I would ask whether the SwordSkill is capped or modified by your Misc/Minor/Major choice as well. TES was mostly about xp gain, with the level you got based on your skills moderating your gamestate.
I find myself wondering if there should be a hard coded 'edge' to your prioritized skills beyond that. Even a flat "10% better if it's a major skill, 10% less if for misc skill" creates a mathematically meaningful choice at character creation, representing the hard edge specialization might give.
Just my two cents
Your post reminds me of Kenshi and the fact that I should really get back to the grind. I understand that your interest is more in the nuts and bolts of design, but that's where my mind went.
What are you looking to take from TES's major/minor/misc system? If you're looking to 'break' from class as a unified system, what does that mean for the game world you're building?
Are you looking at having a screen or tab that 'lifts the hood?' For instance, there's a whole tab in Last Epoch dedicated to all of your modifiers, so you can track what your gear does and where your stand in terms of 'crunch' as far as your build goes. Maybe you can implement something similar?
The other game that's worth looking at would be Dwarf Fortress, where everything character is governed by discrete skills, ruled by math. The player has little/no direct control, but the system is probably worth examining in detail from a design standpoint.
These retards' views on race are monolithic, and in fact the very definition of racism.
To be racist is to be for the preservation of your race against the monolith of miscegenationist/cosmopolitan culture. 'Racist' as a term was first used against native tribes attempting to preserve their cultures against their era's Americanization. It is used in the exact same way against Whites resisting our era's Americanizaton.
Think of Richard Henry Pratt saying: "A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man." Then recognize that globohomo wants to do the same thing to white people. They want your kids brainwashed, raped, and re-educated as leftists. Same thing.
Segregating any class or race of people apart from the rest of the people kills the progress of the segregated people or makes their growth very slow. Association of races and classes is necessary to destroy racism and classism. -- Richard Henry Pratt
They aren't the 'real racists.' They're progressives, same as they've always been. The progressives seek to subvert and destroy whites as a nationalist/resistive force, and they have largely succeeded. Racially aware Whites are (at the very best) a parochial force. This is by the design of the left (ie the long march through the institutions) and the ceding of institutions, cultural & educational, by the right.
Racism has always been about resistance to 'progress.'
Get used to being racist.
I tried watching him at 1.5 times speed-- it's still not fast enough.
Quarterpounder lacks concision and gets lost on tangents. So I invariably feel like I'm wasting my time watching him, so wind up I stopping after the meme/intro 9 times out of 10.
I mean, I'm with you.
I read this:
If you had the status that you actually merited you would be, under the best possible circumstances, a lower-middle manager and even then after years of drudgery and promotion only because they couldn't find anyone else for the job.
And I immediately think of how people who have been promoted above their competence, can't threaten their bosses because they are entirely insecure in their position and reliant on their bosses to cover for them. You see diversity hires in this situation and it's like seeing turtles on fenceposts: you know that they didn't get there on their own, and they have no graceful way down. They were set there to be reliant minions of the person who set them there for the sake of ideologically capturing the institution.
Kakistocracy in action.
Agreed.
They're all looking to roll back Henry Ford's plan of paying the workers enough to become customers. They expect the market to continue unchanged even as they strip out employees and paychecks from it, like climbing a rope into the sky and pulling it up after yourself.
As someone with a batshit crazy mother, it takes effort to escape a bad mother's orbit, just because of the behavioral conditioning you receive as a child. The metric I was told was 'a year apart for a year together' based on your childhood, that could easily be DECADES. I would expect a lot of very deep mid-life crises for the men who decide Transing is the answer, with a percentage detransing and a larger percentage ending themselves.
There were a number of scripts that would take your login, work backwards, editing each comment in your history to something generic and useless before deleting that comment. After all the comments were edited & deleted, the script randomized your PW and deleted your account.
There were sites to do this during the '14-'18 reddit revolts. (I believe these sites used the reddit API, prior to the API being locked down.) These days, you'd have to go looking in gits for the raw code to execute, which gets a bit sketchy.
I had to make the argument that Halfdan 'the Black' referred to hair color not skin color. I was rebuffed, with the argument that Norsemen raided for their wives, and I 'couldn't be sure' he was white.
Have no doubt that the intersectional nonsense is layered quite deeply.
As useful as Lindsay's translations from the wokish are, I can't recommend him any further than that. He has zero policy prescriptions, since he falls into the liberal trap of saying that things have gone to far without ever addressing the specifics of 'how' or 'why.' He even argued the left cannot go too far by taking the Woke position in an Oxford debate. (Note that he did so to reduce the position to absurdity.)
Lindsay clearly sees that the left will not stop, but refuses to acknowledge that liberalism breaking up traditional society enables the endless push leftward. Trust his vision of the far left and his translations, but realize that the man has no answers.
For those on the precipice of this rabbit hole, keep in mind this is a long playlist of long videos. It very firmly documents and names the devil, but is a hard watch.
I made it to vid 10/11 about a year and a half ago, and had to stop watching because of I veered out of sadness and disbelief into anger as I watched.
Necessary videos, good to view, but hard to finish.