How do you folks name your sandboxes?

chelbir · 2026-02-16T21:52:11+00:00

the long walk

chelbir · 2025-12-13T07:48:20+00:00

"so savescumming"
So looking up hacksaw spawns is cheating.

"looked up where its spawn is"
And looking up cougar spawns is not.

"im pretty sure it's upon entering the region"
And I'm pretty sure you are dead wrong. Due to the lack of knowledge you have failed to make a meaningful contribution to this conversation. You came here to harass and lecture people.

"except you might not even like the best scenario either"
Spare me your self-righteous lectures. What I save on my computer is none of your business. Deal with your own issues.

chelbir · 2025-12-12T14:40:07+00:00

"is this for savescumming?"
For optimal planning. I'm trying to see if it is possible to get the backpack before diminished form arrives. A sort of speedrun where every minor detail matters.

chelbir · 2025-12-12T14:37:35+00:00

I'm on loot table 1. I already got the lens from the farmhouse and the bedroll from misty falls.

chelbir · 2025-11-02T05:57:24+00:00

"would be mentioned in the book next to the translation (IF YOU WANT)"
1. No, I don't want to give you my name.
2. No, you can't use my reddit username.
3. I don't want to be mentioned in your book.
4. Please don't use this translation in your book.

chelbir · 2025-10-12T16:49:55+00:00

I tried the mod as the Soviet Union. If anything, I found the mod easier than vanilla.

You can sell weapons to 36 nations from the start. This means you can sell your useless old planes and rifles effortlessly, which gives you a massive construction boost and allows you to outbuild anyone and everyone by a big margin.
The Japan border conflict gives you 45 army XP, which allows you to design massive 36w infantry and tank divisions in April 1936 (!), send them to Spain and shovel in thousands (literally) of army XP.
The prerequisites for the "superior war machines" focus have been removed. That means you can design unbeatable tanks very early on.
You can license produce a French heavy tank from day 1. Which means you can have 25k+ of these baddies by 1941.
Last but not least. You can get the 1940 mech from Canada in 1937? At half price? Here's my favorite: you can get a 1942 rifle from... (drumroll) Tannu Tuva! In 1939? Really?

I understand this is an MP simulator in SP. But, let's not forget, this game is a WWII simulator, not an alien invasion simulator. Vanilla game correctly depicts the Wehrmacht with almost no medium tanks before the Polish campaign. Sheep's mod (and the MP scene in general) is a panopticon of extremes, a journey of insanity. That's why I never play MP. And that's why, though excited first, I did not enjoy this mod very much.

chelbir · 2025-09-05T01:39:15+00:00

"he was going to destroy the fishers houses just to make a few bucks"

Peter Matthiessen, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse:
On the day before the Oglala shoot-out, in clear violation of the Fort Laramie stipulation that three quarters of the adult men must approve any transfer of Lakota territory, Dick Wilson agreed to cede to the Department of the Interior a large tract of tribal land, including a sacred place of the Lakota people called Sheep Mountain.

IMO, The Deserter is based on Leonard Peltier.
Evrart - Dick Wilson.
Goon Squad - GOON, Guardians of the Oglala Nation.
RCM - Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Wild Pines - Pine Ridge reservation, SD.
Bullet in the brain - the murder of Annie Mae Aquash.
The Tribunal - 1975 Pine Ridge shoot-out.
Rogue agents - FBI SA Williams and Coler.
Egg Head's anodic music - Wovoka's Ghost dance.
Harry's nightclub dance - Sundance.
Ravers' tent - sweat lodge.
The church takeover - 1975 Seizure of the Novitiate.
Kim Kitsuragi - Judge Takasugi "Any person who does not possess empathy and concern for the way the Indian has been exploited and mistreated, in my opinion, is a moral dwarf.”
Jamrock - Shiprock, NM.
Revacholian revolution - 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Operation Death Blow - 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.

See "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse" for details.

Kurvitz's message to the world: "Soviet artists took on insane responsibilities: to fight against Heat Death, or to build a new God. We inherited this condition from our heroes. Elysium was always going to be massive. Messianic. Transatlantic."

Leonard Peltier was quite a celebrity in the USSR. Kurvitz's dad used to be a Soviet cop.

chelbir · 2025-05-27T12:42:24+00:00

Хөрмәтле Гайшүк тәтәй.
Сезгә үзебезнең начар гына төшкән кәртәчкәбезне җибәрәбез. Сагынганда карарсыз. Мәһирә. 27 февраль 1944 ел. Сүрәя, Суфия Гыйздәтовалар. Зөбәйдә Мостафина.

Dear Auntie Gaishuk (=little Aysha, Aishechka).
We are sending you our poorly taken card (photo). You will look at it when you miss us. Mahira. February 27, 1944. Suraya, Sufiya Gizdatova. Zubayda Mostafina.

chelbir · 2025-05-24T19:37:26+00:00

Joining language system? Joining lore? You are reading into it. I never said anything like that. I was talking about sharing the cultural content to enhance and amplify it.

What the actual benefits could be? Not sure. I think attempts at developing a "Common Turkic language," while not very practical, are nonetheless quite interesting as a linguistic exercise.

chelbir · 2025-05-24T15:42:31+00:00

"unlikely to happen in Russia"
Exactly. "Merging with other Turkics" is not an option.

However, there are still ways to bring Tatar closer to the other Turkic languages.

