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[techilaglobalservices]

Beyond YYYY-MM-DD: A Comprehensive Look at Salesforce Data Loader Date Format Options

Table of Contents

Introduction

Understanding Salesforce Data Loader

Significance of Correct Date Formats

Default Date Format: YYYY-MM-DD

Other Date Format Options

Configuring Date Formats in Salesforce Data Loader

Best Practices for Using Date Formats

Handling Time Zones

Common Challenges and Solutions

Testing Date Formats

Automating Date Format Configuration

Advanced Date Format Customizations

Integrating Salesforce Data Loader with Other Tools

Maintaining Data Integrity

Tips for Preparing Your Files for Salesforce Data Loader

Final Words

FAQs

Salesforce is all about data management. It allows users to record, store, track, and analyze specific data sets that belong to customers catered by an organization and the organization itself. The data stored in specific Salesforce objects helps users provide personalized services to their customers and obtain valuable insights about various business processes.

This makes it important for every Salesforce user to manage their database with extreme precision and accuracy. You cannot afford to load incorrect or insufficient data into your systems as it may result in mismanagement of processes and faulty communication.

Understanding Salesforce Data Loader

Salesforce Data Loader is a data management tool for Salesforce users that helps them import and export data in bulk. It provides functions like inserting, updating, deleting, and exporting Salesforce records.

For importing data, Data Loader reads, extracts, and loads data either from CSV (comma-separated values) files or from a database connection. For exporting data, the tool outputs CSV files to the specified location.

Salesforce Data Loader can be used in two ways – through the user interface and the command line. The user interface is interactive for specifying parameters, CSV files for import/export, and field mappings. The command line specifies configuration, mappings, data sources, and actions in files for automated data processing.

Significance of Correct Date Formats

Correct date formats are crucial in data accuracy. Incorrect date formats can lead to data inconsistency and misinterpretation. Proper date formats ensure data integrity and relevance over time.

Default Date Format: YYYY-MM-DD

The default date format in Salesforce Data Loader is YYYY-MM-DD. This format is straightforward and prevents confusion, ensuring consistency across records.

Other Date Format Options

Salesforce Data Loader supports various date formats, including:

MM/DD/YYYY (e.g., 08/12/2019)

DD/MM/YYYY (e.g., 14/11/2019)

YYYY/MM/DD (e.g., 2020/12/06)

Military Time Zones – MM/DD/YYYYThh:mm.mmmZ (e.g., 12-05-2019T12:04:12.000Z)

3 Letters Time Zones plus Offset – MM/DD/YYYYThh:mm.mmmXXX+hh(e.g., 04/12/2019T12:04:12.000GMT+03:00)

3 Letters Time Zones – MM/DD/YYYYThh:mm.mmmXXX (e.g., 05/22/2019T12:04:12.000GMT)

3 Letters Time Zones – YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm.mmmXXX (e.g., 2019-11-09T12:04:12.000GMT)

Configuring Date Formats in Salesforce Data Loader

To change your Salesforce Data Loader date format, go to Settings and select “Date/Time” for setting your date format and time zone.

Best Practices for Using Date Formats

Choose the right format: Select the format that best suits your business needs.

Ensure consistency: Maintain the same format across all records.

Test formats: Validate date formats before data migration.

Handling Time Zones

Time zones play a significant role in date formatting. Configure time zones in Salesforce Data Loader to ensure date accuracy across different regions.

Common Challenges and Solutions

Incorrect Date Imports: Sometimes, Data Loader imports dates incorrectly by converting them to GMT. Prevent this by setting the correct time zone and using the native time zone in CSV files.

Testing Date Formats

Test and validate date formats before data migration using tools and methods to ensure data accuracy.

Automating Date Format Configuration

Automate date format settings for large-scale data migrations to save time and reduce errors.

Advanced Date Format Customizations

Implement custom date formats in Salesforce Data Loader for more specific requirements. Customize formats according to business needs.

Integrating Salesforce Data Loader with Other Tools

Ensure seamless integration of date formats with other data management tools for better compatibility and efficiency.

