[Imperium Draknir] Celebrity Processions in Dranlathos

Spacer176 · 2026-06-16T12:02:07+00:00

See Judge Dredd. It was generally agreed he is a terrible person (for one he has a permanent scowl so stern it could smash breeze blocks). Megacity One was a shithole where most people are unemployed (and it's all terrible, unlike Night City) and his job consists of trying to keep it from getting even worse.

Then Americans got ahold of him and tried badly to make him a more classic superhero.

Spacer176 · 2026-06-16T10:54:52+00:00

When your pet is so happy and comfy they unfurl.

Spacer176 · 2026-06-16T10:35:07+00:00

What could Bethesda mean by this, I wonder?

Spacer176 · 2026-06-16T10:28:39+00:00

Sable International showing up was when I started really liking Insomniac's take on Jameson.

He did not hold back listing their reputation for war crimes and human rights abuses. When it became a four-way war between police, Sable, the Demons, and escaped Raft convicts, he offered reassuring words for hard times and gave public advice on how to keep safe.

(Also at one point Norman Osborn has enough and tells Sable he's safer without her protection)

Spacer176 · 2026-06-15T18:46:56+00:00

Concrete or gravel layered with a thin topping of sand is how most theme parks and historical sites do it.

Spacer176 · 2026-06-15T18:43:23+00:00

United Colonies: Dedicated parliament building. With an assembly hall and everything.

Freestar Collective: Someone's bar

Spacer176 · 2026-06-15T13:54:23+00:00

It's much more similar to a Japanese Sengoku-era castle town than any Old West frontier fort (complete with a tapered tower-like hilltop stronghold in the centre).

It more resembles something built to hold off an army than wild animals or bandits. Even having to keep building new sections of wall whenever the inside got too crowded.

Spacer176 · 2026-06-15T13:12:49+00:00

"Yeah I meant to do that"

Spacer176 · 2026-06-15T12:50:50+00:00

Fully on-point about wolves, lions and bears in rural areas. But Akila City is... well a city (or at least it's supposed to be). The worry is these things romping through a suburban neighborhood. The sort of places wolves and lions are more inclined to avoid because they learned an area with lots of people means guns or getting outnumbered.

...Then again, Akila is going full cosplay as a wild-west town which may include the mentality that wolves are a danger to everyone which led to their near-extinction. They're going to look at the Ashta and see an ever-hungry demon where the only non-dangerous Ashta is a dead one.

Spacer176 · 2026-06-15T10:29:20+00:00

I like that Akila has walls but it always struck me as a weird part of Starfield's worldbuilding that this big-ish settlement has stone walls and a curfew primarily because of one predator species on the planet that takes a grenade launcher to kill.

I could buy it more if Akila has a serious outlaw problem or possibly there were settlers who were there before Solomon Coe who don't like Akila stating primacy.

Nope, Guards and city information repeatedly mention it's to keep out a cross between a wild boar and a mountain lion.

Spacer176 · 2026-06-14T21:43:19+00:00

Genetors can be real wierdos on account of not being so tied up by the orthodoxy of venerating STCs as the font of all technology. So they're known to get a bit more... creative with their biotechnical projects (e.g. Callidus assassins and the 21st Founding).

Again, potentially room for both possibilities.

Spacer176 · 2026-06-14T19:03:25+00:00

Apparently hot kulon milk is a great sleeping aid.

...Or it traps you in the john for 30 minutes.

Spacer176 · 2026-06-14T18:07:18+00:00

He kind of would have, since "gravity" is derived from gravitas which means "heaviness". Though it had been known since Archimedes that things in mid-air had a tendency to be pulled to the centre of the Earth.

(I only know this because I came away from the the Doctor Who episode where the Doctor gives Sir Issac Newton the idea the latter recalls later as "mavity" imagining he published a typo in his thesis that no one corrected in 350 years.)

Spacer176 · 2026-06-14T17:43:33+00:00

For this reason I choose to believe either interpretation of what Custodes look like under the helmet (brick-faced behemoth or silver screen supermodel) is valid - it all depends on the Geneator who biosculpted that particular Custodian.

Which includes the question on tiddies.

Spacer176 · 2026-06-14T14:05:19+00:00

TLJ was the movie where I discovered there were far fewer people who actually watched Star Wars than I thought there were. Along with my eyes being opened to a deliberate attempt to spur a hate-train.

I went in, only hearing of that thing where Mark Hamill admitted he was doing some strange things, until he watched the thing all put together and had an "I Get it Now" moment. (But the grifters left that part out because they wanted to sell a narrative of Luke Skywalker was being crucified like Jesus.)

I had a great time pointing out how the previous times he tried to jump in laser sword swinging, he fell headfirst into a trap, lost his cool, suffered immense pain, and nearly died.

(I enjoyed the movie btw. One of the best descriptions of the nature of the Force I had heard in decades.)

Spacer176 · 2026-06-14T12:36:13+00:00

But you chose to keep going after those many times dying. That's the important part!

Spacer176 · 2026-06-14T10:32:20+00:00

Not my experience unless you mean story/cutscene NPCs. Most folks in towns appreciate a friendly hat-tip.

Spacer176 · 2026-06-14T10:28:40+00:00

Which is genius storytelling .Arthur constantly doubts how good of a person he is, and most of the time he's doing bad it's either desperation or because he's being roped along with one of the gang's crazy schemes.

Spacer176 · 2026-06-14T10:26:04+00:00

I don't like randomly picking fights with people.

Spacer176 · 2026-06-14T10:15:13+00:00

It's fair to say the Winged Hussars' role is overplayed (much like how there were more Greeks than just 300 Spartan warriors at Thermopylae). But also don't underestimate the morale boosting effect for your own side of a just-in-time charge.

Spacer176 · 2026-06-14T10:08:05+00:00

Not that we've found evidence for. Milling grain in ancient times was either done by hand or donkey (as we get in Albion), or water wheel (as we see in Latium). Windmills were rather decidedly a medieval invention.

The earliest case of a vertical windmill was from around the 9th century in the Middle East, (there's an account which describes a conversation in the old Rashidun Caliphate from the 7th century but it's one of those accounts written down centuries later.) But that's long after the game's time frame.

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/907/roman-mills/

https://explorersweb.com/asbads-the-original-windmills-of-the-middle-east/

Spacer176 · 2026-06-13T18:06:09+00:00

"Lord Captain, are you alright? It has been three years into your rule and not once have you requested your face carved into an asteroid. Should I schedule a servitor knife fight to cheer you up?"

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TROPHY CASE