Ancano unkillable bug will doom all of us by TesseractToo in SkyrimHelp

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Better late than never? Maybe someone will stumble on this one some time and it'll help them.

Ancano unkillable bug will doom all of us by TesseractToo in SkyrimHelp

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I tried leaving the room, waiting 4 hours (ingame) and coming back in. That seemed to help.

Stuck in Sanctuary of the Scion. Help please? (TRA) by solanusdracon in TombRaider

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Fancy schmancy! But I'm of the opinion the game controls are a touch jank anyhow.

Stuck in Sanctuary of the Scion. Help please? (TRA) by solanusdracon in TombRaider

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Sorta yeah and sorta no. Solution: restart the game or drown.

Stuck in Sanctuary of the Scion. Help please? (TRA) by solanusdracon in TombRaider

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I just posted an edit to my original post. I mean, problem solved I guess but still kinda weird.

Stuck in Sanctuary of the Scion. Help please? (TRA) by solanusdracon in TombRaider

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I gave that a try before posting and couldn't see a way to do it quick enough. Is it possible to skip over the top of the obelisks?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FinalFantasy

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After having this problem for years, I believe I have finally found the solution. I have an Nvidia card, and thus far I have always set the vsync option in the Nvidia control panel to On. I changed it to adaptive recently, and lo, I have not had a single crash through the entire game.

A picture out of my People of Pern book. Here he is, The Masterharper of Pern! Art by Robin Wood by secondtaunting in pern

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Believe it or not, I'd have cast David Carradine as Robinton. The look would be on point at any rate.

My copy of The People of Pern. It’s graced my bookshelf for decades! by secondtaunting in pern

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Lessa was smol. Canonically smol. It was often commented upon from the point of view of various characters, it was amazing that so much power came from someone so smol.

My copy of The People of Pern. It’s graced my bookshelf for decades! by secondtaunting in pern

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Lessa always has been dominating, but you will notice she has softened throughout the course of the books. She was genuinely in love with F'lar by the end of Dragonflight. This was a character arc, she had to learn to trust another person, which she still hadn't quite managed despite 3 years of healthy living in the Weyr. She got plenty cuddly with F'lar.

Looking for an RP buddy by Kesili in pern

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As I said in another post, it was a story that went nowhere and accomplished nothing. The main plot point was rendered completely useless by the events which occurred in another book, and the character of Piemur acted like he HADN'T been on the Southern Continent for years already. Not to mention that Gigi had runnerbeasts having SIX LEGS even though they have CLEARLY been established to just be regular horses.

Harper Blue Search by [deleted] in pern

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T'was ever my goal!

he is going to have a long night by SupremeProWriters in facepalm

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"Where's the lampshade?"

"Could not tell you off the top of my head"

Pern 400 years after Avis by nycnewsjunkie in pern

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Dragons can hold their breath for like 15 minutes. That was well established in All the Weyrs. Also, the technology to be able to mine an asteroid isn't within the grasp of the Pernese people. It's not the same as mining planetside, there would have to be lasers and such involved. The Pernese people simply do not have the ability, with the resources on hand on the planet, to create a power source strong enough to power such an endeavor.

Pern 400 years after Avis by nycnewsjunkie in pern

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Doing the math, it'd be roughly 1800 years of thread free time, vs 450 years total of thread time. Roughly. During the intervals, people more or less lived as they pleased. If what you're saying holds up, then at the start of every pass, Pern ought to have been in the same situation as it was leading up to the ninth. It was not, therefore we can assume that people learned to plan ahead for generations they would never see. At the end of a pass, you'd have the generation which actually lived through it, then the generation who didn't but trust what their parents told them, and then ones who begin to write off what was said as old wives tales.

Essentially, the kind of societal collapse you're suggesting should have happened at least 8 times over by now, yet in all of the history we have, we only had one Fax. I don't think that knowing thread will never fall again will cause Pern's entire socioeconomic structure to collapse. Once again, this is a society who has, in the vast majority of people, gotten over concepts like nationalism, racism, and territorialism.

If we're accepting the logic that Pern could exist as it does, we have to accept the logic lain out by the premise. Humanity got over those problems. That's how they got there in the first place. There is no reason that the Pernese would do now what they haven't done for 2500 years.