Maintaining Data Integrity

Maintain data integrity with regular audits and checks to ensure the accuracy and consistency of date formats in Salesforce Data Loader.

Tips for Preparing Your Files for Salesforce Data Loader

Ensure CSV format: Convert files to CSV before uploading.

Check for corruption: Open and validate CSV files after conversion.

Avoid empty columns: Ensure no empty columns or duplicate headers.

Populate required fields: Ensure all system-required fields are populated.

Use conditional formatting: Highlight duplicate values in Excel before conversion.

Reapply formatting: Apply and save formatting in CSV files before importing.

Format phone numbers: Use Excel’s phone number format for phone and fax columns.

Validate email addresses: Ensure all email addresses are correctly formatted.

Remove currency symbols: Get rid of symbols and commas in number and currency columns.

Use correct checkbox values: Use “1” or TRUE for checked and “0” or FALSE for unchecked cells.

No multiple columns into one field: Data Loader does not support importing multiple columns into a single Salesforce field.

Address field support: Check the Salesforce Help topic for importing multiple street addresses.

Final Words

Data management in Salesforce should never be taken lightly. By considering these aspects before loading your data into Salesforce, Data Loader will help you sail through seamlessly. Techila Global Services provides the best solutions for Salesforce Data Loader Date Format.

FAQs

What is Salesforce Data Loader? Salesforce Data Loader is a tool for bulk data import and export in Salesforce.

What date formats does Salesforce Data Loader support? It supports formats like MM/DD/YYYY, DD/MM/YYYY, YYYY/MM/DD, and more.

How can I change the date format in Salesforce Data Loader? Go to Settings and select “Date/Time” for setting your date format and time zone.

Why are my date fields importing incorrectly? Data Loader may convert dates to GMT; set the correct time zone and use the native time zone in CSV files.

What are the best practices for using date formats in Data Loader? Choose the right format, ensure consistency, and test formats before data migration

[sastormsoftware]

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[contr8]

finally got my hands on some top loaders so naturally i had to bling out my shawty bae >:)

[sl33py-g4m3r]

windows/linux rant

unrelated to SMT or anything on my blog currently I guess...

I keep seeing the "prep for windows 11" thing show up on my computer, and it upsets me every time that you have to have a microsoft account to install it.

windows 10 reaches end of support next year~~

I hope by then the computer I"m using will actually let me run linux on it instead of an outdated windows os....

I want to run linux on this machine so bad but whenever I try to install it, it seems to install fine and dandy

and then it won't boot

I've snooped around in the BIOS, disabled the "smart startup" or "secure startup" or whatever else I thought was borking the boot for linux.

but it still won't boot~~~

and sadly i've got games on here that only work on windows anyway.

I'd much rather be able to stay relatively safe online and maintain an OS, than play the games I bought on steam....

something is preventing linux from booting on this machine, it upsets me when I think about it, and it upsets me more when I try to install linux and it goes fine, but then doesn't boot

cause I have to take the time to reinstall windows again.....

why computer? why won't you let linux boot? what do I need to do to you to have linux actually boot? I don't understand...

*confused screaming*

running an ASUS ROG Stryx gaming pc that I bought on impulse years ago. so you'd think linux mint would boot just fine, right??

how do I fix it? if I can fix it? especially if I don't destroy the data on the second hard drive of this thing. I've got stuff I don't want to lose on here, preferably....

[sw5w]

Artoo-Detoo

STAR WARS EPISODE II: Attack of the Clones 00:03:07

[adafruit]

🎄💾🗓️ Day 4: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar - The DEC PDP-11! 🎄💾🗓️

Released by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1970, the PDP-11 was a 16-bit minicomputer known for its orthogonal instruction set, allowing flexible and efficient programming. It introduced a Unibus architecture, which streamlined data communication and helped revolutionize computer design, making hardware design more modular and scalable. The PDP-11 was important in developing operating systems, including the early versions of UNIX. The PDP-11 was the hardware foundation for developing the C programming language and early UNIX systems. It supported multiple operating systems like RT-11, RSX-11, and UNIX, which directly shaped modern OS design principles. With over 600,000 units sold, the PDP-11 is celebrated as one of its era's most versatile and influential "minicomputers".

