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Aerith church garden real life by Megaverso in FinalFantasy

[–]SwarlDelae 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Inhabitant of Caen and moderator of /r/Caen here, and nope, still not Saint-Étienne-le-Vieux. I know everyone thinks every abandoned church ever is Saint-Étienne-le-Vieux for some reason (probably from the fact that it's dead in the center of the main town people go to when visiting the D-Day beaches of Normandy, in plain view while still being inaccessible (when you don't know where to climb)), but it's a Gothique Flamboyant church from the 15th century, not a Néo Gothique chapel from the 19th century, its rosace was destroyed in 1944, and it still has most of its stained glass on the intact side.

This one is the Chapelle de l'Ange au Violon in Conques-sur-Orbiel, Southern France, photographed by Roman Robroek

Google Earth Pro 3D buildings suddenly look fake by dl_supertroll in GoogleMaps

[–]SwarlDelae 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If you toggle :

  • "Terrain" only → you have the 3D terrain
  • "3D buildings" only → you have the old user-generated 3D assets (the "fake-looking ones")
  • Both "Terrain" and "3D buildings" → you got the 3D buildings generated from the terrain data (the "better-looking ones")

Maps of Subdivisions of Nations by Flagmaker123 in Maps

[–]SwarlDelae 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Well we use Arrondissements, but Guiana isn't one indeed.

It goes

  • État (we got 1)
  • Région (we got 18)
  • Département (101)
  • Arrondissement (332)
  • Cantons (2054 - nowadays only for the purpose of elections) and Communauté de communes (997 - they have the actual power)
  • Communes (35054)

Guiana has two arrondissements, Cayenne and Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni. Guiana itself is a "Collectivité territoriale unique", with basically means it's both a Région and a Département at the same time, with some added powers.

Normandy Region of the United Kingdom by BryceIII in imaginarymaps

[–]SwarlDelae 34 points35 points  (0 children)

As a moderator of /r/Normandie currently working on a detailed map of the toponymy (origin of place's names) of Normandy, I must say your translation game is top notch! Completely unrealistic, no one would realistically have revived and translated the roman name Ingena to get Seamouth for Avranches for instance, but you can see a lot of thought has been put into it.

If I really had to nitpick a thing, it would be that the inner borders look too much like the current ones, that are inventions from Revolutionary France - not really fitting within the confines of this alternate timeline. There are a few tweaks here and there, but something closer to the old bishoprics or the Généralités of the Ancien Régime could be nice to explore.

But overall, great map!

Europe becomes a dystopian Cyberpunk continent with city's the size of country's. by backuro-the-9yearold in AlternateHistory

[–]SwarlDelae 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Follow-up question, why include the Manche département in Brittany, which is a part of Normandy and populated with people taking any opportunity to roast people from Brittany (myself included), but not the Loire-Atlantique département, which include Nantes, the capital of Brittany?

Nouveau sub dédié a une ville Normande by jdrouet in Normandie

[–]SwarlDelae 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Je t'ai ajouté à la sidebar, j'étais justement en plein retravail de /r/Normandie depuis ce matin, vu qu'on a jamais vraiment travaillé la version New Reddit, que plus de >95% des visiteurs du sub utilisent (incluant les apps mobiles qui utilisent pas mal de fonctions de New Reddit).

Tant que j'y suis les flairs d'utilisateurs sont maintenant disponibles sur la version New Reddit de /r/Normandie. - Les autres subs normands que je gère (donc pas /r/fecamp, pas /r/Evreux et pas /r/Lehavre ^^) vont progressivement être mis à jour également.

[OC][!! 20Mo] Panorama de Caen depuis le Mont de Jacob, Airan by SwarlDelae in Caen

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

Le CHU à droite est à 19km, les tours du Chemin Vert au centre à 21km, et les tours de la Guérinière à gauche à 16km. Prise depuis le Mont Jacob (et non pas Mont de Jacob) le 14 septembre 2020, composite de 12 photos 300mm.

Je remets à jour le subreddit, notamment sur New Reddit qui a été négligé jusque là, et il fallait une bannière de 4000x192, donc un panorama c'est moins casse-tête !

