Dojan
@Dojan@pawb.social
- Comment on Any advice appreciated 6 hours ago:
If they want to live in Stockholm when they reach their 30s they’ll have to get in a queue today.
- Comment on Uber severely limits tips (<30%) 1 day ago:
But it is a good idea!
- Comment on I've been tapiring off lately. 1 day ago:
I didn’t know that tapirs came from England.
- Comment on Uber severely limits tips (<30%) 1 day ago:
Oh, that’s a great idea. If they empty ATMs the they won’t have to drive Uber anymore. And it’s a victimless crime to boot.
- Comment on Uber severely limits tips (<30%) 1 day ago:
“Or add more in cash.” Honestly, I don’t believe that Uber doesn’t steal from tips so cash tipping is what I’d do if I was rich enough to use Uber.
- Comment on Elections Have Consequences 5 days ago:
Me!
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls VI: Official Name Reveal 5 days ago:
Your son deserves better.
- Comment on Guild Wars Afterlife Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
Oh my gods. I didn’t think we’d ever get to see Xotecha.
- Comment on It used to be a library 2 weeks ago:
Heeey! We’re nice freaks! Besides, you’d be surprised to find how many of us are decently normal.
Like, not me, but there are at least a dozen.
- Comment on It used to be a library 2 weeks ago:
This still exists, it’s just niche. Having a little personal website with all sorts of silliness and whatever you create is incredibly popular among the techie furries.
- Comment on EA: Ruin Everything 2 weeks ago:
I wonder how much this is because of dumbing down, and how much it is because the market got larger. For example in the year 2002, The Sims was the highest selling game of all time, at ~6 million copies.
At the time, the perception of video games was still a hobby of sweaty nerds. Some years later the Wii launched, and it became really popular as a family console. It had some sports games, and I think it did a lot to get a foothold on a more general market. Games weren’t just for sweaty nerds anymore. Although even then, a lot of people didn’t play games.
Then at some point the marketing shifted. Games had broader stories, they tried for more mass-market appeal by selling cinematic experiences and whatnot (remember the awful QTE era of like the late-2000s early 2010s?)
At that point, I think gaming in general had broadened its appeal. A lot of people had consoles, PC hardware wasn’t prohibitively expensive, etc.
I don’t doubt that dumbing down games has had an effect, by making things simpler and flattening the learning curve you make it more accessible. That’s a given. But I also think gaming becoming a more generally accessible and socially acceptable past time was a big contributor.
Once smart phones came along the mobile game market exploded, and I think that’s still the biggest market segment, though it’s moved on from its original simple puzzle games into bigger experiences, some that even translate decently well over to other mediums.
- Comment on The fluffy tail butt plug is part of this year's fox-themed costume 2 weeks ago:
That reminds me so much of Manananggal!
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 2 weeks ago:
I’d not heard of an Expanse game. I hope it features Shohreh Aghdashloo. I fucking love that woman.
- Comment on I'm tired 2 weeks ago:
I loved Covid, like not the disease or people dying. But the rise in WFH. My company finally wants to cease all WFH and it fucking sucks. I’m ready for another pandemic.
I can’t really do offices, I burn out way too fast. It’s not my kind of environment. Covid let me be a functional member of society, it gave me a taste of normalcy. Now all that is being taken away because middle-management needs to justify expensive offices. Offices that also drive up property costs so no one can afford homes.
Yay~!
- Comment on Doesn't want to pay child support. Denies he is the father of this boy 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. It’s like the family bloggers who shove their kids onto the spotlight before they can even talk. There’s a cost there that the kids pay, and the parents don’t care at all.
- Comment on The Anonborn gets recruited 3 weeks ago:
The Nords’ early experience with elves was being the victims of genocide
The lore leaves this ambiguous though. There’s lore that states that the Nords attacked first, and lore that states that the Falmer attacked first. What followed was a war that in the end left the Falmer driven underground, all but wiped out.
Some lore claim that the Nords justification for this is false. History tends to be written by the victors, so I lean more towards that theory, honestly. It seems unlikely that the Nords managed to re-populate with only Ysgramor and his two sons remaining. The inbreeding would explain why they all sound so dumb, though.
- Comment on The Anonborn gets recruited 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know that they care much for choice. Skyrim is really watered down in terms of roleplaying aspects compared to Oblivion, which in turn is really watered down compared to Morrowind.
