i know it's internet bullshit but it genuinely has me on the edge of breaking down and giving up

I give him 6 months before he s out. !gayporn !lgbt @Pizzashill-2

Previously, I had declared my feelings of affection to a female friend of mine (let's just call her Sarah because her name is Sarah). The feelings were not reciprocated, but she let me down in a weird way, she spoke about how she doesn't know how she feels, but she's not looking for a relationship at the moment. She embraces the asexuality meme which is partially how we ended up being friends.

More recently, I decided to give it another shot but to be more tactful this time. I told her I don't think I'm asexual anymore, and that I want to be in a relationship. Once again, she reiterated that she doesn't know how she feels and that a relationship isn't what she wants. Nevertheless, as always, she was nice about it and continues to actively pursue my friendship and constantly tells me she loves me.

At first, this confused me. However, I think I have some of it figured out. I have learned a bit about women and human relationships in general from this experience, and I'd like to share some of the reasons why it's almost certainly a bad idea to pursue your female friends. Now, of course there will be exceptions. Sometimes your female friend genuinely does like you and you'll have a romcom moment. My point is that that's probably not the case, and while you may view the friendship with rose-tinted glasses, she sees things totally differently.

1. They're used to it

Since they started developing breasts, women have been the center of sexual attention. It comes from all angles including older men, teachers, family members, and even other women. At some point, they get used to it and it becomes background noise. "Yes, he's ogling my breasts but I need to finish scanning my groceries".

The sexual attention also comes from male friends. You're NOT the first male friend to express romantic emotions, and you won't be the last. She's turned all of them down, what makes you think things will be different with you? She's used to it, she probably saw it coming, and she doesn't want it. If she did, you wouldn't have to ask because she'd make it obvious to you that she's romantically interested.

Now, there is the possibility of misreading signals, which brings us to the next point.

2. Women genuinely have platonic feelings

This is not to say that men are incapable of having platonic relationships. Nay, that is not my point. My argument is that it is much harder for men to do so. People shit on Steve Harvey but he was 100% correct when he said the following:

Things aren't the same with women. They can genuinely love you deeply without any sexual or romantic feelings. Why is this? Women don't have to deal with the famine mentality. For many men, s*x and love are scarce resources, so when it even vaguely seems like there's an opportunity for it, the feelings come on strong. Hence the cliche of "the cashier smiled at me now I want to marry her". (Most) women aren't leading you on intentionally when they allow intimacy into a friendship. That's the way friendships should be. But it doesn't mean she wants anything sexual or romantic.

3. You're in love because you're lonely

This is probably the crux of the issue. When you're starving, even a mud pie looks delicious. As men, you will face long stretches of loneliness and never being told you're beautiful, attractive, or worthy of anything. Inasmuch as catcalling and sexual objectification should be chastised, it at least serves as some kind of validation of one's attractiveness.

A friendship with a woman can bring about those feelings of validation within men and if you're not ready for it, it's going to develop into obsessive love. If you had higher self-esteem, more experience with women, or a source of love, your friendships with women would be completely normal and platonic. It's when these elements are missing that any smile, hug, or eye-gaze turns into fantasies of marriage.

When she inevitably turns you down, what are you left with? Nothing yet again. Nobody to say they love you or assure you that you are wanted in this world.

Things get more complicated if you're an introvert. Most relationships seem useless unless you're benefitting considerably. In your mind the thinking is "I'd only put this much effort into a relationship if I had romantic feelings". Whereas if the woman is an extrovert, it isn't costing her much mental energy to maintain the relationship. I hope that make sense.

4. She knows already

Don't bother. She already knows you like her. She accepts that as part of the cost of the friendship. That's not a bad thing. It means there's something good about you that she wants in her life even if its not of the romantic nature. You should be flattered by this even if it is heartbreaking at times.

Some women are a bit mean with this. They essentially get everything they would get from a boyfriend (someone to talk to, someone to take care of them) without the need to commit. But that's not always the case. In my case, Sarah goes out her way to be nice to me and to spend time with me. She's not using me for anything - a genuine, platonic friendship is all she wants. It's hard for my brain to wrap my head around it. I thought it was obvious that she felt something. Maybe I had to take the lead and break the ice? Nah, I'm convinced she knew ages ago I liked her but loved me enough to still be my friend despite not sharing romantic feelings.

5. You may lose everything

Life is about taking risks so I don't want to stress this point too much. However, if she doesn't already know and you spring it up on her, she may never trust you again and you will lose all the intimacy of your friendship. She will remain guarded around you, and perhaps even think of you as a slimy coomer who tried to use friendship to get into her pants. Shit can get brutal.

I've been lucky to have an understanding friends who has continued to be nice to me. I know that this isn't the case for everyone, and it also depends on how you respond to the rejection.

CONCLUSION

Heartbreak is one of the worst feelings to experience. It's like a knife constantly twisting in your chest. But it's part of life for most of us. A lucky few will find high-school sweethearts and never have to play the dating game, but for most of us, we're going to get rekt a couple times before we find the right one (if we ever do). Please, for the love of god, don't go looking for a girlfriend from your female friends. There's a difference between a girl friend and a girlfriend.

I'm probably preaching to the choir, and this may be obvious to most people here. But I know there are some autists who may need to read this to spare themselves the heartache I went through. The funny part is that if you're in love, nothing I write is going to change anything. You'll think your case is different. You'll try your luck. And you'll get rekt. But don't let me stop you. Some mistakes are meant to be made.

I know the asexuality meme isn't true. One day, she'll find a guy she likes (not me) and all that asexuality shit will disappear. And when it happens it will hurt like heck. However, I'm prepared, and I'll still be her friend. I'm wiser now thanks to the mistakes I've made. Thanks for reading.

The bad news is that I am still a fat frick.

