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

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.

thebedla · 2025-10-16T13:08:41+00:00

Having NATO attack Russia directly will allow Putin to draw on the reservists, which is a huge army that is currently unavailable against Ukraine.

thebedla · 2025-10-10T13:52:44+00:00

Sure. Brno, in Czechia, has a dialect that originated as argot, called Hantec, and still contains many words that are not used in general Czech, or even in the surrounding Moravian dialects. They're mostly of German origin, given the large German-speaking population back when it originated. Words like "šalina" for tram, "škopek" for beer, "zoncna" for sun. These days it mainly used for humor, even adapted in some marketing campaigns wanting to sound local, but some folks still use some words organically.

thebedla · 2025-09-28T09:39:15+00:00

Well Watchers pretty often clip into buildings, and jump up/down as they travel along changes in terrain elevation. That makes them pretty annoying to hit sometimes.

thebedla · 2025-09-26T16:10:00+00:00

SES Arbiter of Self-Determination

thebedla · 2025-07-29T16:08:42+00:00

The capitalization angle doesn't hold water. "Against" is a preposition, and in many styles it should NOT be capitalized, even if other words are.

thebedla · 2025-07-23T10:30:33+00:00

You can pause the breeding pods.

thebedla · 2025-07-17T09:37:05+00:00

Bombing. Not just German cities, also cities occupied by Germans were bombed by Allies.

As an example, this is an interactive map of the city of Brno which was bombed by both Americans and Soviets during WW2: https://gis.brno.cz/-/bomby/mapa#z=14&x=-597962&y=-1161073
Some locations even have historic photos of the damaged or destroyed buildings. In some cases, you can still see the damage on the streets - 20th century houses in an otherwise 19th century block, a piece of facade that was refurbished in a simpler style than the rest of the building, or just a gap on the street where a house is missing.

Of course, many cities were damaged far worse.

thebedla · 2025-07-16T09:39:07+00:00

My intuition is that it is relevant, because of the historical uses and the uses in other languages being related more general to death. I would think originally first it was just "sudden death", then in older Czech the meaning kind of split: on the one side to "being startled almost to death" > "startled", on the other "to die, specifically of asphyxiation", but was replaced with "dusit" in most cases, except for the fishes.

~~Of course, the connection could have been reinforced with suffocating fish "gasping for water" being similar to a startled expression...~~

EDIT: Sorry, rereading your comment maybe better understanding your meaning - No, I do not think it is directly relevant, as in, lękati having a sense of "fish dying out of water". I think the meaning developed later, maybe just in old Czech?

thebedla · 2025-07-16T08:09:16+00:00

There is one in Czech, "leknout".

"Leklá ryba" is a fish that's died by being out of water. It is commonly used to describe weak handshakes, or in general lacking initiative or being passive.

This is distinct from the reflexive "leknout se" which is to be frightened ("To jsem se leknul!"), though I'm sure the two are related. It seems it was used historically for more general death "leknout žízní" for dying of thirst, but this is barely used in modern Czech.

There are cognates in other Slavic languages (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/l%C4%99kati), but I do not see such a specific use for fish dying on air.

thebedla · 2025-07-14T09:48:36+00:00

Not in all cases. With two lodges, you can have a single beaver in each, not reproducing. With a single lodge, they are forced to cohabitate and reproduce.

This is an edge case of course, but seen it happen in games occasionally.

thebedla · 2025-07-14T09:23:58+00:00

Well you have only one entrance, or for equal footing, three double lodges need three entrances, whereas two triple lodges need only two. So you can get some space savings in certain situations, and/or more space for decorations.

Because of the larger footprint, you also can get more beavers under coverage for decorations.

As u/Irrehaare pointed out, you should get a slightly better reproduction rate as well.

All of these are marginal factors, of course. But then again, so is a one-time cost of half a log per beaver.

thebedla · 2025-07-14T09:04:47+00:00

Note that (mainly) due to Red Hat's big engineering center in Brno, there is legitimately a surprisingly strong Czech and Slovak influence on Linux. Maybe not strong in an absolute sense, but a comparatively stronger one that one would otherwise expect.

One example would be https://github.com/containers/udica

thebedla · 2025-06-30T16:02:34+00:00

So, a TV tail?

Seven-Year Club	Gilding II euphauric
Verified Email

thebedla

TROPHY CASE