Gta 6 will no doubt have an amazing story but the online is where my worry lies. Rockstar failed rdo and frankly gtao isn't good, its just not enjoyable. So I'm gonna rant about the flaws of gtao, and my main two fixes or ideas for gta6
What made gtao unenjoyable
All these futuristic shit lost the emerson and the fact there is no real progress and reward for putting hard work in. So how can it be improved.
Darknet jobs
These are like the missions in rdo that characters like sean and joe give you. Jobs would range from a hitman to destroying property. It would have it's own reputation system and levels that get you rewards.
Car cargo, weapon production, all drug operations and all cargo exports should be under one "organisation"
The MC and Organisation can really all just be one organisation that you have the ability to pick the name of. Call it a crime syndicate, a cartel, a motorbike club, a crime family or just plainly an organisation. They all are really the same it's just for aesthetic purposes. Every operation (drug production, weapon production etc) can be leveled up and effect each other in positive ways. For example any drug lab and exports allows you to export the drugs further locations all over the world. Every business starts at a low level which requires you to do every bit of the work but after leveling up the business an associate that works for you do it and because if NPCs did all the work for you it get pretty boring so that's why you could play as one of your workers. This creates the illusion of getting good so to speak, it says that your player is more important than they started. The organisation as a whole has levels that unlock shit like if a rival sends a hitman(self explanatory) or death squad(basically merry whether mercenarys) after you, you get a call saying that "a hitman/death squad is after you". If you are higher level than them this always happens but if lower level there is a 50/50 chance of this happening. If you were able to have rivals and allies that be cool like if a friend has a max export business and you have all drug shit and no export business you can strike a deal that they use your business to smuggle their drugs and you get a cut of the profits. Weapon production always you to pick what weapons your organisation uses and a car export thing always you to pick what vehicle you organisation uses. Also they can drive you around and have a car in front of you and behind you like your the president of the USA. Also you can dress your combat units in outfits and have up to 3 variants for each type of combat units.
The kinds of your combat units are as follows; soldiers(Basic units nothing special about them) Bodyguards(They guard you with there life and have heavier armour and better weapons) Hitman(self explanatory, can be controlled by the player) Death squads( like bodyguards they pack a punch with heavier armour and a special unit that has the option of a grenade launcher attachment) Elite soldiers(basically military, big armoured cars, big guns and are very expensive to set up. They are like business they cost that much, only for when you have everything maxed out)
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So what you think of my lil ideas? Simple but I really would like something like this, what would you add or remove? And a I don't speak the best English but hopefully you can understand what I'm saying!

Aesthetically speaking, the birthday cards for this year suck ass. The memoirs are pretty, but lacking. I don't mind the whole 'taking on a role others have played before' thing, but the reuse of outfits is just plain lazy. And the Encore girls... absolutely hate how they don't have a bond story of their own. It's the same stage girl as before, just with different skills and new art. It feels like it goes against the whole "yesterdays you is a different you" and "each stage is different, even with the same play" themes Starlight has. I realize there's a difference between Encore and Rerun, but still. The 2022 Birthday cards were SO much better, even if the memoirs were lacking still.

I’m 17 and I love fashion! I’ve been trying to curate my style into the aesthetics that I love and what looks good on me! I’m obsessed with old Hollywood and it’s actresses and I noticed the reasons why the actresses always looked amazing because, their clothes were made for them! (and they had an entire team ready to fix any problems lol) I was a little scared to ask this for a while because I was worried people were going to shut me down. I just want to know if I can know certain things now. I understand with kibbe system and probably any other body typing methods that I have to wait until I'm 25 because that's when my body is done developing. Is there an age appropriate method I can use or at least know my essence? I notice some outfits that I try to put together look boxy or frumpy. And there's certain colors that dim or washout my skin's shine.

I had a strange experience with the Beta. I participated in both Betas thanks to the purchase of a tiny Sandwich. And initially my thoughts on the game were, to sum it up in a single word, “Meh.” I played for a few hours, thinking that The combat was fine, the world looked fine, the game played fine. Everything was fine. The game then crashed and I had to wait in a 90 minute queue and decided that I think I had seen enough anyway and dismissed it as a passable game that I could just ignore and have fun with the wealth of other ARPGs I had in my library that I enjoyed.
Would be boring if I left it that though, wouldn’t it? Getting over my initial disappointment was difficult, but I gave it a day and played other games before I decided to give it another try. Maybe I was having a bad day and my life was influencing my decisions more than the game was. So I logged back in on Saturday afternoon. Thankfully the queues were much shorter to nearly non-existent.
I started over. I picked Sorcerer as my class and headed out on my journey. I dunno if it was because I was just having a better day or if something finally clicked but I found myself having a great time. But I still had this nagging feeling in the back of my head and sometimes I just need to write it all out. So I submit to you all, all of my thoughts on the Beta. The Great, The good, The bland, the bad and the unknown.
I also want to be 100% Clear, I'm not going to complain at all about DCs, Queues, Etc... as that's what the Beta is there to help weed out. Overall, The connection was fine and the only thing I bring up are a few worrying technical issues like the Memory Leek which I presume they will fix.
The Great

• The Aesthetics of the game are, With a few minor exceptions, exactly where I want it to be. It’s partially because the first area they chose was “Snow. Snow everywhere!” but I think the game looks fantastic (I love snow areas). The enemy design is great, the world design is great and feels… more alive and horrific than previous games and once you get past the initial starting area you actually see a bit of color without it being a cartoon. The blood and gore effects from enemies while a bit… nonsensical at times, is a joy to watch and most of the attacks are well animated and carried out. I have no real complaints here!
• This also goes for the sound and music. Everything feels crunchy and explosive when it needs to be, the music is subtle and eerie and the voice acting is really good most of the time, and always good in the important parts so far.
• “Legendary” items (I call them Aspected Rares but I’m weird), were great. Once you start getting them the game really shows its strengths. Your builds start to grow and expand and your character becomes more what you want it to be. I absolutely love the ability to take an aspect of an item and apply it to another along with the idea of completing world dungeons to unlock new aspects to craft with. I also very much appreciate that those aspects are account bound so I don’t have to run every single dungeon on every single character I make. Like the side quests (I’ll get to that later). Also the ability to add sockets to an item without BS is freaking Great.
• Once you get more abilities, the combat opens up a great deal quite quickly. I’m not a big fan of the opening levels, it feels slow and kinda dull but I have to remind myself that that’s how it all is. It’s there for people who don’t really know how to play these kinds of games to learn how the world and systems work. Once you get to about level 10 or 11 on most classes the options you have are plentiful and exciting. Each class has multiple build options and it’s fun to explore them and it doesn't take long to get there.
• The amount of account bound things is great. The statues applying an account wide buff, the aspects you collect being in your account collection and the primary renown rewards being account wide is perfect for what this game needs. It doesn’t discourage playing other classes, while still rewarding you should you choose to play another class without making it a required aspect of the game. I was initially annoyed at a Rep system (Rep grind WoW PTSD Talking here), but the way they handle it is great for a game like this. I love when I get rewarded simply for exploring.
• The world events that, yes do just kind of cycle, are at least fun to do and offer good rewards. I love that they offer those tokens you can use to gamble with. It gives you a reason to do them apart from just item rewards and it never felt boring to see a red circle on the map and go and murder the heck out of some demons. Even if I did protect the same three people and their carts about 20 times in the two weekends. It’s a great time to see how a build works.
• The strongholds in particular were probably my favorite. The most interesting boss encounter in the entire Beta for me was the Goat boss in the center of one of the strongholds. His constant littering of the arena with Ice and CC made me think real hard about how I was moving and where I was dodging too. Died multiple times to it and it felt great finally taking him down.

The Good

• Customization feels great and it’s fun to experiment, but it has a few minor issues. I was terrified at the idea of a skill tree. I personally hate them, I don’t think they ever add much to a game apart from either a restrictive choice or a pointless choice and it’s rare that there is an in between. I’m sure it’s blasphemy to say this but I actually like the skill system in Diablo 3 because it encourages what I love to do most, experiment without penalty. Diablo 4 has a cost to respec yes, but it was never intrusive in the beta (Though it doesn’t really need to be there in the first place to be honest). I do worry that it will get immensely expensive and discourage experimentation in the future but that's unknown for now. Combine the skill system with the aspects on items and I had a ton of fun just dinking about with builds even in the limited options I had in the beta. Some worked, some didn’t, and it’s fun to try them out. I will say that I don’t like that you can respec and such mid combat, it feels like that is going to create some sort of weird… skill and ability swapping meta that I wouldn’t want to deal with.
• I’ll touch more on this in a different section but I will at least give the devs credit for making an overworld that is fun to run around in and participate in… semi-random events etc… If you’re going to do a game like this, they at least put a good effort into making it interesting. Some of the most fun I had was just wandering around the world, forgetting about quests, and murdering everything in my path as I experimented with builds. So props for that!
• Class Diversity was another thing I enjoyed, I’ll get into each individual class later, but I did like that for the most part they all played wildly differently and the inclusion of a specialization for every class was really cool. The ability to further differentiate themselves from each other was welcome and I found the Necromancer one in particular very interesting. I hope the ones that we didn’t get to see in the Beta (Barb and Druid) are just as interesting. Sadly that is unknown at this time.

The Bland

• While I do appreciate the fact that the game has a Character creator… I found it extremely lacking and I got a bit frustrated with it. You get to customize a character to an extent, and that’s great, but it was just so… limited. Each class has a specific look that you have to adhere too and I would have appreciated letting me make a character I wanted to make, then choose a class. On top of that it does that slightly frustrating thing where sure, it lets you choose a skin color, but it doesn’t take into account that different races would have differnet bone structures or how that would affect your hair etc.. it just felt meh. Almost every choice wouldn’t even be visible to begin with 5 minutes into the game (Jewelry, tattoos etc…) on top of that once the choice is made it’s permanent with the exception of the accessories. I can’t change hair or hair color once I’ve made my character which becomes important for one class!
• The dungeon objectives I feel will get old really fast. I like the dungeons, don't get me wrong, it’s nice to be in a part of the game where I don’t have others interfering (Oh I’ll get to that later). That said, the objectives got real old. Any of the “Go collect items here and place them on the pedestal.” was already annoying the first time, let alone the 5th. I wasn’t as annoyed as others were about the layouts, I didn’t even notice it to be honest. After a thousand+ Rifts in D3, they all felt the same to me anyway.
• The side quests are… at best an excuse to explore a dungeon, and at worst a boring collect the things or kill the things slog. Some lead to some interesting bits of world building that I did actually like. Showing just how much Lilith’s influence is spreading to the masses. Most of the time though, it wasn’t that and doing that on multiple characters got pretty boring pretty quickly. I’m not against side quests in games, but I prefer if they have more of an involved story than just “Hey! I need you to go collect some Ghoul Hearts for me…. I need 15 for ya know… reasons.” Just feels like unneeded padding.
• While I did enjoy the main dungeons, the cellars are boring. They are a single room where nothing of any real importance happens, there is usually no chest or shrine or event. It’s just a room with things to destroy and often not many things at all. They could do so much with this and I’m shocked that they didn’t. A boss, a hidden ritual you have to stop, a cursed shrine or chest… the only Cellar my friend and I found that was interesting was a cellar with Three treasure goblins in it. But how cool would it be if each one was something crazy and cool? Missed potential there. I would love to into a cellar only to have the door behind me slam shut, locking me in to a fight with the Butcher or something.

