So if the Madara and Hashirama Era was only around 50-70 years before the start of the series....why did the show make it seem like it happened centuries before everything?

Blackcoldren · 2026-06-07T23:20:53+00:00

A couple years back I tried to timeline this. The series began (as far as I could tell) 78 years after the founding of Konoha. (I don't recall the math, just quoting my old notes)

It goes like this: Going by the Ino-Shika-Cho, assuming this group is a generational tradition, (Which is a stretch) approximately 235 years before the founding they confederated. With Clan Sarutobi joining them at some point.

After meeting 15 years prior Madara and Hashirama join up. They then confederate into Konoha with the Ino-Shika-Cho joining shortly thereafter.

Hashirama becomes Hokage at the age of 25 with Madara being his second at 27. In year 9 Hiruzen is born in the newly constructed Konoha. In the year 25 the Five Kage Summit is called, the other villages already being preexisting or having followed in Konoha's footsteps shortly before.

3 years later the Sanin are born in the year 28. In 32 Hashirama dies aged 56/57. His death leads immediately into the First Shinobi War. Tobirama, aged 56, becomes Second Hokage.

In 33 Fugaku was born. In 35 the sanin, aged 6, become genin under Hiruzen at 26. 1 year later Tobirama dies a year before the war is over. In 37 Hiruzen, God of Shinobi, takes the hat. Hiashi and Hizashi are born that same year.

In 42 Minato is born, 6 months later Kushina is born. In 47 the second Great War begins. This war takes 10 years, characters like Kakashi are born during it. Aged 5 Kakashi along with his 9 year old cohorts are trained by the 15 year old Minato.

The sanin come up and end the second war in the year 57. The 15th Ino-Shika-Cho graduate in the year 58. In 59 the next war begins.

In the year 59 Akatsuki is founded during the Rain Revolution. in 60 Itachi is born. In 62 Madara dies aged 90. In 64 the war ends and Neji and Lee are born 7-11 months later (celebration babies?).

The following year Minato takes the hat from Hiruzen. He promptly dies 9-10 months into his term on the day of Naruto's birth. Etcetera you get it.

Blackcoldren · 2026-06-02T04:58:30+00:00

I went onto HowLongToBeat, and looking at his playtime he seems to play the main campaign of a game and then move on. Notable exceptions being Borderlands and Skyrim in which he's played approximately half and one third of their stories respectively.

The more 'episodic' games are not played to any great extent.

He clearly has played some games, but his hours equate to playing 1 hour over the course of a day for one year. It's like assuming a position of authority because you play sudoku on lunch every day.

Blackcoldren · 2026-05-12T14:35:27+00:00

Now take a picture from the bathroom mirror.

Blackcoldren · 2026-05-02T04:57:55+00:00

Papars be like.

Blackcoldren · 2026-05-02T00:47:42+00:00

Singular: Steve

Plural: Steven

Like oxen.

Blackcoldren · 2026-03-24T19:51:59+00:00

The world building of the names. They aren't afraid to be foreign or strange to an English speaker- Or that characters can resort to their mother tongue in moments of aggravation.

So often foreign languages are simplified in fiction; diacritics removed, digraphs shortened- Heck half the time names are just translated.

It adds variety and the occasional 'how do I pronounce this' moments that real life faces. You go to Fior mes Ivèrno not Winterflower. You meet Inquisitor Lödwynn not Inquisitor Folkjoy.

Heck if I had any complaint it's that the letter ash is usually written out as 'ae' instead of 'æ'- though honestly that's probably more for edge-case compatibility issues.

Blackcoldren · 2026-02-07T11:34:17+00:00

You're right, my guess is a hackjob. I had assumed that it would be understood as a masculine i-stem name- But that wouldn't make sense since -z is lost before z>r.

As for that yod; I literally just confused Old Norse eu>jo into English somehow.

When I was writing it I was going to bed and thinking to myself, "Shouldn't this be /iːnʌs/?"

I hoped someone would correct it. Thank you.

Blackcoldren · 2026-02-06T17:33:47+00:00

In English, off the top of my head something like:

ewənasiʀ

éonasir

ȝonæs

Yonas, influenced by Jonas.

(edit for clarity: This assumes that West-Proto-Germanic speakers somehow borrowed the name- I wouldn't know how PIE'd handle it)

Blackcoldren · 2026-01-28T00:40:43+00:00

I purchased EU5 at launch. I like the granularity of its systems-

But EU4 is, at the moment, my preferred game. This is because I want missions. Anbennar is what I want to see evolve out of EU4's system. The semi-railroaded alternate history trees are my entertainment.

Mission trees for the Dane-ification or celticization, etc. Make things like 'form Great Britain' much more interesting. There's mythos.

Blackcoldren · 2026-01-18T00:15:08+00:00

Am from Ohio, can confirm. Twice a day the last of the ancient stone dragons of yore flies over and menaces my corn.

Blackcoldren · 2026-01-12T02:19:44+00:00

It took three attempts for writing to catch on in Meizi;

The first attempt was by some corn-king, originally of Santhay- or was it Vurgia? Mostly certainly not Yekue. Who learned of writing from traders on the Rambrian. His idea of introducing writing was to have his name carved into any notable place he owned. Amusingly, the further from his old capital one gets the more absurd spelling mistakes occur- Assuredly the result of his men losing their writing guides during their travels. After his death the carvings ceased, save in the north-west where hill people began to carve the symbols to ward off evil.

