need NVSE to keep weapon health when adding/removing weapons in NV, which will come in mighty handy for the weapons collection,

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-75600997800127608642011-09-25T09:57:00.000-07:002011-09-25T12:28:16.923-07:00

I've said it before, I'll say it again: there are entirely too many items in FNV. Got the last of the updates made to the v0.8 alpha this morning -- I did all the scripting the other day, but hadn't copied the new companion scripts to entries #2 - #20. Got it fired up, my game didn't implode, and Carrie still drew/holstered/followed. Exited out to make a few revisions to the sorting scripts,

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-56730534573592713892011-09-23T08:22:00.000-07:002011-09-23T08:22:50.964-07:00

The trouble with lurking imageboards and such is that sometimes, you come across something wrong. Very, very wrong. Oh, man, where'd I leave that bottle of brain bleach...

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-71449239910871661802011-09-23T06:49:00.000-07:002011-09-23T06:49:42.859-07:00

Have I mentioned lately how much I truly, truly hate working on mods for public sharing? Putting together the sorting scripts this morning, and I forgot one crucial detail. That being in the companion reloading sorting script -- my personal plugin has three companion slots in its management system; NCCS has ten. The extra seven blocks of code put the script over the character limit. So, I had

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-6929181696547533282011-09-21T19:22:00.000-07:002011-09-21T19:22:16.110-07:00

Happened to pop into the NVNexus a few minutes ago, and before hitting the listing to check for new NCCS comments, I spied an interesting file in the new uploads listing -- a hair pack converted from the Sims. Seventeen hairs, look fairly high quality. I haven't loaded them into the game yet, so am just going by the uploaded screenshot. The hairs should also work fine for FO3; though of course

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-69937568614757353292011-09-21T18:08:00.000-07:002011-09-21T22:48:00.483-07:00

Got a comment on NCCS today complaining about how the backpacks auto-empty into the player's inventory when you leave the relevant companion behind. Silly me, not wanting peoples' items to become unrecoverable and whatnot. Anyway, I was just asking Herculine via PM how evil of me it would be to drop in a comment nonchalantly mentioning that I had forgotten all about the NCCS backpacks, because

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-22707519502107144292011-09-20T09:14:00.000-07:002011-09-20T09:50:14.255-07:00

Haven't been posting lately. This isn't because I haven't been modding. Have been working on mods in FONV; as well as investigating ways to copy faces from the Fallouts to Oblivion. However, I saw awhile back which way the wind blows. Several companion-stuff posts have drawn zero comments over the last couple months, but that post on Ling's pulled five in less than twelve hours. I just assumed

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-1589238067722410782011-09-12T07:06:00.000-07:002011-09-12T07:06:53.946-07:00

Got an interesting PM from Herculine this morning. I've pretty much completely stopped paying attention to the FO3 nexus; let alone the forums, so I wasn't aware of this, but apparently EARACHE42's "Ling's" series of mods have finally been unlocked by the mod-gods... Sorry, allow me to correct myself: Ling's Finer Things is available again. Ling's Pretty Things is still blocked. Anyway, I

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-28830109068191039122011-09-08T18:43:00.000-07:002011-09-08T18:44:17.955-07:00

I have to say first off that FNV 1.4 is beginning to annoy the holy living shit out of me. Since I upgraded, a substantial number of spawn points don't fire when I run across them in the game world; but do fire after I load a save and enter their range again. This has almost killed me twice now. Once in Gypsum Train Yard: we didn't see nearly enough deathclaws on the way in (no adults), and I

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-83136445849015769232011-09-07T20:02:00.000-07:002011-09-07T20:07:41.300-07:00

So, I won't say I've been playing the hell out of NV lately, but it is still getting a workout. Since updating to new video drivers that aren't older than the game itself, stability has improved -- but not by a fuck-ton. Still get regular crashes; it still hangs on loading a game about 20% - 30% of the time, and the game's memory leak is still capable of causing the PC to BSOD when combined with

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-19020086783661329792011-09-04T11:59:00.000-07:002011-09-04T11:59:23.593-07:00

Thought I'd pass this along for those who may not know it (I didn't): I was reading around someplace the other day, and found out that companions and other NPCs can in fact use ammunition types other than normal in FNV. I'd tried this in the past, and never had it work. The trick, it turns out, is to not put any normal ammunition in their inventory. Even if the handloaded/specialty ammo does

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-89894680449933305372011-09-03T19:31:00.000-07:002011-09-03T19:39:43.256-07:00

Since they seemed so popular before, I thought I'd share some more of the comments I've set the girls up to make with the new sorters. But first, I want to brag a little. Natasha set a new record the other day, for longest companion kill. You can see the ghoul just above my rear sight. Right there in front of me like in the screenshot is where she tagged him from with her marksman's carbine.