The Bad

• The UI is one of the most boring and uninteresting things in this game. It’s so boring that I actively dislike it and rail against it constantly. It’s just gray and sad, it lacks that flair and pizzazz I expect from a blizzard game. Sure it functions but I want more than “It functions” from a game UI. I’ll start with the skill tree since it’s my least favorite part of the UI. First off, it’s way too damn big. I shouldn’t have to scroll up and down constantly in a manner that feels like it was designed for a damn phone. There feels like so much empty, unneeded space on that tree as well, I just can’t figure out why. They could very easily consolidate it into something more readable with less scrolling. Even if I have it to fill the screen it’s too big. There aren’t even enough nodes on it to justify this. In PoE you have to scroll around cause it's just a massive array of nodes, it makes sense why. In this though, they could easily have shrunk it down and laid it out in a more concise way.
• (This is avery personal biased gripe I know) The Minimap is too big and has too much information on it. I would like to disable it but I can’t. This is a personal thing I’m sure, but I have learned to hate mini-maps in games. All I end up doing is staring at the minimap and not the game because it has all the info I need on it, why look at the game? On top of that, they removed the transparent overlay that has become such a staple in every ARPG that I’m wondering why it’s not here. On the same token, at the very least let me scale the UI down so that it’s smaller, I don’t need it filling a fifth of my screen.
• I didn’t love how close the camera was. And realizing that it can zoom out more, and does so, during the world boss actually annoyed me more because they showed it was possible, we just weren’t allowed! Why not!?
• It's weird I know, but I don't love the font choice. It's so... by the books. I don't miss a lot from D2, but at least something as simple as the font choice gave it some flavor! I recognize it's the same font in D3, but I didn't like it there either. Also the big word of "Dodged!" or "Dazed" popping up... wish I could disable that.
• Probably the most controversial of all, I hate that this is basically an MMO. I really do. Barring the online only argument which I got used to in D3, at least in D3 I could play the game alone, or with a friend if I chose to, and when playing alone I could pause the game. At the very least, they have done a good job in creating a world that’s fun to roam around in, but it would have been better if I simply could do it alone. Half the time playing the game I’m having a blast running around, doing events and strongholds with nothing but my skill and power. Then other times, I would start an event and 2-4 people would show up and remove every iota of challenge and fun from it. It’s not how I want to play these games and I just wish I had the option for a solo world. It’s probably why I liked dungeons so much, no one else could interfere with my game. I don’t even like seeing them in town, but I would settle for that being the only time I saw other people if I had to. I was worried about this portion of the game going into it, I knew what it was before I started so it didn’t exactly surprise me. I still had fun despite this part of it, but It’s just disappointing that it’s not optional. If they ever force a PvP zone that I have to go into for story or endgame reasons, I would be very ticked off.
• The concept of a world boss is good, and it’s where the multiplayer is most prominent and also the most troubling. What if other people aren’t around in the future? Are world bosses now impossible to kill solo? On top of that the idea that it spawns at specific times is worrying because no one should have to schedule their day around a boss spawning in a video game. Especially those that can’t do that. Now this is partially unknown because we don’t know what the boss's schedule will be but it shouldn’t even have a schedule. Have the players do something to summon the boss. The fight itself was fun once you learn the boss’s attacks and can dodge them and feel like a badass, but it also at times felt more like a Zerg rush where people just die over and over and over again and eventually the boss dies, or you run out of time. The rewards were great but still, I don’t like how it’s implemented at all. As an example, my friend works a midday shift. He wasn’t even able to be online during the time the boss was up so he didn’t even get to see it.

The Unknown
Everything so far is stuff that Was in the Beta that I could actively form feelings on, but there are some unknown things that I would like to know the answers to. These are things that we either didn’t get to see in the Beta, are questions that aren’t answered in the Beta, etc… Not entirely good or bad (apart from one).

• The biggest and most looming shroud over this entire game, honestly, is how are they going to monetize it. We know that they have said “Cosmetics Only with battle passes.” but we don’t know to what extent that’s going to be like. In the Beta we did get some cool looking armor, so they don’t seem to be going the route of “Well there is only cool armor if you pay for it.” Which is good. That said, they could also go the other direction of adding just ridiculous outfits that completely ruin the aesthetic coherence of the game. I don’t want to be battling the demons of hell, to have someone ride by in a literal clown car, wearing a rainbow disco outfit with sparkles flying off it. I also don’t want the coolest armor in the game to be purchased only. On top of that if they ever implement a “Buy gold/Resource system.” They can kindly go play in a lava pit. Hopefully they learned about how much we all hated that shit in Diablo Immoral.
• Class balancing in the Beta was all over the place. I’m not saying it’s good or bad, it’s only the first 25 levels and two of the classes didn’t have access to their specialization (druid and barbarian). I had wildly different experiences with all five classes in how easy/hard the game felt. This is unknown because true balance will be at max level where I would hope things even out more. Personally I don’t care about ladders or competitive anything, I just want to be able to accomplish things in the game with all classes without feeling like a couple of them are an uphill losing battle. More on the classes in a bit.
• Given the massive nature of the world and the game itself. I have no idea how Seasons will work. I think playing through the game, doing the side quests and such, is fine once or twice. But there is no dimension where I’m going to enjoy doing all of these quests over and over again each season. I would like to see what they plan to do for the seasons. I also would hope that each season is more than just a simple reset. Some of the stuff they have done with D3 was great, some not so much, so I hope they learn from that and fine tune their changes.
• While I completely excuse the queues and server crashes/overloads/disconnects for a beta. I do Have concerns about the other technical issues I have had that would need to be addressed. First being the Memory issues. I know I don’t have the most RAM in the world, but 16gb should be enough to run Diablo 4, as well as… any other program on my PC. My most common issue for the game crashing was running out of memory. I heard there was a memory leak issue in the Beta, and I would hope that gets addressed before release. It didn't just crash the game it crashed my PC a couple times so that was worrying. (Have 0 issue with any other game in this regard)
• The other common issue I had was rubber banding between areas. It’s a combination I imagine of the servers being overloaded and the way that the world doesn’t fully load until you enter it so you bounce off the invisible zone line. Sometimes it would last way too long though, forcing me to teleport back to town, then teleport back to where I was to be able to progress. I also ran into just invisible walls in the middle of dungeons. It was weird and they were in the exact same spot in some dungeons every time. Minor things like this can be fixed before release, or maybe already have and just weren’t in the Beta release.
• Story is an unknown. I skipped over most of it in the Beta as I want to save it for release but it’s not why I play these games. I do like what little I saw of it though!
• How they will handle content updates is also important. I would love to see their strategy for new classes, events, changes with seasons as I mentioned above, etc… Keeping new and interesting things to do would be fantastic.
• I don’t know how the end game will work, I hear it’s mostly dungeons with random affixes on them. Sounds fun to me, but the objectives in dungeons sound like they can get in the way of the fun. We will see
• Itemization at the endgame will be important as well, I look forward to trying it out

The Classes
I played all five classes in the beta to get a feel of how they were. I admit I didn’t get every one of them to level 25, I didn’t have time. But, I played Wizard, Druid, and Barbarian to level 20 (Druid to 25), and Rogue and Necromancer to level 15/16 and Here are my thoughts on all of them.
The Barbarian
Without a doubt, My least favorite class in the game. This isn’t a surprise to me, it’s always my least favorite class in every Diablo game. I find them just plain boring. You run up to monsters and hit them with your weapons, and/or shout at them a lot. It’s not really entertaining to me. They feels slow, boring, and lumbering. I tried many different builds and found none of them to be particularly powerful or fun with a minor exception and It’s a class I just can never seem to get into.
To give it credit where it’s due, I did love that Charge and Kick actually displaced enemies, throwing them against walls and each other etc… I think that could be where I have the most fun with this class. But against bosses I felt like I could do next to 0 damage and it was incredibly dull when I got to that point. The idea of leveling weapon stats is actually really nice as well, I didn’t get to unlock anything more due to Beta restrictions, maybe that changes things up. Unknown! Won’t be playing during release at the very least. I can’t say if it’s a good class or not, it’s just not for me and that’s OK.
The Rogue
The class I spent the least amount of time with, but, still enjoyed to an extent. I think the Beta in general has a problem with melee builds but I am not entirely sure if that’s a Beta only thing or not. The Rogue was more fun in melee than the Barbarian and had flashier attacks. I primarily however played it as a ranged character and found some of the bow skills to be a bit… shall we say… bland? They All consisted of Shoot arrow. Shoot Arrow faster, Shoot a couple more Arrows, Shoot a couple more arrows in an arc in front of you. Effective yes, but… eh. Doesn’t help that the crossbow is painfully slow.
I did have a lot of fun once you get to the traps though. Setting a poison trap then caltropsing backwards as my enemies melted. Launching them into a trap using what I came to refer to as the “Get the F away from me” Arrow. That was where the fun lied for me and I had a great time. Never could enjoy the melee aspect of it though, just felt too weak in the beta.
The combo points stuff really made for a good time though, and I liked that they added that in, I hoped to get more time with it but other classes had to be played. I liked it overall and think that it would be fun to play on release. I also like that for this, and other classes, you had all your weapons equipped and didn't have to hard choose between Melee and Ranged, or, Spells vs Non spells. That was a great touch.
The Necromancer
I think this class is way overtuned in the Beta. Without a doubt the easiest time I had playing the Beta was with the Necro. It was one of the only melee classes I felt could fully function, while also having some awesome options for ranged and DoT based combat.
Of all the classes the Necro’s specialization with it’s skeleton pets is the most interesting and way more thought out than the others. The customization options you get are varied and interesting, and It kind of made me with the other classes had better options than they did. (Again barring the ones we can’t access yet). I think this was a ton of fun but again it was just so powerful that it felt almost like cheating. I played on Veteran difficulty the entire Beta and with Necro it still felt too easy. I was doing more damage by level 10 than I could with my level 20 barbarian, and my pets kept me safe. If I had any complaints, it’s that I still don’t love how the corpses on the ground look. They feel out of place, but I understand why they need to be visible to the player.
The Sorcerer
Having put over 1000 hours into it in D3’s Wizard, I felt this is the class I could see the most differences with. I started with Frost and enjoyed it but It felt a bit bland when fighting bosses. Good for filling the stagger meter, but I couldn’t deal much damage once I got it staggered anyway. I then switched to lightning and had much more fun blowing up hordes of enemies. The legendary items I got all seemed to want me to be lightning based so I went with it and it showed how much the aspects change your gameplay.
The class mastery for Sorcerer is a biiit meh. You get to enhance an ability to do an additional thing in the beta (Looks like two past Beta) but the enhancements weren’t exactly all exciting. All of them were passives like with Hydra, every so often you get a hydra with additional heads… woo.
Overall, felt like this was a great place to start and had a decent balance of abilities. Felt easy once I switched to Lightning but again, class balance before the endgame isn’t exactly something that I expect to be perfect, nor does it need to be.
The Druid
Ohhhh… Oh druid. My favorite class in D2, mainly because I loved the Werebear and Werewolf forms. Going into D4 I had fully intended to just be a Werebear or Werewolf druid and never look back. I was disappointed though with how they treated druid at first.
Yes, I’m one of the people that didn’t like that every Druid has to be as large as they were. I’m fat IRL too, not shaming anyone for that, heck I like that that body type is in the game, but I don’t think they look good in the game’s engine. I would have preferred an option to create my character then choose a class, let me be what I wanted to be. That said, once I started getting armor and such, the look did grow on me a bit. They did a good job with the animation at least, and the helms in particular really are awesome looking for Druid.
My disappointment didn’t stop there though. The Werebear and Werewolf forms… they made me sad.. The forms look fine, but you can’t stay in them. You stay in them for 3 seconds or so then revert back unless you continue to attack in those forms. I know I’m biased on this so it’s not technically a negative, it’s just something I liked in the old game. On top of all that the fur color is specific to your hair color which while it's a nice touch, I would have liked to have seen that in the creator. I must have remade my druid four times to get a fur color and pattern I liked. I’ve also been told there is a unique that lets you keep your form, but That’s not in the Beta so I can’t pass judgment on it.
THAT ASIDE… I probably had the most fun playing the druid than the other classes. I started with Werebear but found, like the Barbarian, it was just not strong enough. I switched to Werewolf and had fun there, then I tried Earth, Lightning and Air builds. This is another class that didn’t click until I got legendaries and boy… did it click. I swapped to what I now call the Windy Werewolf. (Sounds like a Mega Man X Maverick doesn’t it?) A combination of the speed of the werewolf and Wind abilities together worked wonders. I got an aspect that let my tornadoes zero in on my enemies and was able to melt just about everything I came against. It felt so good. This alone showed me just how much variety a class can have in just the items you find and that the game doesn't actively rail against you in how you experiment. So in the end, I loved it more for it.
I don’t know what class I’ll play on release. Right now it’s Druid, but Necro and Wizard were so fun as well… gonna be a tough one!
Bringing it all together
So, you’re still here? Well, if ya are. Thank you for listening to my rantings. The game went from meh, to “I look forward to playing this in June.” Pretty quickly, but I’m not 100% head over heels in love with every aspect of it. There are things I wish were different, there are things I feel are just aspects of the Beta being weird. In the end I was pleasantly surprised that I didn’t hate the skill tree, I was surprised how much fun I had with what I thought would be bland and repetitive events, only to remember “Oh yeah, i do the same 10 events 1000 times in D3 so how is this different?” The game is fun to play, fun to experiment with, and a joy to live in this horrific world. I worry a lot about how they will try to monetize it, and I worry about the cosmetics muddying the darker aesthetic they are going for.
The game so far feels like they took the best parts of D2, and the best parts of D3 and combined them together and I’m cautiously optimistic about the final release. It’s all going to come down to how they monetize it I think. If I catch a whiff of the BS they pulled with Diablo Immoral… Diablo himself would cower at my wrath.
I look forward to the games release. Thank you all for reading, try not to sin too much eh?