The good news is that I can now fast for 48 hours at a time and follow that up with still maintaining a calorie deficit in my diet.

My capabilities continue to improve.

I am assuming this puts me in the high willpower category.

For my next trick I learn to follow an organized routine every day.

Wish me luck boys.

"Restrictive"

"Atypical" meaning the exact opposite of anorexia

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— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) May 1, 2024

!chuds rejoice

!grillers also have chad skulls

i've never been a social person because i've always been totally content riding solo instead of putting up with people and their endless bullshit. i'm not depressed, lonely, sad, anything i'm totally chill

Most of you chads and kings long for the bygone era of a few guys sitting across the room, sipping scotch, smoking cigars, making random comments about women and also engaging in productive conversation.

Gone are those days, now all you get is huddling around pink haired bisexuals and s calling each other comrade in shrill pitched voices, (@pillowprincess suck my peepee) chastising your manhood and finding the most God awful books in existence, chanting it in unison as if to unleash some magic spell.

Well, fear not my friend.

Vote any book from below. I'll select the name with the highest vote. Then give you the notes on the essential facts for the first 100 pages 9 days from now (Friday next week) and on each Friday thereafter.

As soon as a book is completed, the book with the 2nd highest votes will be started or a new auction will be floated on the last day of the current book.

Books: [From Before]

New Additions:

!bookworms !classics !r-slurs

Can't even handle a little banter

Tamriel Rebuilt is a massive mod for TES III: Morrowind, which adds the missing mainland of the Morrowind province to the game world. You can download it here.

Greetings! In the last update we covered everything that you can expect from our next upcoming expansion, Grasping Fortune. But Morrowind is a massive province and Tamriel Rebuilt is developing on many fronts in parallel. The last time that we went over our full plans for the future – our development roadmap – was in late 2021. Hence, it's high time we update you with how those plans have changed and give you a high-level overview of each of the new and exciting expansions that we're currently tackling.

Remember, Tamriel Rebuilt is developed as a series of episodic releases or expansions, with new chunks of Morrowind's mainland released every year (aspirationally, at least). Whenever an expansion is released, the new areas come with the full complement of interior locations, characters, and quests, all seamlessly tying into the base game and the prior expansions.

A map of all prior and currently in-development Tamriel Rebuilt expansions.

In order for all this to work, teams focusing on different fields of mod development are chipping away at different parts of the province. Asset developers bring the work of our concept artists to life, creating the 3D assets that our level designers need. Only once the asset palette for a new region is more-or-less finished, can exterior level designers create a new area of the overworld. Once that is done, a drove of interior level designers descends to fill out the (sometimes) hundreds of highly detailed interior locations – buildings, caves, dungeons – that each expansion needs. And only once the latter work is winding down can quest developers fill the lands with hundreds more memorable characters and quests.

Below, we will walk you through the different expansions we are currently working on, roughly in the order that we expect them to be released. All of this is, obviously, highly tentative and subject to change at any time. Furthermore, no dates are offered, as everything here is done by volunteer effort, the ebbs and floods of which are infamously hard to predict.

Grasping Fortune

Covered in-depth in our last news post, Grasping Fortune is the next expansion in our pipeline and the one closest to completion.

A birds-eye view of the playable area to be added in Grasping Fortune. The exterior worldscape is now more-or-less finished. Yellow landscape comprises mostly the Coronati Basin region while the red area is Shipal-Shin. Dotted black lines denote an area that may possibly be added to the expansion, should it be finalized in time. The inset on the top left shows the location on a map of all of Morrowind.

Grasping Fortune will add a vast area of the mainland stretching south from Lake Andaram (the focus of our last expansion) all the way to the southwestern tip of Morrowind against Cyrodiil and Black Marsh. Its main focus will be the grand city of Narsis, the headquarters of House Hlaalu, home of the Imperial Proconsul, and the second-biggest and possibly richest city in Morrowind. Smaller towns in the release include Othmura, Ald Iuval, Ald Marak, Hlerynhul, Sadrathim, and Shipal-Sharai.

Looking across Sadrathim towards Narsis. Exterior (foreground) level design by Chef.

Included in the release will also be a huge chunk of countryside – both the cultivated Coronati Basin region and the wild canyons of Shipal-Shin. Search for monasteries, Shinathi nomad camps, a tower of the Barsaebic Ayleids, a Second Empire (Reman) ruin, the giant Velothi tower compound where the Ja-Natta Syndicate makes its lair, and the Stormgate and Septim's Gate passes to Black Marsh and Cyrodiil, respectively. Just don't get mauled by a horned butcher or stung by a skyrender!

You can expect questlines for almost every imaginable faction (often several of them), including ones for House Redoran, the Twin Lamps, and the brand-new Ja-Natta Syndicate criminal organization.

The Narsis waterfront. Exterior level design by Chef.

Currently, exteriors are finished aside from a few optional touch-ups and, possibly, a new slice of land bitten off from the later Wealth Beyond Measure expansion. Interiors are almost done, save for a few larger locations and the skyrender hives (which still need some new 3D assets). Addition of NPCs and general dialogue is finished for almost all of the towns, most of Narsis, and the Coronati Basin wilderness; some areas of Narsis and the Shipal-Shin wilderness still remain to be populated. More than a dozen miscellaneous quests and several questlines have already been merged and a similar number is finished pending review. But most of the questing load still lies ahead.

Narsis Fighters Guild. Interior level design by RyanS and Mark, screenshot by Osidian.

Should they be completed prior to when Grasping Fortune is released, several additions to the expansion's core content also may be included, such as:

Foul Murder – our short epilogue to Morrowind's main quest, starting in Necrom. The questline is already merged into our main in-development plugin, but is currently disabled by default until we get a creature model which the questline sorely needs.

