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General Gaming - The Arcade / Re: What are you playing?
« on: March 01, 2023, 06:41:22 PM »


After last weekend I feel I really ought to go play Pentiment.
:tusky:

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General Gaming - The Arcade / Re: What are you playing?
« on: February 25, 2023, 10:01:03 AM »
I've occasionally been playing a little of the Divide and Conquer LOTR mod for Medieval 2, because TW peaked with Med2 and nothing will ever be as good again so we might as well all give up wooooooo

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Steel booted, golden handed.

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Booo
Down with this sort of thing!
Yeah, the logic being that nobody was using it very much and it made the forum look more rather than less deserted most of the time. If we get back to having a good amount more activity and people are using things like this general chat thread so much that we need to reinstate it to help keep the flow, then of course we'll look into it. We're... a little way off that, right now.
Well this is a prime example of the deep flaws inherent with democracy. I propose that you choose me as Exilian's first benevolent tyrant so I can save you silly geese from making such awful decisions in the future. Bask in my golden aura dear subjects.


Heating and electricity prices are supposed to be crazy in the UK.  But its confusing because old and corporate social media tend towards catastrophizing or channeling Dr. Pangloss.
Kind of, government (eventually) imposed a price cap on energy but it only applies to households, so businesses are generally paying obscene rates now. Petrol and diesel prices finally came down recently, still a lot higher than pre-pandemic but significantly less than they were at their height.
Inflation is generally higher than wage increases have been, though I'd say worker shortages have made it easier to find entry level and lower skilled work, and anecdotally I've seen significantly higher wages for the kind of casual manual labour work I tend to pick up.

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Booo
Down with this sort of thing!

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What happened to the little chat bar at the top of the forum home page?

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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: I found an even WORSE AI...
« on: February 21, 2023, 01:00:07 PM »
You.com, a search engine, now includes an AI answering service. It's amazingly bad. Unlike ChatGPT, You's AI attempts to read very directly from the internet and cite its web sources. Unfortunately it also totally lacks logical consistency, like most LLM AIs. A lot of its bullarmadillo is vaguely plausible sounding... here are some sample queries, feel free to add your own excitements.

"Exilian Pentagathus"
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Pentagathus is a prominent figure in the Exilian community, having served as an administrator for Mount & Blade Warband and having founded the website in March of 2008. He is also the creator of the popular Snowstorm Creative Competition, which is an annual competition for creating game assets. Additionally, he has contributed to several projects, such as the Exilian Chain Writing 2020 and the Free Library of Images for Everyone [1][2]. He is also the recipient of the Exilian Award for Outstanding Service.


Sorry I can't find the error here.

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The Welcome Hall - Start Here! / Re: Greetings
« on: February 17, 2023, 05:11:24 PM »
Hey raidarr, are you selling buttons at the door? Because good morning

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The Welcome Hall - Start Here! / Re: Hello!
« on: February 17, 2023, 05:10:42 PM »
My dog is called Brynn. Excellent.

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The Welcome Hall - Start Here! / Re: *peeks out from behind a wall* hi
« on: February 06, 2023, 02:16:12 PM »
hissssssssss

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Would you rather?
« on: January 25, 2023, 02:37:41 PM »
Spear if I'm unlikely to have legal repercussions, maybe staff if I am, or if I have other reasons to avoid fatalateeeeeees. Spears have sharp stabby ends you see.

Oin or Gloin?

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Did you mean to reply to this thread with one word?
yes

:)

It was mostly so I remembered to read this thread again and reply properly. I think i agree, but my brain is still too dumb and tired to read

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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: In the News
« on: January 25, 2023, 02:16:23 PM »
Yes, but also in that case there's at least a state and a still existing ethnic identity which clearly seems to have some valid claim on them - Armenia and Armenians. Whilst with Turkey, I don't see who else could make a claim. AFAIK there's no modern people who can really claim cultural or hereditary continuity with these ancient peoples. I don't know very much about the history of population transfers during Turkish conquest and Ottoman rule, but I would imagine that the current native population has at least as much native ancient ancestry as modern Greeks for example.

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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: In the News
« on: January 25, 2023, 10:58:56 AM »
But surely being an archaeologist of a certain culture or are would not give you any rights to relevant archaeological sites or evidence. If artefacts are illegally being removed from Turkish soil then I would imagine Turkey has the rights to them, though I don't really have a clue what the legal situation would be once they've left Turkey. And obviously Turkey is the only state that has the right to decide whether Turkish sites can be excavated. 
If we're talking about artefacts already removed from the area before there were laws on this kind of thing then the legal owners are the legal owners, and legally they have the rights to them. Turkey could claim some kind of inherent or moral rights to them I guess, but it doesn't really mean anything. Still, if we're talking outside of legal rights then I don't see who else could claim to have a right to them.

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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: In the News
« on: January 23, 2023, 11:46:56 AM »
or the state of Turkey claims rights to things made by ancient Ionians and Dorians and Luwians thousands of years before there were any Turks on Turkish soil
Well tbf, who else would?

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