[English only speaker here] I am curious about the pronunciation of the name Bjorn, also if the spelling reflects the pronunciation. I have seen it spelled Bjorn, Bjรถrn and Bjรธrn.
Do these umlaut's on the 'O' affect the pronunciation? I have heard it pronounced B-yern. and B-yorn. Are both correct and which umlaut goes with which?
For someone who โhates himโ and finds him a โlunaticโ sure canโt keep him out her mouth
I understand that Siggy was an important individual, but if I recall, she didn't really have anything to do with Bjorn, and I didn't really understand why Bjorn was so set on naming his daughter that.
My husband and I are having a boy. The middle name will be Lelan, which is a blend of both of our fathers' names (Lee and Alan), but we've struggled to find a first name we can both agree on. I'm very open minded with names, and have searched many "boy's names" threads on this sub and adored so many of your suggestions!
However, my husband is another story. He is very picky. He doesn't want anything too popular/common, too religious, or too "out there" like some of the names I love. He has an uncommon name himself.
But he surprised me by suggesting Bjorn as a first name. I love it, but we wanted some opinions on whether or not it is too odd. The last name is two syllables and begins with a "F" sound, if that matters to anyone.
Ragnar fucking Lodbrok! I'm so damn pumped to binge this. I can't f'kin wait to see how this blue-eyed actor becomes a mega king of legend.
This character made me fall in love with norse culture, history, and mythology. I spent hours after I finished the playthrough reading about the viking age up to stamford bridge. Now I learn there's a fairly recently made show chronicling their greatest, most legendary hero??? Fuck yeah, I'm in!
My Ragnar's accomplishments if you're interested:
Changed the Dynasty name to "Thorkin"(Kin of Thor) since many members had physique_good traits and I was going down the top row of dynasty traits. He had the thunderbolt title so it just fit.
Herculean body
held every virtuous trait of asatru(brave, vengeful, wrathful)
conquered: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Sapmi, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Pomerania, Poland, Frisia, Ireland all in pieces over time. England and scotland were both invaded at age 60 together with Invade Kingdom CB used for scotland and holy war for kingdom CB against england. I ended the wars together and had 90/10 domain. Gave everything that was already asatru to family(with dynasty name), and mixed locals in between my families domain to help start converting the british isles to Asatru. Took 5 generations to complete.
Put down several peasant revolts easily and brutally. Honestly, I lost count.
Raided every county on the atlantic and mediterranean coasts, including Constantinople and Rome. 2 Byzantine Emperors(father and son) were sacrificed to Odin. Pope was ransomed once.
Martial of 40+ at death
Prowess of 70(before old age penalty) at death
Army of over 50k at death
Reformed Asatru near the end of his life with himself as the messiah, leaving an asatru equivalent of a caliphate to his son(s). I modded my game a bit to manipulate the virtues. Brave/Craven became great virtue/sins instead of regular. Made strong, giant, and herculean also virtues.
Consecrated his bloodline, marking all his descendants as divine.
Accomplished hunter
Raided enough to raise Uppsala's development to 20 long before the next maximum was unlocked
Died at 91 in the year 982, leaving 20 renown per month to his family henceforth(it fluctuated as cousins conquered cousins and lowered the independent ruler amount.
Gave 12 crowns to 7 sons(5 of which were properly groomed and converted to the culture they were to rule) before and when he died. His main heir got 3 (sweden, denmark, england) through elective succession.
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>Our Father, Who art in Mersey,
>Fowler be Thy Name.
>Thy Game Time come. ย >Thy Tie be won,
>On earth as it is in Anfield.
>Give us this day our daily thread.
>And forgive us our past banter,
>As we forgive those who banter against us.
>And lead us not into Europa,
>But deliver to us Big Ears.
>Amen.
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Hi all, in preparation for the transfer window opening, I thought it wise we get one of these going as I always find it useful having a hub of transfer news/rumours/discussions.
Will continue to update as the transfer window evolves with any confirmed "ins" and "outs", I expect a lot of it will be media speculation until after the Euros.
