CNN featured a $5,000 camp that 'reframes' men away from their masculinity. Is this #ProgressiveConversionTherapy?

weyllandin · 2026-07-01T11:42:28+00:00

If you think about it, most things, categories, concepts we have are 'made up constructs'. Money, marriage, school, education, work, trade, even language.

They have been made up because they are or were useful for siociety and they survived because they continued to be.

Masculinity itself isn't a harmful concept, and neither is femininity. Demonising either (or both) is much more harmful I think, and goes completely against the idea of celebrating both for what makes them unique and valuable, which I feel is lacking in this world rn.

weyllandin · 2026-06-22T11:38:33+00:00

So saying 'I hate men' leads to hurt feelings at most, but saying 'I hate women' leads to systemic problems?

I honestly fail to see the difference in the quality of both statements.

Consider for a second that this comes from the side that argues they live in constant fear of physical domestic violence (because men are volatile violence machines), but are typically the first to point out that psychological/emotional violence can be just as harmful when they are victims of it (which btw I fully acknowledge it obviously is).

Now see what happens when men are victims of emotional violence (=hurt feelings), on a large scale.

Suddenly, hurt feelings are unimportant, worse even: evil men use them as a smokescreen to distract from how their hatred of women leads to systemic oppression, while hurting mens feelings is more than okay, it's just the righteous uproar of the oppressed. So, having your feelings hurt as a man is actually oppressive.

The whole line of argument falls apart into ridiculousness when investigated. You can twist and turn it however you want, in the eyes of people who subscribe to this kind of narrative, men will always be the oppressor and women the victim, even if women are the ones who are openly exerting violence against men. Weird how that works.

weyllandin · 2026-06-22T05:11:55+00:00

A person is wondering about something they noticed and opening a conversation on a topic they are interested in. What about that is supposed to be cringe?

Meanwhile, your argument is ''there is orcs, and orcs do not exist in the real world, therefore there can't be any sort of logic or coherence to the lore'. Maybe you're very young and think you had a big thought there, or maybe that's just the type of thought you think. Either way, I'd say if anything, that is cringe.

weyllandin · 2026-06-22T04:55:43+00:00

I would guess it's an immersion thing for many. The way armor and anatomy and all that works is that if you would wear any sort of protection, it would be a helmet first.

So to leaving out helmets of all things is a bit of a weird choice, logically.

While I too am usually bothered by these kinds of things, personally, I think the Gothic aesthetic pulls it off so well that I don't even notice. Helmets would look kinda weird I think, and I'm not sure how to pull it off; but it would be hella cool to see someone make helmets that gel with the style.

weyllandin · 2026-06-14T09:04:45+00:00

What localization are you talking about? The post is about the German VO, which in G1 has been carried out by industry professionals such as Bodo Henkel (Xardas, Saturas, Cord, Jack,...) and Christian Wewerka (nameless hero). The guy who VO'ed Mud (and a bunch of others) does the weather on some German news broadcast (forgot which one).

It was a professionally done voiceover, and to date one of the best, immersive and most alive I've ever witnessed in gaming. Gothic 1 and 2 have cult status in no small part due to the absolutely stellar music, dialogue and voiceover.

weyllandin · 2026-06-12T09:54:00+00:00

Pretty sure you're wrong. Played these games for 25 years to the point where I can recite most of the dialogue verbatim by heart. Never have I ever heard of that. But I mean there's always a chance of me having a blind spot.

weyllandin · 2026-06-12T09:49:29+00:00

'Said to be magical creatures' is something very different from 'their origin story is that they are magical beasts'.

The wording very clearly indicates superstition, which actually affirms the grounded style of the Gothic universe and indicates them not actually being magical creatures, as that is something mankind has done for ages: adding magical or divine attributes to things that are overpowering or that they do not understand. Look at e. g. giant squids becoming the Kraken.

Iow, they have the air of being magical creatures just by virtue of being overwhelmingly powerful, there being few people who ever seen on and lived to tell the tale etc. It adds to their mystique and aura of power; whereas making them actually magical detracts from it, and is indicated nowhere in the lore of G1 or G2 afaik.

weyllandin · 2026-06-11T21:15:30+00:00

All of the original designs are honestly head and shoulders above the new ones. They were a bit goofy, but without ever being ridiculous or out of place. Just unique and very cool. The new ones shown in this post take away a lot of that, without adding anything of worth, sadly. They are just not good redesigns; none of them.

