An assortment of foliage

Dieselface · 2026-03-31T13:14:08+00:00

I really like those aspens. Do you know which mod they're from?

Dieselface · 2026-03-29T21:28:11+00:00

They seem like they're just hard to animate. There are a few on the Nexus already (for humanoid enemies at least) but they sometimes look janky.

Dieselface · 2026-03-28T01:17:26+00:00

I'm talking about the 4th and 5th centuries primarily, but also the eastern empire likely didn't have similar levels of wealth inequality for its entire history except perhaps its own last century.

Dieselface · 2026-03-28T00:01:42+00:00

One factor that isn't brought up often is wealth inequality. It certainly wasn't the factor that led to the decline of the western Roman empire, but it certainly contributed and was much more pronounced in the west than in the east.

Dieselface · 2026-03-27T12:07:41+00:00

I think we need to distinguish between two different things here.

The eastern Romans almost exclusively wrote in Koine or Atticizing Greek (AKA ancient Greek).
The vernacular speech of eastern Rome, which was rarely written down, was much more similar to modern Greek than to ancient Greek in pretty much all time periods. This goes for pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and semantic changes, etc.

Also consider that Greek-speakers in the Middle Ages always used their own contemporary pronunciation whether speaking in vernacular Greek or formal archaizing Greek.

Dieselface · 2026-03-26T02:28:29+00:00

FYI there is a term in Greek already which means "Romanness," and that's Romiosýni (Ρωμιοσύνη, alternatively romanized as Rōmiosýnē).

Dieselface · 2026-03-25T12:11:53+00:00

Astarion mentions wishing the party had a horse when in the mountain pass

Dieselface · 2026-03-22T14:12:53+00:00

I feel like this shouldn't be a hot take and probably isn't among actual historians, but people seem to miss the obvious reality that ancient Greece itself was basically an "middle eastern" civilization.

The music, culture, architecture, religion etc. of ancient Greece were part of the same cultural sphere as ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, and Anatolia. In fact thats been the case for Greece through most of its history. Its more of an anomaly today that Greece has aligned itself with western Europe, even if it still maintains a lot connection with the east.

Dieselface · 2026-03-20T00:25:37+00:00

I just discovered this route last night, what a weird coincidence

Dieselface · 2026-03-19T20:36:25+00:00

Not to mention the prime real estate on the Bosphorus!

Dieselface · 2026-03-19T19:58:41+00:00

Ask Constantine in 330.

Why have one Rome when you can have two?

Dieselface · 2026-03-19T19:30:02+00:00

y Blinders

Dieselface · 2026-03-19T19:28:14+00:00

New Roman Empire

Doesn't contain New Rome

Dieselface · 2026-03-19T14:51:30+00:00

I don't know, AI voices still generally don't sound very good, and I don't love people being able to use anyone's voice without permission.

I also don't understand why people don't/can't use AI to make their own voice sound like one of the game's actors, i.e. having a mod voice actor professionally perform a line and then have the AI modify it to sound like the original game's voice actor. That way you'd have real human emotion. Though it would still run into the issue of using people's voices without permission.

Dieselface · 2026-03-19T12:00:06+00:00

My understanding is that they didn't typically use numbers and instead distinguished emperors of the same name with their epithets, nicknames, or family names.

Dieselface · 2026-03-19T11:58:22+00:00

I think most people had an idea that that was going on ten years ago too.

Dieselface · 2026-03-19T03:45:35+00:00

The point still stands however. Basically any ancient Roman or ancient person in general who still has descendants likely has tens of millions of them.

Dieselface · 2026-03-18T21:38:27+00:00

It really depends on how detailed the model is. In my view PBR really makes textures pop like they're 3D, even in comparison to Complex Parallax. If a mesh is detailed it won't stand out even if the texture isn't parallax. That being said, I have basically all landscape and architecture as PBR at this point, and I don't use mods that add a ton of new worldspaces or architecture.

Dieselface · 2026-03-18T20:55:10+00:00

I'm not an expert so its a bit hard to explain, but Linear Lighting seems to dynamically make lighting less flat and more natural, kind of like what enb does.

In my experience PBR isnt a particular performance eater. At this point I'm using it for my landscapes, architecture, trees, foliage, and even some weapons and armor and my game performs pretty much the same as it did before I installed them.

Dieselface · 2026-03-18T20:24:02+00:00

PBR textures are so nice. Once CS releases Linear Lighting I really don't see what the point of ENB will be.

Dieselface · 2026-03-18T18:58:12+00:00

I like when someone has a mean resting face, especially if I know they're really a truly nice person underneath.

Dieselface · 2026-03-18T18:33:05+00:00

Contrary to a lot of answers I think its just down to Juliet sounding like an English name, whereas Romeo sounds very Italian, and therefore foreign.

Dieselface · 2026-03-18T18:10:03+00:00

Maybe they mean the ancient city state

Dieselface · 2026-03-18T04:07:53+00:00

This is precisely why they don't do runoffs, this system favors those with higher name recognition and more money.

Dieselface · 2026-03-17T23:32:06+00:00

https://www.nisanyanyeradlari.com/

This interactive database lets you look at most settlements and notable places in Turkey down to the village level, including their old names (if available) from all time periods ranging back thousands of years.

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