In the Warhammer 40.000-setting, mankind did under many years fall into a long Dark Age, where they lost touch with all their scientific marvels and discoveries they had made previously. When the Emperor emerged and united all the whiny little warlords on Earth and Mars and reconquered large parts of the galaxy (everything must have been alot easier back then, in the age the games are set, the same empire fight for their very survival. Guess they where using cheatcodes) mankind "only" had acsess to "basic" science as space and warp-travel, genemodification and such, and all the old knowledge was wieved as something ancient and arcane, something as likely to harm you as help you.

Out of this was born the idea of the Machine Spirit. The marvels of technology and mechanics are explained with the idea of a spirit inhabiting all mechanical devices. These needs to be worshipped and endeared, or else they will start malfunctioning in protest. Thus, there is an extremly powerful church in the imperium called Adeptus Mechanicus, and their purpose is to handle all the heavy mechanics in the Imperium and to worship these deitys to keep them happy. After all, you would'nt want your super-badass rocketpropelled gothic cathedral blasted into space equipped with more guns than the North Corean army stockpile could ever deam off becoming completley inoprable due to a bluescreen because the computer sulks and wants an ice-cream.

This is a very interesting thinking in my opinion. They deffinetley do got a point, what if there actually are spirits in all machines? And never is that idea closer to me than when Im messing with my PC. I'm CONVINCED there's something in there! I'm the kind of guy who argues with his PC, kinda like the Angry German Kid, with less screaming and keyboardsmashing and a manlier voice.
I've been playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion almost since release. I got some fond memories about it, and it's one of my favs, not to mention that it got one of the best modding communities out there. And then there is all the delightfull porn.

However, using many mods and textures et cetera will sooner or later mess something up. It did'nt get better when I had to very uncausiously move the whole folder from harddrive to harddrive. Made sence then, but now I realised how dumb it was. It messed up a whole lot of things, and I knew stuff would get worse over time. So I decided to uninstall all of it and reinstall it all properly so I could start tabula rasa. Hupp, I can't uninstall. No matter, I'll just delete everything the old-fashioned way.
This did'nt work out too good either, since it ended with me being unable to reinstall it, because it didnt realise there was'nt any Oblivion on the computer. So I deleted every single file Oblivion-related, hoping my purge would reach that pesky li'l file, hiding somewhere from my loyal Stormtroopers ready to drag it over to the bin. But then, I remembered there was a setup-programme on the CD. Wich I then opened and used and now it seems to work swimmingly. Sure, I still need to install Shivering Isles and then patch it, but again, this time it's going to be properly done, so I got stable software from the start. And then, I shall rule the world! Moahahahhahaha!!

Oh, and I also got around 5000 mods to download, but at least this purge made me clean out the bad ones. Plus, viewing mods are actually pretty fun, and I might find some new ones. Sure, it's a bit like finding a hay in a needlestack, but there's alot of creativity out there.

But... It can only happen if the Machine Spirit wills it so... Did I mention that machine spirits are usually dicks?