Better bring some area-of-effect weapons with you to Firemoth. Exterior level design by Selengor and Chef, quests by Evil Eye, screenshot by Taniquetil.

Firemoth Rekindled – our revamp of the 2002 official mod “Siege of Firemoth,” which now includes an Imperial Legion questline to rebuild the fortress, in addition to an all-around overhaul and improvement of the original level and quest design. This revamp is now officially ready to go and you may, in fact, see it released even before Grasping Fortune.

Telvannis Stopgap – finalization of our old 00s-era Telvanni content by the addition of new questlines to Master Vaerin, Mistress Rathra, and a final quest involving Master Dral – all now complete. A stretch goal is to include an endcap to the Ranyon-Ruhn Temple questline, for which two new interior locations were recently finished. Eventually, these new questlines may be significantly revamped or superseded, once our Grand Telvannis Redo starts in many years' time. But in the meanwhile, they will hopefully tide Telvanni fans over.

A teaser for some potential far northern Tamriel Rebuilt content, by Taniquetil.

Leviathan Isles – a small archipelago to the north of Sheogorad host to a ruined Imperial fort, Nord barrow, and more. The archipelago is intended to play a small part in a couple of province-spanning questlines. The exterior and interior locations are finished, but quests still need to be added.

Old Ebonheart Melee Tournament – a complex scripting marvel of a questline (made only with all-natural, non-GMO MWscript) that has you participating in a full-blown melee tournament steeped in inter-provincial politics. Marhaus has finished most of the scripting work, but much remains to be done, owing to the questline's complexity.

A new dreugh citadel in the cursed Nolubal Bay west of Bal Oyra. Exterior level design by Silvone.

Northeastern Morrowind Dreugh Citadels – making use of the new dreugh tileset released with the Andaram expansion last year, three new dreugh citadels and several grottos will be added to fully flesh out the underwater portion of our 2022 Embers of Empire expansion. Exterior work on these is finished, pending review.

Vounoura – a shrouded island to the north of Telvannis, related to the Morag Tong. The island, its interiors, and a brand-new Daedric lord quest has been finished (the latter complete with elusive new TES III voice acting!). Some more quests involving the location remain to be made, as does a follow-on to vanilla Morag Tong content.

The abandoned Tel Inan stands lonely on the island of Olanar. Exterior level design by Cicero.

Olanar – an island far to the southeast of Port Telvannis host to a long-abandoned Telvanni tower and rumored to hide a legendary treasure. The island's exterior and most interiors have been finished for a while, but we are waiting on some Maormer (!) assets to be finished, prior to quest work starting.

All of the above items are, again, not core parts of the expansion and may get bundled with following expansions, should they not materialize in time.

Poison Song

While our main effort remains focused on Grasping Fortune, we have in recent years kept going a side-effort to rework some of our oldest and least engaging areas, now called Poison Song.

Poison Song will revamp our old Sundered Scar region, but may tentatively also include some entirely new lands in the new Orethan region, including the town of Othrenis and the chapel of Nanaav, and, finally, our first three questlines for House Indoril.

A birds-eye view of the playable area to be added or revamped in Poison Song. The gray-hued area in the north is the redone Sundered Scar region, where most of the exterior worldspace is finished. The green area in a half-arch around the city of Almalexia is the currently work-in-progress Orethan region, an area wholly new to the mod. The inset on the top left shows the location on a map of all of Morrowind.

This expansion is the second of our “redo” releases, where we touch up older areas of the mod that don't quite hold up to our current worldbuilding vision and quality standards. (The first being 2022's acclaimed Embers of Empire, which revamped Telvannis' western seaboard and the Imperial cities and towns therein.)

The Sundered Scar wilderness. Exterior level design by pralec and Quit.

The Sundered Scar region, the expansion's main focus, lies directly east of Old Ebonheart on the mainland coast of the Inner Sea (roughly south of Molag Amur in the vanilla game). This region is currently a clone of the vanilla game's Bitter Coast region with a grand total of three minor quests taking place there. Although originally released in 2012 as part of the Sacred East expansion, its landscapes largely date to 2003, when much of the area was explicitly made as “filler content.”

The town of Marog in the new Sundered Scar. Exterior level design by pralec, screenshot by LogansGun.

Seeking to make this area worthwhile, we have retooled the Sundered Scar into a dangerous wasteland of geysers, sulfuric hot springs, and weird tube-fauna, inspired by Bethesda's scrapped concepts for a Great Scathes region on Vvardenfell, which was left largely unimplemented in the vanilla game.

The new caravanserai by Quit which will replace the old Inn Between.

Once the heartlands of House Mora, from which Nerevar hailed, the region was ripped asunder during the cataclysm that created the Inner Sea at the end of the War of the First Council, the ground underneath the land coming to a boil. Although ostensibly governed by the Indoril, this area has been left largely vacant in remembrance of the slain Hortator. Only small townsteads, the foremost of them being the trade town of Darvonis, dot the region. Most of it remains dangerous wilderness filled with the ruins of Morrowind's past glories. An exception is the lush island of Gorne in Azura Bay (known from the vanilla Morrowind book “The Poison Song”), which hosts an isolated chapel of House Indoril.

The lush island of Gorne off the Vvardenfell coast. Exterior level design by Cicero.

Tentatively, we may also include a small-ish part of our new Orethan region in Poison Song, just to the south of Sundered Scar. Realizing we had most of the needed assets earlier this year, we decided to already kick off exterior development there. This fully new chunk of land surrounding the city of Almalexia would make Poison Song no longer just a “redo,” but a full-on “do.”

Environmental concept for the Orethan region by be-a-stranger.

