MossyFeathers

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago

Alright, thank you!

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago

That's kinda the opposite of what I've heard. Making a really basic nuke is easy, it's getting the material (which Iran has, mostly), and making one of the city-flatteners that's hard.

Regardless, my concern is that Iran might decide to throw some nuclear material, functional or not, at Israel in retaliation for bombing their nuclear program.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You're assuming Iran doesn't sling one at Israel intentionally in retaliation for targeting their nuclear program.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Oh, I think you misunderstand. I'm not sending the audio into audio, I'm sending audio into video. So the signal from the guitar goes into the video connector (there aren't any built-in speakers). Why? It might look cool.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 23 points 11 months ago

recent events within the godot project

What recent events? Why don't you tell us what these recent events are? Would you, perhaps, care to expand on what these recent events might be? Because it seems like if you're crying about that, then maybe you're not a nice person.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 11 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Uh, bombing one of Iran's nuclear sites seems like a great way to find out if they've actually figured out nukes or not.

Please don't. Please. Fucking. Don't.

...which of course means they will.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It actually doesn't have anything to do with that theory, but I won't lie, I do like that one.

I wrote a bit about it in response to their question, and I think I misspoke (miswrote?) and kinda jumped the gun. It's not really post- apocalyptic, however the series does seem to document a world in decline.

I'm not sure if you'd consider that apocalyptic (a slow apocalypse), heading towards the apocalypse (what happens if all the Towers are destroyed?), or post-apocalyptic (it seems like the races peaked before any of the games) though.

Edit: I remember why I thought it was post-apocalyptic! Space! Iirc all the races have been to space and had spaceships and space battles, except it seems like everyone has forgotten about it by the time the games take place. Combine that with the destruction of the Towers, and yeah. Seems possible that the Elder Scrolls could be post-apocalypse and is being interpreted as fantasy because the characters of the series don't know how any of the tech works anymore.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's been a long-ass time and some of the lore may have been retconned/clarified since then, however it was a conclusion I came to on my own. Basically, iirc, the Towers are hybrid physical/metaphysical structures which essentially keep Mundus (Nirn + other planes) stable and allow for things like magic to occur. When a tower is destroyed, Mundus becomes less stable and magical ability declines. Let's hope we don't destroy any towers then!

Oh wait. A bunch of the towers (are speculated to be) destroyed. Red Mountain (vvardenfell) was destroyed after the false-god Vivec lost his powers and could no longer keep the Ministry of Truth from smashing into the mountain, Walk-Brass zero-summed itself and the race that created it, the White-Gold tower was destroyed during the Oblivion Crisis, I don't remember what happened to Crystal-Like-Law but I'm pretty sure that's gone too.

If you wanted to get fancy with it, you could even point to the magic system getting less complex with each mainline game (yes, I know it's probably just laziness, but I like my explanation more). Hell, it seems like all the crazy, cool stuff happened long before the events of any of the games; it seems like all the races peaked before we ever got a glimpse into that universe.

So while I guess it's a bit premature to call TES post-apocalyptic, it's definitely headed in that direction. It seems to be a series about a world that's slowly collapsing and falling apart.

Edit: I spent some time trying to brush up on my TES lore (fuck, I'm starting to hear the games' siren song; it's been years), and came across this wonderful paragraph:

Using his dentition as tonal instruments, Anumaril dismantled his bones and built of them a Mundus-machine that mirrored Nirn and its planets. And when he had used all his substance in fangling this orrery, the Orrery of Elden Root, he placed the segment-sceptre within, hiding it between the Moons.

You... you did what?

I wish the games were half as interesting as the lore.

Edit 2: I remember why I thought it was post-apocalyptic! Space! Iirc all the races have been to space and had spaceships and space battles, except it seems like everyone has forgotten about it by the time the games take place. Combined with the gradual destruction of the Towers, it seems possible that the games could be post-apocalyptic but are being filtered through a lens of ignorance, making the residual advanced tech appear as though it's magic.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

The Elder Scrolls. It's not explicitly stated, but iirc it's highly suggested it's post-apocalyptic. That said, it's still fantasy, there's still magic, spellcasting and so forth (there's no indication that the magic is the result of lost tech becoming indistinguishable from magic); it's just that the lore highly suggests it may be post-apocalyptic.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Do you know what the tolerances are on connectors like VGA, coax, and bnc? My monitor has VGA and BNC, so BNC might be easier to use (fewer intermediate steps, more control due to separate sockets for sync, r/g/b, etc). I'm curious if you might know how high the voltage can go before I run the risk of frying something.

Also, my guitar is an acoustic-electric with a preamp, which would probably make a difference.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 20 points 11 months ago

I wish people would give me more than two sentences. I kinda need more than two sentences to start opening up, and once I do, I will not stop talking until I'm tired. My brain will never run out of things to ramble about, so feel free to be like, "hey, can we move onto another subject?" if you've lost interest.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I missed it heh. I was looking for the funny Swedish letters and missed his name.

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