Sometimes here to edit, mostly here to read.
Despite reading here for many years, I only made my account when I found a small mistake on the wiki and like a good person, decided to fix it instead of complaining.
My first experience with TES was when I started playing Oblivion as a kid who couldn't speak English. It went like this:
- Had no clue what to do exactly after existing the sewers as I didn't know the language.
- Stole a sword in the imperial city because I didn't have the money for it every previous games I played I was allowed to take any loot I could take. Owner started yelling but otherwise nothing happened.
- Still didn't know what to do.
- Figured guards generally know what's going on in their area, started conversation with one in hopes he'd tell me where to go.
- Got the famous "You violated the law" dialogue.
- Realising I made a mistake quickly tried to cancel the conversation, which counted as resiting arrest.
- Died.
- Shut down the game until I knew enough English to play.
That was many years ago. When I learned more English I came back, and was soon sold to my ever since favorite franchise. By now I played (but not finished) en modded all major TES games and some spin-offs, as well as having spent some time making my own mods for Oblivion and Skyrim.
I used to be very busy and passionate about modding games, mainly but not limited to TES. I originally learned to mod manually, and still hold the unpopular believe that manually installing mods is preferable over using mod managers despite the higher learning curve. It gives some insight in how everything is build up, making you understand why some things don't work or do and at times even make it easy to make incompatible mods work together by altering or moving some files. It gives freedom to mix and match more, and makes you know more what's going on as you did it yourself so it becomes easier to debug issues. And not unimportant, encourages one to read descriptions properly. The experience in modding manually also made the step to edit and later make my own mods a rather small one that just happened naturally. Also, I somehow always break my games with mod managers. So maybe it's just a me-issue. Load order sorters on the other hand are heaven's send.
While I was quite passionate about them in the past, I'm no longer very busy with mods. Nowadays I prefer the ease of being able to play in the train and continue home on my TV. I guess I got old.