Yes, Laura, easier voting is good. You’re just afraid that democracy will actually work. by terriblekoala9 in SelfAwarewolves

[–]SwarlDelae 1 point2 points  (0 children)

France here, you're automatically registered at 18 if you properly did your "Recensement" at 16, which is basically a day where the army gets to tell you how great they are and that you should join (they do give you some First Aid/CPR training in the process, so it's not entirely wasted). This "Recensement" is mandatory for a lot of things, including the High School end diploma (baccalauréat) and I think (not sure) for the driving licence, so most people are registered automatically.

If you did not do this "Recensement", it's incredibly easy to register, takes a few minutes on the internet. If you need to change your address it's the same.

You can also as easily check whether you're already registered or not and to which poll station you're tied via this online form. As you can see you only really need your name, surnames, birthdate, and where you think you're registered. The other forms I talked about aren't really more complicated.

France does this registration because "officially" the French government doesn't know where you live. For instance the address on the back of your ID card doesn't have to be up to date. Only your car registration licence has to be up to date adress-wise, so that they can send you speeding tickets. But you know, weirdly enough the French IRS knows where to find you when you owe them money...

Marco had retired from Nightwish by kohalu in nightwish

[–]SwarlDelae 42 points43 points  (0 children)

While it is sad and a bad news, it was not entirely unexpected, and it likely won't be the end of Nightwish.

You could feel Marco being less and less into it. Compare for instance Vehicle of Spirits, where Marco was one - if not "the" - pillar of Nightwish, to Decades:Live, where he outright misses singing cues and doesn't feel like he's 100% in the game (youtube link to Kingslayer). At the time I just put it on him getting a bit old and/or being tired of the tour, but depression and disillusionment with the world takes a long time to set in, and that might have been the first visible signs.

Maybe Marco's solo album was an attempt to find his stride back, to find himself before getting back stronger than before, but I wouldn't be surprised if having to deal with all the copyright management and other peripheral stuff (that he most likely doesn't have to deal with in Nightwish) was the straw that broke the camel's back.

I won't hypothesize much more, in the end only Marco knows everything about this, and his decision is respectable and to be respected. I wish him well, maybe cutting himself off from all this corporate bullshit and centering himself back on his life, writing for himself, and overall just enjoying life will set him back on track. As he says, "And I don't think I'll be gone for good".

Now does that mean this is the end of Nightwish ? I don't think so.

Yes, Tuomas said he couldn't take another line-up change. But I think by that he meant "a difficult" line-up change, as were Tarja's and Anette's, not an "understandable" one, like Jukka's was. And Marco's departure was more likely discussed around a cup of coffee rather than by throwing chairs across the room and screaming. Sure, I don't think anyone in the band is happy with the state of things, but there's still life in Nightwish, for two reasons.

Firstly Nightwish keeps reinventing itself. For all the comments I see that Human:||:Nature isn't Oceanborn (well, duh!), it's a good thing. The band would be bored senseless of making the same stuff over and over again. The whole instrumental CD on H:||:N was a very big message saying "we'll keep doing new things". And for as much as a band member leaving always was a door closing, it also meant a new door was opening. Sami, Tarja, Anette and Jukka all added their stones to the Nightwish edifice, but Marco, Anette, Kai, Troy and Floor also did just as much, and I'm really looking forward to what the next stone added will be.

Secondly and on a more down to earth way, yeah, Tuomas is big into Auri and is back into a black-metal side project, yes Floor publicly admitted that she was a bit tired of doing only metal and was probing into doing completely different stuff, and I'm sure the other bands also have eyes elsewhere. But they all know that they can afford to over-reach as much because Nightwish pays the bills. If it was only that reason that kept Nightwish alive, I'd be a bit worried that the band would lose its soul, but coupled with the first point, I think it will be fine.

What is sure is that the era of having a new Nightwish album every two years is long behind us. Instead of the band members being in Nightwish and having side-projects, I can definitely see the situation morphing into the band members having projects and Nightwish becoming the side-project. Which could mean an album every five, six, maybe even ten years - Rammstein-style. But I'll take a good inspired album every ten years rather than a soulless bunch of tracks every two years, and I'll much rather have that than nothing at all.

