Well, he was rather undermined by that Wizard's Fury spell that the Guild hands out. Any destruction using mage is basically given an I Win button. It does make him feel pretty anticlimactic.

But he and Camoran do make for good villainous characters.



Those pictures are out of date. My hair's now long enough that I've started tying it back in a ponytail.

And fortunately, slow ageing seems to run on both sides of my family

I tried to research it and found this:

Try stripping off your armor and using an unenchanted dagger, That is how my son fights him. Me, I get him to follow me into the tunnels so those claws can't grab me up, then use the Honor Blade of Chorrol (unenchanted) - he is one tough flght then, it is like he has 1000 hp or something.

But I agree; he is a good villain. He tries to confuse you talking about power being the same whether for good or evil; and calls you "My very dear friend" to kind of make it hard to draw first blood on him; so you are like a sitting duck when he hits you with that first worm-thrall spell and paralyzes you,



My Mom looked young till she died, my oldest sister looked older than her at the end. But my Dad - when he was 29 he looked the same as when he was in his 70's = balding and gray where any hair existed! I won't say having four daughters didn't have some blame; I mean - I know we were a handful. I was just by myself; multiply that times 4;





This post has been edited by mALX: Jul 29 2016, 01:19 AM

Ouch. I think I'll pass on that. I'm way too big a magic junkie to go without it in Oblivion Especially destruction, nearly all of my characters have used it



Heh, my parents have it the other way around. My mum started going grey in her twenties, and has only recently stopped dying her hair(it used to be funny annoying her by pretending to count her grey hairs ), though she still doesn't look her age. While my dad basically stopped aging at thirty and didn't start again until he was sixty. He's now seventy but still has most of his hair, and it hasn't even gone grey!

Thanks Callidus Thorn, Kiln and mALX!

I will probably play The Witcher closer to the end of the year. I am determined to finish the faction quests in Fallout 4 before I give it a go. Great to hear good things about the game! I have just noticed that I can download Witcher 2 as it is now backward compatible. I must remember to play that one first.

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My sister turned mostly grey at the age of about 25 so she started dying her hair real quick. I am lucky to have no sign of grey in my 40's, touch wood. I do have pasty white skin though from playing too much Bethesda and never seeing the sun.

Kind of like Count Hassildor and the golden bath tube and a certain mouse actually....

This post has been edited by Winter Wolf: Jul 29 2016, 10:20 AM

That is Awesome for you, because you probably inherit some good male hair genes there! My Grandmother on my Mother's side was that way too; not a single gray hair her whole life and she never dyed her hair. Her hair was very thick and glossy black like a raven.

My Mom is (was) full Italian; I think that had something to do with both her and her Mother looking so young their whole lives. My oldest sister looks more like my Dad and aged early; the next youngest to her is just two years younger and looks half her age - doesn't dye her hair, either. (all three of us younger sisters look more like my Mom and stayed looking young)







This post has been edited by mALX: Jul 29 2016, 03:39 PM

Ah, but what genetics giveth with one hand, it taketh away with the other. I would so very much like to meet the doctor who told my parents, who both have asthma, that it would cancel each other out and I wouldn't cause me any problems.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!

Huh?

Alix the Mouse:



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*planning to maybe post the Annoying Orange´s Friday song*

Now let us examine this statement...the one that you lived with did not turn your hair gray at all; but the one that lived with you became prematurely gray?

(Just kidding).






I might have trouble trusting his medical care after a statement like that, I mean ... Huh?

But I'm still glad they had you, I mean - the alternative if he hadn't messed up and said that is that you wouldn't be here now!







NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

True enough. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't want to have him spend a couple of days with a couple of hundred pounds compressing his chest, give him a little taste of what it can be like.

Aw, bless your heart! My youngest son has asthma; and his early years I really worried that he wouldn't make it; his asthma was so bad.

But you are here still too; and even if it isn't comfortable for you - somehow through all that discomfort you came through it with a Rocking personality; fun; intelligent; not bad looking at all - so I got to say, the doctor did right not to talk your parents out of having children just because they both suffered with asthma.

It is very possible you would have gotten asthma if only one of your parents had it - or neither of them did. I don't have asthma, neither did his father, but my son got it bad. I wondered if he got it through those vaccines the government is always forcing on children.







This post has been edited by mALX: Jul 29 2016, 05:22 PM

I've given my family that scare a few times over the years. Fortunately these days it's nowhere as bad as it used to be, haven't had an actual asthma attack in years.



Heheh, it seems I'll never run out of opportunities to say that you are too kind



It actually runs pretty strong on my mum's side of the family, so even if she didn't have it there's a good chance I still would. I just wish I'd gotten off as lightly as my sister did on the asthma front.



Courtesy of the NHS website:






And on an absolutely unrelated note:

AAAAAAHHHHH!!!



Is anybody somewhat disturbed by the apparent number of people eager for the world to end?

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Jul 29 2016, 07:22 PM

Same with my son; the older he got, the less it effected him. He doesn't handle extreme heat well at all, though.





Aw, thanks!

