Here come the NORDS!

Post » Mon May 02, 2011 4:03 am

perhaps we will get beards
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Kevin Jay
 
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Post » Mon May 02, 2011 1:42 am

Thanks to blood moon i came to know what mead was and i ended up trying it, not the greatest taste if ya ask me. :rofl: :rofl:

Ohh, okay. I'm gonna have to step in here, in defense of my favorite alcohol... because in general, it's done wrong, and I agree than nine times out of ten the stuff you can find on supermarket shelves is absolutely horrid.

The #1 problem is sulphites. IMO they're not great in wine, but they completely ruin the flavor of mead. To avoid this, find an organic brand -- my favorite is http://www.honeyrunwinery.com/scripts/winepg.cfm/_/5/Dry%20Mead/. (It's cheap, too!)

The other thing to think about is the fact that back in those days, the main function of alcohol was to keep water safe to drink. (Farther east, they used tea for this. I think many differences between western and eastern culture can be traced to booze vs. caffeine as the ubiquitous liquid contaminant.) It needed to actually quench thirst, so except for things we'd think of as "hard liquor," almost everything was weaker than today's average beer -- they still got plenty drunk because this was the only safe drink they had, but the alcohol content per sip was much lower. Bottled meads today are sold as wine, which means an alcohol percentage in the low teens; but for a more authentic mead-hall experience, you should water it down! I often cut Ragnar's to 1/3 or even 1/4 strength, and I use seltzer water - less authentic, but hey, fizzy. ;)
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Post » Sun May 01, 2011 7:41 pm

Ohh, okay. I'm gonna have to step in here, in defense of my favorite alcohol... because in general, it's done wrong, and I agree than nine times out of ten the stuff you can find on supermarket shelves is absolutely horrid.

The #1 problem is sulphites. IMO they're not great in wine, but they completely ruin the flavor of mead. To avoid this, find an organic brand -- my favorite is http://www.honeyrunwinery.com/scripts/winepg.cfm/_/5/Dry%20Mead/. (It's cheap, too!)

The other thing to think about is the fact that back in those days, the main function of alcohol was to keep water safe to drink. (Farther east, they used tea for this. I think many differences between western and eastern culture can be traced to booze vs. caffeine as the ubiquitous liquid contaminant.) It needed to actually quench thirst, so except for things we'd think of as "hard liquor," almost everything was weaker than today's average beer -- they still got plenty drunk because this was the only safe drink they had, but the alcohol content per sip was much lower. Bottled meads today are sold as wine, which means an alcohol percentage in the low teens; but for a more authentic mead-hall experience, you should water it down! I often cut Ragnar's to 1/3 or even 1/4 strength, and I use seltzer water - less authentic, but hey, fizzy. ;)
All i remember is trying it one year and it wasn't as good as what i thought.
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Post » Mon May 02, 2011 2:07 am

All i remember is trying it one year and it wasn't as good as what i thought.

well it was either that or drink the water and die.
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Post » Sun May 01, 2011 7:31 pm

This game is going to be awesome to play as a nord.

11.11.11. Will be one of the best days of my life... untill Skyrim crashes.

then it crashes again. and again. and again. :P I kid, I kid.
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Pete Schmitzer
 
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Post » Sun May 01, 2011 4:00 pm

Haha, i gotta play a nord the first playthrough. A stealthy stealthy nord. :P
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Post » Sun May 01, 2011 11:23 pm

Imagine drinking mead while watching a snowy sunset, and drinking more and more mead until you pass out and wake up the next morning, raging into a cave and killing all the bandits in there. :foodndrink:
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Post » Mon May 02, 2011 12:29 am

Only if they could make all the provinces of tamriel together, but that's for a future coming.
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Alexx Peace
 
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Post » Mon May 02, 2011 3:07 am

In Morrowind I always play a Dunmer Battlemage.
In Oblivion I alway play Imperial Paladin.
I tried other characters, but those are most fun, for me ^^

In Skyrim, I will try to be a Nord Barbarian ... (How creative) , but I will probably be a Dunmer , again.
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Post » Sun May 01, 2011 2:06 pm

A is for Atronach.
B is for Bungler's Bane.
C is for Comberry.

All I need to know about Nords. :shrug:


I love you.
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Latisha Fry
 
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Post » Mon May 02, 2011 2:34 am

S?relden brann
i blodute skr?mer,
lang?ksar lutte seg
til liv ? taka.

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Post » Sun May 01, 2011 2:00 pm

S?relden brann
i blodute skr?mer,
lang?ksar lutte seg
til liv ? taka.


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Post » Sun May 01, 2011 5:33 pm

Drinking mead all night with your fellow Nords around a blazing fire in the meadhall with lots of laughter and the deep manly voice singing about heroic deeds while a blizzard rages outside and wolves howl at the moons :celebration:


This! :disguise:
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Scared humanity
 
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Post » Sun May 01, 2011 8:01 pm

S?relden brann
i blodute skr?mer,
lang?ksar lutte seg
til liv ? taka.



Vi f?r h?pe p? et par Norske ord i spillet :D
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Post » Mon May 02, 2011 5:14 am

I can't decide if I want to start off as an Imperial or a Nord.

If I play as a Nord, then I'd feel like I'm actually in his/her homecountry.

Yet I like my collection of "Skyrim" characters in my sig.
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Post » Mon May 02, 2011 3:59 am

Im gonna play as a nord through the came as i am currently in oblivion and morrowind pc versions.
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Post » Mon May 02, 2011 12:07 am

Yeah Nords are cool... when they're lying in a pool of their own blood. My first character will be an overwhelmingly racist dark elf.
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Post » Sun May 01, 2011 5:05 pm

Yeah Nords are cool... when they're lying in a pool of their own blood. My first character will be an overwhelmingly racist dark elf.
Well i better be drinking mead because messing with a dark elf another entire story....... :bolt:
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