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@Najeero @FastbreakHoops5 Duncan was very much a center, even his “PF” era was in a twin towers formation.

@FastbreakHoops5 More PFs are playing Center now or they are Stretch Bigs. Back in their time there were both Traditional and Stretch 4s. More Traditional 4s though! Garnett was one of the blueprints to the more versatile Bigs of today while Duncan dominated as both a PF and Center.

They don’t have Power Forwards like this any more.

@Frannie1899 @VloneVDoubleG @saniyusuf @Footballtweet @asemota Probably Occitan/Catalan are more similar.

@VloneVDoubleG @saniyusuf @Footballtweet @asemota Yes a portuguese will definitely find it easier to learn French than an English person, it's about 60% similar I think, but you can say so about the Spaniards and Romanians as well, the closest the French though is Italian.

🇫🇷 Endrick has been in France for just 4 months and he's given a whole interview in French. And just watch his translator, she's so proud of him for being brave and doing it.

@Frannie1899 @saniyusuf @Footballtweet @asemota Any native speaker of a Latin based language has an advantage when learning another Latin based language. Be it vocabulary or grammar even.

@saniyusuf @Footballtweet @asemota They're not really similar, an Italian would find it easier to learn French but a Portuguese will face almost same difficulty as other europeans

@zamacingo The Greek nation is a byproduct of the mix between local seafaring Aegeans and Proto-Greek speaking newcomers from the Pontic steppe. So yeah, seafaring from the get go.

Greeks have not always been a seafaring nation. Initially they were living away from the sea, on the mountains and highlands Balkans Even the word “sea” (thalassa) in Greek is a foreign borrowing

@BunkerDwellerYT Sword and sandal meets Conan pretty much.

To add I think there's a distinct art style for medieval fantasy aesthetics pre-Millennium, compared to how it is now I've seen people attribute this to the LotR films though I'd be curious to know if there are any other influences Just a visual style that we don't have anymore

@AncientArgonaut @ZikadaPrime youtu.be/93pNWuOvXHk?is… PC crowd has no age limit. Give it a decade and a half and all OG PlayStation users will be pensioners. Nintendo isn’t special

@VXerikos @ZikadaPrime "Dad hold this for a second I need to make a point on the internet"

Why does no other gaming brand appeal to all ages like Nintendo does?

@AncientArgonaut @ZikadaPrime

@ZikadaPrime You'll never see a photo like this with a Steam Deck or PS Portal.

@ZikadaPrime Nintendo has a very powerful brand name in US/Japan since the ‘80s and their original fans are old now. Much less so in Europe since they didn’t prioritize this market back then. We grew up with Ataris, 8/16-bit home computers, Sega and PCs there.

@despoinA68268 @Nick_Leeson81 @kontologis Αν ορίζεις τον Έλληνα με βάση το αν έχει δικαίωμα συμμετοχής στην εθνική, ο Ροτα είναι τέτοιος. Αν το κοιτάς εθνοτικά τότε ο Πηλιος είναι τέτοιος. Εκτός κι αν ξεχνάμε πως και ο Πυρρος στην αρχή ως Pirro Dhima κατέβαινε σε αγώνες με την Αλβανία. Γενικά ναι η ΑΕΚ χρειάζεται Ελληνες

@Nick_Leeson81 @kontologis οτι και ο Σταυρο Πηλο

Ούτε μισός Έλληνας βασικός στην ΑΕΚ 2026. Πρέπει να μας προβληματίζει αυτό.

@TheMekon_Venus They jumped the shark in the episode that involved Neptune. They mixed pyramids, Ancient Greeks and Roman deities. Before that, I used to watch it with great interest, but after that I couldn’t take it seriously.

Star Trek in the Ocean was an interesting idea. After all it’s still not 100% explored. Something James Cameron would use in his brilliant movie The Abyss. The question. Did Seaquest do the idea justice for TV? I have mixed feelings. I never watched it like I did Trek.. just episodes here and there.

@MuseumCommodore Tehkan World Cup was everywhere in Greece between ‘86-95. Nicknamed “the football game”.

Before Sensible Soccer became a legend, this 1989 Commodore Amiga football game changed everything with banana kicks, indoor arenas, and arcade chaos! 5 mind-blowing facts about MicroProse Soccer that prove it was ahead of its time. 1. The Forerunner to a Classic: Developed by Sensible Software (Jon Hare & Chris Yates) for the C64 in 1988 and ported to Amiga in 1989 by Electronic Pencil Company, it directly inspired the legendary Sensible Soccer series. Many call it "Sensible Soccer v0.1". 2. Pioneering Banana Kicks: One of the first games with after-touch! Hold the button and angle your shot for swerving "banana" kicks in three power levels — a game-changer that Kick Off later popularized. 3. Indoor 6-a-Side Mayhem: Besides full 11-a-side outdoor matches, it featured frantic indoor soccer on a smaller pitch with boards (inspired by the real Major Indoor Soccer League). 4. Many retro gamers still argue the C64 original feels snappier (are you one of them), but the Amiga version shines with better graphics and sound. 5. Inspired by an Arcade Hit: Jon Hare based it heavily on the 1985 arcade game Tehkan World Cup (Tecmo), adapting its top-down view and physics for joystick controls while adding original twists. Zzap magazine rated the Amiga version just 62%, did it deserve more?

