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  • Tolkien never really makes it clear what happens to men when they die.

    The closest thing we get to a statement on it that “their souls go beyond the circles of the world…to dwell with illuvatar.”

    Dwarves are even less clear. It’s likely the same as Men but they seem to have their own beliefs on the topic. They believe that they go to the “Halls of Waiting to await the renewal of the world.”

    Hobbits, being a mannish race, are the same as Men.

    Orcs also are unclear. Tolkien wrote multiple origins for the orcs, none of which made it into his canon books, just his notes that were compiled into the histories.

    If they are purely creations of Melkor then killing them would simply destroy them, as they aren’t truly alive. Whereas if they are corrupted Elves and Men they would likely experience the same death as their race of origin.

    It’s also worth noting that Elves don’t truly have an afterlife. They have a period of waiting in the Halls of Mandos after which they are reclothed in flesh and can choose to either return to Middle-Earth or remain in valinor.

    Also, Frodo, Bilbo, and Sam as ring-bearers were allowed to sail west and live on Tol Eresea, an Island near Valinor so that their injuries from bearing the ring (and in Frodo’s case the morgul blade) wouldn’t bother them. They still only lived out their natural life span and then died the death of Men.

















  • Every time I’ve seen major streamers asked similar questions, the answer has usually been “just do it.” If you enjoy it, keep doing it, if you don’t stop.

    In all likelihood, early on you might get the occasional singular viewer, but otherwise you won’t get much, which will provide you with time to get used to talking and narrating while playing, as well as develop some kind of style or tone that you want to go for.

    As for concerns over what people think of you, as you get more comfortable with things, you’ll find an audience who enjoys what you’re doing. It’s kind of the nature of the platform. You’ll also get people who don’t like what you’re doing and really want to tell you about it, that’s also the nature of the platform. They can be ignored and/or banned if it’s bad enough. Probably a good idea to set some stream rules early on and enforce them.

    But at the end of the day, what matters is that you’re having fun.




  • I’m far from an expert and have never setup borg, but I see some possible problems with that config, though I don’t think I see anything that would cause it fail.

    • In the environment section of borg, borgmatic, and borgweb, the “BORG_PASSPHRASE” variable is used inconsitently, it either needs to be uncommented in borg or commented out in borgmatic and borgweb.

    • Networks: having a single “backup_net” network is less than ideal from a security standpoint. Nginx should probably be in it’s own network (an ipvlan or macvlan network) in addition to the backup_net. backup_net should be isolated to the host that are running borg, while any communication into borg should be routed through nginx on its ip.