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Update: https://youtu.be/yC6W0htYBOc

Hello 👋,

One of my friends who posts here told me it would be sweet if I tried out an AMA here so here goes.

I have been a programmer for the mod since 2019 and have been working on the project I would say almost every other day, except for holidays of course. Working on the game has been really exciting and I’m really proud to be a part of it and I really really can’t wait for people to start playing it! It’s honestly such a cool mod and we have an incredibly talented team of people who have been working on this thing nonstop.

Anyway, cheers for having me and thanks for the questions!

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[-] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago

What brings you here of all places?

I’m really looking forward to skyblivion. I thought the remaster would quell my desire but it was such a disappointment it only hardened my resolve to play.

[-] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago

How have you maintained the zeal and discipline to work on it so consistently for 6 years? That's a long time!

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago

what's your favorite bean based dish

[-] razgriz@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

When are you doing Fallout New Vegas?

doggy-beg kitty-cri-screm

[-] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

what's your favorite dinosaur

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

Actually I do have a question. Which part has been the hardest or longest or most problematic component for the project?

[-] qcop@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

Have you read "Marx at the arcade" by Jamie Woodcock? Great book on the gaming industry, its workers and its consumers

[-] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

When the full thing is out, what character will you make? What's your playstyle?

Also, how do you handle the expectations for this project? People have been thoroughly excited about it for years, must be hard being so close from release. Do you feel pressure?

[-] Aradino@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

I don't have any questions related to the project, but I hope you're having a good day

[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

No questions, but I wanted to say thanks for your hard work and it's very cool to know someone who works on Skyblivion is a lefty. Hell yeah.

[-] Des@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No questions, but as someone who has made a hobby out of customizing games (using mods) and appreciates the hard work done by modders to allow me to do so

eventually i got so good that I started beta testing, making patches, content, etc. but i haven't published an actual mod in almost 15 years I am purely a consumer

Mods keep me playing games despite some efforts by corpos and bad actors to crush it. sometimes it feels like the only two (mostly digital) things on the internet that are true hobby spaces where people can be creative without mandatory monetary gain: mods and fanfic. Both spun from something people love and want to expand upon. i will fight for both to the bitter end (even though I don't read fanfic)

so thank you for working so hard on this project with your team and I hope to check it out one day. catgirl-happy

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

How has the Oblivion remaster affected your project?

Also, as a fellow game dev who has been working on a project for a similar length of time, how do you maintain enthusiasm and prevent burnout?

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

I don't have an interesting question really I just want to say that I've been waiting to play it and thanks for all your work.

[-] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Was there any hype in dev chats or downloading spree when young scrolls posted their ZOOM album with Xedilian track having an explicit "My bitch is 4k like SkyOblivion" positive reference to your project?

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

Hwat in the goddamn what-in-the-goddamn

i just watched that update video! fully support the decisions to push those features beyond initial release many such cases where something looks good/kinda works for a preview but is unpractical for full implementation. shame the spell making modder peaced out before their shit needed adjustments

Question: what is the level of collaboration between your team and beyond skyrim cyrodiil on the Imperial City? are yall gonna use the same tileset once its done?

[-] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 week ago

First of all, thank you and your team for the amazing voluntary work you're doing! <3
I've got 2 questions for you :)

  1. Hope I don't come over rude with this one, but with the Oblivion Remastered release, what is still the benefit/point of Skyblivion? :o

  2. From the Skyblivion website's FAQ, I've understood that Skyrim won't be accessible in Skyblivion, could you explain why this is the case? I'm interested in understanding the technicalities behind it :) Since with Skywind also being a thing, it would be awesome imo to have a single game with Skyrim + Skyblivion + Skywind in one, perhaps slowly adding more until all of Tamriel is combined in a single massive game. But if that would not be possible, I'd be interested in knowing why :)

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

microsoft gaming is BDS, a fan mod isn't.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

I don't have any questions for you but if you have any questions for me AMA, i'm a vegan chef (but i'm not vegan)

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

what's your favorite bean based dish

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh I can't answer that r/n since making papadams (lentil crackers) has blown my mind open to the bean cracker and nugget possibilities, there's too many good choices and too much I haven't tried

I think some top bean focused favorites though would be like a beany chili, a good bean filling for burritos, chickpea curries are always good if you consider it a bean. GREEN BEANS are a huge favorite tosses in garlic, salt, pepper, and onion powder and roasted hot hot until starting to brown, but they're like, more a vegetable than a bean. Idk

I really need to experiment though because there's all kinds of fucking indian street foods and stuff using beans, plus I'm only just now getting into crackerizing and nuggetizing them. I made some creole seasoned black eyed peas the other day and pureed them and mixed with with flour, cornstarch and baking soda, pressed those into crackers and deep fried them, and mmmm they were soo good (hard to get consistently crisp though, you gotta get them REALLY flat, and they went stale quickly).

The next thing I wanna do is basically that, I posted some youtube video recently of bayou bean balls and they look dope, like a bean hushpuppy 🤤

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

The obvious question is why are you a vegan chef but not vegan yourself?

My job is vegan chef so i cook the vegan food but i'm not a vegan because idk the animal slaughter is already happening and my personal choice of what to eat isn't going to do shit and any arguments otherwise conflict with the general agreement that you can't just vote with your wallet to affect anything under capitalism so that's pretty much it. I eat food that I think is good, if we do a communism and enforce veganism I guess i'll stop and have fewer problems than most but i'll really miss eggs because they're kind of an autism sensory "i can always eat this food and stomach it" thing if I'm having appetite issues which is sometimes frequent

[-] Kefla@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

idk the animal slaughter is already happening and my personal choice of what to eat isn't going to do shit and any arguments otherwise conflict with the general agreement that you can't just vote with your wallet to affect anything under capitalism

"No ethical consumption under capitalism" is such an insidious thought-terminating cliche which could be used to justify all sorts of shit you would no doubt condemn, like buying from Israeli companies for example.

okay so we CAN vote with our wallets? Im not going to change how i feel but i am going to go to bed gnight

[-] Kefla@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Have you ever heard of a boycott? Do you smugly dismiss BDS as "voting with your wallet"

Im not going to change how i feel

Pure liberalism, shut the fuck up then. A view which cannot be changed by reason is a view worth nothing.