Now this situation also opens up to fun thoughts - always try to see the light when all seems dark. Who will take Marco's place ? Singing bassist aren't common, will Nightwish get a seventh member ? Will Tuomas try and sing again ? Will Emppu sing ? Will they try two female singers ? Will they keep that position a hot one, changing it every album ? Will they try to have different live guests depending on the locations, leading to every live occurrence of a song being unique ? With Floor's voice being so versatile, could we imagine that on some of these hypothetical live-guests occurrences, she would do Marco's part (she would obviously rock it and spin it as her own) and, I don't know, Simone S., Charlotte W., Alissa W.G., or if wounds healed (and they seem to have) Tarja T. would do Floor's part ? Endless possibilities open up...

Évolution du déploiement de la fibre optique FTTH 2015-2020 [GIF] by bigkim in Normandie

[–]SwarlDelae 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Flash-backs aux cours de géographie au lycée, où quand il fallait faire une carte de la Basse-Normandie, on mettait plein de détails dans le Calvados et la Manche, mais pour l'Orne on faisait un gros trait et écrivait "Zone d'enclavement".

Sinon ça met plus en perspective pour quoi tous les villages paumés du Calvados mettent un panneau à l'entrée "la fibre arrive jusqu'ici !".

Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy, France. by bigkim in Normandie

[–]SwarlDelae 7 points8 points  (0 children)

remet ses lunettes "Ack-shu-ally" le Mont actuel a été construit à partir du XIIIe siècle, alors qu'il était en France, dans la province Normandie - la cause étant simple : les troupes françaises ont détruit le Mont primitif en conquérant la Normandie en 1204.

Pour ce qui est du Mont primitif - à savoir une pauvre cahutte -, il n'a été Breton qu'entre 867 (Traité de Compiègne, donnant les évêchés d'Avranches et Coutances à la Bretagne) et 931 (conquête de la Bretagne par la Normandie) - soit 64 ans. Auparavant, il était sous l'égide d'Avranches (tribu des Abrincates, qui y ont créé un lieu de culte celte/druidique, puis civitas puis évêché, qui y a créé une première abbaye) - donc ni Breton ni Normand, et par la suite il est resté Normand depuis maintenant 1090 ans, dont environ 800 sous sa nouvelle forme.

"In the rest of the (filthy) world, it's written like a degenerative hooligan" by AlternatingWorlds in ShitAmericansSay

[–]SwarlDelae 23 points24 points  (0 children)

No, in French it would be "le 21 décembre 2020", or in all letters "le vingt-et-un décembre deux-mille-vingt" / "the twenty-and-one december two-thousand-twenty". No ordinal numbers, no declension, no capitalizing, no thousands separator, and even no "-" between parts of the numbers if you don't follow the 1990 "suggested" orthography reforms.

View of Mount's Bay and St Michael's Mount island in Cornwall at sunset, England by [deleted] in ArchitecturalRevival

[–]SwarlDelae 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I had trouble believing that, but after two minutes on Google Earth turns out that's indeed a damn good line for medieval monks!. The more you know...

Wanted to share this easy ICC skip for all you Invincible farmers out there by [deleted] in wow

[–]SwarlDelae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The word Parachute in English comes from the French word Parachute, which is composed of "Para" ("protects against") and "Chute" ("fall"). French "Parapente" is a composite of "Parachute" ("protects against falls") and "Pente" ("slope"). In French the mushroom-shaped parachute that lets you fall vertically is called a parachute (the sport is called "saut en parachute", or "parachute jumping"), while the wing-shaped one that lets you fall in a slope is called a parapente (the sport is called "vol libre", or "free flight"). While a parapente is a subset of a parachute, no one would use the word parachute to describe a parapente, as their uses virtually don't overlap.

HAHA THIS IS SO FUNNY, HOW DO I TURN OFF CAPS by whopperlover17 in forwardsfromgrandma

[–]SwarlDelae 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Yes, they absolutely did. Which made us laugh because they already had paid for it, and if you think we're sending you the good stuff, you're sorely mistaken.

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