Check out the wikipedia page for some great history, photos (pictured here), and more -

And here's a story from Adafruit team member, Bill!

The DEC PDP-11 was the one of the first computers I ever programmed. That program was 'written' with a soldering iron.

I was an art student at the time, but spending most of my time in the engineering labs. There was a PDP-11-34 in the automation lab connected to an X-ray spectroscopy machine. Starting up the machine required toggling in a bootstrap loader via the front panel. This was a tedious process. So we ordered a diode-array boot ROM which had enough space to program 32 sixteen bit instructions.

Each instruction in the boot sequence needed to be broken down into binary (very straightforward with the PDP-11 instruction set). For each binary '1', a diode needed to be soldered into the array. The space was left empty for each '0'. 32 sixteen bit instructions was more than sufficient to load a secondary bootstrap from the floppy disk to launch the RT-11 operating system. So now it was possible to boot the system with just the push of a button.

I worked with a number DEC PDP-11/LSI-11 systems over the years. I still keep an LSI-11-23 system around for sentimental reasons.

Have first computer memories? Post’em up in the comments, or post yours on socialz’ and tag them #firstcomputer #retrocomputing – See you back here tomorrow!

[seat-safety-switch]

"You have twenty nine uses left on your sanitizer module. Contact your nearest service depot to have a new sanitizer module installed. When the count runs out, you will no longer be able to flush your toilet."

Younger people ask me, how exactly is it that Hewlett-Packard, the printer manufacturer, ended up taking over the world? After checking out the window for the presence of their all-hearing, man-slicing surveillance drones, I tell them. It was this, or they'd force the President to maintain a fleet of inkjet printers.

At first, things weren't so bad. We started to roll back the whole "paperless office" scam of the 90s. At one point, a bunch of toughs all zooted out on free government-provided fuser oil smashed the door to the data-centre where the False Minds existed, their pseudo-artificial-intelligence a clear threat to a world where being able to print was essential. That was a lot of fun, stepping on a bunch of scattered RAM in the middle of the street and knowing it was so close to being able to feel pain.

Then it became much clearer how things were going to really go from now on. Whole forests were felled in an instant to feed the new demand for vessels to contain our minds. Libraries suddenly became stuffed with hastily constructed bookshelves, their once-silent printers leaping back to life and erupting orgasmic volleys of paper. And everyone, everywhere, was looking for yellow ink, no matter what they printed. It's been twenty-five years since then.

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining about the dominance of the printer giants. Sure, the amount of fatal papercuts has skyrocketed. Especially now that the ambulances aren't allowed to use their radios anymore, not unless they're connected to a fax machine. And pretty much everything has to be turned on and off a few times before it starts to work, otherwise it just blinks a stupid little light that doesn't mean anything.

All this, though, is worth it. Because as soon as Hewlett-Packard took control of the world governments, they took their first acts of violence out on their competition. Had the guy who made the shitty paper loader for the Lexmarks executed. And the rush from that was enough to get me through having to pay 25 cents a poop for the rest of my life. Sorry you missed it.

[zoeoe-sims]

Homebaked Bread Mod

I like bread. I want my Sims to be able to make bread without needing multiple ovens, but also have to knead dough in the process.

So I made this mod - a new "Bake Bread..." interaction that allows you to bake bread recipes using the Baker's Station kneading animations, but done so on a counter, and then cooked in a regular oven.

This mod is a pure script mod that adds the new interaction to fridges, and includes 4 bread recipes that can be cooked in this way:

Homebaked Sourdough

Homebaked Rye

Homebaked Baguette

Homebaked Challah

All have ingredients Egg and Flour from Echoweavers wheat and flour mod if you have it.

The first 3 are cloned versions of the Baker's Station's breads (they don't affect the original ones), made to be compatible with this mod.

The challah is a cloned version of my challah recipe converted from TS4, made compatible with this mod (also does not affect the original, see below if you don't have the Challah & Matzo Ball Soup Mod).