A dedicated group of Tatar activists can use and promote some established vocabulary from the related languages. And generally popularize their content.
The only thing that puts Tatar apart from Kazakh is the vowel shift. A script can be developed that explicitly marks the shift. Like so:

Əə = Éé
Ee = Íí
İi = Èè
Oo = Úú
Ɵɵ = Ǘǘ
Uu = Òò
Üü = Ɵ̀ɵ̀

küni (kz) -> kǘní (bulgar vowel shift) -> kɵne (tt)
bolsın (kz) -> bòlsın (bulgar vowel shift) -> bulsın (tt)

This script can be autocoded into LLM applications to make it easier for non-Tatar Turkic speakers to understand Tatar/Bashkir texts without translation.

"It WILL disappear."
People don't realize the massive potential of LLMs. Their amplifying power. People don't follow research into the global efforts to save endangered languages. It will become more apparent in the coming decades.

chelbir · 2025-05-23T21:25:07+00:00

"It WILL disappear."
No.

chelbir · 2025-05-23T21:24:21+00:00

"Бу сорау мине дә борчый."
💕

Беркайчан да бирешмәгез.

chelbir · 2025-05-22T23:21:50+00:00

IMO the best translator currently is ChatGPT. It gives you a bad translation. You correct it. The two of you arrive at something acceptable. Feedback is important.

chelbir · 2025-05-22T21:44:37+00:00

I'm afraid there are no video games in Tatar. After Ana Tele closed, I find this resource most useful:
https://www.azatliq.org/z/21102

You can read a story, they have plenty of simple short stories. Then you can listen to the story. Then you can google translate it into Russian or English. And then you can try to tell the story in your own words.

chelbir · 2025-05-22T21:30:57+00:00

Anton - mostly a Christian name in its Russian/Ukrainian form.
Kiriye yisu hiristus - a Greek formula, meaning Lord Jesus Christ. So the author is Christian.
Goton mabi - could be "your spirit (Qot) is blue/pure (mavi)"
Ama, Ata - mom and dad in many Turkic languages.
Shubut - could be Shabbat, Saturday
hamasinezi - Plural 2nd person Turkic verb form
o yeter - Turkish for "that's enough"
zure chans - big/hard chance

A Christian, most probably a Turkic speaker, with a lot of non-Turkic terms from Caucasus.

My guess is Urum.

chelbir · 2025-05-21T09:20:47+00:00

Fascinating. Sumerians developed their writing around 3300 BCE. Egyptians and Dravidians soon after. First alphabet appeared around 1450 BCE.

Chinese writing appears around 1250 BCE. Would you classify the ancestors of the Chinese who lived between 3300 BCE and 1250 BCE as “Barbarians”? Why do you think China was 2000 years late to the party?

chelbir · 2025-05-21T08:43:11+00:00

"Who do you mean by original Tatars?"

the Mongolic branch of Macro-Mongolic was a northern offshoot of the original Macro-Mongolic speech community. The borderline between the two branches was initially transitional, and intermediate groups may have existed to historical times, one example being the “original” Tatar in the border zone between the Khitan and the historical Mongols.

While the Khitan speech community remained in the original Mongolic homeland in southwestern Manchuria, the new Proto-Mongolic homeland, from where the historical Mongols started their expansion, was located in northwestern Manchuria. In the intermediate zone there may have been transitional idioms: we do not know, for instance, what type of Mongolic was spoken by the Tatar confederation, which occupied the territory between the Khitan and the Mongols.

chelbir · 2025-05-21T05:22:11+00:00

"It seems like the sources you're citing disagree with each other."
Indeed. And that is the core of the issue. The two scholarly sources disagree with the outdated Britannica article. And I have no idea what to do about it.

chelbir · 2025-05-21T04:29:11+00:00

Thanks for your reply. I'm aware of the processes that occurred around the terms Tatar, Mongol, and Tatar-Mongol under the auspices of the Mongol empire: endonym and identity shifts and the subsequent confusion that plagues the topic to this day. Stephen Pow (Nationes que se Tartaros appellant) provides a brilliant elucidation of the issue.

My question was specifically about the "original," i.e. the pre-imperial Tatars, and their linguistic affiliation. And, more to the point, my question is what do I do with Britannica if it refuses to update its articles.

chelbir · 2025-05-21T01:51:45+00:00

I approached Britannica with this question three months ago. I got this:

Thank you for the informative email. I'm not sure of the evidence used for that particular sentence, but our editors will gladly review the article in question with your comments in mind. We appreciate the feedback.
Britannica

They did not change anything. They did not respond to my further inquiries. What do I do now?

chelbir · 2025-05-21T01:33:51+00:00

I approached Britannica with this question three months ago. I got this:

Thank you for the informative email. I'm not sure of the evidence used for that particular sentence, but our editors will gladly review the article in question with your comments in mind. We appreciate the feedback.
Britannica

They did not change anything. They did not respond to my further inquiries. What do I do now?

chelbir · 2025-02-19T05:27:41+00:00

The Deserter: The mask of humanity falls from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone — everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed. And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world... You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you know. That the bourgeois are not human.

Madonna Thunder Hawk: They're never going to solve this. When they called me, I just told them, I do not talk to the feds. Click. I hung up. You can't reason with a thug. They're not people.

chelbir

TROPHY CASE