Let me preface this by saying that this isn’t a journey that has come easy to me, that I’ve taken lightly or that has been quick. This is a new Reddit account, but for the entirety of 2022 I posted here as “just_happy_cheese” before I tried to delete Reddit in the new year (lol). I’ve been researching and wondering for a long time, but I finally had my “aha!” moment and I thought people might find some use from it.
So. Theatrical romantic, the type that people think everyone wants to be. Well, not me. I wanted to be Kate Moss. The idea of being a romantic in any sense felt wrong to me - I’m not feminine, I’m not conventionally super curvy, I basically wrote off R and TR as soon as I heard about Kibbe.
I did the quiz and got soft classic, like many, and that didn’t feel right, so I favoured Dramatic Classic (despite being 5’4 and knowing I wasn’t elongated). I didn’t like the “tailored chic” idea but I told myself it looked good. Oh sweet summer child, it did not. But anyway, this was a year ago. There was a long journey of DC > SC < SN ahead of me, even some moments of “maybe SG?”
Never once did I think I was in the romantic family at all. I was still in the mindset of, I’m Yang, I have such a Yang “vibe”, and if I’m not Yang then I must be balanced. I did typing posts, I got every response under the sun as many do. Some were convinced I was SN, and I tried it. But I knew almost immediately that I didn’t have the bone structure for it - even by looking at the verified examples. And SN is the type that I would most love to be, but I had a couple friends who were definitely SN and I simply looked bad in many things they looked great in.
So, anyway, my dad’s wedding was recently, about a month ago. By this point I was having a long Kibbe break, I felt untypable and nothing felt right. Fabric didn’t fall gracefully on me like a classic, and I look plain as hell in simple outfits (I also just looked very short in a lot of the recommendations). All this time, I didn’t realise that the very occasional soft, fitted glam outfit that accommodates for petite, that I wore on the (again very occasional) night outs, with extra jewellery and more powerful makeup, was where I looked my most incredible. Or maybe I didn’t want to admit that. Because that look requires effort, and like many I suffer from mental health issues that preclude me from making effort a lot of the time.
But for my dad’s wedding, I wanted to make an effort. With no ID in mind at all, I chose a short, fit & flare, romantic looking playsuit - a gorgeous number from Urban Outfitters (UK) if anyone’s interested. It was a bit of a purchase on a whim - I was rushing after work and just liked it enough for a wedding whilst enjoying that it was dark colours still. Lol.
Anyway, I looked amazing in it. It felt like ME. And I didn’t think about Kibbe at all during this time - I know one outfit does not an ID make. But then Lana Del Rey’s new album came out, and this is an album that feels so right with that outfit. I started to wear more things like that, and started adding a smokey soft eye, and pretty necklaces. Despite it being feminine, I always needed to keep it a bit edgy. And please bear in mind, this is after an entire year of trying to be anything other than romantic-looking. I’m also fully aware that any type can wear any aesthetic - I mean Lana herself is a tall type!
But the new aesthetic and outfits did get me thinking that I’d written off Romantic pretty quickly without looking into them. I’d felt too awkward for them. Now, I’m about the same weight as Selena is in 2023 (not model skinny but not particularly plus sized), and most Kibbe examples are women at lower weights. I noticed I carried my weight similarly, even though I do not look like Selena Gomez (I wish). I also realised that the “TR face” thing would apply to me. And I started to be suspicious that maybe… just maybe. So back to my research I went. And my god. It just fit. Accommodating petite and double curve, check. I didn’t even believe I was petite until I started accommodating for it, despite the fact that I wore some items of children’s clothing until well into my 20s and have known for a while that my ribs sit almost directly on top of my hips. I also didn’t realise I had double curve until I gained weight because I fell into the trap of “small boobs = no double curve” (despite straight silhouettes always, always looking really weird around my bust area unless it was oversized & covering it completely - which meant of course that I always wore oversized).
Despite the fact that I feel I should feel like an impostor, I don’t. It fits me so well. A lot of the stereotypical TR aesthetic isn’t even what I’d go for and probably won’t wear, but the accommodations are the ONLY ones that work for me.
If you’ve read this far, thank you for listening. This journey has been crazy but I’m excited to keep going now!

I was having some instability issues that tweaking vmparams and the config settings weren't fixing (Java8 is up to date), so I opted for a reinstall on my mods folder, so its tabula rasa again for a campaign launch.
I've been having fun with a lot of cruisers, in particular the ifed ones from Interstellar Federation (refurbished), but that is one of the mods I chose not to reinstall (hidden systems built into those ships were messing up).
Looking for cruisers that have their primary weapon batteries along the centerline, with arcs of 210-270* would be optimal. Basically being able to flex the Mediums around; I am not expecting to find Cruisers with 2 Large mounts on the centerline with wide arcs, but something similar to what Keptin and Weftin were each working on. Boy, they were fun ships though; loved that aesthetic, but they felt a bit anemic at times for as much pixels as they took up.
There is one candidate I am looking at from Tartiflette's O.R.A that looks promising.
The doctrine I would like to build the fleet around is to be able to take 10-11 of these bastards into a 240 CR fight. In Vanilla, I did this with 5 Apogees (90), 5 Eagles (110), backlined by a Conquest (40) outfitted with a single broadside I would pilot around, and make beep-beep-beep noises as I had to back it up. Was a neat package followed along by a couple of CRigs, some Phaetons, and some bulk freighters.
Minimize the amount of Small mounts, and especially any spinal (fixed) mounts except Missiles, while intending any hangar bays for low-cost drones to serve as PD/chaff.
I get it, Catamaran aesthetics look really cool, but modern naval gunnery has already moved past that last century, and we are technically operating on a flat 2D plane with layers at most. Arc is everything to me.

Now, to be clear, this has nothing to do with me wanting to dress or behave more femininely. I just happen to have a very specific interest in women who take their appearance or their own femininity very seriously. There’s something about the way that women seem to fixate on makeup, hair, outfits, their own aesthetic, and the image that they broadcast to the world that really, really interests me.
So basically what I am posting for is a conversation topic that would cover any of these areas. I am interested in talking about the following purely as examples of future conversation:
Makeup techniques, brands, styles that you prefer or have favored over the years.
The same about outfits. Do you prefer heels? Flats? Another type of shoe entirely?
Have you ever worked at a job where you felt as if your appearance was one of the central reasons that you had the job? I’m thinking ‘eye candy’ specific occupations.
In the interest of making this an equal exchange of ideas, thoughts, etc, I want this to be a conversation. I do not want to be the only one coming up with things to ask or say. This isn’t simply a one-sided 20 questions. I am genuinely hopeful that I will make a new friend on here!
My name is Rick and I’m from Dallas, Texas. I have a degree in business from one of the nearby universities and I just turned 29 years old. My interests include working on my car, catching up on television shows (I’m weirdly into the Bachelor), and getting into highly charged political debates that never really solve anything.
I am only interested in having an online friendship/conversation. I will never, ever ask you for pictures or verification of your identity.