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-44488459725255747502011-09-01T23:00:00.000-07:002011-09-01T23:01:29.615-07:00

Updating my companions' code a bit more tonight. I decided to add a new check, that would have them periodically sort their casings and spent power cells into the reloading container automatically. Ideally, it should be a stable addition, as it's based on the number of times they've loaded into the game world, and not on any sort of timer. My companion scripts -- that is, the ones that drive my

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-34350687085030973782011-08-31T21:32:00.000-07:002011-08-31T21:45:38.633-07:00

Internal alpha on the sorters continues; and is nearing completion. I've gotten just about all the holes filled for item sorting, and the new method of using quest scripts entirely (rather than dialogue result scripts) has yet to fail in tests. I wanted the companion reloading sorter to let me know when it ran; but since you can't see item add/remove notifications on containers other than the

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-11773698255401018672011-08-29T17:55:00.000-07:002011-08-29T18:02:02.521-07:00

When I loaded the save today to test the new drivers and sorters, we were in Violet's trailer park west of the South Vegas ruins. It had been odd going in; normally there are several guard dogs roaming about, but for some reason this time there were none -- only Violet and Violetta. I originally marked this off as a side effect of my level (remember, this game I proved that you can subvert the

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-87988452125585189452011-08-29T14:48:00.000-07:002011-08-29T14:52:21.793-07:00

Logged ninety odd minutes on FNV today; tested the sorting scripts and got in some general play. Updated drivers seem to have helped. When I started the PC up this morning, my desktop was still like it was supposed to be. Inside FNV, "stutter" is reduced considerably, though FPS on the whole haven't improved much. Visually indistinguishable from the old drivers, as far as teh prettehs go. I

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-61278415860465390352011-08-29T01:32:00.000-07:002011-08-29T03:02:50.216-07:00

Updated my video drivers, and FNV didn't implode. Performance seems somewhat improved; but I haven't logged enough time to comment on crashes. So, being unable to sleep, I decided to work a bit on the sorter scripting. Got the reloading sorter repaired, made a couple additions to the general sorter; and finally started on the survival sorter. Therein lies our problem this morning. This time,

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-16255804371126039422011-08-27T04:33:00.000-07:002011-08-27T04:54:08.120-07:00

I had a nice post typed out, detailing how I had used NVSE to improve my companion script; and make the case-spawner work with mod-added weapons. It parsed fine, so I figured what was there to worry about? At the last second, I opted to save as a draft, and go actually test the scripts; rather than post only to have to issue a retraction. This turned out to be a good idea. I have no idea if the

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-75811911382694400522011-08-25T23:27:00.000-07:002011-08-25T23:48:55.496-07:00

Do you know what the quest script length limit is in FNV? I now do. I slammed head first into it writing the sorters. 778 lines. Used to be well over a thousand. Stupid subpar programmers can't touch anything without fucking it up beyond all hope of repair... Now I've got to create two more quests; and run each sorter on a separate script.

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-50781223646657832882011-08-24T03:27:00.000-07:002011-08-24T14:07:32.468-07:00

I mentioned about a week and a half back the rather dismal results my first attempt at item sorters for FNV turned in. The trouble was, I was trying to run them via dialogue result scripts directly; and apparently the new and improved limit on those is shorter than it was in FO3, despite the GECK not kicking it back as being officially over-length. I had an inkling of how to fix it, but

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-48725210714795138402011-08-24T01:22:00.000-07:002011-08-24T01:22:31.534-07:00

Semi-related to the whole modding bit, semi not... Am working on the NosCo SBH texture some more this morning. Decided I wanted to find a particular type of picture to potentially edit and graft into the texture. I run a Google image search, as I'm doing more often these days. ...One of the results is an image from my other blog... Do you have any idea how surreal that is? "Hey, I recognize

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-90242162198430971372011-08-23T13:19:00.000-07:002011-08-23T13:25:48.436-07:00

No, Sir, I don't like it. Look, I can understand that the previous design was fundamentally flawed (despite being used anyway for four years) but really? I have to tell NoScript to let Jquery do whatever it wants to my browser now? Also: too many graphical buttons. I miss text labels. Yes, they're not what the cool kids use; but they load fast and are less prone to breaking when your servers

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-29107417761036711942011-08-21T12:24:00.000-07:002011-08-21T12:24:09.620-07:00

(From NCCS Comments) "can some one show me how install this in a video" Must not... respond... with profanity... Hey Neko: you got the idea for that foot fetish blog ready yet? 'Cause this modding shit seriously isn't working out...

