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Problematic User Forever said:
Elf Nazi's kidnapping and murdering innocent civillians? Cost of doing business.

Not giving nig elves free mansions after 200 years of just loitering around your city? The most abhorrent of racism.
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The fact that it's been 2 centuries after the eruption of Red Mountain and Dunmer are still living in filth is the funniest shit to me, like imagine being some young Nord farmer in Windhelm seeing the Dunmer, you listen to all of Brunwulf Free-Winter's whining about Ulfric being a bigot, you feel bad hearing about how their home was destroyed and you feel like they get a raw deal

Then you find out the lazy sujamma drinking, demon worshipping grayskin who bitches about 'oppression' has literally been squatting in the Gray Quarter doing jack shit since before your grandparents were born and absolutely nothing is stopping him from leaving
 
Sheep King said:
The fact that it's been 2 centuries after the eruption of Red Mountain and Dunmer are still living in filth is the funniest shit to me, like imagine being some young Nord farmer in Windhelm seeing the Dunmer, you listen to all of Brunwulf Free-Winter's whining about Ulfric being a bigot, you feel bad hearing about how their home was destroyed and you feel like they get a raw deal

Then you find out the lazy sujamma drinking, demon worshipping grayskin who bitches about 'oppression' has literally been squatting in the Gray Quarter doing jack shit since before your grandparents were born and absolutely nothing is stopping him from leaving
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Hmmm, what did Bethesda mean by this? :thinking:
 
Prophetic Spirit said:
Redoran is the only house who tried to keep up the pace post-Tribunal.
Near all the island was destroyed by the ashes post-eruption. Capital was moved from Almalexia to Blacklight iirc.

That doesn't explain why in 200 years Dunmer are still in shit.
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It certainly didn't help that they purged the only Great House that wanted to build an actual society that was a part of wider Tamriel and engaged in honest, productive commerce. The other four, especially Dres, are worthless shitbags with few redeeming qualities.
 
Elf Supremacist said:
Hmmm, what did Bethesda mean by this? :thinking:
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Honestly I'm more entertained that they probably meant nothing by this, and Bethesda were unironically going for a "racism bad" subplot. They just put zero thought into it.
I can't even be mad, it comes across adorably incompetent compared to modern day wokeslop.

If it came out today, the Dunmer would either be scrubbed of all negative qualities or else they would use them as Israel parallels and cast them as comically evil and pathetic, while the Argonians would be the heroic Palestinians decolonising Morrowind
 
Problematic User Forever said:
The successful farm owning Dark Elf and shop owning High Elf specifically comment on it, so it wasn't just an "oopsie" on Bethesdas part.
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It's hard to say, because the introductory scene of Windhelm being drunk Nords shouting at and threatening a Dunmer woman really feels like a sympathy play and not something done ironically.

The interaction is nonsensical, though, because the woman they're shouting at, Suvaris Atheron, appeals to the player that the locals bully the Argonians too.
The same woman works as an accountant for the Shatter-Shields, and in her logbook, details how she abuses the Argonians by withholding their food and keeping them compliant with skooma. The logbook also gets Suvaris' gender wrong.

Either the whole Dunmer storyline in Windhelm is a 4-dimensional 500IQ subversion of expectations by based Stormcloak patriots, or more likely, the writers just weren't talking to eachother.
I think some of the team were going for 'nuanced moral ambiguity', but others had already drunk the Kool-Aid. That's what makes it funny.
 
Sheep King said:
Either the whole Dunmer storyline in Windhelm is a 4-dimensional 500IQ subversion of expectations by based Stormcloak patriots, or more likely, the writers just weren't talking to eachother.
I think some of the team were going for 'nuanced moral ambiguity', but others had already drunk the Kool-Aid. That's what makes it funny.
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IDK. You all love to hate on Bethesda now but honestly the having one of the most racist, slave owning races suddenly bitching and moaning about their station seems like it had *some* thought put into it.

And I feel it's 100% in character for a shitty Dark Elf to cry about Argonian conditions while also fucking over said Argonians. Enslaving Argonians was literally part of their cultural heritage until like 200 years ago which is nothing in Elf years I'm pretty sure.
 
I'm doing a High Elf mage/spellsword run right now, and fully intend on siding with the Stormcloaks because the Thalmor are insufferable cunts and the Empire are spineless cuckold faggots.

Maybe my character's backstory is that he's some kind of Altmer Solzhenitsyn, or an Alec Trevelyan-like figure whose parents didn't survive the Thalmor's purges after the Oblivion Crisis.

