No Alphabets 7.1 — Baldur's Gate 3

[Norfleet]

Real, honest question: Are you an Objectivist?

Not specifically, no.

[GOW LIKE A BOSS]

@orinEsque Found another one for you. Real obscure this time.

[Luckmann]

@orinEsque Found another one for you. Real obscure this time.
https://i.postimg.cc/NGPG10b9/image.png

I mean while "Kevin" is a weird name for a woman, it doesn't have to mean anything in particular, especially in a fantasy setting. If anything, I'd be more bothered by "Kevin" as a name than the fact that she was supposedly a woman. It just doesn't sound very appropriate for Forgotten Realms.

Therefore, if this is to be changed (and I'm not convinced there's a need), I'd change the name, not the gender, even if it's just to something like "Kevain" or w/e.

decapitan wrote: ↑ March 12th, 2024, 10:05
... fascists ...
Literally the opposite, my dude.

It's not, fascism is enforced communism. It's a left wing movement. Know your history. Don't read Wikipedia.

You're actually a ******* idiot. Wikipedia has nothing to do with it. Fascism is and remains a third-positionist movement. Fascists were among the first to fight literally everything that plagues the modern world, including Capitalism and Communism.

Fascism
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
Oppressive, dictatorial control.

What about this is not communism except that capitalist part hmmn? You simply replace nationalism with anti conservatism and anti religion. And well its racist already.

A nonsensical definition by any measure, even if we ignore "what if we replace core components with other conflicting components?". Third-positionism of all kinds have an evolutionary approach, a biological world-view, categorically reject the dichotomous political spectra, and maintain an integralist social order as the ideal, subsequently favoring corporatist and/or syndicalist principles, while guaranteeing personal and private ownership. It also rejects all ideas of an "end to history", idiocies such as dialectical materialism and historical materialism, nevermind lysenkoism (which while scientifically discredited still lives on as a form of social norm used by people influenced by Marxism into dismissing evolutionary reality).

Marxism is at odds with all of these things. Ignoring low-hanging fruit like ownership rights, even the view of something so simple as collectivism vs. individualism is completely different, for while Fascism can be defined as collectivist, it always centered that collectivist thought around individuals that push progress, lead the way, or innovate, which is something wholly rejected by Communists and Leftists, who traditionally see human beings as interchangeable on the stage of history, congruent with their ideas of how people aren't intrinsically one thing or another, but essentially created by circumstance and environment alone - which is what lead to absurdities like lysenkoism and the overreliance on principles such as the social construction of reality to begin with, ideas that are wholly alien to the Fascist mindset.

People that accuse Marxists of being "Fascist" are more ******** than actual Marxists, which is no small feat, and anyone that literally can't conceive of a political world outside of "Left" ("their/my team!") and "Right" ("my/their team!") probably belong in some kind of camp.

[ArcaneLurker]

@orinEsque Found another one for you. Real obscure this time.

"May sister Kevin find the peace our cruel life never gave her. In shadow,
in Shar's embrace."

[Oyster Sauce]

@orinEsque Found another one for you. Real obscure this time.

It's a stupid SNL sketch reference.

[Manny V]

@orinEsque Found another one for you. Real obscure this time.

of all the names, fuckin kevin, lmao

couldn't even make it a gender neutral name or some ****

Just imagine some dude in a dress with a moustache being like 'how do you do, fellow nurses?'

edit: nvm just ****** sketch reference, still cringe

[ArcaneLurker]

Change the name to sister Swen.

[rusty_shackleford]

edit: nvm just ****** sketch reference, still cringe

should be removed on account of pop culture references being stupid

[Oyster Sauce]

edit: nvm just ****** sketch reference, still cringe

should be removed on account of pop culture references being stupid

Gravestones are the Wilhelm Screams of RPGs

[orinEsque]

Pop culture references ages really well. /s

Its rpg culture to put cringey credits and stupid references in graveyards, so I cba changing it. It's noalphabets, not no cringe.

[rusty_shackleford]

Pop culture references ages really well.

They really don't. Fallout 2 is full of them due to it being so rushed an it makes the game overall worse.

[orinEsque]

Pop culture references ages really well.

They really don't. Fallout 2 is full of them due to it being so rushed an it makes the game overall worse.

Guess i added the /s too late for rusty here.

