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Cake day: December 9th, 2023
  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztomemes@lemmy.world•By Azura, by Azura, by Azura!
    203·
    8 days ago

    I like the elder scrolls series of games too, especially Morrowind, but isn’t the most obvious answer here that the part of the team that was working on inspiration for different architectures and cultures might have googled similar things to you, stumbled on similar photos and thought “I am going to steal that”?

    I am not saying this was nefarious, this is just how “exoticism” or seeing other cultures mundane as exotic can degrade our capacity to understand what we are perceiving.

    Edit ok so Azura is an imperfect echo of Ishtar

    Azura’s Moon is always shown as a Crescent, while accompanied by her single Star. Irl the Crescent and Star symbol can be traced back Sumerian iconography to the moon deity Sin and goddess Ishtar.

    Sin (aka Nanna) is said to be what gave the name for the concept of sin in the Semetic traditions. The Moons being the body of Mundus’s god king (and diety to be associated with the first the sin of liberty) is an interesting note.

    Ishtar (aka Inanna) is a goddess of love, sex, fertility, and war. She is also associated with the morningstar Venus. Also… …

    The Sumerians were known astrologers, and traced these and other celestial bodies for many things, but most importantly, for divine prophecy.

    I find the possibility of influence interesting, as well as the implications of Azura displaying Herself as a bridge between them, or perhaps a scale weighing them against each other."

    https://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/57ms7g/what_is_azuras_moon/

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOPtoNonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.works•Defense AnalistEnglish
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    12 days ago

    BGM is a great acrononym I gotta admit but also it makes it sound like a mother with big guns whereas my name is meant to emphasize that self propelled armored artillery is itself the essence of being a mother distilled into a weapon.

    In a related note, the origin of the word “smother” came from the phrase “shrapnel mother” being smushed into a collaqiual name for the verb that is artillery.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOPtoNonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.works•Defense AnalistEnglish
    4·
    14 days ago

    They call it a Grant because it is a Great Big ANTitank target.

    Unfortunately it is very stimulating to the rivets once the shells start hitting :(

    Also I am not so sure about them calling it a Sherman because of the shear manliness of it, because this guy is surely the most “sure man” of them all and he gets no tanks at all.

    Twenty years ago, Santo (Sandy) LaMantia was just happy to be vice president of engineering. A musician for most of his life, LaMantia was well-versed in the product line at Shure, so when the opportunity to join the engineering department came up, it was an easy decision.

    I don’t mean this as a dig at Shure or any of its CEOs, honestly they are a kickass microphone company the Shure SM58 alone has empowered more people to be the most ridiculous and weird version of themselves than pretty much any other object in modern history. Any category, iconic guns/weapon systems, scientific devices, medicine, whatever, put it up against Shure SM58, Shure SM58 wins easy.

    https://www.shure.com/en-US/iconic-mics

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztomemes@lemmy.world•Irish American personality
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    19 days ago

    I grew up in a place with pretty much only volunteer fire departments and they definitely had a lot of very passionate irish americans in them.

    The fire departments were the emergency responders I trusted there, not the police (HELL no), not the ambulance that might bankrupt a friend in a medical emergency and I wouldn’t even realize I was dooming my friend to a life of medical debt as an EMT smiled at me and said everything was ok…

    No it was the Volunteer Fire Department that showed up to help move my dying father to an ambulance who couldn’t move easily. Yeah the ambulance showed up to but the ambulance people basically stood to the side as a bunch of young volunteer kids who were bored and looking for something to give them identity helped save my dads life.

    So yeah, I think this is a good dig, but damn if your volunteer fire departments are like the ones where I grew up, well I am not complaining lol.

    Volunteer firefighters show up to an emergency and help, police and ambulances show up with paperwork, rules and stipulations for whether they will or won’t help. Further, the consequences for asking for Police or Emergency Medical Services may not be become clear until it is toooo late for you to avoid them, which is NOT how Volunteer Fire Departments work. I briefly did volunteer fire fighter training (I didn’t end up fitting in) and it was fascinating talking to the various people in it about their philosophy for emergency calls, yes they are trained specifically in firefighting and rescuing people from fires… but they are volunteer helpers who are physically fit so they would get called for all kinds of random emergencies and they would never say “wellllll this doesn’t fall under the categories of what our job is, so tough luck!”, they would get in the fucking firetruck, turn the lights on and go in a way an ambulance crew or police officer never would in a million years.

    I am fairly positive any one of those irish american volunteer fire department “bros” would cast off whatever rule they were supposed to follow to save someones life, no questions asked, it was how they stoked their ego being like that and yeah it could be annoying but it was legitimate, unquestionably.