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-28253169289322366982011-08-20T13:00:00.000-07:002011-08-20T13:03:17.207-07:00

So, I was cruising the Nexus this morning, picking up a copy of CaliberX -- because the NosCo Super Blackhawk is looking outstanding, and it has given me ideas for introducing some seriously evil weapons into the game (but more on that later) -- when I remembered complaining the other day about how bad navigating via my Shiloh DS-edited map was. I have a very nice FO3 map; produced by a Russian

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-63646793763757334222011-08-20T12:16:00.000-07:002011-08-20T12:21:48.220-07:00

Awhile back on my other blog, I posted a news story regarding some horrific plants that were becoming an epidemic in parts of New York state. As it often does, the conversation in the comments quickly switched topics, and ended up being about horrific insects and animals. The Tarantula Hawk Wasp was mentioned; being as it is not only horrific, and nightmare inspiring, but is the real creature

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-8321079817030028712011-08-19T17:33:00.000-07:002011-08-19T17:34:40.095-07:00

So, a player commented on NCCS today, citing an issue with companion scripts not running correctly. Now, I'm not going to call him stupid, or start ranting; or anything like that. This is a legitimate issue, and one that I've run into myself from time to time. The fix is usually simple: force the companion to re-load into the game world. The easiest way to do this is to just change cells. Go

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-25222373857999564182011-08-16T22:10:00.000-07:002011-08-16T22:11:14.997-07:00

Recently, my favorite Neko declared that I should unwind and lose my "modding blues" by playing a game I don't mod. Just play for fun. Well... this is me we're talking about. If I don't mod the game? I'm not still playing it. I've written mods for C&C: Generals, Galactic Civilizations 2, Neverwinter Nights, DAO, The Witcher, even STALKER (yes, I threw one together for the one half-assed

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-12905163091801532012011-08-14T09:52:00.000-07:002011-08-14T09:52:17.767-07:00

So, if you care what the Nexus admins think is newsworthy, you may already know this; but Bethsoft got hacked. Again. This last time was on Friday. I wouldn't normally mention it, but I got an email from them (Bethsoft) this morning, warning me about it so I thought I'd pass it on in case their forum software misses any of you. If you have an account with them, your password has been forcibly

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-74649188620083807702011-08-13T11:37:00.000-07:002011-08-13T11:47:30.415-07:00

Revised my scripts, still no dice. The companion-sorting script that pulls casings direct from the companions into the reloading container does not run. At all. The player-sorting script for components now runs until it hits something to transfer, and then stops. It will move one stack of items per run. Obviously, dialogue resultscripts are even less reliable than object scripts in this

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-80790832127687092672011-08-12T09:50:00.000-07:002011-08-12T10:03:33.143-07:00

It's only 0930, and I can already tell you today's going to be a clusterfuck. None of the new sorting scripts work. Oh, they parse fine. The references check out. The game just isn't running them for reasons known only to the Old Ones from beyond the stars. The reloading sorter removes everything from my inventory except shotgun hulls. The weapon repair kit component retrieval script doesn't

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-72184359218534215352011-08-11T20:45:00.000-07:002011-08-11T20:45:37.918-07:00

When Google image searching samples of wood patterns to rework a weapon texture, searching for "ebony" does not return images of Diospyros ebenum or Diospyros crassiflora. ...Nothing but magazine covers and porn... Welp. Rosewood stocks for the NosCo SBH it is...

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-64203490451876695592011-08-10T22:29:00.000-07:002011-08-10T22:46:08.892-07:00

I mentioned before finding a way to get to New Vegas that subverted the devs' railroading attempts to force you to go down through Primm, past Nipton, and up through Novac (taking up more than half the blasted wasteland). On this new game, I decided to test the theory. Played through the tutorial, cleaned out a small bit of the area surrounding Goodsprings, and helped Ringo take care of the

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-76141368237764561962011-08-10T13:24:00.000-07:002011-08-10T13:24:00.063-07:00

Why did one of my innate talents have to be intuitive scripting? Why couldn't it have been talking hot chicks out of their panties or something? Had a few new companion ideas while playing FNV this morning. The item sorters I mentioned before, of course; but also others that work the opposite direction. Allowing me to, for example, retrieve just the components to craft weapon repair kits; or

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-33966305184465934022011-08-08T18:38:00.000-07:002011-08-08T18:43:56.710-07:00

