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Be merry! We meet again, at the turn of the tide.

Sheffield, England Katılım Eylül 2015
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When Football Was Better
When Football Was Better@FootballInT80s·
Perhaps the best post-match FA Cup final interview of 1995 — or indeed, any year — was given by Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall. This is pure gold.
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hamna
hamna@kaulshiloshudon·
dumb question but does anyone know how to get this google back
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Thom – e/ach hans run@lemonwatcher·
@DAMendelsohnNYC I suspect almost all the post-Homer usage is people making a linguistic flex rather than reflecting commonly understood shared meaning tbh, but fun to speculate!
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Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn@DAMendelsohnNYC·
@lemonwatcher Thx. Still seems to mean “shifting” (as in the Marius) in the De amicorum multitudine passage. And of course, Plutarch is ~ 800 years after Homer; one wonders to what extent the flavor changed. In Plato & Thucy & Plutarch it seems to have come to mean “variable,” “shifting.”
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Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn@DAMendelsohnNYC·
Night thoughts on “polytropos”, 2: 1/2: Polytropos is an *extremely* rare word in Greek, occurring only a handful of times in extant Gk lit: 2x in #Odyssey (vs 60+ for “polymetis”, “of great cunning”), a couple of times in Thucydides (the “shifting” fortunes of war), & Plutarch.
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Thom – e/ach hans run@lemonwatcher·
@DAMendelsohnNYC End of 'De amicorum multitudine'. He says people with a multitude of friends must have a [polytropon] soul (alongside fluid/changeable), but true friendship seeks something steadfast. I'm wrong remembering this as wily/cunning though. 'Faceted' might be a contender.
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Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn@DAMendelsohnNYC·
@lemonwatcher In Plutarch I see it only in “Marius” where it’s used of the “exceedingly changeable” fortunes of war. Where is the passage you’re referring to?
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Thom – e/ach hans run@lemonwatcher·
@DAMendelsohnNYC Athenaeus uses it in Deipnosophistae as something lacking in Dorian harmonies. It's also quote directly in a Socratic dialogue where it's clearly implied as wily/cunning. The Plutarch usage contrasts it against steadfast friendship which seems along similar lines.
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Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn@DAMendelsohnNYC·
Yet, despite its rarity, p’s meaning wd, I think, have been fairly clear to a Gk: “adaptable,” “resourceful,” “able to think outside the box.”So is this striking rarity worth trying to convey—should we use an equally récherché English word? (What??) An interesting challenge!
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Joe
Joe@JoePostingg·
One of my favorite bits is "Simple Uneducated Peasant Stuns Aristocratic Interrogator by Being Clever." Joan of Arc and Jesus both pull this off really well, anyone else?
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Thom – e/ach hans run@lemonwatcher·
We finally have enough eyeballs that all bugs are shallow, and so far it sucks to be updating my kernel three times a week.
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Archibald Leitch
Archibald Leitch@Archibald1878·
@TheEvertonian78 He’s 21 and there’s not an Everton fan that’s heard of him. If he was any good he’d be around the first team by 21.
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Lindsey Bahr
Lindsey Bahr@ldbahr·
Josh O’Connor on a great note from Spielberg
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Thom – e/ach hans run@lemonwatcher·
@GeodesicForce @AdsoOfBelk Old perks tree was removed, replacement is much more limited. Can't reduce import prices, and starting resources are randomised, so harder to rely on trade. Food and livestock production nerfed.
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Adso Øvbelk
Adso Øvbelk@AdsoOfBelk·
Manor lords is fairly fun but from what I can tell it kind of fell into that early access pit where game development progress paradoxically slows down dramatically as soon as the game becomes a hit
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Thom – e/ach hans run@lemonwatcher·
@LJayDeeJay @AdsoOfBelk Yep, although the old perk tree was removed more than a year ago at this point? I think it's entirely valid to say that in Early Access a game isn't finished and all bets are off. But I also think the time could be used a little more wisely on more focused, vertical experiments.
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Logan@LJayDeeJay·
@lemonwatcher @AdsoOfBelk I definitely understand that viewpoint. I would just stress that this perceived backslide is temporary. But I would agree that most of the additions to the game since the release of the early access so far haven’t been to the core of the game itself, which is a salient criticism.
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Thom – e/ach hans run@lemonwatcher·
@LJayDeeJay @AdsoOfBelk I've already got my money's worth by a long way, but I'm also less likely to dive into early access games with small teams in the future because I'd like to avoid getting bored of a game before all the features are in.
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Thom – e/ach hans run@lemonwatcher·
@LJayDeeJay @AdsoOfBelk Yeah, totally aware of that and to be clear, I'm still pretty addicted to the game and rooting for its success. But I would stand by the point that not only has the game not progressed in early access so far, from the player point of view it's gone backwards.
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Thom – e/ach hans run@lemonwatcher·
@samth It’s also just not true that there was no downtime in the periods shown green here.
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Thom – e/ach hans run@lemonwatcher·
@yaqobhyndes That's huge overreach. A bunch of people who don't know what they're doing, with nothing at stake, are following a script telling them to run away in the first 10 seconds of battle. They could have just written a computer program and saved everybody the sunburn.
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Hei Wa Wa
Hei Wa Wa@yaqobhyndes·
I think this also resolves the Othismos debate. There is physical pushing through the ranks but it's an involuntary crowd response, although from a distance it does look like one formation is literally pushing the other.
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Hei Wa Wa
Hei Wa Wa@yaqobhyndes·
This group of French researchers (Sur le champ) trained about 200 re-enactors to test the crowd dynamics of hoplite warfare and routing more generally. It's really interesting how the often frustratingly vague statements of ancient writers become clear with this footage
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