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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago

This is like saying radiation exposure is tainting cancer.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago

This means the story part is finished, right?

According to the release post, yes

The Caves of Qud 1.0 update includes:

  • The conclusion of the main quest, with multiple endings
[–] grte@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's a cloud of smoke.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Are you trying to say that trying to eliminate cultures via rape (but also murder, lets not act like none of that happened) means we can't label Mexico as a settler colonial state? Is Spanish spoken by nearly everyone as just some sort of historical accident?

[–] grte@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just like most descendents of slaves in America have “some” white DNA, it just wasn’t by choice.

That there was widespread rape…

Sorry, are these your arguments that Spanish colonialism wasn't a genocidal settler colonial project like other colonies in the Americas? Because you're doing a pretty poor job if so.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

"Some". Better than 80% of the country has Spanish ancestry and basically everyone speaks Spanish. I suppose the local indigenous people just found those Spanish colonists so goddamned attractive and loved their language better than their own.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Looted as in Mexico is the product of settler-colonialism like the rest of the Americas.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

One of the best reasons to want ActivityPub (or similar software) to become the primary way that social media sites are populated with information is that it divorces the particular front end you use from the content that is displayed. Meaning that if, in the future, someone writes a new front end that is better/faster/whatever it doesn't have to (most likely fail to) fight the network effect to have enough content to be worth using. So you don't have a David vs Goliath situation for every new, innovative social media site to get off the ground. Never mind Mastodon or Lemmy or Misskey or Mbin. Maybe ten years down the line there are a host of newer and better fediverse sites that are usable right off the bat because they have the same content available that these current sites have. Look at what a trial it's been to get any new social media site off the ground (Bluesky included). It's in every user's interest to remove individual sites' ability to squash competition via the network effect.

Bluesky's model of decentralization does not allow for this so far as I know.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

717 AD (-718 AD): Siege of Constantinople by the Umayyad Caliphate

867 AD: Basil I murders Michael III, becoming emperor and establishing the Macedonian dynasty, beginning a Byzantine revival

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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