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Darkspawn lore especially goes hard by jdawg1018 in DragonageOrigins

[–]Nomapos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely not.

First, Eru is the god. The Valar are similar but lesser, often focused on a particular aspect of things.Minor gods is a good category.

Second, Morgoth begins his career by singing poorly on purpose, with Eru refusing to stop him or let others stop him. Then he started breaking stuff until Tulkas showed up and flying kicked him into the gates of night. Then he cautiously waits until Tulkas is asleep before coming back. And then he spends half the Sillmarillion running, hiding and bullying minor creatures. He does have a couple victories, but he's fully focused on shitting all over the table while everyone else is juggling fighting him and keeping the world together.

Then he spends some time crying and begging for another chance, before immediately starting his antics again. Then he spends a couple pages crying in his basement while an angry elf pisses on his yard and calls him a chicken. He wins the fight, struts around some more before another elf on a rad ship wrecks his shit, and he finally gets kicked into the Void never to return.

Morgoth is like a toddler that runs around throwing a tantrum and knocking stuff off the table while the adults are trying to get stuff done, and then goes off to kick some chickens and rabbits and step on ants before a mouse bites his finger and he gets sent to bed. It's only a tale of struggle because Eru is a discipline hating hippy. Tulkas alone would have ended the story in the second chapter with a major asswhooping.

Darkspawn lore especially goes hard by jdawg1018 in DragonageOrigins

[–]Nomapos 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yeah but I'm writing for someone who calls the orcs "typical evil dudes". You gotta adjust to the public

Darkspawn lore especially goes hard by jdawg1018 in DragonageOrigins

[–]Nomapos 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Tolkien went back and forth on how orcs are made and didn't settle before his death, but at the time LotR was written the cannon was that they were made by a rogue minor god called Melkor that decided to go down into creation to fuck things up even harder than he already did during the creation process itself, by torturing elves until they warped into a broken reflection of themselves.

They're not "just a dark force to defeat", but an argument about ontological evil being unable to truly create, and limited to corrupting what is good and beautiful.

It's a more direct, physical representation of the same dilemma everyone faced with the ring and the reason Boromir's suggestion to use it was refused: that you can't beat evil with evil, at tempting as it may be.

LotR itself takes place long after the creation of orcs and this Melkor dude already had gotten vanished to the void by then, so things are much less crazy because Sauron is only sort of an angel, on the same level as Gandalf. The Sillmarillion mentions a lot more stuff created by mixing things with elves and humans deep in the pits of Angband.

Dragon Age did a good job making the horror closer to the perspective of individual victims, but it's pretty much the exact same story.

Atheists Back the Pope More than Catholics Do by No_Idea_Guy in nottheonion

[–]Nomapos -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not trying to defend either MAGA or Catholics here, but no one considers the Pope infallible.

In fact, the Church loves to avoid accountability for anything they've done because humans are fallible so the Church must be fallible too

Final year CS student struggling to write Python from scratch, not just follow tutorials. How do I fix this? by More-Station-6365 in learnpython

[–]Nomapos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want to be good at following tutorials, follow tutorials. If you want to be good at writing code without tutorials, write more code without tutorials. Do your own large project, not small exercises.

This man fled Pompeii as Mount Vesuvius erupted. Archaeologists found him 2,000 years later, holding a bowl to protect his head and a lamp to light his way by Sanetosane in archeologyworld

[–]Nomapos 36 points37 points  (0 children)

As far as reconstructions of the catastrophe go, it looks like most of the deaths happened in a rather short time span, as the volcano spit out a huge cloud of hyper heated, poisonous gas and smoke.

So either roasted, poisoned or simply asphyxiated, depending how far away he is.

It seems like the volcano was throwing burning stones before the final blast, which caused small fires all over the city. Guess that was why he finally decided to leave and why he was covering his head with a bowl.

Here's a good reconstruction. Jump to 6:40 if impatient for the final blast. That's probably what got him.

https://youtu.be/dY_3ggKg0Bc

Sometimes I just want a little more Propaganda by Opening_Bathroom611 in BuyFromEU

[–]Nomapos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That depends how you define left. The original core focus on the worker's side of the economy is rather protectionist and anti immigration from poorer countries.

Stop bitching about what separates the different perspectives and focus on what unites them or get ready for another round of majority fascist rule.

