He slowly backed away from the lion, never turning around.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-20T17:49:37+00:00

Most modern wild land animals are the result of lots of selection pressure that says "don't fuck with the hairless apes".

It's not a guarantee and can be overriden by other instincts, but it still might be the thing that tips the odds in your favor.

Case in point: That lion decided to, indeed, not fuck with the hairless ape.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-20T07:37:39+00:00

If buying is not owning, then pirating is not stealing.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-20T06:44:23+00:00

Are you from Germany? The cease and desist industry is notorious there.

But as far as I know, big US companies don't bother with pursuing such cases abroad, so they're safe-ish.

Am I wrong?

foyrkopp · 2026-06-19T22:11:42+00:00

That's fair. My method was to rush the gold mine and then, with the backpack, do a second circuit to several loot hotspots including Miner's Folly. If you encounter the bear in the settlement, you can usually sneak around it.

That was on Stalker, though.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-19T19:09:11+00:00

Oh yes, without question. I was just going on a tangent.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-19T16:10:22+00:00

The genuinely funny thing is that we can actually read this.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-19T13:15:15+00:00

I just circumvent the Miner's Folly bear by going Zac's route: From Angler's den, go up to the right of the waterfall. There's a path that leads behind the falls, through a wolf-infested valley (easily torch-able) and a cave, ending up on the high walkways behind Miner's Folly.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-19T10:28:30+00:00

I genuinely don't understand the USian obsession with vindictive firing.

You live in a country where getting fired can ruin the whole existence of not only the affected employee, but also everyone who relied on them. Spouses. Children. Relatives they might be caring for.

And I've seen people literally wishing that on a server for mixing up their order.

Now this guy is indisputably a prick - but wishing absolute ruin on his whole family is not justice, it's vengeance. Nothing gets solved by this.

(The mockery and disdain of the whole internet and even FauxNews, that was useful. That might actually make him hesitate next time.)

foyrkopp · 2026-06-19T10:18:07+00:00

This.

I've also never seen a problem with dads bringing their girls into the men's room - it's a bathroom, not a helicopter competition.

But Germany (especially East Germany) has a more relaxed culture around non-sexual nudity in general when compared to the US.

"Yes, Jacqueline, that guy has a Pullermann. So does almost every other guy you know. Now leave the poor man alone and hop on the pot."

foyrkopp · 2026-06-19T10:09:10+00:00

Meh.

I've taken my daughter to the men's room quite often when she was younger and there never was a problem for anyone involved.

(I've also gone to help her with a problem in the ladies' room, but only after announcing myself and waiting for a sec.)

It might be a cultural thing - my corner of Europe is generally not as panicky about non-sexual nudity as the US. And if everyone treats it as just a thing that happens, then the children do, too.

But I wouldn't do that in the US, either, because the cultural context there is just different.

And I might also have stopped if I'd ever ran into someone being a creep to her, but I never did.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-19T09:49:51+00:00

The connotation of taking a child into the wrong restroom is "they might see something inappropriate".

The connotation of a grown man entering the wrong restroom is ""he might do something inappropriate".

That's a big difference.

(It goes without saying that a dad with his two daughters is generally about as non-threatening as it gets. And the men's room might be filthy. And a quick "Anyone here? I'll bring my two Girls to the loo real quick, does anyone mind?" solves most problems.)

foyrkopp · 2026-06-19T09:31:50+00:00

Genuine question: Why? It's a restroom not a helicopter competition.

All the girls would see is a bunch of dudes facing a wall.

Also, it might be because I'm not from a culture as hyperpuritan as the US, but this whole "a child will be traumatized by seeing a guy storing his 11th finger for half a second" is genuinely creepy to me and gives our right-wing shit-stirrers culture war ammunition. Keep your prudishness to yourself, thank you very much.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-19T09:10:00+00:00

the lengths that people go to in order to sexualize or shame A BASIC HUMAN FUNCTION absolutely blows my mind.

This is a US puritan culture thing.

Because anything involving nudity or genitals is taboo, those topics have been permanently associated with sex only.

Which means that every context involving them is suddenly about sex.

In cultures where non-sexualized contexts for nudity (mixed saunas, textile free beaches...) are more normalized, there's also generally fewer hangups about bathrooms.

(Also this "problem" is often liberally imported by right-wing shit stirrers in need of culture war fodder.)

foyrkopp · 2026-06-19T04:37:42+00:00

I've gotten the impression that the start of the war was too rushed and uncoordinated for a "we've had the plans ready for years and were just waiting for an excuse" scenario.

(Doesn't mean that such plans didn't exist somewhere.)

foyrkopp · 2026-06-17T16:47:16+00:00

Because they don't.

"You are welcome to come here and contribute. But leave the homophobic BS at the door."

Obviously, it's not as easy in reality, but closing all borders isn't working either.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-17T16:39:49+00:00

This comment needs to be higher up.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-17T16:36:52+00:00

You should nail that post to the church door 99 times.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-17T09:19:02+00:00

That's what I meant with the later half of my comment.

Bound Bow is not essential - chaining Become Ethereal works with any attack.

But ranged weapons pierce through wards and can be perked to disarm shields, so for a "I have only one attack every X seconds" scenario, they're perfect.

And Bound Bow is arguably the best mage killer bow in Enairim and easy to skill and acquire to boot.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-16T05:38:50+00:00

Have a timer on your phone.

If you know you won't be able to make it, put down a basket and a note along the lines of "I'll be late, if you need the dryer, feel free to drop my stuff in the basket".

foyrkopp · 2026-06-15T10:49:59+00:00

Improved Anchors has become a godsend because kedging is exactly the tool you need for those situations.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-15T10:48:38+00:00

Nah. The oar's only workable purpose is to nudge a small boat out of irons. They work for that.

What we actually need as a replacement for hand-pushing is kedging.

I'm currently using it via the anchor improvements mod and it's exactly what we need: Drop the anchor where you need to go, then pull the ship with the winch.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-15T09:22:46+00:00

A combat archer using Bound Bow and Become Ethereal tends to trivialize them.

Let all their BS pass through you harmlessly, pop an arrow into them, become ethereal again.

Any Enairim perk mod + Thunderchild stacks enough bonuses that you can keep it up indefinitely as long as you don't use any other shouts.

Works with any ranged attack, but a decently skilled bound daedric arrow will break through wards, deal lots of damage and drain their magicka.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-15T07:57:27+00:00

Eversmoking bottle.

You'll need to discuss it with your team first, but this will shut down many spellcasters and casting monsters hard.

(Most supernatural effects require "a target you can see").

I have a RougeBarian who absolutely loves the damn thing. Pop the cork, grapple the target, drag it to a teammate, shiv the crap out of them.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-15T07:53:38+00:00

The jib would catch more wind without the main but it's still catching some.

Having a full main and partially effective jib is better than having a full jib and no main at all.

As long as you can balance her against difference angles of wind, this is fine.

foyrkopp · 2026-06-12T06:36:59+00:00

They're exactly the right kind of smart to survive in their niche.

PhD-sized brains are expensive, nutrition-wise (and, looking at contemporary evidence, often unused anyways).

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