From the article itself:

The aid figure does not include military or humanitarian contributions.

I love how you need to read 4 paragraphs, to learn it’s just sensationalist trash, made only for the headline.

That said, I do wish more support went to Ukraine.

Whenever a sentence needs some indicator of humor or sarcasm, I reach for :p

It’s honestly nearly impossible to keep up with the essentials after any amount of time away. So many groundbreaking mods come out monthly, that I used to stalk the “Updated” tab just about every day.

There are so many essential and almost mandatory mods for Skyrim, lists get outdated fast. Though Lexy’s LOTD list has an entire section of mostly up to date things. I’d recommend giving it a skim, though it may want you to install more mods.

zEdit had some patches of it’s own, that were quite popular and widely recommended back in the day. There’s a rather incomplete list of patches the patch may include here. If you only used it for merging, the plugins merged should be in the categories still, or in the .esl’s mod description.

As for the ordering it’s all somewhat complicated imo, and also somewhat contentious depending on where you look online. Last I modded Skyrim, I followed the Open World Loot guide, which I found quite useful.

I will also plug a script I put on nexus that generates bashed tags for all plugins you select in xEdit, as some mod authors forget that Bash Tags are a thing :p

The lighting in Skyrim has always been one of my gripes with it. Most things in default Skyrim are fairly bright, which is lovely for playability, but makes it so torches and magelight are almost useless. Then if you slap an enb on, suddenly everything not 2 meters ahead of you is just pure impenetrable darkness.

Mods like this kinda fix it, but sometimes the light range is super short, or you have the ball of light stuck at the top of the screen in first person (or is that candlelight?).

Anywho, good recommendation, even if magic mods sometimes claim incompatibilities with stuff like this.

I may be misremembering, but didn’t he add them a bit back and then remove them again?

I know the Patreon versions don’t include those messages, though I’m not sure I’d want to give money to him, due to all the historical drama (and his refusal to do proper naming of versions)