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I’ll raise a counterpoint then: how many independent countries are now known as “China”? The difference is that the Roman Empire fell apart, and everyone kind of reverted to their original culture or became something new. Same thing happened in Greece after the centuries-long Turkish occupation and war crimes complicated events.

The analogy is very messy now and it doesn’t make sense anymore ^~😂~. But I guess the end result is that it’s not so simple at which point one nation ends and another begins. Real history is messy and once you actually look into it, it’s not a simple thing at all.

In the first place “Greece” wasn’t even one thing, it was a messy collection of city-states and alliances that kind of got along sometimes. I think many places in the world was like that back then, actually. Then Alexander the Great happened and a lot of the world was Greece. Then it wasn’t. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So yeah. You can make things as complicated or as simple as you feel like.

• Level 1 complicated: it’s a 9000 year old ancient Greek skeleton

• Level 2: it’s an ancient skeleton found in what is now known as Greece

• Level 3: it’s a Pelasgian skeleton

I wouldn’t call level 1 “incorrect”. I would call it “simplified”. People who know Greece didn’t exist 9000 years ago will already know the truth. Everyone else won’t really care. But I know many people here on Lemmy are “semantics enthusiasts”.

The analogy isn’t quite right. It’s more like, hypothetically, if those native people were left relatively undisturbed and not displaced. Then, hundreds of years later, their descendents are now a large proportion of New York. I would probably call them New Yorkers, yes. I don’t know much about Native American history, so let me know if I’m off the mark somewhere here.

I say “relatively” because Greek people had a lot of… let’s say… neighbourly troubles, and it got very “complicated” for a long time. But we still call the people living there Greek, even if their bloodline DNA is very mixed bag now. I did an Ancestry thing out of curiosity, so I should know, even though my family and I are 100% born there.

Yeah this looks completely wrong to me… Like sure, they would look very different, but they wouldn’t be indistinguishable from men. Even from an evolutionary perspective that’s just silly.

Even today we have women that have “facial bone structures we associate with masculinity” as they describe. It’s not like we are working blind and trying to reconstruct a dinosaur or an extraterrestrial. Though maybe for some scientists, women are similarly rare.

I looked up some examples of “masculine women faces” online in 2 minutes. Even though they look “masculine”, they clearly don’t look like Gigachad or whatever this reconstruction is.

Pelasgians (7000 BC - 3200 BC)

The name Pelasgians (Ancient Greek: Πελασγοί, romanized: Pelasgoí, singular: Πελασγός Pelasgós) was used by Classical Greek writers to refer either to the predecessors of the Greeks, or to all the inhabitants of Greece before the emergence of the Greeks. In general, “Pelasgian” has come to mean more broadly all the indigenous inhabitants of the Aegean Sea region and their cultures.

https://www.delphimuseum.gr/2025/02/greek-history.html?m=1

It depends on what you mean by “existed”. They’re the ancestors of Greeks, and they lived in what is now Greece, but didn’t call themselves that name. As a Greek, to me they’re “Greek by ascent”, so the distinction is a bit trivial.

Bugs can live outside. Not indoors in my production code. Don’t ask where “outside” is in this metaphor.

If you had a building with 1000 evil people, and 1 good person, is it ok to destroy it? I don’t know the answer to that, but I wouldn’t be able to do it personally. Seems like a variant of the trolley problem.

• Synthesia, for playing music
• Audiosurf 2, also for playing music
• House Flipper Remastered, I like cleaning and renovating
• Age of Empires 2, ridiculously high skill ceiling RTS game, hard to get bored of it
• FFXIV, MMOs seem kind of cheating though
• Stardew Valley, obviously
• Team Fortress 2, I already have 4k hours in this game

I think that’s all I need lol

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Mmmm bone lube

Honestly watching a let’s play of Gollum was the most hilarious thing I’ve seen in a long time. Like 10 hours of laughs. I’m not even sure if it counts as bad anymore if you categorise it as a comedy game

Man one time a fly got in somehow despite the flyscreen. Every night it would bzzzzZZZZZZ right in my ear and scare the shit out of me at 2am. It’s not like you can sleep with your head under the blanket or you’ll suffocate.

In the morning I’d search and try to kill it but couldn’t find it. The fucker tormented me for weeks, didn’t eat or drink, only surviving on annoying me. Eventually it died of old age somewhere I’m sure. I still have a grudge against that little shit.

Actually blessed magic blanket

It’s funny how we outsourced everything to make it cheaper but that backfired hard

I actually didn’t play the 2016 one lol. My timeline was like:

• Original DOOM (1993)
• DOOM 3 (2004)
• Doom Eternal (2020)

It feels much more like the original Doom in an arcadey level based kill everything way, while Doom 3 felt like a horror game to me. I really liked it, though having to make a Bethesda account to play it and waiting to log in every time pissed me off. The game itself was great. High adrenaline. Jumping around the map killing everything brutally. Too hard for my old man reflexes though, so I played on easy mode.

Open Weight vs Low Cost. Are these models cheap because they are open weight and having hundreds or people stress test running them on different hardware helped to lower the cost? Or is it that they are being provided as loss leaders to drive the prices down?

I wouldn’t be surprised if the A.I. in China is heavily subsided so that people use them. Not saying that’s necessarily a bad thing, but I’m not sure it’s sustainable long term, or a fair way to compare A.I. models. We need to compare the true computational and financial cost of each token internally, not whatever is being charged for it externally, otherwise you’re just saying “stuff made in China is generally cheaper” which we’ve known for decades. This might be a complicated question to answer though.

Planning to finish Doom Eternal, then start on my next game in my backlog, Caves of Cud. Not sure what to expect or why I bought it in the first place but we’ll see! Was thinking about setting up a streaming thing too, not for money but just for fun.

I finally am playing DOOM Eternal this week. Really good game actually. It’s a bit exhausting though so I’m chipping away at it one mission at a time.