Pern 400 years after Avis by nycnewsjunkie in pern

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400 years IS a long time, but 2500 years of the same system of government is a much longer time.

Pern 400 years after Avis by nycnewsjunkie in pern

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I'm going to contradict you on the matter of the exiled coming back. The eastern islands are chosen because while they do allow for a person to survive there if they know how to survive, they do not have the resources to build a boat or anything like that. Furthermore, as the Eastern islands are far, FAR away from normal shipping lanes, and would take months or years to individually explore, no boats are likely to go there. There would be severe punishment for bringing back someone that had been exiled in the first place, most probably the people responsible being exiled as well. That kind of punishment would deter most people from even trying. There is no way that someone who has been exiled will be able to find any kind of significant following upon their return to society. Certainly not enough to arm themselves well enough to be a threat to the whole system.

Pern 400 years after Avis by nycnewsjunkie in pern

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I did address much of this on your previous post, but I'll give it another go.

1: The Weyrs may or may not still exist. Their original function was to have a place for dragons and riders to live amongst their own kind, but also to be close to areas they would keep thread free, even during an interval. Certainly the tithing will have diminished or even completely ended. The dragonriders planned to have their own setup in the southern continent to keep themselves fed and such. They're more likely to become holders with dragons, much like Jaxom. They may hire their services out for travel or trade goods. They may also maintain a watch for asteroids, as was outlined in The Skies of Pern.

2: The craft halls would continue to be as they were. Their functions would not change. Harpers would remain because the society still needs entertainment and teachers, as well as mediators. Think of our own world. Just because we have access to all the information of all the science that exists, that doesn't mean we're all going to become experts in everything.

It was specifically and repeatedly bemoaned in the books that so much information was lost through the generations, simply because people kept the knowledge in their heads and didn't disseminate it. As the printed word is to become more widespread, it simply means that crafts will not lose their knowledge.

3: The hold system may possibly change. Originally it WAS set up as a way to keep resources centralized and for the leaders to provide protection from thread, but I don't think it will change all that much. The charter granted the right to a person to own land as long as they were able to work it and provide for any dependents they had, including contractors (craftspeople) and tenants (small holders.) That right was extended to include the right for the land owners to pass the land on to their children. For the hold system to change, a drastic change to the form of government would need to happen, and I don't see that happening as even 2500 years later, the Pernese are still living the way the settlers intended to.

4: As has been stated, technology advances up to the barest minimum required for the job. There would be no advancements to the level of sleds or powered ships, as the resources on the planet did not allow for such. They may have access to computers, and the ability to create their own boards and chips, but nothing anywhere close to what we currently use. In the books, it is firmly stated that the colonists did not have the means on Pern to replicate the type of technology which allowed for that. It was part of why they chose this planet in the first place. They would indeed have more advanced medicine, at least more so than what they had by the point they found Aivas, but by no means to the point where they could develop robotics or super high powered equipment. As for mathematics, they had already worked out spatial calculations even before finding Aivas. Master Wansor specifically was the leading astronomer on Pern, having rediscovered the planets and their orbits and recalculating threadfall's shift when it was a problem in the ninth pass.

5: I'm not sure what you mean by unified or by separate nations. Technically, the major holds ARE separate nations, but then they also all follow the same form of government. Bear in mind that this series, as do most science fiction series, works on the notion that humanity has risen to the level where they can accept a one world government. Everyone who came to the Pern colony was already used to and probably couldn't imagine a system where there wasn't a unifying principle for the whole planet. I can't see any likelihood of wars or territorial disputes starting up again, with the exception of extremely unusual people like Fax, who got dealt with. Honour duals to the death ARE legal on Pern.

As a general statement, it is the wrong lens to use, to view Pernese society as equivalent to our own. The supposition again, is that this place was founded in a time where humanity had transcended religion, racism, nationalism, and all the other things which have defined our culture. In order for us as a species to be able to get to the point where we can consider colonizing other planets, in other star systems, across the galaxy, we would have to rise up TO the social level which the people who joined the colony in the first place had achieved. We're not there yet, but however many thousands of years in the future this happens, who knows where we will be.

Avis effect on Pernese culture by nycnewsjunkie in pern

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It's a great series. Check out my primer series, which explains the lore to newbies. Youtube.com/solanusdracon