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PittTheElder posted:The other thing that will throw you is trying to use number systems with different bases (hexadecimal for instance). I was recently trying to explain exactly how it works to my brother, who for some computer science class was trying to figure out the decimal value of numbers in base 14. It took me much longer than I'm proud of to remember how easy it is: Okay, so I'm mathematically quite stupid, so bear with me, but it is my understanding that: The scientific and international communities use Base 10. Most math uses base 10. Geometry relating to circles and angular sections uses 60. Why wasn't a decimal system devised for circles/angles? Or does decimal math work in commune with base 60 because they are both divisible by 10? Is the Imperial system of measurement considered base 12 because there's 12 inches in a feet? Or is it considered to not be a "base" system since the amounts aren't fractal? (i.e. 12 inches in a foot, 12 feet in a yard, 12 yards in a mile or something) I just think it's odd that all these different mathematical forms were devised through-out history, and yet they're all still kicking around even though it seems like we should have a consistent, across-the-board standard.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Since tv shows have come up a lot in this thread lately, would people be interested in “historically-inspired tv shows” megathread in TVIV? I don’t think any of them are big enough to fuel an independent thread but as a whole there might be more interest. As a lurker, absolutely.
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Tunicate posted:"it is not inappropriate for you, too, to contemplate these things." Oh, I... I don't know, better safe than sorry. I'll just focus on the temporal, thanks. Wouldn't want to ruffle any feathers!
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"191. If a free man picks up now this woman, now that one, now in this country, then in that country, there shall be no punishment if they came together sexually willingly." Does this mean if you gather up a harem from your travels/conquests, they're legally in the clear to get down with one another?
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I'm no expert, but aren't they conflating the Parisii of Gaul and the Parisi of the Yorkshire area? Or are the spellings mutable?
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Haha, I tried to link the wiki articles but they got messed up like yours did... I couldn't fix it so I left it out. Thanks for the prompt response! Wiki said they were unrelated but that seemed odd to me
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Silver2195 posted:Actually, the wiki says they may have been related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parisi_(Yorkshire) Ah! I'm poo poo at BBCode *and* research alike! Thanks for drawing my eyes to this.
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Arglebargle III posted:
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I was playing Civ4 the other day and at one point my war was going so poorly that I was pretty much holed up in my cities desperately lashing out with spearmen because my enemy was just spamming horse archers and spreading them out along my border. Everywhere I looked, another drat horse was pillaging a tile or capturing a worker or destroying a stack of siege engines, it was hell
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You get lots of developed solei in cattle-keeping cultures From all the calf raising
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Telsa Cola posted:I prefer to believe that narwhal did something loving amazing that they all witnessed and it's a tragedy of the highest order we will never know what. I like to think it led a lost expedition through a perilous path to home
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The answer is simple, it's because navis longa
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Tanning is super duper gross. Brain, liver, fat, salt rubbing gross. Sure, but the poors get to do it in the stank part of town, so the palace can smell of rushes or incense or whatever the gently caress
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Elissimpark posted:Yeah, I actually looked him up after my post cos I couldn't remember how to spell his name. I swear I've read somewhere he got the poo poo immortality thing, but I must have him confused with the Wandering Jew. You ever seen ROAR?
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Elissimpark posted:My brain keeps reading that as RUR and getting confused. What's ROAR? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roar_(American_TV_series) At one point in the show one of the main bad guys is Longinus, who is effectively immortal due to never being allowed the peace of death, but he's a huge loving rear end in a top hat because he's eternally tormented.
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What a difference a decade makes, eh?
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I just wonder what these students thought they were gonna get with wine from a place called Swindlestock
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I like to call him Junior Pippin
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Speaking of heraldry, is there a decent site or app for tossing together coat of arms? I tried one but they didn't have a label with three points which, as the first son, I quite require
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well dosh garnet. I had no idea
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Anne Frank Funk posted:Lol at the 0 brothels in Pompeii hypothesis. Ooh! Erotic cakes!
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Purposes of social construction
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quote:"Their armor was forged of bronze, as were their homes, and tools. " I'm guessing that means home goods, not a bronze house
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I'd be most likely to look up "Greek mythology" and "Rome" if I were going of general knowledge
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The Lone Badger posted:Also koalas are goddamn useless. Terrible animals. Almost as bad as pandas. Some of them yes, but there are some higher koala-ty ones available
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Zudgemud posted:Well, the fertility problem was due to them not being allowed/disincentiveized to fight and be aggressive, so maybe let them hunt and kill small animals would work a bit too. Another choice is to just have a little Amok Time setup for them
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You could advertise that now and get lots of applicants
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SlothfulCobra posted:More usefully, it's nonreactive, so it won't leave a taste behind on any food. Professional ice cream tasters in the modern day use gold spoons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbepN4dKLbU
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Carillon posted:I've read that's a main reason behind the crown jewels being important, they provided a source of value for a monarch to pawn. I read a book once that traced the history of the Regent diamond... They really did just pawn those things off whenever they needed an army. And then whoever got it would immediately make it a smaller, more fashionable cut in a different setting. It was supposedly 410 carats upon discovery and made it to the current day 140.64 carats. That's an incredible amount of stored wealth, to the point where having the thing seemed more like a loving curse if you didn't hot potato it for some fast cash
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I avoid jokes about Charybdis, because they notoriously suck. But I've been working on some about Scylla and they're headed places.
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Jason and the argh my nuts
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Hibernia After Reading
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Or the bionic arm and laser eye reticule?
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I hypothesize a "random start location" development pattern. After all, that's how Civ games work, the most accurate simulator extant
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Helmets are just for tumbling dramatically to the ground when the wearer dies
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Armor tends to gently caress with spellcasting too
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Azza Bamboo posted:There's evidence that entire castles were painted in gaudy checkerboard patterns at one point and I do want to see it. Fort Mackenzie-Childs is like this
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Telsa Cola posted:Indian elephants get used for a bunch of labor work and were fairly useful in breaking down early fortifications. I'm enjoying this mental image. Elephant just comes walking over to a barricaded position, pulling out posts and poo poo like "no. Nope. None of that. No fortifications, thank you."
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That's the "wary" part
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Falukorv posted:And the last cassowary death in like 1910 was a child, killed after the victims brother tried to hit the cassowary with a stick. They can defend themselves well with and even kill with their claws but their ferocity is exagerrated, leave them alone and they will respond in kind. drat, that cassowary sent a loving message.
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