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Picnic Princess posted:Ever heard of Milford Sound in New Zealand? It's not a sound, it's a fjord. Sounds are formed from rivers and are V shaped while fjords are U shaped. But the dude who named it didn't know the geologic history of the island and just assumed it was a sound because there's no ice there now. Were those definitions set when New Zealand was "discovered" and named? I mean, in Denmark we have Øresund which is a strait, and Limfjorden which is an inlet, both of which were named in prehistory.
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Henchman of Santa posted:When I first learned about the band Portishead I thought it was pronounced Portis Head, but later I was informed that it (and the town) are actually “porti-shade” or “porti-shed” so I called them that for years. I looked it up again today and I was right the first time?
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Porstead, actually.
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LOL if your Portishead isn't made out of wood just LAFFOing on the LOTR with BÖMBERBRUNKEBERG.
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Henchman of Santa posted:When I first learned about the band Portishead I thought it was pronounced Portis Head, but later I was informed that it (and the town) are actually “porti-shade” or “porti-shed” so I called them that for years. I looked it up again today and I was right the first time?
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NonzeroCircle posted:it's pronounced "sword" Oh! Well I feel foolish.
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Picnic Princess posted:Ever heard of Milford Sound in New Zealand? It's not a sound, it's a fjord. Sounds are formed from rivers and are V shaped while fjords are U shaped. But the dude who named it didn't know the geologic history of the island and just assumed it was a sound because there's no ice there now.
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Jerry Cotton posted:LOL if your Portishead isn't made out of wood just LAFFOing on the LOTR with BÖMBERBRUNKEBERG. NEH! SAIPPUAKIVIKAUPPIAS KOLME PISTEPIRKKO
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ProJared and Spoony are not the same youtube guy.
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Jerry Cotton posted:LOL if your Portishead isn't made out of wood just LAFFOing on the LOTR with BÖMBERBRUNKEBERG. What does tolkien have to do with any of this
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Henchman of Santa posted:When I first learned about the band Portishead I thought it was pronounced Portis Head, but later I was informed that it (and the town) are actually “porti-shade” or “porti-shed” so I called them that for years. I looked it up again today and I was right the first time? Alexisonfire is not pronounced "Alex is on fire"
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Al exiso n’fire
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Its A Lexus On Fire but they had to change the spelling because of trademarks
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Tunicate posted:Its A Lexus On Fire but they had to change the spelling because of trademarks To the tune of kings of leon
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Krankenstyle posted:To the tune of kings of leon Kings of Leon would have been so much cooler if they were burning the rich down.
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jobson groeth posted:Kings of Leon would have been so much cooler if they were burning the rich down. This is true for many bands and other things as well
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christmas boots posted:Al exiso n’fire Isn't this one of the people you have to kill in order to become The Nerevarine?
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Don't kill Alexisonfire. You can kill Dallas Green if you have to.
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Memento posted:Isn't this one of the people you have to kill in order to become The Nerevarine? Anyone who thinks the elder scrolls is just generic fantasy really should play Morrowind or read up on the lore. Morrowind has a neat setting and all the deeper background stuff was clearly written by a crazy person. It’s amazing
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christmas boots posted:Anyone who thinks the elder scrolls is just generic fantasy really should play Morrowind or read up on the lore. Morrowind has a neat setting and all the deeper background stuff was clearly written by a crazy person. It’s amazing they developed the setting by A) making sure all lore had a POV attached to it, so it was someone's version of the story rather than an authoritative 'this happened', (B) by the dev team splintering into factions over what really happened, and (C) layering stories about people loving with so much metaphor and euphemism that they became impossible for the editors to interpret
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That sounds like a great way to write almost anything if you ask me, but I’m completely unfamiliar with Morrowind so my imaginings probably don’t match reality.
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Tunicate posted:they developed the setting by A) making sure all lore had a POV attached to it, so it was someone's version of the story rather than an authoritative 'this happened', (B) by the dev team splintering into factions over what really happened, and (C) layering stories about people loving with so much metaphor and euphemism that they became impossible for the editors to interpret D) one guy locking himself in the bathroom and taking peyote
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christmas boots posted:Anyone who thinks the elder scrolls is just generic fantasy really should play Morrowind or read up on the lore. Morrowind has a neat setting and all the deeper background stuff was clearly written by a crazy person. It’s amazing It pretty much did become generic fantasy after Morrowind though. The next two are LotR and GoT respectively with less interesting gameplay to boot.
