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Cercle Orangé, František Kupka, 1945-46
Mid-Elizabethan, especially late period, British satire is one of the most reactionary forces in These Islands.
#the honourable member is correct to identify 2000 AD and Games Workshop as examples#But Private Eye#Have I Got News For You#Terry Pratchett#Blackadder Especially That Episode#Father Ted#Examples can be multiplied#I declare an interest in GW of £3-4 per annum#2000 AD man is surrounded by a claque on twitter who object to anyone disagreeing with the master#as I discovered accidentally last month#eminent elizabethans
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The Tiger Poem in Classical Maya!
The Tiger He has destroyed his cage Yes Yes The tiger is out By Nael, Age 6
Literal translation:
he-destroyed his-captive-place the-jaguar yes-yes he-came.out the-jaguar his-writing master-Na'el man[of]-6-years
Transliteration:
ʔu-jomow ʔu-baaknal ʔu-balahm xt xt Joyoy ʔu-balahm ʔu-tz'ibaal Aj-Naʔel Aj-6-habiy
Character Transliteration (ALL CAPS are characters that stand for full words, lower case are syllabic):
ʔu-jo-mo-wa ʔu-ba-ki-NAL ʔu-BALAM-la-ma xa-ta-xa-ta jo-JOY-yi ʔu-BALAM-ma ʔu-tz'i-ba-li AJ-na-ʔe-le AJ-6-HAB-bi-ya
[Image shows the poem written in 2 columns of Maya glyph blocks. A diagram shows the reading order (which is complex). All the posts text is also included on the image.
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Im sorry, hWhat?!?!?! This is incredible.
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incredible things happening in Ljubljana
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I have been thinking too much about the fantasy world of sid meier's alpha centauri today but have only come up with one feeling and one idea
the former is that it is a fun feeling to imagine 10,000 or so people occupying a whole planet over the course of 300 years or so and reaching only a population of a few millions before the singularity happens
the latter is to consider that in civilization games when you play on an "earth" map you have strange things where "England" is about five or six tiles yet there is an "English" civilization, which necessarily ends up building "London" in London (i.e. the whole archipelago), then "Birmingham" in France and by the time you get to "Nottingham" and "Lincoln" you are building them in north africa, and so therefore the sprawling factional empires we see in the game are a similar conceit, and so the more literary fiction version has the entire core 10-12 bases of 100,000 in only a few tiles of the map, with global claims being economic, religious and worked mostly by robots. realistically the planet is mostly wilderness.
war in particular cannot work as it does in the game, a sort of worldwarian fantasy of occupation of population centres. i see a history going in phases something like
early settlement - nothing really to do but posting at one another over the packet radio with occasional missions, mostly via ship. "probe teams" are a representation of this period
"industrial automation": the "supply crawler" era, something of a return of the Age of Exploration when factions compete to discover strange natural phenomena, rare mineral resources, have captain cook types on slow boats opening up trade routes which get pirated. colonial drone wars. malcontents sent out to heroic duels. very much the heroic age.
relatively late recovery of aerospace technology: now regular travel between factions becomes a real possibility, core territories under threat for the first time. perhaps there are airstrikes and exchanges of missiles.
but the first real casualties happens after this point when the woowoo technology reaches the point where gaians weaponise the awakening and increasingly hostile planet. in the famous Gaian-Spartan war, which is mostly conducted via worms and fungus, Sparta is scapegoated by the other factions as the irritant to Planet, and consumed by fungus and worms.
The war cows every other faction into a submission to the Gaians, except for the Hive and the Believers who form an alliance - it could easily have been them who ended up like Sparta.
The Hive attempts to use technology to create what has not existed yet - an industrial proletariat, capable of conducting a terrestrial war, and form an alliance with the Believers whose reactionary humanism has synergies.
This three way war between Transhumanist Alliesbthe Humanist Axis and Planet is the great confusing drama at the end of the Human Age, with cyborg armies fighting, which ends in a last-minute alliance between the Transhumanists and Planet, with a recapitulation of the Gaian-Spartan war on a grander scale as the entire Growth Dream crisis is focused against the Humanists.
I have been thinking too much about the fantasy world of sid meier's alpha centauri today but have only come up with one feeling and one idea
the former is that it is a fun feeling to imagine 10,000 or so people occupying a whole planet over the course of 300 years or so and reaching only a population of a few millions before the singularity happens
the latter is to consider that in civilization games when you play on an "earth" map you have strange things where "England" is about five or six tiles yet there is an "English" civilization, which necessarily ends up building "London" in London (i.e. the whole archipelago), then "Birmingham" in France and by the time you get to "Nottingham" and "Lincoln" you are building them in north africa, and so therefore the sprawling factional empires we see in the game are a similar conceit, and so the more literary fiction version has the entire core 10-12 bases of 100,000 in only a few tiles of the map, with global claims being economic, religious and worked mostly by robots. realistically the planet is mostly wilderness.
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I do think it's a beautiful thing when an author is clearly going for a metaphor, but the diegesis gets in the way. The story has symbols, but they're not just symbols, they're real things that exist within the world of that story, and as soon as the reader thinks about this, the symbol can be shattered.
I don't know what it is I find nice about this, but maybe it's the wet impact of meaning-making against base reality.
I was asked for examples, here are two:
- X-men is always the one that comes to mind, where superpowers are a metaphor for being gay, or Jewish, or non-white, but on a diegetic level, superpowers include things like mind control and being bulletproof and blowing up things. So then you have mutant registration drawn as a parallel to the government making lists of undesirables, but what the writers have done is made imagined threat into literal threat, as the people with superpowers actually can effortlessly murder someone. That is, the false rhetoric of destruction has become literalized.
- There are mecha shows where piloting the mecha is a metaphor for the overwhelming burdens placed on children, but diegetically it actually is the fate of the world, and so this might be seen to justify things that are completely unjustified. If failing a test is literally going to result in hundreds of people dying, then the cruel authority figures are making uncomfortable triage decisions by putting enormous pressure on the cadets. And if, in the metaphor, the parents need to come to the realization that their children should be allowed to live their own lives ... we can kind of see how that doesn't work if the end result is that a kaiju stomps the country flat.
Worst example of this was Fifth Season by NK Jemisin, which wants us to simultaneously believe that orogenes are innocent babies who don't deserve their treatment by society, but also that they can wipe out entire cities with their mind powers, sometimes without even meaning to.
Literally the first thing that happens in the book is that an orogene triggers (on purpose, this time) a global catastrophe that kills tens of millions of people. We are supposed to think that this was understandable, because he was Oppressed.
you could make a religion out of this
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Hey, it's ok
The Sniler
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I really do love food...
xinjiang cumin lamb 2📅
well I'd eat that but I just had some egg + instant noodles + soy sauce and it was really tasty
how did u prepare egg
just threw it in the boiling noodle water
for instant noodle business u should either fry in very hot oil + baste egg top with oil to cook the white while keeping the yolk runny or make Thai type omelette (also in very hot oil with egg fluffed up)
I usually cook my eggs in butter but maybe oil is better hmmmmmm. Im taking notes, thank you
relinquish ur frenchness for half an hour. it will be there when u come back