Hell some genuinely complain about Morrowind not being a good RPG because of it missing aspects from Daggerfall, like the whole having to go to court if you commit a crime.
When it comes to Skyrim, I think the strength begins and ends in the world building. The characters are flat and uninspired. The quests are flat and uninspired. The voice acting is cringe and uninspired. If they’d bothered to write more engaging storylines, and have more than one pivotal character have a unique voice actor, they could’ve made something really nice.
Now it’s a nice sandbox, and you can have some nice experiences, but I wouldn’t call it a good RPG. Or a good action game. A fun sandbox world and modding platform with subpar quests and dungeons.
- Comment on The Anonborn gets recruited 3 weeks ago:
Eugh. I really hope not. I hate the pseudo-Nordic culture in Skyrim. The faux Nordic accent makes me want to crawl out of my skin every time I hear it.
And the names! Gods, the names. Skjor is one syllable away from shirt. Aela sounds more Greek to me, but she’s apparently super Nord. Bjornolfr is unique, I’ve never heard of someone named Bear-Wolf in real, but I don’t hate it. Benor is like hair-partings.
Surnames here also tend to come in a couple forms
- Patronyms, in Icelandic Matronyms are also common
- Andersson
- Sigurdsdottir
- Svensson
- Adamsdottir
- Noble names, these tend to reflect a coat of arms
- Leijonhufvud (Lion’s Head)
- Uggla (Owl)
- Educated people often adopted Latin names
- Nobelius (see Alfred Noble)
- Linnaeus
- Some are very natural in origin
- Björk (Birch)
- Almgren (Elm branch)
- Bergfors (Mountain stream)
In the middle ages there were also by-names, where people were given a name to describe them. Like Jarl Karl the Deaf and his son Wolf the Horrible Son of Karl. Or a local (to me) figure, Erik the Lisping-and-Limping.
- Patronyms, in Icelandic Matronyms are also common
- Comment on The Anonborn gets recruited 3 weeks ago:
Well, the Falmer were there first really. They were subsequently enslaved by the Dwemer. Then the Atmorans (Nord) came along and performed a genocide and have been butthurt about it ever since.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I heard someone say “sewer slide” the other week. In place of suicide.
Yup.
- Comment on Silver lining 4 weeks ago:
Same. GIMP and Krita.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos claims AI could allow 3-day workweeks; man who won't give employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 4 weeks ago:
Is that actually Bezos, or a wax figure of him?
- Comment on Jeff Bezos claims AI could allow 3-day workweeks; man who won't give employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 4 weeks ago:
Well no, because now a portion of what you’d be paid needs to go to the billionaires who own the datacentres and the LLMs. :)
- Comment on In the middle of the street 4 weeks ago:
Really? In front of my salad?
- Comment on Wise frog says 4 weeks ago:
Me when it’s Wednesday and I get to spend time with my dudes.
- Comment on RIP 🚽 5 weeks ago:
Right? I’ve a friend in England who has a little urn with some of their mother’s ashes. I’m personally planning on keeping my dog’s ashes when he passes. However, apparently keeping a human is a no-no.
Sweden has this rep of being very liberal and free, but there’s a lot going on here that’s baffling. We’ve got some of the highest drug related deaths in Europe, and every single party in parliament is for the heavy criminalisation of drug use. It’s like the one thing they’re all agreeing on. We even did some stop-and-frisk for a while!
- Comment on RIP 🚽 5 weeks ago:
I think combining the remains with faeces is probably illegal, because you aren’t allowed to debase them.
- Comment on RIP 🚽 5 weeks ago:
Human remains aren’t allowed to be kept. I’ve no idea about human faeces.
- Comment on RIP 🚽 5 weeks ago:
According to Skatteverket, a deceased must be cremated or buried within a month of death. If they get cremated, then the ashes need to be buried within a year. There can be exceptions, the page says
- Should the relatives be in disagreement about funerary arrangements
- In case a relative is unable to organise it, e.g. due to sickness
- In case a survivor is to be buried alongside
- In case the departed has donated their body, e.g. for science
No idea if you can turn loved ones into gemstones here, I’d assume not. I’d also assume that if you’re waiting with burying the cremated remains of someone because they’re to be laid to rest alongside a loved one, you’re also not allowed to keep said remains at home.
- Comment on RIP 🚽 5 weeks ago:
Det är inget ohygieniskt med aska.