u/smithtable15 — reddlx

Paid Mods rant

Maybe I'm just spreading negativity and rehearsing old arguments, but to me it seems like paid mods are massively greedy and anti-community.

Pay 10 human, real life dollars to add clutter to minor towns? Pay 3 real life dollars just to have RP effects in your spell effect menu? Pay 5 human dollars for a worldspace that potentially clashes with other mods?

Maybe this just offends my feelings about the ethos of modding and the greedy cesspool of modern Bethesda, but these paid mods undeniably are way more expensive than they should be. Every single one of them should be $1 maximum, with anything that just edits values or adds effects being even less than that. No shade to the modders themselves (since they don't set the pricing), but damn man. Horse armor was the beginning of the end.

What are all your thoughts on this? If this is outside the bounds of what this sub is or too negative for a post here, my bad.

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u/smithtable15 — 3 days ago

▲ 11 r/ps5skyrimmods

Great Value, Budget+ Mods

I've done a lot of mod testing with different configs trying to make the most of the 1gb in a balanced LO, i.e. touching most aspects of the game rather than going all-in on a few huge mods.

I wanted to share some mods that have excellent quality-to size or quality-to-impact ratios.

Northvale Landscapes 1K (95.13):
- Full landscape coverage with Blended Roads included; looks solid even with no road mod. I prefer its darker tone to Tomato Landscapes (106.16), not to mention it being 11mb smaller.
Vanilla Water Reimagined (13.31):
- There are better bigger water mods and cheaper worse water mods, but this include all the fixes and looks great (not too green, blue, etc).
Fluffy Snow 1K (12.81):
- Cathedral Snow (33.35) is the best snow mod but I don't know if it's 2.5x better than this. I haven't tried Vanaheimr Snow Standard (16.22) so maybe that's better idk. Anyway, imo this is the best compromise snow mod that provides substantial change.
Better Metals and CubeMaps (10.92):
- Makes a lot of armor look better. Resurgence and Xavbio are better (especially for weapons), but at many times the cost. The coverage is great for the size.
Green Thumb - Lush Cities (2.89):
- Makes cities greener, looks good for just one mod.
13s Beaten Path 2023 Version (1.87):
- A bunch of good mods put together. I can't play without it because of the carriages it adds.

What are some mods you use that are just great value?

....I almost added Azerite AAL but I glaze that mod like twice a week on here.

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u/smithtable15 — 18 days ago

▲ 28 r/ps5skyrimmods

My Current Load Order

https://pastebin.com/aAHC5C4t

This modlist has balanced coverage of most things in the game, with the exception of quest mods, (re)voiced followers, and transformative animation overhauls (e.g. Elden Beast).

I tried to pick screenshots that show a variety of things, including interiors since I've seen complaints about vista-only image picks.

As usual, imagine the quality is like 1.5 crispier since PS5 just wants to give me shit captures and I don't have a recording setup. I'm also using base settings of Mythical + Azerite (no Brightness/Saturation changes) so it could easily be altered to look better that way. Also, FOV 100.

An overview:

Nature: Northvale Landscape and Mountains, Fluffy Snow, Simply Bigger Better Trees, Skoglendi+Origin (both 512), some shrub additions, brown Tundra grass, green Rift grass.
Weather/Sky: Mythical Ages, Azerite AAL, Minty Lightning, Skygazer Moon, Megalophobia, RAID Stars and Galaxy.
World Retextures: major cities (besides Windhelm), dungeons, caves, farmhouses, wood, ships, etc.
Weapons/Armor: vanilla+ (Reforging, Cloaks, KDCirclets, Hinterland Ranger) with Better Shaped and selected material retextures.
Perk/Magic: Cosmonach, my usual low space magic mod base (Mysticism + light/holy spells + Elements Expansion), Spellforge, Summermyst.
Combat: Sekiro, Blade and Blunt, some combat alterations to block, get-up timing, etc.
Beauty [female mostly]: Vitruvia, UNP, Shira's Hair, Salt and Wind, + smaller beauty adds.
QoL (e.g. Combat Configuration) and Immersion (e.g. iNeed).
Animals: I love the Mihail mods, so as many as I could fit.

u/smithtable15 — 20 days ago

▲ 120 r/bostonceltics

I am pretty tired of going through posts here and seeing people ragging on Derrick White like he's some scrub that should be traded instead of one of the most valuable players in the NBA. So I'm going to go over impact and advanced stats that empirically show that the calls to trade him are not just stupid, but demonstrate why there are absolutely zero sensible options to replace him unless we want a protracted rebuild.

LEBRON

LEBRON - "LEBRON evaluates a player’s contributions using the box score (weighted using boxPIPM’s weightings stabilized using Offensive Archetypes) and advanced on/off calculations (using Luck-Adjusted RAPM methodology) for a holistic evaluation of player impact per 100 possessions on-court"

In the 2025-26 season, Derrick White:

LEBRON (Offense + Defense) Ranking: 9th of 435 players. (4th among guards)
Offensive LEBRON Ranking: 27th of 435 players. (16th among guards)
Defensive LEBRON Ranking: 11th of 435 players. (3rd among guards)
WAR (Wins Above Replacement) Ranking: 3rd of 435 players (2nd among guards)

Comparison to Other Guards:

The only guard with more WAR is Shai who is the MVP. The only guards with higher LEBRON (O+D) are Shai, Cade, and Luka, all of whom are All-NBA MVP candidates. The only guards with more D-LEBRON are Cason Wallace who shoots just like DW with little playmaking and Matisse Thybulle who sucks on offense even worse than DW with zero playmaking.