[Slavic Sorcerer]

@orinEsque Found another one for you. Real obscure this time.

of all the names, fuckin kevin, lmao

couldn't even make it a gender neutral name or some ****

Just imagine some dude in a dress with a moustache being like 'how do you do, fellow nurses?'

edit: nvm just ****** sketch reference, still cringe

Hm I always thought Americans didn't have such restrictions on names
Like you could give your boy a feminine men or something

In Poland, every name ending with -a is a feminine name, and boys cant be named with a feminine name.
According to our laws a name has to be clear about the gender of the baby so even with foreign names (which was, and sometimes still is, a trend within low-class people and welfare leeches to feel special) the foreign name must end with an -a to be considered feminine.
Or they have to convince the head of the registry office that this name is indeed feminine.

Do Americans have such laws?

The exception to the laws I mentioned is the name Maria (or Mary in english speaking countries). Boys can have this name as their second name.
It's kind of tradition as far as I'm told, but I cannot find where it started.
Holy men and women of The Old Catholic Mariavite Church and The Old Catholic Mariavite Church also add Maria as their second name.
Given the above, I think this tradition has some Catholic roots.

[Manny V]

@orinEsque Found another one for you. Real obscure this time.

of all the names, fuckin kevin, lmao

couldn't even make it a gender neutral name or some ****

Just imagine some dude in a dress with a moustache being like 'how do you do, fellow nurses?'

edit: nvm just ****** sketch reference, still cringe

Hm I always thought Americans didn't have such restrictions on names
Like you could give your boy a feminine men or something

In Poland, every name ending with -a is a feminine name, and boys cant be named with a feminine name.
According to our laws a name has to be clear about the gender of the baby so even with foreign names (which was, and sometimes still is, a trend within low-class people and welfare leeches to feel special) the foreign name must end with an -a to be considered feminine.
Or they have to convince the head of the registry office that this name is indeed feminine.

Do Americans have such laws?

The exception to the laws I mentioned is the name Maria (or Mary in english speaking countries). Boys can have this name as their second name.
It's kind of tradition as far as I'm told, but I cannot find where it started.
Holy men and women of The Old Catholic Mariavite Church and The Old Catholic Mariavite Church also add Maria as their second name.
Given the above, I think this tradition has some Catholic roots.

Dunno, not 'Merican, im 'Strayan

But ye like theres a few names here and there that can be used for either gender, kinda fuckin gay but yknow how it is

also speakin of, you're alright for a ***, having seen your posts on the forum

just thought id let you know

[ArcaneLurker]

@orinEsque Found another one for you. Real obscure this time.

of all the names, fuckin kevin, lmao

couldn't even make it a gender neutral name or some ****

Just imagine some dude in a dress with a moustache being like 'how do you do, fellow nurses?'

edit: nvm just ****** sketch reference, still cringe

Hm I always thought Americans didn't have such restrictions on names
Like you could give your boy a feminine men or something

In Poland, every name ending with -a is a feminine name, and boys cant be named with a feminine name.
According to our laws a name has to be clear about the gender of the baby so even with foreign names (which was, and sometimes still is, a trend within low-class people and welfare leeches to feel special) the foreign name must end with an -a to be considered feminine.
Or they have to convince the head of the registry office that this name is indeed feminine.

Do Americans have such laws?

The exception to the laws I mentioned is the name Maria (or Mary in english speaking countries). Boys can have this name as their second name.
It's kind of tradition as far as I'm told, but I cannot find where it started.
Holy men and women of The Old Catholic Mariavite Church and The Old Catholic Mariavite Church also add Maria as their second name.
Given the above, I think this tradition has some Catholic roots.

Even though it's directed at Americans, it's the same.
There's no hard linguistic rules on male/ female names, but some names "sound" feminine/ masculine because they're more culturally associated with men or women.
We also have the variations like Alexander vs Alexandra, but it's not as absolute as saying all female names must end in a. Alex could work for either gender, although it's a tomboyish name for girls.

[Mxracer422]

I just wanted to pop in and make a couple comments.

I have been a fan of The Forgotten Realms since about 1998. I have read most novels, played all the games, and own most sourcebooks. In 1 or 2 books there are VERY obscure references to a couple lesbian vampire characters. Other than that there is no focus on characters sexuality.

The rewriting, that they have done to change the lore of the Realms in BG3, disgusts me. They just took their own weird beliefs and jammed them in a setting that never had those things for the last 25+ years.

I have literally seen people on Reddit saying that “everyone in the Realms is Bi because there is no “Christian” god.” Makes me puke in my mouth a bit.
I can’t even play the game without a mod like this. Getting sexually hit on by two main gay followers literally minutes after meeting them is bizarre as all hell. It’s such blatant propaganda.

