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  1. chickmetalhead
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    Hey RT and Lachina! You two are hitting on all cylinders in this set - soooo many incredible lines... and more important... fantastic images of Lachina! Like gurley and others said, there are too many to pick a favorite. But... the "in the same place" one made me laugh out loud - good thing I wasn't drinking anything! And now... a word from Alex, regarding me waking up in the middle of the night in RL for no reason...

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    Hey RT and Lachina! Great images and lines, and as always you are looking awesome, Lachina! Now, for my guy, he falls asleep just fine... but he does wake up in the middle of the night as he mentioned. I think maybe you have hit on the reason... as I almost always have sweet dreams if him each night, and of course... we are both awake in them! But, I don't dream of him every night, so IF it is you dreaming of him once in a while, that is fine with me. But... ONLY once in a while! And apparently on some nights, neither of us is dreaming of him awake... which is a good thing, I guess. At least he sleeps through the night once or twice each month. The old guy deserves that and more... but I can't help what I am dreaming of when I dream of him and me awake... together... Now, if he would only take me to Maslea some day. Well, as should be obvious by now, a girl can dream... and have hope for dreams in new locations. Haha, any of you folks reading this... did you think my guy was the only one that could ramble on and on??? See ya!
    1. arghTease
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      🤣 stupid dinos
      speaking of waking up I usually do as well somewhere in the 3:30 to 4:30 range.  Not sure who's dream I'm in though  🤣 just hope it aint a night mare.  Alex, we don't understand why he hasn't already taken you to Maslea, shame on cmh  🤣 after all it is a free trip
      thank ya'll for the visit, ya'll come back now ya hear 
    2. chickmetalhead
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      Ha! You might think it is a free trip, but doing some initial testing, once I got to Maslea, well... it will require some fixing and tweaking - at least in my game and with the LE version of Maslea. Under the spoiler for actual spoilers for those that haven't played Maslea yet. So don't look if ya don't want to know anything...

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      Again, I must stress that not all of this is necessarily the fault of Maslea itself. And again, I am using v2.12 on LE.

      LOD problems... ENB problems... severe performance issues in a few spots possibly related to those things, but maybe not. Parallax terrain fixes needed... meaning I will need to replace certain terrain textures with modified versions that don't get messed up with Parallax turned on in the ENB - which I have turned on.

      Stack dumps when the mod takes all your stuff away when you wake up on the beach after taking the ship in the first quest. That isn't necessarily a problem with the mod itself, but in my game and with the amount of stuff I am carrying, it causes big problems. This issue is trggered by mods that monitor the player's inventory, including Sofia, Legacy of the Dragonborn, certain quests like Theives Guild quests where you need to gather a certain amount of loot, etc, etc. This issue gets triggered in Skyfall Estate and the Legacy Museum or Safehouse crafting locations (both mods have automatic storage), where tons of stuff gets added and later removed from the Player. But removing everything from the player - at least those who are huge pack rats like me, causes instant problems. I had to create work arounds so that I don't get Stack Dumps in those two locations... and it is a bit complicated. Hopefully I have good notes. Sigh.

      Also, the lighting in some areas is very questionable... at least with ENB turned on... or at least with my Rudy ENB setup. I keep having to turn ENB on or off in certain areas so that I can see anything. It is annoying!!!! And... maybe not Maslea's problem exactly. Just not sure it is worth the work, at least right now. Which doesn't mean I won't give it another go tomorrow - just too frustrated at the moment. Maybe you could tell???

      Edit: Well... I think I have the Parallax terrain fixes done! Funny thing is... I missed one, so I had dinner and coffee with some whiskey, and found the last one (I hope) with a bit of a buzz. Thanks for letting me vent and tell you this stuff... it really helps me to work out what I need to do to fix them. Because...

      well... is Alex worth anything that I need to do for her... of course! BUT... for now we can always go to Paradise Valley or Goma Pero Land until I get everything worked out.

      Before and after images of the parallax issue and fix, under the spoiler below.

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      As you can see, Alex has technically been to Maslea, as she is helping me examine the Terrain Parallax issue.But this is a testing save, so she won't remember this when I continue playing my game tonight. Or... will she??

      It might be hard to see in these images (it looks worse in game when you move). The problem causes the ground texture to have these weird blurry/stetchy lines, and it really bugs me!

      Here we see the terrain/ground before I fix the parallax problem:


      And here is basically the same image after I fixed the parallax problem. Looks so much better to me... I hope you can tell. I am not sure if SE even has this type of problem or not - not sure what the status is of parallax support in ENBs for SE vs LE.


      PS. Don't forget to look below for new posts from other users. I know you double check, but there were a few already when I did this reply.
    3. arghTease
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      thanks for the heads up on Maslea.  Haven't downloaded it yet, have contemplated on it but now... 🤣🤣🤣  Lacola says she's fine without it so...
        but in your case if Alex wants to go than you better make it happen  😂🤣😁
      I could tell some difference on those 2 shots. 
      No problem, you can "bend my ear" anytime
    4. chickmetalhead
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      Haha, first - thanks for listening and pushing me forward. BUT... wait a second now... you were shaming me for not taking Alex to Maslea, and you never tried it yourself! You better watch out, Alex may be speaking to Lacola even now.

