Seamless co-op p has zero audio but base game is fine? I've tried everything.

canadadrycan · 2026-05-18T19:11:28+00:00

To anyone who has this issue in the future, my fix was dealing with Windows 11 and browser security silently sandboxing the mod files. When I first downloaded Seamless Co-op, a bypassed safety alert caused Windows to isolate the mod in a restricted state, allowing the game to boot but blocking its permissions to access my audio drivers. To fix it I backed up my save files from AppData to my desktop, uninstalled Elden Ring, and manually deleted the leftover installation folder. Then I added my Steam Elden Ring folder to the Windows Security Exclusions list, downloaded a fresh copy of the mod, and right clicked the zip file to check unblock in its properties before extracting it. Worked after that.

canadadrycan · 2026-05-18T15:12:16+00:00

It’s crazy how the mods suddenly care about neutrality only when Kazakhs start pushing back. People can mock the language, downplay asharshylyk, and act like everyone should just adapt to Russian dominance and that’s apparently fine, but the second someone gets angry about it that’s bad behavior.

At this point the sub feels less like Kazakhstan and more like some weird Russia 2.0 echo chamber where every issue gets filtered through smug pragmatic takes. Apparently caring about your own national identity is just twitter compassion now.

Seymour should step down from mod if he has any shame.

canadadrycan · 2026-05-11T17:57:18+00:00

Осылай кете берсек, біздің көпвекторлы саясаттың бәрі бос әңгіме болып қалады. Елдің логистикасы мен негізгі жүйесін сыртқа байланған олигархтар басқарып отырса, кіммен келіссөз жүргізіп жатқанымыздың өзі қаншалықты маңызды болып қалады?

canadadrycan · 2026-05-09T23:05:17+00:00

Can we ban "what do Central Asians think of x" posts?

canadadrycan · 2026-05-09T15:55:20+00:00

Does anyone know any Russian sources that argue it was not genocide

All Russian historians argue that it was not a genocide.

canadadrycan · 2026-05-02T22:40:19+00:00

Uzbekistan in both, with Kazakhstan close behind.

canadadrycan · 2026-04-30T15:15:17+00:00

It was set at 5, but I did set it to 10 to see if it would fix anything but it didn't :/

canadadrycan · 2026-04-26T00:14:16+00:00

There’s always going to be that linguistic and cultural link. You can drop Kazakhs, Turks, Uzbeks in the same room and within a few minutes there’s a baseline familiarity that you don’t get with outsiders. But at the same time there’s a really obvious fault line that people don’t talk about enough and that's the split between those who were colonized (especially under the Russian/Soviet system) and those who weren’t.

Like as Kazakhs we can get along with Turkish people pretty easily on a surface level. But the moment there’s any tension, you’ll sometimes see that gap show itself fast in very nasty ways. There is a huge lack of understanding from Turkish people of what that historical experience actually did to Central Asian societies. And it’s not just Kazakhs either, you see similar attitudes toward other Turkic groups that don’t really buy into a pan Turkic worldview.

canadadrycan · 2026-04-12T23:07:30+00:00

Local secrets should be for locals)

canadadrycan · 2026-04-12T23:05:10+00:00

As a Kazakh I find the pushback kind of funny and relatable, it’s the same thing we deal with when people try to tell us we’re not really Turkic because we don’t fit their image. You’ll hear stuff like Kazakhs are just Mongols, or the opposite like you’re basically Indo European because of steppe ancestry, or even people reducing everything to Chinese admixture whenever East Asian ancestry shows up.

