Holy shit a Morrowind meme out in the wild.
I’m a massive elder scrolls fan
Didnt know Dwemer made those too
This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
Absolutely loved that movie when I was a kid.
And I just now realised what was going on when I was around 15 and a girl invited me to her place while her parents were away. We watched this movie and she put her legs over me, then leaned her head on my shoulder and held my arm and I just sat there fully focused on the movie and feeling awkward about physical contact… God damn it.That’s a perfectly fine thing to do at 15. Cuddling while watching a movie. I think you’re just looking through it through a different lens now that you’re (presumably) no longer a teenager.
Dudes got robot legs. How much more valuable do you want?
Gotta up your game boy.
Dang what’s that from?
Oh wow. Wild Wild West. They had the best burger king (or was it mcdonalds? p sure its bk) kids toys
Tx!
Jon Peters: heavy breathing
Metal legs; but is stuck in a hole filled with diseased zombie people.
“The 30s are men’s best years!”
Meanwhile:
Husband hit stage 3 when he was 16, and is still there nearing 40.
#notallhairloss
I got the fading widow’s peak in my early twenties. And it hasn’t progressed at all in like twenty years!
Yeah I’ve had a prominent widows peak since my hair grew in. Lot of comments about how I looked like Dracula or Eddie Munster. Got bad enough I tried shaving it in highschool, which honestly looked way way worse.
Morale of the story, men can have different hairlines that are not straight across. Just own it.
i’ve been in stage 3 vertex for a couple decades. been shaving it off for the last six or seven. is nice.
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My father is stage 3 at age 51. Interesting. Guess he will be stage 6 by 110.
Peak dad bod
To be fair, the guy on the picture is 700 years or older. I want to see you at that age.
“When riddled with corprus and 700 years old you reach, look as good you will not!”
Wouldn’t that mean his value only went up since he is a man (supposedly)?
I would say it didn’t, so he himself contradicts his own statement.
He’s not a man, he’s a mer. Show some respect!
You be nice, he’s the hottest dwemer in all of Tamriel!
Sarah in the bible had Isaac at 90 years old. Menopause is a woke lie like dinosaurs. /s
Once women hit menopause they’re experienced and can take all your creampies. IDK 'bout y’all, but I’d assign that great value.
Yagrum Bagarn, the only living Dwemer to appear in an Elder Scrolls game so far.
Also the last living Dwemer. Motherfucker was in a different dimension when the Dwemer vanished
Last living one we know of, at least.
Which in all honesty leaves a lot open for Bethesda to bring them back in some capacity. Between Dragon Breaks, Chim, and literal time travel there’s a lot they could do not even getting into the other metaphysics and metamagics in the setting.
For those who haven’t deep delved EUSP I shall list what the three things I listed implies.
Dragon Breaks, a dragon break is what happens when time becomes non linear the fun thing is that it can be both retroactive and postactive. The ending of Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall is sometimes theorized to have caused a dragon break so massive that it basically rewrote the setting with its shockwave. This is admittedly just an in universe way of explaining retcons.
Chim, basically a character in the setting achieves awareness that they are infact fictional and becomes effectively a god. Tuber Septum achieved partial Chim caused a dragon break and removed the jungles of Cyrodil from history. Also Vivec achieved Chim and Dagoth Ur fucked up the process without removing himself entirely.
Time travel, basically what it says on the tin. Fun fact Pelinal Whitestrake was from a different timeline and was basically the Terminator.
Dragon Breaks, a dragon break is what happens when time becomes non linear the fun thing is that it can be both retroactive and postactive. The ending of Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall is sometimes theorized to have caused a dragon break so massive that it basically rewrote the setting with its shockwave. This is admittedly just an in universe way of explaining retcons.
Notably these are called Dragon Breaks because the god of time Akatosh is represented as a dragon and a Dragon Break is essentially time and causality just sort of having a stroke for a bit. Multiple versions of events that could have happened did, regardless of being mutually exclusive and some combination of their outcomes is what sticks when things are over and normality resumes.
I kind of suspect TESV: Skyrim will get referred to as a dragon break later in the timeline, with things like exactly who won the civil war being one of those things where there are clear memories and clear records of both sides winning, where two different people were the Jarl of each hold, etc. How that lands afterward when things settle I don’t know. Hopefully in the least helpful possible way for the Thalmor.
