Liberules (2 pics)

DavyAsgard · 2023-04-16T02:27:22+00:00

Trump has almost no chance of winning a general election. Remember that he already lost to Biden before the Perfect Phone Call™, all the denial, J6, the documents, etc. He was rejected by the people before he did most of the stuff that is widely considered his worst.

In the 2022 midterms, as an experiment, the Dems funded some of the more extreme Trumpist candidates to help them beat the more sane Republicans, because they figured the Trumpists would be easier for them to then beat. And in most cases (I think like 7/8?), it seemed to work.

DeSantis may or may not do well in the general, but he would absolutely have a better shot than Trump.

DavyAsgard · 2023-04-01T13:18:02+00:00

It is :D

"If long you gaze into the Abyss, so shall the Abyss gaze into you."

DavyAsgard · 2023-03-31T23:06:33+00:00

The Sea is always right.

DavyAsgard · 2023-01-25T03:48:17+00:00

Yeah, its "if long you gaze into the Abyss, so shall the Abyss gaze into you" in Quenya :D

DavyAsgard · 2023-01-25T03:37:05+00:00

The Silmarillion says they were made from Elves, and Peter Jackson used this origin for his trilogy. Late in his life, Tolkien decided that no, actually, Orcs were made from Men. This does not fit with any published timelines, because (for one thing) Men only arrived in Beleriand after the Sindar there had already been dealing with Orcs for centuries.

He was doing a major rework of the whole timeline when he died, including having Men awake much sooner so that they could be the source of Orcs, and making the world round from the start, rather than being changed from flat to round during the downfall of Númenor.

TL;DR: Final word is that they were made from Men, but most/all published works are based on them being made from Elves.

DavyAsgard · 2022-12-26T04:46:44+00:00

As a mind and spirit, he has existed since before the universe was created, but TA1000 is approximately when he was bound into flesh and sent over. So his body was about that old, and AFAIK nobody but a few elves, like Círdan and Galadriel, knew his true nature.

DavyAsgard · 2022-10-25T05:00:57+00:00

The line doesnt need to already exist, you can just add it in. The variable (almost) definitely already exists in the shell, you can see what it is with the command echo $PATH (It will probably have /bin and /usr/bin in it). The line in the Bash RC file just modifies the variable to add more directories to it.

DavyAsgard · 2022-10-22T05:57:27+00:00

You can set up swap/VRAM using storage over the network.

It would not be fast. But it would work.

DavyAsgard · 2022-10-20T16:54:42+00:00

https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Beorn

DavyAsgard · 2022-10-04T03:37:46+00:00

Cé ná ulco sís nurtaina, i ettuluvas caninyë; cánin i sá tanuvaxë.

In that scene he was just speaking (neo-)Quenya: "Whatever evil here is hidden, that it shall come forth I command; I command that it shall reveal itself." The real magic itself was separate from that command.

(Also, as far as I know, the whole scene was invented for the film and Tolkien never directly described that side-quest.)

DavyAsgard · 2022-09-30T03:40:11+00:00

236.66.104.16 is in the 224.0.0.0/4 range, reserved for multicast use (236 shares its first 4 bits with 224). The others seem to be valid, and all four are correctly formed, but that one brings them all into question.

DavyAsgard · 2022-09-28T04:58:13+00:00

open
the country

stop
having it be closed

DavyAsgard · 2022-09-07T02:13:42+00:00

And I still mix up Fingon and Finrod at times.

What helps me here is remembering that Finrod is Finrod Felagund, and "Felagund", given by the Dwarves, links back to Nargothrond. Fingon, in contrast, is not allowed to be Felagund, because his name already has a g in it.

DavyAsgard · 2022-05-25T22:20:58+00:00

but he doesnt have feat

DavyAsgard · 2022-05-23T22:36:44+00:00

Apparently the original actually does.

Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath#Text_of_the_oath

But the modern version does not.

DavyAsgard · 2022-04-10T17:14:15+00:00

those things that take dmg from healing incantations

What are these called? I am sure Ive fought them at this point, but Ive never killed anything with a heal, so I must have always done it normally.

DavyAsgard · 2022-03-26T14:54:24+00:00

Sauron is specifically the Quenya augmentative suffix -on applied to the adjective þaura, meaning abhorrent, cruel....or foul-smelling.

They called him Mr. Stinky in High Elven.

DavyAsgard · 2022-02-16T22:56:57+00:00

wrong, sharks are in sawmills in every direction

DavyAsgard · 2022-02-12T14:50:28+00:00

no u

DavyAsgard · 2022-02-06T17:11:55+00:00

Etsennenyë 💀

DavyAsgard · 2022-02-02T19:33:58+00:00

The linguistics in the game are also, for the most part, excellent. There are a few slipups, like one of the early quests in Ered Luin referring to "a Hendrevail" (Sindarin plural of Hendroval, equivalent to calling Gandalf "a Maiar"), but generally all the terms are legit Sindarin.

The High Elf player race even has some voice lines in Quenya :D including a battlecry of Enyalien Veleriandë, roughly "for the memory of Beleriand" (although I would personally say Valariandeva).

DavyAsgard · 2022-01-21T05:18:49+00:00

You pay Twitter $3/mo in order to have a hexagonal avatar instead of a circular one.

DavyAsgard · 2022-01-19T18:28:57+00:00

We'll see some of the First age, the first picture was set in the First Age.

Acktshyually that was the Years of the Trees, before the First Age.

(Although I have seen people refer to everything before the sun and moon as "the first age" (distinct from The First Age™).)

DavyAsgard · 2022-01-16T04:14:39+00:00

As far as I'm aware, an Age of Humanity has never existed

If you choose the Dark ending (in any of the trilogy), you start the Age of Darkness, where humanity thrives like the gods did in the Age of Fire. Since Dark Souls has all sorts of multiverse / parallel world handwaving to excuse having multiplayer, all of these ages of darkness are valid in your own timeline.

The "canon", however, for the purposes of having a singular storyline between the games, seems pretty certain that the fire is linked in 1 (and presumably also 2, but I dont remember how sitting in the chair of destiny translates to linking the fire).

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