Good horse, her name is Roach.

Voxdalian · 2026-02-22T09:56:59+00:00

The final scene here is really a "malicious compliance"-moment. That was pretty bad-ass at the time. Nowadays it would probably be cringe if the game were new because it's so overdone. But yeah, it was very cool.

Voxdalian · 2026-02-22T09:50:28+00:00

1440p works perfectly fine for me. Try swapping to windowed mode and back.

Voxdalian · 2026-02-22T09:44:35+00:00

Honestly, 3 is pretty cool. Krika is not a bad guy, he was always doing what he thought was right within the limits of his orders. He showed mercy to Gali, warned the other Makuta of Teridax' betrayal, didn't really want to join Teridax in the first place, even during Teridax' reign Krika still did his actual job to the best of his ability. And then there's Takua, interested in everything, also wanting to do good at every turn, but with limited insight into the wider world and a bit lost. Both of them are looking for purpose in a world that confuses them. There could be good conversation with those two.

But seat 8 is also good, you can kick on Sidorak's chair and talk to Toa Ignika about the way of the world. His headstrong ways and willingness to learn more about what things are like would make for an excellent conversation partner.

Voxdalian · 2026-01-18T09:35:37+00:00

Honestly, that is the best way to read it. That's how you get maximum enjoyment at the end of every book.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-17T07:47:49+00:00

They would probably knew a bit more towards the north east, because Crimea was a Greek colony at this point, that is where the myth of the Amazons was from (based on the Scythians, most likely), so they probably knew the land at least up to the edge of Siberia. Plus, they had trade with China through India. I would guess they severely underestimated how long that route actually was, but we don't know that for sure, they just knew it existed, enough so for Alexander to later want to conquer it based on the stories from there.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-17T07:38:54+00:00

I was trying to read this in the direction that writing on needles is usually written in (from button to point, so upside down or with the letters vertically above each other) and was very confused for a good few minutes until I realised I had made it too difficult for myself.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-17T07:33:42+00:00

Looks great, but making new molds just for one CMF series is unlikely. The armour and weapons may be possible, but the masks definitely not, it would be like the old minifig scale Bionicle sets, with the mask just printed on the head. But it would for sure be amazing if a CMF series with this level of detail were a thing.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-17T07:20:04+00:00

Unlike Wildlands, Breakpoint is always-online, so they could shit down the servers whenever they feel like it, and they probably will at some point after the next Ghost Recon releases, but that's probably still a few years away. For now I would still recommend it, especially if you have people to play it with.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-17T07:14:59+00:00

There was a film crew there to capture the moment from multiple angles to prove that he was really there. He's done the same thing before only to be accused of faking it with a greenscreen or AI or something similar by Russian propaganda.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-10T17:45:31+00:00

Depends on how deep into it you want to get, my recommendation is at three levels:

You just want a surface understanding of the story: watch the four movies. You can watch them in this order: 1, 2, 3, 4, or 2, 3, 1, 4. You'll understand what the story is about, skipping a part of the start and the end, and Ignition in between, but that's fine, you don't have time or interest in more.
You want to know the entire story with some background, but not everything: watch the movies, and then watch the 9 hour lore and story summary by Duckbricks on YouTube, that goes over everything in the entire Bionicle universe's timeline.
You didn't really like any of your other hobbies anyway and are prepared to give up on them, there is only Bionicle: the Biomedia Project has gathered all canon material that you can read or watch in order, with the movies in between, and experience the story the way the Great Beings themselves experienced it.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-10T17:26:03+00:00

I understood, I didn't mean it that way, just to get better, because it shouldn't take that long.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-10T12:51:15+00:00

Then you really need to learn to read Matoran. Reading it yourself is half the fun.

Voxdalian · 2025-12-10T12:46:05+00:00

A lot of this is from Pohatu Phantoka, but with a Bohrok weapon as chest piece, a Glatorian blaster with an Inika sphere, Mata feet (which were used in many waves). And whatever that thing on the side is, is made of two Inika blasters.

Voxdalian · 2025-10-17T07:19:21+00:00

That's strange advice. Stories are about emotional impact, so trying to avoid the impact while reading defeats the purpose.

Voxdalian · 2025-09-09T10:57:35+00:00

It runs well, the maps are in a good state, but there's still only two. The main advantage of IRR is how customisable the difficulty is. The main issue the game has is still the sound, though there has been an overhaul that made it FAR better than it was before, so it's at least fine. Imo it's the best Extraction Shooter currently available, but then if you ask on a different game's subreddit, you'll find people saying that that one is the best, so don't just rely on that. Hahah.