Our currently released mainland includes two old regions of the same name – the rather nondescript Alt Orethan and the lush forest of Lan Orethan – which were first released in 2012. Although the latter is quite lovely in its own way, our new concepts for House Indoril call for turning the area into a vast central breadbasket feeding the metropolis of Almalexia. After all, in Bethesda's original 1996 concept, this part of Morrowind was host to the Central (Deshaan) Plains, of which the Orethan region would form a part of.

Work-in-progress Orethan landscape. More colourful land textures and flora are still to be added. Exterior level design by Chef and/or Quit.

Building off of the few environmental assets shown in TES III: Tribunal's Mournhold, the new Orethan region will be a subtropical garden where Almalexia's influence has sculpted the very land into the most perfect expression of Indoril theocracy. Lush green vegetation is accented by many colorful flowers and fruit trees. Peaceful Velothi villages tend to bountiful fields irrigated by the meandering tributaries of the Orethan.

The heavily work-in-progress town of Othrenis. Exterior level design by Quit.

The central settlement in the particular slice of the Orethan coming with Poison Song is Othrenis. This is a wealthy trade town on Veloth's Path that includes a popular pilgrimage temple in addition to saltrice depots and a bustling slave market frequented by House Dres traders. The town is ruled at a distance from Nanaav, the airy and lovingly cultivated chapel of Indoril Beroth, who despite being an anti-Hlaalu warhawk is at personal odds with the similarly warlike Indoril Ilvi of Roa Dyr to the north (this is in contrast to Beroth's current depiction in the released mod, which shall change).

The heavily work-in-progress chapel of Nanaav. Exterior level design by Chef, new architecture assets by Shivatheo.

So, how far along is Poison Song? Well, all except two Sundered Scar exterior claims are finalized and most interior locations are either pending review or being worked on. The Orethan part, while smaller in scope, has only just started exterior development. Although enough assets are available for initial work, we still need the final ground textures and pink gorapple trees that will give the Orethan more color, as well as a variety of new flowers. Therefore, its possible that Sundered Scar will be done long before the Orethan; in that case, we will likely release the former separately.

Regardless, once we do release the new Orethan chunk, we will finally be able to offer our players the first three questlines for House Indoril. As for other quests, Poison Song won't be rich in Imperial guilds, but expect at least Temple and Morag Tong questlines in Darvonis and Othrenis, as well as a ton of miscellaneous quests throughout the wilderness areas and the smaller settlements.

The landscape around the town of Bodrum has recently been cleaned up by Phenoix12 and Mothpot.

Finally, Poison Song will help us tie up some loose ends from our past releases. As is well-known, we weren't quite 100% satisfied with the exterior and interior level design in our 2022's Dominions of Dust expansion – much of the area had been in development since 2009, way before our current quality and consistency standards were in place. Therefore, a touch-up of the exterior landscaping in the Roth Roryn region is ongoing (which may also touch the Armun Ashlands region), and we are well on our way to revamping or remaking many of the corresponding interiors – work we hope to release together with Poison Song.

A sketch of a possible new Armun Ashlands colour palette by be-a-stranger.

Wealth Beyond Measure

Coming right after Grasping Fortune in our main line of expansions is Wealth Beyond Measure, another massive release that will round out the remaining part of southwestern Morrowind.

The focus of this expansion will be the city of Kragenmoor, House Hlaalu's second most important settlement and, certainly, the most imperialized native city of Morrowind. Stretching from Kragenmoor all the way to Lake Coronati is the bulk of the lush and alien Othreleth Woods region, much of it filled with Hlaalu towns, agriculture, and industry. Running parallel to it is the wild northern spur of the Shipal-Shin canyonlands, the border between Morrowind and Cyrodiil, which transition into the Velothi Mountains just west of Kragenmoor.

A birds-eye view of the playable area to be added in Wealth Beyond Measure. The yellow area is the Othreleth Woods region and the red area underneath the northern spur of Shipal-Shin. In the northwest, Shipal-Shin transitions into the greenish-gray Velothi Mountains. Most of the exterior worldspace is finalized (although largely un-reviewed), with a few conspicuous areas still works in progress. The inset on the top right shows the location on a map of all of Morrowind.

Kragenmoor is an up-and-coming power center for House Hlaalu, though not exactly one to rival Narsis. Built on the ruins of what was once the heartland of the Kragen dwarves, then later a Redoran stronghold, the city now sits astride the busiest trade route between Morrowind and Cyrodiil, and is full of Hlaalu and outlander nouveau riche with their ostentatious mega-mansions. Imperial influence runs strong here; it's where we find one of the most important East Empire Company halls and the center of Morrowind's Imperial Cult, complete with two different chapels to Imperial Divines. Still, the city remains just as important to the Tribunal Temple, as it's where Veloth's Path really starts.

The work-in-progress city of Kragenmoor by Nemon and Chef.

Besides Kragenmoor, numerous other Hlaalu settlements dot the Othreleth Woods. The foremost among these is Andrethis, a bustling Balmora-sized industry town that is also one of the least imperialized Hlaalu settlements. Besides the other towns, villages, plantations, and mines, ruins of the once-great Redoran Waters March dot the region. Beyond them, in the deep woods await poisonous flora, carnivorous mushrooms, and dangerous predators – few dare venture far from roads in the Othreleth Woods.

A piece of the Othreleth Woods. Exterior level design by Phenoix12, screenshot by shivatheo.

Besides that, you will see more of the wild west of Shipal-Shin, where a couple more Shinathi clans make their nomadic living, rubbing shoulders with outcasts, smugglers, and the occasional Hlaalu outpost. To the west of Kragenmoor is the southernmost part of the Velothi Mountains, now sporting a brand-new asset palette (compared to the slightly northern part of the region released in 2022, which relied mostly on vanilla Morrowind assets, and which will get repainted in parallel). There you will find Shadowgate pass, Morrowind's busiest crossing into Cyrodiil, as well as the remains of the once-great Kragen dwarves, the antecedents of the Rourken Dwemer who emigrated to Hammerfell and built up a civilization there, prior to their disappearance.

