This reminds me Huxley’s The Genius and the Goddess. At the start, two characters discuss fiction versus reality, with one saying “the trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”

I think this applies to the epics. Even if the historical events depicted in both were completely true, they’re still “fiction”, as the events are “glued” together, as part of a narrative of valor, struggle, fate, heroism. So IMO the hypothesis of the Trojan War they depict being a bunch of smaller conflicts fictionalised into a single one seems fairly reasonable.

Specially given that the Anatolian coast was a clusterfuck of peoples. Around the Late Bronze Age the Hittites would know it as Arzawa, and associate it with either a kingdom or a loose confederation, that included Wilusa/Ilion/Troy. The presence of Luwian speakers there seems safe, but I think there were other Anatolian peoples, plus Pre-Indo-Europeans; their main connection was simply “let’s gang up so we don’t end conquered by either the Hittites or the Achaeans”.

Pariya-muwas and Pari-zitis

For reference:

• Priam: 𒉺𒊑𒀀𒈬𒀀 pa.ri.a.mu.a, Πρῐ́ᾰμος Prĭ́ămos. It’s being translated as “exceptionally brave”, but I think “thoroughly brave” is a bit more accurate; more on that later. Note the Greek nominative -ς -s is pervasive to masculine names being borrowed.
• Paris: 𒉺𒊑𒍣𒋾𒅖 pa.ri.zi.ti.iš, Πᾰ́ρῐς Pắrĭs. That ⟨z⟩ is probably [ts], given how commonly it surfaces as a reflex of PIE *tʰ, and Anatolian languages (like Luwian and Hittite) typically lacking voicing contrast AFAWK.

In both you have the root 𒉺𒊑 pa.ri. I’m tempted to interpret it as coming from PIE *peri “in crossing, in passing”, the locative of *per “before, in front”. The “thoroughly” vs. “in front, first” semantic scope is a mess but that mess is fairly common in IE languages.

Dias sounds exactly like I pictured. I don’t like the overall tone of Alna/Aruna’s voice; I think the VA (Wakayama Shion) did a way better job voicing Momo.

Beyond that… it’s OK, I guess? I agree with NineSwords about the pacing. But I feel like the animation was better than I expected.

and everything feels rushed for such a slow paced story

Agree. I was able to follow it because I read the manga, but I’m not sure if anime only folks will follow it.

…meh. Watched it. It isn’t bad, but it’s certainly not great either. I guess I’ll watch a few more episodes, then decide between watching it vs. dropping it.

Yup. If they could, the discourse would suddenly change from mockery to genuine praise. Corporations are filled with hypocrites, and as entities they act like hypocrites too.

Now you do! You’re also talking with the guy who invented fire. And internet shitposting!

It’s corpo, but it’s shitting on common corpo practices.

Same deal here in Brazil. Or at least my city; pizza styles vary regionally here, so sometimes those takeout pizze you eat in a State might be rather… meh in comparison with homemade ones.

People are fish.

No, that is not the case of picking a paraphyletic definition and treating it as a clade (“people are fish”).

I’m pointing out that whatever they find “in the wild” in Mexico and neighbouring countries is already the result of humans spreading this stuff everywhere, after years and more years of funny monke, so no matter what you call “original gangsta” that is not it. Anyone with basic reading comprehension (unlike you) can get it.

You’re inventing strict definitions that do not exist

Yeah, because I totally invented the definition of landrace. Suuure. I also invented the aeroplane. /s

😂

I also invented emojis, “lol” and “lmao” because they’re all great ways to force braindead morons and pass-aggro shitlets to out themselves as such.

you just said you’re “guessing” this

Yeah, and you clearly did not understand what I was guessing.

Not bothering further with you.

EDIT, directed at other users (the above won’t understand anything too complex): my guess was correct, chiltepín is indeed a landrace.

The link also mentions «Chiltepins are often referred to as the “mother of all peppers”, but it has a more recent rich history along the US and Mexico borderlands». This explains rather well that 1) the chiltepín pepper was introduced there, and 2) why the American nationalist is throwing such a cringe tantrum, at the idea peppers originated elsewhere.

Well if you’re going back millions of years to extinct species, sure

If you don’t, then there’s no “OG pepper”. Multiple species in the genus have been domesticated, cross-bred, spread, and used by funny monke “MOUTH HOT”.

Glabarisculum definitely may be a landrace, but it’s also still the likely progenitor of all extant Capsicum annuum varieties

Both things are mutually exclusive, since landraces require previous domestication. If it’s a LR then even for that specific species it isn’t the OG, the OG would be its ancestor.

Yes, you would. Save the following into a file and you’ve downloaded a pizza!

Note: I’m listing ingredients for a single pizza, enough for two people. Scale them up as needed! I’ll also list things as percentage of the weight of the flour, for the bakers out there.

Dough:

• 250g=100% wheat flour. 10% gluten is fine.
• 150ml=60% water at 30°C. You can increase the amount of water once you’re used to doughs, but 60% hydration is a good start. Also, it’s fine if the water is a bit colder, you’ll just wait longer; but do not use hot water, you’ll kill the yeast YOU MURDERER.
• 10g=8% oil. Veg oil is fine here, EVOO is a waste because the taste is baked away.
• 6g=2.4% sugar. Some people use honey; up to you. You won’t eat it — the yeast will.
• 4g=1.6% salt.
• 2g=0.8% instant yeast. Amounts can be eyeballed.

