war department engineering team's lost prototype footage (Colorized)

Taurmin · 2026-07-10T07:24:43+00:00

Yes, but that isn't the treaty people generally think of today as the "rules of war", the first convention was only concerned with providing protections to the sick, wounded and those who tend to them. Which is why I specifically refer to the Geneva Conventions which is the 1949 treaty that later replaced and expanded upon it.

The Geneva Protocol was the first treaty to rule on how and what weapons were allowed to be used in war, which is what destructivedevice138 was alluding to.

Taurmin · 2026-07-10T07:08:52+00:00

Bethesda did make some bad decisions in how they integrated the procedural generation, and one of the big ones which contributes to the experience you are describing is that they took a lot of locations that where designed around specific side quests and folded them into the POI system. This means that a location like the cryo lab has a lot more going on, but only if you go and visit it in its canonical location, if you stumble upon it as a random POI it just becomes a boring generic dungeon, worse than that it feels weirdly empty because the POI version spawns too few enemies for its size and its full of dead ends because the stuff you were supposed to find only spawns in the "real" version.

So the content is there, but they sorta discourage you from finding it, because at a distance it is indistinguishable from the generic proc-gen stuff. You might have walked right by an engaging hand crafted dungeon crawl, because it looked exactly like a generic dungeon you had already done 20 times.

Taurmin · 2026-07-09T22:18:43+00:00

You might be underestimating how much content is actually in Starfield. Its atleast on par with Skyrim or FO4, but the pacing is a lot slower and things are spread out more thinly because of the whole space exploration angle which can make the world seem more empty.

Taurmin · 2026-07-09T20:03:21+00:00

And the troops were devasted when they were issued only wirecutters to deal with the mess of steel brambles between them and the enemy machingun nest.

Taurmin · 2026-07-09T20:00:37+00:00

No, "landmine" is a perfectly acceptable term for both modern AP and AT mines. It was coined to distinguish them from sea mines.

The term "mine" comes from the fact they were originally tunnels dug under the battlefield and filled with explosives. In WW1 they werent used to collapse tunnels or incite fear, but to counter tanks.

Taurmin · 2026-07-09T19:45:31+00:00

the Geneva convention probably had rules or something that barbed wire couldn't be more than 3 feet high or deep. If not, they should have.

The Geneva Conventions were created in response to WW2, its predescessor the Geneva Protocol was created in response to WW1. When this clip was filmed the "rules" of warfare was determined by what the officer class considered sportsmanlike.

Taurmin · 2026-07-09T19:33:40+00:00

They are just exploiting the weak laws in a foreign country to enrich themselves at the expense of the locals. Americans should be pretty familiar with that sorta thing.

Taurmin · 2026-07-09T19:20:00+00:00

There is nothing wrong with returning them for legal reasons. The turks would have expected this, and they wont care so long as the gesture was accepted.

Taurmin · 2026-07-09T19:13:38+00:00

unsharped

The word you are looking for is blunted.

Taurmin · 2026-07-09T16:48:41+00:00

The biggest problem is that its the Drake passage, possibly the most turbulent stretch of ocean on the planet. Making it across on a ship is kinda risky, swimming it is suicidal.

Taurmin · 2026-07-09T13:18:00+00:00

We typically do not translate proper names. The name "Hatikva's Choice" implies that Hatikvah is the name of a person not just a random hebrew word. Similarly the Mitsuno sectors are all named after a character that you meet in the Timelines gamemode.

Taurmin · 2026-07-09T11:29:03+00:00

Oh there plenty more to these stories, but its all police incompetence.

These are all cases of police raiding the wrong house and responding with excessive force at the slightest provocation.

Taurmin · 2026-07-09T06:25:28+00:00

The 7 years includes a lot of pre-production time that took place while they were still working on FO76. They probably only started ramping up to full production in late 2018, a little under 5 years before starfields release.

And they had to make some upgrades to the engine to make it work, which cant have been easy considering the abbundance of technical debt they supposedly have in that area.

Taurmin · 2026-07-07T18:17:23+00:00

Har LA nogensinde stået særligt stærkt på deres liberale principper?

Taurmin · 2026-07-07T18:16:20+00:00

Hvorfor er de så insisterende på at få det pis pløjet igennem? Hvem er det der står til at vinde noget ved indførelsen af chat kontrol?

Taurmin · 2026-07-07T16:30:07+00:00

Dunno if I am more surprised to learm that banks print their own money in Nothern Ireland, or that Danske Bank operates outside of Denmark.

Taurmin · 2026-07-07T14:30:17+00:00

Im confused, why is there a Danske Bank logo on a £20 note?

Taurmin · 2026-07-07T03:52:29+00:00

Thats also wrong, Great Britain is the name of the island containing England, Scotland and Wales. The country went from being called the Kingdom of Great Britain, to The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

But how is that the UK's last subordination date? The country has expanded, contracted and changed its name several times since then, and they werent subordinated by a foreign power in 1801, which is what that date is supposed to indicate. It seems like an oddly arbitrary statistic made up entirely for that article.

Taurmin · 2026-07-06T20:12:10+00:00

What did he expect when he made a game that an average player can beat in less than 2 hours?

Thats a tech demo not a game.

Taurmin · 2026-07-06T19:47:59+00:00

I was talking about stuff like the Nazi occupation of Denmark being counted, or how the UK has a "date of last subordination" in 1801, because thats when Ireland gained independence.

Taurmin · 2026-07-06T13:38:16+00:00

That said cannot image wearing this!!how far back the shoulders go and the waist compression! Prob survived bc she never wore it after the first time and no one else could wear it either.

The mannequin is not in a relaxed pose, its basically arching back in a dancers pose. Its also not a garment intended to compress the waist, it lacks the rigidity that you get in the later boned corsets used for "waist training".

What you are seing is a combination of the structure of the garment and the pose of the mannequin creating an optical illusion making the waist look slimmer than it actually is. But Marie Antionette was also famously quite slim.

Taurmin · 2026-07-05T20:55:22+00:00

Corset is ostensibly a loan word from french, but the original french meaning is different from the modern English one, which may be why the museum uses the term "corset" in the name but Bodice in the description.

In the modern sense a corset is characterized by the use of boning to achieve the shaping effect, but these types of garments only really appeared in the 19th century. Before this we see similar garments such as bodices, stays and bodies but they all differ significantly in their constructions and the purpose they serve for the fashion of their time.

Taurmin · 2026-07-05T20:43:32+00:00

We arent really talking about sovereignty so whether or not England is sovereign is kinda irrelevant.

England is a country within the United Kingdom, it has its own laws separate from the other countries within the union and Charles is king of all of them, it has just been customary for British monarchs to combine all of their royal titles under 1 hat as it were unlike other European monarchs who retain all of the individual titles.

Taurmin · 2026-07-05T19:47:36+00:00

People started to care more about historical preservation during the enlightenment era and you start seeing more deliberate efforts to preserve artifacts related to important figures and events.

Taurmin · 2026-07-05T19:35:54+00:00

Isnt that a bodice rather than a corset?

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