Since I've been playing FNV again (as some of you have no doubt expected) I've also been tinkering with my companions; trying to fix holes in their functionality, and generally make the game suck less. It's also fun to fuck over the devs' careful railroading and micromanaging, but that's a rant for another day. Of the most recent batch, I fixed two flaws, and missed a third. Though I never

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-73543947381719331402011-08-08T09:36:00.000-07:002011-08-08T09:36:32.094-07:00

With the way I've been playing FNV (IE: way too much) lately, I've been able to notice and track the myriad errors that have come up; and I'm seeing some patterns. Patterns that remind me almost of Shivering Isles. Those of you who weren't Oblivion players in its heyday may not know this, but the original release of SI was unplayable long-term. Literally. It irrevocably corrupted its own

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-43605045051933925282011-08-04T20:27:00.000-07:002011-08-04T20:38:06.968-07:00

So, as mentioned before, I'm playing FNV again since the new patch. I'm fifteen hours and change in, and while the experience is improved; it is not perfect by any stretch. The memory leak is less prevalent, but absolutely still there. Crashes still occasionally happen on NPCs equipping new clothing/items (a pair of sunglasses, in this case). No quest-related issues thus far, at least. The

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-58401725352509242582011-08-04T18:08:00.000-07:002011-08-04T18:14:33.458-07:00

...New Tribes game? Fuck! Now I've got to buy a new computer... Ah, Stormhammer; how I have missed thee. Kids today with their wannabe SOCOM games. No one appreciates a proper FPS experience anymore. Hard to be sure from the promo of course, but it looks good. I see lots of "real" Tribes (1 and 2) and less of that "UT with jetpacks" bullshit from Vengeance. They kept skiing; kept

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-61403851613696011412011-08-02T07:04:00.000-07:002011-08-02T07:12:57.563-07:00

Working on my personal companions a bit this morning, adding a couple new features that may make it into NCCS provided they actually work, but more on that when they're tested. I said the other day that I thought there had been an engine update in FNV 1.4 to handle the way quest scripts are started -- preventing them from doing so during chargen. This, it turns out, is not true. I was digging

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-11622062713830881412011-08-01T11:48:00.000-07:002011-08-01T11:48:02.304-07:00

So, not going to go into full-blown rant mode, but I've got to ask: Is it bad that every time I open my Gmail box, and see the subject line "[name I don't recognize] has started a new personal conversation with you" from the Nexus forums my stomach twists and I wonder what it is this time? I mean, with the number of people who wanted personal mods from me that I've snubbed this year alone, I

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-60259217697627152452011-08-01T09:57:00.000-07:002011-08-01T09:57:57.094-07:00

Since playing FNV again, I've ended up thinking again about the need for a proper complex for housing myself and my companions. To that end, I loaded up the NVGECK again this morning; in order to see if the new versions of engine and construction set would allow me to load the 'Lucky38 World' to copy and replicate the rooms with views. It crashed, again. To be fair, I was expecting this, and so

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-28434602597687780272011-07-30T12:40:00.000-07:002011-07-30T12:40:07.324-07:00

So, as noted in the last post, I finally got around to actually playing the game this morning. I don't think I played 1.3 but for an hour or so to test some NCCS functions; so this was my first real play in quite awhile. Ended up deleting all but one of my existing savegames. I dropped back to my "clean" save, just before using the Vit-a-matic or whatever they called it in Doc Mitchell's place.

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-32038308638003841522011-07-30T06:36:00.000-07:002011-07-30T06:37:53.272-07:00

Finally firing up FNV this morning (yes, I'm that bored), and updating some plugins to reflect the two or three game versions it's been since I played. Remembered at the last second that my NVSE is probably not gonna run, either; so I went to grab a new version. Latest version? Beta 2 version 9. My Installed version? Beta 1 version 10. Yeah, I might be a little behind the curve, these days...

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-61817076231788104542011-07-24T01:18:00.000-07:002011-07-24T01:25:59.487-07:00

Hello unwashed, ignorant masses of the internet! Beautiful way to open. Would you like to throw in something about fucking all their mothers, too; just to go ahead and insult the six people not already pissed? Shut up; you're fucking up my introduction! Anyway... Mystery-chan here... ...Mystery-chan? God, he's let you watch anime again, hasn't he...? Yes, he has. Now shut up and let

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-32976050751462783762011-07-17T05:50:00.000-07:002011-07-17T05:50:46.971-07:00

