Kobibi

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[–] Kobibi@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Isn't this old news? Have had to be 16 to buy energy drinks here for years. What am I missing

[–] Kobibi@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 days ago (43 children)

It's a subset of people that overlaps with gamers in a big way. See: gamergate

[–] Kobibi@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's hard to imagine that any of these have enough name recognition or nostalgia to automatically do well, like Mario or Sonic

[–] Kobibi@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago

You mean Watergate-gate?

[–] Kobibi@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Interesting that his death isn't actually in the Iliad. It sounded so unlikely that I double checked online but you're right!

For completeness, Odysseus himself had already left his home Ithaca 10 years prior to when the Odyssey starts, so roughly at the same time Troy falls.

I'm pretty sure Odysseus sails to Troy at the start of the war? He's one of the guys who brings Achilles. And then is one of Agamemnons backers and advisers.

So he leaves his home 20 years before the Odyssey starts - 10 years of war, 10 years post war

[–] Kobibi@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Achilles dies in the Iliad, which precedes the Odyssey, right?

Edit after skimming wikipedia: The ghost/spirit of Achilles is briefly in Book 11 of The Odyssey

[–] Kobibi@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder if blind people read ado as just ado? What?

[–] Kobibi@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Terms like Foid and Maxxing come directly from incel communities.

It's shitty but also interesting how these places outreach themselves in terms of spreading language, there was a Behind The Bastards episode on it recently I think

[–] Kobibi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For New Zealand, I like Hundertwasser's Koru Flag

[–] Kobibi@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In Wales and Ireland the native languages were deliberately subjugated, and are only recently being deliberately re-prioritised. It's a sore point among both populaces

So to compare the amount of speakers pre and post language erasure isn't that helpful I don't think

[–] Kobibi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Did HTTYD ever stop? I think they just did a live action version

[–] Kobibi@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

England and Scotland united under the same king (James I / VI) in 1603, and became fully unified as Great Britain in 1707. So historically the oppression in Ireland, India etc as well as the colonial history was done by the joint crown and administration of England and Scotland

That said, it's not quite so simple. There's a pre-unification history of invasion and war, there's power struggles between kingdoms early in the 17th century, and up to and in modern times arguments around being controlled, exploited and neglected by a majority English government.

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