u/Level-Wolverine2067

Aight. I'm late for Twelve Months, so time to get back on Dresden.

Any time a new book is out, I always reread from Storm Front.

So Storm Front through Proven Guilty I've read 20 times, White Night 9, Small Favor 8, etc etc. Peace Talks and Battle Ground both 1 time.

I strongly didn't enjoy them. They felt very poorly written, often incoherent, and regularly frustrating in a way that I haven't felt during any other of the books.

I'm tempted to just pull a little synopsis for both and read Twelve Months as is, breaking my tradition.

But at the same time am hesitant to do so, because series is good, book good, very like, much excite.

What I'm looking for is a "wind your neck in, mate, they weren't that bad. They had xyz and that's dope" to kind of hype me up a bit and maybe give me some perspective. There's every chance I'm overly unfair to the books because of the expectations more than their actual quality.

I will say, though.... Man, Butters has fallen from very high up to very low down on my faves list. Man absolutely needs a big slap.

And I wish upon wishes that Peace Talks was pure detective intrigue skullduggery instead of what it was.

So yeah, there we go. Hello. Crisis of faith, plz help 🤣

tl;dr: I am a mighty bellend.

Voyageur difficulty Surivival mode. Specifically running this game for unlocking Feats. That is the sole purpose of this particular game. It would be foolish of me to do anything else other than exactly what the unlock criteria demand.

Spawn in Ash Canyon I do.

Chilly.

Survive well through difficult circumstances and map unfamiliarity.

Make my way to the Gold Mine to get the Technical Backpack.

Build a travois to cart a load of goods down into Timberwolf Mountain.

Know this map quite well. Make a nice base in Mountaineer's Hut and clear out all the crates.

Sensibly avoid danger.

Cougar appears.

No problem, just continue sensibly avoiding danger.

Day 43. I have two revolvers, three rifles, and lots of ammo. I could just leave it and focus on my mission and indeed the entire purpose of this game. But instead I go cougar hunting, as it happens to be nearby the hut at this point. I can always just savescum the recent bed save if it doesn't go my way, right?

Using a controller, so aiming is quite a challenge, and I haven't really done anything with firearms yet other than some light reading.

Clear day, perfect conditions. Find the cougar - I think I hit it once before it slaps me around a bit. 25% health loss. No biggie.

Fog rolls in; visibility drops to maybe 25ft. A sensible player at this point recognises that conditions are not in my favour, I am not good with shooting, and this endeavour is antithetical to the whole point of this save.

I instead persist, stubbornness and ego getting the better of me.

I proceed to get absolutely dunked on by the big cat, wasting this whole save.

God damn it.

That is it - that's the whole point of this thread. I am an idiot. Please enjoy my foolishness.

Congratulations! You can move anything anywhere! 6-burner stoves? Milling stations? Forges? Trader boxes and radios? Put them wherever you like!

Now that you can truly have your cake and eat it, where do you finally settle down? Where's your forever home?

RESOLVED: OVERRIDE IS FINE FOR SUPPORTED ADDITIONAL MODS.

Howdy all. Extremely excited to get cracking on GTA 4.

I have Steam Complete Edition, then went through the standard Gillian's archive install. Easy peasy.

But I also wanted to add the extra snow mod stuff in the additional mods. So, easy peasy, download, follow the readme, drag into update.

However, I didn't think at the time whether I should do an override files or merge them. In many install flows, you usually go for override, so that was my assumption here.

Is that correct? Or should I have merged these "duplicates" instead?

I'm concerned I may have accidentally broken something unwittingly, and wanted to sanity check it here with you all.

If I should have merged, it's not a major problem to do a fresh install again, but I just don't want to spend time investigating and troubleshooting if anyone here has any knowledge on this.

Appreciate you all.