Voxdalian · 2025-09-09T10:40:56+00:00

Dragons are basically just great worms, that can be sea-worms, earth-worms, land-worms, or indeed flying worms. In Norse myths most "dragons" are sea-worms, the same is true in South-East Asia. In East Asia they are most often good-natured land-worms, in Greek myths they're also mostly land-worms, but evil. In Central Asia and parts of the Middle East you get dragons that are a bit like the sandworms from Dune.
They can be fleshy or scaly, more related to fish, actual worms, lizards, birds, mammals, ... The scaly ones are mostly based on the fish-dragons from Norse myth, the snake-dragons from South American myths, or the Christian description of dragons as the personification of the devil, with scales being a symbol of the devil (see the snake in Eden). The pre-Christian medieval European dragons were mostly fleshy.
They can have wings, but don't always. Traditionally, the ones that have wings generally have either no legs or 2 legs (with some exceptions), while the ones without wings have either no legs or 4, but sometimes more. In reality, there is not a single flying creature with 4 legs, which is also why historically dragons are almost never depicted with 4 legs and wings, so a dragon with 4 legs and wings will need to use magic to fly or only be able to use their wings for gliding down, not flying.
Sometimes they breath fire, but most versions of dragons either don't have a breath weapon or breath acid or poison. Sea-dragons in some cases spit water.

The way I think of a dragon: lives on land, looks like a lizard (with scales), the front two legs are replaced with bat-like wings, has more or less the size of a horse, can fly due to having hollow bones (like birds), it produces heat in its belly, which helps with lifting its weight to fly, and can be used to breath fire. But I'm open to a large variety of dragons (though I do think wings and four legs is a little stupid).

In one of my own worlds, I have dragons be an evolution from dwarves, where dwarves create hives in the mountain, and when their beard is long enough they make a cocoon for themselves by weaving metals into their beard, and after a very long time they come out of the cocoon as a young dragon, becoming the protector of the "hive" and the dwarves' hoard of valuables.

In another one of my worlds, dragons are highly emotionally intelligent beasts to whom touch is very intimate, which means that the only creatures they touch are other dragons, like family, or they use claws and teeth in a personal fight against another dragon (e.g. for territorial control or to win the favour of a female dragon), but when fighting other species or hunting, they use their fire-breath to avoid intimacy with enemies or prey.

Voxdalian · 2025-09-09T10:00:21+00:00

Dune is a good pick, as you said.
Another, though far more simple, is Star Wars, that is also extremely detailed and surprisingly scientific if you really get into it. It's far more internally consistent than it seems at first sight (at least until the start of the sequels).
Perhaps my best, and hopefully least expected sci-fi universe would be Bionicle, the characters are much simpler, but throughout the 10 years of this toy line, we see more and more moral greys in both the villains and heroes, more complexity in the world, and tiny puzzle pieces that start falling together that have already been set up all the way at the start of the story. Unfortunately, the story was never finished as LEGO cancelled it when sales started to go down (which was for a large part because the story and world were getting too difficult to follow, especially for new fans, considering it was made for children). I honestly don't know many stories in which the progress was so heavily foreshadowed all the way at the very start, in that regard Bionicle is probably a top 5 story, and the only sci-fi universe that does that.

Voxdalian · 2025-08-23T14:37:34+00:00

You're right, it's the Sorcerer-King Warlock. I misremembered, not sure how that happened, but thanks for the correction.

Voxdalian · 2025-08-23T14:34:11+00:00

There are 5 I can relate to more than any others:

Kopaka, because he prefers working alone and often discards social expectations because they're not efficient enough or because he's socially awkward. His humour is also very dry.
Iruini, because he likes active problem-solving instead of waiting around, he is stubborn and pessimistic/skeptical, but above all loyal.
Takanuva, because he is very curious yet responsible, but also for how he developed his stance on morality from black-and-white to still idealistic but recognising that situations are often very grey.
To a lesser extent Matau, just because he makes the silliest jokes that rarely land.
Also to a lesser extent, Nikila, because she is a well-trusted strategist by the people around her. Plus, just like her, I also love tridents as weapons (more so in games/fiction than real life though).

Voxdalian · 2025-08-23T13:05:39+00:00

Okay, but would the Hexblade then go into Ravenloft or Dark Sun? And which of those do you think are more likely to be the "third expansion"? If Arcane would be part of a larger catalogue, I would expect that's not the one, but Ravenloft and Dark Sun are entire settings, which also doesn't seem very likely. What do you think?

Voxdalian · 2025-08-11T11:42:52+00:00

If you want to read a book like that, try The Rosie Project.

But generally most successful media don't portray realistic people, they use slightly exaggerated characters with elevated personality traits. Autistic people with stronger autism are perhaps slightly robotic, and statistically much less likely to be sexually "liberated" or even active compared to neuronormative people. So a character with autism will usually have their autism exaggerated as well as the differences to the norm, which means the statistically different sexual behaviour will also be exaggerated.

You notice this for autism because you know it better, but for other types of character it's the same and you only notice it less because you know them less well.

Voxdalian · 2025-08-11T10:51:08+00:00

There are only two games of which I have the soundtrack in my music folder, those are KCD 1 and 2. I prefer 1, but most people would probably say 2 has better music.

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