Oh and what is kind of funny is that there is reference to sexually ambiguous characters in the realms. Guess which ones? Demons and Devils.

Anyways. Thanks for the mod and the hard work!

[orinEsque]

I just wanted to pop in and make a couple comments.

I have been a fan of The Forgotten Realms since about 1998. I have read most novels, played all the games, and own most sourcebooks. In 1 or 2 books there are VERY obscure references to a couple lesbian vampire characters. Other than that there is no focus on characters sexuality.

The rewriting, that they have done to change the lore of the Realms in BG3, disgusts me. They just took their own weird beliefs and jammed them in a setting that never had those things for the last 25+ years.

I have literally seen people on Reddit saying that “everyone in the Realms is Bi because there is no “Christian” god.” Makes me puke in my mouth a bit.
I can’t even play the game without a mod like this. Getting sexually hit on by two main gay followers literally minutes after meeting them is bizarre as all hell. It’s such blatant propaganda.

Oh and what is kind of funny is that there is reference to sexually ambiguous characters in the realms. Guess which ones? Demons and Devils.

Anyways. Thanks for the mod and the hard work!

Wokies are like very persistent door to door salesmen or is that just jehovah's witnesses? They just keep knocking till you give in to their cult.

[jebacdrkac]

I just wanted to pop in and make a couple comments.

I have been a fan of The Forgotten Realms since about 1998. I have read most novels, played all the games, and own most sourcebooks. In 1 or 2 books there are VERY obscure references to a couple lesbian vampire characters. Other than that there is no focus on characters sexuality.

The rewriting, that they have done to change the lore of the Realms in BG3, disgusts me. They just took their own weird beliefs and jammed them in a setting that never had those things for the last 25+ years.

I have literally seen people on Reddit saying that “everyone in the Realms is Bi because there is no “Christian” god.” Makes me puke in my mouth a bit.
I can’t even play the game without a mod like this. Getting sexually hit on by two main gay followers literally minutes after meeting them is bizarre as all hell. It’s such blatant propaganda.

Oh and what is kind of funny is that there is reference to sexually ambiguous characters in the realms. Guess which ones? Demons and Devils.

Anyways. Thanks for the mod and the hard work!

Wokies are like very persistent door to door salesmen or is that just jehovah's witnesses? They just keep knocking till you give in to their cult.

Knocking?More like

[Manny V]

I just wanted to pop in and make a couple comments.

I have been a fan of The Forgotten Realms since about 1998. I have read most novels, played all the games, and own most sourcebooks. In 1 or 2 books there are VERY obscure references to a couple lesbian vampire characters. Other than that there is no focus on characters sexuality.

The rewriting, that they have done to change the lore of the Realms in BG3, disgusts me. They just took their own weird beliefs and jammed them in a setting that never had those things for the last 25+ years.

I have literally seen people on Reddit saying that “everyone in the Realms is Bi because there is no “Christian” god.” Makes me puke in my mouth a bit.
I can’t even play the game without a mod like this. Getting sexually hit on by two main gay followers literally minutes after meeting them is bizarre as all hell. It’s such blatant propaganda.

Oh and what is kind of funny is that there is reference to sexually ambiguous characters in the realms. Guess which ones? Demons and Devils.

Anyways. Thanks for the mod and the hard work!

Wokies are like very persistent door to door salesmen or is that just jehovah's witnesses? They just keep knocking till you give in to their cult.

Knocking?More like

Heeeeeeeeeeeere's

SHANIQUA

[Xenich]

of all the names, fuckin kevin, lmao

couldn't even make it a gender neutral name or some ****

Just imagine some dude in a dress with a moustache being like 'how do you do, fellow nurses?'

edit: nvm just ****** sketch reference, still cringe

Hm I always thought Americans didn't have such restrictions on names
Like you could give your boy a feminine men or something

In Poland, every name ending with -a is a feminine name, and boys cant be named with a feminine name.
According to our laws a name has to be clear about the gender of the baby so even with foreign names (which was, and sometimes still is, a trend within low-class people and welfare leeches to feel special) the foreign name must end with an -a to be considered feminine.
Or they have to convince the head of the registry office that this name is indeed feminine.

Do Americans have such laws?

