Thom – e/ach hans run

Be merry! We meet again, at the turn of the tide.

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

Finally finished The Three Body Problem. Very sorry to my friends who like it, but I found it unfathomably bad in practically every way. Worst science fiction I've read in a long time. Won't be reading the sequels. 1.5 out of 5.

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

@grahamscheper Bede didn't assemble the library, that was Benedict Biscop on his many trips to Rome, as Bede recounts in Lives of the Abbots.

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

“You call that a fucking marmalade sandwich? What, did you pay your ginger nephew to fuck a jar of honey?”

[Eoin O'Callaghan @EoinOCallaghan]

Paddington 4: Armando Iannucci to write bear’s next movie with Thick of It and Veep cowriter https://t.co/koQ7q20Bvu

[When Football Was Better @FootballInT80s]

Perhaps the best post-match FA Cup final interview of 1995 — or indeed, any year — was given by Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall.

This is pure gold.

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

@MaloraHightower @kaulshiloshudon FWIW you can add Wiktionary to the 'site search' section of Chrome's settings. I use the URL https://t.co/hqH4BE0W9K and the shortcut 'define'. So you just type "define castle" in your address bar and go straight to the Wiktionary page.

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

@Little1kelley @TimothyEveland https://t.co/iTNpud4Ubc

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

Tactics twitter having its Filioque moment.

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

@DAMendelsohnNYC I suspect almost all the post-Homer usage is people making a linguistic flex rather than reflecting commonly understood shared meaning tbh, but fun to speculate!

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

@DAMendelsohnNYC End of 'De amicorum multitudine'. He says people with a multitude of friends must have a [polytropon] soul (alongside fluid/changeable), but true friendship seeks something steadfast. I'm wrong remembering this as wily/cunning though. 'Faceted' might be a contender.

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

@DAMendelsohnNYC Athenaeus uses it in Deipnosophistae as something lacking in Dorian harmonies. It's also quote directly in a Socratic dialogue where it's clearly implied as wily/cunning. The Plutarch usage contrasts it against steadfast friendship which seems along similar lines.

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

@ad_rizzle @JoePostingg Not sure Diogenes really counts given his early upbringing and education.

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

We finally have enough eyeballs that all bugs are shallow, and so far it sucks to be updating my kernel three times a week.

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

@Archibald1878 @TheEvertonian78 Scored the first ever winner at the new stadium.

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

@gnomeslair These are cute, but it's a bit of a tragedy to see these systems shorn of their full functionality and programmability. They're also twice as expensive as the remakes: https://t.co/T7QloRijS2

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

This is how I sign off my PR reviews.

[Benche @_Benche_]

We have a record of Cleopatra's handrwiting: γινέσθωι "make it happen", appending a tax exemption.

[Lindsey Bahr @ldbahr]

Josh O’Connor on a great note from Spielberg

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

@GeodesicForce @AdsoOfBelk Old perks tree was removed, replacement is much more limited. Can't reduce import prices, and starting resources are randomised, so harder to rely on trade. Food and livestock production nerfed.

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

@LJayDeeJay @AdsoOfBelk Yep, although the old perk tree was removed more than a year ago at this point? I think it's entirely valid to say that in Early Access a game isn't finished and all bets are off. But I also think the time could be used a little more wisely on more focused, vertical experiments.

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

@LJayDeeJay @AdsoOfBelk I've already got my money's worth by a long way, but I'm also less likely to dive into early access games with small teams in the future because I'd like to avoid getting bored of a game before all the features are in.

[Thom – e/ach hans run @lemonwatcher]

@LJayDeeJay @AdsoOfBelk Yeah, totally aware of that and to be clear, I'm still pretty addicted to the game and rooting for its success. But I would stand by the point that not only has the game not progressed in early access so far, from the player point of view it's gone backwards.