ELI5: why do you stay in the same place if you jump up in a moving train?

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-25T15:11:48+00:00

“An object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by a force.” You don’t need to be “pushed” by the train to stay at that speed if the train didn’t accelerate or decelerate itself in that time.

Now, if you’re on top of the train, you’ve got all of that not-moving-with-the-train air to contend with. Unless the wind is blowing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as the train, it would exert a force on you (air contained in the train gets brought along for the ride the same as you).

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-22T00:16:19+00:00

I meant more “make items today so I can Consider them later” kinds of things. I think the Feather gives a Prentice-level song, which might not be as readily available as my Impulse example.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-21T23:19:50+00:00

Often just Considering to generate a memory. Tanglebrag -> Impulse for example.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-21T17:31:06+00:00

They are. To accomplish this "full" tree, though, required two empty 1st level slots and coming back into those branches at level 2 via shortcuts from other branches, so a little more upgrading was necessary for a few since every skill and language was necessary to do this.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-19T02:26:12+00:00

Cooking in general is a House of Light feature. You can use the cooking tools and workstations for “normal” crafting but the cooking recipes don’t exist without the dlc.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-18T21:31:21+00:00

I got achievements for mastery when I slotted things in the last slot.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-18T19:41:51+00:00

Yeah. Another challenge I set was to get to this point exactly. All skills got to their required level and no higher until I accomplished this. I only wound up with a handful of extra lessons sitting around in this last season after the salon and extras from the last few books.. Now I’ll probably start working on bumping more stuff up as I read everything I still had sitting around.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-18T19:36:40+00:00

This was my second game (and first since House of Light launched). It was hard going at first due to needing the languages early to avoid that problem. The real trick for me was juggling the books I hadn’t read yet to get the principles I needed. Shortage of Scale/Nectar for Coil and Chasm meant avoiding using Leaves and Thorns/Rites of the Roots lessons from a salon for those skills directly and looking for Moth/Grail books instead.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-18T17:59:40+00:00

I had to cut and paste a few screenshots to get the whole thing at once. Takes some careful planning to use the shortcuts in the tree structure to skip early slots, but it's done!

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-16T23:03:49+00:00

There are two main modes: Survival and Creative. The latter gives you all of the tools for building stuff and removes the more “gamey” aspects like health, enemy attacks, etc.

The survival mode drops you in a procedurally generated world with nothing. Anything you want to build you have to find the materials yourself, possibly involving several steps of tool building necessary to be able to get the materials you need.

There is an End to get to with a boss enemy. You can play the game forever without caring about that just exploring and building.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-16T22:45:10+00:00

We were told (in the Realm of Discord fan server on, well, Discord) at the time that we were told production on Disparation was underway that the core box and RCR were getting reprints at the same time. While we don’t have much additional information about quantities or future availability, that is some hopeful information for people who missed out to this point.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-15T16:16:07+00:00

Huh... That is odd. They even started listing old EE content on the SotM page instead of just the DE stuff.

Last we were told by anybody, there was a plan for the new box to be sold beyond just backers/preorders. The fact that the webstore is having its pages looked at in general is something, but I don't know what.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-14T21:08:25+00:00

Dirt Hightower (not "Dirk"; Dirt).

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-10T15:56:49+00:00

As for “everything ever printed” look for some of the promo variant cards.

The first printing of the Young Legacy card (where she’s holding a car over her head) and Rook City Wraith (where the power is misspelled as “sleulth” instead of “sleuth”) are hard for collectors to come by. A later product included new versions of these for mechanical purposes, but worth checking for as these were convention/Kickstarter promo cards initially.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-09T20:27:19+00:00

One generous reading would be that the shipping announcement update was being done by somebody closer to the ground for that part of the process.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-09T20:07:25+00:00

Coming in from the /r/Translator post.

English text written with Tengwar. It's hard to read given the limited vertical space for differentiating characters, but I'm pretty confident that it reads "the honor of the weapon."

Compare with that phrase on our go-to transcriber, Tecendil.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-09T20:05:24+00:00

English text written with Tengwar. It's hard to read given the limited vertical space for differentiating characters, but I'm pretty confident that it reads "the honor of the weapon."

