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  • They are bound and cannot make decisions in that way.

    The proof is in the conjuration master quest.

    You can summon dremora, creatures definitely capable of speaking, consenting, etc, via “Conjure Dremora Lord” and they have no dialogue, cannot be ordered, and do not act as a follower in skyrim would, even an unwilling one. But, at conjuration 90, in the College, you can get a spell, “Conjure Unbound Dremora”, which summons a Dremora that is hostile, can speak, and can change its mind if you threaten it with violence. That dremora, once unsummoned, can then willingly (under duress) go get you a sigil stone, and carries it back with him.

    Clearly, there’s a distinction here, the unbound version of the spell had no compulsion effect on it. This would be needed since after dismissing the spell, the compulsion ends, so they wouldn’t obey.

    Logically, if we can make a “Summon Unbound Dremora”, we could make a “Summon Unbound Flame Atronach”, and that spell would repeatedly summon the same atronach with no compulsion, but the standard version of these spells summons things in a way that prevents consent.


  • Simple, dissolve the whole package in one gallon of water, and then the solution is 110 times as potent as it should be.

    Round up to 128 because watering it down a little more won’t hurt you, and that simplifies the math. You put one ounce of that gallon of solution into a second gallon of water, and you’re ready to drink. Repeat with a new gallon of tap water mixed with an ounce of your solution as needed.


  • They could, if they wanted to. This is somewhat an example of “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it”.

    A lot of that is the fact that Linux is run incredibly lean. Replicating that isn’t cheap. They absolutely can, but since Linux is free and they can even modify it to suit their needs, its far simpler to do that.

    Android is the best example. Google wanted a phone OS, so they bought Android Inc, who was making one. They could’ve spun up their own with their own talent, hired more, etc, but just absorbed one instead. That talent was making a phone OS based on Linux, because, again, they could’ve delved into the details of OS creation, but it was far easier to take a free OS, change the bits you want changed (like adding touchscreen support, which to my knowledge, wasn’t in the Linux version Android started with), and run with the new version you’ve made.

    It’s also worth pointing out that Google has spent a lot of money on Android, and other large companies spend a lot on developing their own custom Linux Distro. It’s not like they have one software engineer for Android who downloaded Linux once and changed it. These companies are willing to do what you describe, they just didn’t have to reinvent the wheel. The Linux kernel, thanks to the community behind it, is incredibly secure and efficient, and there just wasn’t any reason to change it or copy it when it exists and is free to use.








  • Well first, this deal was part of that sale. That’d be like someone’s boss pocketing a tip and telling the waitress “you don’t deserve this tip you already got paid” or a salesman “you get something hourly, why would you need this commission?”

    They worked for it, after the sale, because it was in their contract.

    That said, the company didn’t even say it was a mess. They said that they needed something like, one more biome, one more leviathan, a few bits and bobs like that. Requirements that they added on later in development, that those three guys say aren’t needed.

    I really wanna hear from the other devs, the ones under the 3. Theirs is the opinion I’d trust in this mess. But I’m leaning towards corporate fuckery, personally.