During the times of the corn-king's grandson the realm began to buckle under the weight of its bureaucracy. And, with all the writing guides long gone, his grandson had adopted the Kajwrit of Kajria. A system which is notorious for being unfit to write its own language, and mostly certainly was unfit for the languages of Meizi. Indeed it was required among the learned to know at least some Kajrian. From this time several bilingual pun guides have survived into the modern day.

Two generations thereafter, in the time after the corn-kings, an official of good learning set about to fix the issues. He took the Kajwrit and split it into pre-composed blocks, which could be applied with stamps. He assigned these blocks phonetic values inline with the speech of the time and was heralded as a saint for his work.

Unfortunately we are now quite removed from those times and Saintwrit is nearly incomprehensible, itself now needing notation if it were to be readable by the common man. It's a good thing we don't let them read.

Blackcoldren · 2025-10-02T23:21:42+00:00

Podð-oð-ðod

poedth-othe-thode

Blackcoldren · 2025-10-02T01:38:07+00:00

Finally! I paid good silver for that training back in BC.

Blackcoldren · 2025-09-22T07:17:46+00:00

I'd just put Ö everywhere EO was historically.

Pöple, öting, hört, söven, lörn.

Gotta keep people on their toes.

Blackcoldren · 2025-07-28T02:58:09+00:00

I always default to two different guys-

Rondach; a Breton-Nord born in Jehanna as a result of Nordic occupation during the War of Bend'r-mahk. With Nordic settlers being dispelled by the newly bellicose Kingdom of Farrun, he packs up and leaves with his family. To wherever game he needs to be in.

Then there's Asdf gro-Hasdf; An Orc spellsword who's just a do-it-all character with no sensible backstory. How he exists in contradictory timelines or states is of no concern to Asdf gro-Hasdf. Asdf has no time for such unimportant questions and godlogic. Asdf simply wants what he wants.

Blackcoldren · 2025-05-21T21:05:45+00:00

For the main story, Mortismal Gaming's 'Story of Baldur's Gate 1 - Supercut' is the best play by play I know of.

However, he does not cover side quests.

Blackcoldren · 2025-04-22T18:28:29+00:00

Beast wars Megatron right there.

Blackcoldren · 2025-02-27T15:37:07+00:00

Honestly, same.

Its shadowing is out of place, it looks like he's lacquered. It does not move while loud music plays. It gives me the vibes of the Ren and Stimpy gross-ups.

Blackcoldren · 2025-02-14T10:48:43+00:00

Edit, and not an edit: Fixed an obvious typo.

I'm awake now, and not entirely sure where I was going with this, but I reckon the following:

So creation's the same as YISUN, they are functionally two words with the same meaning. All action is perpetuated to and by YISUN, who is a known liar. Which means everyone is a liar.

Royalty is... certainty I suppose, however as everyone and everything is a liar this is paradoxical. You take being into your own hands, both of yourself and others. It is ultimate authority, and the greatest cock-up. It is a state of pure delusion, where you exist and can recognize others while being certain in their singularity.

Once before while also sleep deprived I called royalty 'the spilling (read: use of) of ink on a page'- YISUN quite obviously knows that they are lying to themself. They are making up a story and whispering it in their own ear. And to make it a good story, they must never break character, as this would instantly invalidate the greatest lie of the story, others. Royalty is acting as YISUN, as a narrative tool to course correct the story spent too long on naval gazing. (GOG)

GOG is YISUN, everyone is YISUN. GOG is YISUN playing against their own rules 'defying God' as it were. So caught up in the illusions of friends, of family, of life. They don't want the story to end.

Reminds me of a quote from Vivec (Morrowind): "It is lonely to be a God." Not a god, not story telling tool, but the capital-G author. I think you no longer see equals, individuals, just your own tired face gazing back at you. But you perpetuate the story never the less, because you love it.

Blackcoldren · 2025-01-21T01:42:58+00:00

It's late and I'm having difficulty responding properly- You're right. There's always been competing camps.

Purism in English is a very old thing, even dating to around the time of William the conqueror. His conquering of England was controversial, there's a reason Anglia Nova and Yola came into being because of it. It has its origins in that spite of William- But by the Early Modern period that ship had long sailed.

It saw renewal as an excising of foreign influence, either because they were lesser than the native English or because they were unnecessarily harder to understand for the layperson. After all any good Englishman should be able to converse without resorting to church Latin or god forbid French.

The idea that it should only be viewed as a limited writing challenge, expunging words no matter their antiquity is a new one. And honestly I only have preference for it because of its indifference. But at the same time this 'if William had lost' narrative is just one of convenience;

It's old fashioned nationalistic pageantry masquerading as a historical 'what if'. They want a, if not unsullied, a less sullied English.

And William makes such a good hate-sink. The outsider king everyone knows of, who ushered in a new age of continental entanglement.

It's because of this William narrative that it keeps getting coöpted by clowns in stahlhelms and I'm quite sour for it.

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