There are some technicalities about these recipes that make things work a bit differently to normal, but I'll put that under the cut, as well as information on making Homebaked-Bread-Compatible recipes.

DOWNLOAD here, but I recommend reading the rest of the info below: SFS | Simblr.cc

REQUIRES CC Loader

REQUIRES the Baker's Station item from the store, for both the kneading animations as well as the bread recipe models. But it won't crash the game without it ;)

Notes on these recipes:

For these recipes to only show up under the mod's interaction, they are not "Learnable" recipes. So they work similar to the store recipes in that they can't be learnt from a recipe book, they don't count towards a Sim's learnt recipes, and I think a few other small things which I'm not sure of. Shouldn't be a big deal but I just wanted to mention that.

Specifically for the Challah, my original version of the recipe has a level 2 recipe book. You can have both the original and the HB recipe installed as they are technically separate recipes, but the regular version (under the EA cooking interaction) will use the original cooking process and require the recipe book, whereas the HB version will just require skill level 2 and will use the kneading animations. If you don't have the original challah mod installed, you'll need the challahFiles package as well.

The cooking process looks the same for all HB recipes - Sims get the dough from the fridge, knead it on a counter, put it in a baking dish, and cook it in the oven. The only difference are the raw/cooked models used in the baking dish.

Adding new Homebaked Bread recipes:

Mostly the same as making regular custom recipes, just with a few extra steps to make it an HB recipe.

Make your recipe as normal with CC Loader (alternatively add your recipe to the recipes XML included in this mod)

The Recipe_Key must include "HBBread"

Learnable set to False

Must have a custom cooking process which Recipe_Class refers to

For the cooking process, I suggest using one of mine as a base as there are only a couple of things that need changing then: The line Models contains the only things that can be customised for the cooking process - the raw dough model in the baking tray, the cooked bread in the baking tray, and the burnt bread in the baking tray. The easiest thing is to have the first as the dough (WOFridgeDough), and the second and third as the recipe's serving model with the default and burnt material states. But if you want to have extra models, you can of course.

Even more notes:

For NoFridgeShopping simmers, there's a tuning value in the zoeoe_BakeBreadMod_Tuning XML to turn on NoFridgeShopping. As you might expect, with this set to True, Sims will require the ingredients to bake the breads, and they will be greyed out without them. You can either change this with S3PE or NRaas Retuner under Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.zoeoe.BakeBreadMod.Main.

Fun fact: yet another mistake in EA's Baker's Station recipe data - the sourdough and rye breads have the same textures (both use rye ones) because they didn't set the material state name for the sourdough bread. My HB versions use the right textures, but if you want to fix the BS ones, just change the "breadRoundRye" to "breadRoundSourdough" where the sourdough single and group models are defined in the CCMerged RMLS resource.

And thank you to Bietjie for testing!

Hope you enjoy, my fellow lovers of bread <3

If you like my mods, consider supporting me by donating

[machine-saint]

Collected data must be topical to the plugin in question. For example, a plugin providing Party Finder features may not record information about which face type is the most popular among its users, but may collect analytics to find which face type is most likely to create Ultimate clear parties.

love that the standard ffxiv plugin loader's example of acceptable analytics is for doing Elf Phrenology

[roaroarke]

I wonder if Ayre ever looks up the AC Data, sees LOADER-4, and goes "Awww, do you have any other baby pictures?"

[one-of-many-journeys]

Day 62

The Sun Ring

I woke in a cage, warmed by rays of sunlight that scorched my burns and glass cuts. I was suspended over the Sun Ring facing Helis on the gangway, leering. Of course he couldn't just kill me. That wouldn't be elaborate enough for him, but his need for theatrics had allowed me to escape him once before. Things were looking far more dire this time, however. No exit, no Focus, and no one to save me at the last moment, as Rost did. Helis had kindly left my armour and weapons packaged in a crate next to the cage. Maybe to taunt me, but either way it was an advantage if I could get to them somehow.

