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Is it weird that my biggest aspiration in Skyrim is building a house

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@Gargron so you want to play your skyrim like it's minecraft?

@ryanlittlefield I wouldn't mind building a house irl but I don't think it's realistic :thinkhappy:

@WelshPixie

@Gargron puts a pole in the ground

"this is the bathroom"

@ryanlittlefield @Gargron "No no, just the pole. Yes, it's finished. Yes - yes this IS the complete bathroom. It's post-masto minimalism."

@WelshPixie @ryanlittlefield i come from poverty~ started from a blank slate in this country a decade ago.

@Gargron @WelshPixie well if that's true, then i don't think building a house irl is even completely unrealistic for you. even if you had a bathroom pole.

@Gargron Never feel bad for playing a game you want to play it (as long as you're not breaking the rules)! I have a character on Planetside 2 (a huge MMO future-war FPS) that I play explicitly as a pacifist.

@Gargron Is it wrong that I have not played Skyrim?

@Gargron even in Skyrim, but other tes games the first mod most people created was a player owned house of their design.

I'm guilty of this, in morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim.

In Oblivion I went to extra mile and created a pocket dimension with a lone house on a forested island with a small jetty.

@Gargron nah, building houses (and castles... I always like that bit in Suikoden) in videogames is fun!

I'm waiting for more dragon quest builders, 'cos making nice houses for villagers is just... pleasant I guess?

@bentosmile @Gargron I found the Hearthfire stuff in Skyrim really unsatisfying :(

@theoutrider @Gargron DQ Builders tho... that time I had too much ice so I made a library out of it (or something) XD

@theoutrider @gargron this is what the Creation Kit is for. I've built close to twenty *different* fully-custom houses for different types of characters. E.g., my current dude, an Argonian thief/assassin-y sort, lives in a dark, dank, muddy crevasse I made 😎

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I didn't think its that weird. My biggest skyrim aspiration was a full library, including every book in the game.

@Gargron my biggest aspiration for a while was “get from the starting point to the clothes shop with the prettiest things”

@anthracite @Gargron mine is always "finish Thieves Guild quests so I can get Brynjolf as a follower, *then* do plot stuff." I once went directly to Riften before even going to see the Jarl in Whiterun for the first time because then I could do all the TG quests without having to worry about pesky dragons all over the place. :D

@Gargron Skyrim: In my fantasy life, I'm a single mom with a two-storey library, and I hire a bard to watch my children.

@Gargron if you are a millennial then it might be the only house you build

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Makes sense to me. Owning a house is now a fantasy after all.

@Gargron Heh, yeah. I remember when Skyrim led to a weekend of watching woodworking and small-homes videos on YT.

@Gargron Getting married and building a house is like, the whole plot of Skyrim I thought.