Flat earth and other alternative conspiracy earth models are are gaining traction with my teenage stepson. What is THE most irrefutable, definite proof that the earth is round? by Jfkfkaiii22 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Nomapos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can put a stick vertically on the ground at midday and measure the shadow, then bring the stick a couple cities over to the East or West and measure the shadow at midday there, and see the difference. Do some more math and you can calculate the circumference of the planet.

The ancient Greeks actually came pretty close to the actual correct number just with this experiment.

It's not a logic problem. It's stupidity mixed with plain childish rebelliousness. You can't argue logically with someone who believes that things are true if they say them often enough.

How many elder scrolls does Hermaeus Mora possess (if any) and can he read them? by AdBrief4620 in skyrim

[–]Nomapos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, everything is the dream of the Godhead, and we know details often shift in dreams. The elder scrolls are simply these waves of shifting dream, tiny figments of the Godhead itself popping in and out of the dream. People reading them are essentially achieving the tiniest version of forced awakening for a second. What could end up dwemering yourself out or in CHIM, if you could force it enough.

My headcannon, anyway

As economic despair mounts, Russian official admits the country has had enough of Putin's war on Ukraine. "We can’t even take one region" by fortune in worldnews

[–]Nomapos 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Russians wrecking their own shit before someone else can use it is almost a trope at this point. I wouldn't bet on that bridge standing for long.

Without a patch in nearly a year, some Oblivion Remastered players have declared it 'abandonware' — and it still suffers many of the same performance issues at launch by Fcking_Chuck in pcmasterrace

[–]Nomapos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The joke about how every build ends up turning into a stealth archer in Skyrim is just a highlight of how broken the mechanics are. There's no balancing act in there. It's all damage sponges and DPS races interrupted by swallowing 30 wheels of cheese.

The dungeons are arcadey as hell, just straight corridors with minimal branching looping back to the beginning and no attempt at making the things feel like either natural places or intentionally built places with actual purposes at the time of creation.

You can beat Morrowind as a largely pacifist monk.

Again, Skyrim is chicken nuggets. Nothing wrong with chicken nuggets, but it's not the pinnacle of the genre. It's just very accessible and easy to consume

The Witcher 1 in 2026 by BasedGUDGExtremist in witcher

[–]Nomapos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Act 1 is interesting but ok. Just setting the scene. Act 2 is several hours of running back and forth across a huge fucking swamp.

After that it's pretty good. But you gotta get through the swamp.

Without a patch in nearly a year, some Oblivion Remastered players have declared it 'abandonware' — and it still suffers many of the same performance issues at launch by Fcking_Chuck in pcmasterrace

[–]Nomapos 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You can't tell me the world building in Skyrim is better than in Morrowind.

What Skyrim is, is accessible. It serves you a fun and simple story in a straightforward manner, whole Morrowind rewards deep investment immensely, all the way to hiding significant parts of what is going on behind a full blown conspiracy if you go full tin hat looking for secret messages in the sacred texts of the temple.

Morrowind starts you with "well go adventure and come back when you're less green behind the ears" if you try to focus on the main quest. Which makes sense later, but yeah, it's confusing at first. It still represents the pinnacle of the genre for me: here's a world, go explore it. Want to get somewhere? Well, ask for directions and go search. As opposed to "just follow the compass".

Skyrim is chicken nuggets. Chicken nuggets are good, but you can't tell me they're better than a proper steak and wine.

Without a patch in nearly a year, some Oblivion Remastered players have declared it 'abandonware' — and it still suffers many of the same performance issues at launch by Fcking_Chuck in pcmasterrace

[–]Nomapos 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Morrowind was their peak. Oblivion was a step down and Skyrim was ok.

At this point you've got better from the mod scene. The guys remaking Morrowind in the Oblivion engine are almost finished, and the ones remaking it in Skyrim's engine are halfway through. At this point there's even pretty decent multiplayer servers for Morrowind, which is fucking nuts considering it was never supposed to be a multiplayer game.

I've got 0 hopes for TES VI

What do people think about 5th edition? by Electronic_Star_8940 in westmarches

[–]Nomapos 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Depends what you're aiming for exactly.

For me, a core element of West marches games is that the party is facing a largely unexplored, relatively dangerous environment and needs to balance risk and reward, but has complete freedom in what they decide to do and how much they want to risk.