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Polygon just recently posted a really interesting oral history of Morrowind which goes into detail about their approach.
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Tunicate posted:they developed the setting by A) making sure all lore had a POV attached to it, so it was someone's version of the story rather than an authoritative 'this happened', (B) by the dev team splintering into factions over what really happened, and (C) layering stories about people loving with so much metaphor and euphemism that they became impossible for the editors to interpret I still can’t decide if the Warp in the West is brilliant or stupid as gently caress.
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I've heard the theme song to FRIENDS literally hundreds of times, despite liking the show a little less each time I watch it. And there was a line I never quite figured out. 'Your luddites been OK'?! The hell does that mean?. Turns out it was 'Your love life's D.O.A', as in dead on arrival. Misheard song lyrics seems like it would contribute a lot to this thread.
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joy division - disorder my version: i've been waiting for a guy to come and take me by the hand could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of another man? actual lyrics: i've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man? i like my version more
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:joy division - disorder No. I absolutely refuse to believe this.
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burial posted:That sounds like a great way to write almost anything if you ask me, but I’m completely unfamiliar with Morrowind so my imaginings probably don’t match reality. Morrowind is a unique, insane gem in gaming history. It definitely shows its age but the game had things like insane, ancient wizards living in weird mushroom towers, a city built in and around the shell of an ancient, gargantuan crab, and "dwarves" that weren't really dwarves or even that small. They were rather normal elves that a race of giants started calling "dwarves" and it stuck. They were insanely advanced and left behind artifacts that people are still trying to figure out. Nobody can replicate their weapons or armor so it's valuable partly as a curiosity and partly because it's stupidly good. Oh, the dwarves also all vanished one day. How? To where? Nobody has any drat idea. None. They started dicking around with some pretty crazy advanced stuff and then one day they just weren't around anymore. They built a god. They literally put together an artificial loving god on their own. This may or may not be related. Meanwhile outside of Morrowind other insane stuff was happening. Cyrodiil, where the Imperials are from, was originally supposed to be a bug gently caress crazy jungle instead of your bog standard giant blob of farm land. That went away as did some of the really mad lore that was put in. There's a road in the capital named Green Emperor Way. Why is it called that? Because the spirits of dead emperors inhabit trees there to give advice to new emperors. None of that made it into Oblivion which is very sad.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Morrowind is a unique, insane gem in gaming history. It definitely shows its age but the game had things like insane, ancient wizards living in weird mushroom towers, a city built in and around the shell of an ancient, gargantuan crab, and "dwarves" that weren't really dwarves or even that small. They were rather normal elves that a race of giants started calling "dwarves" and it stuck. They were insanely advanced and left behind artifacts that people are still trying to figure out. Nobody can replicate their weapons or armor so it's valuable partly as a curiosity and partly because it's stupidly good. I just figured out you have never been laid.
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Ferrule posted:I just figured out you have never been laid. There’s mods for that
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:There’s mods for that Not once you're past a certain age.
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Stuff I still can't believe and haven't figured out: why everyone jizzes their pants over Skyrim. It's like Morrowind only without any personality, originality, or really anything interesting about it at all. Even in VR, it's just really, really boring.
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Hyperlynx posted:Stuff I still can't believe and haven't figured out: why everyone jizzes their pants over Skyrim. It's like Morrowind only without any personality, originality, or really anything interesting about it at all. Even in VR, it's just really, really boring. Skyrim's really interesting if you've never played Morrowind. 
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Jerry Cotton posted:Not once you're past a certain age. 
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Jerry Cotton posted:Not once you're past a certain age. 
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Hyperlynx posted:Stuff I still can't believe and haven't figured out: why everyone jizzes their pants over Skyrim. It's like Morrowind only without any personality, originality, or really anything interesting about it at all. Even in VR, it's just really, really boring. "Because it has dual wielding and dragons" is my understanding
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Because it's better than Oblivion.
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Hyperlynx posted:Stuff I still can't believe and haven't figured out: why everyone jizzes their pants over Skyrim. It's like Morrowind only without any personality, originality, or really anything interesting about it at all. Even in VR, it's just really, really boring. Coming soon, Morrowind in Skyrim https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/news/12752/
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