I'll break it down per contestant:
Duncan: I think they actually had VERY high hopes for him going int othe season. They aren't going to pay for a contestant to come from NZ unless they were very impressed with him. His first look was VERY polarizing, some loved it and some hated it. Tbh though, rewatching the judging I'm honestly thinking they may have initially planend to keep him though. You can tell Heidi's face is completely crest-fallen when Duncan openly says he didn't really have a clear story/point of view. I actually think they originally planned on eliminating Blake first based on the way Heidi talked to him but changed it to Duncan when they realized his heart really wasn't into the competition. One of their top people was gone immediately.
- David: I think they were kind of mixed on him going into the season if I had to guess. But very hopeful. If nothing else though he had a really interesting point of view. That being said, I think their hands were kind of tied behind their back with him in that he wasn't really following the competition rules. His eliminated look had little to nothing to do with the challenge, he kind of just did his own thing. He also was one of the designers who didn't bring his tools to the compeitition. Really sweet guy and I think the judges were very disappointed that the reason why they had to eliminate him was due to the fact they couldn't count on him following the rules.
- Han Miao: This type of designer is always kind of hit or miss, they're cast partially for entertainment and very hit/miss designs. I think the judges were hopeful there'd be more hits than misses but I don't think they were super shocked when she missed more than she hit.
- Gabrielle: I know most people think she was probably cast for fodder but I actually think they had real high hopes for her. They don't cast somebody who is boring television unless they have high hopes for them (see somebody like Leanne). She was a Parsons graduate and had her designs in stores prior to the season. PR didn't work out for her though, she really struggled.
- Amanda: I think they were taking a chance on her but weren't expecting her to make it super far. She had a very unique point of view for sure. I don't think they were expecting her to completely flop but I don't think they had real high hopes for her either. I think she was cast mainly for personality and because she had a very distinctive way of designing but not a serious winner candidate.
- Blake: I feel like he was cast to be an early boot tbh. His deisgn aesthetic was VERY niche. He surprisingly ended up adapting to PR better than I think they were expecting. Still not great by any means but this was perhaps one of the few pleasant surprises the judges got this season. I will say I think originally they may have intended to eliminate him first as they ripped his first outfit apart and Heidi seemed to set him up for failure with her questions. Than suddenly during critique they said "well, at least he has ideas" (probably after Duncan's response they decided to eliminate him).
- Jake: I think he was cast more as drama. He ended up just kind of being all around very boring though. I will say that he did at times prove that he had some potential so maybe he was a more serious competitor? IDK what was going on with him but eitehr was he was definately a dud of a casting choice for sure.
- Joseph: Again, I think he was drama casting. He wasn't supposed to make it this far, he was supposed to be one of the first few eliminated. Yet was able to coast to this point.
- Lindsey: Definately early boot casting. Was 100% there to provide drama and be overly cocky and promptly go home quickly. Yet because so many of the designers they had high hopes for flopped she was able to coast to the second half of the competition.
- Lauri: The wholesome "older" woman/mom designer who's a sweet person but has a VERY limited design aesthetic (in her case wedding dresses). They always are gone within the first few eliminations. However, because things went all wrong this season she ended up being in the talk of one of the best designers of the season.
- Swapnil (Saisha): Tim just couldn't bare to see all the designers they were so hopeful about continue to flop and they really were their last hope. Not sure how much of it was laziness on his part or just the way PR worked not working for him but even though his designs on the show were pretty good his final collection and other work show he was capable of SO MUCH more. Than at the end he jsut completely gave up.
- Merline: I think they were kind of mixed on her going into the season in that they found her distinctive aesthetic really interesting but weren't sure how she'd fare on the show. She was very hit/miss overall on the show as expected. Probably in most seasons she would have gone home more in the middle because of how extreme some of her misses were. But because its season 14 it took her to the end of the show.
- Candice: I think they were intrigued by her. I don't think they thought she would be a slam dunk in the hole like others they cast who they were sure would be (Duncan, Gabrielle, Swapnil). She was a long shot for the win but there was a chance she'd take it all, if nothing more she'd deliver some itneresting clothes. Unfortunately she seemed to just create the same dress over and over again.
- Edmond: I think the fact they waited so long to put him on the show means they thought he could be a possible winner candidate rather than just somebody cast and is an early boot. I think they thought he'd do beter than he did but he was fine.
- Kelly: One of the few shining moments of the show. I think similar to Candice, they liked her aesthetic and thought if nothing else she'd deliver some interesting clothes with a unique point of view. Her winning was more of a long shot but not out of the question. She went above and beyond expectations though. Except her final collection which sadly flopped.
- Ashley: Unpopular opinion but I don't think she was intended to win the season at all from the get-go like others seem to think. I feel like she was a very niche designer (the whole plus-sized thing) where it would be like "that's a nice thought/I appreciate there are people designing like this" and than promptly be an early to mid boot. I think the reason she made it so far was the number of people completely flopping around her and it allowed her to coast to the end. I do think though the reason she won was because the judges were basically like "well all 4 flopped on their final collections, lets give it to the one who designed for plus-sized women, at least maybe than it will give us good media attention." Them giving Ashley the win though I think was definately last resort and moreso trying to find the positive in a very bad situation though.
PR isn't a show that has plus-sized designs for the main challenges so she'd have no opportunity to even show what she can do as a plus-sized designer. Again, I think she was just cast as a feel-good, nice person with a heartwarming design aesthetic, not to be the winner of the show.
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So basically to sort the designers:
- High hopes foreal winner candidates: Duncan, Gabrielle, Swapnil
- Interested in them/long shot winner candidates: Candice, David, Kelly, Edmond
Han Miao, Amanda, and Merline I think were kind of cast for this category as well but I think more likely than not they weren't really viewed as winner candidates pre-season. So maybe VERY VERY long shot winner candidates but at least what they'd show would be interesting.
- Fodder: Lindsey, Ashley, Blake, Joseph, Lauri
Jake I'm not really sure what they were expecting pre-season. He was grouped under the designers who were there for "drama" in Road to the Runway, along with Joseph and Blake. So possibly he was there for drama? I'm not really sure.
For what its worth, this casting formula has worked I'd say in pretty much every other season. Season 14 was just kind of a clusterfuck where all plans went awry
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Look at the surrounding seasons (season 12, 15, 16, 13, etc.) and pretty much the elimination order I think happened pretty much identically to what they were planning pre-season
I will also say that in most cases they even will continue to keep around the person they have high hopes for even if they continue to do poorly in challenges (like Char and Alexander in 13). Its not that the people they had high hopes for this season were just underwhleming in their designs, they completely gave up so really they had no choice but to eliminate them.

Hi! I'm completely new to the scene, and I really don't understand much of anything as these are honestly going to be the first real headphones I would be buying so I was hoping to get advice and understand more about this community and make the right choice with my purchase
Budget - ~$1000 but if anyone has any more affordable options Id love to hear those too
Source/Amp - PC and phone
How the gear will be used - mostly at home when gaming, or in public to listen to music as a uni student to study in the library.
Not a fan of FPS games, mostly play games like Terraria, Stardew Valley, Maplestory, and random obscure indie games. The most competitive game, that I play in relation to the E-sports scene is League of Legends
Preferred music genres - Ballads, R&B/Soul, and Blues, so they're usually slower in tempo.
As an aside: I love to be fashionable and am also hoping to use headphones as an accessory with outfits. Is it better to buy one for purely aesthetics and then another for gaming usage?

I like to dress up but my neurodivergent brain hates wearing certain pretty tops for too long. Also I tend to pull out braids and up-dos on autopilot. Looking for some simple more comfortable ideas that still make me pop visually.
Its obviously not important to the content, I just really love to see the aesthetics of the vods on the days I've nailed outfit and hair.
Thinking that contrasts are nice to think of, to stand out from your background and surroundings, also just following the general lines of what fits my body type/skin tone etc.
Any wisdom for me about what looks and feels good ? Or just about anything style related?

Welcome to OOTD - Outfit of the Day!

Don't have a question but want to show off your outfit? Feel free to show off details of your most recent outfits here with us! This thread is posted twice a week, on Sundays and Wednesdays.
1) Upload your photo to Imgur or another image-hosting website.
2) Include at least 3 details about your outfit in your post, such as:

• Your height
• Purpose of the outfit (e.g., school, work, event)
• Clothing details (e.g., brand, sizing, etc.)
• Store details

1. If you would like constructive criticism, please post CCW (Constructive Criticism Welcome) in your post in order to receive feedback from users. When posting CCW, it is helpful to mention specifically what aspect of your outfit you would like feedback on (e.g., the length, colour, overall aesthetic, etc.)
   
2. Only provide feedback to posts that have CCW and note that all comments must follow our sub guidelines. There is a difference between giving constructive criticism (e.g., "That length is not very flattering on you." and being an asshole "You look ugly.")
   

Please note:

• NSFW content is not allowed
• Self-promotion is not allowed - these should be posted in our ✨ Show Off Saturday threads which are posted on Saturday.
• Not liking someone's outfit or opinion does not mean it is a personal attack. Unless a user has broken one of our rules (e.g., making inappropriate comments, body/weight shaming, etc.), please do not report users simply for disagreeing with your opinion.

So I have a couple of NPCs that get invisible bodies. It's not a lot, but it's enough that I notice it. Is there anyway to fix this? I think the most obvious NPC with this error is Kematu.
Here's my modlist. Hope you guys can help!
#Mod_Priority,#Mod_Status,#Mod_Name