Well, my son actually was born 7 weeks early and his surfactant level just before birth was zero; so that may very well explain his asthma!

On that "End of the world in 2 hours and 37 minutes" - I have a half and half on that. I remember coming into "Y2K" that a girlfriend of mine was panicked and bought up all kinds of supplies and stored them in her garage. The batteries she stored up went dead long before Y2K; the enormous supply of dog food got moldy and rats got into it before Y2K got here. Her vast quantities of sodas she stored up were all drunk up by her children long before Y2K; etc.

Well, I'm a total idiot when it comes to computers, and even I can figure out to turn your clock and calendar back if it is such a freakin' problem! She was forecasting disasters from gas pumps to banks to credit card companies, etc. I mean, she was genuinely panicked.

Now, I have to figure that the media loves to manipulate people to make themselves a "You heard it here first" type of thing.

And I don't think anyone will know the date and time to predict that it is going to happen. But do I believe the Earth is in trouble? Yes.

1. The geological plates shifting in recent years causing more than one devastating Tsunami

2. The earthquake in Japan knocked the Earth off it's axis by like 1.42 = a very small amount, but who is to say what is not significant? My Science professor drilled it into our heads that any minute knock on the axis could cause catastrophic devastation to the Earth.

3. Changing weather patterns = weather patterns and tides that have been the same for centuries have changed in the last 15 years.

4. Of course, global warming.

5. The tone of the people is exactly what has been predicted to mark end times in many religious and theoretical predictions.

6. Many certain events that have been predicted as fore-running end times have been met; some have not - in fact some have recently been stopped from happening by Great Britain's stand. The global economy and one global government was the prediction. It is what was trying to be passed; it failed, thanks to any countries who fought it. I know you didn't like that taking place in Britain, but it was good to see that prediction not be met if nothing else.

7. I will quote your article for this one:




Uh, how can they tell this has happened every 200,000-300,000 years? And we believe they know this...how? And then they go on to say it has been 600,000 years since the polarity was last reversed. Again, how do they know this? They are stating as fact theories that they can't possibly prove. So do I believe NASA has all the answers when they are poo-pooing on these opposing theories? No. Scientists still use Carbon 14 to date prehistoric bones and rocks when it was proven to give false readings back in the early 70's.

I kind of figure none of us will see that happen in our lifetimes; but do I believe it will happen one day = yes.

Do I believe it will happen in 2 hours and 37 minutes = No.








This post has been edited by mALX: Jul 29 2016, 10:28 PM

I'm not so certain it's accurate to say that the earth is in trouble. Humanity's survival is certainly becoming a long term question as we screw up the environment, but I don't think we've managed to do anything to endanger the planet itself.

1&2) Tectonic activity. It's probably take a fair bit of digging online to determine any significance on these.

3&4) Now these two are largely on us, and are the ones that are the greatest danger to us. And the potential exists that we may already be too late to do anything about that.

5) It seems we can't go a year or two without someone predicting the end of the world. Considering how many failed predictions there have been thus far, actually taking any of them seriously at this point requires a degree of wishful thinking on one level or other.

6) The default position to any such predictions should be scepticism, simply on the grounds that any prediction of the future will alter its outcome by its mere existence. With regards to the global economy and government prediction, I'd actually consider that something that would prevent disaster, and so consider any step away from that as something of a tragedy.

7) "They are stating as fact theories that they can't possibly prove" A brief google search turned up this: link Why they didn't put anything in the article to support NASA's claim, I don't know, but clearly it was a failing in the article rather than NASA making claims that they cannot support.

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Jul 29 2016, 11:38 PM

I don't agree with you on point 6 at all, but that is just difference of opinion. But the article you linked is (again) NASA saying something they can't prove. They believe it has happened; but think about how young/old the population of the world is; the technology to measure these things - and tell me how they can prove it has happened before? They can't, they have only the proof that it has been North since man first walked on this Earth. They theorize that some data they see may point to the polar reversal in the past; but have no way to prove that is the case.

On the others, I was not saying man caused anything; only that these events are happening regardless the cause. They plates shifting is a HUGE warning sign of instability at the Earth's core.

As far as the tone of the people and predictions and theories = exactly how I feel about it; although I wasn't talking about people saying the end of the world is near. I was talking about the implosion of morality and ethics in recent decades.

The article linked points out that magnetic reversals are slow processes, and the field has to reduce to zero before going up in the opposite direction. That loss of magnetic North won't be an issue to navigation any more as just about everything uses GPS, and the satellites will keep going round the same way.

There are worries that the lack of field might make cosmic rays behave differently (less deviated towards the magnetic poles if they aren't there) but little other than aurorae in more latitudes should result.

There is also a belief that some sea animals such as whales and sea turtles navigate by using the Earth's magnetic field, since they can cross thousands of miles of oceans and unerringly reach specific locations, like the same beach they were hatched upon years before. If they do this, then a flip in the planet's magnetic field will likely play havoc with this sense. But since they have been around for millions of years, I don't think it would be a species-destroying event either.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jul 30 2016, 12:39 AM