Dojan
@Dojan@pawb.social
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 4 hours ago:
I only know this from clips of the film.
You named my daughter after the Loch Ness monster?!
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 4 hours ago:
I love this.
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 1 day ago:
This had me cackling like a forest hag. Thank you for helping me achieve my goals.
- Comment on Does the fact Stoat.chat doesn't have E2EE mean the server owner can read any and all messages, including DMs? 4 days ago:
Last I read about it they weren’t planning on ever implementing federation. Hope they can change their minds.
- Comment on Sick days 6 days ago:
I’ve never understood any worker defending this. It’s disgusting.
- Comment on An oopsie occured 1 week ago:
Wow, and whoever posted the screenshot did nothing to help. SMHing my head.
- Comment on Not that limit 1 week ago:
lim means glue in Swedish.
That’s all I know.
- Comment on Did you all know these things can be pickled??? 1 week ago:
I put radishes in my paocai all the time.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 1 week ago:
Not to get all up in your business but wow, you’re being really lazy and disrupting the circle of life here buddy. You should poop more seeds.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 week ago:
I remember when this was explained to me and my little mind was blown. Your comment reminded me of that moment. Thank you.
- Comment on lightbulbs 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have this problem. Cold light puts me on edge though.
- Comment on Simple 2 weeks ago:
We have multi-lingual packaging here too. Where I’m from it’s usually quadrilingual, but it could have more or fewer.
- Comment on PSA 2 weeks ago:
Littman’s the one who went to a terf-parent forum, and polled the people there about whether or not they thought that their kids “becoming” trans was a sudden thing or not, right?
Because obviously rapid onset gender dysphoria makes more sense than people not sharing their experiences with their hateful parents.
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 2 weeks ago:
It’s not like Bethesda couldn’t afford to hire Nordic voice actors. They just chose not to do so.
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 2 weeks ago:
The best Swedish accent I’ve heard was the Russian gangster father of Alfie Allen in the first John Wick film. Makes sense given that the actor, Michael Nyqvist was Swedish.
Skyrim’s NPCs sound and act like they’ve been lobotomised.
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say that Oblivion or Skyrim has much better gameplay, honestly. Yeah the weird dice-roll mechanic is gone, not that dice rolls necessarily make for a bad game (see the entire Baldur’s Gate franchise, including the latest installment) but the combat in Oblivion and Skyrim isn’t exactly good. It’s floaty and feels really weird.
Oblivion retains more of Morrowinds roleplay mechanics, too. Skyrim is just a flat, empty game. They leant really far into this garbage faux viking aesthetic, complete with rubbish accents (as a Swede, we don’t sound like that here in the Nordics) and there’s nothing really memorable about it. It plays and feels about as drab as it looks.
Like to-date, there are still aspects of Oblivion and Morrowind I recall fondly. One of my favourite wow-moments in Oblivion was the quest with the woman who tasked you with finding her painter husband. That’s a fun quest. Skyrim has nothing like that.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 3 weeks ago:
Why is there always a neighbour that’s drilling? I live in a similar style building, but much smaller. There’s always someone who drills.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Venture capitalist obsessed with eternal youth drinks his son’s cum or something like that.
- Comment on Anon plays GTA VI 4 weeks ago:
Can confirm. I’m a liar and definitely not gay. I love tits, man!
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 5 weeks ago:
Tjosan! :) Vi har ju haft det som kärnämne sedan 50-talet. Min mor är i 70-års åldern och är yngre än engelska som kärnämne.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 5 weeks ago:
I speak Japanese, and can still read German and understand most of it. German’s the secondary language I studied.
I’m a native Swedish speaker so technically English is my second language, and the others came after.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 5 weeks ago:
Why? There’s plenty of strange things in English, inconsistent grammar rules, weird pronunciations, and pointless words for simple ideas.
Like there’s umpteen words to describe different kinds of meat, pork, beef, veal, mutton. In Chinese you can get away with saying just the animal + meat, 猪肉, 牛肉, 小牛肉, 羊肉 (pig meat, cow meat, young cow meat, goat meat).
English has stupid rules around pluralisation. There’s been arguments that the origin of the word should dictate how it’s pluralised, and other arguments that a “true English” pluralisation rule should apply, but then incorrect usage slips into common vernacular and suddenly it’s perfectly okay to pluralise a Greek word with a Latin plural suffix. Then you end up with the plural of octopus being octopodes, octopuses, and octopi!
The long and the short of it is that all languages have weird-ass quirks in them that don’t necessarily make any sense but feel natural to their native speakers. It’s a prime example of how intuitiveness isn’t actually real a thing.
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 5 weeks ago:
Homeopathic burgers.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 5 weeks ago:
It’s not enshittified because the Switch was already shit.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 month ago:
Nope. Think we had wheat on occasion but I don’t recall feeling strongly about it. It’s something I’ve started doing more in recent years and I was a fan from the start. You can prepare it in various ways, like cooking it in a broth makes it absorb the flavours. Or you could just boil it with salt like you’d boil pasta, in which case it’s not that different in terms of flavour.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 month ago:
Aye, this makes sense. You can pickle fish just as easily as you can create berry preserves, and ultimately the goal is to have enough calories around to get you through winter, the more efficiently you spend your time the better I suppose.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 month ago:
It being tasty or not is entirely subjective. I’m a big fan of boiled wheat. The texture is fantastic.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 month ago:
I would’ve thought there were at least lingonberries over there? Lingon preserves have been around and ubiquitous enough since at least around the 1600s here in Sweden. In addition to that, off the top of my head there’s also blueberries, juniper, and at some point rose hips were introduced. Depending on where you are you could harvest cloudberries. In late spring/early summer you could harvest pine needles, as well as young pine cones.
In some part of China (Yunnan I think, but I could be wrong) they also harvest pine pollen, though I’ve not heard of that practise around here.
Granted, the ecology is decently different between Sweden and Norway, if they actually lived on a hunk of rock with no forest in sight I’d assume it’d be hard to get berries.
- Comment on Hate it when this happens 1 month ago:
ぶっ掛け (bukkake) is a noun, like “a splash of coffee.”
ぶっ掛ける (bukkakeru) is a verb, like “I like to splash around.”
Granted, bukkake isn’t that kind of splash, it’s rather “they splashed water on the flames.”
- Comment on Hate it when this happens 1 month ago:
I think it’s funny, because bukkake is just a noun, kind of meaning to splash something over something else. There are even dishes called bukkake, e.g. bukkake soba. But since in the anglosphere it pretty much exclusively refers to the sexual act, that just has a very different connotation.