Dojan
@Dojan@pawb.social
- Comment on I'm tired 23 hours 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 2 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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] 1 week ago:
I heard someone say “sewer slide” the other week. In place of suicide.
Yup.
- Comment on Silver lining 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Really? In front of my salad?
- Comment on Wise frog says 2 weeks ago:
Me when it’s Wednesday and I get to spend time with my dudes.
- Comment on RIP 🚽 2 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 🚽 2 weeks ago:
I think combining the remains with faeces is probably illegal, because you aren’t allowed to debase them.
- Comment on RIP 🚽 2 weeks ago:
Human remains aren’t allowed to be kept. I’ve no idea about human faeces.
- Comment on RIP 🚽 2 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 🚽 2 weeks ago:
Det är inget ohygieniskt med aska.
- Comment on RIP 🚽 2 weeks ago:
Ingen aning. Du får ha aska från djur, men man får inte ha mormor i en urna i bokhyllan.
- Comment on RIP 🚽 2 weeks ago:
Here in Sweden you can’t keep human ashes. It’s illegal.
- Comment on Fix the system.. 2 weeks ago:
No. Smash the system, make something new.
- Comment on Raise your words 3 weeks ago:
Wise woofs.
- Comment on Shit 4 weeks ago:
He’s not yellow enough and she’s too old for this comparison to really work though.
- Comment on No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun 5 weeks ago:
In my experience the coop is hella buggy. The person I’m playing with has a rather rocky internet connection though, so I think a decent amount of it is because of that. The netcode certainly isn’t optimised, and whenever something is simulated on my friend’s computer, I basically have to give up the idea of interacting with it whatsoever.
Even so, I’m having fun with it.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 5 weeks ago:
There are a lot of debates. Vegan as a diet vs. lifestyle for example.
Some call themselves vegan when they have a plant-based diet, some insist that it’s a lifestyle and extend beyond just diet, into other aspects of life. Some are pro pets, others are against keeping animals at all.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yeah, I can believe the film producers cutting down a lot. Partially since they are books and adapting that into a film requires some cutting, but also partially because some of the stuff she wrote was really out there.
I don’t think the new adaptation has the same sense though. I cringed a little when I heard that they decided to cast a black guy as Snape, because the scene that immediately came to my mind is the one where he’s being bullied and hung off a tree by Harry’s father back when they were kids. When you make the target of that a black guy… it kind of paints a different picture.
In a vacuum it shouldn’t matter, you don’t do that to people. But there’s this historic precedent with white people hanging black people from trees. I’m not against gender-bending or race-bending characters at all, but you have to think of the context in which it happens. Dumbledore or McGonagall would’ve made more sense. Or Hermione, which Rowling herself has previously said could be black, why not put that money where her mouth is?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’m getting pretty tired of this tirade, honestly.
Rowling’s hateful and bigoted ideology is reflected in the books, it’s right there for anyone to see. You cannot extricate that from the story she tells. The story is bad, because her ideology is bad.
That’s not to say that there aren’t redeemable moments. Hitler treated most anyone badly, but he was pro animal-rights. I somehow don’t find that redeems him or his works as a whole.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yeah. I enjoyed these books as a kid, which makes sense because I was oblivious to the prejudices of society. One could argue that maybe Rowling was too, but given her actions I just don’t believe that.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Also, are we just going to ignore Professor McGonagall being childless and devoted to her career in academia in which she thrives and holds the respect of her peers and pupils?
You know what, that’s fair. McGonagall is a mostly unproblematic character, I feel. There are some moments where I feel like she meted out very strange punishments, like sending the kids out into a dangerous forest they were prohibited from being in because it’s potentially lethal, or when she locked Neville out of the Gryffindor common room while a murderer was on the loose.
That said, Caroline Easom did a video on the female characters that appear in the top 100 characters by mention in the books and there are some less savoury patterns in how Joanne portrays women.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Ah yeah, I’d forgotten about that. Pulled up the book to that chapter, and came across this
“Can Dobby give Harry Potter his present?” he squeaked tentatively.
“’Course you can,” said Harry. “Er . . . I’ve got something for you too.”
It was a lie; he hadn’t bought anything for Dobby at all, but he quickly opened his trunk and pulled out a particularly knobbly rolled-up pair of socks. They were his oldest and foulest, mustard yellow, and had once belonged to Uncle Vernon. The reason they were extra-knobbly was that Harry had been using them to cushion his Sneakoscope for over a year now. He pulled out the Sneakoscope and handed the socks to Dobby, saying, “Sorry, I forgot to wrap them. . . .”
[…]
Dobby now handed Harry a small package, which turned out to be — socks.
“Dobby is making them himself, sir!” the elf said happily. “He is buying the wool out of his wages, sir!”
The left sock was bright red and had a pattern of broomsticks upon it; the right sock was green with a pattern of Snitches.
“They’re . . . they’re really . . . well, thanks, Dobby,” said Harry, and he pulled them on, causing Dobby’s eyes to leak with happiness again.
A boy with a vault full of gold, couldn’t give his supposed friend something better than his uncle’s knobbly, “oldest and foulest, mustard yellow” socks. His slave friend appreciates it nonetheless, but like, surely he had nicer socks?
I can’t with this author. The fact that at the end of all of this, nothing has changed; people’s worth is still determined by breeding and bloodline, the slave race is still enslaved, just kind of makes the entire journey seem pointless to me.
Oh yeah, you killed wizard-Hitler but the wizard-nazi ideology is not just at large, but commonly practised by everyone, including by the good-guy rich-orphan turned wizard cop and his friends.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Pirating Harry Potter media is the only ethical way of consuming it. When I quoted the books here it was from an epub I obtained the same way the big corpos do it.