u/AnnaMolly66

We all know we shouldn't order knives from Amazon, doing so never bit me until now. I had planned to post my "surgery collection" but I'm not feeling it now.

I'm currently recovering from my final surgery, one which requires I wear a catheter, and was ordered to not drive until it's out. This will be relevant soon.

I decided since this was my final surgery, I'd buy something iconic. A Case trapper in CV, some of you in the know might be face-palming or giggling at this point, but long story short my knife showed up yesterday with "SS" on the blade and not "CV."

So now I have the wrong knife and can't drive to return it for like two more weeks. I work in retail so I just assumed "it *should* be the item as advertised, the system *shouldn't* let them process it if they scan the wrong item." I was wrong.

I read reviews before ordering but after looking for my own review, it seems Amazon buries negative reviews so you have to go digging to find them and apparently this is a mistake that keeps happening. Most reviews seem to be "Wrong blade steel, I ordered CV and got SS" or "My blade is rusty!" I wanted the latter problem, not the former. I know how to care for carbon steel.

So, PSA everyone already knows; don't order knives from Amazon, to do so is basically gambling.

For any who are curious;

First procedure: Swiss Tech Leight

First surgery: Swiss Tech Doppelt

Second/last surgery: supposed to be Case trapper in CV

UPDATE: I decided to return it since my dad offered to drive me. He loves his classic slipjoints too!

Marking as spoiler for obvious reasons. What are the side quests you wish you could just nope out of and have the option to leave the NPCs to their own devices?

I recently came back after 5 years and on my last two days off I went through the Solstice story. After finishing, I decided to do a few side quests and that's when I think I found the first side quest that has made me actually feel "I should really just walk away."

I'm talking about the quest around Shor's Stand, The Stubbornness of Nords. We arrive to ask for aid to defend *them* and *their home* and instead we find that they obviously have bigger problems than the death cult threatening to insta-wipe the entire island to bring back their god-elf.

So unless we chase down wildlife to recover a magic hat and make them soup, they're not doing shit. This kinda flies in the face of who the Nords are at their core; warriors who will fight and die to protect their homes and way of life and take pride in doing so.

Considering they added the emotion dialogue for Solstice, I think we should have had the option to ask for aid and when they said no, we could just decide to take no for an answer and the quest ends.

The drawback for us would be a small amount of gold and nothing more, the drawback for the elders would be that word would get out and Shor's Stand would become known for being a village of cowards, and elders would be ran out of town because of it. They could have been made a random encounter.

To be honest, it's what those assholes deserve for insulting my soup.