The exception to the laws I mentioned is the name Maria (or Mary in english speaking countries). Boys can have this name as their second name.
It's kind of tradition as far as I'm told, but I cannot find where it started.
Holy men and women of The Old Catholic Mariavite Church and The Old Catholic Mariavite Church also add Maria as their second name.
Given the above, I think this tradition has some Catholic roots.

Even though it's directed at Americans, it's the same.
There's no hard linguistic rules on male/ female names, but some names "sound" feminine/ masculine because they're more culturally associated with men or women.
We also have the variations like Alexander vs Alexandra, but it's not as absolute as saying all female names must end in a. Alex could work for either gender, although it's a tomboyish name for girls.

Abbreviations are used as well in the male form from time to time "Sam" for "Samantha" for example. It is generally excepted for both. I think "Alex" is short for "Alexandria" usually.

Wokies are like very persistent door to door salesmen or is that just jehovah's witnesses? They just keep knocking till you give in to their cult.

Knocking?More like

Heeeeeeeeeeeere's

SHANIQUA

La-a, and you know... "like the dash don't be silent and ****!"

[ArcaneLurker]

Abbreviations are used as well in the male form from time to time "Sam" for "Samantha" for example. It is generally excepted for both.

Thanks for the extra clarification, but I thought what I wrote was pretty clear already.

I think "Alex" is short for "Alexandria" usually.

Alexandra & Alexandria are basically the same name. The point is that according to Sorcerer "Alex" would be male-only in Poland, whereas in English it can be used for both, and I don't mean as a nickname, I mean as part of the full legal name.

[GOW LIKE A BOSS]

@orinEsque Found another one for you. Real obscure this time.

of all the names, fuckin kevin, lmao

couldn't even make it a gender neutral name or some ****

Just imagine some dude in a dress with a moustache being like 'how do you do, fellow nurses?'

edit: nvm just ****** sketch reference, still cringe

Hm I always thought Americans didn't have such restrictions on names
Like you could give your boy a feminine men or something

In Poland, every name ending with -a is a feminine name, and boys cant be named with a feminine name.
According to our laws a name has to be clear about the gender of the baby so even with foreign names (which was, and sometimes still is, a trend within low-class people and welfare leeches to feel special) the foreign name must end with an -a to be considered feminine.
Or they have to convince the head of the registry office that this name is indeed feminine.

Do Americans have such laws?

The exception to the laws I mentioned is the name Maria (or Mary in english speaking countries). Boys can have this name as their second name.
It's kind of tradition as far as I'm told, but I cannot find where it started.
Holy men and women of The Old Catholic Mariavite Church and The Old Catholic Mariavite Church also add Maria as their second name.
Given the above, I think this tradition has some Catholic roots.

American "scholars" currently insist women can have a penis. We're way past names. Don't copy us lol

[GOW LIKE A BOSS]

I just wanted to pop in and make a couple comments.

I have been a fan of The Forgotten Realms since about 1998. I have read most novels, played all the games, and own most sourcebooks. In 1 or 2 books there are VERY obscure references to a couple lesbian vampire characters. Other than that there is no focus on characters sexuality.

The rewriting, that they have done to change the lore of the Realms in BG3, disgusts me. They just took their own weird beliefs and jammed them in a setting that never had those things for the last 25+ years.

I have literally seen people on Reddit saying that “everyone in the Realms is Bi because there is no “Christian” god.” Makes me puke in my mouth a bit.
I can’t even play the game without a mod like this. Getting sexually hit on by two main gay followers literally minutes after meeting them is bizarre as all hell. It’s such blatant propaganda.

Oh and what is kind of funny is that there is reference to sexually ambiguous characters in the realms. Guess which ones? Demons and Devils.

Anyways. Thanks for the mod and the hard work!

Wokies are like very persistent door to door salesmen or is that just jehovah's witnesses? They just keep knocking till you give in to their cult.

Jehovah's Witnesses actually leave when you ask them to. They don't follow you to work and try to get you fired if you don't comply lol

[Xenich]

Abbreviations are used as well in the male form from time to time "Sam" for "Samantha" for example. It is generally excepted for both.

Thanks for the extra clarification, but I thought what I wrote was pretty clear already.

I think "Alex" is short for "Alexandria" usually.

Alexandra & Alexandria are basically the same name. The point is that according to Sorcerer "Alex" would be male-only in Poland, whereas in English it can be used for both, and I don't mean as a nickname, I mean as part of the full legal name.

Yeah, sorry my eyes have been really irritable as of late so in my reading I am missing key conceptual points. Apologies.

