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Cool!  This is great news.  I'm glad you're back and working on this project--I always thought a mistaken identity was a good premise.

For having a dirty NMM setup, I've had pretty good success with this mod!  All it took to get it running was a xp32 skeleton update.   The cart works so well!  Congratulations on figuring that out.  It fishtales a bit, but that's great wolf defense--I love sideswiping them.     I have two problems happen, however. If I try to "COC" my way anywhere, the game is fried.  the PC fractures, as if two parts of the skeleton are linked to points in space a million miles away... and not the same point in space on the horizon, like you'd expect if it were the cart... not surprising really.  The other problem is that sometimes two carts are equipped instead of one, or no cart at all.

Almost certainly a GPU issue.    Your experience versus the service department rules out most other explanations.  First step would be to uninstall all drivers for your card and reinstall from a stable, non-beta release.

  It's not from forum posts, amazon's recommendations are derived from past purchases.  

  Well, the last scene (starting at qayl_d42_part2 50) is there, but doesn't initiate right.  I'm just not sure it's a DDi gagged talk problem.

I tried initiating this scene (qayl_d42_part2 40, I think)  after removing all equipment via console, and it still hung.  Even without the gag, the dialog began as "(paraphrasing) please, my hands are tied and I'm hungry"   Even if the armbinder is also unequipped.   After quitting out of that dialog, there's no way to reinitiate dialog.  Also, I can't disable/enable the NPC in console like I can in other mods, which often helps progress scenes.

Agreed.  Be yourself.    As for your heart getting torn out... it always feels that way.  I was devastated when my best friend betrayed me and took my GF to prom, I was totally heartbroken again at 23 when the woman I had fallen in love decided to keep traveling instead of stay with me... but I'm married now, at 30.     And I don't think I would be where I am today if I hadn't had those negative experiences.  They hurt.  A lot.  But they hurt less with time, and you learn something very valuable from it all.    I have learned how to love carefully, in a way that doesn't jeopardize myself.  I'm okay by myself.  Dependency was one of my earlier problems.  I've learned how to cope with loss and rejection. A relationship can only be halfway under my control and nothing is certain, so I just try my best and shrug off the rest.  Similarly, I've learned the value of compromise and the importance of effort.   So, just be yourself.  Scars are less scarring than you might think. I kept a journal after my heartbreaks, and it helped. In my head and chest, the concerns, anguish, doubts, fantasies and what-if's swirled around in what felt like a giant dark knot the size of a basketball. Nothing made sense, it just hurt and felt hopelessly complicated. But when I strung out all my thoughts on paper, it turned out the issues were actually straight-forward and pretty short.  A few pages later things would make sense and I'd feel better...   As for the current relationship, distance can be a pain... especially when you don't know when it's going to end.  I spent two years in a distance relationship.  I actually felt that she knew me pretty well because of it. Gchat, emails, sharing URLs... in a way, it's a little easier to overcome some of the barriers face-to-face conversations have.

  It's still active!  Last posts weren't long ago.  As I under it, the team is looking for someone good at making quests in the creation kit, but modeling and writing is well underway.

Okay, so there are dungeons full of mechanical traps and roaming, deranged automatons.  To me, this seems like the perfect pretense for some player enslavement.  What if in some dungeons, the machines aren't intent on killing you, but instead want to put you to work in some fashion?      Maybe it's the automaton's misguided attempt to keep the player "safe" from an unknown danger.   Maybe the player is captured for the purpose of repairing or building more automatons, sourcing parts from other dungeons. More machines require more slaves, of course.   Maybe they were just programmed to keep an eye out for slaves suitable for the milking machines in a long abandoned dwemer nursery.   Maybe the player attempts to reprogram their behavior to see the PC as "friendly," thus making looting easier, only to discover that the treatment of friendlies is maybe a little too... friendly.  Is this where the Dwemer went?   Maybe the automatons are just really, really bored.  No, no... that's a crappy premise.   But anyway, I always like the art style of dwemer ruins, and many of the machines... with pistons, gears, bars--seem like they could be repurposed pretty well for this.  But on the other hand, I know virtually nothing about modding.  If this sparks anyone's imagination, please, run with it.  

  yay!  fantastic news.

