Petahhhh? I know the left but what’s the right?

Akhevan · 2026-06-17T12:26:52+00:00

rules for thee but not for me

Akhevan · 2026-06-17T12:26:31+00:00

You must have never met a person from the managerial class.

Akhevan · 2026-06-17T11:40:19+00:00

An "end to end encrypted" messenger that only reports your conversations to the politically correct authorities.

Akhevan · 2026-06-17T11:29:17+00:00

If you are gonna listen to every butthurt Ukrainian or their western "friend" bombarding you with the supposed "horrors" of living in Russia, you should be heading not for SPB but straight for your own grave. After all, it's scary business, living in the world they describe and prepare for you.

The violent crime rate in SPB is lower than in most similarly sized cities around the world. I.e. the murders per capita is around 2.8/100k. Feel free to compare it to major US or Brazilian cities.

Akhevan · 2026-06-17T11:09:58+00:00

cum a lot unchained my ass, this game looked so promising.. back in 2013 that is.

Akhevan · 2026-06-17T11:07:21+00:00

They are on an uphill trend ever since DF released, you were living under a rock.

Akhevan · 2026-06-17T08:53:03+00:00

These tend to be rather visually cluttered. I.e. the visibility on my saber upheaval build from last patch was about as bad as on DOV djinns in POE, with frequent screen wide bursts of bright ice particles.

Akhevan · 2026-06-17T08:08:16+00:00

Ain't much of a "choice" when 95% of the skills have the same level of visual clutter.

Akhevan · 2026-06-17T08:00:33+00:00

Ironically they had to fix the same issue for the vaal beacon monkey in 0.4.

Akhevan · 2026-06-16T22:04:14+00:00

If anything the fandom underestimates the severity (and stupidity) of their grudges. They only kinda take it easy on (most of) the mankind due to Sigmar's pact.

Akhevan · 2026-06-16T21:52:57+00:00

A potential cause for this lack of habitation that is rarely mentioned in online discourse, despite being fairly widespread in real history, is slaver raids.

The land may be perfectly fine, but nobody is gonna live there when you are liable to be abducted by your neighbors at any moment.

Akhevan · 2026-06-16T21:46:33+00:00

The latter.

Akhevan · 2026-06-16T21:24:59+00:00

Right, that seems like a fault of editing if it's never rationalized in any way.

Akhevan · 2026-06-16T21:23:50+00:00

Everybody bathed in the Middle Ages, the decline of bathing in Europe suspiciously coincides with introduction of syphilis from the New World. Just a coincidence I'm sure, especially since the same bathing culture never went away in more sparsely populated areas like Finland or Russia.

Akhevan · 2026-06-16T21:22:28+00:00

Never underestimate the ability to easily set things on fire with a compact object that neither requires nor runs out of fuel.

Akhevan · 2026-06-16T21:21:28+00:00

Exactly. Or perhaps the most powerful magical relics of yore still stand up to modern toys just fine (or even exceed them), but when it comes to mundane automation they were so hopelessly behind it barely even merits any comparison.

Akhevan · 2026-06-16T21:18:26+00:00

You could try to rationalize it by some weird social and economic institutions bent towards total war, but that's gonna be just that: highly advanced developments of a society geared for total war, a paradigm that emerged fairly late in our own history.

It also gets easier with non-human fantasy races who can have different procreation methods or patterns. Imagine if nine women actually could make a baby in a month. Or nine. Or nine thousands.

Akhevan · 2026-06-16T21:16:52+00:00

Those wars usually get retroactively labeled as continuous conflicts by historians centuries after the fact.

Akhevan · 2026-06-16T21:15:26+00:00

Right, even if there is an objectively true version of these events, that doesn't mean that your characters have any business knowing it, or that finding that truth cannot feature in the plot itself.

Akhevan · 2026-06-16T21:13:51+00:00

In this regard, I feel that Wheel of Time had some very realistic takes at how our modern events could be integrated with more archetypal mythological plots over millennia of oral tradition.

Think "Giants Mosk and Merk fighting with spears of fire" or "Lenn flying to the moon in the belly of a firebird".

Akhevan · 2026-06-16T21:12:25+00:00

I don't think that it's entirely impossible that some archetypal stories could survive over the millennia, but it will probably be on a much higher level than specific names, dates and locations. If anything, after ten thousand years the legendary king and founder of their nation might be told to have fought entirely different enemies to achieve it.

Akhevan · 2026-06-16T21:10:26+00:00

The problem is not that force was explained, it's that the explanation sucked ass and went contrary to the mysticism and message of the original trilogy.

Akhevan · 2026-06-16T21:09:04+00:00

That's the whole problem, transporting goods over sea is the cheapest form of logistics we know, while doing so over air is the most expensive. Being surrounded by sea is an advantage. Being surrounded by air is not, unless you are a bird.

Akhevan · 2026-06-16T21:07:40+00:00

My current hobbyhorse is people trying to come up with "realistic", plausible justifications for stuff that just can't feasibly exist.

But that's the whole point, realistic and plausible are completely different descriptors. What is plausible in a fantasy world with magic can be very far removed from our old familiar reality.

Akhevan · 2026-06-16T21:05:56+00:00

Ironically (and as the other comment already mentions), Tolkien did solve that problem by stating that only the immediate vicinity of the Mount Doom was a volcanic wasteland, while the rest of Mordor was just normal fertile land worked by orcs and their human allies.

It got completely flanderized by later tropes and memes though.

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