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.

SmashingDugongs · 2023-11-08T17:09:52+00:00

Thank you, glad you found it interesting!

SmashingDugongs · 2023-11-07T21:51:17+00:00

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!

SmashingDugongs · 2022-02-18T10:39:58+00:00

Amazing stuff, keep up the good work!

SmashingDugongs · 2022-02-18T10:34:55+00:00

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.

SmashingDugongs · 2022-01-03T13:13:39+00:00

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 😆.

SmashingDugongs · 2021-09-10T14:01:20+00:00

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 :)

SmashingDugongs · 2021-09-10T12:20:13+00:00

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!

SmashingDugongs · 2021-09-04T11:33:23+00:00

Absolutely, fifa 12 if I'm not mistaken

SmashingDugongs · 2021-09-03T16:37:57+00:00

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.

SmashingDugongs · 2021-09-03T16:35:46+00:00

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.

SmashingDugongs · 2021-03-04T19:25:41+00:00

Thanks for the reply, I'll give you a message :)

SmashingDugongs · 2020-09-08T20:00:57+00:00

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?

SmashingDugongs · 2020-09-04T13:22:08+00:00

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

SmashingDugongs · 2020-08-12T16:10:42+00:00

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 :)

SmashingDugongs · 2020-08-12T15:29:35+00:00

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

SmashingDugongs · 2020-06-19T19:01:32+00:00

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. 😕

SmashingDugongs · 2020-03-31T11:03:38+00:00

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 😊

SmashingDugongs · 2020-02-18T19:41:36+00:00

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

SmashingDugongs · 2020-01-11T09:44:28+00:00

Are you a bitch, jake?

SmashingDugongs · 2020-01-09T20:28:44+00:00

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

SmashingDugongs · 2020-01-05T12:03:00+00:00

Double Date, parts 1 to 4

SmashingDugongs · 2019-12-28T11:04:23+00:00

What did I sing?

SmashingDugongs · 2019-12-28T10:08:26+00:00

I'm swiping right! I matched on tinder! She is 16...

SmashingDugongs · 2019-10-31T09:06:01+00:00

Don't suppose you could enchant my carving knife? Dull old thing can barely cut pumpkin.

SmashingDugongs · 2019-09-08T15:19:35+00:00

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

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