#real life lore

[uesp]

Did You Know: Similar to our Earth, Nirn also has two moons?

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

So there’s this Nebula exclusive video series where the Real Life Lore guy summarizes the big international events of the past month. As you might imagine, Israel/Gaza takes up a significant chunk of the video (although that section generally also includes stuff in Lebanon and Syria lately) every month. I was listening to the most recent one (covering December) and realized that he followed up the IDF’s claim that 17,000 of the dead in Gaza were militants that they had provided “no evidence”, but had not said the same for the Gaza Health Ministry’s figures, nor had he ever mentioned that there have been disputes of those figures (I am aware of several). Just an…interesting bias there.

Also he made sure to mention that Amnesty International had accused Israel of genocide, but not that their own report acknowledged that their definition of genocide did not match the generally understood definition. Hmmmmm

[the-heart-of-leo]

In 1991 when people in Elkhorn, Wisconsin started seeing a large, wolf-like creature by the side of Bray Road, Linda Godfrey started asking around. She found out multiple witnesses had already reported their encounters to the County Animal Control.

When Godfrey went to talk to the control officer, he pulled out a file labeled 'werewolf'.

I just think about that sometimes.

[uuesp]

Amazing! ZeniMax Online Studios have just honored the passionate fanartists they stole designs from without permission by naming characters in the Elder Scrolls universe after them! LadyNerevar, the artist whose design for Queen Alessia was appropriated in the Greymoor DLC, has been immortalized through the character of Indoril Nerevar, Hortator and peacekeeper of the First Council of Morrowind! In a more subtle tribute, the artist whose Sotha Sil design was used for the Crown Store's Mercymother tattoo set relan-daevath's name was altered to create Brelan Neloren, an NPC in the Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind DLC! We tip our hats to ZeniMax for their commitment to making amends, and congratulate these artists for having their names forever etched into the Elder Scrolls!

[michelles-zodiac-zone]

jet laggers as american girl dolls

ben: ruthie

sam: kit

adam: felicity

toby: caroline

brian: molly

shia: bo

joseph: josefina

scotty: kirsten

jt: saige

dave: samantha

michelle: kavi

amy: rebecca

[okkotsuus]

tell me why i spent an hour making possibly the most op yet appropriately scaled and limited cursed technique possible for a fic i haven’t even made a plot for…

[cuckerfailson]

I HATE YOUTUBE I HATE YOUTUBE I HATE YOUTUBE

[canisalbus]

have machete’s ears been cropped?? or is he just built like that?? im new here, so apologies if this has been answered before!! they stand up quite tall and pointy 💝💝

They're natural! He's missing triangular notches on the outer edges of both, but they're supposed to be tall and pointy.

All dogs are born with soft and floppy ears, and it can take some time for the cartilage in them to harden enough for the ears to stay upright reliably, especially if they're particularly big, thin and batlike.

I made this little age chart a couple of years ago, specifically to demonstrate the evolution of his ear situation.

The same progression can be seen in many real dogs, like these ibizan hounds for example.

[pokytoad]

photo of a REAL BILLBOARD that my best friend sent me on their daily commute, in case anyone needs money-laundering advice you know who to call

[bacchuschucklefuck]

space sweepers but they're delivery people and are at no point on screen through the entire movie

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

So I was gonna wait until the video would be released on Youtube, but I think it might be a Nebula exclusive, so y'all will just have to trust me.

There's this Youtuber/Nebula guy named RealLifeLore who does geopolitical analysis stuff. I had already stopped watching a lot of his stuff purely for the petty reason that he often puts emphasis on words and phrases in a weird way, but I had noticed he had done some videos analyzing and summarizing what's been going on in Israel/Gaza/Lebanon/etc. so I started rewatching. And his analysis is actually relatively fair, often stating the claims of both sides and then whether or not those claims hold up. Sometimes this means he'll bring up crank ideas that I feel are implausible from what I know (there's a bit in the video I'm about to talk about where he talks about the Hannibal Directive aka whether or not the IDF intentionally tried to kill hostages being kidnapped so they couldn't be taken hostage, which from what I've heard isn't actually supported by anything but seems to be believed by a lot of people who think Israelis are ontologically evil).

Anyways, he did a video entitled "The October 7th Attacks" which is a comprehensive analysis of, well, the October 7th attacks, which I thought was pretty good (aside from giving the Hannibal Directive credibility). However, it brought to a head an issue that's been boiling up for a while for me, that being that RealLifeLore's pronunciation of Hebrew words is so bad it is legitimately offensive.

"Simchat Torah" as "Sim CHAT Torah" (this one is actually inexcusable, if you've done so much research you should know how Hebrew speakers pronounced a "ch" RealLifeLore)

"Sukkot" as "Su-cot" (ok that one isn't that bad)

"Yom Kippur" as "Yom Ki-purr" (that one also isn't terrible)

"Zikim" as "Zik'em" (oddly enough, I think he pronounced it correctly the first and third times and only did it weird on his second mention)

"Yiftach" as "Yif-tatch"

"Re'im" as "Ray-im"

"Odaya" as "Odie-a"

"Kibbutzim and Moshavim" as "Kibbutzem and Moshavem" (OK I might be overly pedantic here)

"Be'eri" as "Be'rry" (this was a problem of cadence not pronunciation per se)

Anyways, that's from the first 16 minutes, I may do more later

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Life SMP theorizing is so funny (/pos) to me because like. There’s not really a canon, per se, so what you’re really doing is proposing an addition to the fan-created lore. There’s some running bits and storylines but for the most part the players are just doing some fun goofs n’ gags and sometimes there’s dots to connect. If you wanna make a really complex theory about motives and corruption and such you totally CAN but the only people who’ll ever decide if you’re right or not are other people in the fandom and also Martyn InTheLittleWood

[jeyneofpoole]

dany shouldn’t be at the club she should be at the barn that she mucks out as a summer job forming an unbreakable psychospiritual bond with the horse that no one before her could ride (he’s misunderstood) and then they go to City and win Big Show together so he doesn’t have to be put down for his behavioral issues and also he finally jumps the water obstacle (reoccurring metaphor for the struggles they’ve gone through as a team) and she makes enough prize money to buy him forever the final shot is of her bareback riding him into the sunset as a pop song about being free from 2010 plays in the background. if you even care.

[wombywoo]

ID 🪪

[dredgesnails]

thinking about ren's new skin and how when martyn died last session he turned into martyn as if to preserve him one last time. but something went wrong, and now he's stuck as himself and martyn, a lingering effect of his superpowers and a mark of his grief.

we know from gem and grian's videos that while gem is astral projecting grian can't copy her powers. grian even said the real gem isn't there anymore; there's just an empty shell until her soul returns to her body. if ren had tried to copy her dna while she was out of body would the same thing have happened? does the soul need to be present for their powers to work?

maybe that's why ren's stuck as two now. maybe, in his desperation to preserve martyn, he's irreversibly changed himself. when he looks in a mirror he'll be reminded that he's always got a part of martyn with him, but he'll also be reminded of all the ways he couldn't save him.