With contract ranks in brackets, let's consider those who are offensively better, given this metric: Shai [39], Luka [17], Ty Jerome [165], Curry [1], Cade [13], Spida [16], Maxey [41], Brunson [46], Harden [30], Lamelo [42], Jamal Murray [15], Booker [8], Ant [23], Pritchard [181], and Reaves [119]. Taking away the All-NBA guys/those making more than White [62], we're left with....Ty Jerome, Payton Pritchard, and Austin Reaves. Do any of you think Ty Jerome is a good replacement for Derrick White? Oh I forgot to mention, Jerome's D-LEBRON is ~380 of 435 players, so one of the worst defenders in the NBA. Reaves's O-Lebron is the spot above White's - oh, do you all remember how bad White's shooting was this season? Oh yeah, he's still the same value as Austin Reaves on offense. What about Reaves, defensively? 176th of 435 players. Oh yeah, and Reaves is entering a contract year so the Celtics would have to pay him more than White anyway.

Next, those who are contractually close enough and not All-NBA: Lamelo Ball. While top tier in offense, his defense is 282nd out of 435 players. He is the only relatively feasible candidate with even one side of the ball better than White, but he makes 10million more, sucks on defense, and is well-situated in Charlotte's current roster. Are either Reaves or Lamelo going to improve our chances against Maxey? Are they going to guard him better than what people criticized as White's shitty defense? Will they generate enough offense to off-set the opportunity cost of losing D. White's defensive impact?

RAPM (Regularized Adjusted Plus-Minus) - "an impact-metric analysis that treats players as influencing factors on the outcome of NBA possessions to determine a player's impact on his team's performance in a more unbiased way"...time-decay RAPM weights the current season and has impact of the previous season weighted less to give value over time focused mostly on current season impact...."xRAPM is an 'advanced' player impact metric, equivalent to what used to be ESPN's Real Plus Minus (RPM). To estimate player impact lineup data - who is on the court at what time, and how many points are scored - and individual player data is used."..."DARKO is a machine learning-driven basketball player box-score score projection system."

Derrick White:

time-decay RAPM ranking: 11th (4th of guards) - Shai, Curry, Caruso
xRAPM ranking: 8th (4th of guards) - Shai, Luka, Knueppel
darko RAPM ranking: 43rd (18th of guards)
2 yr RAPM ranking: 13th (5th of guards) - Shai, Smart, Hali, McBride

Comparison to Other Guards:

Caruso: even less offensive load than White with no playmaking. Knueppel: ROTY finalist who won't be traded until after White retires. Smart: Ha! Haliburton: leader of his own team, 24th highest paid player (+19mil), McBride: shorter than DW, less passing, shooting history just like White's, no prolonged experience leading an offense as the PG.

Databallr: Playoff Stats 2026; DPM (Daily Plus-Minus): "Predictive impact metric from DARKO (Kostya Medvedovsky, darko.app) estimating player impact on expected team scoring differential per 100 possessions, with teammate/opponent effects controlled."

I know the main "gotcha" slandering DW will be "so what about the regular season. He sucked in the playoffs on both ends--we need an offensive guy to help the Js who can shoot even league average." Here are some stats for you:

White's Daily Plus Minus measuring overall impact was in the 94th percentile of all players in the 2026 Playoffs. His offensive DPM was 92nd percentile and his defensive was 84th percentile.
- This is while he was one of the worst shooters in the playoffs: 33rd percentile in points created, 13th for true shooting, 12th for Relative True Shooting Percentage (compared to league average), 26th percentile 2P%, 32th percentile 3P%, 92nd percentile 3P%.
White logged the 25th most minutes per game of anyone in the postseason and second behind Tatum on the C's.
- He has been one of the most available players in the league the past several years, by minutes played. 25-26 (10th), 24-25 (20th), 23-24 (45). The last 3 years, he's played the 8th most minutes of all NBA players: Bridges, DeMar, KD, Ant, Harden, Brunson, Hart, DW.

In summary: even when White is shooting poorly, he is statistically and objectively one of the most valuable, high-impact players in the NBA, in both the regular season and even in this shitty playoff series. Trading him for an offense-first player makes little sense when Tatum and Brown are on the team and need a lower-usage PG. White's skill-set is unprecedented and has a holistic impact on the game: he hustles, offers rim-protection, has high-IQ, greases the offense with his passing, can throw lobs, can score and shoot (if his shot returns), can run around the court and peel-switch to recover, plays elite weak-side help defense, can navigate screens at an elite-level, is a great teammate and locker room guy, friends with Tatum. There is no NBA guard who: has his mix of offensive and defensive skill set, is not prohibitively expensive, or would not be a clear step-back.

Trading him for worse players to build depth is even worse. You aren't getting players that add up to his value that are available and at the right positions. If you're trading him, you'd want to get a star, but those who could be available are super expensive or untradeable. Reaves, Caruso, Lamelo, Murray, and Haliburton are the likeliest options, but White is better than all of them on one side of the ball (at least) and has, objectively and statistically, a higher overall impact on winning basketball than all but the superstar engines of winning teams.

u/smithtable15 — 2 months ago