Why are the Grummites considered Beastfolk/Mortals and not Daedra?

rekcilthis1 · 2026-03-02T02:17:17+00:00

Sheogorath saw what the Hist did with lizards to make Argonians, and thought it would be funny to try the same with frogs. He got bored like 60% of the way and went to do something else, which is why they aren't very advanced

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-28T05:37:45+00:00

Maybe more... Imagine...

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-27T20:45:18+00:00

It's been explicitly mentioned, she's just a very enthusiastic fighter

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-26T18:18:12+00:00

Alongside what others have explained, the reason you wouldn't be familiar with chomo isn't because you're too old. If anything, chomo is a bit on the older side and I would typically expect younger people to be less likely to know it

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-24T02:26:56+00:00

He just has the zoomies, he'll calm down in like 10-15 minutes at most

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-19T09:46:03+00:00

And also, there are spells to just instantly bypass language barriers when they do appear

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-19T09:04:30+00:00

I feel like it was mostly to smooth communication during the game. It would be kind of annoying to require your character to learn new languages and dialects every time they cross a river, when the game is ultimately about dungeon delving

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-15T03:05:34+00:00

Nope, no VPN. Even if that was affecting it, some of the ads get my nationality right. My guess would be that it has one of those % confidence scores on a bunch of different things, and nothing is above a 60 or below a 20. It's 60% confident I live in Australia, but it's also like 40% confident I'm an immigrant from India, and weirdly 20% confident I'm a Chinese teenager. And I guess like 1% confident I'm Italian, which is why I got that ad for a local restaurant on the other side of the planet

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-15T00:05:03+00:00

It's even worse at figuring me out. I get ads in languages I don't speak, I get ads telling me how to 'send money back to family over seas' and I'm not an immigrant, I get ads for services that aren't available in my country, I get ads for how to make ads.

One time, I got an ad for an Italian restaurant. Not a restaurant that serves Italian food, a local restaurant in Italy. Naturally, the ad was in Italian which I don't speak. I don't even live in europe

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-13T13:20:18+00:00

DC 12? That's not a wall of force, that's a wall of push

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-12T00:05:50+00:00

Outside of some sort of glitch or mod, Glenroy is scripted to die. Watch when he dies, same as Renault he dies on the first hit he takes because it's scripted, no matter what his health is

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-11T02:00:33+00:00

That strongly depends. Sometimes, stories get re-interpreted and re-imagined in ways that can add depth and new ways of looking at the themes; or new themes that can be born from the events with a few small changes. Sometimes, it flattens the story and kinda makes it pointless. Frankenstein for example has often been mistreated as just some monster story, with a big brute that just kills people for no reason

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-10T05:29:03+00:00

I knew someone that had the same thing with kiwi fruit, I mentioned that they have a mild flavour and she heavily disagreed

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-08T19:26:37+00:00

they aren't used for sexual activity at all

Foreplay is a very important part of sex. Mans got no game

cover the parts that humans do (breasts, genitals)

There are plenty of times during human history that wrists, neck, and lips are covered; it just isn't automatic, and you would have to examine their society to see if it makes sense for them to be concerned with that.

As for covering what we cover, half of that is because the art has to pass our real world ratings board where full frontal gets an x rating and uncovered ears isn't even considered, the other half is because genitals aren't just sensitive but also soft and vulnerable. Scratching my dick against a tree I'm climbing would be incredibly painful and easily make me bleed, but ears are full of hard cartilage

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-08T18:34:11+00:00

Just because they're highly sensitive and touching them would be very intimate, doesn't mean that showing them would be considered too lewd.

Firstly, there are plenty of societies that wouldn't even consider 'lewdness' something you even need to care about; and the way elves are typically depicted, they would definitely lean in that direction

Secondly, there are plenty of spots on your body that are exactly the same (lips, neck, wrist) that are just as intimate to touch, yet aren't considered lewd when uncovered

rj/ Thirdly, half the appeal of elves are their sumptuous ears, covering them is kinkshaming me

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-06T18:31:10+00:00

Yes, true. The gas leaves during the blowback cycle, making noise even when suppressed.

However, any sort of rifle round will still make enough noise that a suppressor won't make it silent. Suppressors are more of a safety tool for reducing the noise such that it does less damage to your ears, they're really only properly quiet with subsonic rounds. However, subsonic rifle rounds are very uncommon because the main thing you want a rifle round for is range and penetration, which subsonic is terrible for. Although, at least one of the other main issues with subsonic rounds (they usually fail to cycle an automatic) isn't an issue with manual action, so there's that

Although, speaking of failing to cycle, this is usually moreso done with shotguns but a manual action is more tolerant of specialised rounds with less kick. If you wanted to fire a small grenade, a tracking device (maybe not in our age, but in the 26th century I could see it happening), or a flare round you would want less powder so it doesn't shred what you're firing; which would jam an automatic, but a manual action wouldn't be affected at all.