• "0000","+","DLC: HearthFires"
• "0001","+","DLC: Dragonborn"
• "0002","+","DLC: Dawnguard"
• "0003","+","Creation Club: ccQDRSSE001-SurvivalMode"
• "0004","+","Creation Club: ccBGSSSE037-Curios"
• "0005","+","Creation Club: ccBGSSSE025-AdvDSGS"
• "0006","+","Creation Club: ccBGSSSE001-Fish"
• "0007","+","Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch"
• "0008","+","Bug Fixes SSE"
• "0009","+","HD LODs Textures SE"
• "0010","+","DynDOLOD Resources SE"
• "0011","+","DynDOLOD DLL SE"
• "0012","+","DynDOLOD DLL SE - Scripts"
• "0013","+","PapyrusUtil SE - Modders Scripting Utility Functions"
• "0014","+","ApachiiSkyHair SSE"
• "0015","+","RaceMenu"
• "0016","+","Fores New Idles in Skyrim SE - FNIS SE"
• "0017","+","FNIS Creatures"
• "0018","+","FNIS Spells"
• "0019","+","Kaidan Immersive Features"
• "0020","+","FNIS Output"
• "0021","+","SmoothCam"
• "0022","+","Maevan2's Eye Brows SE"
• "0023","+","KS Hairdos SSE - Female"
• "0024","+","ApachiiSkyHairFemale_v_1_5_1"
• "0025","+","The Eyes Of Beauty SSE"
• "0026","+","The Eyes Of Beauty SSE Elves"
• "0027","+","Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Enhancer -CBBE-"
• "0028","+","SG Female Eyebrows"
• "0029","+","Better Brow Texture SE"
• "0030","+","[namida"
• "0031","+","High Elf Preset Angel SE"
• "0032","+","High Elf Preset Mid"
• "0033","+","Onmund by CrimsonFairy"
• "0034","+","Bijin Wives SE 1.1.2"
• "0035","+","Bijin NPCs SE 1.2.1"
• "0036","+","Pandorable's NPCs"
• "0037","+","Kaidan 2.1.1"
• "0038","+","Hunky Farkas with Companion Wolf Armor"
• "0039","+","KS Hairdos Renewal - Male"
• "0040","+","Handsome Vilkas 1.2"
• "0041","+","High Poly Head SE"
• "0042","+","SkyUI"
• "0043","+","Enhanced Lights and FX"
• "0044","+","ELFX Fixes"
• "0045","+","Kori - A High Poly Female High Elf Racemenu Preset"
• "0047","+","Bijin Skin - CBBE"
• "0048","+","Aredhel High Elf Follower and preset ESP-FE"
• "0049","+","High Elf Preset - Aurora"
• "0050","+","Bijin Warmaidens SE"
• "0051","+","Lucien"
• "0052","+","Opulent Robe Retexture 4K SE"
• "0053","+","Immersive Armors - Realistic Armors replace SE FULL"
• "0054","+","Female Makeup Suite - Face - RaceMenu Overlays of Eyeliner EyeShadow Contours and Highlights - Special Edition"
• "0055","+","Summer's Custom Eyes"
• "0056","+","Community Overlays 1 (0-30) Bodypaints Warpaints Tattoos and more made for the Community (Special Edition)"
• "0057","+","Community Overlays 2 (31-50) Bodypaints Warpaints Tattoos and more made for the Community (Special Edition)"
• "0058","+","Convenient Horses"
• "0059","+","Enhanced Volumetric Lighting and Shadows (EVLaS)"
• "0060","+","Convenient Horses Anniversary Edition Patch"
• "0061","+","Skyrim Horses Renewal SSE"
• "0062","+","Contextual Helmet Equipping - Combat"
• "0063","+","JK's Skyrim all in one"
• "0064","+","JK Skyrim No Lights Compatibility"
• "0065","+","Address Library for SKSE Plugins"
• "0066","+","Nether's Follower Framework"
• "0067","+","RS Children Overhaul"
• "0068","+","Brows"
• "0069","+","FineFaceTextures_by Urshi_Version_B_2_0"
• "0070","+","Improved Eyes Skyrim"
• "0071","+","-Giselle- RaceMenu Preset and Screenarchery Tips"
• "0072","+","R246 Female Presets for RaceMenu and ECE"
• "0073","+","Natural Eyes"
• "0074","+","BodySlide and Outfit Studio"
• "0075","+","Anastasia - High Poly HighElf Racemenu Presets"
• "0076","+","DreamBurrow Regal Huntsman Armor-SSE-2-0"
• "0077","+","Crimson Ranger Armor SE 1.0"
• "0078","+","Noble Skyrim Mod HD-2K"
• "0079","+","Rogue Light Elven Armor"
• "0080","+","Expressive Facial Animation -Male Edition-"
• "0081","+","Kaidan Replacer"
• "0082","+","ENB Helper SE"
• "0083","+","Smooth Sky mesh - SSE"
• "0084","+","Skyrim_Particle_Patch_for_ENB"
• "0085","+","ENB Light"
• "0086","+","Expressive Facial Animation -Female Edition-"
• "0087","+","Immersive Armors 8.1 SSE Test"
• "0088","+","Immersive Armours - SSE CBBE BodySlide"
• "0089","+","Immersive College NPCs"
• "0090","+","Hedge Mage Armor SSE"
• "0091","+","Fast Travel for Survival Mode"
• "0092","+","Face Discoloration Fix"
• "0093","+","DCR - King Crusader Mega Pack"
• "0094","+","Campfire - Complete Camping System (Supports Skyrim VR)"
• "0095","+","Campfire 1.12.1SEVR Release"
• "0096","+","Increase Carry-Weight on Level-Up"
• "0097","+","Soul Collector"
• "0098","+","Silver Dragon Armor"
• "0099","+","Dragonblood Etched Armor - Standard ESP"
• "0100","+","Legolas Ranger Armor"
• "0101","+","L u n a"
• "0102","+","Touring Carriages"
• "0103","+","Skaal Village Overhaul 1.1"
• "0104","+","Actually Attractive Elves for Racemenu"
• "0105","+","Song of the Green 1.3"
• "0106","+","Auri Replacer"
• "0107","+","Ciri's Outfit 1.5"
• "0108","+","Independent Arsonist Armor (CBBE-3BA-Himbo)"
• "0109","+","King Panther Armor"
• "0110","+","Kaidan 2 - HD Armor Retexture"
• "0111","+","Elven Defender - Armor"
• "0112","+","Studded Elven Armor"
• "0113","+","Gritty Paladin Armor (Standalone)"
• "0115","+","Name Your Horse SE"
• "0116","+","Immersive HUD - iHUD"
• "0117","+","Better Males Remesh for Skyrim SE"
• "0118","+","Smooth Male Body - NEVERNUDE Version with underwear"
• "0119","+","Forgotten Magic Redone SE"
• "0120","+","Better Dialogue Controls"
• "0121","+","Blood Witch Armor"
• "0122","+","Raven witch armor and Apex Werewolf"
• "0123","+","Dragon Bone Mage Armor by Natterforme"
• "0124","+","Aesthetic Elves"
• "0125","+","Common Clothes and Armors"
• "0126","+","Simple Wearable Lanterns"
• "0127","+","Bandolier - Bags and Pouches Classic"
• "0128","+","DX Tembtra Thief Outfit - UNP"
• "0129","+","Black Mage Armor SE"
• "0130","+","Sounds of Skyrim Complete SE"
• "0131","+","Frostfall 3.4.1 SE Release"
• "0132","+","Cloaks of Skyrim SSE"
• "0133","+","Cloaks Of Skyrim Retextured SE"
• "0134","+","My Home is Your Home"
• "0135","+","Alternate Start - Live Another Life"
• "0136","+","Ugly_Zodd Dunmer (Dark Elf) Preset"
• "0137","+","Layla the Dark Elf racemenu preset"
• "0138","+","Arcane Mage Armor"
• "0139","+","(Now High Poly) RaceMenu Presets for Expressive Facegen Morphs"
• "0140","+","INIGO"
• "0141","+","Truly Light Elven Armor (female) for SSE - Replacer - Standalone"
• "0142","+","Static Mesh Improvement Mod"
• "0143","+","Misc. SMIM Fixes"
• "0144","+","Immersive College of Winterhold"
• "0145","+","Nibenean Armors and Outfit SE - UNP - UNPB - CBBE"
• "0146","+","Particle Patch for ENB"
• "0147","+","SkyUI SE - Flashing Savegames Fix"
• "0148","+","Gigaduex's Armor Sets SE"
• "0149","+","ApachiiSkyHairMale_v_1_5_1"
• "0150","+","A Quality World Map"
• "0151","+","BWB Kaidan 4.0"
• "0152","+","Kaidan and Inigo"
• "0153","+","Kaidan NPC Overhaul"
• "0154","+","Lucien Replacer 2"
• "0155","+","Hvergelmir's Aesthetics - Brows"
• "0156","+","High-Poly Inigo Replacer"
• "0157","+","Cathedral Weathers and Seasons"
• "0158","+","Alternate Conversation Camera"
• "0159","+","Dark Elf preset commoner"
• "0160","+","Regalia Armor for UNP CBBE and CBBE Bodyslide SSE"
• "0161","+","RaceMenu High Heels (Height Fixes)"
• "0162","+","Truly Light Glass Armor (female) for SSE - Replacer - Standalone"
• "0163","+","Battle Mage Armour"
• "0164","+","Lunar Guard Armor"
• "0165","+","Seasoned Traveller Armor SE-AE"
• "0166","+","Crimson Twilight Armor - CBBE SSE"
• "0167","+","Tribunal Robes and Masks for SSE"
• "0168","+","SSE Display Tweaks"
• "0169","+","Shadow Boost"
• "0170","+","HG Hairdos"
• "0171","+","Traveling Mage - My version SE-AE"
• "0172","+","Twilight Princess Armor Mashup"
• "0173","+","COCO Raikou - CBBE-TBD-BHUNP SE"
• "0174","+","Kinnari Armor - TBD"
• "0175","+","The Fancy Witch Armour UNP CBBE"
• "0176","+","Lind's Elven Eyes"
• "0177","+","ELFX - Exteriors Fixes"
• "0178","+","RANs HeadMesh Variants"
• "0179","+","Dark Elf Preset Natsh"
• "0180","+","Heartfire Multiple Adoptions"
• "0181","+","Hololive Shirogane Noel Outfit"
• "0182","+","Nightshade Bodysuit"
• "0183","+","Footprints"
• "0184","+","Noble Skyrim Mod HD-2K - SMIM Patch"
• "0185","+","SKSE 64"
• "0186","+","Obsidian Mountain Fogs"
• "0187","+","Apachii Divine Elegance Store"
• "0188","+","ApachiiDivineElegance_SSE_CBBE_by_ughitsmegan_v_1_9"
• "0189","+","JS Armored Circlets SE"
• "0190","+","The Witcher 3 Female Armours - SSE CBBE BodySlide"
• "0191","+","Mage Hunter - Outfit and Flintlock"
• "0192","+","Blended Roads"
• "0193","+","Landscapes - Cathedral Concept"
• "0194","+","Cathedral - Plants"
• "0195","+","Shanoa Armor CBBE port with Changes"
• "0196","+","Faith - Breton Preset"
• "0197","+","Majestic Mountains Main"
• "0198","+","Majestic Mountains Main LOD"
• "0199","+","Water for ENB"
• "0200","+","[NINI] Ceara"
• "0201","+","Winter Is Coming SSE - Cloaks"
• "0202","+","Fuz Ro D-oh - Silent Voice"
• "0203","+","[NINI] Bless RB 0004"
• "0204","+","Calling of the Conjurer"
• "0205","+","DynDOLOD TexGen Fixes"
• "0206","+","Moons And Stars - Sky Overhaul SKSE"
• "0207","+","Happy Little Trees"
• "0208","+","Happy Little Trees Add-On - DynDOLOD 3"
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I like to look at redesigns people make for characters across media and RWBY is one of them.
Usually, characters have a specific style that people adhere to. Weiss has her sort of noblewoman/mage style, Blake is usually given a ninja/rogue theme, but what about Ruby and Yang?
I know Ruby usually has her cloak, and Yang usually gets a biker or cowboy/girl theme in some designs that I've seen, but what else?
What theme/motif/aesthetic do you usually give to/imagine for outfit designs/redesigns for Ruby and Yang, and maybe the other members of RWBY?