[Godjjjita]

I just wanted to pop in and make a couple comments.

I have been a fan of The Forgotten Realms since about 1998. I have read most novels, played all the games, and own most sourcebooks. In 1 or 2 books there are VERY obscure references to a couple lesbian vampire characters. Other than that there is no focus on characters sexuality.

The rewriting, that they have done to change the lore of the Realms in BG3, disgusts me. They just took their own weird beliefs and jammed them in a setting that never had those things for the last 25+ years.

I have literally seen people on Reddit saying that “everyone in the Realms is Bi because there is no “Christian” god.” Makes me puke in my mouth a bit.
I can’t even play the game without a mod like this. Getting sexually hit on by two main gay followers literally minutes after meeting them is bizarre as all hell. It’s such blatant propaganda.

Oh and what is kind of funny is that there is reference to sexually ambiguous characters in the realms. Guess which ones? Demons and Devils.

Anyways. Thanks for the mod and the hard work!

Wokies are like very persistent door to door salesmen or is that just jehovah's witnesses? They just keep knocking till you give in to their cult.

Knocking?More like

Heeeeeeeeeeeere's

COMMIE!

[Braintoast93]

@orinEsque Found another one for you. Real obscure this time.

It's a stupid SNL sketch reference.

I never understood what's so funny about crossdressing. Of course Larian smuggled a joke like this into the game. It doesn't even surprise me at this point, but how many players even get this reference?

[fkirenicus]

In Poland, every name ending with -a is a feminine name, and boys cant be named with a feminine name.
According to our laws a name has to be clear about the gender of the baby so even with foreign names (which was, and sometimes still is, a trend within low-class people and welfare leeches to feel special) the foreign name must end with an -a to be considered feminine.
Or they have to convince the head of the registry office that this name is indeed feminine.

Do Americans have such laws?

The exception to the laws I mentioned is the name Maria (or Mary in english speaking countries). Boys can have this name as their second name.
It's kind of tradition as far as I'm told, but I cannot find where it started.
Holy men and women of The Old Catholic Mariavite Church and The Old Catholic Mariavite Church also add Maria as their second name.
Given the above, I think this tradition has some Catholic roots.

Most likely. The christian cultures (both catholic and protestant) in Europe have created quite a few strange (for certain language groups, at least) "rules" for naming. As you say, Maria is considered a normal (if not widespread) middle (first) name for men in Western Europe as well, take e.g. Jesus Maria Zamora, spanish footballer in the 70s and 80s.
And even better, which for English speaking persons probably sounds just hilarious, another footballer: the Belgian, Jean-Marie Pfaff. A very much true man, though both first first name and middle first name for most English speakers probably would make them believe it was a woman...

[zebus]

Quesiton, does CCreator work standalone? I kinda want to see the cringe my first playthru to see how bad it is lol.. and then use the full suite on subsequent playthrus.

[orinEsque]

Quesiton, does CCreator work standalone? I kinda want to see the cringe my first playthru to see how bad it is lol.. and then use the full suite on subsequent playthrus.

yes it does. But it doesn't work for everyone since last patch (still works fine for me). I will update, I promise...

[Slavic Sorcerer]

of all the names, fuckin kevin, lmao

couldn't even make it a gender neutral name or some ****

Just imagine some dude in a dress with a moustache being like 'how do you do, fellow nurses?'

edit: nvm just ****** sketch reference, still cringe

Hm I always thought Americans didn't have such restrictions on names
Like you could give your boy a feminine men or something

In Poland, every name ending with -a is a feminine name, and boys cant be named with a feminine name.
According to our laws a name has to be clear about the gender of the baby so even with foreign names (which was, and sometimes still is, a trend within low-class people and welfare leeches to feel special) the foreign name must end with an -a to be considered feminine.
Or they have to convince the head of the registry office that this name is indeed feminine.

Do Americans have such laws?

The exception to the laws I mentioned is the name Maria (or Mary in english speaking countries). Boys can have this name as their second name.
It's kind of tradition as far as I'm told, but I cannot find where it started.
Holy men and women of The Old Catholic Mariavite Church and The Old Catholic Mariavite Church also add Maria as their second name.
Given the above, I think this tradition has some Catholic roots.

Dunno, not 'Merican, im 'Strayan

But ye like theres a few names here and there that can be used for either gender, kinda fuckin gay but yknow how it is

also speakin of, you're alright for a ***, having seen your posts on the forum

just thought id let you know

Thanks Manny. I appreciate your words