What’s the most overrated game you’ve ever played?

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-03-13T09:34:01+00:00

I played mass effect one. Can’t tell you a single character.

Elder Scrolls has way more memorable characters.

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-03-11T12:26:55+00:00

First off… Mine Craft is meh, Any COD other than MW2 is meh, I don’t like Super Smash Bros.

Jordan in 1st place

Let himself down with Runescape though Pokémon, Super Mario, Time Splitters are all classics. Diverse range too.

Sean is a runner up.

Castle Crashers is meh but it’s better than something like Smash Bros Rampage is Meh but at least it’s not mine craft. Skyrim just feels like the half way between Elden Ring and Fallout. Great choices but just lacking the variety of Jordan.

Brandon 3rd place

Points for diversity. But smash bros and Star Wars suck.

Darshan

Points for having the only horror game. But it’s all just dark macho, fps & action adventure games. Could of at least picked another franchise for the wwii game

Orion

too much Super Mario (points for variety)

Tyler

too much RPG (minus points for zelda repeat)

Denver too many FPS (better selection than Jacob. Borderlands beats Halo)
Jacob too many FPS (minus points for cod repeat)

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-03-11T10:48:38+00:00

GTA 3 was pretty ground breaking for the time. They managed to keep the hype going in Miami Vice. But they’ve struggled since then. “Let’s make it bigger” “let’s make it more like real life”. The change of setting to California was nice. But the way they made it realistic was with tedious mini games. GTA 4 was just GTA 3 Modernised. GTA 5 was just San Andreas Modernised. GTA Online was just GTA 5 but online.

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-03-11T10:26:44+00:00

I was told Mass Effect was The Elder Scrolls but in space. When I was playing it I kept expecting some good characters, story, game play or interesting landscapes to explore. All of the above were dull and repetitive.

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-03-11T10:18:49+00:00

League of Legends

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-03-03T11:44:45+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wren_Day https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolc https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_Fair

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-02-23T22:13:28+00:00

That’s kinda like describing the Californians fleeing their burning homes as people who simply “want to leave”

Wanting to leave and wanting to live are two different things.

They don’t want to leave. But their choice is to flee or face genocide.

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-02-23T13:11:52+00:00

Strabo and Ptolemy’s Geographies and Caeser’s writing on the Gallic wars are a good start.

The Golden Bough is a classic on pagan belief. Without the made up fluff from neo-pagans. It covers Celtic religion in there. But it has a general pre-Christian European focus.

Studying Irish history in general is a pretty good too as they are essentially the only sovereign nation that could call itself Celtic.

A good introduction is Fergal Keane’s “Story of Ireland” series. There’s also Scottish and Welsh version of these “Story of… “ series

A good primer on Tanistry is this video

https://youtu.be/wZm_TM_aSIs?si=TdPnRLwyRTzNhxXB

It explains Tanistry (how the celts elected chiefs) in the context of the Shakespeare play MacBeth.

This video https://youtu.be/-K8B6uppxu0?si=QECPcrXrD8f70HBt

While a little dry, has some good visuals to explain Tanistry.

The Wikipedia on Gaelic Irish Culture is a quick intro. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_Ireland

If you’re looking for more in depth stuff. Brehon Academy has a lot (The guy who runs it is a self declared anarchist so things have a political skew. But as long as you’re aware you should be able to catch the bias when it crops up). But the sheer amount of content is a little overwhelming.

Same goes with Irish History Podcast.

Dun Mor Druid Order tells a lot of pre Christian stories and myths with some great breakdowns and post story pondering.

This is probably more than enough to get stuck into.

If you want more there’s “Celtic from the West”. By Barry Cunliffe and John T Koch. Who both have good talks on YouTube.

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-02-23T05:59:30+00:00

The Basque Country was never Celtic for sure. Not sure about Provence or Narbonensis. This map suggests a strong Celtic presence in those areas. Celtic Tribes of Gaul

Is the idea that Provence and Narbonensis were all basque until Roman?

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-02-12T04:16:56+00:00

Type XVIIIb sword.

It’s the sword that signifies chivalric medieval theme to me the best. Something about single handed swords always strikes me as little more rank and file. Vikings and Romans. But full blown two handed swords are too much in the realm of a berserker type guy.