Krill awoke, well not really awoke because Vrul don't sleep, but more like drifted out of a daydream, completely unsuspecting.
Then again, when it came to humans, he was almost always completely unsuspecting.
Krill generally took his hiatus in the in the medical bay, since he spent so much time there. There was, however, one drawback to this...
He woke to the sight of Conn, the starborn, floating suspended in a corner of the room.
His large black eyes were wide and unseeing, his large, round mouth was parted revealing the sharp interior vortex of teeth. He saw nothing, and he responded to nothing. It had been months since the event at the prison, and still, the starborn remained comatose. Internal cranial scans had not shown anything definitive. Starborn were difficult to read when compared to humans, but still it was frustrating they could find nothing.
Overall else, commander Vir blamed himself, Conn had saved his life before falling into a coma, and the man seemed to think it was partially him to blame, Krill couldn't have disagreed more, but there was no arguing with the man.
It was rather early, and the medical bay was empty, the lights above had been dimmed to mirror solar cycles and allow for the proper function of the human circadian rhythm. The biggest protest Krill had against this practice was it made everything dark and kind of creepy, especially when you had a brain dead starborn floating in the corner. He shuttered internally and turned away from the corner, quickly making his way from the room and into the dark hall.
Admittedly it wasn't much better out here. While the medical bay had a comatose starborn, the outside hallways were covered in an exposed layer of pipe, and without the reflective white surface of the hospital interior, the hallways were much darker.
Due to safety concerns, the hallways were lit by a single light every twenty feet, but that was seriously no help. He swallowed his concern beating it back with logic and made his way down the hall. The commander would be awake soon, and Krill had a few concerns he wanted to bring before the man.
He was passing a T-intersection on his way to the bridge, when an echoing clatter reached him from down the hall. He turned peering into the darkness, his night vision was relatively poor, so he saw nothing, but switching over to his thermal vision, he could see the faint figure of a human standing in the hallway.
It was a rather hunched person, but other than its heat signature, he couldn't see anything else.
He switched back to his regular vision,
*"Hello?"
He called into the darkness.
Another soft clattering, and a figure appeared from the black, stepping into the penumbra of light right at the edge of darkness and visible light.
Krill blinked in confusion.
It was a woman, or at least he thought it was. She had her face concealed by ragged drapes of long black hair; her head tilted down towards the floor. Her shoulders were hunched, and her hands were held down to the side. She wore only a long white t-shirt, or perhaps a night dress. Krill might have mistaken it as a hospital gown.
Seemed odd, usually the crew were at least somewhat dressed and presentable?
Perhaps they were sleepwalking, humans did that sometimes,
"Hello?"
Krill called again. He took a step forward, and before he knew what was happening, she was crawling across the floor, limbs contorted, feet scrabbling.
Krill let off a high-pitched squeal, turned and ran even as her scuttling followed after him, a horrible brushing slapping noise as her hands came in contact with the metal.
She was so close he could hear her breath.
He shrieked again, and somewhere along the hall a door opened.
A large blue head appeared form the doorway, blearily blinking,
"Krill what… HOLY SHIT!"
Sunny froze when she turned to look, eyes growing wide, then grabbing Krill up in one arm, she crouched into a fighting stance head lowered.
The 'thing' pulled up short, and then sat back on its heels. Dark hair parted about a grotesque face grey and cold, with dark black about the eyes and a horrid blackness about the lips,
"That is really hard on the shoulders, by the way."
Sunny and Krill stared at the creature in surprise, as the woman got to her feet dusting off her hands and knees throwing her dark hair over her shoulder. She giggled,
"You should have seen your face."
"Damn Cortney, that was just mean."
”Yeah, scaring Krill, that’s pretty cheap…I wish I thought of that.”
Krill and Sunny turned again to find the commander standing at the end of the hall, followed by a posse of other humans, and all of them were...
Well, they were dressed very strangely.
The commander himself was wearing a maroon button up shirt, tucked into tan pants and a brown leather gunbelt and boots. Over that he wore a brown leather jacket that reached almost to the floor. Most surprisingly, he had replaced his eyepatch with a prosthetic eye.
Sunny cocked her head, in confusion,
"What is this all about?"
"Hold on, Krill though, that's low hanging fruit."
The woman shrugged,
"He was the only one I knew who I could scare and not get stomped, besides."
She grinned,
"He squeals like a child."
"Captain, we're wasting time!”
One of the bridge crew had stepped up to the commander's side. He was wearing a strange blue long sleeve shirt with a small golden emblem on it, black pants as well... And well his ears seemed rather pointier than they should have been.
"And you are absolutely right!"
He motioned the group behind him forward,
"Come on wouldn't want to miss anything."
Sunny and Krill stood by in confusion as the humans walked past in the wake of the captain.
Behind him, a bearded man in tan robes and a brown cloak followed by another in a strange black suit of armor with some serious breathing issues, and then a bunch of white armored men after that.
In stark contrast to that, a few people came by in very dated clothing, the women with large skirts, and the men with fancy tipped canes.
Sunny found one of the costumes quite unsettling, a human painted with a white face, but bright red lips and nose, with a shock of orange hair and a very strange lacy costume. When he smiled at her, it made her shiver.
After that, a human in a long black and red cape, dark hair slicked back. He smiled at them, and two of his teeth were far longer than they should have been. Sunny could tell by the way Krill cringed, that he wasn't particularly pleased with this.
They continued to parade past in a column, strange armor, stranger clothing. Sunny recognized some of them from the multitudinous number of movies they had watched on the crew movie nights, and even more from the countless movies Vir had made her watch.
A woman in green full plate armor with purple eyes clanked her way past, accompanied by one of the engineers in a red robe with multiple metal arms on his back and Ramirez, who was not wearing a shirt, while he held a weird sword with teeth and was painted by lots of red circles with weird arrows in them.
Behind them followed a man wearing a black suit, dark hair reaching to his shoulders. He had a very closely cropped dark beard, and under one arm he held a stuffed beagle... he was talking to another suit wearing man with a red flower on his chest, holding a stuffed cat telling him about offers he couldn’t say no to.
Whatever that was about?
After they had gone past, Sunny and Krill tagged onto the end of the line, following the group of humans.
They entered into the rec room, but not before another robed figure (accompanied by a small human with big feet, wearing a ring on a chain around his neck) with a big beard told them where they were not allowed to enter, and aranged themselves comfortably.
Commander Vir motioned them closer,
"Come on you two, don't' think I didn't forget about you."
Sunny was a bit confused when he handed her a very strange looking weapon, shaped sort of like a teardrop, but with two prongs. When she pressed a button near the handle, the entire thing lit up with analogue blue electricity.
Another human wearing a helmet with a golden visor and clad in green full body armor exclaimed:
”Aww fucking sweet, I love it! Look Sunny we are a costume pair now!”
Kril got some sort of black covering with a red hourglass shape on the back.
"What is this?"
Krill demanded, the commander grinned and opened his arms wide,
"This my friend is october 31st, Halloween."
"A hallow whats-this?"
"No Halloween. Probably about the greatest holiday ever."
"Like christmas?"
Krill wondered.
"Exactly like christmas. A pagan holiday evolved overtime for commercialization to squeeze every drop of income out of the general populace, and absolutely the best."
Krill and Sunny looked back and forth between each other in confusion.
"What does that have to do with the costumes?"
"Well originally I think it had to do something with wearing masks so a demon couldn't see your real face or something, but now you just dress up as whatever is cool, and then the kids go around asking people for candy. For adults it's an excuse to get drunk, eat their kids’ candy, and watch a scary movie marathon."
Sunny crossed her arms,
"And which one of those will we be doing now?"
”YES!”
”What?”
The commander grinned at her,
"Well, now that we are dressed up, we will be doing a scary movie marathon, eating candy, and then later we are going to party and get drunk... Within reason."
Oh great, this was going to be a disaster. Humans always thought alcohol was a good idea... It never was.
More humans entered.
The first one was wearing brown pants and a blue white shirt. He brought a suitcase, which upon him opening it contained boxes of chocolate.
Following him was a group of humans clad in black, who despite the low lights, were wearing sunglasses. The one with the darker skin color was handing out blue and red sweets.
The last one entering was Doctor Katie, wearing a pretty revealing white outfit. With her orange colored hair and showing everyone her ID card, she stood out quite a bit.
The commander took a seat on one of the couches and then patted the cushions next to him,
"See, I reserved seats for the three of us... oh, just one warning though, I am a total pansy when it comes to scary movies. I will scream, no question about it."
"Then... Why are we doing it?"
Sunny wondered.
"Because it's halloween, the entire point is to be scared at least some point during the day."
[…]
He was very much not kidding.
He did scream, a lot, and he had a habit of grabbing Sunny rather violently when anything jumped out at them.
Sunny personally didn't see the big deal, there wasn't any monster for real, and even if there was, she had a couple of ideas on how to get rid of them, and most of them involved a sharp stick of some sort, or a grenade.
It also didn't help that the humans were always stupid, she knew humans and she was very aware of how well their flight or fight system worked.
No human she knew would walk into a dark room after something creepy happened to them.
But these humans, they loved it, if they weren't freaking out, they were laughing at the others freaking out, and even those who were freaking out ended up laughing a few seconds later. She was sure that Krill had some paper in mind about human social bonding, or perhaps a theory about the calibration of the flight or fight system encouraged by the viewing of scary movies, but she wasn't convinced.
Watching Adam almost pee himself was rather entertaining, and out of the two of them, she liked it when he was forced to rely on her. In this case, he mostly just borrowed her as a shield, but still, it was funny.
Krill was not particularly happy with the amount of trash food consumed.
He hadn't exactly known about health science when he started, kind of assuming that humans could just eat anything they wanted, but now he knew better, and knowing better meant being annoyed at the human's poor life choices.
As for the strange costumes, it turned out that the humans had dressed themselves up as popular characters from movies, books, or history. If not a specific person, then they chose for an aesthetic. The woman in white was from a centuries old horror movie called, the ring. As for commander Vir, he described his costume as "Coming from the best underrated sci-fi television show to ever grace planet earth.
Krill didn’t understand what lamp-bugs had to do with it.
She would have placed him in a western rather than science fiction, but it seemed as if humans didn't like following the rules of their own genres.
As for Krill, he did have a couple of theories to write about. Yes, Sunny was right about the first two, and in conjunction with each other. Laughter was, mostly, a social emotion, sure humans laughed to themselves, but they did it at a much higher frequency around other humans.
Furthermore, from what he could tell, many humans didn't like to watch these sort of movies alone which concluded to him that fear was designed to be a social experience. In fact, humanity seemed to have designed a way to foster greater social bonds in people by having them experience fear together, not only that, but the human sympathetic nervous system was allowed to work in a safe environment readying itself for if something DID happen, and practicing for the eventuality.
He came to the conclusion that it was probably a good practice for the humans. It was a safe way for them to experience stress with other humans and prepare mentally for dangerous situations. For once, Krill actually approved of the behavior, it was safe, nothing dangerous about watching a movie.
As for the costumes, he had a theory about that too. Humans, and partially the Drev, were the only creatures known to design fictional events through fiction, as demonstrated by the movies. The Drev had generally used it the purpose of religion creating grand epics of fantastic warriors in order to teach their children attributes proper for a warrior. Humans would make up anything for the entertainment of it, they had an uncanny ability to imagine themselves in fantastic situations, and many spent times looking for these stories actively. Krill wondered if it was a way to practice empathy, putting yourself in the shoes of another, or if it was some sort of learning. Perhaps they gleaned information from unusual situations preparing themselves in case something was to happen.
The commander's opinion? Well, he pointed out that it was fun to be someone else for a while, someone who was braver than you, smarter than you, better looking than you, or maybe had a more interesting life then you. It gave you an excuse to act in ways you wouldn't normally do, and allowed others to accept your actions as, not you, but of another person.
Humanity desired nothing more than adventure, and perhaps... That's why they went to space before bothering to find out what was in the depths of their own ocean.
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FYI, this is a story COLLECTION. Lots of standalones technically. So, you can basically start to read at any chapter, no pre-read of the other chapters needed technically (other than maybe getting better descriptions of characters than: Adam Vir=human, Krill=antlike alien, Sunny=tall alien, Conn=telepathic alien). The numbers are (mostly) only for organization of posts and continuity.
OC Written by Charlie Stastarrfallknightrise,
Typed up and then posted here by me.
Proofreading and language check for some chapters by u/Finbar9800
Future Lore and fact check done by me.
Boys and girls of every age, wouldn't you like to see something strange? Come with us and you will see, this, our town of Halloween
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Krill awoke, well not really awoke because Vrul don't sleep, but more like drifted out of a daydream, completely unsuspecting.
Then again, when it came to humans, he was almost always completely unsuspecting.
Krill generally took his hiatus in the in the medical bay, since he spent so much time there. There was, however, one drawback to this...
He woke to the sight of Conn, the starborn, floating suspended in a corner of the room.
His large black eyes were wide and unseeing, his large, round mouth was parted revealing the sharp interior vortex of teeth. He saw nothing, and he responded to nothing. It had been months since the event at the prison, and still, the starborn remained comatose. Internal cranial scans had not shown anything definitive. Starborn were difficult to read when compared to humans, but still it was frustrating they could find nothing.