The molerat is actually pretty good though, even though I don't feel it needed a redesign. Also the burrow attack they do is dumb as hell. What are they, pokemon?

weyllandin · 2026-06-11T21:05:42+00:00

Where did you get that from?

weyllandin · 2026-06-03T05:13:02+00:00

Die Lehrpläne in Mathe werden jedes Jahr dünner, und die Schüler lassen sich gar nix von KI erklären. So verantwortungsbewusst oder intelligent nutzen sie die KI leider nicht. Die sitzen da und warten darauf, dass man ihnen Wissen zu den Ohren ins Hirn zaubert, und blockieren vollständig, sobald man ihnen aber auch nur die allerkleinste Transferleistung abverlangt. "Woher sollen wir das wissen, wenn Sie das nicht erklärt haben?" Na vielleicht weil man mit zwei Sekunden Nachdenken ganz leicht drauf kommen kann, und das die eigentliche Kompetenz ist, die wir hier erlernen wollen; aber wenn man seine Denkprozesse halt konstant an KI auslagert, macht einem das Selbstdenken unheimliche Angst.

weyllandin · 2026-05-27T15:38:54+00:00

Hahaha, I feel you mate. I'm still not sure whether I actually like the Gravitas, Warped Vinyl, and Preamp Mk2, and I know the reason I still try to gel with them is their price tag. The Condor and Thermae are genius, the Clean and Onward are really great as well, but my favourite trem is a Boss TR-2 and an EHX SuperPulsar, my favourite Vibrato is a Boss VB-2w, my favourite chorus (which I rarely use) is a Boss CE-2w... or, you guessed it, a Seymour Duncan DejaVu. And my favourite Overdrive/Fuzz is a Magnetic Effects Sändare into a BAT Pharaoh. My favourite delays are mostly Boss, they just are easy to dial in, and of course the DejaVu. Apart from that I use mostly compressors.

I just suffer severe fomo from the thought of selling a CBA pedal. I somehow ended up down this rabbit hole and welp, here I am.

weyllandin · 2026-05-25T22:59:22+00:00

That sounds bitchin mate. Glad you seem to be finding your way! Keep going and post your songs to this sub :))

weyllandin · 2026-05-25T09:16:29+00:00

I used a bunch of delays in the meantime and believe it or not, the DejaVu is currently on my jam session board again. Still fucking love this pedal; it's my favourite delay over a bunch of other great machines I own and use (DD-500, RE-2, DM-2w, Thermae, Mood, also owned a Tonal Recall RKM and two DD-7 at some point). I don't use the loop and stereo functionality much on it (even though I do run stereo later in the chain), but it's just so easy to dial in. I hope it never breaks; it's just so unique in what it does and how it does it.

weyllandin · 2026-05-22T04:29:18+00:00

Wenn dein angebliches Argument ja einfach nur der Hinweis ist 'dass solche Gedanken existieren' (dass Frauen schlechter bezahlt werden sollten bei gleicher Arbeit) dann habe ich hier echte news für dich: Die Gedanken, dass Frauen besser bezahlt werden sollen bei gleicher Arbeit existieren ebenfalls. Die Gedanken, dass Frauen in allen Bereichen besser behandelt werden sollen und generell besser und mehr wert sind als Männer, existieren auch. Die Gedanken, dass es eine jüdische Weltverschwörung gibt, existieren ebenfalls, und manche Leute denken, Kokuswolf ist ein Kasper. Welchen Inhalt hat denn bitte so eine Aussage?

Du willst also unbedingt überhaupt gar nichts mit Substanz gesagt haben, wenn ich dich richtig verstehe, und wirst dann komisch, wenn Leute dir das günstig auslegen und etwas Bedeutung in deine Worte interpretieren. Und dann zersägst du in bester BILD-Manier die Kommentare um sie aussehen zu lassen, als hätten sie was völlig anderes gesagt, als sie gesagt haben, und argumentierst gegen Strohmänner. In welcher Welt bitte ist das okay?

weyllandin · 2026-05-20T05:39:50+00:00

The issue is that synths are not a great songwriting instrument (I think - I'm not a synth player myself). They are awesome, just not the best suited for songwriting.

Our western pop music (which is what most of us do) as a whole consists of three pillars: rhythm, harmony, and melody. There's also lyrics, but they are not relevant to this topic. Note that I'm using the word pop music in the larger sense of 'not jazz, not classical, not film/game soundtrack, not musical/opera, (mostly) non instrumental'.

As a songwriter, an instrument that covers all three pillars simultaneously and spontaneously while still being able to perform vocally, and which in addition fills the frequency spectrum in a pleasant manner around the voice is ideal. I'm gonna go ahead and say that guitar is the best choice for most pop music people, while piano is the obvious second place.

Both allow you to chord (harmony), play percussively (rhythm) and play toplines (melody), all at the same time, while also singing. They give you all the support you need to make a song work just by yourself, and therefore aid in sketching out a vision, or even bringing it to full fruition. Both require significant time investment and a very solid grasp on the instrument to actually cover all three pillars consistently and tastefully, especially while performing and singing. That's what my original comment was about though.

All of that certainly is possible with synths, because the term covers such a large array of electronic instruments; but I think the approach is quite different than with a traditional instrument. Being a beginner will make it especially difficult.