Whatever happens to the greyskins and the scaly farm equipment with Ulfric's consent is not my problem.
Sheep King said:
Then you find out the lazy sujamma drinking, demon worshipping grayskin who bitches about 'oppression' has literally been squatting in the Gray Quarter doing jack shit since before your grandparents were born and absolutely nothing is stopping him from leaving
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Scourge of the Gray Quarter is one of the most based and redpilled pieces of worldbuilding in vidya games.
 
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Meat Target said:
Maybe my character's backstory is that he's some kind of Altmer Solzhenitsyn, or an Alec Trevelyan-like figure whose parents didn't survive the Thalmor's purges after the Oblivion Crisis.
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I wish the game supported this more, but my favorite character backstory is being a Thalmor agent sent into Skyrim to stir up chaos and establish contacts in the region. The main story really doesn't support that kind of RP at all, but helping the thieves guild or like helping Ulfric get the Jagged Crown definitely fits in that. Getting in good with the College of Winterhold would make sense, except there's already a Thalmor there. I made up the RP though that he had stopped responding to HQ, given how he goes power mad, and he needed to be neutralized.
Basically RP'ing/headcanoning that most things my character does is actually a 4D chess move of backstabbing and double-crossing for long term gain gets pretty tiring. There is that mod that makes you friendly to the Thalmor faction and gives you the quest to kill Heimskr in Whiterun, but that's extremely basic.
 
Meat Target said:
I'm doing a High Elf mage/spellsword run right now, and fully intend on siding with the Stormcloaks because the Thalmor are insufferable cunts and the Empire are spineless cuckold faggots.
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GET OUT OF MY HEAD. I'm playing through with almost this exact race and playstyle right now, except a full mage. I used Alternate Start and took a boat into Windhelm. My headcanon is he grew up in Morrowind, after the Red Year and therefore didn't have much exposure to magical institutions. He came to Skyrim to see their famed College of Winderhold. Once arriving, he was disappointed by the immense faggotry within its walls and therefore took about 0.6 quectoseconds to start robbing his fellow students blind.

Anyway, I wanted to make a very, very late response to @Prophetic Spirit's question about the new spells from Creations, which I'm using for the first time..

The Elemental [X] spells are a little broken. In my opinion, "broken" in Skyrim's magic system just puts it on par with any other playstyle. Elemental Blast requires six perks (seven if you include Novice Destruction) and in return you get a spell that can one-shot Dwarven Spheres with a dual-cast.

In the Conjuration school, you get "Summon [X] Zombie" spells that conjure a creature with stats on par with Draugr of various levels. What makes these special is that they cost half the magicka as the vanilla spells. Both these new types of spell solve the biggest issues with Skyrim magic: spells cost too much and don't do enough damge. For the first time, magery in Skyrim is actually fun.

The only spell that feels cheap to me is one in the Illusion school that lets you open any lock at Expert level or lower. Basically an infinite-use Tower Stone.
 
Bad news Mod Organizer bros...
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Nexus is removing the option to download mods through MO. The enshittification of Nexus begins.
 
Mr. Racewar1488 said:
Bad news Mod Organizer bros...
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Nexus is removing the option to download mods through MO. The enshittification of Nexus begins.
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What do you mean? The manual download button is disabled?

Man if they're going to REQUIRE their shitty Vortex app then that sucks rancid donkey dick and is blatantly them trying to lock people into their ecosystem. Combine that with them banning anyone they found linking to other mod sites in their fucking Twitter bios and it looks like these dumbfucks have decided they own the idea of modding video games in general.
 
Vortex is a fucking failure as a mod manager app.
And they still pushing it.
MO2 was a blessing in disguise.
 
Sheep King said:
The fact that it's been 2 centuries after the eruption of Red Mountain and Dunmer are still living in filth is the funniest shit to me, like imagine being some young Nord farmer in Windhelm seeing the Dunmer, you listen to all of Brunwulf Free-Winter's whining about Ulfric being a bigot, you feel bad hearing about how their home was destroyed and you feel like they get a raw deal

Then you find out the lazy sujamma drinking, demon worshipping grayskin who bitches about 'oppression' has literally been squatting in the Gray Quarter doing jack shit since before your grandparents were born and absolutely nothing is stopping him from leaving
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I don't feel bad about killing Fallout denizens who can't even be bothered to clean the charred skeletons out of their bathrooms for the same reason.
 
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