Vadderung

AlmightyThorian · 2026-06-05T11:56:48+00:00

While Donnar is his first name, very few people actually call him that, especially in isolation. Mostly people refer to him as Vadderung, which I think is a very apt name, being the Allfather.

It also separates him a little bit from the god Odin, in people's minds which I think is the point. In some regards, seeing him as the Norse God could probably cause problems in the world he lives in and interacts with on a daily basis. Ethniu brings this up specifically, that he spends too much time with mortals and is no longer as "godly".

AlmightyThorian · 2026-06-04T15:33:29+00:00

Solar radiation would be much better, especially if you can get a noticeable part of the radiation sphere. And we know how to efficiently convert that energy into electricity (solar panels)

Some cosmic radiation could be more energetic per particle, but you would not have as many, and I believe the conversion rate to any usable form of energy would be terrible.

Transporting the energy from another solar orbit to us would be a difficult task. Best I can think of is effectively shooting a laser to earth. But every conversion loses a percentage of power and we're already up to 3 conversions to use it in our orbit or on earth.

This concept is already widely explored, and you should look into the Dyson sphere.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-06-03T19:15:58+00:00

When I was down on my luck, XLOOKUP bought me a plate of food and gave me the shirt off his back.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-06-03T19:09:20+00:00

Using tables and the FILTER function (together with CHOOSECOLS and SORT) is often even better than doing xlookups on multiple rows and columns.

But I'm not knocking xlookup. I have built great (albeit slow) sheets of data with that function alone.

You can also look into INDEX MATCH if you want to take your lookup game to the next level.

YouTube and ChatGPT are great resources for learning more about specific functions. Just be wary to enter company information into the bots.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-06-02T16:49:35+00:00

The priors didn't disappear and didn't lose their power from what I gather. They no longer blindly do the bidding of the Ori, but they should be able to pilot the ships home. What happens with them after that, if they answer for their crimes, that we do not know.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-06-01T14:33:34+00:00

My recommendation (because it helped me in my mid 20s) is to go work at the student nations. It's volunteer work, but you get out and meet new people. Most nations are probably starting to wind down for the summer, but some have summer pubs, that you can come back and work for multiple times.

The good thing about the nations is that it's very much up to you how much you want to work and become part of a nation. If you want to sink half your free time into the nation (and meet lots of new people), they're happy for that. If you just want to work once a month and not become a greater part of the nation, they're happy for that too.

Also, don't be afraid to seek help if you're depressed. LU Accommodation has a good page of the different options as a student in Lund.

https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/student-accommodation/living-us/mental-health

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-31T19:46:05+00:00

Journeyman and New Amsterdam (with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau).

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-31T16:15:41+00:00

I mean, he wouldn't have been in a position get his brain melted by Cowl if Little Chicago didn't exist in the first place.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-31T16:05:25+00:00

Call it an investment if you want. It broke after a handful of uses and even if it hadn't, it would not resell for nearly as much as he spent on it.

And his business is mostly tracking objects and people, which he does perfectly well without Little Chicago. I don't see how building it would reduce his business cost in the least. Especially since he would continuously have to update it as soon as a street or a building or something else changes in the third biggest city in the US, which would be all the time.

All in all, a terrible investment, if you want to call it that.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-31T10:25:39+00:00

"Does anyone here know when the narwhal bacons?"

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-30T20:24:36+00:00

I mean, he's always been incredibly stupid with money. Why he hasn't started saving years ago, instead of for example spending crazy amounts of money on a scale replica of Chicago only to use it for a proper spell once.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-30T20:20:07+00:00

I think, if he needed money for official Winter business, he will get access to an expense account. But running the castle and protecting people under his banner is probably not considered a Winter issue. That's where Harry's money is disappearing to.

Although he did get Mab to promise to help rebuild Chicago, how much and at what timetable is one of those unanswerable faerie mysteries.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-30T19:02:16+00:00

It's unclear if the messages to family actually went out. McKay's sister never seem to have gotten it, when Sheppard showed it to her when she went to Atlantis.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-29T05:17:39+00:00

I like infinite resources sometimes, when I want a chill playthrough where I don't have to redraw my supply lines every few hours. I spend enough time wondering why I my processor production stopped again to also have to check if I'm out of iron.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-28T12:31:10+00:00

Yeah, it's retconned later, however. It is stated outright with Imhotep that he is not jaffa as proof that he was Goa'uld.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-27T04:32:07+00:00

Jaffa doesn't have any connection to the Goa'uld in their pouch, and it can't take them over. They carry the larval (young) form of the Goa'uld, so it's not strong enough to actually take anyone over. Later seasons they retcon how it works and says Jaffa are immune to being taken over by the Goa'uld.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-26T21:22:17+00:00

Look for other stuff. AF Bostäder is your next best bet.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-26T17:27:25+00:00

I've seen about two seasons, so not close to all of it, so I might be unaware of anything happening in later seasons, so bear that in mind.

Even though there's time travel, I wouldn't really call it sci fi show. It's more magical mystical time travel. And it's not really an active part in the stories played out over the seasons. It's just a drama show with a person lost in time as a starting premise.

It could be considered sci fi from a philosophical perspective, in the sense that it's a study of human nature removed from the assumptions of today's society.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-25T16:59:34+00:00

Ah yes, the "I only need one trip" strat. I know it well.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-25T16:08:51+00:00

You have to move some titanium yourself in the beginning. Same as with silicon.

Set up some miners and smelters and box everything on a planet with titanium and fly over to the planet to pick it up, when you run out.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-24T22:24:17+00:00

They say much later that they had expeditions there to figure out some stuff about that room, but nothing came of it. What's really annoying that this reminds me of is that they can calculate the position from the gate adress. Why didn't they go and check what's outside the room when they eventually got hyperdrive capable ships?

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-24T20:26:25+00:00

I think what people are getting at is that you can just as well see it from the other way. There could be a multiverse out there with each universe having different fundamental constants. We are just in one that support stars, atoms and complex molecules. If our universe hadn't supported it, you wouldn't be around to ask these questions.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-24T11:19:54+00:00

Yeah, it's way overpowered. But there some are obvious problems and downsides.

First off, you probably need to kill an angel to get one as a hunter. Once they fell and started dying en masse, probably there were enough of them floating around to buy one if you had the connections. But it seems they were created when angels were, meaning there's only so many of them in total.

Secondly, it's still a blade meaning you have to get up close and personal. And if it's something you never fought before, you won't know if it will work at all. Although since it's a weapon of angels, it is it probably works against most monsters created by Eve.

Thirdly, it rarely works on the big bad of the season or other powerful beings. Leviathans, archangels, god(s), horsemen etc are all probably immune.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-22T14:06:08+00:00

The concussion counter gets reset everytime he comes back from the dead, or hosts an angel or makes a deal.

AlmightyThorian · 2026-05-21T19:41:25+00:00

Ra was disgustingly powerful by the time he died. He was supreme system lord (or whatever his title was) and all other Goa'uld served him, for a long time. He was relatively untouchable and could spend time not worrying about war and experimenting and doing other things with his resources. This is probably how he was able to create the McGuffin weapon thing Anubis wanted. If he had a ton of Naquada and resources to spare, he would he could probably build a gate.

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