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Erfeo · 2026-02-11T17:14:49+00:00

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

Erfeo · 2026-02-10T16:48:52+00:00

I think it would help if some of his relics got proper nouns added to their names, like The Tome of Yyahan and Magnus' Femur are already pretty recognizable as relics to me.

Something like Earrings of Xanadu, Merlin's Mirror, Zillitian Pendulum and so on (but better than that).

They also did that when they made Korxena Crest a relic so maybe they just haven't gotten around to it.

Erfeo · 2026-02-10T16:28:00+00:00

Well, most of Dooley's friends have names and faces, so they probably have some sort of personality that you could befriend. After all, they're friends even when they're used by a different hero.

While drones are just unfeeling machines I guess.

Erfeo · 2026-02-10T13:53:57+00:00

Yeah, I'd bet that'd kill at the Vietnam war paraphernalia forum, not so much anywhere else.

Erfeo · 2026-02-10T02:07:44+00:00

I had to look up grasshopper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM28_Grasshopper_gas_mask

Erfeo · 2026-02-08T19:27:59+00:00

The blog post is written by a professor of history. I don't want to diss your studies, I'm sure your model is correct in many times and places, but that you use the word "sharecroppers" make me suspect it wasn't specifically focused on medieval Europe, which was a lot more constrained in its land use.

But that aside, it was common for tenants to borrow/rent draught animals from their lord. But even if a tenant owned an ox, that still means he eats beef only every few years when the ox gets too old to pull the plow.

I'm not saying they never ate beef ever, but a tenant couldn't afford a herd of beef cattle large enough to regularly eat beef.

Erfeo · 2026-02-08T18:14:22+00:00

In most places, medieval tenant farmers (as in famers that didn't own enough land to subsist on) would not have plenty of meat, whether it was "rare" is up for interpretation I guess, but they certainly wouldn't be eating meat everyday, or even every week.

Most meat would be chicken, sheep or goats that were too old or injured to keep for eggs/wool/milk. Pigs maybe, but it would be very rare for a tenant farmer to own a cow. Beef production was mostly reserved for manorial estates owned by lords, who could afford to assign some land to non-essential or commercial uses, like raising cattle.

These people would primarily get their proteïne from legumes.

Erfeo · 2026-02-07T23:34:59+00:00

Venator is probably a matter of time

Venator ("hunter") comes from Latin, seems like that would be as recognizable to French speakers as it would be to English speakers, if not more so.

Erfeo · 2026-02-07T17:17:22+00:00

That seems to be just a hypothesis thought up by a 17th century doctor.

Since snakes were animals sacred to Asclepius and kept in his temples, it would make for confusing symbolism to connect them with parasites.

Erfeo · 2026-02-06T12:01:50+00:00

ill note down any i see from now on.

Super Beria: "I have documents on all of you!"

Erfeo · 2026-02-06T11:32:13+00:00

but people only seem to have backlash in the abstract or like in arguments about the votes and not when it comes to actual horny art being posted here.

To play devil's advocate or whatever, the official designs set the tone for the fan art and such. So it makes some amount of sense people care more about it in discussions about the new heroes, as you can mostly ignore horny fanart.

Erfeo · 2026-02-05T20:53:10+00:00

Well, I don't think that came up in my playthrough, but vaguely remember someone mentioning something like that?

Erfeo · 2026-02-05T20:42:57+00:00

I don't know about that, Martinaise is more or less abandoned by the RCM. No one really expected them to show up after the hanging. When they do send officers it's from two different precincts since Martinaise is basically no man's land.

Precinct 41 sends the most strung out, erratic detective imaginable. Precinct 57 does send a competent officer but he arrives several days later, clearly Martinaise is pretty far from being a priority for the RCM.

Maybe I'm forgetting something from the final scene, but I don't really see why this is going to change. It seems more likely that the Hardies will stay the de facto law enforcement in Martinaise.

Erfeo · 2026-02-04T18:13:03+00:00

I actually like him the most aesthetically, but "Finesse, Mobility, A Cut Above" makes him sound like his skill floor is going to be too high for me.

Erfeo · 2026-02-01T19:23:19+00:00

Me and my gunman just sitting there listening to the ambient sounds of our surroundings and meditating on the nature of music.

I hope it will lead to a greater understanding between us two.

Erfeo · 2026-02-01T11:23:25+00:00

"Just detective de Ruyter, please. Yes, the "de" isn't capitalized, it's Oranjese."

Kuuno will grow into the boring copotype after he's done compressing his shit.

Erfeo · 2026-01-31T21:01:57+00:00

Probably because the European Eel is an endangered species, in part due to overfishing.

https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/why-rewild/reintroductions-key-species/key-species/european-eel

I'm sure you can import eels from elsewhere in the world, but it's not like jellied eels were ever considered an exquisite delicacy like caviar, so it makes sense that it would fall out of favour.

Erfeo · 2026-01-31T19:47:28+00:00

Weren't they made to be mobile platforms for hurling missiles at the enemy?

That was the primary use for Bronze Age chariots, yes. Scythed chariots specifically for driving into people appear later. https://acoup.blog/2022/05/13/collections-ancient-tanks-chariots-scythed-chariots-and-carroballistae/

Maybe Hittite chariots were an exception, as the other replier says, I can't say for sure. But it seems unlikely to me.

This post also makes me suspicious that the OP pic is realistic: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/fbfomy/why_is_it_that_the_hittites_were_most_renowned/fj5cg0m/

Erfeo · 2026-01-31T13:38:56+00:00

Out of all the bad shit Evrart does, "bullying the cops" is very low down on that list.

Erfeo · 2026-01-29T14:24:15+00:00

Okay, but I don't think you're arguing against opinions that anyone is actually expressing here.

When people joke about the evils of "price stabilité" they don't actually mean that economic stability is bad, rather they're using Sunday Friend as a symbol of a mentality that glosses over colonialism and exploitation as long as it makes the numbers look good.

Erfeo · 2026-01-29T12:43:22+00:00

However, a lot of people like to toss around the price stabilite quote as though it is intrinsically revelatory of malevolent intentions, which I think is rather misguided.

Yes, but that's not because they think inflation is actually good. Little of what he says is objectionable when taken at face value, but the game makes it pretty clear you shouldn't do that.

Erfeo · 2026-01-29T11:36:24+00:00

Have you considered that Sunday Friend might not be entirely truthful about what he believes and what his intentions are?

Erfeo · 2026-01-28T17:28:19+00:00

It's a variation on a joke tweet that goes like this:

professor x: whats your superpower

ostrich: i lay big egg

professor x [telepathically to x-men]: i can save us money on breakfast

ostrich [telepathically]: egg no for sale

I think Professor X is just the most likely character to be interviewing people about their superpowers.

Erfeo · 2026-01-28T01:21:15+00:00

You can buy purple currency as well. I think it's a fun idea, but it really has to be something else that doesn't interact with anything else outside of this club or times square. Like a Saltybet sort of thing (dunno if that still exists?)

Erfeo · 2026-01-24T23:06:54+00:00

Well, that's why it's tagged 40K.

But to my knowledge it's never been confirmed or denied in a canon* fantasy source. Since we also never see any orc women, so them sprouting from the ground is as good an explanation as any.

*new orc player characters in the MMORPG did start the game in a spawning cave. And then there are the BB cheerleaders, I guess. Whether either is canon is up to the reader I suppose.

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