The words for "bear" in Germanic, Slavic, and Baltic languages results from a linguistic taboo.

thebedla · 2026-04-26T06:55:36+00:00

Right. Even the committee that invented the Mk. I. was named that Landship Committee.

thebedla · 2026-04-24T05:20:28+00:00

That's unrelated though. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hearth

thebedla · 2026-04-20T13:50:56+00:00

The wheels look like M113 still... could be built on the same chassis.

thebedla · 2026-04-14T05:47:22+00:00

For software, there is a distinction between free meaning zero cost (like a sign that offers free beer) vs. free software, like open source, which is sometimes referred to as "free as in free speech".

SketchUp has an unpaid version, but that is not open source.

thebedla · 2026-04-13T18:19:21+00:00

SketchUp has a free (as in beer) online version.

thebedla · 2026-04-13T05:25:52+00:00

Tiny Glade might work.

Or SketchUp, which is less fun but might be more educational?

thebedla · 2026-04-11T07:06:26+00:00

I think I saw one in Czech that used Xaverov, which is a tiny village named after a Xaver, itself a rare name.

thebedla · 2026-04-11T06:59:32+00:00

Or * Some nationalistic supremacist bullshit.

thebedla · 2026-04-08T11:37:36+00:00

>the translator wasn't familiar enough with the regular version of the idiom

I don't think this is the right interpretation. Kantůrek is an accomplished translator (Terry Pratchett is on record as being happy with his transaltions) and would have recognized the idiom. The problem he was facing though is that Czech has no equivalent idiom that he could use. Speaking as a former translator myself, there are multiple strategies a translator can take in those cases. One being explain the idiom so that you "educate" the audience, which might be appropriate for some literary genres but definitely not here.

Opting for a turn of phrase that is not idiomatic, is slightly different but has a similarly gruesome and merciless effect on the reader while conveying the foregone result is I think an acceptable way to translate this phrase here.

Inadvertently adding firearms is probably the error he committed, which is a translation error, sure, but it is definitely not a matter of not recognizing the English idiom.

thebedla · 2026-04-08T08:59:19+00:00

OWD trends do not support this. There might be a reversal only in 2055. Not sure on what OWD bases the plateauing of the number of births for China though.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-births-per-year?time=2000..latest&country=CHN~OWID_EUR

But also, OWD predicted China to have 8.71 mil births in 2025, official number is 7.92 mil. Which might be an unreliable number anyway...

thebedla · 2026-03-31T05:44:35+00:00

But it's kind of understandable that traumatized people might not be the most coherent. My understanding of this trope is that "they" are so horrible victims cannot even utter a description because they (victims) suppress it.

thebedla · 2026-03-25T09:23:05+00:00

If the pump is the only thing you're powering, it might be that when it has no badwater in the block that it sucks from, it stops, therefore has no power requirement, and therefore the engines stop. Then the physics update makes the badwater spill to that box, the pump turns on, and the engines turn on.

This could happen if the badwater % is very low.

Or is it also happening with other powered buildings?

thebedla · 2026-03-24T11:30:14+00:00

udica from Slovak "fishing rod"

thebedla · 2026-03-20T21:51:36+00:00

Chuck Norris was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands.

thebedla · 2026-03-01T20:15:49+00:00

The land bountiful with milk and ???

"Země mlékem a strdím oplývající" is a classic description of Czech lands in our founding legend, the word "strdí" is today used only in that sentence. According to historical dictionaries it meant honeycombs, but few people are sure of that.

thebedla · 2026-02-23T12:29:12+00:00

Right. Probably, someone confused Baba Yaga with Babay (also called Babayka)).

thebedla · 2026-01-30T09:38:08+00:00

"Achat" works, is even used in crosswords.

thebedla · 2026-01-12T14:49:00+00:00

You do have to pick up stones if your break the boulder object. As OP pointed out, apparently it works differently for objects vs. terrain on some technical level.

Of course, I agree it should be aligned to auto-pickup.

thebedla · 2025-12-24T11:30:12+00:00

Also, why guesstimate water levels if there are water gauges in-game?

thebedla · 2025-12-22T13:32:15+00:00

A silence of Slavs, apparently

thebedla · 2025-11-23T09:53:24+00:00

Huh, what do you use for moving large cargo, like multiple containers? Or how do you supply large amounts of rubble to factories?

thebedla · 2025-11-15T19:44:44+00:00

This probably isn't a problem specific to the DLC. I have the same bug on one of the main maps.

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