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I call that acting out on a long term undiagnosed psychological problem that would mimic absolutely anything due to schizophrenia.

In Skyrim, you can join almost every guild/faction/etc., and nobody cares, even if they seem like they should conflict. But in Oblivion, you can get thrown out of factions in some situations. While that can be inconvenient, to me it makes the world feel more real, and makes choices in an open world environment feel more real as well. Thoughts?

Let me make it 100% clear that from a gameplay perspective you absolutely MUST join the Mages Guild in Oblivion as quickly as humanly possible because the spell crafting and enchanting mechanics are that valuable, but I came across this interesting video illustrating some of the issues of the Mages guild in terms of lore and logic within The Elder Scrolls. The creator of the video brings up some valid points. But let's not get ahead, here's the video.

I'd much rather be the teacher because at least I can help some of the kids turn their life around or change their attitude towards life. Besides, kids would more open up to a teacher than a cop because most cops lack any sort of interpersonal skills and are usually very cold to people from very harsh backgrounds. Which would you rather?

I suppose that, in a way, it is similar to the prospect of people leaving thier bodies to medical science and plenty of people wouldn't have an issue with that. However, necromancy isn't exactly medical science, it's abusing people's remains to use them for personal gain, like for combat or personal defence, and that is kind of sick. Summoned Deadra are clearly not creatures of will, otherwise why would they serve you? So I see summoning them as a different matter. When an Atroanch or bound weapon is summoned, nobody's remains have been defiled for selfish gain. If it were me, I wouldn't like to think that my corpse was being uses as a weapon, especially in the likely truth that the one wielding me as that weapon was the one that killed me in the first place.

I joined the Mages Guild in Oblivion because magic is my natural calling. Necromancy is apart of magic - so let me get this straight, you can summon creatures from the Daedric realm and most people don't bat an eye but you raise one dead body and it's like the end of the world. It's not like I went full Nightking and raising every dead body I come across - no wait, I've pretty much done that before lol. But seriously, the video does have some extremely valid points but nobody has any issues with summoning bound weapons which are Daedra formed into a weapon by the way but as soon as Necromancy is involved, it's a big issue.

You've misunderstood what I said. What I'm saying is they will add these egregious microtransactions originally in the the "free-to-play" versions of games to the premium visions of games because "it is not fair to deny premium players the opportunity to buy them". That will be thier excuse.

Assuming this story is even true, I noticed you haven't posted any articles about it, it's obvious this guy has some other psychological issues. Millions of people play GTA and don't behave this way in real life. Idiots have been trying to prove a direct link between violent media and violent behaviour for decades. It's been debunked every time because in every case there are other factors about thier lives which have much more direct psychological effects. These people either can't or just won't accept the more complex, multi-layered reasons and would rather have a single simple scapegoat. After the Columbine massacre, it wasn't these kids known psychological issues, pent up resentment or easy access to firearms, it was Marilyn Manson! Just Marilyn Manson and the evil music that they listened too that made them do it. It's fucking ridiculous!

Let me guess, you are QANON looking for recruits.

I totally understand but it's just the other people and their agendas that drove us to our answers lol

Spoilers for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. While I agree that being removed from a guild for breaking rules is realistic, the requirements to re-enter are a mixed bag. I can't imagine being welcomed back into a Guild after murdering a guildmate in cold blood, which is apparently forgiven if you hand in 20 bear pelts or minotaur horns for the Fighters Guild, or 20 Daedra Hearts and Vampire Dust for the Mages' Guild. Not only are those requirements insane for someone who would need a guild for the training to slay the creatures necessary to harvest those parts, but one of them is going to be in scarce supply if the Oblivion crisis comes to a complete halt. The Thieves Guild has somewhat understandable rules given it's a rather dishonourable craft, which just requires you to pay a debt in gold (or items equalling the gold value of the debt) to get back in, though according to the above link there are some questionable gameplay mechanics surrounding expulsion. And finally, The Dark Brotherhood fittingly has an "eye for an eye" style of requirement to rejoin, demanding you slay 'the Wrath of Sithis' prior to the Purification questline. As per two of the three guilds mentioned before, it's two strikes and you're out.... and you have to slay the Wrath of Sithis again with 700HP. At least the Dark Brotherhood has a questline that makes a point of breaking the tenets, or rather, being immune to them. So if you've any pent up frustrations about being kicked out of a guild, take them out during the Purification. Interestingly, the Guildmaster of the Fighters Guild and Archmage of the Arcane University can't lose their positions. I would've liked to have seen a questline wherein those who reach such positions can end up losing them in a trial by combat for the former, or a series of votes via the latter. Of course, those who desperately want the position can resort to dirty tricks, but the option to step down could also be a nice bit of roleplay for those who don't want to be the Master of All Trades the Champion of Cyrodiil ends up becoming. I'll end by saying this: I also like that if you're inactive during your initiation, you can lose your membership and have to re-apply to become a member of the Mages and Fighters Guild. The only way you know this as far as I recall is by looking at your factions screen and no longer seeing your rank there. I do like, however much it aggrevated me at the time, that the Thieves' Guild gives you a time-sensitive initiation that can be cheated by pickpocketing one of the other thieves on their way back from the race! OK, one final note: I've not played around with the guilds much in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, but from what I understand they were a lot more hardline about the relationships with guilds and punishment. IIRC one could not be in both the Fighters and Thieves Guild because they had quests against each other, and the Houses were at odds with one another. I'm not sure how the Morag Tong - state sanctioned assassins - did crime and punishment, but I imagine they had a one strike system, and the strike would've been planned barbarism.

I have always loved how good Mages are with their magical powers especially the ones that tap into dark the dark arts.

My relatives were all equally the most toxic people I have known. When you're the one person in the bloodline that everyone absolutely hates, they're all equally toxic.

In Florida Desantis has flat out made mask mandates illegal. He has threatened to withdraw federal funding from any school district that opposes the law and mandates masks anyway. And any town that mandates masks is going to get fined more then the town can afford. Also he's the front runner, ahead of Adolf Jr even, for the radical right bid for the house and then the White House. If he gets any seat higher than Florida's governor, the entire country is 100% fucked. I don't give a shit what party he is or claims to be, his bullshit on Covid and masks will kill us all. Florida is already at maximum capacity in hospitals again, many of the sick being children. They're experiencing an average of 58 Covid related deaths per day. PER. FUCKING. DAY. This is a man who isn't even qualified to run a lemonade stand, let alone an entire state. Especially one that is also a popular tourist destination.

I just went down the rabbit hole and read all about this, it's absolutely vile, disgusting and in my humble opinion Blizzard should be liquidated. This isn't "cancel culture" either, this is is serious and I cannot believe some of the things I read, they don't deserve to be in business anymore, period.