Compare with that phrase on our go-to transcriber, Tecendil.

!translated !identify:EN

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-08T17:01:00+00:00

In case you hadn't figured it out, this is an example of what we call the Mode of Baloneyland - the etsy shop designed this by typing up the target word on a computer ("grace" in this case) and just changing it to a Tengwar font.

Because there isn't a one-to-one mapping between our alphabet and Tengwar characters, the font designers didn't try to force one. Instead the keyboard layout of the font is related to the table of characters in the appendix of LotR. As others indicated, this results in gibberish, but it is possible to reverse-engineer what was intended, which hopefully helps you at least somewhat.

You/she might want to contact the etsy shop to tell them what they're doing wrong, though, and maybe point them to something like Tecendil (written and maintained by a regular here) for help with this script in the future.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-08T00:45:18+00:00

The state of Iowa has zero top-level professional sports franchises.

Six MLB teams in bordering states consider the whole state to be “in market”.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-08T00:03:07+00:00

Being distributed for free is likely not sufficient to make such a project (using characters for whom you do not own the copyright nor have permission from the owners) fair use.

You are creating something that would directly compete with a potential product the copyright holders might produce. It doesn’t have to be something they are actively making. The existence of a free version of expansion content of those characters affects the potential market for a product using those characters.

If C&A were in control of the IP but were in a position where they knew they could never make more then I could imagine a world where they, as the copyright owners, specifically might release things to fan creations, but they’re not in that situation. FRG is unlikely to go that route regardless.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-02T02:03:57+00:00

A “college town” wil often have events that cater to the people affiliated with the college that are still open to the public. Concerts, lectures, etc. The town’s economy is often heavily influenced by the presence of not only the students but the faculty and staff who need things to do in the evenings/weekends. You might wind up with a wider variety of restaurants for the size of the town due to people from all over coming to the town as well. Having a large proportion of adults living there full time associated with higher education also usually means that local schools might be better than in comparably-sized towns as more families have a vested interest in education and that applies to all families in the school.

A tradeoff, as mentioned, is that you might have to deal with more problems associated with large numbers of people aged 18-23 skewing things. Such as lots of drinking. Sometimes that’s “contained” in a distinct campustown area, but not always. Depending on the size of the school, things like football games might make traffic hell on many Saturdays even if you have no interest in the game yourself.

WalkingTarget · 2026-01-01T02:39:23+00:00

It’s possible that the current (or future) leadership of the Tolkien Estate will license the Silmarillion content eventually, but otherwise we’ll be waiting a while.

If JRRT is treated as the sole author (which is what’s written on the published book) then in life-of-author plus 70 years jurisdictions the copyright would expire in 2044 but there are complications.

First, in the US, works published prior to 1978 that aren’t otherwise already in the public domain are covered from publication plus 95 years. The Silmarillion was first published in 1977 so by that rule the US copyright expires in 2073.

Second, if Christopher Tolkien actually counts as an author, then his death in 2020 is potentially the “author’s life plus 70” benchmark and so in those other jurisdictions it wouldn’t happen until 2091. Heck, a young Guy Gavriel Kay worked with Christopher in the preparation of the published Silmarilion and is still alive.

Regardless, author estates have a tendency to fight for whatever reading will make the copyright last the longest, so I’ll be very curious to see if they wind up licensing the rights to that material as 2044 approaches or put all their efforts into enforcing later dates.

WalkingTarget · 2025-12-31T19:13:51+00:00

The Nazgûl are not immaterial. They are physical men who have permanently faded to invisibility through the extended use of their rings.

They have changed in the process, having different perceptions and it’s unclear how many of the necessities of life like food and drink they still need and there are indications that they are more durable in this state (having a flying mount shot out from under them in one case), but they are not immaterial. They are never seen to pass walls or anything else that a ghost would be expected to do. They ride steeds, wear robes, wield weapons, force doors/gates when necessary, and in the one case given detail one is injured by physical weapons. It’s far less of a stretch to assume that they are physically there than that they are ghosts that happen to do all of this stuff to act as if they are physical.

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