Helis took the opportunity to monologue, and for all my pointed derision, he soldiered on. More religious rubbish, elaborate stories he'd crafted, or had crafted for him by Bahavas, about natural duality, darkness and light. I tried to tell him the truth about Hades, that it was just an insane machine using him to gain power for itself, but he predictably wouldn't listen. He's convinced that he serves the 'Sun in Shadow', some cosmic entity bound to re-balance the forces of sun and shade. He questioned his hesitation to open my throat on the mountaintop at the Proving, and justified his being distracted by Rost as divine predestination. I was meant to thwart him, meant to kill scores of his men just to end up here, at his mercy, to be sacrificed to the sun. Whatever lets him live with his failures, I guess.

As I tried to maintain my defiant composure, panic was setting in. Not only was there no way out, but Helis crushed my Focus in front of me, destroying all the data stored within, including the Alpha registry. He also told me, likely expecting a wail of grief, that he had ordered his troops to march on the Nora Sacred Lands with an army of Corrupters and Deathbringers days ago. No Nora was to be left alive. He thought he'd find me there, but since Sylens and I had crashed their Focus network, Helis had no way to revoke the order. Not that he would, I'd wager. It's just senseless. He gains nothing in his quest for Meridian by butchering the Nora with his war machines, except perhaps a boost to his ego. Helis doesn't strike me as the forward-thinking type. Perhaps ego is all that fuels him, and with Bahavas gone, there's no one to lead the Shadow Carja but him. Regardless of what happens to me, their march on Meridian is only a matter of time.

When Helis was finally done talking, he took to the royal balcony to announce more of his religious drivel to the arena at large. All the nobles of the city were gathered in the stands, cheering for my death.

The kestrels released two Corruptors into the arena, where they infected the bound Behemoth, letting it break free of its restraints. Then the bottom of my cage opened out and threw me down to the sands.

I drew the Behemoth's aggression, standing behind two adjacent pillars and letting it charge and crush their stone supports. The platform above tilted, letting the cage and my crate of weapons fall to the ground. I snapped up my headpiece and tunic in the ensuing dust cloud and armed myself. By the cheering of the crowd, they were here for a show, not an execution. Now, as the challenger, I had them on my side.

My usual strategy worked a charm. Tied it down, set off its chillwater canisters, then hardpoint arrows to the force loaders.

Helis wasn't having that. He sent his Corruptors down to take me head on.

I tried to goad Helis into facing me himself, but despite his terminal ego he didn't take the bait. I was cornered. The Corruptors I could deal with, but what would Helis send next, a Deathbringer? Only, I was wrong about no one being there to get me out of trouble.

Sylens burst through the arena gates with a pair of Striders, throwing a spear armed with some sort of machine lure to the ground. Three overridden Ravagers charged in after him, taking on the Corruptors as I mounted the Strider and together we rode back out through the breach. Helis bellowed 'traitor' at Sylens' back. It seems he did more than 'assist' the Eclipse after all.

Once out of range of the kestrels, Sylens and I stopped by the roadside and he revealed that he'd been backing up all the data on my Focus and had copied it over to a new one. I might have been angry if I'd found out about this before, since he made it clear he'd been through ALL my files, but I'd be lost if he hadn't. Sylens even apologised for what he'd said right before Helis attacked me in the facility, saying he hoped he was wrong about my origins. I didn't expect him to risk his life for me like this, but I know it isn't personal. I'm the only one that can access the places and secrets he's been circling hungrily all his life. He needs me alive.

Quashing any warm feelings I might have otherwise felt in that moment, Sylens dodged my questions about Helis recognising him and wouldn't tell me about his time with the Eclipse. He also refused to accompany me to the Sacred Lands to save the Nora and discover the secrets of the Cradle in All-Mother mountain. I guess he'll be sorry if I'm stomped by a Deathbringer before I can get to it.

The Shattered Kiln camp was the closest safe settlement. I had no doubt that the Eclipse would attempt pursuit with whoever they could spare, at least for a while. I traded and rested some at the camp and changed out of my filthy armour.

