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[Dutrius]

And who lit all those smokeless fires?

[pikachu17]

The Norse burned their dead.

sometimes, but not all the time. there are a number of famous norse burial ships(that's a ship that is buried, I don't remember how large they are usually, though).
one example is the Oseberg burial ship. here's the link to the Wikipedia page(yes, I'm aware that not all Wikipedia articles are accurate, but I know that it at least exists)                                                   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseberg_Ship

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The Oseberg burial mound (Norwegian: Oseberghaugen ved Slagen from the Old Norse word haugr meaning kurgan mound or barrow) contained numerous grave goods and two female human skeletons. The ship's interment into its burial mound dates from 834 AD, but parts of the ship date from around 800, and the ship itself is thought to be older.[1] It was excavated by Norwegian archaeologist Haakon Shetelig and Swedish archaeologist Gabriel Gustafson in 1904-1905. [2] The ship is a Karve, clinker built almost entirely of oak. It is 21.58 m long and 5.10 m broad, with a mast of approximately 9–10 m. With a sail of c. 90 m², the ship could achieve a speed up to 10 knots. The ship has 15 pairs of oar holes, which means that 30 people could row the ship. Other fittings include a broad steering oar, iron anchor, gangplank, and a bailer. The bow and stern of the ship are elaborately decorated with complex woodcarvings in the characteristic "gripping beast" style, also known as the Oseberg style. [3]

During the debate on whether to move the original ship to a new proposed museum, thorough investigations were made into the possibilities of moving the ship without damaging it. During this process, very thorough photo scans and laser scans of both the outside and inside of the ship were made. [4]The grave had been disturbed in antiquity, and precious metals were absent. Nevertheless, a great number of everyday items and artifacts were found during the 1904-1905 excavations. These included four elaborately decorated sleighs, a richly carved four-wheel wooden cart, bed-posts, and wooden chests, as well as the so-called "Buddha bucket" (Buddha-bøtte), a brass and cloisonné enamel ornament of a bucket (pail) handle in the shape of a figure sitting with crossed legs. The bucket is made from yew wood, held together with brass strips, and the handle is attached to two anthropomorphic figures compared to depictions of the Buddha in the lotus posture, although any connection is most uncertain. More relevant is the connection between the patterned enamel torso and similar human figures in the Gospel books of the Insular art of the British Isles, such as the Book of Durrow. More mundane items such as agricultural and household tools were also found. A series of textiles included woolen garments, imported silks, and narrow tapestries. The Oseberg burial is one of the few sources of Viking age textiles, and the wooden cart is the only complete Viking age cart found so far. A bedpost shows one of the few period examples of the use of what has been dubbed the valknut symbol.[15]

[Silverthrone]

And besides, they ain't even Norse. They're Nord.

I like how relatively homely they keep it down in their barrows. Don't know if either the food or the candles are enchanted or if they've got skeleton servants tending to them. Some of the barrows have dining halls, maybe the Draugr holds a nice, big party night every odd century or so.

[Shadowlord]

If they're really dead then they wouldn't need all that fresh food they keep in their tombs.  Clearly the training program works wonders, but has the side effect of making them look like a corpse.

Real people put real food in pyramids, so that the pharaoh would have food in the afterlife, or something like that. Actually I think actual norse may have done that(putting food in the tomb).
I don't however know why there would be lots of FRESH food. you'd think the fruit delivery boy would be too scared to deliver fruit.

Is this like Ben Carson's "the pyramids were granaries" nonsense, or is it a real thing that there is evidence for?

[Persus13]

Its a real thing that the Egyptians did (well, those rich enough to afford it). Although the food was mummified first, to preserve it. They also mummified their pets, but were nice enough to make statues of their servants, instead of mummifying them.

[Culise]

If they're really dead then they wouldn't need all that fresh food they keep in their tombs.  Clearly the training program works wonders, but has the side effect of making them look like a corpse.

Real people put real food in pyramids, so that the pharaoh would have food in the afterlife, or something like that. Actually I think actual norse may have done that(putting food in the tomb).
I don't however know why there would be lots of FRESH food. you'd think the fruit delivery boy would be too scared to deliver fruit.