Toppings:

• eyeballed amount of olive oil. This one needs to be olive oil.
• tomato passata. No, not sauce. It should be pure tomatoes, mashed. You can make it at home from Roma tomatoes if you want, just remember this is not a bloody torrent, so no seeds. Tomato puree, tomato paste etc. work fine too, as long as it isn’t the sauce you’d add to pasta when you’re overworked because of capitalism. If it’s too concentrated it’s fine to water it a bit but don’t go overboard. Ah, season it with salt and pepper.
• 200g mozzarella. Preferably low moisture (easier browning), low fat (unless you like those puddles of butter, I don’t), and low-ish salt (I’ve bought salty moz’ once for a lasagna and it ruined the whole thing).
• The toppings of your choice. Yes, even pineapples if you want. If unsure, ham/salami and olives are a safe bet.
• Oregano. A pizza without oregano is a sad pizza. Without oregano the other pizze would look at yours and say “failure~”.

1. Mix every dough ingredient. There’s no fluff like “separate solids and liquids”, just mix and knead the dough well until smooth.
2. Leave the dough inside a larger closed container, over your desktop tower. Go play some AAA game you pirated, those that make GPU and CPU go brrrr so the dough gets warm.
3. After some time (30min? 2h? It depends on weather), the dough should have at least doubled in size. Punch it to get rid of those excessively large air bubbles, sprinkle some flour over it (so it doesn’t stick), then spread the dough over a table or already in the pan you’ll bake it.
4. Wait a bit more. Half hour, a full hour, it’s fine. The dough should re-rise a bit.
5. Pierce the dough over and over with a toothpick, to avoid excessively large bubbles. It’s fun to watch pita becoming a balloon, but this is pizza, OK?
6. Bake it in a pre-heated home oven at the highest temperature it reaches, until slightly golden. Pizzeria would bake it with the toppings already, but odds are your home oven doesn’t reach 6000°C like their ovens do. Also, don’t brown it completely, it’ll go back to the oven soon.
7. Remember that “eyeballed amount of olive oil”? Brush it over the already baked dough. Then use the same brush (no washing!) to spread the passata. Then spread the cheese, toppings, oregano. Be generous with the oregano.
8. Re-bake the whole thing. If your oven has an upper heating element for grilling, use it. Then serve it immediately.

I’m copyrighting this recipe so you need to pirate it. Just kidding — it’s public domain. Enjoy.

The story is fairly decent, at least in the manga. But I do agree with you the adaptation is a bit too over-detailed; the “camera rainbows” are completely unnecessary, I’m almost sure the city was modelled in 3D, that guy Elymas protected from the raana behaving a bit too hammy… they also made Elymas look less like a tank, and more like a scrawny boy (in comparison with the manga).

The “OG pepper” is likely already gone: the Capsicum genus started branching off 17mya, way before we humans colonised the Americas. It was probably from the Andes as it’s where you have the biggest clade diversity; including barely domesticated species, such as C. chacoense and wild ones like C. eximium:

If I had to take a guess chiltepín is probably a landrace, a wild-ish descendant of domesticated C. annuum.

Did someone say Microslop?

I wonder if Tim Swiney realises, that his tantrum against Steam’s AI labels affects Epic Games way, way more than it affects Valve. Because… seriously, I can’t be the only one interpreting his tantrum as “customers are not to be treated as rational human beings, able to take their own decisions; those things are to be treated as cattle to be herded”. And it makes me not want to touch anything he has power over with a 3m pole.

I hope they get better funding. Seriously.

And keep doing the amazing work. We need more browser diversity.

Siegfrieda (left) and Kika (right).

It’s not just an orthographic resource — it’s a tendency of AI chatbots!

(I use them a lot, too.)

Found one already — aptly named “Emerald 386”. I never bothered with it because mGBA implemented link cable damn well, but in the light of your post using a catch’em all hack makes more sense.

1. Oxygen not Included. Near perfect colony simulator IMO. Plus if I’m screaming at the dupes doing dumb stuff, I’m not complaining at RL people doing dumb stuff.
2. Stardew Valley. I can min-max if I want, I can roleplay it if I want, I can even loaf around chatting with villagers.
3. Factorio. I’ll stop playing it once I get enough iron. (You never have enough iron.)
4. RimWorld. It could be Dwarf Fortress instead, but IMO RW is better designed, and the mod selection is amazing.
5. Minecraft. Modded the shit out of. Probably 1.12 or 1.7.10.
6. Final Fantasy VI. I thought about Chrono Trigger; it’s also fun but FF6 has better replay value.
7. OpenTTD. CHOO CHOO! I tend to spend more time staring at the paused game and planning shit out than actually playing it, but the whole process is fun.
8. Donkey Kong Country 2. It’s a sentimental game for me, and I can literally play it blindfolded.
9. Civilization V. When I’m really pissed at something, I play as the Shoshone in the easiest difficulty, Pangaea, small map, versus Venice. No city states nearby. My goal is to reduce Venice to a one tile civ.
10. Pokémon Emerald. Or even better, some hack that keeps everything vanilla but allows you to catch all 386, there should be one out there. Leaf Green or Fire Red could be, too.