Chris Herde - Medieval Joy Edition

If you had any interest in playing GTA 6 or giving this company money in any other forum, please don't. At least not until they make this right and do one hell of an apology tour. And voluntarily recognize their employee union.
There are other games you can play on the meantime.
#fuckpinkertons

- Doge Enrico Dandalo, 1204

That's just it. I don't think there is one.

Ah man how could I have forgotten?!

By my reckoning, no historical figures have 'come back' since Martin Guerre or perhaps Russian Emperor Peter III

I wonder if this is a consequence of the question wording. I can see a scenario in which those 17% responded as they did bc they believe Jesus was a historical figure who actually existed, but since they're atheists obviously he's not coming back.

الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام

#medievalsky

I wish I'd brought snacks.
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echo down here
down here
here
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I wonder if there's an echo down here.
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A copy*

If I can get a full scan through my university's library, you want copy copy?

Li indicated there was a new translation of al-Mutayyim and al-Yutayyam coming out soon, and apparently he's been working on a stage-ready translation, which i would love to see performed

I don't even know if I've got enough pixels left to feel cute!
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A page from a bg3 in-universe text justifying the academic study of eels

@greenleejw.bsky.social I didn't know you you were a canonical npc in the Baldur's Gate world!

Well, at least the elevator music down here is pleasant.
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Almost every important research conversation I've ever had began accidentally and unscheduled: just two people catching up in the hallway during some downtime.
In the same way that you need to go to the library in person to find unexpected books, it's impossible to have a serendipitous zoom meeting

... damn.
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...feeling cute, might ASCEND out of an infinite recursion later?
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Feeling cute, might descend into an infinite recursion later.
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You can tell this is a serious, scientific treatise on medieval sport bc the author keeps reiterating that the size of the field, number of players, etc. should remain consistent with current astrological conditions.

Dr. Tom Sawyer's Medievalists Design Games event at UChicago seems like a good model for things like this

...right?
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All hail the mighty Ouse!

Ok, I realize I said "infinite" recursion, but there's gotta be a bottom here somewhere.
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Art

A Death of Stalin-style film about Shajjar al-Durr and the Mamluks covering up al-Salih Ayyub's death and then figuring out how they're going to overthrow Turanshah.
The Mamluks are consistently such petty little mobsters in all their politicking, I don't know why we haven't mined that for comedy.

I don't suppose anyone up there could throw me, like, a rope or something?
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