Plot twist: the food remained fresh forever due to pyramid power.

[SeriousConcentrate]

OK, I got one.

Fanbases that ruin their respective game for other people.

For the longest time, I didn't play Spec Ops: The Line simply because the enthusiastic fans made it sound like the most obnoxious, 'moral high-ground' take on war ever. After spoiling a certain scene, they would add, 'you could have turned the game off. You didn't have to do that; you had a choice. Just don't play it.' I always assumed this was something the game itself told you. Turns out it isn't, and the game never judges you the player, only Walker the character (unless there's a loading screen tip I missed near the end of the game but with how many times I got rekt I doubt I missed one ). For a 5 1/2 hour game, it's surprisingly pretty good.

Another one is the Undertale fanbase. Not the fanart and crossovers and alt-universes and all that (I don't follow any of the latter two, so it doesn't bother me) but the fact whenever someone starts a let's play of it they immediately rush in to tell said LPer how they MUST play the game. Someone I occasionally watch tried to start a blind Undertale LP a while back and quit after the second episode because 'I felt like I already knew the entire game just from the comments section of the first video'. I don't understand this mindset. If you want to watch a true pacifist run or a genocide run or whatever, those videos are already out there and labled; why would you want to spoil someone's blind LP just so you can watch them play the way you think they have to instead of enjoying a new approach to it? It makes no sense to me.

So yeah, stupid fanbases. I'm sure you can find assholes like this in every fandom gaming or otherwise though (...honestly I'm probably one as far as Dark Souls and Resident Evil go...).

[Tawa]

Is this like Ben Carson's "the pyramids were granaries" nonsense, or is it a real thing that there is evidence for?

Did Ben Carson learn about world history by playing Civ II?

[hector13]

It seems an awful effort to go to for a granary.

[Darkmere]

Fanbases that ruin their respective game for other people.

This isn't limited to games, believe me.

I haven't run across a "fandom" yet that is willing to let someone else just experience their precious baby on their own terms. Hence, avoid fandoms if you can at all.

[SeriousConcentrate]

I'm sure you can find assholes like this in every fandom gaming or otherwise though

I know it isn't, but I just had the gaming one specifically on my mind due to the two recent incidents I listed in that post. But yeah, aggressive fandoms in general can ruin things.

[blazing glory]

Third person open-world games where you CAN, NOT, JUMP*.

In any such game there will always be a reason I want or need to jump, even a little hop.

Such as in the latest game I've played, Mad Max...

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In front of Max is ledges and way upwards to find loot, but either I am just stupid or something broke because I was never able to get past that thing, and Max has severe atrophy in his legs so he cannot jump at all.

Even if a jump function was put in these games but the developers didn't include any reasons at all to jump, I would be happy, because I'll inevitably find a reason to need it.

*Parking your character in some pre-determined spot to do some fixed-location jump across a ledge doesn't count.

[Neonivek]

You know what... It has been a while but I think now is the time this has occurred

Crafting

No I am not saying, when it is misused, or anything like that. I am listing anytime a game has a crafting system now as my pet peeve.

If only because I cannot think of a single game that has ever had a good worthwhile crafting system (Maybe Magic Pengel)... It is always a level of tedium made to give you an IDEA of ownership over what you make but because it deals with presets it just doesn't work that way.

Even Minecraft the crafting is often the worst part of the game at the best of time. Minecraft really might as well be a Resident Evil game with its "get a material, to make a pick, to get a material, to get a pick, to get a material, to get a gate, to get another material, to get a pick, to get the ultimate material, to get a pick" (key to get a key to get a key).

Which you know what would be fine on its own.

Except now crafting systems are starting to become a somewhat standard feature in games... but unlike "RPG-elements" which was a welcome chance of pace... Crafting elements are just as terrible as they ever were. A lot of games are coming out with crafting as a feature.

[Insanegame27]

I dunno about that. Warframe's crafting system isn't that bad.

[Neonivek]

I dunno about that. Warframe's crafting system isn't that bad.

Is... that... a joke? O_o

I mean that in a serious tone because I honestly can't tell given that the reason Warframe has a crafting system is to stretch out the gameplay and add further grinding to it (as well as to entice you to pay real money to bypass it)