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Hello, my name is failb0at, and I nuked a level 55 Skyrim save because Kaidan was a fucking fratboy who wouldn’t stop talking about my Dragonborn’s arse. A cursory search for “Kaidan” on /r/skyrimmods shows more than a few threads asking the same question: Which Kaidan mod should I get? That’s because there’s five of…
Modding Skyrim is a finicky beast at the best of times; despite my best efforts and considerable experience (I’ve been doing this a while), the game still breaks. Luckily, unlike that time I had to nuke a level 55 save because Kaidan 2: Immersive Edition was annoying as fuck, most of these bugs are fixable….
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If you’ve ever played Skyrim AE, you’ll know the original Saints and Seducers quest chain. It starts with a note from Ri’saad, the wandering Khajit caravaner, and sends you to purge four bandit camps before delving into the Solitude sewers to kill a naked man with a funny helmet. (Yes, I know “delve” is a…
I haven’t been serious about blogging in about thirt… no, fourteen years, give or take. Sure, I had the odd tentative here and there — a Hugo site in 2021, a New Year’s Resolution in 2023 that lasted about three weeks, as these things usually do — but I thought the days of chucking my…