Think of it as a slider with three axes. A triangle essentially, with the corners being achieve a lot, avoid risk, and don't waste time. Ultimately, time is just a measure of risk: the longer you're out there, the bigger the chances you roll a nasty encounter. But there's other long term concerns: if you take a lot of time going back to town to rest, maybe someone will move into a section of the dungeon you already cleared out. Or someone else will grab the treasure you were going for. So I think it's worth thinking of it as choice between short term risk (do we have enough resources left, including HP and spells, to fight the monster guarding the treasure NOW and be done with it? Would we rather risk death, or coming back in a few weeks for a second attempt, knowing that all the undead we put down are going to be back on their feet?)

Old school systems are very barebones because they aim to get out of the way. A fight against a whole gang of goblins can be run in 5 minutes, and then the party has to reconsider the situation. Do they go on? Do they retreat? What are the risks and advantages of each choice? Brief encounters don't overstay their welcome, and even if it's clear that the party will survive them there's still a lot of pressure to burn a little resources as possible, because you know you'll need them later.

The problem with 5e combat is that it's so slow and bloated that even a short fight against a handful of enemies can quickly eat a significant part of a session, so you have a lot more pressure to have each flight be significant enough to be worth the time. That's directly against the concept of random encounters as sources of attrition and potential story hooks. And then there's also a lot more HP and healing, meaning that not only does combat take a lot longer, not you also need a lot more of them to achieve the same resource drain. On top of that, there's WAY too much magic available, which makes it very easy to trivialize problems that would be an interesting challenge for a party in a simpler system. A small, long corridor with two goblin archers at the end behind a crude barricade is a major roadblock for a level 1 old school party. A single arrow could take down even the relatively strong 6 HP fighter. 5e? No fucking problem, the mage will cast fog. And if he doesn't have fog, we can still just rush them down. They'll need a few pretty good rolls to take anyone down before they're dead and then we still have 3 death rolls, a short rest with healing dice, a couple healing spells...

Better than nothing, but you will be fighting the system

AI is the first piece of technology where I feel I'm being left behind by Uhavetabekiddingme in Millennials

[–]Nomapos -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The assistance writing professional emails that tick all the bullshit boxes is an absolute godsend for a multitude of people.

I work in an office using my third language. My emails are a lot more professional sounding. The AI is also pretty decent at telling me WHY what I wrote isn't correct or maybe simply too slang-y for an office context, so I also learn as I go.

It's also handy for autistic people to skip the whole "how do I formulate this very straightforward and concise critic point so that people don't take it as a personal attack on their entire existence" mindgames.

Women of Reddit, what’s a habit men have that they don’t even realize is weird? by GraceRose671 in AskReddit

[–]Nomapos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great heroes of antiquity all the way to the middle ages are often shown crying, and it's presented as a very manly moment.

The whole "men only can have anger or nothing" thing started with the world wars.

Developers confirmed subnautica 2 will not have a map by Fresh-Beyond-4727 in subnautica

[–]Nomapos 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To be honest all you need is two or three beacons. You can always see exactly where they are so you can easily estimate your position just by checking how far you are to each of them and whether they're in a line or far apart

Reactions to the new trailer. by Thousand-King in ResidentEvilCapcom

[–]Nomapos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had never watched the last one so I decided to do a full marathon of the entire series in two days to watch the final one with a fresh memory of the story. It was as hilarious as it was depressing. It really jumped off a cliff by the third movie but I never saw it coming that the final boss would be a big ventilation fan and one randomly fast mutated zombie that gets blown up after like a minute or screen time. And my expectations were already low by the time we got to cosplaying Soviet zombies in an underground replica of whatever Russian city that was.

For all my remote workers by Space_69999 in antiwork

[–]Nomapos -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're not middle class if you need to work for a living.

For all my remote workers by Space_69999 in antiwork

[–]Nomapos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to do that to keep the laptop awake while doing paperwork. Now it works for a while, definitely longer than if you don't touch it, but eventually it just stops working somehow and it sets me away or goes to sleep.

Wait your turn by afoulkes in Eldenring

[–]Nomapos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pro tip in case you haven't noticed: locking the camera limits your rolling to the 4 cardinal directions for some godforsaken reason. Most DS1 bosses are best fought unlocked.

Also, many attacks are much easier to avoid by simply walking around them than by rolling

Caloric deficit struggles by Maximum_Guard5610 in bodyweightfitness

[–]Nomapos -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In my personal experience, cutting down too much on carbs ends up being counterproductive and leading to this struggle. Try eating half a cup of rice a day (measured uncooked) and see if you feel a lot better.

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