Well, the Romans were fakes though. Bunch of knock-off, budget Etruscans. Couldn’t even come up with their own pantheon and instead just copied it from the Greeks. 😋
Thanks, I know my way around the high seas should the need arise. But I can’t play every game out there anyway, so as long as I can get my gaming needs satisfied through non-shittified legal means I prefer that.
Well, another game I won’t be playing in that case. Fortunately my backlog is large enough to keep me busy for the next couple of years, so I feel no need to play every new title. But still: my wallet thanks Sony for making the choice for me.
Well, that takes ‘required reading’ to a whole new dystopian level. I’m sorry you had to go through that, that’s terrible and I just cannot see any other outcome than forging a severe resentment against reading. Hopefully you’ll one day find the motivation again, but I certainly wouldn’t blame you if you never want to read anything again after going through that.
I read so much in my youth, I could read cover to cover in one go thanks to the power of hyperfocus. Reading was fun and synergised greatly with my ADD-fueled daydreaming.
Unfortunately though high school came along and had to fuck up my intrinsic motivation by force feeding the boomer drivel that ‘everybody should have read in their lives’, and having to write book reports where you’d have to analyse those books to death. Assignments could vary from analysing all the different narrative arcs in the story to the relationship between each main character in the story and even more obscure stuff that I don’t even (want to) remember.
Anyway, this meant reading the ‘classic’ Dutch writers like Reve, Mullisch, Wolkers etc and then analysing a story you didn’t even care about. Fun fact: those writers seem to have an extremely limited repertoire: do you want to read about addiction, WWII, or sex? Ok ok, you had ‘het Gouden Ei’ by Krabbé, on which the movie ‘the Vanishing’ was based. Guess that was a breath of less stale air.
But in the end it sucked the enjoyment I felt when reading from my very soul and replaced it with the feeling that reading books is a chore. At times a slight shimmer of that old spark returns, but never for long. Depending on how often I feel like reading, getting through a book usually takes me months to years these days and rarely captures me like in the past. I’ll never forgive the sadistic bastards who came up with this part of our educational system.
Anyway, sorry for dumping this on you, turned out to be more of a rant than I initially intended. If anybody knows how to convince my brain to consider reading to be fun again, I welcome any insights.
Also keep in mind that the maximum number of monitors depend on the resolution(s) you want to use. Don’t expect to be able to have a monitor @ 4K in your chain for example. displayport.org/…/driving-multiple-displays-from-… has a table with some examples of resolutions and the corresponding maximum number of monitors you can add to your chain.
For me it was season 3 that I found the worst, too much slapstick and I disliked how they turned Hopper into a walking bastion of juvenile insecure comic relief. Season 4 on the other hand rocked again, much darker and a better balance between seriousness and humour.
This is going to sound crazy, but hear me out… What if the ships also brought a device which allows for instantaneous travel between planets? Some kind of gate? A gate to the stars, if you will? Perhaps we should start a dig in Giza, who knows what we’ll uncover!
I’d say it is either zombie apocalypse or those viruses immediately get obliterated by our immune systems because they lack 50.000 years of evolution and natural selection. Only one way to find out I guess…
Appeals court tells Texas it cannot ban books for mentioning ‘butt and fart’ (www.theguardian.com)
Conservative-dominated court restores books denounced by officials as ‘pornographic filth’ to school libraries...
It's Romea, dummya. (lemmy.world)
God of War Ragnarök will require a PSN account to play on PC (www.pcgamer.com)
Sony learned nothing from the Helldivers 2 shitshow.
Starship Troopers: Extermination - Official Release Date Trailer | IGN Live 2024 (www.youtube.com)
Reader's Block (lemmy.world)
Star Trek's Putln (sh.itjust.works)
Even Quark chose not to follow him.
Is this actually credible?? (lemm.ee)
More than natural rocks [more fun in the body.] (lemmy.world)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/175003bc-711d-4074-8e14-431f95298776.png...
Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you (www.techspot.com)
Sovcit didn't have her Royal Decree respected. (lemmy.world)
Sovcit wants their car back. (lemmy.world)
What are the specifications for a multiple displayport monitor setup?
I have a desktop computer with displayport. I heard it was possible to connect 2 or even 3 monitors to it....
Person dies after falling into jet engine at Schiphol airport (www.theguardian.com)
Aircraft operated by KLM was preparing to depart when incident occurred at busy Amsterdam hub...
Lawyer turned sovcit ordered to pay neighbor $30k (www.cbc.ca)
Although it’s not Facebook, I figured y’all would appreciate this
The future is here (sh.itjust.works)
It's terrifying... (lemmy.world)
Does this community accept insane Craigslist posts? (lemmy.world)
edit: here is an imgur link with the post broken up into 5 images imgur.com/…/insane-people-craigslist-n0n4fXD
"I have a theory based on evidence..." (lemmy.world)
Continued:...
50,000-year-old Neanderthal bones harbor oldest-known human viruses (www.livescience.com)
Neanderthals who lived 50,000 years ago were infected with three viruses that still affect modern humans today, researchers have discovered....
The Pyramid of... Benben? (lemmy.world)
Just so you know, absolutely none of that is true....
Thar is so much evidunce (lemmy.world)
let's goooooo (sh.itjust.works)