The northwestern end of Shipal-Shin near the town of Salvelis. Exterior level design by Phenoix12.

Wealth Beyond Measure will complete our House Hlaalu lands and will therefore allow us to implement our first full, end-game faction questline. This will be a high-stakes affair that involves locations and actors all across the mainland and Vvardenfell. In fact, we will aim to integrate the whole vanilla House Hlaalu quest cycle seamlessly into the larger questline – of course, this will mean substantial edits to the vanilla game, which likely means we'll make it optional. Expect also a new House Hlaalu stronghold on the mainland! Otherwise, the questing scope is shaping up to be quite similar to Grasping Fortune, as we will need two questlines for a number of vanilla factions, along with innumerable miscellaneous quests.

Dwemer ruins litter the Velothi Mountains. Exterior level design by LogansGun.

Progress on this expansion is quite promising, as most parts of the exterior worldspace have been finished or are already far into development. In particular, the city of Kragenmoor is mostly built, but will get a small reduction from its previously bloated size. About a third of the landmass has also been reviewed, allowing interior work to proceed. Many dozens of such locations are already finished.

House Redoran 1

The newest area in Tamriel Rebuilt to come into active development is the southern part of Velothis District, i.e. the lands of House Redoran. This first, as-of-yet unnamed Redoran release will comprise the southern half of Redoran lands consisting of two wholly new, unique regions: the Clambering Moor and the Grey Meadows. In those regions lie the important March capitals of Veranis and Silgrad, but most of the surrounding lands are relatively sparsely inhabited, threatened by both Orc and Nord raids. A highlight of its own will be Malahk-Bazul, an isolated mountain valley home of the particularly nasty Malahk Orcs.

A birds-eye view of the playable area to be added in the first House Redoran expansion. Exterior work has just only started on the Clambering Moor region in the south of the area and the greenish Velothi Mountains to its west. The Grey Meadows region to its north remains all default-brown heightmap, as it requires new assets to be made before exterior worldspaces can be created. The inset on the top left shows the location on a map of all of Morrowind.

Long-time Tamriel Rebuilt fans may remember that we already completed most of the Redoran lands between 2010 and 2013; these were present in our old, now-deprecated TR_Preview plugin, which you may have played. However, while generally enjoyable, those exteriors mostly relied on vanilla assets and came with a whole host of subtle design issues common to our work in the early-to-mid 2010s. All-in-all, the experience of recent years (cough Dominions of Dust cough) makes it clear that it is much more fruitful to approach new lands as a clean slate with a strong starting concept and a fully unique asset palette – which is what we are now doing.

A scene in the Clambering Moor. Work-in-progress exterior level design by Pickles, screenshot by shivatheo.

The Clambering Moor region directly abuts our released lands in the Roth Roryn. It is a crimson highland moor rolling down from the peaks of the Velothi Mountains towards the Inner Sea, dotted by sparse mushroom groves. The area is host to isolated Redoran farmsteads and outposts, Malahk Orc camps, Dwemer ruins, and even Nord ruins from the First Nord Empire.

The city of Veranis, capital of Stones March. Exterior level design by Chef and Pickles.

The Clambering Moor forms the northern part of the Redoran Stones March, one of the five marches that comprise the territory of the House. Its capital is the well-fortified Veranis, sitting astride the Roryn river in a narrow valley and designed to deter and repel the Malahk Orcs. It, and by extension the whole March, is home to a proud stoneworking and mining tradition but also includes the full complement of vanilla Imperial guilds. Besides Veranis, several smaller villages eke out a living in the region, mostly relying on mining and ranching.

The Clambering Moor transitioning into the Velothi Mountains. Exterior level design by LogansGun.

The Grey Meadows region to the north of the Clambering Moor is a much harsher place, an eerie bog subject to strong ashfall from Vvardenfell and full of strange webs and poisonous spores.

Grey Meadows concept art by be-a-stranger.

The Grey Meadows were the darling of 2010s Tamriel Rebuilt, being the first region built using mostly custom assets – and to great results. Although we aim to recreate its look and atmosphere almost 1-to-1, the technical execution of the landscape suffers from several deep-seated issues common for the time, making it more fruitful to recreate from scratch.

Old, ca 2011 implementation of Grey Meadows, which used to be in our TR_Preview plugin. Screenshot by saddboye.

The city of Silgrad (called Kogotel in our former planning) lies in the west end of the Grey Meadows and is the capital of the smaller Ashes March that organizes the Redoran holdings of the region. Like Veranis, it is a fortified stronghold built to last attacks from the Nords of the Rift. Ancient mechanisms devised by Sotha Sil keep the city safe from flooding and the poisonous vapors of the hinterland. Although a couple other Redoran villages brave the region, only the Kushimmu ashlanders have really adapted to life in the deep marsh.

A small village of the Malahk Orcs in the valley of Malahk-Bazul. Exterior level design by Phenoix12.

Lying within Morrowind's borders only in the technical sense is Malahk-Bazul, a high mountain valley on the tri-point between Morrowind, Cyrodiil, and Skyrim. This mountainous land is home to the eastern Malahk Orcs – those of the Changed Folk who, according to legend, pursued the Chimer all the way to Resdayn's borders in revenge for Trinimac's debasement by Boethiah. In any case, the Malahk Orcs are much larger, meaner, and more aggressive than the more common western Orcs; only fools dare enter their lands. Still, a high-level player may find many hidden treasures in this land seldom tread by civilized folk. Just beware, the Orcs are far from the worst thing hiding in the valley.

The gate to Cyrodiil stays closed for now. Exterior level design by Phenoix12.

