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I have not played ESO so my knowledge of 2E stuff is very limited, but I did play a lot of Morrowind. Knowing what I know about Almalexia and the Ashlanders from that game:

1. The Ashlanders do not accept the Tribunal as legitimate gods. The Ashlanders still worship the Daedric "anticipations" (to borrow the Temple's term) that came before, who are Azura, Boethia, and Mephala. So they do not view the Tribunal gods highly, and would view their claims of divinity to be fabrications.
2. Before becoming a living god, Almalexia was Nerevar's wife (Nerevar being the historical 1E figure the player is a reincarnation of in Morrowind). Almalexia may not be a highly regarded figure among the Ashlanders, but her husband Nerevar certainly was. The Ashlanders believe that Almalexia, along with Sotha Sil and Vivec, murdered Nerevar with poison before declaring themselves gods immediately after. The Temple silences the betrayal narrative as heresy throughout most of Morrowind, but the Ashlanders exist outside of the Temple's sphere of influence.

So since the Ashlanders see Almalexia as guilty of murdering her husband out of a lust for power, I assume this is where the "Mad Wife" idea comes into play (mad in this case interpreted to be insanity). At the very least, they know Almalexia was Nerevar's wife, and they also know that she is claiming to be something they believe she is not, so that seems enough of a basis to call her "the Mad Wife" to me.

20:00? That's a reasonable time here. Businesses here are usually open from 23:00-10:00.

Thank goodness it's Thursday, though, the weekend is about to start.

YYYYMMDD is commonly used throughout East Asia.

Fair, but in practice the outcome is now that they are hiring someone else anyways because of those Internet issues.

Really shitty situation though, sorry that happened. But from both your perspective and their perspective, I don't think there was anything else to be done.

At least you know someone out there is willing to hire you for what you can offer, and now it's just a matter of finding a place to work that is the right fit.

Edit: typo

It could be the cheese basically sealing in moisture from the sauce. Usually the cheese itself isn't too wet, just oily, but if it completely covers a wet sauce and prevents that moisture from escaping, I think that would do it.

The Nickelodeon fighter game is still available I believe, but you're still right in that there's still basically nothing to hold a candle to Smash Bros.

Not to mention the GAAS titles which are competitive in nature. The whales thrive on having a mob of casual players they can crush with their P2W advantage. If the whales were only matched against other whales, they'd win less and play less.

I had to look it up, flerf apparently refers to a flat earther. Not related to TERF like I originally assumed.

I'm using Niagara personally, but I know it's a radically different experience and probably not something I'd recommend to anyone looking for something comparable to Nova. Niagara is also not FOSS if that is a priority.

I know there are some FOSS launchers out there with similar features to Nova that folks on Lemmy have recommended in the past, but I don't know them offhand and haven't used them myself enough to be a judge of quality.

It's probably not even bad sticking with Nova, because at least to my knowledge they haven't gone sketchy yet, but it's something to keep an eye on. Analytics companies typically aren't very trustworthy, especially when it comes to user privacy.

Just be careful, Nova Launcher is owned by a user telemetry collection company now and the majority of the original dev team was kicked from the project not too long ago.

That was enough reason for me to lose trust in them and switch to something else. If the app hasn't gotten shady yet, I feel it is only a matter of time.

The civil war was absolutely fought over slavery. That was the reason given by every state that attempted to secede. Any suggestion otherwise is historical revisionism based on the lost cause narrative.

She just wants pockets, I don't blame her.

Think more like organized crime. Pay us money and we'll "protect" your business (read: bribe us and we won't fuck your shit up).

Lee's reputation as an honorable man is something of a fabrication by false lost cause narratives.

The reality is that his reputation and skill as a military leader was overblown, and he was as cruel an enslaver as they come. He felt slavery was a cause worth fighting for, all to protect his/his family's wealth. If he chose to fight for the south in spite of low odds of winning, it's only more indicative of just how strongly he supported the confederacy and the right to own people.

The notion that he only acted out of loyalty to his home state is the work of lost causers trying absolve him of responsibility for betraying his country. This way, he can continue filling the role of (white) people's hero long after his death and get monuments built for him that celebrate and perpetuate confederate ideals. If Lee's decision was normal, one might ask why General George Henry Thomas, another Virginian, still chose to fight for the United States alongside 100,000 other southern unionists who disagreed with secession.

Gonna be hard to convince Trump that anything that benefits brown people also benefits him.

For what it's worth, just because something is popular does not mean it's perfect, or even better.

I think a lot of the complaints about Windows 11 are overblown, but a lot aren't. It's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination.

FWIW it's pretty common for subsequent production series, even of the same model, to include updated firmware out of the box. That's why we see various jailbreak options which might only work on devices made before a certain date, because later releases already include patched firmware.

Absolute embodiment of less is more. Controls are simple but intuitive, you can beat it in one session, there's no major payoff in the end. It's just a game about the journey and the friends made along the way.

I still remember having my mind blown that the other figure I met after the tutorial level was not just an NPC, when I noticed their movements were too deliberate and they were solving some puzzles for me.

I made it all the way to the end of the game with that person. Never knew who they even were until their name showed up at the very end. What a cathartic experience. I've also never been able to achieve anything similar since then.

You can go in with the best intentions, but people will find a way to abuse it for malicious purposes.

Agreed, those are my only two choices as well.

• I feel like the first two are basically the same thing and are also asking for a monkey's paw sort of scenario to happen.
• I don't want to stop shopping because there are things I want that can't be obtained for free.
• I'm not the tallest, but I don't feel any particular need to be any taller.
• I don't want my emotions regulated to always be happy, because then you basically never truly are.
• Followers are overrated and creepy.
• And I'd never want to forget an ex because I'd end up losing a lot of good memories in the process.