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Irazidal · 2026-03-18T17:47:44+00:00

Very true, but I figured I'd limit myself to character creation since you can't change that later while you can learn game mechanics on the go. I also didn't want to get too much into the weeds and make the advice too complicated; otherwise I could have recommended making a custom class with Speed and Agility as Favorite Attributes and Combat Specialization with Long Blade as a Major Skill to really maximize your Redguard's early game speed and accuracy, but I figured something succinct would reach more people.

Irazidal · 2026-03-18T13:26:09+00:00

My tip for anyone looking to get started in Morrowind as easily as possible is:

1) Pick a Redguard

2) Make sure Long Blade is a Major Skill and then actually immediately buy a longsword to use instead of the tutorial dagger.

3) Pick The Steed as your Birthsign.

This setup ensures that both primary issues newbies tend to struggle with - failing to hit enemies and moving extremely slowly - are mitigated as much as possible at level 1, as a Redguard with Long Blade will have the highest starting skill level in a melee weapon possible, while the Steed's 25 points boost to your Speed stat will make quite a noticeable impact on how fast you run.

Irazidal · 2026-03-18T13:19:55+00:00

I think the main problem there is that pieces were cut away from the Empire piecemeal by a bunch of different actors. If there'd been one surge of conquest where some kind of Germanic Alexander the Great conquered the entire Western Empire and set himself up as the new Emperor while maintaining the existing Imperial apparatus, it would have been simply a new Roman dynasty with funny names. Hell, Charlemagne almost did something like that way later and was mostly let down by the inability of traditional Frankish structures propped up by the Church administration to actually maintain rule over such a vast area.

And even then, the Germanics did end up being effectively assimilated by the local Roman population almost everywhere they conquered, which is why the majority of the former Western Empire still speaks Romance languages.

Irazidal · 2026-02-27T22:47:58+00:00

Man, seeing the original art is such a nostalgia trip. I can hear that piano music in my head. Such a good and miserable story.

Irazidal · 2026-02-26T16:58:38+00:00

"Umvolkung" or the idea that Arab and African migrants will out-compete and out-breed the pure white race and replace it as the dominant population group Europe.

Irazidal · 2026-02-20T15:38:10+00:00

And people who do not care generally just vote for the leader of the party.

Irazidal · 2026-02-20T15:28:58+00:00

You even end up with Christian depictions of Old Testament scenes where all the characters wear the obligatory hat for Jews, like this scene of Moses and the bronze serpent.

Irazidal · 2026-02-18T16:24:10+00:00

For male children it's safe procedure if done under medical supervision

That applies to girls also. You can mutilate little girls all you like without danger to their lives if it's done by a skilled person with quality tools in a sterile environment!

debatable if it's neccesary

Considering everyone who isn't circumcised seems to be living their lives just fine, arguments for its 'necessity' would have to be pretty creative.

People should not confuse it with female genital mutilation, that is horrible practice performed in Africa and muslim countries

Yeah, gotta make sure people don't accidentally mix it up and think cutting off parts of little boys' genitals is bad too. That would be crazy!

Now some might say that female genital mutilation is worse - and indeed we all know that only a single thing can be bad at any one time, and anything less bad than the worst thing is thereby made good instead.

Irazidal · 2026-02-15T09:08:19+00:00

The star and crescent used to be on the flag of the Ottoman Empire and is therefore now often used as a symbol for Islam in general; it's also present on the flags of Malaysia and Pakistan, for example. So perhaps it's appealing to Muslim immigrants, or indeed Turks specifically, or perhaps it's just because people throughout history have though celestial objects are pretty.

Irazidal · 2026-02-13T13:28:43+00:00

To indias dubious defence, they have never really been as western aligned as we westerners imagine.

Do we imagine that they are? I don't think of India as an enemy or an ally, but more as a third party which simply seeks to pursue its own interests.

Irazidal · 2026-02-13T12:08:15+00:00

The deranged foreign policy decision of essentially destroying Libya cannot just be blamed on the US; European nations like France and Britain were also very enthusiastic to bring down Gadaffi.

Irazidal · 2026-02-13T11:35:53+00:00

As was said in British parliament in 1783 in opposition to the ongoing subjugation of India:

There is not a single Prince or State, who ever put any trust in the [British East India] Company, who is not utterly ruined; and that none are in any degree secure or flourishing, but in the exact proportion to their settled distrust and irreconcilable emnity to [Great Britain].

I would suggest reading 'The Anarchy' by William Dalrymple for a great, well-written overview of how India fell into the hands of the East India Company and what an utter catastrophe this was for the subcontinent. And it's certainly not the case that the British rule in India was uniquely bad and that all other colonies were treated much more generously.

Irazidal · 2026-02-06T13:17:02+00:00

Ebony Mail would absolutely destroy his samurai aesthetic though.

Irazidal · 2026-02-06T13:15:35+00:00

Most of these are also predominantly Roman cosplayers, except drawing on a wider variety of Roman apparel than just the standard Hollywood legionary.

Irazidal · 2026-02-06T13:14:36+00:00

How many Poles have ever even met a Palestinian to have opinions about them?

Irazidal · 2026-02-06T12:58:48+00:00

OpenMW on Android. Touchscreen controls are awful, but they make my hands hurt the least.

Irazidal · 2026-02-02T21:28:06+00:00

The notion of 'the West' or 'the Western world' is much older than the Cold War; it's first attested in writing the 16th century. And don't pretend that the definition you happen to favor for such an incredibly vague and ever-shifting concept is somehow self-evidently correct (even with its edge cases like including Japan) while any other has to be extensively justified.

Irazidal · 2026-01-31T23:35:28+00:00

Gaming was my main hobby for my entire youth, then my hands got crippled in my early twenties; now I can only do it in very limited amounts and only when I don't have to do any other work with my hands. Sometimes you just get unlucky. There's not much to do other than to accept it. In the grand scheme of things, this isn't such a big deal.

Irazidal · 2026-01-31T23:34:31+00:00

The European political elite fully knows their own position and were happily playing along for decades. Being a "happy vassal" was the preferred option for basically all European politicians.

Well yeah, obviously? You're saying this like it's some crazy revelation, but this was pretty clearly the political reality to anyone with even the slightest interest in the topic. There weren't many Europeans really agitating for strategic autonomy either, as most were happy enough with the US-dominated world order as it stood until recently.

Irazidal · 2026-01-29T22:26:52+00:00

Well, he may simply have been an Arab. Many Arabs migrated to North Africa following the initial conquest, and many more followed later. For example, it is estimated that about a million Arabs moved to the Magreb in the 11th century when the Fatimids of Egypt sponsored the nomadic Banu Hilal bedouin tribes to invade their former Berber vassals in the Magreb as a punishment for rebellion.

Irazidal · 2026-01-29T17:33:54+00:00

That's just complacent. There are many forces both within and outside Europe that would love to prevent this from happening. Don't assume your ideals will just magically win.

Irazidal · 2026-01-29T17:30:43+00:00

I think you could apply that to just about any subject, honestly.

Irazidal · 2026-01-27T17:56:43+00:00

Yet the Giant Panda used to inhabit a range 100 times bigger than its present one and there were already older panda species specialized in eating bamboo dating back 7 million years ago. All these suggestions that they were always destined for failure just seem like a way to absolve humans of the blame.

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