After a couple years spent slowly building up the asset base, we were able to open the first exterior claims both in the Clambering Moor and the new parts of the Velothi Mountains just earlier this year. Our exterior level designers dove right in: most claims already have substantial progress made and a couple ones are already finalized and awaiting review. As some required assets for the Grey Meadows don't yet exist, we have not currently opened new exterior claims there. But, hopefully, that won't be too far off either.

We are well aware that the landmass of this first Redoran release is rather huge. However, with Redoran lands being generally less-settled than Hlaalu ones, we suspect that the amount of work needed should be roughly comparable to that of our upcoming Hlaalu releases. Still, if the expansion becomes too big of a bite to swallow at once, we'll likely split the Grey Meadows region into its own, later release.

Later expansions

The above Redoran work concludes the expansions that we are actively implementing. However, let's go over some more mature plans for regions to be worked on in the future.

Left: concept for Mephalan Vales forests by athcliath97. Right: concept for a revamped Akamora in the Mephalan Vales by be-a-stranger. The latter is a little outdated, as the chapel will now use the Indoril (a.k.a. Old Mournhold) architecture set.

Following Poison Song, the next of our old regions up for redo is the Mephalan Vales, a tangle of fog-shrouded canyons that forms the northern border of Indoril lands. This was really the first wholly new, coordinated regional concept that Tamriel Rebuilt attempted to build starting in 2006. The core idea remains solid, but its over-reliance on cobbled-together rock objects at the expense of the landscape mesh introduces a lot of “moddiness” and poor navigability. Besides, we now have the opportunity to give the region a slate of unique environmental assets.

Chef testing out some of the new regional assets for the Mephalan Vales by shivatheo.

The new conception of the Mephalan Vales consists of labyrinthine ridges of sharp purple cliffs, this being implied to be the region from where the rock for Morrowind's many Daedric ruins was quarried from. Between the cliffs lie deep, canopied valleys blanketed in perpetual fog and home to a variety of less and more dangerous native spiders. Several Velothi villages and the town of Akamora specialize in handicrafts, especially the lucrative spider silk trade.

A variety of work-in-progress Mephalan Vales spider and spider-daedra meshes by Cameron (first three on the left) and Lamb Shark a.k.a. Sandaron (right).

Shivatheo recently completed most of the environmental assets – land textures, rocks, cliffs, trees, smaller flora – needed for an initial implementation of the exterior landscape. For implementation to begin, however, we still need to complete the new regional heightmap.

Concepts for the region of Nedothril (left) and the city of Mervayan (right) by be-a-stranger.

After Mephalan Vales, the remaining parts of the Indoril lands will also need revamps, although it is uncertain in which order that will happen. A new regional concept exists for the Nedothril coast, east of the Orethan region, which is to become a coastline of porous rock formations jutting out from the mudflats of eastern Morrowind. Nedothril will host a major city in the Velothi tileset, Mervayan, the Indorils' main trade port on the Padomaic Ocean. Likewise, the Sacred Lands region surrounding Necrom will become a golden grassland full of ominous fungi. Necrom itself will also require a full overhaul, given its lack of quest content and dated architecture meshes.

Sacred Lands concepts by be-a-stranger. Left: Necrom, right: Fort Umbermoth.

The final boss of our Indoril content will, of course, be the city of Almalexia, the biggest in all of Morrowind. Although we have long stated that we seek to develop Almalexia dead last in the project, this was mainly a reaction to the previous failed attempt at creating the city in 2011-2014 – an event that nearly led to the demise of the entire mod project. Our volunteer developer-base is constantly rotating, however, and most of the people that lived through that particular trauma have moved on. With the experience of Narsis under our belts, we are newly confident that the project can take Almalexia on once again, in the sooner-rather-than-later future, especially now that pretty much everyone is happy with be-a-stranger's new concept for the city. This will likely be a years-long background burner project.

Concepts for the city of Almalexia by be-a-stranger.

Our main line of expansions will, in the meanwhile, continue finishing up Redoran lands. After the first, currently in-development expansion, the next one will hopefully round out the rest of our Redoran lands. Half of it will consist of the Julan-Shar region, a relatively lush, if frigid, conifer forest marked by hydrothermal activity. Travertine terraces, geysers, and smoke-billowing mushrooms are common. The focus of this region will be the city of Blacklight, capital of House Redoran. The city will be heavily inspired by Scamp's legendary 2011 implementation that graced the old TR_Preview plugin, but much expanded in footprint and remade using purpose-built assets in order to alleviate the performance and stylistic concerns that the former suffered from.

Compared to the old TR_Preview depiction, Julan-Shar will also be expanded far towards the north and northwest to provide more content and bring the shape of Morrowind's landmass closer to the depictions found in in-game books and Bethesda's pre-release concept maps. This will eventually require us to move Solstheim to the northeast (as the popular mods Anthology Solstheim and Tomb of the Snow Prince already do), but this is years into the future.

Environmental concept for the Julan-Shar region by Feivelyn (left) and the city of Blacklight by be-a-stranger (right).

The Great Valley region to the west of Blacklight will be a steep glacial valley cut into a spur of the Velothi Mountains. Agriculture is difficult in this snowy landscape, but the scarce herding grounds on the valley floor form the locus of conflict between the ancient Nord diaspora, for whom the area is properly called the Nordic hold of Uld Vraech, and the Redoran, to whom Tiber Septim granted control of the region.

Environmental concept for the Great Valley region by be-a-stranger.

Following the Redoran lands, our plan is to finally swing over to the southeastern Deshaan District, the lands of House Dres. A proper start on this front seems ever distant, but what has recently happened is a large-scale reconceptualization of House Dres. 2010s planning tended to make the Dres overly exceptional, having them be worshippers of the Anticipations instead of the Tribunal (in conflict with one of the few vanilla Morrowind dialogue lines on House Dres that states they are staunch Temple supporters) and suggesting that their material culture and social structure be wholly separate from that of the other Houses. Recently, we have toned this exceptionalism down a notch, ending up at a happy medium where we hope the faction will be easier to implement and integrate better into the TES III game world while still offering much that is novel. A new book by Douglas Goodall on the Dres has helped much in this regard.

