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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • So basically what happened with the AE release for Skyrim SE where Bethesda switched to a new compiler version and the tool the script extender team was using to find the correct offsets couldn’t handle it so they had to track down the offsets manually like before they’d written the tool, leading to a longer than usual time for the script extender to update than usual?

    Which if it’s anything like SSE means that mods that didn’t use F4SE were basically unaffected, mods that use F4SE had to wait for it to update which took longer than usual after which they would mostly work unmodified, and mods that involved a plugin DLL for F4SE had to at the very least be recompiled against the new versions of the game and F4SE. Nothing about that specifically targets Fallout: London though from what it sounds like.


  • I can’t. However, if we’d had a real primary it almost certainly wouldn’t have been Harris that won it, she did so horribly the previous time around.

    She was VP because candidates usually pick a VP that they perceive as being strong where they are weak, and a young biracial BIPOC woman is what Biden saw as shoring up his weak spot of being an ancient and utterly milquetoast white guy who only got the spot because he had already been VP, and was VP in turn because Obama specifically wanted a boring milquetoast white dude to help balance perceptions of him.


  • The tippy part is they go off the OG lore so Cyrodiil is a more tropical/Mediterranean climate which is fun.

    Fucking Thalmor denying the power of Talos of Atmora.

    Seriously though, the canon explanation for Cyrodiil being the way it is now as opposed to original lore is that when Talos achieved CHIM he changed it, because that’s a thing you can do with the secret syllable of royalty. All part of the path to mantling Shor/Lorkhan via one of the Walking Ways and forging an empire.

    I’ve joked in other places in the past that CHIM stands for “Character Has Installed Mods” because what it allows is roughly on par with the character opening the modding tools and changing what they want to change.


  • Both very soon after release by an update which was specifically designed to break the mod.

    I’m now curious about this from a technical perspective - how did the update specifically break their mod in particular? Were they doing a bunch of custom DLL hooks or something?

    I know with Skyrim SE modding it’s usually that any update breaks SKSE and a tiny handful of other mods that directly hook DLLs or the executable (these mods are usually scripting engine extensions and are a dependency for a variety of other mods), and depending on the update sometimes it takes longer than average to get a new version of those running (the AE update was one of those because they switched compiler version and that broke the method SKSE was using to find hooks). But in general that only breaks 1) mods using those (think SkyUI) until a new version comes out, after which most of those mods start working again without the individual mods needing an update and 2) mods that include their own plugin DLL, (think SkyClimb) which have to wait on an update and then compile a new version of the DLL for the new version of both the game and the other mod, because addresses and functions they are hooking may have changed. Mods not using SKSE or similar generally run just fine between versions of SSE (including AE).


  • No, it’s not. Because it’s not a tweet at all. Trump posted that on his own little unfederated modified Mastodon instance he calls Truth Social (seriously, it’s built on Mastodon). Note the red check instead of blue and them being called “retruths” because he calls posts on his instance “truths.”

    It’s an important distinction if ever you need to find the original source for any reason.


  • …which was done to give her the best odds she could have in the speedrun campaign by a party that avoided having a real primary and instead pushed a candidate that did abysmally in the last primary.

    Biden should have committed to being a single term president and we should have had a real primary in 2024. Or at least just the usual degree of Democrat primary ratfucking.