Galaxy Murder

I got bored with the games I was playing, and then I was reading some Star Wars novels... and like an episode of the old Batman TV show.. POW! BOFF! PIFF! and BOOM! I had bought another 2 months subscription to Star Wars the Old Republic.

Eat my purple lightning!

So far... fun... its good to be back. This game is far better then its given credit for.
Here I am doing an Heroic version of a low level Flashpoint, and that giant of a beast, is the second boss we fought... after that, the last boss took a shit long time as our healer had some connection issues and get a "DC" every few minutes, making it so either all, or some of us died in pretty much every battle...
It was slightly annoying ofcourse, but I imagen that the player behind the healer, was going mad as hell... I usually did anyway when I had such problems.

Anyway.. yea, I'm back on my Sith Inquisitor Tena'he, a Lord of the Dark Council, scourge of the galaxy and all 'round great gal!

Cya

Cold Morning

Woke up today and saw a blanket of frost on the lawn outside my window. A cool and frosty mist was also gathering in the distance, and after I've had some breakfast I packed up and went to the gym, only to have to stop and take these photos.

The entire field looked like this. Its was almost magical.

Unfortunatly, by the time I was going home... the mist that I thought was cool and frosty, had thawed the magical landscape, and instead made it impossible to see anything 150 meters away... thats how thick the mist was/is... also, if wearing glasses while riding a bike, ones vision became even worse, as the glasses became covered in small small drops of water.

Cya

Frozen Mods

I have to admite... I got a bit bored with Skyrim and the fact that its constantly winter there, yet I could run around butt ass naked, and never so much as get a cold even! Not to mention the dragons I shoot down from the sky with a single iron arrow after level 30 and 80 in archery skill. And after over 600 hours of gameplay.. all the armors got a bit boring too.

So I downloaded a few mods to make the game better and harder. Cause just turn the difficulty up to insane or what ever the highest setting is called, just made it so it took longer to kill shit.
The first mod I got was Immersive Armors and Immersive Weapons that would make the world simply look better and give me more options as to what I wore. And to add, I made sure I had it so that npc's would adorn said items too, cause I didn't want just me to be unique.
The next mod I got, is called iHud which further increases the immersion and realism to the game. It makes it so that the normal compass you constantly have at the top of the screen, becomes invisible. Now you can just press the "X" key on the keyboard, and it pops up, but as the "Z" key is right next to it, I keep shouting at nothing or friendly npc's... so I just tab and check the map itself instead... much safer.

All of these mods are in theirselves just something to make the game feel better purely out of a aesthetic view (besides the iHud ofc). So I figured it was time for a proper mod that would make me halt in my never ending killing spree's.
Frostfall!
Frostfall adds a level to the game that makes it feel more real, by simple making it so that snow and snowstorms gets you cold, rain and swimming makes you wet, and if you are wet, your exposure increases, making it more likely that you'll get cold, and thus... freeze to freakin death!
Now there is 3 different difficulties to Frostfall, Lite, Normal and Hardcore. I am going for Hardcore. The few things that Hardcore has that the other down have, is that you can (and most likely will at some point) die from freezing. Your exposure rate drops a little faster, further telling you that the lands of Skyrim is really mean. And my personal favorite... fast travel is disabled. So if I have been to a city, say Solitude, and I need to get back there, and I am currently on the other side of the map in Riften... I have to walk/run/ride or hire a carrage to get there. No clicking the map and say "fast travel", screen goes black and BOOM, you're there! No if I want to get somewhere, I have to get there on my own. Much more interesting.

Ready to Travel

So how do I stay warm with this new mod? Well I need to dress well for starters. Full cover fur armor is one of the better choises, as well as adding a travel cloak, either a leather one, if you are in the southern parts as it protects against rain, or a fur one for protecting against cold and snow.
Runing with a lit torch helps to slow the exposure rate, but the best thing, is to carry a tent (leather or fur) and a woodcutter's axe.
Out in the wild you might get too cold, and thus, must camp. You can build a camp fire, set up a tent and even build a leather rack to make either things such as cured hides and leathers for even more tents.
If you dont pack up the tent when you are traveling again, it will remain there... forever! Which is awesome.

Here's some screen shots of various Frostfall related things.

A leather tent with a rack, fire palce and even a cooking pot, all made by me, including the dead wolves in the corner.

A fur tent for the colder locations, with a warm/cold meter in the left corner.

Warming up, drying off and recuperating from a fight.

Yes.. I play a male character for once... And no, he's not gay like all my female characters where, cause the men in Skyrim looks like shit!! The women however...
So yea, the last screen shot, is me warming up and drying off after I had a swim in the nearby lake. Lukely the weather was nice and sunny, so I didn't get too cold too fast. But keep in mind, Skyrim is in a continous state of autumn/winter, so keep dry and warm and eat soup.