I'll try to make this as brief as possible. It's extremely annoying when I have to fix other people's mods before I can play them. Lately I've been focusing my attention on Morrowind, getting my install with around 200 mods running properly so I can actually enjoy playing it from time to time. This has involved my having to fix a few mods created by other people just to get them to work

Herculinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02762210820428273110noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-44039095119853803202011-07-13T01:46:00.000-07:002011-07-13T01:46:31.929-07:00

Finally got my FNV and NVGECK updated. Now, I get to spend several mind numbingly boring hours testing every facet of NCCS I can think of; only to find out in a week and a half that I completely missed some minor detail and it no longer works -- or the new engine version has introduced a bug when combined with (insert name of badly written, half-assedly tested mod here). All just so Bethsoft

Noshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09719416547848891298noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361376522316558072.post-22326312927871384562011-07-06T16:48:00.000-07:002011-07-06T17:12:38.276-07:00

I know, I said I wasn't going to bitch about stupid people anymore. It accomplishes little, and just starts drama... but goddamn it, guys... I'm not sure which group is worse: the players who can't read or navigate a web site; or the Bethsoft employee who's too lazy to add NV links to the GECK wiki. Today marks almost a dozen players reporting some form of "problem" with NCCS that ended up

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Occasionally, mods can randomly converge with unexpected results. I discovered just such a convergence while playing Morrowind with Puma Man's Wilderness Mod and Children of Morrowind... Apparently in the town of Caldera, the children are kept in the same pen with the farm animals!

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Bored this evening, awaiting the new seasons of Futurama and Ugly Americans to start; happened to browse across some chan boards. You see a lot of video game posts in such places. Especially hypotheticals. "The protagonist from the last video game you played is now the MC of the last anime you watched, what changes?" et cetera. Tonight's pointless post with four hundred replies? "The

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WHY WONT DIS NCCS THNG WERK I DONT NED 2 HAF TEH NEWST PATCH R GCK R NETHNG DO I LOLWTFBBQLMNOP SUM1HELPMEH!!113FORTYSEVENSIXTEENTWELVEEXTRAECLAMATIONPOINTSSOYOUKNOWIMSUPERSERIOUS! How many does this make, just this week, now? Four? And it's Thursday? I'm apparently going to have to add a rather large notice to the file entry. Even auto-update in Steam obviously cannot defeat the

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So... I know probably not most, but at least a few people have lamented the fact that Oblivion seems to get all the good adult mods. FO3/NV have been largely left out in the cold; with only a couple attempts -- neither of which actually worked worth a shit. I was cruising that screenshot database this morning since I hadn't for a few days now, and ran across this shot (and fair warning, it's

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While I'm posting stuff that no one really cares about this morning anyway, I'll also note that some people have entirely too much free time on their hands. I recognize Cloud, Link, and Saber (and oh, how it pains me to admit I didn't even have to think about their identities...) but that fourth one... I know it's a Japanese superhero TV show; I've seen images from it, but never caught the name.

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In the comments section of the last post, Kirtai posted a link to a Cracked article on trends in gaming. It being Cracked, I was expecting something rather facetious; absurd, perhaps. This was spot-on, though, and echoes several things I've noticed myself. I'm not thrilled at where gaming is going. Brushing aside for this discussion things like DRM and sales models where you never get an

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Most folks probably don't remember the game. It was notable mostly for having Bruce Campbell voicing the main character. No, I didn't just finish it -- I'm not that far behind the curve. Bought the game new (wow. eleven years ago according to the copyright date on the disc case), and went Galspan on the first playthrough. Once that was finished, I attempted to play through the Bora side; but the

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See, this is why I don't announce any of my new mods until they're nearing completion, anymore. I'm apparently operating at the bleeding edge of what the engine is capable of without using one of the script extenders already; and nine times out of ten when I try to take my personal companions a bit farther, it fails. Not just fails, either, but crashes-and-fucking-burns fails. Myself and

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So... I wrote a new mod last night; but I haven't uploaded it anywhere because I'm not sure of the appeal. As I have mentioned in non-specifics before, in my recent Oblivion games I've been toying heavily with a mod set called Lovers; a rather expansive and modular group of files that adds many... more adult aspects to the game. One of these that the scripting behind has so captured my

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After the last post and some of the comments that came along to it, you might have a preconceived notion about this post, from the title. Well, it isn't one of those; so those of you not blessed with an affinity for toilet humor can breathe easy. (HA! Get it? Toilet? Breathe easy? OH, THE WIT!) I was on the Nexus earlier this hellish summer's eve (must not make feminine hygiene joke...)

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Okay, I think Oblivion mods have finally gone too far. Do we really need this much realism in our games?!

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