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playing Mount & Blade WFaS with the Enhanced Unofficial mod, and there's a castle town called "Imha Etme" in there. I know...

playing Mount & Blade WFaS with the Enhanced Unofficial mod, and there's a castle town called "Imha Etme" in there. I know that the mod misspells some other places, and mixes endo- & exonyms, but Googling that name turns up nothing.

So I wonder what the source is for "Imha Etme" as a place name.

The earth is a book. Every soil horizon, every sedimentary layer or ring of a tree is a page in that book - it is just waiting to be read.

The earth is a book. Every soil horizon, every sedimentary layer or ring of a tree is a page in that book - it is just waiting to be read.

My handle is still "Argacyan" here, but recently I switched most of my social media over to "Argakyan". Changing the...

My handle is still "Argacyan" here, but recently I switched most of my social media over to "Argakyan". Changing the "c" for a "k".

Es ist Nooktober, meine Genossen

Es ist Nooktober, meine Genossen

In a world where stuff like the switch from "Kiev" to "Kyiv" happened I feel more & more let down each year by what...

In a world where stuff like the switch from "Kiev" to "Kyiv" happened I feel more & more let down each year by what changes I don't see happening which would be simple as that & have been a thing on the to-do list for longer. But hey I got maybe another century to live to get even more disappointed.

People with an idea in their mind of a situation where ethnic cleansing was in the past okay in one case will have an easier time defending...

People with an idea in their mind of a situation where ethnic cleansing was in the past okay in one case will have an easier time defending other cases. They already have an example to look at, then compare if the facts of the next case match a scenario where it's "okay" or "good".

Facts can be real, made up or ignored in cases where it's inconvenient - a condition can be made to be met or not.

Their past example can be as stupidly defended as "they liked it", "it was just deportations & flight", "they started it", "it was never their home, but ours", ... you get the picture

Talking about the Star Wars films I used to be more flexible about it, but today I think the best chronology to watch the films in is first...

Talking about the Star Wars films I used to be more flexible about it, but today I think the best chronology to watch the films in is first the original trilogy & then the prequels. Not only do you follow along the evolution of cinema techniques, but you also can sorta mix up the narrative style.

What I mean is with the OT Episodes 4 to 6 you can see the story like "this happens then that happens as consequence, then that, etc". When you get to the prequels it flips over into being analytical like "this was the consequence of that, and that happened so this became a thing".

I was just reminded of how fucking ironic it was for Battlefield 1 to wax on so much about the tragedy of war & that everybody involved...

I was just reminded of how fucking ironic it was for Battlefield 1 to wax on so much about the tragedy of war & that everybody involved has a story to tell before explicitly refusing to feature a campaign as any non-Entente, or any Central Powers, unit throughout the entire WW1.

I once wrote academically about the depiction of non-white people participating in WW1, or rather how they were and continue to be whitewashed out of history each step of the way, and I swear eventually I should get around to writing about this shit too cause it's just as annoying.

I think maybe strategy games tend to be better on that note, but it kinda comes with the genre where you have more distance to what happens...

I think maybe strategy games tend to be better on that note, but it kinda comes with the genre where you have more distance to what happens on-screen etc. Once you think of games which focus heavily on human interaction yeah... If you think about what actually happens on-screen it's kinda absurd.

There used to be arguments against having German world-war (WW2 specifically....) stories in games ranging from good to just flat out nazi shit from a different country's perspective. The risk of sending a wrong message about nazis is a valid risk - but looking back we've always been there already.

There's exterminationist rhetoric in Call of Duty games including my favourite one.

I remembered that Bf5 had a German WW2 campaign as a major game release & I think I should try that out someday. German stories in world...

I remembered that Bf5 had a German WW2 campaign as a major game release & I think I should try that out someday. German stories in world war games (but also in general) have long been kind of a taboo topic in the past beyond the odd short trip especially when it comes to big industry players.

I enjoyed games centered in the world war period throughout a period of time wherein virtually every other gamer moved on to other stuff like the modern-warfare boom.

... Even if so fucking many games are nothing better than a US version of "Triumph of the Will" or whatever, over and over again.

Since 2011 Bethesda has released no other RPG game but Skyrim. Did it release a Fallout game or a space game? It hasn't, but what it...

Since 2011 Bethesda has released no other RPG game but Skyrim. Did it release a Fallout game or a space game? It hasn't, but what it released is reskins for Skyrim. There's a Skyrim with guns and a Skyrim with multiple planets, but fundamentally there is only Skyrim. Vanilla Skyrim.

been doing field work in the middle of nowhere and I don't like how much litter & garbage I can find... And the stuff I saw...

been doing field work in the middle of nowhere and I don't like how much litter & garbage I can find... And the stuff I saw didn't look like it was carried by animals or the wind.

Stuff that did doesn't make it better either if people litter elsewhere for it to be dispersed into wilderness.

It's neat to read stuff like this, but the fact that it happens once on a soon 2 years old post on Tumblr is part of what keeps me from...

It's neat to read stuff like this, but the fact that it happens once on a soon 2 years old post on Tumblr is part of what keeps me from producing too many information ressources (Maps here) beyond personal interest.

(Almost) Nobody on social media is interested in maps has been my experience.

The more time I spend in Canada the more do I feel like you Canadians should beg indigenous communities on your hands & knees to enhance...

The more time I spend in Canada the more do I feel like you Canadians should beg indigenous communities on your hands & knees to enhance your food culture with more unique local dishes.

(that and land back to the degree that I can see it on maps as a different colour with borders, instead of constantly talking about how grateful you are without meaning it for living on the land of X first nation every time you give a public speech)

Film DvD menus as well as game menus can be interesting to pick apart, the music is usually good...Also I just looked up the classic BF2...

Film DvD menus as well as game menus can be interesting to pick apart, the music is usually good...

Also I just looked up the classic BF2 (2005) console menu on youtube and I'm hooked again for Star Wars stuff.

The menu of Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (2005) in hindsight did kinda feel like the background of a film DvD menu with the music & film...

The menu of Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (2005) in hindsight did kinda feel like the background of a film DvD menu with the music & film scenes playing.

What I mean is the original console release menu, not the fucked up PC port stripped of all copyrighted film material.

So many games & films: "They killed a US citizen, this will mean war and troops assemble just as we speak to annihilate the one who...

So many games & films: "They killed a US citizen, this will mean war and troops assemble just as we speak to annihilate the one who did it"

Israel irl, killing a US citizen every other day: Hold my 900kg bomb

I wonder if it's the same guy, but pretty much on every youtube video about the Alsatian language, which is Germanic, you got at minimum...

I wonder if it's the same guy, but pretty much on every youtube video about the Alsatian language, which is Germanic, you got at minimum one French nationalist account screaming about how the annexation of Alsace should be permanent.

So much time gets wasted on bullshit live-service games and games soullessly copying each other before they get axed, ended or forgotten-...

So much time gets wasted on bullshit live-service games and games soullessly copying each other before they get axed, ended or forgotten- and there's people arguing this model of production is how things should be, nothing more.

If there's a game where you control a vehicle I need to be able to steer a vehicle using my mouse, not where I am looking separately...

If there's a game where you control a vehicle I need to be able to steer a vehicle using my mouse, not where I am looking separately from where the vehicle is heading.

The only exception to that is Kerbal Space Program, only because your rocket faces away from the planetary center of gravity....