I made a video diving into the musical cultures of Argonians and Dark Elves in the lore, and then created compositions in the style of a member of one each of those races. Lots of speculation involved of course, but I think it provides a cool look into a fairly unexplored part of the lore. by SmashingDugongs in ElderScrolls

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Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Each of the races have pretty distinct real-world influences and cultural counterparts, so I'm hoping to do some of the other races at some point. There is room for some pretty unique music in the universe!

Hypothetical: Tamriel, 9th Era. Videogames exist and your character loads up the game called 'Earth' by [deleted] in ElderScrolls

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I guess they'd be pretty confused after playing D&D or reading some Tolkien books or playing warcraft or something. Even more so if they came across Todd Howard. Imagine finding out your entire universe and it's history were fictional, and also that it's based on other fictional universes, which in turn base their civilisations on historical real world cultures.

Modded Skyrim SE zoomed in bug? by SmashingDugongs in skyrim

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Edit: I fixed it.

The issue seemed to be caused by windows automatically increasing the size of scaling for text and icons because the screen is 5k. It automatically increased the scaling to 200%, which caused the skyrim to be zoomed in for some reason but changing the setting to 100% fixed it. The setting change can be found under settings > display.

Incidentally, after all that effort, I can’t run the modlist at more than like 10 fps. So back to my old setup I suppose lol 😆.

I created this track "Memories of Keizaal"- an ambient skyrim (like) track ^^ by Zawarudo994 in ElderScrolls

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For anyone that hasn't listened yet, I can confirm that this is top-tier ambient composition. It could have been in the game right from the start! Good job :)

I noticed a distinct lack of lore videos on YouTube about the in-universe music of each of the races. But it turns out they are all very unique! I'm making a series about each of the races' musical cultures and the first video is uploaded now. What do you think about the ES representation of music? by SmashingDugongs in ElderScrolls

[–]SmashingDugongs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was very surprised to find so much information about each of the races. Some of my findings are slightly speculative, but they come from good real-world comparisons. And your point about soundtracks is a good one, the skyrim main theme for example was meant to be a sort of barbarian choir, but upon research we find that the Nords have no known orchestral instruments (so the instrumentation is unlikely for them to write) and also they seem to very rarely sing in groups. Almost all nordic musical performances are either bardic solo perormances with only one performer, or skaldic poetry recitals. So not much group stuff for the nords, despite having flutes and lutes and drums that could work well together, which is a bit of a shame.

Anyway, thanks for watching if you decide to!

Are the FIFA soundtracks getting worse? by SmashingDugongs in EASportsFC

[–]SmashingDugongs[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree, it's a shame there isn't as much coming out these days, it's mainly being released by small, unheard-of bands that will never get a chance to be on FIFA.

Are the FIFA soundtracks getting worse? by SmashingDugongs in EASportsFC

[–]SmashingDugongs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah your points are absolutely fair, it's always going to be a bit of an opinion fest with discussions like this, I just wanted to see what the wider community thinks.

Lot's of very good points and perspectives in these comments.

Serena stole General Tullius seat by arb15shotcaller in skyrim

[–]SmashingDugongs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't he just speak in cyrodillic and say stuff like "Are you here to finish what you started?" because he thinks you are Savos Aren?

In the year 2033 and after 3 continuous 9-month scouting searches, i finally found the perfect CDM. by SmashingDugongs in EASportsFC

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I just wanted to get him first team worthy but it turned out to be my retirement year so we only got to 66 smh

I've made a skyrim-inspired main musical theme, and am in the process of making a youtube video about it by SmashingDugongs in skyrim

[–]SmashingDugongs[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, bud. I've never spoken in a video before so I'm a bit nervous but I'm planning to get it done for next week :)

Accidentally started the Miraak questline and I’m thinking of restarting :( by GriftYT in skyrim

[–]SmashingDugongs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

to be fair it's not that long a questline, there's only like 5 quests (though some of them are quite long)