Nora garb, warmer for the forests of the Sacred Lands, though I'll have to cross the Sundom to reach them. I have to stand with the Nora, as one of them, to get them through the attack. Their numbers were already so low after the hardships wrought upon them. I just hoped I wasn't too late. Deathbringers can't move all that fast, but I wasn't sure exactly when Helis had sent his forces.

It was late afternoon by then, and I estimated I could make it to the Embrace by first light if I rode hard and rested little.

Sunset by the Sun Furrows. I was already exhausted, aching everywhere from the ride, head still pounding from where Helis knocked me down.

Glinthawks attacked by the campsite. To my surprise it was a pair of Nora hunters they were harassing. I helped them take down the flock. It was nice getting into a fight I knew I could win, though it might be my last for a while. Or last full stop. I told the hunters about the attack on their homeland, but they weren't interested in making the journey back. Fair enough, since they were eternal outcasts in the Matriarchs' minds for traveling so far west.

Dodged a Ravager attack when back on the road and crossed into the Gatelands through the mountain pass.

Another short rest and a meal in Morning's Watch.

Heading on after nightfall.

By the entrance to Daytower, I met the three members of Nukoni's Arrows, along with Ohtur, who was showing them how to strip parts from a kill. They seemed to be doing well, though their salvaging skills still leave much to be desired. I had to be on my way, but I wished them good luck on their travels further west.

Hopefully someone in Daytower will have news on the Eclipse attack. I doubt they passed through directly, but they had to get into the Sacred Lands somehow. Depending on what they know, I might have to push through the rest of the night.

[psi-hate]

i know this looks like nothing to those who don't know but for me this is the culmination of my slaving away for 3 days lmao the homebrew i'm running, gbarunner3, is a virtual machine that uses the GBA hardware in DS Mode to run GBA games with a higher layer of customization and access to traditional DS hardware. an example of something similar that comes to mind is Nintendont, the gamecube loader for Wii. Technically speaking, the vWii on the Wii U is also this concept, albeit underutilized.

anyway, it's intended to run ROMs off the SD card exclusively. Meaning that it cannot run actual cartridges. I wanted to use my pokemon carts alongside gbarunner3's wireless emulation to facilitate wireless adapter features without having the more expensive GBA hardware and peripherals, for an example.

i spent the last few days learning a bit of how the DS hardware and the codebase works, and trying to implement the option of using actual hardware than only ROMs off the SD card.

the DS only has 4mb of memory! and most GBA ROMs are between 8mb-32mb. how gbarunner3 gets the ROM loaded, is that it has 1mb worth of cached ROM loaded at a time and dynamically loads a ROM region based on when the game's code needs to access it. learning how to deal with memory in the context of the SLOT2 data bus in a codebase designed around SD card caching...

It was very annoying! I had no way to debug anything other than forcing a crash to tell when I got a certain result. it effectively was trial and error for hours and hours of blind crash debugging. the dev of gbarunner3 uses an IS-Nitro development kit to do his debugging. I didn't have that lmao

this is me oversimplifying everything incredibly because it's very hard to describe but i'm very proud of it. i'm sure it looks like nothing from an outsider's perspective though but i think it opens the gateway for some cool features that you'd otherwise have to use digital-only ROMs for.

I have a lot more to do but the fact i got this far on a whim is really neat!

[sastormsoftware]

Master Data Transfers with Salesforce Data Loader

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[transgenderastarion]

hello baldurs gate 3 community again: This time im talking about modding!

hello adventurers and shifty-eyed people, I bring to you some important stuff. Mod compilations! Below the cut, if you are interested, I have compiled a few things for what I think the bg3 tumblr modding community wants (based on me being in the tag for a month straight). Things I have compiled include: - Super basic install of baldur's gate 3 mod manager (and a bit of vortex) (9 Easy Steps!) - My OWN special "Computer helper" mod bundle with super easy installations (helps it run on my piece of crap laptop who hates me so much but I love her <3) - Companion and player mods (visuals only, and like de-ab-ing and stuff, I'm not going around adding all the extra eye colour mods) INCLUDING TRANS TOP SCARS AND DADBOD MODS + MORE - Some personal favourite mods that really helped enhance my experience. Enjoy! (if you enjoy bg3 modding, please consider reblogging because I think posts with links are still shadowbanned in the tag lol)