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

speaking only practically and not to the issues at all, boycotts only work when they're organized and you'd have to look real hard to find one that worked as boycott-only and not backed up with a strike, community organizing (Montgomery), or some escalatory threat.

shoutout to any vegans in charge of booking the catering for their office, that's a better analogy for someone doing BDS by scuttling a contract that would've gone to HewittPackard or Coke.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

There literally are organised boycotts of the animal ag industry. There are local campaigns to switch to vegan catering at offices, universities, etc that gain traction and sometimes succeed in making policy. The average westerner consumes huge amounts of animal products, over the course of e.g. a year it does add up to a significant amount of money not given to the animal ag industry especially with the volume of people that are vegan.

I think the main reason though is to prefigure a communistic mode of food production and consumption though where we are not at odds with nature. You could argue that we shouldn't feed the homeless because they'll go hungry anyway even if we give them one meal, but should we not prefigure a mode of existence where we care whether our neighbours live or die? Should we not try? The animal ag industry is completely unsustainable—we are not talking about hunter-gatherer peoples hunting, or foraging eggs, or whatever. We are talking about capitalism cramming as many chickens as possible into a cage with a floor area the size of a iPad, stuffing animals full of growth hormones, destroying entire ecosystems just to meet western beef demand. Because the average global southerner doesn't eat that much meat anyway—it's an inherently expensive form of food as meat has to eat plants, so instead of growing plants directly for human consumption we have to grow plants to feed animals who burn most of the plant energy instead of giving it to us when we eat them. If we are to envision a communistic mode of food production, where food is produced to best meet human needs, and we don't ceaselessly produce for the sake of profit, it is at the very least going to be far more vegan than we currently are. Why not try practising it?

There are plenty of problems with liberalism in the vegan movement, but as communists it is our job to politicise, to radicalise, and to make militants out of activists and workers. Veganism isn't completely wrong. Its foundation is by and large correct, and it can easily be steered into a communist political direction.

[-] Kefla@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

boycotts only work when they're organized

This is organized. People who are involved with this boycott call ourselves vegans and there are a hell of a lot of us, and now tons of shelf space in stores, restaurant demand, etc which would otherwise be dedicated to brutalizing innocents is instead dedicated to not doing that. That's really understating the matter, the vegan movement has gotten so much more shit done than even most vegans are aware of. On what grounds do you call it disorganized or ineffective? What have you done for animal rights, aside from advocate against them?

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

it's "disorganized" when it's about one person being vegan or not.

[-] Kefla@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's like saying BDS is about "one person being against Israel or not." I'm telling you to join the fucking movement, and suggesting that you suck if you oppose it. You know, the same way we handle literally everything else here, socialism, anti-imperialism, trans rights, and so on. You don't have to have the power to unilaterally change the entire course of history in order for your actions to matter and to be judged. Just because you aren't going to end homelessness by yourself doesn't mean I can't call you a shitty person for stealing change from a homeless person and saying that housing homeless people doesn't matter.

[-] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

I saw a news story that said the "Skyblivion team" was invited to Bethesda HQ for a day, were you part of that group?

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

ok i watched that update video and as someone who liked and disliked both oblivion and skyrim for different reasons i'm impressed. what i want to know is what would you say are the minimum system requirements for this? would performance be comparable to the 2011 windows release of skyrim? i have a shitty computer that can run that version of skyrim decently at medium settings (the GPU is intel UHD 630), and i'm sure it would run the 2006 release of oblivion well, but i don't think it could run any of the skyrim remasters.

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

don't be afraid of the special edition (pirate it if you don't want to buy it), it's better optimized and stable so should run better despite the graphics stuff

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

How did yall handle the goblin civil war stuff. Where they fight over each other's staves or whatever

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago
[-] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

My dad works at hexbear and is going to ban you

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

eating dongs isn't loathsome, it's cool and fun:(

(I love er and get a solid kick outta your handle;))

[-] graymess@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

I've been following Skyblivion for at least as long as you've been involved with the project, so first: Thank you so much for all your work. Second: Congratulations on the absurd amount of progress. That is so fucking impressive that you're this close to release.

I've been curious for a while now, but how prepared is the team for the final steps of QC before the big launch? I imagine the passion involved in creating this project from the ground up and seeing it to completion is excellent motivation, but even the most dedicated creators must hit a wall when it comes to the daunting task of bug fixing a Bethesda-sized game. Do you feel like you know what to expect when you get there or is it still kind of an unknown at this point?

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Not to be too much of a dork but "what we have left to do" feels a lot like "what is to be done", do you have a lot of filthy pinko commies on board?;)

[-] lib1@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

It’s looking so good already and I’m very excited to play. No questions. Just congrats on the progress

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

seriously? did no one here learn from the last obviously fake ama

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

1 - sorry, which one?

2 - who cares if we're just unknowingly participating in a silly larp?

[-] TheSovietOnion@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago
[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

omg Mr Spielberg I'm a huge fan, what does Harrison Ford smell like?

[-] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 days ago
[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

I believe it

[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Can you hide a Hexbear reference in Skyblivion?

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