      Seriously though, I believe this mod on SE has had more work done on it, and some of what I have hit might not be as critical on SE as it is on LE. And of course, your game (or most people's games) is probably not quite as insanely packed with mods as mine is. I know a lot of people install mods like Maslea, play it, and then go back to a different save without it. But everything in my game that goes in stays in, once I have given it my approval, modifications, tweaks, and fixes. Over 2 years on this playthrough so far.
    5. arghTease
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      🤣 Lacola's locked up in Raven Castle right now... she causes me to take shots that are to risque 😁
      I dunno tho, we will probably give it a whirl eventually. 
      On SE I am running right now 665 plugins  plus several hundred texture etc mods.  LE probably about half that.   I have never been able to complete a play thru, get caught up in new quest mods and screenshots. 
    6. chickmetalhead
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      Fingers crossed... I think I have everything fixed up. Script/stack dump problems required modifications to 3 scripts and 3 quests to add some new properties to feed the scripts to avoid the problems. And then I tweaked the lighting in the 2 interior cave/dungeon areas just a tiny bit. So along with the Parallax fix/tweaks yesterday, I should be good to go without having to mess around with turning ENB on or off or changing any of those settings. I will spare you the geeky details! But, I appreciate this conversation leading me to get this done in only 2 days. Now... Alex and I need to go finish some things that are in progress already, and then I will probably officially install Maslea and get things started there. Because of course, everything I did so far was NOT part of the official playthrough... so I will have to redo the starting quests all over again!

      Oh... one last thing. Because I am on LE, I only have about 235 plugins officially, but a ton more because of merging things. I would guess around 550 plus all the plugins from Mihail mods and from outfit mods that I also have merged... but never kept track of. So we are probably pretty close by count. Ya know, because of how I have modfied almost every mod I have, I won't ever move to SE. But... the ESL or ESP/FE concept in SE where you can have plugins that don't count against the limit of around 255 (0-254), sure would be nice! Take care, my friend!
    7. arghTease
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      that's great, so you stay out da dog house  🤣🤣🤣
  2. ThatMrSmile
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    "Lachina: I intend to live forever or die trying"

    That's the spirit! Cool set, RT. Love that "celebrating the life" vibe.
    1. arghTease
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      thank you Murat  😁
  3. DangerousChicken12
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    Excellent!!
    1. arghTease
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      thank you Micheal 
  4. SnowVillierz
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    That's funny when Lachina said the dinosaurs shouldn't all stand in the same place when the asteroid hit. David Bowie's Blackstar album was excellent.
    1. arghTease
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      🤣 dumb dinos  ... agree with the Bowie comment.  thank you Snow
  5. YummyBonbon
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    Nice work my friend ;p
    1. arghTease
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      😁 thank you Aly
  6. schmoops9
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    a shooting star is a rock shattering into a million pieces, like your dreams.
    just came back to say that this got stuck in my head, basically describes my last aprox. 12 months *sigh*
    1. arghTease
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      eww, hate to hear that, hoping things will take a sharp turn for the better on your behalf.   
      oh, reminds me of an ancient phrase that helps me thru hard times "...and it came to pass" 
  7. ista3
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    Lachina looking gorgeous RT love that black slinky suit and that them boots :D or how you say 'dat dem boots' haha is that right :))
    Always brings me happiness reading your joke lines, love them :))
    Cool info with the songs too :))
    1. arghTease
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      🤣 dat dem boots or sometimes dem dere boots  or for singular dat dere boot
      thank you much Izzy, always always a pleasure hearing from you
  8. gucky2010
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    Fantastic and deep impressive
    1. arghTease
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      thank you, glad you were impressed by it all 
  9. cormell
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    Some heavy duty stuff there. Coupled with some good one-liners, too. You know, death is a natural part of life, may as well have a good laugh at that old grim reaper.
    Black Star would have been a great title and the lyrics are good. The producers must have thought it was too heavy. 
    I haven't seen that Bowie vid -- just as well. It is depressing. Here's one that should make you smile, if not roll over laughing
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    1. arghTease
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      I find myself contemplating death at times, certainly more often than when I was young and evidently thought I was going to live forever  🤣
      I think you might very well be right on the title switch... and I think all and all it would've been a better choice but that was a different era.
      The Bowie vid is as you said depressing but I was so moved by the fact he knew he was dying but pressed forward and completed an entire album plus this vid.  Then the fact Bowie was inspired by Elvis. 
      Thank you Laird
      edit~  hilarious vid, thank you... I had never seen that one before... what a odd classic  🤣🤣🤣
    2. Karna5
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      I didn't watch the supposedly light hearted film earlier because I didn't want to dilute the Black Star film by David Bowie yet. But I just watched it now, and it's remarkably somber and serious as well.

      Mick Jaguar (sp?) was making a remarkable parody of a music film, and David Bowie was behaving very cool and tough, like a mobster having a fun night out with Mick Jaguar.

      I didn't think that film was funny at all. I thought it was wonderful.

      It also points out that music makes almost anything beautiful. Without the music, Mick Jaguar's actions looked clumsy (though David Bowie was still elegant, as always). It makes me both question and delight in the power of music.
    3. arghTease
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      @karna  Mick was hilarious to me, so out of tune and doing "corny" things but yeah it was well done and only those two could pull something
      like that off.
  10. gurleygirl
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    Another wonderful set, rt.
    Love the old Elvis video. We watched all of his movies back in the day including this one.
    I have to admit I was never a David Bowie music fan though I recognize his obvious outstanding contribution to the music world.
    More great lines; so many it's hard to pick a favorite.
    Love the quote by Jimi Hendrix.
    Gorgeous Lachina closeups and I always love seeing Alien Elvis.
    Good times.
    1. arghTease
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      I'm with ya Gurley on watching all his movies.  They were simple but so much fun. 
      Bowie was always an enigma to me 🤣 but he was exceptionally talented and just as strange 
      Thank you very much my friend