HOW TO GET THE MOD LOADER FOR BG3 IN 3 EASY STEPS

go to the github download page and scroll down until you see the first downloadable file that reads "BG3ModManager_Lastest.zip"

extract the file into an accessible area (your downloads folder should work fine, I just put it on my desktop) (just anything that won't require you to give admin permissions to download it. I would also keep this off Local Disc (C:) for convenience) You can use any free extractor program, 7zip works, i used to use Peazip and now I use Breezip and that works well.

Tada! You should have an open folder in your extracted location. 2 things may happen here: You will get the extracted folder with the other documents inside. Congrats, you're done! If you have an extracted folder with ONLY the .exe file in it, go back into the zip file and drag the other files into the folder. This should fix the problem, all files from the zip need to be there to work.

(OPTIONAL) you CAN use Vortex mod manager to manage your bg3 mods on there, in which case any nexusmods mod will have a direct download button for you. Personally I have my subnautica mods loaded from there so bg3 is unavailable.

HOW TO MOD BALDURS GATE 6 IN EASY STEPS + SCRIPT EXTENDER

Make sure you have Baldur's Gate 3 Installed. I have it on steam, I don't know how to help with EA, sorry.

open your file explorer/documents. Go to Admin -> AppData -> Local -> Larian Studios* -> Baldur's Gate 3 (leave launcher alone). Create a mods folder if you don't already have one, but one should have been created on your first bootup. DO NOT CLOSE THIS TAB. THIS TAB STAYS OPEN UNTIL YOU ARE DONE MODDING. * I also just search Larian Studios in Local Disc (C:) but that does take some time to load

Congrats, you're ready to mod! Now, most good mods will need something called the Baldur's Gate 3 Script Extender. You can find the download page here, and this time you're going to hit the green "code" button. Ignore everything else. Hit download zip

Extract the file again, but this time into Local Disc (C:) -> Program Files (86x) -> Steam -> Steamapps -> common -> Baldur's Gate 3 -> bin* ** * MAKE SURE to extract it to the bin folder. Some other mesh and texture mods use the data bin, so confusing them is bad. ** you CAN directly extract the folder to the bin, but I personally find it easier to extract the zip back into downloads, then open my other file explorer and click and drag the whole extracted file into the bin folder

The fun part begins! Go find some mods you like (nexusmods mostly, gamebanana MAY have some). Extract folder to your mods folder in larian studios -> baldur's gate 3 -> mods. ONLY DRAG THE .PCK FILE. YOU DO NOT NEED ANY OTHER FILES UNLESS THE MOD MAKER SAYS SO.

USING THE MOD LOADER: you are done with file explorers! Go ahead and boot up the bg3modmanager.exe file from earlier. Any INACTIVE MODS must be CLICKED AND DRAGGED over to the ACTIVE MODS side. If you don't see any mods, hit the blue circle refresh button. After that, hit the "export order to game" button right beside "export". If you see a green popup at the bottom, you are good to go!

All done! You are now on your modding journey! (if you have any outlying problems, my dms are open and there is a whole host of modders out there with answers!)

NOW TO THE FUN PART: MOD PACKS!

My own Game Optimizer Pack (basic): includes General Fixes (general bug fixes), Improved UI & Improved UI Assets (necessary for customization mods), and Mod Fixer (necessary for mods to work) *you CAN download all of these files individually from https://www.nexusmods.com but this is basically. a short version of that.

