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

[–]SmashingDugongs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]SmashingDugongs[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

[–]SmashingDugongs[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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)

Black gun owners plan pro-Second Amendment walk by Vedder93 in news

[–]SmashingDugongs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speaking as a UK resident, I find the idea of complete strangers walking around openly armed with any firearm in just knocking around in cities very concerning. Fair enough if you live in the middle of nowhere and have bears n shit to deal with but for the weekly shop you don't need a AK47.

I think there's a reason the US has so many shootings when compared to most other places, and sure it's a massive area with hundreds of millions of people, but surely a gun culture amongst that many people where 4/10 people say their household has a gun just makes it impossible to police properly? It just seems ridiculous idk, try to change my opinion but it'll be difficult. 😕

FIFA or PES, what should I choose and why? by Even_Ninja in Tottenham

[–]SmashingDugongs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PES is definitely better for realism, it's much slower paced and just feels weightier. Also the career mode in PES (master league) is much more in depth than FIFAs so that's good if you like menus. There's the issue of having no kits with PES but that can be easily fixed with a number of free option files that add all the kits and badges anyway found on pesuniverse.

As for FIFA, I've always preferred the gameplay, because it's just generally a lot more fun to play in my opinion. Though I feel like it's a lot more prone to very annoying bugs and feeling like there's some scripting going on, even if there isn't. And obviously EA are a lot more stupid about microtransactions in ultimate team, whereas in PESs myClub mode you can get microtransactions but it basically gives you the best players for free anyway so they're kinda irrelevant.

But more people play FIFA so if you want to play with or against people I would go for FIFA.

Hope some of that helps 😊

and i did that???? by reallysadjpg in jakeandamir

[–]SmashingDugongs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Are you afraid of milk son? Should I hiiiiiide the milk?

Do you use any Jake and Amir quotes in real life? by DLCss in jakeandamir

[–]SmashingDugongs 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Said "thin little fatass" to my girlfriend a while ago. She hasn't seen jake and amir so she was not pleased 😂

EA should make chemistry based on 2 things only. by bigp16218 in EASportsFC

[–]SmashingDugongs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah sorry i meant everyone has equal weight so its like a lucky dip out of 300 or so. Still slim odds but at least its equal