I guess I’m about due for a new blog post, considering my last one was… The last time I did it. I also guess I ought to do some UESP-specific postings for once, and there’s something that’s been nagging at me recently about a minor site practice. Well, “nagging at me” is an understatement. I […]
Continue ReadingMorrowind, by far, has always been my favourite of the Elder Scrolls games. Many people complained about its combat system or about the graphics, but I don’t think they truly grasped the beauty of the game. In the early 2000s, game maps were essentially funnels; you had to go here through this specific path, with […]
Continue ReadingI do not want to write this. As a rule, I hate touching on this topic more than it is absolutely necessary. But I already did the teaser in the last entry, so I guess it’s unavoidable now. The Champion of Cyrodiil, the player character from Oblivion, is absolutely the most problematic hero this series […]
Continue ReadingWhat happens when you take a blank slate of a character, and you make that non-character the main character, or at least the character from whom’s perspective the story is experienced? You get a bunch of people who get extremely attached to the character. When you let them design the character as well, they feel […]
Continue ReadingIt shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone familiar with the series this site is dedicated to when I say that Elder Scrolls games have a lot of items. How many? Well, enough that we don’t even give a second thought to the majority of them. When you have several hundred of any type of item […]
Continue ReadingI originally penned this post back in September of 2013 and left it as a draft. It’s interesting that I saw the same things then that Damon sees now. It makes me wish I had posted it back then rather than wait until now. UESP is the best Wiki in the world when it comes […]
Continue ReadingPlagiarism of the UESP’s content is a big problem. Please see our articles on common mistakes and copyright ownership. Basic rule of thumb: if you weren’t the one who added some original content here, you don’t have the right to take that content and publish it as your own somewhere else. It’s just that simple. […]
Continue ReadingAs I was browsing through our collection of maps when I noticed something was a bit odd with almost all of them. Mainly, their names. I had trouble finding any that had the proper naming scheme that we use for images (as described on Help:Images). This was quite the issue, as we have well over […]
Continue ReadingAs someone who has been one of the main supporters of the concept of us having a blog, I find it odd that I’ve never taken the time to ever write a blog entry for the blog that I’ve so thoroughly supported. Ever. I’ve encouraged others to do so, but I never actually sat down […]
Continue ReadingThis is going to be a quick blurb about something that been bothering me about UESP as of late: the popularity of taking speculation and guesswork as fact. We’re all guilty of it, in one way or another. We love to believe what we desire to believe. But, unfortunately, UESPWiki (or any wiki for that […]
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