The Amorous Adventures of Thradra N'Tir

In honour of this incantation by Omnybus and their tumblr.

Rootin’, tootin’, toil n’ shootin’

Fire burn and cowboy bootin’

Eye of newt and spicy beans,

Toe of frog and denim jeans,

Whiskey, grits, n’ demon spittle

tossed into my iron griddle

With the tannin’ of our hides,

So I got Skyrim running on my Mac (Mac Catalina) through Porting Kit. I even got it modded, with the exception of animations. Seems FNIS will not run using Porting Kit. However, I have been steered toward a new animation loader called Nemesis Unlimited Behavior Engine. There’s even an FNIS esp that it can create. Gonna see how this works, will have more on this later.

The only other problem I’m having is this weird texture bug that’s visible in the images above. So far it isn’t real bad, but it’s noticeably annoying. Will see what I can find about that.

Brelyna: Actually, you can't-

Holy crap, modding in Oblivion is like walking through a mine field.

Ask three different people a good way to mod and you'll come up with three different answers. One thing they all would agree on is "don't use Vortex to install mods and don't use LOOT to sort your load order." After that, none of them agree on anything. One would say use Wyrebash.  Another says specifically use BAIN.  And the third says use OMOD to install mods. At least they would all agree to use BOSS to sort loading.

But the problem is that the one who says use Wyrebash will swear up and down that BAIN and OMOD are useless and don't use them at all. Then again, you get the same thing when installing mods for Skyrim.  Same song and dance, don't use Vortex (which is actually pretty decent for Skyrim), don't use LOOT, don't use this or that, Bodyslide is terrible, so on and so forth.

And I'm not sure if it's just sad or grossly hilarious that even mentioning you use one mod installer over another to someone that they end up taking a personal offence to you using that mod installer.

But it's just as bad with mods themselves.  When asked about a certain mod, my response always is that they might like it but I didn't (or that I found it a really good mod but the other person might not).

Everyone talks about how the modding community is so very great for Skyrim, but I believe there’s a couple of games which are really missing out in how well they are still curated for mods.

The first is Oblivion.  Oblivion still has a vast number of mods being made for it, which is pretty good for a game almost 15 years old.  It means there’s a really good fanbase and an excellent modding community still attached to this game.

The other game, albeit not an Elder Scrolls game, is Amnesia: The Dark Descent.  There are still a large number of story mods being released for this game, which came out 10 years ago.  This September will be the 10th anniversary of Amnesia.

For both of these games, they are incredibly well done and still has an active modding community.  Best of all, both are really cheap to buy.  Oblivion when I bought it on Steam was only 7 bucks.  Amnesia is $21 with the Amnesia Collection (including Dark Descent and A Machine For Pigs) only $40.

As for modding, Nexus has a ton of mods for Oblivion with modders uploading new mods everyday.  ModDB has Amnesia story mods and last I checked, the latest one was uploaded 17 minutes ago.