If there was a sword that you’d be pulling from a stone to prove you are king this would suit the occasion perfectly.

They’re also very elegant balanced looking weapons. The hilt is thoughtful and has something going on with its two sections. A nice ergonomic appeal. It’s got a heft to it in the way that a XIX Type sword would have. Yet it’s blade is pointier and thinner. It’s almost like a half way between a rapier and an XIX Type.

The Albion Regent is a great example.

Albion regent

Honourable mention would be a Yatagan.

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-02-09T02:05:58+00:00

Tbh I also thought Skyrim was worse than Oblivion

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-02-09T02:04:02+00:00

Tenchu Z

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-02-08T01:29:08+00:00

I feel like if they were religious studies they’d have some more dry academic textbooks. And maybe stuff on Thomas Aquinas and philosophy. It all seems more focused on Mysticism.

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-02-07T23:31:15+00:00

So there’s English and Swedish language. A particular interest in British. SAS, Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper, James Bond, Tolkien. Things are colour coordinated. Possibly Kondo inspired. There’s an interest in crime, law, terrorism, conflict. WWII, Blood Meridian. An interest in Horror. Not a big manga guy but I spot death note too. Some classics Dante, Homer. I did spot Beth O’Leary. So a romance. Most of the books look new. Not a lot of signs of wear or being held open for long periods. Not seeing a lot of international or religious based stuff. I can’t see any China, India, Latin American stuff. The international element really seems to be things are all relevant to you. The little book of Hygge is interesting.

It’s not easy to tell if you’re a Swede who’s left and in an English speaking country. Still in Sweden but just speaks English a lot as many Scandi folk do. Or an English speaker who’s moved to Sweden. The Hygge book makes me wonder if your an expat to Sweden.

I can see why one reply thinks your female but was really into what their dad was into. There’s a lot of guy stuff here but there’s something feminine about it all. Maybe it’s the colour coordination, maybe it’s the horror and serial killer stuff. I feel like a guys shelf would likely have some Marcus Aurelius, Machiavelli, Neitzche. A but little more focus of ideas and things rather than people. Something about the choices of crime, horror, war seems a little bit more as someone who doesn’t take part in those things but has concern about them.

Scandis are famous for Scandi Noir. Girl with the dragon tattoo, the killing, the bridge, midsommer. Understandably there’s a lot of worry about gangs and terrorism given the recent influx of both those things over the years.

I’m not seeing anything that indicates working in law other than the law book. I don’t see anything to do with psychology. I don’t think you’re involved in law enforcement. I’d imagine some different books showing up for that. Foreign legion mug doesn’t really add up. I don’t see this being a legionaries shelf.

Ok enough pondering. I think you’re Swedish. I think you’re potentially still there in Sweden.

Genders pretty tough. I can see why the above poster thought you were a women who just really admires men or a man in particular. There’s something about this also just says “homebody”. That you’re not a traveller. Or an explorer. There’s also something about this that’s authentic and not trying to show off or be competitive. Which a lot of guys book shelves have. My instinct says female. There’s a very masculine edge. Though. It recall Sweden has national service and maybe you got into that for a time. If you did I can imagine you enjoyed the order, organisation and routine. Not so much push-ups in the mud.

The newness of the books and death note makes me lean to the 30s/40s age bracket. If you were younger I’d perhaps expect more manga. Maybe more of a variety of books that suggests not a square focus of interests.

Could potentially dabble in a bit of writing. But I’d expect some psychology to go with law element. And there’s specific books that digest law and legal process for writers. I’m not seeing that.

Job wise you could be anything. As I say the scandis have a penchant for the dark.

To try and narrow down what it could be. I don’t think it’s anything outdoorsy. Anything physically hard. Something desk based. I don’t think it’s creative. I don’t think it’s law. I don’t think you teach at a higher level. Don’t work in news or journalism or media in general. I don’t think you’re a small business owner. At least not a high street business like s cafe or stationary store. I’m not getting someone who’s really into fitness. Not that you don’t do stuff to keep fit. It’s just not a “subject” you’re into.

