I installed the 154 GB 'biblically accurate Skyrim' mod and only crashed my PC like 8 times

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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. (Image credit: JanuarySnow / Bethesda)How hard can it be?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?Article continues below You may like You’ve never heard of it, but a Russian studio made a fantasy take on original Fallout way back in 2001,