Now about the dragons... I made them harder too... so hard infact, that when I meet my first dragon in a fight.. I died. That has never happened before.
With the mod Deadly Dragons you can tweek the difficulty of dragons in all aspects. Increase their health, magica resistance, magica damage and melee damage by anywhere from 1% to 1000%. Increase their armor, make it so they spawn more often, every hour (in game ofc) if you want, but that would be horrible, so I have it at 36 hours. And if you want to, you can allow the assaults to contain one dragon, or two, three or even four dragons. Or a random amount by marking all four options.
It also adds a bunch of new dragons, with new and different skins, abilities and strenghts. Should also note, that the normal dragons.... that are just called "Dragon", has added abilities. The normal dragons breathe fire... but now they can rain down fire from the sky on you too... and that fire... HURT!!!

Cya

Racist Lights

Was watching a TV program last night at work called "PLUS". Its a consumers program, meant to help us normal mortals in every day struggles like what to do if a company screws you over, what to keep in mind when buying this and that and also a comparison between a few of the same kind of items.
Now what was so cool about this episode, was that they did a comparison between bicycle lights for under 100 skr. They looked at how bright they were, how much they lit up and if they would blind oncoming traffic or other pedestrians/cyclists.
And it turns out, that the winner, in all 3 tests, was the one I had bought a few weeks earlier. WIN!!
And yes, I found it to be very good too.

In another, somewhat TV related issue, is something I asked about on facebook a few days ago, so some of you might be reading this for a second time, others, first time, from me atleast.
I wont be going into the specifics of the TV program that this issue came from, or more, where it made me think and wonder, but I can say this, that one participant in this program wanted to find out who, of the other participants, were affiliated with the political party SD, which is highly regarded as a rasist party by alot of people.
The thing that made me wonder then, was why its such a frantic search for racism in our country. What I mean is simple, alot of people actually look for things or people that they can call racist. Is a person critical to the current immigration policy? Racist! Is a candy/pastry made of chocolate, have a face on it and then black sprinkles? Racist! Has someone done a horrible crime and the police informs that the description of the person has color other then pale? Racist!
That last thing actually happend a few years ago, some guy was being creepy and stalking little girls from a school, 12-13 year old girls. The police first came out with a description that said it was a man around the age of 30-35 and looked to be from Africa. The police were then told they were racist and they had to change their story, saying it was a man in his 30's. Forcing everyone to all of the sudden be wary of ANY male in close proximity of the school.
All that did, was create fear and hate... it didn't solve anything.

I personally belive, that if you look for racism, you ARE a racist, as you are the one who are dividing the pople according to their skin color. When I see people, I see nice people, bad people, assholes and unknowns. I dont realy see black, brown, white or yellow.
I see idiots.
Alot of them too.

Cya

Interior Screenie

I promiced you images of the inside of Morkoms when it was done... well here it is!!

Bathroom, where half the room is the bath!

This is where I'll be hosting my dinner parties.

If I could without mods, adopt more then 2 kids, this is where they would sleep.

The kitchen and washroom. And to top it off, I hired a cook too.

The master bedroom... still unused.

Now this is an office anyone would be proud to have.

As I always play female characters, I got to have a place to show off my shoe collection.

Last week, this place looked dead... not so much now ey?

It also has a basement where the cook and guard lives, as well as a brewery. In the brewery I can make several kinds of beer that give me temporary buffs.

But, alas, this mod has been taken away. It had an annoying habit of crashing my game when ever I tried to either enter or exit the place. And thus, I have gone back to an old mod, that will eventually give me a home in an old tower.
That mod is called "Helgen Reborn". When you start the game, spoiler, you are in Helgen and are about to get your head chopped off, when a big awesome looking dragon comes and fucks up the Imperials plans, you escape while the dragon destroys the town.
In Helgen Reborn, you go back to Helgen and find some interesting people around, and then help rebuild the city, save an old friend and hire some guards. As thanks, you are given the very same tower the dragon first sets down on. Its a small place, but as it turns out, there is a large area under it that houses several smaller rooms as well as a large cavern.
This mod gives you around 4-6 hours of extra gameplay, fully voiced by proffesional voice actors, a good script and a great story.

Well thats it for this sunday, hope you liked it.

Cya

Sleeping Reeves

Last night, I turned off my alarm, turned off the sound and vibrations on the phone too, just so I could finally get some much needed sleep. And boy did I sleep!!! Woke up just shy of 3 in the afternoon.
Felt good.
But unfortunatly, I had gotten a text from a coworker who asked if I could pitch in for 2 hours, from 4 to 6 due to some stuff she needed to get done. But it was most likely already to late to answer, and even if it wasn't, I genuinly thought I couldn't, as I was sure I was going to Sthlm later for a birthday party, so even thou I noticed the text way way late, I still thought that I couldn't.
Now thou... just before I had a shower and a shave. I find out that we aren't leaving for the wee kid until saturday... two weeks from now.