The new regional setup for the Deshaan District shown on a cut-out of our planning map (added by Taniquetil). The region names are not yet final.

A big change has occurred in the Deshaan District's region setup, too. Previously, most Dres lands were to consist of a salt desert that was cultivated into a saltrice breadbasket only by virtue of slave-powered Dres engineering that brought up water from deep aquifers. While this was a cool concept, it did not really fit the spirit of the few TES-III-era in-game and out-of-game mentions and depictions of Dres lands. Hence, while the salt desert will be retained, it will form only the western portion of Dres lands against the Shipal-Shin region, with the Deshaan Plains proper becoming a more naturally bountiful grassland. A new volcanic highlands region will separate the plains from the unchanged Arnesian jungles to the south.

*Work-in-progress Dres architecture tileset by Athcliath97. *

What's very promising is that Athcliath97 continues to make great progress on our n-th attempt at a House Dres architecture set, something that countless asset developers have struggled with over more than two decades. Having abandoned the ever-troublesome modular canton concept for bespoke canton models made specifically for a couple cities, this latest iteration is certainly the best yet and has gotten the farthest in terms of completion – even the interior set is now being worked on!

Environmental concept art for new Telvannis regions by Feivelyn. Left: the dry and dusty Dagon Urul in the northwestern tip of the Telvanni peninsula. Right: the sadrith-covered Telvanni Isles to the east of the peninsula.

For now, the final stretch goal of Tamriel Rebuilt will be an eventual rework of our House Telvanni lands. These were completed already in 2008, when we didn't have the ability to create substantial amounts of new 3D assets. Hence, Telvannis is at once the most complete part of the mod, but also among the mod's biggest let-downs, as it merely recycles vanilla Morrowind's region concepts and assets. A great new concept for Telvannis exists, but is currently awaiting its turn until we complete the rework of our Indoril lands.

Environmental concept art for new Telvannis regions by Feivelyn. Left: the unholy forest of Sunad Mora on the eastern coast of the Telvanni peninsula. Right: the rocky and picturesque Scath Anud region in the far southwest of Telvannis.

As you can see, quite a lot remains to be done in Morrowind, but many hands make light work! If you appreciate Tamriel Rebuilt and would like to help us realize our vision sooner, please consider joining the project as a developer. It's famously easy to get started with TES III modding and our community guides and developer feedback provide all the help you need. Most of our developers had no modding or game development experience before deciding to join us.

Regardless, make sure to also come chat on our Groomercord server, where we develop the mod in the open and where we also host much more frequently updated progress reports. Til next time!

!besties

https://www.fox6now.com/news/mount-horeb-middle-school-active-shooter-wisconsin

Threat neutralized according to Fox. Shooter didn't manage to breach the schools entryway before getting -acked. Foid maybe? Take bets here.

of any variety - 42 votes

Noodle or curry man - 9 votes

36 yr old white man tasered after murdering 14 year old boy in England. Very lucky he was white.

A black man or Muslim would have been shot dead! pic.twitter.com/5z8DAhlKHb

— T. Bernadetti (@MrsRoyKeaneo) May 1, 2024

Another sad victim of America brain disease

!britbongs

Turns out he was a !macacos so everyone now gets to claim he was their preferred racial group

https://twitter.com/ryan1mcq3/status/1785640624722514328

https://twitter.com/MarkMcC57046578/status/1785734668882506171

https://twitter.com/ParkBoundary/status/1785946683630620846

https://twitter.com/MarkMcC57046578/status/1785734436060840054

It's extra stupid because the Met infamously did shoot a Brazilian in 2005 and he was innocent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes

!goomblers !grillers

In six short days, this tale of moidal dysfunction has gone from /r/NotHowGirlsWork to Xhitter, to the NYPost (the house media organ of the angry Xiterverse) and now back to /r/2XC.

What's the verdict, dramautists?

- 16 votes

everybody remember to check your privacy settings before you open the linkedin profile of the guy who tried to murder aella pic.twitter.com/alRYk8o9o1

— 🪑 Chair (@chairsign) May 2, 2024

Aella, the neurodivergent lesswrong prostitute that is now kinda Twitter famous for her r-slurred polls and for organizing an orgy for her birthday, is now in danger because some insane guy that tried to kidnap her is allegedly now out of jail lmao

https://twitter.com/aella_girl/status/1785808555695616264

Stuff from when he was originally imprisoned:

https://madison.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/madison-man-charged-in-texas-with-impersonating-fbi-agent-stalking-adult-internet-performer/article_8b70b0bc-0c8a-540d-9ef2-703995a65b86.html

Destiny subreddit has a copy of him trying to get into her house

https://old.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1ci7wus/jack_mcquestion_yes_lol_the_schizo_who_tried_to/?sort=controversial

Aella's blogpost

https://aella.substack.com/p/the-attempted-kidnapping-at-my-house

Some 30 police officers in Sweden provoked public outrage in yet another major scandal involving gang activity. It appears that law enforcement officials allowed themselves to be seduced and exploited by gangsters to whom they gave information that later led to several deadly altercations on the streets.

The shocking details were first revealed in an extensive investigation published by the local daily Dagens Nyheter (DN), which found over 500 instances of Swedish police personnel leaking classified information. Gang members were briefed regarding ongoing investigations, upcoming raids, or competing gangs.

DN's report also found evidence that leaks concerning information on rival criminals assisted in several attacks on enemy gang members, including at least four murders.