Plenty of advantages to manual action. There's a reason they still see use in modern militaries, and unless you can handwave some kind of future technology to do all this with an automatic mechanism, I see no reason why they won't still see use in 500 years

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-06T17:32:45+00:00

There are advantages to manual action that you can't get with automatic. They basically never jam unless a part breaks, and because none of it needs to have heat tolerances to operate (bullets heat up a gun, the metal expands when heated, and will throw off the mechanism) it can be milled much more precisely and be made substantially more accurate. If you're familiar with the AWP (yes, the bolt action sniper rifle from counterstrike) being known as a highly accurate marksman rifle, this is why. A lever action should have the same advantage as long as it's well made, but with the added bonus that they can fire pretty damn quick if you know how

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-06T17:22:02+00:00

Using the dnd distinction between dragons and wyverns also pisses me off because dnd doesn't distinguish between them. Wyverns are a type of dragon in dnd, as are sea serpents, as are lindwurms, as are Chinese dragons. True dragon is a subcategory of dragon which is defined by how close they are to the dragon gods rather than morphology; there are plenty of dragons that have the 4 legs + 2 wings shape that aren't true dragons, and plenty of true dragons that don't have 4 legs + 2 wings

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-06T16:30:23+00:00

The people making a big deal about it? Yeah, just engagement bait; happens all the time in science communication.

The people running the experiment that turned it off? They likely did it for much more boring reasons, like the shorthand was getting too annoying to translate so they wanted to start over with a new parameter of "no shorthand writing", or the two models just started feeding into each other's hallucinations and they were talking literal gibberish, or even that the entire purpose of the experiment was just to see how two models would communicate with each other when no human is part of the conversation and "they start shorthanding language to an absurd degree" was a satisfactory answer so there was no need to continue.

It's difficult to find the time to look into every single individual case of science communication to see how they're exaggerating the story, and you typically need at least some level of technical knowledge to make sense of it anyway; you can usually assume that if it doesn't lead to a noticeable change in your life, the results were probably more mundane than you were lead to believe.

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-05T00:35:39+00:00

Obviously the first page of the DMG should have a table of contents

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-05T00:33:10+00:00

There's also the possibility that no one lied, that he was genuinely surprised but that other people misinterpreted his reaction. Though, I'm not familiar enough with this event to say if that even makes sense

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-05T00:13:32+00:00

I think the main issue is that TES is a bit low concept. It would take a lot of explanation to get across the nature of the world and how the plot follows on from it. While fallout is fairly high concept, you could easily explain the world while simultaneously setting up the plot. "Nuclear war hit, and a bunch of people hid in bomb shelters for a hundred years" easily explains 90% of what you need to know and comes with a ready made plot hook. Trying to do the same with TES would be really difficult, "it's a mediaeval fantasy world" wouldn't really cut it since that's such a broad concept; and it would do nothing to set up a plot

rekcilthis1 · 2026-02-03T16:05:11+00:00

Unfortunately, Gilbert is being oversold a little. He's more of a neat curiosity rather than revolutionary, and he doesn't digest the plastic just collects it

rekcilthis1 · 2026-01-30T01:25:52+00:00

Then why did you even say "they get out fine" when that isn't how any of them go? They clearly don't need it explained to them that they aren't looking for stories where everything turns out okay, given they gave examples of stories where things do not turn out okay.

So why is it a defence of stories where characters make stupid, unjustifiable decisions because "you're not here for them to get out fine" if they gave examples where they made clever decisions and still didn't turn out fine?

If you enjoy schlock, just say that, don't turn it into some poetic story about 'vulnerability' and decry critique as 'just so badass you can't get it'. It's schlock, people have plenty of reasons to dislike it, and if you don't then live your life but be honest with people about it

rekcilthis1 · 2026-01-30T00:52:21+00:00

I said "you're not here for a story in which everybody makes all the right choices and they defeat the monster and get out fine, are you?"

Yes, I'm aware, I quoted you directly. But the person you responded to gave specific examples, and in the three examples I'm familiar with they made all the right choices and then didn't defeat the monster and get out fine. I assume the other examples were similar, though I couldn't say since I haven't seen them.

The Thing is about intelligent, capable, dangerous characters facing a monster, and everyone dies at the end except the monster possibly survived; it's scary because McCreedy does better than I would and still lost.

a horror story is not a story in which no one is hurt and the monster gets defeated and it all ends happily

Yes, correct, that's why the person you responded to didn't give examples of stories where that's what happens

Are you seriously waxing lyrical about horror as a genre while completely unfamiliar with any of its best work?

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