So I guess I'm free today. The only plan I really have, is to try and find someone to go to the movies with me. Really want to see the new Keanu Reeves movie John Wick. And I know alot of people think his movies suck, but I like em, so far, close to 100% of them, so shut up! I know I'm gonna love this one. Just as I loved the samurai one too, 47 Ronin... it was good, and dont you dare say differently, cause then you have bad taste in movies, and you dont belong in this conversation! Not that written words on the interwebz can really be called a conversation, specially on a blog where one express ones personal views and oppinions. So yea, dont even bother telling me that 47 Ronin or John Wick sucks, cause I'll just put my fingers in my eyes and go "LA LA LA LAL LAALALALALA"

Expect a heavy dose of screenies on saturday.

Cya

Late Entry

Lets all pretend its sunday... or actually... lets not, I'm late with the entry! I remebered this late last night, but by then, I couldn't care less.

So what will I give you this time?
Skyrim! Yea, I'm back to it. And just to tell you something fun, in 2 weeks, the game will be 3 years old! Can you belive it? 3 years!! And the game still has a shitload of players, and not only that, it has a shitload of modders, and they get better and better too.

Like this one.

That is a player home mod called Morskom. When you open the game after installing it, you are told to either go there right away, not do anything, or place a marker on the map to more easily find it. I knew where it was, and I was slightly preoccupied, so I told it to do nothing.
Once there, I read a sign, bought it, and went inside.

This is the inside I was meet with.

Yup... nothing. It was dark, dirty and difficult to see. The basement was infested with giant rats, and if I wanted a proper home, I had to build it all myself.
Now usually when you get a house mod, its all decorated for you, it a finished house. But here, you have to build almost everything first.
And here's the real fun part about it.
I needed to build floors, Proper floors. But in order to do that, I needed to clean out all the dust and shit, so I had to use a broom and let 5 hour of ingame time to pass before it was clean. But you cant clean a house if you cant see what you are doing, so I had to get hte material needed to light the place up.
So once the lights were on, and the floors were cleaned, I could lay the floor.
And I loved that.
Maybe next week, I'll show you the finished product.

Cya

Temporary Broken

My body temporarily broke down on tuesday. I didn't notice properly until the evening, but by then, it was to late to try and fix it. That being said, I highly doubt I would have been able to repair the damage before the whole thing shutdown on me, as I dont know if the tools for fixing it, actually exists.
I got a cold.
And as far as I know, you can only hide the symproms, but not heal it to a hundred percent. So I just made sure I could breath properly, beyond that, I let it run its thing, let the body make the repairs on it own, just gave it some added building blocks, like vitamins.

So far, I have gone through one and a half rolls of toilet paper, exclusively used on my face. Unfortunatly, the brand I bought, while it is good enough for every day things, it isn't good enough for blowing your nose or wipe your ass with. But I still have like 12 rolls of em, so I'll just suffer their poor quality for awhile longer and then buy something nicer. They should run out before the end of the year... I'm single... so the toilet paper usually last longer then say, with a family of four or so. Actually rememebr when I bought a bale of rolls, last me well over a year. Win!

But I am going back to work tomorrow. That being said, it should be interesting to see if I can get my ass out of bed, as I start working at 07:30... and during these few days of horror and snot, I've had difficulties sleeping, and thus, just last night, I didn't sleep until sometime after 05:00, woke up at... well about an hour ago, after lunch :P

But I see no reason to worry, if push comes to shove, and I find myself still wide awake at 3 in the morning, I'll just stay awake and then sleep for a few hours when I get home, then get back to work at 4 in the afternoon :P

Cya

Boom Vegas

Went back to Fallout New Vegas a few days ago. Added some much needed mods to it. So now it looks better, and also has some bug fixes and added challenge.
The screen shot you'll see first thou... well, its a new place, but the enemy, is not hard.
Overgrown rats rarely are.

I just killed his buddy by sneaking up and shooting its head off... the other Giant Mole Rat didn't like that and figured he'd try and bite my face off.
His head was left intact, but his lowerbody is nowhere to be found.

When I first added some new textrue packs and made a better sky and weather conditions, I was deep down in an underground city, and forgot I had added them by the time I got back up...

Lets just say, that when I was greated with this image... my jaw dropped. That is THE best sky I've ever seen in any of my games, specially good with New Vegas in the background.
All thou.. I had to travel a bit and sell a bunch off stuff I had looted in the underground city. And after a quick travel, I was meet by the new weather conditions I had added.

Lets just say, I had problems finding the store I was going to. The sandstorms they now have in some regions... are either blinding, or radioactivily deadly.
I LOVE IT!!!

Cya