@boss_aesop @dwarkesh_sp Well unless that disease (there was a plague) only killed EEF males, leaving females unscathed, not very likely. Yamnaya migration into Greece was most likely much more peaceful however. There are today in Greece,descendants of male lineages that predate the arrival of yamnaya

@dwarkesh_sp what is the likelihood the Yamnaya migration into Europe was not violent but just mediated by enterprising surplus males and the demographic shift was caused by disease since the Mongol Empire was the vector that spread the bubonic plague which women have more immunity to?

David Reich on how much ancient DNA evidence has overturned so much consensus thinking how ancient cultures spread. "It wasn't peaceful, it wasn't friendly, it wasn't nice. Some of our archaeologist co-authors were just really distressed."

@FritzGschweidl Don’t think many people outside of England consider Rice as world class. He is a level below Rodri or Kroos when he still played.

football will never seen another Robert Prosinecki. today, Declan Rice and Tijjani Reijnders are considered world class midfielders

@chefsevenn Pork ofc. Besides the fact that nearly nobody sells lamb gyro in Greece, it isn’t a thing, if you want lamb based wrap you get kebab.

Chicken gyro or lamb gyro ? Which Greek Gyro will you pick ? 🥙 🍗 🐑

@Gisele_ShoeSmug @ElGrecoAnglos @avidseries We also got Cretan hieroglyphs starting around 2000BC. They weren’t used to write Greek but their users mixed with incoming indoeuropeans to become the Greeks anyway.

@ElGrecoAnglos @avidseries He's trying to make a point here. That is written language wasn't European for centuries after it was invented in Mesopotamia

When did written language (a graphic system capable of recording language) first begin being used around the world? Mesopotamia and Egypt, 3100 BC Levant, 1850 BC Greece, 1450 BC China, 1250 BC Persia, 1000 BC Rome, 700 BC Central Asia, 700 BC Japan, 400 BC Southeast Asia, 200 BC Central America, 200 BC Northern Europe, 150 BC Western Sub-Saharan Africa, 1000 AD North America, 1500 AD Southern Sub-Saharan Africa, 1500 AD Australia, 1800 AD

@avidseries Minoan Cretan hieroglyphs started around 2000BC, 1450 BC is the starting point of Linear B which is the child of Linear A which derived from the aforementioned hieroglyphs.

@Necron99x @HistoryArcs What’s so interesting about it? Had they surrendered they would have been executed anyway.

@HistoryArcs SS-Charlemagne fought to the very end. Interstingly, Charlemagne consisted of French soldiers in German formations, it wasn’t too many years before many German former SS men found themselves fighting for France as members of the French Foreign Legion. History is a strange wheel

The Frenchmen Who Defended Berlin to The Last 400 men willingly volunteered to enter a besieged Berlin to fulfill their oath and fight to the very end. 300 Frenchmen of the SS-Charlemagne perished in the final battle. This fact was suppressed for decades until the early 2000s.

@ihymacc Imagine your world is under attack, everything you love is threatened or dead and as you make your last stand, a stellar pipe appears out of nowhere and creatures from another dimension pour into the planet. Everyone would be terminally flabbergasted.

I don’t think I will ever understand this particular scene…

@DanDavisWrites Founder effects are like that. I assume basque was more widespread before bell beakers arrived/wiped most males, a small population of basque speakers that included old I2a men and R1b beaker offsprings survived and went through a bottleneck,with R1b men being more successful

Yes, Basques don't have especially high steppe ancestry but are overwhelmingly R1b Y-haplogroup. You see a similar genetic-linguistic disconnect in Etruscans. Language, ancestry, and material culture don't always align. How did it happen in practice? We must speculate...

@joachimalthien @hermahai @MailsHeguit The gist of it is that Ancient Greece didn’t have an organized religion in the sense that arose in late antiquity/early Middle Ages, centralized with dogmas etc. It was a collection of cults with a common/overlapping background “lore” and points of reference (eg Delphi).

@hermahai @MailsHeguit We also see later on that Poseidon cult is practically inexistant in Northern Greece while Zeus cult is always proéminent.

Esto se debe agarrar con pinzas por algo lógico, sencillamente se le rendía más tributo a un dios que a otro dependiendo de la zona incluso en época griega :b