It can also refer to when the Alessian order tried to remove the Mer aspect of Akatosh and basically drove him insane which also broke the dragon. It’s probably why Alduin is his own entity and not just Akatosh at the end of time, with there being three main aspects of the Dragon god that being Auriel, Akatosh, and Alduin the beginning, middle, and end.
Personally I don’t think Pelinal Whitestrake and Marukh went far enough, remove all mer.
CHIM isn’t really meta like that. It is a state of enlightenment achieved after coming to terms with the fact that the Elder Scrolls setting exists within the ‘dream’ of a godhead. The godhead is a mysterious and high order entity, think Lovecraftian gods, which isn’t really sleeping and dreaming in the way we normally think of it.
Typically when one comes to understand the nature of the dream they inhabit, they vanish, becoming one with the dream in a process known as zero-summing. It essentially means coming to the conclusion that all things within the dream are one and the same, that the individual is an illusion.
CHIM is achieved by facing this fate and asserting that, though all reality is a dream, your existence as an individual with thoughts and feelings and agency within the dream matters and is valid. Some suggest this state confers great power, such as the ability to reshape the landscape or perform miracles, like when one lucid dreams. However, I find this position poorly supported. Rather, CHIM seems best viewed as one form of enlightenment, a state achieved through great wisdom and insight but which brings with it no particular power. Vivec can be slain, after all, and relies on his connection to the Heart of Lorkhan to exercise divine power.
This is unironically a great overview and simplification of CHIM within the Elder Scrolls setting. One in which I am fundamentally incapable of making because I have been utterly corrupted by Morrowind shitposts around the concept, IE a photoshop of Astolfo from Fate with Dagoth Urs head asking if that is CHIM.
Don’t get me wrong I’m no stranger to our lord and savior Fargoth, bosmer bussy, or Nords and their secret wives. The Elder Scrolls is fantastic because you can simultaneously take it so seriously and … do whatever it is we lore nerds get up to.
Fair enough. Prolly doesn’t help I was actively melting my capacity to properly articulate the utter madness that is Michael Kirkbride mainling a philosophy book and then reading Lovecraft because I was slowly gassing myself because I put a tad bit to much bleach in my water bucket while cleaning up cat piss.
Tamriel is an island right. Would be funny if they just moved across the sea.
It is, sorta. But there wasn’t an exodus. The disappearance happened within recorded history, meaning the Dwemer (who are elves) had interactions, war, and empires alongside the living races. Then, suddenly, the vanished. A sudden cessation of communication and existence.
Current consensus is that their chief engineer, and thus leader, Kagrenac, utilized tonal magic (which the dwemer invented) to transcend the mortal plane, Mundus.
I mean they never fully resolved it though. If I recall the other theories are kinda the dwarves being:
a) all dead (many theories)
b) elsewhen (time displacement), implying they return or were responsible for other time displaced phenomena in the past.
c) something else entirely happened at the same time.
The fact they can’t be reached via portal kinda suggests they’re essentially dead.
I really wish they had explored this at all. They set up something neat, then let it languish.
Tom Segura getting fat again…
Wealth beyond measure, outlander.
These are actual teenage boys now though. Gen Alpha is so fucked.
I do hope many of them develop and grow up away from it. Otherwise I guess they’ll have to be lonely.
Honestly, there is hope for that. I feel like we’re all forgetting the anti-SJW YouTube pipeline that happened to Gen Z when they were around 16 (around 8-12 years ago now) and a lot of them grew out of that.
It can be a bit of a vicious circle. Here’s my opinion on the matter and what I think the hardest parts are.
Incels don’t exactly attract women - and I mean even as friends, not just partners. But the best way for an incel to stop being an incel is to… Have female friends he can connect with.
We can’t force women to be friends with men who hate women, that would be… yeah, something. Best we can do is what we’re already doing: mixed gender classes in kindergarten and school, hoping that most kids will end up with a diverse set of friends. And at the very least, fewer boys grow up to be men for whom women are some sort of alien creatures or something.
But there will always be some who are less social than others and are then more likely to fall into the influence of the manosphere . And I don’t know what could be done to prevent that or help these people, because the desire to be helped at that point, needs to come from within. Can lead a horse to water, but not force it to drink and all that.