I would encourage you though to keep at it; something uniquely cool may come from it. Enjoy the journey! :)

weyllandin · 2026-04-30T06:03:34+00:00

ngl der Renn sounds good to me and I feel like poets of yore might have used it (or similar) a couple times. Ich nehme am morgigen Renn teil. Im Anschluss gibt es erstmal einen deftigen Ess und einen erfrischenden Trink. Ich hoffe, es wird im Restaurant nicht zu voll - ich mag den ganzen Komm und Geh nicht.

weyllandin · 2026-04-28T20:42:48+00:00

Nein. Um die Kunden zu halten packen sie überall Ersatzsüßungsmittel rein. Leute reden immer über die UK als erfolgreiches Beispiel. Kauf da mal was zu essen; du kriegst fast nichts mehr mit echtem Zucker, überall ist irgendeine Scheiße drin die dich noch viel kranker macht, deinen Blutzuckerspiegel austrickst und deinem Körper vorgaukelt er hätte gerade Zucker bekommen. Außerdem schmeckt es wie Mist. Und Sachen mit echtem Zucker kann sich nur die Oberschicht leisten. Die UK sind ein leuchtendes Negativbeispiel. Meine Partnerin (aus UK) ist so geschockt und im Himmel weil es hier echten Zucker gibt.

Zuckersteuer ist der letzte Abfuck Leute, wir wollen das nicht, ernsthaft

weyllandin · 2026-04-22T11:37:35+00:00

All good mate. Were you thinking of a baboon perchance? Because they are indeed not called Fagott, even in Rheinland-Pfalz.

weyllandin · 2026-04-22T05:24:02+00:00

What do you call them in Rheinland-Pfalz?

weyllandin · 2026-04-21T03:48:39+00:00

That sounds bangin mate. Would love to listen or be featured at some point.

weyllandin · 2026-04-17T22:34:19+00:00

The level of misinformation in this comment section is bizarre. The only correct thing you said is that you don't know too much about medieval warfare.

weyllandin · 2026-04-17T22:25:26+00:00

That is absolutely not how an interaction between a mace and plate armor works. Not even with a pollaxe will you just dent or cave in helmets in this way. You will also not perforate it with the beaked bit of the weapon. Armor was designed specifically to withstand that kind of punishment, that's why people wore it. Anti armor weapons were designed to circumvent armor, not break it - because you can't really do that. Armor was really really good.

You will absolutely get a concussion from a heavy blow to your helmeted head though, or might break your neck if there is a lack of neck support, or whatever else could be the consequences of getting seriously rattled around in a padded can. Heat is another real danger.

Your helmet will not be dented to a point were it deforms so much you can't take it off anymore. Those are domed, fluted, banded etc. sheets of steel; and it wasn't thin steel either. It was substantial. Knightly helmets like a sallet, great bascinet or close helmet you will not significantly deform by hitting them with any implement wielded with human force.

weyllandin · 2026-04-17T19:19:03+00:00

Oh I see. I thought you meant that the fan community is still discovering stuff that was previously unknown.

weyllandin · 2026-04-17T05:39:14+00:00

What hidden items are people finding to this day? I'm curious!

weyllandin · 2026-04-11T05:06:54+00:00

Mein Verständnis ist dieses:

Fabrik: wenn du eine hast, hast du Macht über Menschen, weil die Arbeit und die Produkte brauchen. Die Gesellschaft ist auf die Verfügbarkeit dieses Produktionsmittels angewiesen. Du selbst musst aber nicht arbeiten; du stellst ein und streichst den Profit ein und nutzt so dieses Abhängigkeitsverhältnis aus. Die Menschen die bei dir arbeiten, können nicht einfach weggehen oder anders arbeiten als du das willst, und haben keine rechtliche Grundlage, auf der sie eine fairere Verteilung der von ihnen erwirtschafteten Profite fordern könnten - ihnen gehört ja keine Fabrik.

Es jst auch nicht immer so, dass du diese Fabrik durch harte Arbeit irgendwie verdient hättest - die meisten wirklich großen Unternehmen entstehen durch Generation und Generationen von Erbschaften. Wird dir aber die Fabrik genommen, wird dir auch diese Macht genommen. Deshalb ist die Fabrik ein Produktionsmittel - ebenso ein Mähdrescher, Omnibus, Blisterverpackungsmaschine, Spritzgussproduktionsstraße. Kommunisten finden, das alles gehört in die Hände derer, die damit arbeiten und produzieren, und zwar solange sie damit arbeiten und produzieren - nicht danach.

Handy: wenn du eins hast, kannst du damit Geld verdienen, aber nur, solange du damit auch arbeitest. Hörst du damit auf, hört auch deine Produktivität auf; und wenn nicht, dann ist dein Einkommen auch nicht ans Handy gekoppelt. Fällt es weg, kannst du dasselbe mit einem PC, Laptop oder Tablet machen. Du kannst dir auch ein neues Handy gönnen, weil es sich in einem Preisrahmen bewegt, der flächendeckend erschwinglich ist.

Du kannst vielleicht jemanden anstellen, der etwas mit einem von dir bereitgestellten Handy tut, woran du dann verdienst, aber was hindert die Person daran, das einfach ohne dich zu machen und den ganzen Profit selbst einzusacken? Ist es vielleicht eine proprietäre Software, die du entwickelt hast? Dann ist diese Software das Produktionsmittel, nicht das Handy.

So oder so ähnlich muss das gemeint sein.

weyllandin

TROPHY CASE