Yeah, I was being vague to derailing this thread off topic too much.

Yup, last week Ive clicked on a YT video of certain game, shut it down about 1 minute in after realising it was just another rage-baiting angry youtuber lamenting how the game is too woke. Now all I get is recommendations of angry anti-woke youtube videos bashing the game I actually enjoy.

It would certainly make Polish easier to read for Czechs. Not sure about other foreigners, šžčřě might be just as alien.

Based Jan Hus. Sparking religious wars and linguistic reforms.

Its funny that the picture for mosque is Hagia Sophia, which was originally an orthodox christian church.

What are the ingrediences? Looks yummy.

I wish we all had the same freedom.

I’ve been involved in a number of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader.

The YT comments are… well… something.

Cant have vikings without nazis crawling out of their caves I guess.

Abe Simpson was right all along.

Thank you! I saw part of this movie years ago, and wasnt sure whether the memory was real or not

Gorgeous

Might be due to too tight circumcision tbh.

I dont think so. It’s just that I’ve been in several EU countries, and Ive never encountered this issue here.

I think the real reason might be that majority if not all supermarkets require coins to unlock the shopping cart.

I figure it’s mostly an American thing we’re too European to understand.

Ever since leaving reddit I feel like a new person.

Wo can say no to such adorable little murder machine?

Damn, gotta wrap my Dragon Age inquisition playthrough quickly then.

The future as imagined 30 years ago.

That was one of the initial ideas Tolkien had, and that also made its way into final Silmarillion edition after his death. However, there are notes from later years where its shown he has changed his mind about Orcs elven origin. Also, due to his Catholic upbringing he had struggled with the idea of an intelligent race so corrupted to be irredeemably evil and undeserving of mercy.

In later material the Orcs had been either former humans tortured and deformed by Morgoth/Sauron, or, even later on, automatons possessed by fallen spirits and/or imbued with Morgoths evil will (as only Eru was capable of creating true life, so technically the Orcs would not be real living beings), thus skirting around the intelligent being issue.

Of cource, the Silmarillion does not reflect that, as the released book is based on older material, so in the end, the elven origin of Orcs IS sort of canon, at least as much as anything is, with JRRT constantly changing things.