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[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have been wanting too play it but even Oblibion (unmodded) was too dated when I went to play. Excited for the chance now. Now, I don't mind things that are dated within reason (CRPGs come to mind since they are point and click or things like DA1 or Witcher 2)... Where do you suggest I go if I want a fairly modern experience for Morrowind and I am not afraid of Frankensteining mods together?

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I sincerely hope this is the next remaster.

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I love playing khajiit. The slurs NPCs throw at me make me feel a little more alive.

The nazis also kept meticulous records of their victims. This will be turned into a memorial one day.

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That should be obvious as soon as you step off any social platform or physical space controlled by capital. Capital has always been a tool for conquerors.

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 3 weeks ago

I too have had dreams of the northern lights after they came to visit me last year.

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

I got one too for reading and drawing and I usually just end up yapping to you lot. It's great when I am not feeling well though.

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago

I call that "office friendly."

 
 
[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Depends on the situation really, it makes me feel the joy of a naughty child. Roll with it. Where you can feed people bad data, do it. Where you cannot, strip it and block it. Obtusify and randomise how your computer connects to the internet (browser spoofs, VPNs, SPN, etc.), use containers (Firefox), support others breaking rules (https://snowflake.torproject.org/), contain your applications (https://safing.io/), spoof things like location etc. This is my little everyday act of anarchism. If people want to fight back against this bullshit, they should learn to stop complying with the folks putting everyone and everything in boxes. People are so used to mindlessly complying. It's my nerdy kind of fun. Make your phone & computer a poisoned apple when you have time.

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Sorry, I was not clear. I was trying to say that they're a package deal; you must look at them within the contexts of each other. Both cultures are hitting the same notes based on their propensity for similar historical revisionism at similar times and the relationship is kinda nuanced. I found something more eloquent than my 2am brain.

The main reason for such lack of accuracy is that a thorough analy- sis of the history of the raised-arm salute requires a synthesis of vari- ous areas of knowledge that scholars usually keep separate: the history, literature, and art of ancient rome; the cultural and political history of modern italy, Germany, and the United States; the history of late- eighteenth-century european painting and late-nineteenth-century popular theater; and film history from its beginnings to today. For this reason no comprehensive scholarship on the raised-arm salute has previously been attempted.

Pp 4

With the rise of Nazi Germany, some Americans identified the flag salute itself as problematic. This dissertation refers to the salute popularized by the Youth’s Companion, in which children began the Pledge with their right hand over their heart before extending their hand upward toward the flag, palm up, at the phrase “to my flag,” as the Bellamy salute to be consistent with earlier historiography, although recent research suggests it predated Francis Bellamy, its namesake.467 The Nazi salute differed from the Bellamy salute only in that the arm began outstretched and the palm faced down. The Bellamy salute was most likely based on the mythologized “Roman salute,” which also inspired Italian and German fascist salutes in the twentieth century.468 Although the Bellamy salute predated the Nazi salute and was incorporated into the Flag Code in 1923, Americans in the 1930s and early 1940s were forced to consider whether the traditional rituals of the Pledge of Allegiance should change as a hyper-nationalistic foreign regime seemed intent on overthrowing the democratic governments of the world.46

Pp 157 - https://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:109587/datastream/PDF/view

This is what I was trying to get at with the pipeline link.

Also you must consider the rise of media during this time: https://kb.osu.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/0c516d4f-431c-551b-820c-2bfed6ec9b4b/content

History rhymes. I unironically think about the Roman Empire a lot because it's a dog whistle. To say one inspired the other isn't wrong when you take a step back, it's just oversimplified.

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I think you misread that, in context it circles back to the American one. For more context see here under origins. The American version was very much in the timeline with the inspiration: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_salute

Also worth reading: https://web.archive.org/web/20240719151050/https://www.workingclassicists.com/post/the-antiquity-to-alt-right-pipeline

The Nazi's love of America and Rome plus the whole America being based on a lot of Roman stuff (Look at your money motifs... Columns on Lincoln Memorial, White House, etc.), is a whole... thing. People forget the Rome idolization too, but it goes hand in hand with the American stuff.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172422/hitlers-american-model

 

Hitler's strategic program for Greater Germany was based on the belief in the power of Lebensraum, especially when pursued by a racially superior society.[9] People deemed to be part of non-Aryan races, within the territory of Lebensraum expansion, were subjected to expulsion or destruction.[9] The eugenics of Lebensraum assumed it to be the right of the German Aryan master race (Herrenvolk) to remove the indigenous people in the name of their own living space. They took inspiration for this concept from outside Germany.[9] Hitler and Nazi officials took a particular interest in manifest destiny, and attempted to replicate it in occupied Europe.[11] Nazi Germany also supported other Axis Powers' expansionist ideologies such as Fascist Italy's spazio vitale and Imperial Japan's hakkō ichiu.[12]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum

 
 
 
 
 
 

Acromis spinifex is a type of tortoise beetle from South America. One of the interesting things about A. spinifex is this species exhibits parental care for its offspring, pictured here with recently laid eggs. This amazing photo is by @djmossoro on IG.

 
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