LOL Dude that is EPIC

When you get that faint feeling that perhaps you should stop modding and go outside for a walk...
...then ponder if this 'outside' place is real...
...or perhaps it was an ancient mod you were working on then forgot about...
...then when you eventually get outside and walk/run you wonder how much your athletics skill has increased...
...then you go shopping...
...and attempt to bribe the shop owner for a better price...
...then wonder how much your mercantile skill has risen by...
...then realise you should have leveled up by now...
...then when you buy stuff you feel the urge to drop it due to you feeling slighly over encumbered...
...decide you should create a mod to fix that small real life problem...
...go back to modding.

Fun life modding isn't it?

When you sit down to actually PLAY Oblivion one day, and get confused because there are several dozen saves from times when you just wanted to test something and you can't remember which one is your 'real' save.

Yes... John Candy... great actor, great comedian, remembered for one lousy commercial.

When you, humans, begin to worry that the virtual NPCs in the CS -created by you- don't have "proper" daily schedules, such as eating for breakfast, dinner, studying or practicing, going out for some recreation, and socializing with other NPCs, then set up AI packages and assign the daily routines to make those virtual NPCs do what normal humans would normally do, while you forgot and/or didn't do the exact thing you assigned for those NPCs! :facepalm:

Err ok.. I .. uh.. Had no clue who the voice actor was, nor did I even vaguely attempt to make fun of that voice actor and somehow diminish the quality of their work.. Didn't realize this thread was promoting drama and subtle attacks on posters or I wouldn't have posted at all.. my mistake. Carry on.

My last real save (from a couple of months ago ) is at the Cheydinhal New Lands Lodge. I like that place. And for some reason 'coc cheydinhalnewlandslodge' is nice to type.

That's another thing. You've been modding Oblivion for too long when you've figured out Bethesda's cell naming method completely and can COC anywhere without looking up the cell ID.

I'm sorry, that wasn't my intention. I was merely mentioning the actor so that you could have a better visualization of who was saying it, following with a brief commentary on the legacy that his talent seems to have left behind. It's not something against you, but rather how most seem to forget what people should be famous for. For what it's worth, I'm probably dead wrong about which actor it was, and was only successful in making myself out to be an idiot over some off-topic comment. You shouldn't take everything so personally.

There is a rather epic amount of irony there.

you have Oblivion installed on its own 500-gb hard drive (Named Oblivion)(2 folders Bethesda and Backup) and you anolyze the drive to find out its 50% heavily fragmented, and check to see what is in the backup folder and its 10+ backup folders

and that your 4-tb NAS (for backup) contains only more of Oblivion backups dating back to early 2009

and you ask your computer engineering professor for help with scripts, and he laughs at you :/

You know youve been modding for too long when....

...You start thinking about how good peoples AI is in real life.

... You start thinking about how well certain things in real life would rate on the Nexus..........

When you can tell someone exactly where to find any obscure static or piece of clutter in the object window without looking or even being asked.

When you pause to check the script type before hitting the "add reply" button.

When you force the weather to clear just to remind you what the sun looks like.

When you've taken the time to painstakingly convert a photograph of yourself into an overlay to use within the Heightmap editor... And actually finish.

When you remark at how bad the facegen is working when making a trip to the mall.

When you've gotten sick of having to push the Arena fan off diverock, and just decided to add a package and a script to keep repeating the process over and over.

When you've decided that the arena fan isn't good enough and have implemented the same behavior on every Essential NPC.

And added fire.

I've had the thought of making a Flaming Adoring Fan, where he just runs around on fire, without dying. I think it would be funny.

You haven't been modding Oblivion for too long yet. You've been modding Oblivion for too long when your computer engineering professor asks YOU for help with scripts!

As a living torch he's probably more useful than otherwise.

When you almost created a mod by reading this, that turns the hair of the Adoring Fan into one that flames so you can carry a shield instead of a torch in dark places. Adding to that you will will let him flee on command that will check the direction you're looking so you can see what's ahead.

I've modded small things, nothing major that needed scripts until now. So its pretty difficult when you can't learn how to script :/



Definitely

You've been modding Oblivion for too long when your dreams need to be scripted, constructed, and have the AI created with the little construction set in your head, before you can actually dream. (I actually had a dream where I had to use a construction set to make my dream...It made me sleep-lol)

When during a break at work you spend most of the whole ten minutes contemplating how to achieve your next goal in your mod via script.. Ironically you already know it is pointless to contemplate this before truly attempting it directly via code and testing.. but for some reason.. cant help it..

When you get giddy learning that your classes will help you write scripts for oblivion.
You bought an extra hard drive JUST for oblivion backup.
Your "move" consisted of 15 gigs worth of oblivion mods numbering 666 in one folder.
You begin looking for a script to change your OWN daily scheduals.
When you work, your mind is occupied placing things together on your mod.
You try to think on how to make your mod as compatible with as many big mods as possible.
Your dreams involve on making a mod far grander than the CS can accomplish with what you have, and you curse yourself for not having skills.
When you realize, you're body and mind is already trained to handle the long days and late night workings of a game developer. (10am-3am anyone?)
Most of that time is planning, or looking for resources just FOR modding.
You've contemplated making a companion, with such advanced ai, that they could pass as a real person, then realize why you're single.
At the realization of status you plot on how to make a companion to make up for that with said ai.

You're coming back to these kinds of threads in growing frequency.

**You're coming back to these kinds of threads in growing frequency.**

Sornan hides :ninja:

Guilty. :hehe:

When you toss a cat toy to your cat and he just sits there and stares at it.. and you contemplate fixing the issue by either reducing the cats disposition to the toy or just calling startCombat..

Or try to use an ambush package, but then realize that the toy isn't an actor and therefore the cat simply 'activates' the toy with no result but the cat looking up and down for once.

:rofl:

Now.. how does one turn that little green sack of catnip into an actor.. Might need to post separately on this.. (new race? )

When you begin to think that it's very likely these hilarious comments could be scripted and voiced in a pub for a mod. :rofl: