LOL found the ASSyrian. Holy Game of Hattusa is clearly superior, but you’re probably distracted by your city getting WRECKED!!*

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I think you’re just looking at the flat rock. The actual item is the obviously man-altered one above it.

“Well actually” (had to) that’s Babylonian. Both, broadly speaking, can be called dialects of Akkadian (and sometimes you see Akkadian used as as a catch all term for either). But by 177 BC Assyria was a distant memory, and had been for some time and no document in Babylonia would be written in Assyrian.

Yah I just had my first encounter with some last night. The first was at Ransom Keep and I blew him up with a tank, so problem solved! I also fought the first “target” who’s a blade guy and disappointingly he apparently didn’t have the AI to handle me seeking the high ground and I just chipped him to pieces from…

This is hard, right? This is my first Halo game and I’m on normal and I was a little surprised how hard it seems. I don’t play a lot of FPSes but I thought Doom on hard wasn’t very hard, for comparison. I think I haven’t quite figured out the “rhythm.” Charging in full speed like in Doom gets you killed and hanging…

He meant the word rockstar, not the name of the company.

While I know you're joking I'll point out that mangling not just one but two trademarked IP names would give both company's lawyers a heart attack. They'd want it to be Total War: Warhammer: Total Warhammer

Street value of a ps5 right now is 8 or 9 hundred dollars. I guarantee you a lot of people in prison have thrown their lives away for a lot less.

I treat amazon reviews as worthless in their entirety. Not just because, like you say, user reviews of any type are tough to parse for value, but because I suspect a vast number on any product of even mild interest to a broad audience is full of out and out fake reviews (both good and bad), posted by sock puppets,…

Yah, a game you can’t really lose is a good start, and lets them practice with movement and stuff. Games have their own, I guess design language, now, built on all kinds of unspoken conventions built up over decades. Games don’t have manuals now because most people don’t need them (and, well, cheapness). It’s hard to…

I haven’t played the game and I know full well that historical verisimilitude isn’t the goal or expectation, but the Normans were invading conquerors, for what it’s worth, so that order kinda makes sense. I’d be curious to see if the other campaigns are similar.

For what it’s worth I read the spoilers for the other two (because I wasn’t super interested in reading them) and man it takes a hard turn into almost cosmic horror. I was actually intrigued, but not enough to read them.

One of the most bizarre experiences of my life was when I visited a family member who lived in China (we’re both from the US, white as can be) and we went out to Xinjiang. In 2009! Shortly after we arrived there were riots and the internet was shut down, riot police/military in riot gear manned the streets, curfew,…

I’m a big nerd for the history of the ancient near east so part of me is curious to see their take on ancient Sumer and Akkad, but the last game was such a big swing and a miss for me and my wife (who loved Until Dawn and liked Man of Medan) I’m very skeptical. Plus, due to dumb old life we’re sloowwwwwllly making our…

Well the article does state it’s a prequel, “of sorts,” since it’s really a different adaptation.

Remember that compared to most countries American serving standards are overbearing and kinda ridiculous. In the US if you need to call your server over and their boss sees then you just got them a tongue lashing once you’re out of ear shot (or even before if they’re real unlucky). I spent months in Australia for work…

You can go to countries right now that have successful restaurants (like, thousands of them) without a tipping culture, and even have a much higher minimum wage.

I got downvoted on a thread somewhere (maybe reddit?) for pointing out that they technically only claimed the Deck was doing great running the games that already officially ran on Steam Play. Most Linux Steam users toggle the setting that makes all games available to play via Steam Play but the “officially” supported…

Having actors do an accent is my least favorite translation convention. Imagine Chernobyl with everyone doing a Russian accent. If you’re not going to do it in the native language (which would be hard with medieval French even if you hired french actors) then just have the actors speak in their normal voices. It’s not…