TheRetroArcade
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I'm either about to brick my computer or prove a very important point.
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Look, I'll be honest: the very fact that I happened to install Curseadelica was downstream of my desire to see if I could make big mods work on Linux.
The good news: yes, I can! The bad news: yes, I can! Curseadelica is a Skyrim modpack that markets itself as "Biblically accurate Skyrim" and is, in action, a safe way of experiencing visions you could only otherwise witness by swallowing an entire bottle of cough syrup and drowning. I'd call it a feast for the senses but it would be more accurate to call it force-feeding. I love it. It is terrible. It destroyed my Skyrim install.
Regular readers of, uh, me will know that my Linux adventure is both ongoing and largely an excuse to constantly annoy my coworkers by talking about it. Having settled contentedly on openSUSE Tumbleweed after a period of distro-hopping, and with all my games pretty much just working, I needed a new height to summit. Why not modding? Why not a modpack? Why not 154 GB of modpack?
I wanted to test my system to breaking point. So, I downloaded Jackify—a Linux Wabbajack modlist installer—and pointed it at what seemed like the most computer-destroying mod compilation I could find. That was Curseadelica.
What is Curseadelica? Great question.
Installation was actually pretty easy, all I had to do was leave Jackify unattended for a bit. Curseadelica is… difficult to describe. On its main page, author JanuarySnow describes it as "A modlist that is based around my desire to prepare a feast for my eyes, to always give them something interesting to look at." This is—and I don't mean to criticise—underselling it slightly.
Curseadelica feels like a vision from the Book of Revelation. It is a mess: a hodgepodge of nearly 900 mods that turns all of Skyrim into an acid-trip sequence from a '90s cartoon, all with new races, new quests, new NPCs, new everything.
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Look, I'll be honest: the very fact that I happened to install Curseadelica was downstream of my desire to see if I could make big mods work on Linux.
The good news: yes, I can! The bad news: yes, I can! Curseadelica is a Skyrim modpack that markets itself as "Biblically accurate Skyrim" and is, in action, a safe way of experiencing visions you could only otherwise witness by swallowing an entire bottle of cough syrup and drowning. I'd call it a feast for the senses but it would be more accurate to call it force-feeding. I love it. It is terrible. It destroyed my Skyrim install.
Regular readers of, uh, me will know that my Linux adventure is both ongoing and largely an excuse to constantly annoy my coworkers by talking about it. Having settled contentedly on openSUSE Tumbleweed after a period of distro-hopping, and with all my games pretty much just working, I needed a new height to summit. Why not modding? Why not a modpack? Why not 154 GB of modpack?
I wanted to test my system to breaking point. So, I downloaded Jackify—a Linux Wabbajack modlist installer—and pointed it at what seemed like the most computer-destroying mod compilation I could find. That was Curseadelica.
What is Curseadelica? Great question.
Installation was actually pretty easy, all I had to do was leave Jackify unattended for a bit. Curseadelica is… difficult to describe. On its main page, author JanuarySnow describes it as "A modlist that is based around my desire to prepare a feast for my eyes, to always give them something interesting to look at." This is—and I don't mean to criticise—underselling it slightly.
Curseadelica feels like a vision from the Book of Revelation. It is a mess: a hodgepodge of nearly 900 mods that turns all of Skyrim into an acid-trip sequence from a '90s cartoon, all with new races, new quests, new NPCs, new everything.
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