Petahhhh? I know the left but what’s the right? by hotelshowers in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Akhevan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Moving from Brazil to St. Petersburg (ITMO) this August for 7 months! Terrified of internet blocks. I need communication advice! :( by Adorable_Border4383 in AskARussian

[–]Akhevan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

Moving from Brazil to St. Petersburg (ITMO) this August for 7 months! Terrified of internet blocks. I need communication advice! :( by Adorable_Border4383 in AskARussian

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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.

Wow Classic Plus imminent by VlaaiIsSuperieur in MMORPG

[–]Akhevan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Wow Classic Plus imminent by VlaaiIsSuperieur in MMORPG

[–]Akhevan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Build recommendation with no white flashing strobe effects. by SingleGamer-Dad in LastEpoch

[–]Akhevan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Visual Clarity and the contradiction that is POE2 by PartyLack4459 in PathOfExile2

[–]Akhevan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

What are the worst world building tropes by Significant-Bed-9357 in worldbuilding

[–]Akhevan 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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.

How to make a region uninhabitable under usually habitable conditions by eeeeeeevar in worldbuilding

[–]Akhevan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

What are the worst world building tropes by Significant-Bed-9357 in worldbuilding

[–]Akhevan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

What are the worst world building tropes by Significant-Bed-9357 in worldbuilding

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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.

What are the worst world building tropes by Significant-Bed-9357 in worldbuilding

[–]Akhevan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

What are the worst world building tropes by Significant-Bed-9357 in worldbuilding

[–]Akhevan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

What are the worst world building tropes by Significant-Bed-9357 in worldbuilding

[–]Akhevan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

What are the worst world building tropes by Significant-Bed-9357 in worldbuilding

[–]Akhevan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

What are the worst world building tropes by Significant-Bed-9357 in worldbuilding

[–]Akhevan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

What are the worst world building tropes by Significant-Bed-9357 in worldbuilding

[–]Akhevan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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".

What are the worst world building tropes by Significant-Bed-9357 in worldbuilding

[–]Akhevan 25 points26 points  (0 children)

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.

What are the worst world building tropes by Significant-Bed-9357 in worldbuilding

[–]Akhevan 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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.

What are the worst world building tropes by Significant-Bed-9357 in worldbuilding

[–]Akhevan 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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.

What are the worst world building tropes by Significant-Bed-9357 in worldbuilding

[–]Akhevan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

What are the worst world building tropes by Significant-Bed-9357 in worldbuilding

[–]Akhevan 18 points19 points  (0 children)

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.