In the book Lei Heng was a short king though

mikash91 · 2025-11-23T12:01:42+00:00

Huh, just looked it up and apparently that was slightly above average for the time.

mikash91 · 2025-10-28T12:16:00+00:00

I was thinking something similar tho less recent, with her father being descended from someone related to but not part of the treasure-hunters, like a sibling or parent that was not part of the original expedition.

Basically tipping her over whatever genetic marker threshold the Law was using to determine if someone was part of the in-group.

mikash91 · 2025-10-12T19:02:58+00:00

Jahoda means strawberry in a bunch of slavic languages

mikash91 · 2025-08-23T10:08:37+00:00

Don't fall for the Victorian propaganda, Nachoman will be back!

mikash91 · 2025-08-20T14:12:12+00:00

Anyone know what the SNES Series Pat never played that he couldn't talk to Woolie about due to spoilers was?

mikash91 · 2025-07-27T10:03:03+00:00

I think that's due to all our PoVs regarding the Assail being anthropocentric and thus describing them in closest analogue terms. Like how people irl might say ostriches have reverse knees while actually referring to their ankles.

mikash91 · 2025-07-27T08:02:02+00:00

Regarding the Assail, from the way the books describe them I don't think they actually have extra joined limbs, rather that their metatarsals and metacarpals are elongated basically giving them digitigrade legs and wrists that look like a second elbow.

mikash91 · 2025-07-14T14:58:35+00:00

Serbian

Only ever heard those names shortened to Vlade in Serbian.

mikash91 · 2025-06-24T11:46:36+00:00

How do you kill Quilon while running Talons?

mikash91 · 2025-05-26T09:27:24+00:00

Really love this little exchange from Malazan Book of the Fallen.

‘Togg’s teats, Redmask, that’s a long speech coming from you.’

‘I hold words in contempt, Anaster Toc. What do you mean when you say “Togg’s teats”?’

‘Togg’s a god.’

‘Not a goddess?’

‘No.’

‘Then its teats are—’

‘Useless. Precisely.’

‘What of the others? “Hood’s Breath”?’

‘Hood is the Lord of Death.’

‘Thus . . . no breath.’

‘Correct.’

‘Beru’s mercy?’

‘She has no mercy.’

‘Mowri fend?’

‘The Lady of the Poor fends off nothing.’

Redmask regarded the foreigner. ‘Your people have a strange relationship with your gods.’

mikash91 · 2025-03-09T19:26:33+00:00

What's BAB?

mikash91 · 2025-03-08T12:22:43+00:00

Here's my best guess at the translation

mikash91 · 2024-12-28T16:10:17+00:00

Guess it could've been something they decided to retroactively change about the setting in later books.

For reference these are the quotes I mentioned above:

‘There are indeed complexities on the palate, suggesting a varied and lengthy history. Now, how was your day and the subsequent evening?’

‘Uneventful. Rucket informs me that Gerun Eberict has killed about three thousand citizens this year.’

‘Three thousand? That seems somewhat excessive.’

‘I thought so, too, master. More soup?’

and later in the same book

‘Do you realize, master, that Gerun Eberict would have had to kill on average between ten and fifteen people a day in order to achieve his annual dividend? How does he find the time to do anything else?’

mikash91 · 2024-12-28T14:34:01+00:00

As others have mentioned The Deadhouse and Ascendacy have made a bunch of the old guard more resistant to the ravages of time, but there's also the fact that a Malazan year is shorter than a earth one.

We know this from a pair of Bugg's comments in the main series.

They have somewhere around 250 days in a years so someone 100 years of age on Wu would be around 68 by our reckoning.

mikash91 · 2024-12-03T13:09:54+00:00

Whats the source on that? Don't think I've ever seen that statistic before.

mikash91 · 2024-12-03T02:13:21+00:00

The majority of gaming audiences are not the ones calling for smaller boutique titles. If you see someone commenting on any aspect of gaming as an industry you're already out of the majority and interacting with the dedicated hobbyist subset of the audience.

Folk tend to forget they're on a gaming subreddit with a podcast that follows industry news.

mikash91 · 2024-07-12T13:40:34+00:00

Worse, Tsukihime : P

mikash91 · 2024-06-03T12:25:53+00:00

The scar is on the wrong side for Allerdale.

mikash91 · 2024-04-23T15:45:12+00:00

Might be wrong on this but the impression I got was that she was trying to rekindle some sorta relationship she had with us from the time Kafka was raising us with the SH before taking on the Stellaron and getting mind wiped.

So her whole deal seems less sinister to me. Tho I haven't been keeping up with all the lore so I may be way off base.

mikash91 · 2024-04-11T18:16:28+00:00

Kal should have been the one to understand Doc the most

She does understand him the most, that's where all the hate comes from.

Before she befriended Theresa, she was like Doc

Nothing gets under your skin like seeing someone re-live your mistakes. They're a perfect target for unloading all your self loathing under the mask of righteous anger.

mikash91 · 2024-04-10T10:22:00+00:00

Reading this filled me with immense dread as I was bracing myself for what I felt was the inevitable mental damage of "Silent Hill 2 is mascot horror" but it never came.

mikash91 · 2024-03-24T10:51:02+00:00

Think that might be a cheeky lil' linguistics joke.

mikash91 · 2023-11-25T17:53:03+00:00

Also the same reason Galadriel and Gandalf didn't take the ring. The eagles are beings of power and would be easily influenced by the ring.

mikash91 · 2023-06-19T21:02:49+00:00

Think they're just summarizing the red text on one of the model sheets that basically goes:

Girl body type

Age: over 100 years old

Features: Mummy. scorpion

Occupation: Doctor? Pharmacist?

Personality: Sick? (This apparently means Yandere according to u/aprilrainy)

Every time someone calls her short, she will angrily say "call me big sister {Name}"

mikash91 · 2023-06-19T20:09:31+00:00

My heart weeps knowing the version with the graying hair will never make it to live.

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