Confirmed In:
| Player | From | Position | Price | Notes | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emiliano Buendia | Norwich | RW/CAM | ยฃ33m | Beat Arsenal to him - Martinez apparently helped to sell him on the project. | Link |
| Ashley Young | Inter (Free) | LB/RB | Free | Cover for Targett, adds heaps of experience. Happy with this one. | Link |
Potential In:
| Player | From | Position | Price | Notes | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Turnbull | Celtic FC | AM | ยฃ7m | General consensus is that Celtic are unlikely to accept ยฃ7m | Link |
| Ghislain Konan | Reims | LB | ยฃ5m | Southampton apparently also monitoring. | Link |
| Mehdi Zerkane | Bordeaux | RW | ? | Seems like a McKenzie signing - responsible for finding Mahrez in 2014 for ยฃ450,000. | Link |
| Giorgione De Arrascaeta | Flamengo | LW/AM | ยฃ14-18m | Link | |
| Andre-Frank Anguissa | Fulham | DM/CM | ยฃ20m | Link | |
| Dwight McNeil | Burnley | LW | ยฃ15m | Seen ยฃ15m quoted, but would expect a much more substantial sum would be needed here. | Link [Link2](h |
Hello everyone. Today, I will be going over something that not a lot of people know about, even though we have probably seen it many times again and again. This is none other than Concept For Honor, with the images and art that people usually use for armor ideas. However, here we are going to delve into this early version of the game, and decipher what it was like using many resources that we have to our advantage. This will try to detail everything about Project Hero, the earliest idea of For Honor.
^(All art is real, and taken from the original project)
^(All sources are listed at the bottom)
Introduction to Project Hero
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When every game goes into the development cycle, they get a sort of codename before the developers know what the game is really going to be called. Usually it has the prefix of, "Project," along with a word after it.
After Jason Vandenburg made his pitch to Ubisoft using only one image of Chivalry 1 to describe the game, the developers decided that they would want an IP like this, something that no other company has, and if anyone wants their fix of this type of game, it would have to be theirs. So they dubbed it as Project Hero. A game meant to, "activate that lizard part of your brain," while you fight on a medieval battlefield.
With production underway, the team needed to know what this game was going to look like. So, for the first year, they brought a lot of concept artists in to create what could be their game. Thanks to one of them, Timothe Lapetite, we get to know what these were. And thankfully for those artists, we get the game that we have to this day.
First Ideas
The team came together to create what was their first trailer ever created, as to be the guide for the rest of development, and to solidify the idea of what this game is. Thanks to Xree Knock on Youtube, who leaked the trailer, we get to see what the developers initially were trying to create with the game.
However, they were still very well in the dark. How would this game look? What was the combat going to be like? The team had many questions, and trying to solve them led to more questions. They needed concept artists more than ever.
Thanks to the lead developer, Jason Vandenburg, along with many notable concept artists like Christian D
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Part Three is up, too!
Hi all. :)
OK, so this is an idea that's been bouncing around my head for a while.
It's a really silly idea, quite frankly, but it's one that I've expended a certain amount of thought and research on.
After all, when we discuss players, we're using their names to a certain degree, and throwing their names around a lot. And it did make me wonder:
Which letter of the alphabet has the strongest corresponding football team?
In terms of SURNAMES, is there a letter of the alphabet which produces the best defenders? What about the best forwards? Which letter produces the best overall group of players?
I've decided the most interesting and most uniform way to do it would be to create a 23-player squad for each letter, like a World Cup. So therefore: I bring you The Alphabetical World Cup! :D (Yes, I know the Euro squad sizes are going up to 26, but I'm sticking with 23.)
Now, obviously this is going to be a chaotic fantastical mess of an undertaking, but at least let's implement some ground rules.
- We're using surnames here.
Example: Giorgio Chiellini plays for the C team, not the G team. - I'm ignoring articles in surnames ("de, van de, van den, le, lo, etc").
Example: Kevin de Bruyne plays for the B team, not the D team.
For some players and cultures this might technically be incorrect in terms, but the only other way to do it is to either a). count them as surnames and make the D and V teams unbearably strong, or b). to just cherrypick players, which would be lazy and skew the results. - Mononyms I'm kind of inconsistent about, but I'm inclined to count them as opposed to actual surnames.
Example: Arthur, formally Arthur Melo, is in the A team, not the M team.
Nobody really calls Arthur 'Arthur Melo', do they? So he's Arthur with an A. Same deal with Thiago Alcantara, Fabian Ruiz and Allan Loureiro. However, I have seen people refer to Emerson Palmieri, so he's in the P team. There's no answer that's going to satisfy everyone, so I'm just going to mix and match it to best suit the project. - Korean names are backwards, so it's actually Heung-min Son and therefore he's in the S team.
- I'm going to forget some players; I don't know the names of every football player in the world, nor can I recall them instantan
