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even though there were 4 channels on tv, Atari, and books.

TV, game consoles and PCs with games were multiplayer!

Have you tried east asian fish sauce? “mostly tastes of salt” might be for some low quality variants, but the decents ones are very flavorful. I mean c’mon, it’s fermented fish and the Romans had decidedly pre-modern technology, seems like you’d have to try pretty hard to make something that is not flavorful without an industrialized food factory.

Judging by what little I know about fish sauce (roman, thai or otherwise), the process seems more similar to east asian fish sauce. Fish isn’t even really the main aroma in Worcestershire sauce.

I watched some gameplay videos, couldn’t get into it either. The start is somewhat intriguing, but once you’re out of the prologue it just looks boring and weird in a bad way. Though that’s mostly about the visuals and general gameplay, I didn’t see enough to say much about the story.

Maybe the issue with the awards is that the competition wasn’t that strong? Most AAA games don’t put much effort into telling an interesting story, if nothing else Expedition 33 at least tried.

Ah yes, the Suicide Pills(TM).

TBF I’m not a woman and I’m still disillusioned. The amount of times I’ve heard from doctors more or less verbatim “I don’t know what to do” … might as well prescribe recreational drugs and tell me to goon.

I played The Drifter and Until Then some time ago, both are heavily recommended if you like these kinds of games. Especially The Drifter, absolutely great game and it’s palatable even for someone like me who doesn’t really like point-and-click adventures (I’m a bit low on patience for figuring out the “go to a specific place and combine a specific item with a specific part of the location” riddles).

Interesting that they were generally aware of the risk and trying to mitigate it. Didn’t they also use leaden pots and sweeten their wine with lead, however that actually works?

Thanks PugJesus!

grumpy barely writes comments at all …

same stance that Germany has about everything that happened

One of the stances that Germany adopted in response to its WW2 crimes is unconditional support of the nation state of one of its victim groups. I wouldn’t recommend that.

There is much to be said about how Germany’s “denazification” hasn’t worked nearly as well as Germans used to claim until extremist rightwing parties got really popular again about 5-10 years ago and public opinion kinda turned on Israel. But man, Japan just completely skipped that whole thing.

This but unironically!

WTH is going on with the font there?

TIL there are muslim sects that reject the hadiths altogether, and they’re growing in popularity. Apparently, the Quran itself is quite a bit less strict and misogynistic than the popular denominations that follow hadiths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quranism

Interesting how this parallels Christianity’s 16th century revolution, but also differs from it in key ways - many of the protestant denominations were more strict than catholicism and were often more misogynistic (e.g. most witch burnings were done by protestants, the Catholic church called belief in witchcraft superstition). Let’s hope the muslims won’t have a 30 year war about it …

On my phone I use VLC player to play files that I saved on local storage.

As opposed to ancient times, when war was free.

This could be in a medical textbook as an illustration of the patient perspective of ADHD …

But does it work?

I really want an explanation or better yet, source for this one.

Poetic justice if that’s really the reason …

Your comment certainly sounds like the USSR wasn’t expansionist while Kennan was there.

I’d assume that many of these battles did shape modern China in some way. It’s not like China was always a unified block, there were several times when local rulers carved out independent territories from it. If said local rulers had won all the important battles, there might be more than one state on the territory that is known as China today.

Arguably, it’s a historical accident that China was relatively isolationist when the European powers started to get into overseas colonization. A different ruler/dynasty in China might have acted very differently, and rulers tend to get decided by battles, especially when the dynasty changes; e.g. at one point Genghis Khan ruled China, and that guy was certainly not content with ruling just China.

The USSR wasn’t expansionist?

That’s basically a technical, and those usually have massive logistics advantages!

The imperial system isn’t special, every country used to have its own measuring system and in most of Europe, the pre-metric measuring systems used to be just as dumb as imperial. Brits were a bit late with metric and still haven’t fully adopted it, but that still makes them smarter than someone who sticks with the old crap.

Maybe Plato’s ideas were just different from the mainstream. Atlantis in Plato’s writing was part of an allegorical narrative, anyway, and it’s not like it’s unheard of for port cities to sink or otherwise be destroyed by water.

Sure. Lack of material goods and modern science is an issue.

IIRC that eruption did sink a major minoan city that was near the volcano. The minoan civilization was already mythical to the classical Greeks, and neither them nor modern scientists know/knew how to read the minoan script.

Year 1900 life expectancy seems like it would be more severely impacted by industrialization than agriculture. But yeah, hunter-gatherers don’t just drop dead at 32.