Overall else, commander Vir blamed himself, Conn had saved his life before falling into a coma, and the man seemed to think it was partially him to blame, Krill couldn't have disagreed more, but there was no arguing with the man.
It was rather early, and the medical bay was empty, the lights above had been dimmed to mirror solar cycles and allow for the proper function of the human circadian rhythm. The biggest protest Krill had against this practice was it made everything dark and kind of creepy, especially when you had a brain dead starborn floating in the corner. He shuttered internally and turned away from the corner, quickly making his way from the room and into the dark hall.
Admittedly it wasn't much better out here. While the medical bay had a comatose starborn, the outside hallways were covered in an exposed layer of pipe, and without the reflective white surface of the hospital interior, the hallways were much darker.
Due to safety concerns, the hallways were lit by a single light every twenty feet, but that was seriously no help. He swallowed his concern beating it back with logic and made his way down the hall. The commander would be awake soon, and Krill had a few concerns he wanted to bring before the man.
He was passing a T-intersection on his way to the bridge, when an echoing clatter reached him from down the hall. He turned peering into the darkness, his night vision was relatively poor, so he saw nothing, but switching over to his thermal vision, he could see the faint figure of a human standing in the hallway.
It was a rather hunched person, but other than its heat signature, he couldn't see anything else.
He switched back to his regular vision,
*"Hello?"
He called into the darkness.
Another soft clattering, and a figure appeared from the black, stepping into the penumbra of light right at the edge of darkness and visible light.
Krill blinked in confusion.
It was a woman, or at least he thought it was. She had her face concealed by ragged drapes of long black hair; her head tilted down towards the floor. Her shoulders were hunched, and her hands were held down to the side. She wore only a long white t-shirt, or perhaps a night dress. Krill might have mistaken it as a hospital gown.
Seemed odd, usually the crew were at least somewhat dressed and presentable?
Perhaps they were sleepwalking, humans did that sometimes,
"Hello?"
Krill called again. He took a step forward, and before he knew what was happening, she was crawling across the floor, limbs contorted, feet scrabbling.
Krill let off a high-pitched squeal, turned and ran even as her scuttling followed after him, a horrible brushing slapping noise as her hands came in contact with the metal.
She was so close he could hear her breath.
He shrieked again, and somewhere along the hall a door opened.
A large blue head appeared form the doorway, blearily blinking,
"Krill what… HOLY SHIT!"
Sunny froze when she turned to look, eyes growing wide, then grabbing Krill up in one arm, she crouched into a fighting stance head lowered.
The 'thing' pulled up short, and then sat back on its heels. Dark hair parted about a grotesque face grey and cold, with dark black about the eyes and a horrid blackness about the lips,
"That is really hard on the shoulders, by the way."
Sunny and Krill stared at the creature in surprise, as the woman got to her feet dusting off her hands and knees throwing her dark hair over her shoulder. She giggled,
"You should have seen your face."
"Damn Cortney, that was just mean."
”Yeah, scaring Krill, that’s pretty cheap…I wish I thought of that.”
Krill and Sunny turned again to find the commander standing at the end of the hall, followed by a posse of other humans, and all of them were...
Well, they were dressed very strangely.
The commander himself was wearing a maroon button up shirt, tucked into tan pants and a brown leather gunbelt and boots. Over that he wore a brown leather jacket that reached almost to the floor. Most surprisingly, he had replaced his eyepatch with a prosthetic eye.
Sunny cocked her head, in confusion,
"What is this all about?"
"Hold on, Krill though, that's low hanging fruit."
The woman shrugged,
"He was the only one I knew who I could scare and not get stomped, besides."
She grinned,
"He squeals like a child."
"Captain, we're wasting time!”
One of the bridge crew had stepped up to the commander's side. He was wearing a strange blue long sleeve shirt with a small golden emblem on it, black pants as well... And well his ears seemed rather pointier than they should have been.
"And you are absolutely right!"
He motioned the group behind him forward,
"Come on wouldn't want to miss anything."
Sunny and Krill stood by in confusion as the humans walked past in the wake of the captain.
Behind him, a bearded man in tan robes and a brown cloak followed by another in a strange black suit of armor with some serious breathing issues, and then a bunch of white armored men after that.
In stark contrast to that, a few people came by in very dated clothing, the women with large skirts, and the men with fancy tipped canes.
Sunny found one of the costumes quite unsettling, a human painted with a white face, but bright red lips and nose, with a shock of orange hair and a very strange lacy costume. When he smiled at her, it made her shiver.
After that, a human in a long black and red cape, dark hair slicked back. He smiled at them, and two of his teeth were far longer than they should have been. Sunny could tell by the way Krill cringed, that he wasn't particularly pleased with this.
They continued to parade past in a column, strange armor, stranger clothing. Sunny recognized some of them from the multitudinous number of movies they had watched on the crew movie nights, and even more from the countless movies Vir had made her watch.
A woman in green full plate armor with purple eyes clanked her way past, accompanied by one of the engineers in a red robe with multiple metal arms on his back and Ramirez, who was not wearing a shirt, while he held a weird sword with teeth and was painted by lots of red circles with weird arrows in them.
Behind them followed a man wearing a black suit, dark hair reaching to his shoulders. He had a very closely cropped dark beard, and under one arm he held a stuffed beagle... he was talking to another suit wearing man with a red flower on his chest, holding a stuffed cat telling him about offers he couldn’t say no to.
Whatever that was about?
After they had gone past, Sunny and Krill tagged onto the end of the line, following the group of humans.
They entered into the rec room, but not before another robed figure (accompanied by a small human with big feet, wearing a ring on a chain around his neck) with a big beard told them where they were not allowed to enter, and aranged themselves comfortably.
Commander Vir motioned them closer,
"Come on you two, don't' think I didn't forget about you."
Sunny was a bit confused when he handed her a very strange looking weapon, shaped sort of like a teardrop, but with two prongs. When she pressed a button near the handle, the entire thing lit up with analogue blue electricity.
Another human wearing a helmet with a golden visor and clad in green full body armor exclaimed:
”Aww fucking sweet, I love it! Look Sunny we are a costume pair now!”
Kril got some sort of black covering with a red hourglass shape on the back.
"What is this?"
Krill demanded, the commander grinned and opened his arms wide,
"This my friend is october 31st, Halloween."
"A hallow whats-this?"
"No Halloween. Probably about the greatest holiday ever."
"Like christmas?"
Krill wondered.
"Exactly like christmas. A pagan holiday evolved overtime for commercialization to squeeze every drop of income out of the general populace, and absolutely the best."
Krill and Sunny looked back and forth between each other in confusion.
"What does that have to do with the costumes?"
"Well originally I think it had to do something with wearing masks so a demon couldn't see your real face or something, but now you just dress up as whatever is cool, and then the kids go around asking people for candy. For adults it's an excuse to get drunk, eat their kids’ candy, and watch a scary movie marathon."
Sunny crossed her arms,
"And which one of those will we be doing now?"
”YES!”
”What?”
The commander grinned at her,
"Well, now that we are dressed up, we will be doing a scary movie marathon, eating candy, and then later we are going to party and get drunk... Within reason."
Oh great, this was going to be a disaster. Humans always thought alcohol was a good idea... It never was.
More humans entered.
The first one was wearing brown pants and a blue white shirt. He brought a suitcase, which upon him opening it contained boxes of chocolate.
Following him was a group of humans clad in black, who despite the low lights, were wearing sunglasses. The one with the darker skin color was handing out blue and red sweets.
The last one entering was Doctor Katie, wearing a pretty revealing white outfit. With her orange colored hair and showing everyone her ID card, she stood out quite a bit.
The commander took a seat on one of the couches and then patted the cushions next to him,
"See, I reserved seats for the three of us... oh, just one warning though, I am a total pansy when it comes to scary movies. I will scream, no question about it."
"Then... Why are we doing it?"
Sunny wondered.
"Because it's halloween, the entire point is to be scared at least some point during the day."
[…]
He was very much not kidding.
He did scream, a lot, and he had a habit of grabbing Sunny rather violently when anything jumped out at them.
Sunny personally didn't see the big deal, there wasn't any monster for real, and even if there was, she had a couple of ideas on how to get rid of them, and most of them involved a sharp stick of some sort, or a grenade.
It also didn't help that the humans were always stupid, she knew humans and she was very aware of how well their flight or fight system worked.
No human she knew would walk into a dark room after something creepy happened to them.
But these humans, they loved it, if they weren't freaking out, they were laughing at the others freaking out, and even those who were freaking out ended up laughing a few seconds later. She was sure that Krill had some paper in mind about human social bonding, or perhaps a theory about the calibration of the flight or fight system encouraged by the viewing of scary movies, but she wasn't convinced.
Watching Adam almost pee himself was rather entertaining, and out of the two of them, she liked it when he was forced to rely on her. In this case, he mostly just borrowed her as a shield, but still, it was funny.
Krill was not particularly happy with the amount of trash food consumed.
He hadn't exactly known about health science when he started, kind of assuming that humans could just eat anything they wanted, but now he knew better, and knowing better meant being annoyed at the human's poor life choices.
As for the strange costumes, it turned out that the humans had dressed themselves up as popular characters from movies, books, or history. If not a specific person, then they chose for an aesthetic. The woman in white was from a centuries old horror movie called, the ring. As for commander Vir, he described his costume as "Coming from the best underrated sci-fi television show to ever grace planet earth.
She would have placed him in a western rather than science fiction, but it seemed as if humans didn't like following the rules of their own genres.
As for Krill, he did have a couple of theories to write about. Yes, Sunny was right about the first two, and in conjunction with each other. Laughter was, mostly, a social emotion, sure humans laughed to themselves, but they did it at a much higher frequency around other humans.
Furthermore, from what he could tell, many humans didn't like to watch these sort of movies alone which concluded to him that fear was designed to be a social experience. In fact, humanity seemed to have designed a way to foster greater social bonds in people by having them experience fear together, not only that, but the human sympathetic nervous system was allowed to work in a safe environment readying itself for if something DID happen, and practicing for the eventuality.
He came to the conclusion that it was probably a good practice for the humans. It was a safe way for them to experience stress with other humans and prepare mentally for dangerous situations. For once, Krill actually approved of the behavior, it was safe, nothing dangerous about watching a movie.
As for the costumes, he had a theory about that too. Humans, and partially the Drev, were the only creatures known to design fictional events through fiction, as demonstrated by the movies. The Drev had generally used it the purpose of religion creating grand epics of fantastic warriors in order to teach their children attributes proper for a warrior. Humans would make up anything for the entertainment of it, they had an uncanny ability to imagine themselves in fantastic situations, and many spent times looking for these stories actively. Krill wondered if it was a way to practice empathy, putting yourself in the shoes of another, or if it was some sort of learning. Perhaps they gleaned information from unusual situations preparing themselves in case something was to happen.
The commander's opinion? Well, he pointed out that it was fun to be someone else for a while, someone who was braver than you, smarter than you, better looking than you, or maybe had a more interesting life then you. It gave you an excuse to act in ways you wouldn't normally do, and allowed others to accept your actions as, not you, but of another person.
Humanity desired nothing more than adventure, and perhaps... That's why they went to space before bothering to find out what was in the depths of their own ocean.
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Thanks for reading! As you saw in the title, this is a cross posted story written by starrfallknightrise and I'll just upload some of it here for you guys, if you are interested and want to read ahead, the original story-collection can be found on tumblr or wattpad to read for free. (link above this text under "OC:..." ) It is the Empyrean Iris story collection by starfallknightrise. Also, if you want to know more about the story collection i made an intro post about it, so feel free to check that out to see what other great characters to look forward to! (Link also above this text). I have no affiliations to the author; just thought I’d share some of the great stories you might enjoy a lot!
Obviously, I have Charlie’s permission to post this and for the people already knowing the stories, or starting to read them: If you follow the link and check out the story you will see some differences. I made some small (non-artistic) changes, mainly correcting writing mistakes, pronoun correction and some small additional info here and there of things which were not thought of/forgotten or even were added/changed in later stories (like the “USS->UNSC” prefix of Stabby, Chalar=/->Sunny etc). As well as some "biggemajor" changes in descriptions and info’s for the same stringency/continuity reason. That can be explained by the story collection being, well a story collection at the start with many standalone-stories just starring the same people, but later on it gets more to a stringent storyline with backstories and throwbacks. (For example Adam Vir has some HEAVY scars over his body, following his bones, which were not really talked about up till half the collection, where it says it covers his whole body and you find out via backflash that he had them the whole time and how he got them, they just weren't mentioned before. However, I would think a doctor would at least see these scars before that, especially since he gets analyzed, treated and goes shirtless/in T-shirts in some stories). So TLDR: Writing and some descriptions are slightly changed, with full OK from the author, since he himself did not bother to correct these things before.

