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Yesterday, 11:14 PMveti replied to a thread Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads in Friendly BanterThe Mexican flag has a very straightforward, not to say boring, design until you get to the middle. Then suddenly it gets super intricate and...347 replies | 18586 view(s)
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2024-04-19, 08:41 PMveti replied to a thread Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads in Friendly BanterIf you want a cool state flag, it seems like the thing that does you most good is a border with Mexico. Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California -...347 replies | 18586 view(s)
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2024-04-19, 07:10 PMveti replied to a thread Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads in Friendly BanterWell, NJ has a state flag. It's better than the average state flag because it's not blue, but it's still just a coat of arms on a plain background,...347 replies | 18586 view(s)
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2024-04-18, 07:39 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Also also, I'm not persuaded by this idea that Black Marsh alone could somehow whup every other military force on the continent, even if the latter...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-18, 05:41 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)"Everyone and their cat" does not cut it as a citation. Please, please point to the multiple specific in-game sources you are considering your...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-17, 08:13 AMI haven't studied this, but my gut feeling is that there's a difference in kind between a "field of study" and a "theory". Aether was a theory, which...70 replies | 2674 view(s)
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2024-04-16, 03:53 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)That's what they demanded, but what they actually wanted may be something else. Like, access to the Adamantine Tower. Did the Thalmor ever capture...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-16, 03:36 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)They could never have beaten the Empire's armies unless they had first seduced Elsweyr and Valenwood to their side. And let's not forget the...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-16, 03:11 PMThere is a scientific side to astrology: it's about modelling and predicting the movement of the planets. Yes, I think it's reasonable to call that a...70 replies | 2674 view(s)
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2024-04-15, 04:42 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Ulfric very much does not believe the Empire has what it takes to fight the Dominion. And that belief is, as I've been arguing for what feels like...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-15, 03:41 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Not - per canon, there isn't, but I'm pretty sure Niranye would spy for anyone who asked, and probably is. Oh, they'd look twice all right....616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-14, 05:04 AMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)It's a take that's based firmly on the reality of the game. I've cited incidents and locations, I've quoted Tullius's own words. What, exactly, is...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-13, 07:36 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)What "appearances" are those? The ones where Tullius is so afraid of offending the Thalmor, he daren't even decline an invitation? Or the ones where...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-13, 04:58 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)An empire that had already swallowed the poisoned pill that was the Concordat was not about to "pounce" on a limping gerbil. It was psychologically...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-12, 06:55 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Skyrim (and Hammerfell, and High Rock) did "sacrifice" for Cyrodiil. They sent the flower of their youth to fight and die in the Legion. And they...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-12, 09:18 AMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)I feel like we've thrashed this to death already. They didn't do everything in their power, and that's the whole problem. They may have thought they...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 05:58 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)You're probably right. But I never killed Vivec - I quite liked the guy, actually - and he seemed competent to keep the place ticking over until he...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 02:31 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)I'm pretty sure future canon will say only "there was a civil war in Skyrim, but it didn't matter because $RANDOM_UNFORESEEABLE_BULLS**T happened and...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 08:45 AMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)When bandits wander too close to an Imperial-aligned town, they get attacked by the guards. When the Thalmor do it, they don't. The business in...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 08:30 AMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Not in "the same spot" exactly, no, but there are places where the spawn points are close enough that you can get two encounters within sight of one...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 08:16 AMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)It's not easy to test this because random encounters are - random, but that's not my experience. Unless you're actually in the imperial legion, those...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 08:27 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Influence != Authority. The Dominion has (because it claims it and, damningly, the self-styled Empire does not dispute that claim) authority over...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 07:04 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)They did pay tribute, they absolutely do follow whatever laws the Thalmor trouble to demand of them, and when the Dominion demanded the right to send...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 04:27 AMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)So, what I'm missing here is the logic by which Skyrim, High Rock and Hammerfell should still be considered to be beholden to Cyrodiil. They lost....616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-09, 05:16 PMIs there any such thing as a "correct" theory? The only thing we can test is whether the theory is "good enough" for whatever practical test we can...70 replies | 2674 view(s)
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2024-04-09, 02:31 AMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)The Empire is scared stiff of the Dominion. In their minds, they got their backside thoroughly whupped last time, and only the concordat saved them...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-08, 02:57 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)In theory that's true, but not necessarily in practice. It depends whether the Dominion currently has the military and fiscal strength and political...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-07, 11:19 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)"Rebuilding the Blades as an anti-Thalmor cadre" is a cool idea, and could have made for a nifty questline, but it would be a lot of work. Too much...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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2024-04-04, 10:55 PMMakes me wonder... How many times has this happened and not been detected? On the other hand, it's reassuring that it was detected before being...4 replies | 754 view(s)
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2024-04-04, 09:01 PMveti replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)It's never spelled out exactly when all this drama (the moot, nor Ulfric's subsequent challenge/murder of Torygg) happened. But there's a strong...616 replies | 15924 view(s)
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