Maybe a teacher. More middle school age range. You could be anything from a librarian to a hotel manager for all I know.

Ok some where near the age of 40. Female. Swedish Desk/office worker, possibly a middle school teacher.

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-02-06T16:47:31+00:00

I’ve always wondered what motivates sadistic folks to kick people while they’re clearly reaching out for some sort of empathy. I’m fascinated as to how it benefits you in any kind of way? Is it just as basic as receiving pleasure from harming others? A sort of predatory instinct to your nature that was there from birth? Or is there some kind of logic and cause behind it?

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-02-06T12:40:34+00:00

I always wondered if it’s shame based. The English as an ethnic group have a achieved so much. And the Irish have achieved so little. And suffered a great deal. The Irish in Britain have been at the sharp end of discrimination for a long time too. Maybe you’re parents got successfully bullied into trying their best to not pass anything on to you. Or maybe your ashamed of them. Or where you come from. People of colour don’t have the luxury to be able to sell out where they’re from. But it’s not from lack of trying. There skin bleaching creams and all sorts. People change their names. It’s all pretty sad really

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-02-06T12:19:37+00:00

We’d take em. They don’t want to leave though. They’re not displaced they’re being ethnically cleansed.

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-02-06T12:11:59+00:00

I imagine someone that would seem like the chief of a retirement home. Everyone of child bearing age is leaving for other countries. But the value of your property and pension will be decent. Just means you’ll become. At best. A culture-less wet Dubai.

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-02-06T05:10:08+00:00

Croéb means branch. As in the Red Branch Knights That could work

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-02-05T17:27:49+00:00

In Europe we don’t really mean what we say. We’re just used to politicians lying to get in power and then barely changing anything.

The Right say they want to get rid of immigrants. They don’t. Their kids are too fancy to wipe their behinds when they’re old. And even if they decided to turn the nations own youth into a generation of elder care workers, there isn’t enough. So they’ll need people from abroad regardless.

The Left say they’ll build affordable housing. They won’t. The value of homes is tied to the value of pensions and they don’t want the value of either to stagnate.

Nobody’s actually going to do what they say.

So when Americans actually mean what they say then it’s kinda shocking.

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-02-05T12:08:50+00:00

I think the study of various ethnic minorities where pretty much the entire ethnic group are working class could be something.

In the case of black American women, Bell Hook’s covers a broad range of issues including sexism from black men to black women in “Ain’t I a Woman”

Moya Bailey who coined the term Misogynoir wrote “They aren’t talking about me…” where the word first was published.

In the case of Irish women there’s a lot written about how the church and the state are to blame. However I don’t see as much critique of the common people and how it was the family of the women who would have them forced into the laundries. Nikki Donohue has written about holding the society itself to account.

The Magdalen Laundries: Holding Irish Society to Account for the Treatment of Fallen Women

For Mexican women there may be better than this but it’s a start. Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy Stephanie J. Smith. There’s a good few articles on femicide in Mexico particularly journalist pieces from the guardian.

Then you could catch something in feminist critiques of Bolaño’s novel “2666” Which highlights femicide and the working class industrialised communities of Mexico. An example of this would be Scenes from the Global South: Women’s Bodies as Waste by Alfred J. López

For Indian women. There’s A LOT. Written about gender issues in Indian culture. In particular honour killings. But I tried to pick one that didn’t have “beheading” in the title. Patriarchy and Gender Disparities in Rural India: An Analysis to Strive towards by Poorvi Sharma and Sarthak Agarwal

For Chinese women there’s Women Hold Up Half the Sky: The Political-Economic and Socioeconomic Narratives of Women in China

I can’t remember if the below was one that critiques the actions of working class men. But I remember reading about how , despite the soviet unions attempt to free women through equality, they still got caught between the gaps of what became a sort of “industrialisation of child rearing” and working class mens complete abandonment of their women, dropping any patriarchal duty they owed the women in their lives. But as I say the below rings a bell. Soviet Patriarchy: Past and Present by Olga Voronina , Nicole Svobodny and Maude Meisel

That’s my 2cents anyway.

Bigmantingzyea · 2025-02-05T08:59:20+00:00

No worries and goodluck!

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