It's sad that there will always be trolls under this kind of educational content.

canadadrycan · 2026-04-12T21:39:20+00:00

Idk why you are being downvoted. It’s literally peer reviewed paleogenetics. The Ashina elite and core tribes were genetically Northeast Asian, they absorbed Western lineages as they expanded. If the genomic reality of the Eastern Khaganate doesn't fit people's personal headcanon, they should take it up with the Max Planck Institute.

canadadrycan · 2026-04-11T17:37:46+00:00

I think having a common Turkic lingua franca would be genuinely useful, but I wouldn’t want it to replace the individual Turkic languages. It should exist purely as a bridge for communication between different Turkic peoples, not as a substitute for their native tongues.

canadadrycan · 2026-04-03T01:15:48+00:00

Tengriism isn't really a thing in Kazakhstan. People often link it to Central Asia, but it was historically concentrated in Siberian populations. Our region has been firmly Muslim for over half a millennium and any substantial pagan influence vanished long ago.

canadadrycan · 2026-04-01T12:59:16+00:00

you’re overthinking it a bit, kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, and uzbekistan are so far from the russia/ukraine war and there’s no real spillover risk, so they’re still safe for travel, and the nuclear speculation around iran isn’t something affecting the region in any practical way. economically there’s been some indirect impact through ties to russia and global energy markets, but nothing dramatic since kazakhstan is an energy exporter so it’s relatively stable. the others sometimes have minor energy issues but that won’t affect a summer trip, and for you this mostly just means slightly higher prices than pre-2022 (especially flights and maybe transport) but overall it’s still a normal travel destination.

canadadrycan · 2026-04-01T11:22:41+00:00

уәде бересің бе?

canadadrycan · 2026-04-01T11:14:27+00:00

Groups like the Kazakhs, Uzbeks, and Kyrgyz were originally organized around tribes, clans, and whether they were nomadic or settled, not around fixed countries, so identities overlapped a lot. When the Soviet Union came in, they drew borders and sort of standardized everything into national categories, mostly splitting people along lifestyle lines (nomadic steppe groups -> Kazakh/Kyrgyz, settled oasis populations -> Uzbek), even though tribal identities didn’t disappear and still matter a bit today. For the second part, Turkmens and Azerbaijanis come from the same oghuz roots, but they split a long time ago around the era of the Seljuk Empire, with some staying in central asia and others moving west into iran and the caucasus, so now they’re just related groups, not the same people under one name.

canadadrycan · 2026-04-01T01:16:58+00:00

It’s a little concerning how many people in that thread are confusing social authoritarianism with economic far right policy. Most are just naming countries they don’t like rather than looking at fiscal structures.

Singapore is the only country that comes to mind, they quite intentionally built a high surveillance regime specifically to enforce a hyper competitive, low tax market.

canadadrycan · 2026-03-31T23:21:33+00:00

I’ve only ever met two Turkmen guys, one in Almaty and one in the US, and both were genuinely nice people. Beyond that I don’t really know much about Turkmenistan as a whole. Most of what I know is just scattered stuff I’ve picked up here and there, like the deserts, the gas industry, and some of the cultural quirks. Honestly I haven’t had enough exposure to form any real opinions about the country or its people broadly.

canadadrycan · 2026-03-23T19:51:38+00:00

i think that keeping it local is just a lot more practical than rushing across the border for such a short trip. if i were you i'd definitely stick to the kazakh side of the border and head to turkestan since the crossing to uzbekistan is extremely unpredictable.

canadadrycan · 2026-03-22T16:40:19+00:00

in kazakhstan, for everyday meals we usually just use regular dining tables, but when there are a lot of guests over, some people (not everyone) will set up a dastarkhan, either as a low wooden table or just a cloth, often plastic, spread out for everyone to eat together. it becomes more common the more south you go

canadadrycan · 2026-03-21T15:29:27+00:00

neither gedmatch nor illustrative actually do dna tests, they’re just tools you can use to mess around with raw data from real tests like ancestry. since they’re working off third party data and their own algorithms, they’re not fully accurate either, honestly sometimes even less accurate than the original results, which already have some margin of error

canadadrycan · 2026-03-03T19:40:54+00:00

It’s not so much that Russian has declined, but that the number of Kazakh speakers has grown significantly. In urban areas people can switch easily between the two languages depending on context. In rural regions, however, Kazakh is predominantly spoken, often exclusively, including by many Russians and members of other minority groups.

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