Wow, yeah, I noticed the problem sometimes getting it to pick the right item I am trying to loot. Then there are items that "stick to me" as if I picked them up.

But, I got the game not long ago on sale, so I didn't pay much for it and haven't played it much. Actually this is the first in the series I have played much at all.

I'm not crazy about a weight limit. Certainly in real life one could not carry that much but... this is not real life, it's a game. We'll see how long I play t his, not sure yet. Still walking around on foot so far. I'm used to the World of Warcraft style gameplay.

Not crazy about how the magic spells and weapons are equipped and used. Seems to be an awfully convoluted series of steps, and I have to unequip my sword to cast a spell etc...

I also increased my carrying capacity through the console to insane amounts. Otherwise, you literally spend hours and hours carrying valuable loot back to town to sell it. I'm an adult, and I don't have time to just grind away like that. It's not fun, and there's really no good reason to do it. The only reason for it is that there is no more reasonable way to earn money in the game to afford the purchases of stuff you need. But a much better game mechanic would be, arrive in a town, and accept jobs/quests that pay well enough to fund your life as an adventurer. I digress. The game is pretty good, but it gets way better once you free yourself of the burden of a limited carrying capacity. Life is too short.

And yes, Skyrim is riddled with serious bugs. Several quests are impossible to complete properly, or you can run into various other breakages. There are some mods to fix what can be fixed. That said, it's also a pretty awesome game. I imagine it's a lot of code, and it's probably incredibly difficult to track down these kinds of bugs simply because the code probably turned into a disaster after a few years. It probably demonstrates why certain coding practices are bad for quality/correctness reasons, but then again, the game shipped and was very successful despite the bugs so I guess it's a moot point.

But certainly anybody playing Skyrim should be using the mod manager and install any mods that look useful or fun. You can greatly improve the game with mods. It's really great that they build the games in such a way that they can be so easily modded.

I tried to avoid companions at first, but in the beginning I basically just found that I needed a companion to survive. The battles were completely unbalanced. I could kill a few of the bandits, but eventually they'd get me. You can only be so stealth when most of the baddies are all in the same room.

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Depending on the weapon you are carrying you can equip a magic spell onto the other hand IIRC. Of course, I must have picked the wrong race for magic because I found magic to be next to useless throughout the game. I ended up predominantly kicking ass with a shield and sword. And enjoyed it thoroughly.

I haven't touched Skyrim in a while, but I don't recall ever encountering any broken quests. My only gripe with Skyrim's loot is that most towns didn't have enough gold on hand to purchase most of my junk, so I'd end up just dropping good loot that I didn't want in caves to free up space.

At least food was pretty plentiful in Skyrim. I don't think you'd often struggle to eat. I don't know what you could do about being cold though. Other than seek shelter. But I agree, I don't think it would really add enjoyment to the game. It would probably just be a pain point. But I guess if you're still playing Skyrim this many years later you must have to get imaginative to keep it fun. I think I have over 700 hours in Skyrim, but I haven't played it in probably over 5 years by now.

Well, one console command I discovered (and I don't know too many and have almost no mods installed) is:

player.additem 0000000f <amount of gold you want>

I have been trying to avoid this sort of thing, but if need be, I may add in gold needed once in a while to advance without grinding. Or try the inventory thing. Lately I have been trying to do it fairly by increasing my stamina which increases the amount I can carry, but only by a small amount so... I dunno. My patience for these games isn't what it used to be. I may just cheat my way through it just to see more of the world.

30... 30... trying to remember 30... oh yeah, that was around when I first started to learn C and Allegro, around 1995. LMAO

Word of warning for would-be achievement hunters: using console commands in Skyrim forfeits the potential to earn achievements on Steam.

Maybe only certain console commands forfeit achievements then (like enabling God mode).

Is that the one that makes all the women look like dolls?

Does it work on Argonians?

Speaking of Argonians, there's an event that popped up on my Facebook account called "Argonian Genocide". It takes place on Christmas.

So, it got warm enough to melt the snow from last week... Now I remember why it hasn't felt like winter the past few years, when it snows, it just melts a few days later.

Even up here in the relative "North" the winters aren't like they used to be, however, I'm happy to report that we are currently in a stable sea of snow. This year I really wish I had a snowmobile and wide open land to use it. I found myself watching motovlogs from a snowmobiler in Newfoundland filmed last year. It just looks awesome to be able to wander around freely into the wilderness. These days I park my computer on a desk in an apartment in a city with no spare parking and too far away from trails to access without loading onto a truck that mine is too small for.

Oh man, that brings back memories! Thank you!

I'll start worrying when the climate stops changing. So long as it is changing, that means everything is normal.

Have you considered getting a repeater to boost the signal? It's like a router that doesn't do any routing itself. It just forwards the traffic to the real router. I've never used one personally, but it sounds like what you need (if running a 100 ft cable along the walls isn't an option ). On a side note, in college my networking instructor taught us that wireless signals spread further if they're up higher. I don't know how that works or if it even works, but perhaps moving the router to the highest point in the house would help (if possible).

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Maybe this:

https://www.amazon.com/Linksys-High-Power-Intelligent-Technology-RE6700/dp/B00UVN20YA/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1513975988&sr=1-3&keywords=wireless+range+extender+linksys