Hi guys!
Currently having issues with DynDolod. I keep getting this error when I run TextGen64: https://snipboard.io/cJV6lB.jpg
However, I've downloaded:

• DynDolod Resources 3
• Happy Little Trees (My Tree Mod of choice)
• Happy Little Trees Add-On - DynDolod 3
  • Performance - DLC 1 Pine Fix
  • Solstheim Broken Pine Fix

I tried running TextGen and DynDolod without the tree mod and I still get this error, so I am truly at a loss. I've also been receiving a bunch of errors when I run DynDolod (mostly with the College of Winterhold Immersive mod) but I'm figuring I should figure out my TextGen64 error first. But sending it here in case they're related:

• https://snipboard.io/ie7L8d.jpg
• https://snipboard.io/w9nWD6.jpg
• https://snipboard.io/EZGNDK.jpg

Thank you!
Sending my modlist here: #Mod_Priority,#Mod_Status,#Mod_Name

• "0000","+","DLC: HearthFires"
• "0001","+","DLC: Dragonborn"
• "0002","+","DLC: Dawnguard"
• "0003","+","Creation Club: ccQDRSSE001-SurvivalMode"
• "0004","+","Creation Club: ccBGSSSE037-Curios"
• "0005","+","Creation Club: ccBGSSSE025-AdvDSGS"
• "0006","+","Creation Club: ccBGSSSE001-Fish"
• "0007","+","Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch"
• "0008","+","Bug Fixes SSE"
• "0009","+","HD LODs Textures SE"
• "0010","+","DynDOLOD Resources SE"
• "0011","+","DynDOLOD DLL SE"
• "0012","+","DynDOLOD DLL SE - Scripts"
• "0013","+","PapyrusUtil SE - Modders Scripting Utility Functions"
• "0014","+","ApachiiSkyHair SSE"
• "0015","+","RaceMenu"
• "0016","+","Fores New Idles in Skyrim SE - FNIS SE"
• "0017","+","FNIS Creatures"
• "0018","+","FNIS Spells"
• "0019","+","Kaidan Immersive Features"
• "0020","+","FNIS Output"
• "0021","+","SmoothCam"
• "0022","+","Maevan2's Eye Brows SE"
• "0023","+","KS Hairdos SSE - Female"
• "0024","+","ApachiiSkyHairFemale_v_1_5_1"
• "0025","+","The Eyes Of Beauty SSE"
• "0026","+","The Eyes Of Beauty SSE Elves"
• "0027","+","Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Enhancer -CBBE-"
• "0028","+","SG Female Eyebrows"
• "0029","+","Better Brow Texture SE"
• "0030","+","[namida"
• "0031","+","High Elf Preset Angel SE"
• "0032","+","High Elf Preset Mid"
• "0033","+","Onmund by CrimsonFairy"
• "0034","+","Bijin Wives SE 1.1.2"
• "0035","+","Bijin NPCs SE 1.2.1"
• "0036","+","Pandorable's NPCs"
• "0037","+","Kaidan 2.1.1"
• "0038","+","Hunky Farkas with Companion Wolf Armor"
• "0039","+","KS Hairdos Renewal - Male"
• "0040","+","Handsome Vilkas 1.2"
• "0041","+","High Poly Head SE"
• "0042","+","SkyUI"
• "0043","+","Enhanced Lights and FX"
• "0044","+","ELFX Fixes"
• "0045","+","Kori - A High Poly Female High Elf Racemenu Preset"
• "0047","+","Bijin Skin - CBBE"
• "0048","+","Aredhel High Elf Follower and preset ESP-FE"
• "0049","+","High Elf Preset - Aurora"
• "0050","+","Bijin Warmaidens SE"
• "0051","+","Lucien"
• "0052","+","Opulent Robe Retexture 4K SE"
• "0053","+","Immersive Armors - Realistic Armors replace SE FULL"
• "0054","+","Female Makeup Suite - Face - RaceMenu Overlays of Eyeliner EyeShadow Contours and Highlights - Special Edition"
• "0055","+","Summer's Custom Eyes"
• "0056","+","Community Overlays 1 (0-30) Bodypaints Warpaints Tattoos and more made for the Community (Special Edition)"
• "0057","+","Community Overlays 2 (31-50) Bodypaints Warpaints Tattoos and more made for the Community (Special Edition)"
• "0058","+","Convenient Horses"
• "0059","+","Enhanced Volumetric Lighting and Shadows (EVLaS)"
• "0060","+","Convenient Horses Anniversary Edition Patch"
• "0061","+","Contextual Helmet Equipping - Combat"
• "0062","+","JK's Skyrim all in one"
• "0063","+","JK Skyrim No Lights Compatibility"
• "0064","+","Address Library for SKSE Plugins"
• "0065","+","Nether's Follower Framework"
• "0066","+","RS Children Overhaul"
• "0067","+","Brows"
• "0068","+","FineFaceTextures_by Urshi_Version_B_2_0"
• "0069","+","Improved Eyes Skyrim"
• "0070","+","-Giselle- RaceMenu Preset and Screenarchery Tips"
• "0071","+","R246 Female Presets for RaceMenu and ECE"
• "0072","+","Natural Eyes"
• "0073","+","BodySlide and Outfit Studio"
• "0074","+","Anastasia - High Poly HighElf Racemenu Presets"
• "0075","+","DreamBurrow Regal Huntsman Armor-SSE-2-0"
• "0076","+","Crimson Ranger Armor SE 1.0"
• "0077","+","Rogue Light Elven Armor"
• "0078","+","Expressive Facial Animation -Male Edition-"
• "0079","+","Kaidan Replacer"
• "0080","+","ENB Helper SE"
• "0081","+","Smooth Sky mesh - SSE"
• "0082","+","Skyrim_Particle_Patch_for_ENB"
• "0083","+","ENB Light"
• "0084","+","Expressive Facial Animation -Female Edition-"
• "0085","+","Dragonblood Etched Armor - A Dragon Carved Armor Standalone Retexture"
• "0086","+","Immersive Armors 8.1 SSE Test"
• "0087","+","Immersive Armours - SSE CBBE BodySlide"
• "0088","+","Immersive College NPCs"
• "0089","+","Hedge Mage Armor SSE"
• "0090","+","Fast Travel for Survival Mode"
• "0091","+","Face Discoloration Fix"
• "0092","+","DCR - King Crusader Mega Pack"
• "0093","+","Campfire - Complete Camping System (Supports Skyrim VR)"
• "0094","+","Campfire 1.12.1SEVR Release"
• "0095","+","Increase Carry-Weight on Level-Up"
• "0096","+","Soul Collector"
• "0097","+","Silver Dragon Armor"
• "0098","+","Dragonblood Etched Armor - Standard ESP"
• "0099","+","Legolas Ranger Armor"
• "0100","+","L u n a"
• "0101","+","Touring Carriages"
• "0102","+","Skaal Village Overhaul 1.1"
• "0103","+","Actually Attractive Elves for Racemenu"
• "0104","+","Skyrim Flora Overhaul SE v2.72D"
• "0105","+","Song of the Green 1.3"
• "0106","+","Auri Replacer"
• "0107","+","Ciri's Outfit 1.5"
• "0108","+","Independent Arsonist Armor (CBBE-3BA-Himbo)"
• "0109","+","King Panther Armor"
• "0110","+","Kaidan 2 - HD Armor Retexture"
• "0111","+","Elven Defender - Armor"
• "0112","+","Studded Elven Armor"
• "0113","+","Gritty Paladin Armor (Standalone)"
• "0115","+","Name Your Horse SE"
• "0116","+","Immersive HUD - iHUD"
• "0117","+","Better Males Remesh for Skyrim SE"
• "0118","+","Smooth Male Body - NEVERNUDE Version with underwear"
• "0119","+","Forgotten Magic Redone SE"
• "0120","+","Better Dialogue Controls"
• "0121","+","Blood Witch Armor"
• "0122","+","Raven witch armor and Apex Werewolf"
• "0123","+","Dragon Bone Mage Armor by Natterforme"
• "0124","+","Aesthetic Elves"
• "0125","+","Common Clothes and Armors"
• "0126","+","Simple Wearable Lanterns"
• "0127","+","Bandolier - Bags and Pouches Classic"
• "0128","+","DX Tembtra Thief Outfit - UNP"
• "0129","+","Black Mage Armor SE"
• "0130","+","Sounds of Skyrim Complete SE"
• "0131","+","Frostfall 3.4.1 SE Release"
• "0132","+","Cloaks of Skyrim SSE"
• "0133","+","Cloaks Of Skyrim Retextured SE"
• "0134","+","My Home is Your Home"
• "0135","+","Alternate Start - Live Another Life"
• "0136","+","Ugly_Zodd Dunmer (Dark Elf) Preset"
• "0137","+","Layla the Dark Elf racemenu preset"
• "0138","+","Arcane Mage Armor"
• "0139","+","(Now High Poly) RaceMenu Presets for Expressive Facegen Morphs"
• "0140","+","INIGO"
• "0141","+","Truly Light Elven Armor (female) for SSE - Replacer - Standalone"
• "0142","+","Static Mesh Improvement Mod"
• "0143","+","Misc. SMIM Fixes"
• "0144","+","Immersive College of Winterhold"
• "0145","+","Nibenean Armors and Outfit SE - UNP - UNPB - CBBE"
• "0146","+","Particle Patch for ENB"
• "0147","+","SkyUI SE - Flashing Savegames Fix"
• "0148","+","Gigaduex's Armor Sets SE"
• "0149","+","ApachiiSkyHairMale_v_1_5_1"
• "0150","+","A Quality World Map"
• "0151","+","BWB Kaidan 4.0"
• "0152","+","Kaidan and Inigo"
• "0153","+","Kaidan NPC Overhaul"
• "0154","+","Lucien Replacer 2"
• "0155","+","Hvergelmir's Aesthetics - Brows"
• "0156","+","High-Poly Inigo Replacer"
• "0157","+","Better Jumping SE"
• "0158","+","Cathedral Weathers and Seasons"
• "0159","+","Dynamic Animation Replacer"
• "0160","+","Alternate Conversation Camera"
• "0161","+","Skyrim's Paraglider"
• "0162","+","Skyrim's Paraglider Anniversary Edition Update"
• "0163","+","Dark Elf preset commoner"
• "0164","+","Regalia Armor for UNP CBBE and CBBE Bodyslide SSE"
• "0165","+","RaceMenu High Heels (Height Fixes)"
• "0166","+","Truly Light Glass Armor (female) for SSE - Replacer - Standalone"
• "0167","+","Battle Mage Armour"
• "0168","+","Lunar Guard Armor"
• "0169","+","Seasoned Traveller Armor SE-AE"
• "0170","+","Crimson Twilight Armor - CBBE SSE"
• "0171","+","Tribunal Robes and Masks for SSE"
• "0172","+","SSE Display Tweaks"
• "0173","+","Shadow Boost"
• "0174","+","HG Hairdos"
• "0175","+","Traveling Mage - My version SE-AE"
• "0176","+","Twilight Princess Armor Mashup"
• "0177","+","COCO Raikou - CBBE-TBD-BHUNP SE"
• "0178","+","Kinnari Armor - TBD"
• "0179","+","The Fancy Witch Armour UNP CBBE"
• "0180","+","Lind's Elven Eyes"
• "0181","+","ELFX - Exteriors Fixes"
• "0182","+","RANs HeadMesh Variants"
• "0183","+","Dark Elf Preset Natsh"
• "0184","+","Heartfire Multiple Adoptions"
• "0185","+","Hololive Shirogane Noel Outfit"
• "0186","+","Nightshade Bodysuit"
• "0187","+","Footprints"
• "0188","+","Noble Skyrim Mod HD-2K"
• "0189","+","Noble Skyrim Mod HD-2K - SMIM Patch"
• "0190","+","SKSE 64"
• "0191","+","Obsidian Mountain Fogs"
• "0192","+","Apachii Divine Elegance Store"
• "0193","+","ApachiiDivineElegance_SSE_CBBE_by_ughitsmegan_v_1_9"
• "0194","+","JS Armored Circlets SE"
• "0195","+","The Witcher 3 Female Armours - SSE CBBE BodySlide"
• "0196","+","Mage Hunter - Outfit and Flintlock"
• "0197","+","Blended Roads"
• "0198","+","Landscapes - Cathedral Concept"
• "0199","+","Cathedral - Plants"
• "0200","+","Shanoa Armor CBBE port with Changes"
• "0201","+","Realistic Horse Breeds by KrittaKitty"
• "0202","+","Faith - Breton Preset"
• "0203","+","Majestic Mountains Main"
• "0204","+","Majestic Mountains Main LOD"
• "0205","+","Water for ENB"
• "0206","+","[NINI] Ceara"
• "0207","+","Winter Is Coming SSE - Cloaks"
• "0208","+","Fuz Ro D-oh - Silent Voice"
• "0209","+","[NINI] Bless RB 0004"
• "0210","+","Calling of the Conjurer"
• "0211","+","DynDOLOD TexGen Fixes"
• "0212","+","Moons And Stars - Sky Overhaul SKSE"
• "0213","+","(lilyrim"
• "0214","+","Happy Little Trees"
• "0215","+","Happy Little Trees Add-On - DynDOLOD 3"
• "0216","+","Happy Little Trees Add-On - DynDOLOD 3 0 DLC 1 Pine"
• "0217","+","Happy Little Trees Add-On - DynDOLOD Solstheim Broken Pines"
• "0218","+","TexGen_Output"
• "0219","+","DynDOLOD_Output"

I believe I’m the exact opposite of my BF. I’m LU and he’s probably RD. I have strong reasons to believe he’s an Explorer. He has a very consistent outfit formula. He does have a “base camp” that’s reliable for him. Occasionally, I see him mixing his usual outfits with something different. The reason he chooses his outfits is out of practicality. He doesn’t have a deliberate thought process, but rather an intuitive one.
Interestingly, his style is more ‘up’ in comparison to people around him. This example goes to show that you can’t judge style logic by aesthetics itself. On a surface level, he would be put into the Right Up Quadrant. But the thing is, the perceived upness of his outfits is more of a byproduct of his main intentions. My outfits are formal, but the effect is a product of a strong deliberate intention.
On my best friend, I haven’t asked them to elaborate on the style logic yet. If I have to take a guess, it would be either an LD or LU.