The report—based on conversations with some 50 sources in the law enforcement community and the criminal underworld, backed by hundreds of public documents—also revealed that, in many cases, the gang members used quite unconventional methods to obtain the information, such as starting “sexual relationships with strategically selected [female] police officers.”

One example is “Elin,” who met her gangster boyfriend through a dating app when she was still a cadet. Regularly, she chose to feed him classified information she obtained through illegal searches over the course of four years until she was caught.

>be male cop

>work your butt off to be able to work against organised crime

>woman boss because "women can!"

>go on a stakeout

>"finally we've been able to arrest him"

>hear your boss getting pounded by Abdi

>call DN (newspaper)

Cameron, 20, Houston TX

At least two Red Bulls

Segment like a really sus video where Cameron explains he consents to the show timestamp

Career:

• "Kinda complicated I guess"

• Part time real estate, part time construction with my Dad

• "From Sunday to Wednesday I do real estate, I guess full time"

  • He lays out his schedule timestamp

    • 5am wakeup

    • 6am gym

• Real Estate agent, lots of calling people

  • Done it for a year

  • Wants to do this full time

  • This month is "most money he's ever made"

  • $14'000 this month but he "spent most of it"

    • Sold a single listing and got them a new place - he knocked their door

  • He tries to explain how timestamp

  • When he started he "spent the money before it was in [his] pocket"

  • Was a server at resturaunt, quit it to be agent

  • Hems and haws then admits it's 2'500 "over 6 to 8 months" so much less than other guests

  • "I try to prospect but like I've started playing Minecraft and stuff you know what I mean?" timestamp

    • This is what he was doing last year instead of working?

  • Works 4 hours a day 4 days a week timestamp

    • Actually it's 1 hour a day of calling people?

    • Actually he's showing houses as well?

    • Maybe 3 a day?

  • A day in the life of a real estate agent timestamp

    • Later clarified to 1 hour a day with a lot of staring at the screen doing literally nothing, sometimes watching Financial Audit videos MARSEY LFMAOOOOOO

    • HE ALLUDES TO HAVING THE ZOOMER PHONE PHOBIA

    • 3 hour lunch break lmfao

  • Saved $2000 of that $14000 check

• Construction timestamp

  • Dad's company, Dad cuts him a check

  • About $125 a day, 3 days a week (around 10 hour days for this)

  • Doesn't know if he's W2 or not

    • "Uhhhhmmm my dad has his company and I just kind of go in and he gives me a check"

    • "I don't know I just get the check and I just picture deposit it into Wells Fargo, it goes into my account"

  • Just started this, started around last month

• Living with his parents

• "I used to make a lot of money as a server"

Personal Life;

• Girlfriend of 2 years is in the room timestamp

Financials:

• Parents helped him out 7'000 on a car downpayment

  • He paid them back 4'000

• He did not set money aside for taxes

• Credit Card 1 (Discover) (1'015) timestamp

  • 1326 previous - 994 payments + 664 new transactions

  • "Why are you putting more money on a card that is accumulating interest?" timestamp

    • He is extremely confident things will just work themselves out

  • "If you look at my spending I try to be really conservative with it"

  • Lots and lots of eating out, some paint he got reimbursed for

  • "Everyone's net worth is negative at 20 years old"

• Credit Card 2 (some bank name) (2404) timestamp

  • $2391 - $200 payment + 157 new purchases + $55 interest accrued

  • He paid another $200 payment on this

  • Credit limit is $2500

  • Ate $29 in fees this year

• His stonks timestamp

• 2016 Jeep Wrangler timestamp

  • $31355 balance

  • 10.something interest rate

  • There's an unpaid balance of $680

  • He tries to explain, his parents took the car out for him, in their name, he's paying for it

  • Caleb seethes because he keeps looking at the camera

  • 6 year term

  • Jeeps in the shop, $300 - lots of other spending on parts for the jeep

  • Suspension is messed up

  • Lots of other issues with it

  • Pays for car insurance under his parents name - $400 a month

  • Went to college for a year, took a year off, couldn't afford to both go to college and pay the jeep

  • He didn't really know what he was doing at college

  • "My way of justifying it was I didn't know what I was doing in college and I had the Jeep anyways"

• Credit Card 3 ($472) (Spark Business) timestamp

  • 536 - $71 payments + $12 interest accrued

  • Not the real estate card

  • "This card was a really dumb decision... probably the worst one"

  • "Every year we get a fee as realtors, we have to pay like 400, 500, I didn't have the money so I opened a credit card and paid it with that."

  • Minimum payment 17, 30% interest

• Credit Card 4 (CapitalOne) ($352) timestamp

  • Minimum $25

  • $8 interest accrued

  • $727 - $700 + $323.85

  • "This month I spoiled myself"

    • He tries to explain why he thinks this is a good idea

• How much he owes to his family timestamp

  • $11'000 total?

  • Informal, gets brought up when the dad's mad

  • He paid 4000, it's down from 15'000

  • Pays $400 for rent

• Checking Account timestamp

  • $150 in there

  • fair bit of going out to eat, eBay headphones, smoking "trying to quit," $1000 into his RobinHood

  • THIS R-SLUR INVESTED 15% of the portfolio INTO TAKETWO HOLY SHIT

    • waiting for GTA 6 thinking it will moon shot

Spending piechart timestamp

• He gave his parents 4000 which might be upfront rent payments might be debt payment? to help pay off the house???

Caleb makes him cry bigly timestamp

• "To be honest, it might just be a reaction to the Red Bull"

Oracle seems to be a long-term sponsor, every video now

Balatro 1.0.1 is finally live on Steam for everyone! Give it a whirl!

We are submitting Switch, Xbox and PlayStation builds this week and will try to get those patches out ASAP, but no ETAhttps://t.co/XH734jpflp

— localthunk (@LocalThunk) May 1, 2024