Media exposure is really difficult to combat. I have behaviors remediated, then a few days of exposure due to parental neglect, and its back to being called slurs and being SA’d by a five year old. Building a case based on these things to help just one person….but there are so many growing up on media that is too mature, without context or collaboration from instructors….they are being filled with awful opinions they just uncritically accept as universally true. I know it going to get worse before it gets better. I know it took me so much work to get my on to explain his every opinion with supporting details, to make him stop parroting. And that was limited exposure from school and other boys.
Think about what kind of politics these boys will have when they grow up though… It’s going to be even more authoritarian, anti-woman, etc.
Eh, it is part of natural selection. What self respected women will want to procreate with them?
Incels don’t worry me long term.
What self respected women will want to procreate with them?
Plenty of women haters have wives and children tbh. A lot of people just don’t have any self respect, or have some other agenda.
Here’s the thing there are plenty of people with no self respect or too much self respect and delusional so it’s a moot point.
Equal and opposite forces are a thing in culture. I think we’ll see it rejected even harder.
When they grow up? Lol?
When they receive the ability to vote at 18, is what I mean.
They aren’t growing up…alive.
Yeah but the good thing is that the gen after is probably not going to be equally retarded.
This is crazy; what game is this from?
Elder scrolls morrowind
Oh! I think I’ve heard of it before. I’ll look it up. For anybody who has played it: is it fun?
Morrowind remains my favorite Elder Scrolls game. It’s a bit more hardcore RPG than Skyrim for sure, and that may turn some folks off. And it’s definitely an older game with most of the dialog written. But it is an EXCEPTIONAL game. The world is beautiful and varied and exploration still feels more rewarding than Oblivion or Skyrim, the amount of lore to explore is HUGE, the specificity when building and leveling your character out exactly how you want is expansive, and the game doesn’t hold your hand - you can kill people who are vital to the main story if you want to, it just lets you doom the world if you really want to.
Nowadays, I’d strongly recommend running it with the excellent OpenMW engine, it’s rock solid and performs better than the original game, hell there’s even a working multiplayer fork of it!
it just lets you doom the world if you really want to.
…and it still leaves a back route to complete the main quest. You just have to murder the living god who is a mantling of Mephala to start the alternate route.
the amount of lore to explore is HUGE
…and then you come up for air after reading the 36 Sermons of Vivec, realizing that very basic steganographic techniques were used to conceal at least a couple of hidden messages withing them and the start branching out from there into trying to understand the concepts of CHIM and the Towers and Amaranth and so on trying to wrap your head around the metaphysics of the setting.
It is amazing but it doesn’t hold your hand as far as quests go. There’s no big arrow pointing to your objective. Items don’t blink or glow. You must read the quest journal and wander around. There’s transport options but no generic fast travel.
Also, if you can find a mod to remove cliff racers then use it.
It’s amazing, and don’t let anyone discourage you from trying it.
For sure!
It’s very old at this point.
It’s the predecessor to Skyrim. I would maybe start there.
Yuk. Skyrim stripped out everything that made Morrowind special. It feels more like a Ubisoft game than an RPG.
Morrowind is old and has retroRPG jank, but as long as you don’t run everywhere it’s not that hard. There’s even OpenMW if you want some modern quality of life features.
Doesn’t change the fact that Skyrim is a lot more accessible for new players.
There is a reason why Skyrim is still one of the most played games on Steam at this time (after 14 years) and Morrowind is not.
It is however why there’s like a small group of morrowind guys still fitzing around with mods and updated engines for it.
There’s even OpenMW if you want some modern quality of life features.
It’s been years since I played. Will OpenMW work with original MW mods, and if not what does it’s modding scene look like?
It plays well with original Morrowind mods, including Tamriel Rebuit, which is fucking awesome.
Ooh, good to know. Might have to actually try it out sometime. It’s been years since I played Morrowind.
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I am not sure if you are kidding but Ram exists to be used.
Unused ram is wasted potential.
I am. I code. Well, kind of. What I meant to say was “I play around with code that takes up a lot of my computer memory, actual memory, and RAM” and I really am quite fond of my little creations that I’ve made with my code and can’t bear the thought of parting with them/basically killing them by deleting them. They’re like children to me :,)
This is the weirdest troll I’ve ever seen, or you’re in the middle of a psychosis.
In morrowind the dwarves are long gone and are believed to have perhaps “receded behind math”, this npc is I believe the only dwarf you can meet in morrowind that is alive though there are dwarven ruins and automatons across morrowind.
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