Minermanb - Great Modder or Greatest Modder?

By Randice Gibbs

Ask any member of the Skyrim Modding Community who the greatest modder is, and you'll get various accounts (heh). Some popular choices include EnaiSiaion, maker of mods like "SUPERSAFE DWARVEN ROCKET BOOTS", "Modern Brawl Bug Fix", and "That One With The Mephala-Worshipping Moon Dwemer". Others might say Arthmoor, Mr. "no Unofficial Skyrim VR Patch for you good sir" himself. Others still might say Trainwiz, the modder somehow simultaneously responsible for Wheels of Lull, a mod steeped in obscure lore, and Really Useful Dragons, a mod that replaces dragons with Thomas the Tank Engine characters.

They're all wrong. 
I present, for your consideration,

Minermanb.

Getting his name from being an early arrival to the Bitcoin Mining scene and totally not from having been a Minecraft kid, Minermanb makes everything from "Tunnel Beards", a mod artfully referencing a faction from Bethesda Game Studios' previous venture Fallout 3, to the upcoming "Colored Rooms", a mod taking place in the realm of everyone's favorite leggy light goddess, Meridia. So what drives this modder, no, this artist? I sat down with Minermanb to discuss these questions.

Randice: So, hey, Miner.

Miner: Hey, what's happening?

R: Not much. You said earlier that you're working on a project taking place in the realm of Meridia? What's that going to be like?

M: Colorful. (Laughs) In all honesty, it's kind of up in the air, but I'm planning on making a room for each color of the rainbow (minus indigo. more like indigo to the polls away amirite). [Note: Mr. Manb later retracted this statement, saying "You'll indeed go to Indigo".] I'll be posting progress soon. Also inb4 >mod to big

R: Why Meridia?

M: Well, to quote the great philosopher Billy Gibbons, "She's got legs". (chuckles sensibly) Not really. I mean she does but that's not why. I find her fascinating because she was once a Magne Ge.

R: Magne Ge?

M: Yeah, follower of Magnus. She in particular is likely his daughter. (How et'ada procreate I'm not entirely sure) In the lore of the mod, she has a few children of her own. I'm not saying who the father is, but I will say he's not exactly around to pay child support. He had a big heart though, I'll say that much.

R: On another subject, am I real or am I just a writing device to simultaneously announce your mod and boost your ego?

M: This is getting too meta, I gotta go. 

He then left. Well, existential crisis aside, I hope to see more of his work soon.