Unfortunately due to ESO establishing actual distances in meters to questmarkers and such I regret to inform you all that Tamriel is in fact extremely small. Auridon is canonically four kilometres long.

Actually, I think I may have unironically cracked it?

by the way a side take i have on TES is that I absolutely hate the midwit take that the Tribunal were good. or even its less radical corollary that Azura is an arsehole tbh

People are slightly missing the point. A puzzle is not the same thing as a simple password. I am not saying that puzzles in games should be more difficult. I am saying that in real life people secure their objects with things that /only they/ can have access to, which puzzle solutions /never/ are

as a random sidenote i always assassinate the apprentice priest in the raven rock temple in order to ensure religious orthodoxy remains undisturbed by fuckassery once elder othreloth passes away

tbh in general one thing that ESO does well and Skyrim, decidedly, does not, is show a vast diversity of political stances even a small, localised population can take on any given matter

There should also be a small subgroup of Bosmeri exiles, and they should be incredibly united behind a position of Independence From Both, but they should spend their entire time bitching that for some reason their kin back home do not spend enough time contemplating the light of the coming liberty.

complete missed opportunity for a set of NPCs in Skyrim: Altmeri political exiles. this group should also be extremely fractious, divided, and unfriendly /to each other/, in line with how this stuff works irl

Gamers are, on average, incredibly stupid. IQ isn't real but if it was the average IQ of an avid gamer would be 5

"what if the elves were actually smug bastards with an unearned sense of superiority, at the expense of humanity": boring, weirdly macho, don't like it "what if the elves were actually smug bastards with an unearned sense of superiority, at the expense of dark elves": my children, call me Veloth,

genuinely quite enjoy that ESO was brave enough to go "what if the altmer are actually quite sympathetic in this one"

every day i am at risk of negatively polarising myself into believing that there is something vaguely morally corrupt about seeking to absolve yourself of /all/ suffering

look I'm sorry but I think that Boring Rights Matter. i'm standing up for the right of boring people to exist and contribute meaningfully to slaying Hagvothorgok the Wicked

one of the more consistent threads in my opinions on modern rpg games is that i feel a lot of sympathy towards the main cast character addict fans typically identify as "boring," probably because i find it vaguely horrifying that they are being judged for not having enough theatre kid energy

As a casual observation, I love how a common and accepted fantasy RPG trope is the concept of a treasure room or hidden vault or secret sanctum protected by a puzzle that any remotely competent person can theoretically figure out, despite the fact that no one would ever create this irl.

"Can never master it" The guy became mayor of New York like a month ago

debatable

I kinda hate meeting new people now in like a really banal way. I think I know enough people. Meeting more of them is just exhausting now

The problem with the ungovernable hypothesis, is that it's undermined by every stage of this government becoming more unpopular having an obvious - and understandable - cause.

Ding ding ding

no i do not believe that "moltbook" is a significant moment in human civilisation. I have never seen a tech as wildly overhyped and arbitrarily forced onto us as this entire LLM moment

Pour Some Sugar On Me is an interesting song because there is no reasonable way to interpret it other than literally: that this is a song about a guy and his partner engaging in erotic pouring of sugar over his body before engaging in sex.

the entire career of emerald fennell is kind of morally repulsive. there should be a categorical ban on someone that posh from accessing higher education

Uh oh, you scrolled too far, too greedily, too deep: you have encountered a balrog.

"Normal person" is a character, and he plays it really well

(seen a bunch of people sharing this/talking in general about how "normal" Mamdani is but imo this doesn't show a normal person, but an *exceptionally* skilled communicator - a normal person wouldn't react like that to having a speech interrupted by a child! give him his due!)

We categorically require /more/ Forgotten Realms media, not less

Mr Craig Mazin, I am the world's foremost expert on the cosmic implications of obliterating the mindflayer fleet at the end of Act 3. Hire me, please

If it was anyone other than Craig Mazin I would perhaps share the pessimism of some of those here but because it is Craig Mazin I kind of just don't

everyone acting like their tav will be decanonised should probably remember that the concept of a sequel allows for them to not be present at all!

Anyway I know some of y'all get agita off me speaking like this but the reason why I as a migrant will absolutely not disavow comparing myself to former conquerors of this land is because to be frank I am here not as a guest but as a sort of tiny conqueror. I came here to make a better life.

Debatable if they "invaded"

Rough representation of how this actually goes irl.

The thing as well is I'm not being funny but speculating about Poland abandoning /the Lithuanians/ specifically is just absurd. "Lithuania is Poland's toxic yaoi husband" might as well be Article 2 of the Polish Constitution.

No. No, it couldn't.

Ukrainians freed from captivity sing the national anthem. Im not crying, you're crying!

tv comedy idea: the lead characters are two very sectarian Glaswegian Protestants who viscerally hate Catholics and are paid up members of their local lodge. There is a twist though: they are Celtic fans

The best part of the verbal fecal discharge of modern far-right discourse on identity is of course the way that everyone collectively agrees to pretend that people of mixed ethnicities don't exist

Anyway national and ethnic identity are both malleable. This is very obvious when you think about the fact that most people who have them don't even know the words "national identity" and "ethnic identity" and wouldnt be able to tell you what those are

That position also implies that until 1707 no one in England had a national identity

For too long, Britain has been let down by a politics on the left unwilling to defend British values (opposition to VAR)

*goose meme* which ones, keir

Other early medieval Scottish things people have claimed existed that I simply do not believe: Pictish matrilineality

Do not ask fans of this theory why Kenneth's son is directly linked to Kintyre in a contemporary death notice

how are some of you racist when this was the original small boat person

Peak Blueskyism

worf mohavič has a unique recipe for kybynai stuffed with stewed qagh that his mother invented for him as a child, and he makes it for every yom tov both jewish and klingon

As I've stated, he is fluent in Russian but if he were to be interrogated by a Russian he would ask for a translator and say he forgot it in 1990

A memory of the curraghs by which her people first came to Scotland