  Totally understandable.  Releasing 0.5 was a huge accomplishment, and then troubleshooting for weeks in the support thread has to be a drain as well. 

Kimy!  I'm new to modding and it's very slow-going to self-teach, but I was hoping I could use Cursed Loot as a dependency for my mod.   The premise is this:    I have a few physical traps scattered around skyrim.  I had a lot of fun making these... they're animated dwemer drawbridges that spring up and trap the player in a tall metal octagon. At this point, the player has only one option--entering the dwemer tube/door/hatch nearby.   Crawling through this results in the player sliding far, far down until being deposited out the end of a broken tube into a room with only one possible escape... a rather ominous-looking conveyor belt that enters a hissing machine at the far end of the crumbling room.  After entering into this (relatively) voluntarily, the player proceeds through a few rooms of a haywire Dwemer factory, stuck on an assembly line, until ultimately getting spit out into the wilderness all trussed up... and straight into a quest like damsel in distress or rubber doll.   So far, I have the first room roughly built, a crazily working conveyor belt that actually propels the player while melting processors, and a great deal of hope for other features I don't know how to implement.  (ideally the player would pass through various "stations" where they're incrementally bound... by animated arms of some sort.  I'll use more drawbridges if I have to, tiny TINY drawbridges.)        

Nothing is wrong. Someone put on some boots they couldn't remove. Trapped in rubber is a long, linear, story type of mod. It has very few dependencies, doesn't mess around with other mods, however, many other mods can interrupt trapped in rubber. It will not corrupt your game or anything.

Well, the first thing to try would be giving yourself some more keys! Open up console, with the "tilde" key left of 1 and above tab... And then type "help rubber". That will bring up a long list of EVERYTHING in skrim with the word rubber in it... If you don't see "rubber restraints key" because the list is too long, hit the page up key to see more. When you find it, type in console: player.additem (item ID, something like 12003df1) 100 No parenthesis, the spaces are important. This will give you 100 rubber restraints keys.

I'll reiterate, Deviously Cursed Loot will remove the ballet boots. That's a simple fix. But console commands and general troubleshooting should be in every mod USER's set of skills.

  well, did you go to... bittershin(?) pass and equip the suit and gasmask for the first time, read the journal of the courier, and all of that?  You have the quest to go to the tower?  

  I actually just found creationkit.com earlier today and emailed the link to myself to remember.  I am very excited with the no-nonsense, plain-text explanations and examples.  It made modding look like it was possible to me, which I've finally started dabbling with last weekend.  I think what's best about it is that it lumps everything you MIGHT want to know onto the same page of example scripts, for example.    Before, I would have to phrase questions to google with very loose, imprecise terminology, like "how to make a button activate object skyrim creation kit" and I'd get a dozen youtube videos that were too confusing to follow or were entirely unrelated.   Before today I had figured out how to make a set of 8 scaled-down dwemer drawbridges spring up out of the ground and trap a player in a tall metal octagon when they pulled a lever...  so my appetite is whetted by this minor success... but there were no quest elements or scripts and it all seemed too mysterious.    Anyway, another vote for creationkit.com, here.  

Very, very cool. The gag fits like a glove!! Impressive modeling. example: http://i.imgur.com/Icm2OcW.jpg The blindfold clipped through the eyebrows, through.

I had an idea for a continuation of the story, post thalmor moral indignation.      What about a new villain hell-bent on reproducing the Mistress' successes with rubber?  Infiltrating the tower, stealing secrets or slaves, doing experiments and trying to make improvements with mixed success... it seems like an angle that could be fun to explore.  Instead of a nemesis diametrically opposed to rubber, more of a sneaky, ambitious evil twin.

BTW, I think it's hilarious that you named various chickens after people who've helped you with your mod.  I cracked up when I found "Deathripp3r."

Sounds like the lower you go on the property slave totem pole, the harder it is to climb back up. Seems appropriate!

What's the road post? I'm not sure I've heard about that yet.

Hey, I haven't had a chance to really try out the mod yet, but I did poke around insmouth, and the town looks awesome!!

It's back!

Rent is wildly different depending on where you live, in some places you can rent a four bedroom house for under 1000/month. Like you, I live in a place with absurd rental rates where 300 might get you a closet to sleep in.