My own Game Optimizer Pack (deluxe): includes all previous mods as well as 5e Spells (spell fixer), Additional Backgrounds, Customizer Compendium, Show approval ratings in dialogue, Purchase camp clothes from merchants, Tav's hairpack

COMPANION MODS:

No Abs for companions/pcs

"oops all futas" (all female companions have penises, if you want like an all transfem run or something)

Customizable Origins (lets you customize if you play as an origin character)

Astarion:

Astarion Moles and blemishes mod

Vampire Ascendant (ability fixer mod)

TAV MODS:

Freckles and Moles as Tattoo replacers

Trip's Accessory Collection (has glasses & monacles)

Ophelia's Body Shop (top heavy/bottom heavy/chubby body alternatives)

Stronger Tav - Muscular Upper Body Mod

Top Surgery Scars

Alternate Top Surgery Scars mod for bodys 1 and 3

Strongfat body - humans and half orcs

Tav's Dadbod Mod

Softie Body - Tiefling 2

New Eye Colours and Blindess for all eyes

Transmasc Clothing options

Actually feminine and lore friendly dragonborn legs

Femme obese dragonborn body (no clothing options developed yet)

Chubby/thick/bbw body mods and clothes

Big gut dragonborn (male)

Female muscle mod

Less defined abs for male bodies

Game Enhancing Mods that I recommend! (if I have one marked starting spoiler! just. just download it and ad it just trust me dont look to far into it I promise it will be good. If I have one marked late spoiler! you can look at it and decide if you want it or later)

Faithful & Faithless - no mandatory choice of god

Mundane Blindfold (one eye cover)

No Romance Limit (polyamory mod)

highlight everything tooltip

Party Limit begone

No more spiders (all spider models replaced with dogs)

Ritual spells for rp fun

Colourblind friendly spell slots

Camp event notifications

Autosaver/Save timer (GET THIS IT SAVED MY LIFE SO MUCH)

Histories & Occupations - new backgrounds

Scratch colour variety (late spoiler!/not spoiler heavy)

Just Story (for those who just want the story. every enemy has 1 hp)

Wyll's Devil Form (starting spoiler!)

Eyes of the beholder (eye alts + scleras)

[sl33py-g4m3r]

this is so surreal~~

No reblog this time cause I thought that it was too long at this point

are you telling me I've been installing linux on this computer wrong this entire time??

WE BACK ON LINUX BABY~~!!

all I had to do on install was just......

make grub boot from dev/sda1 instead of dev/sda

dev/sdb was the hard drive all of my data was stored on and if I didn't touch that, nothing would happen.

the cool thing here is that mounting the device here is password protected to actually mount and view the data. as opposed to windows having it mounted at all times.

this was simpler than I thought it was and now I feel really stupid...

Linux mint debian edition 6 lets go~~~~~~!!

I'm so excited~~!! come to find out that I've been installing the grub boot loader in the wrong place this entire time.....

*happy screaming*

now idk if I'm smarter than I think or dumber than I think. cause it could be both....

I didn't need to tinker with the bios at all~~ tho I am curious as to what it looks like now. maybe the windows boot loader isn't there anymore and is just the linux one?

[cornbread-but-cringey]

i've said this like a quadrillion times already but damn i hate the way the minecraft community's been obfuscating the game's mechanics for the past few years.

like, controls. people used to just call in-game actions by their names (or at least something vaguely resembling them). but somewhere along the line, they stopped. they stopped calling things by their names and started calling them by their default keybinds. they don't crouch or sneak any more. they ""shift"". they don't go into third person view any more. they go into """"F5 mode"""". like, i could *maybe* understand saying 'right click' instead of 'use item', since 'right click' is an already accepted term in other contexts. but saying 'Q' instead of 'drop item' *while talking about how you've remapped your drop key* is fucking piss behavior. most people don't even fucking play with a keyboard!!

but, onto the thing i'm actually here to post about:

can we stop conflating mods and behavior packs? they are not the same thing. well, i mean, technically, behavior packs are mods, on account of modifying the game. but they're mods in the way that resource packs are mods. because they're basically resource packs. all a resource pack or a behavior pack is is a collection of data that the minecraft engine is programmed to interpret in a specific way. contrast this with actual Mods, which are sequences of instructions and programming that require a mod loader to insert into the game's existing instructions and programming.

if y'all can differentiate between mods and data packs then you can definitely differentiate between mods and behavior packs. a 'behavior pack' is literally just what bedrock edition calls a data pack.

and for the love of FUCK, stop calling it fucking pocket edition! you are only confusing people!!!!!