darlingofinana

darlingofinana, 14 days ago to random

The people who try to turn Ishtar into a tradwife goddess and say shit like "the mythology on her is skewed and wrong", what's the fucking point?

What's the point of worshiping this deity if all you're gonna do is literally throw out everything that makes her unique, throw out the rich cultural traditions around her, and turn her into a generic old age mother goddess??
We already have that anyway. Ninhursag, Ninlil, Ningal, etc.

The whole point of Ishtar is that she breaks the expectations of women in her society. She's a sexually liberated, capricious young lady who fights in battle and doesn't submit to any man

winter, 15 days ago to random

if your response to seeing any antizionist Jew is to call them a token, that's so shitty. Jews can have their own opinions. the sages wrote a whole 20 volume book of arguments, and now you expect Jews to toe a party line to be valid? Jews can even argue with G-d, what authority do you think you or the state of Israel really have?

darlingofinana, 16 days ago to random

If a player in an FPS game has a tall helmet, like say, a Babylonian style pointed helmet,

wouldn't that put the player at a disadvantage since they'd be more exposed?

darlingofinana, 16 days ago to random

Bless the Liberation Theology Muslims, the Zaydi Shias and the Nizari Ismailis

zeldah, 17 days ago to random

antisemites are like “jews appropriated their own food because it doesnt look like white people food to us”

darlingofinana, 18 days ago to random

The whole "Aphrodite is Ishtar but written by men" thing is so funny because... have you actually read Ishtar myths?

dangerdyke, 18 days ago to random

mahjong is bullshit, it gives you bullshit hands for games on end and right when you’re about to give up in exasperation it gives you like 2 good ones that make you want to keep playing. its bullshit

atomicpoet, 19 days ago to random

If retro gaming interests you, in addition to console games, it behooves you to check out the PC side of things too.

That’s because there’s certain games that simply cannot be translated to console. One of them is Haegemonia: Legions of Iron.

To this day, I have not ever seen a good console conversion of a 3D RTS that’s set in space. A 2D RTS is hard enough to translate to console. But 3D? I don’t think this is something a console can do.

And when I say 3D, I don’t mean an RTS with polygonal graphics. No, I mean something that allows you to interact in all three dimensions of space. You don’t just go forwards, backwards, and sideway. You send your ships up and down too.

But on PC, there’s a lot of good 3D RTS that set in space: Homeworld and O.R.B. come to mind. But I’d say that the most accessible is in a pick-up-and-play sense is Haegemonia: Legions of Iron.

There’s a caveat here. Only play this game if you have access to a numpad. Without a numpad, you can’t change the speed of the game. This is important because the default speed is slow.

But Haegemonia probably is the easiest 3D RTS to control because it acts more like a traditional RTS. To start a battle, all you have to do is select your units and point to the enemy you want to engage with. It’s that easy.

Of course, while all this easy control is convenient, you’re giving up the depth that you had with Homeworld – which is absolutely massive. And while Homeworld’s map gives you many options, it takes a lot of learning. There is no such map with Haegemonia because things are much simplier.

The story is no less interesting, though. You are commanding ships in a Earth-Mars war. You can play either the Earth or Mars campaigns. But that’s not all. Once the war ends, the entirety of humanity unites to expand beyond the Solar system to encounter alien civilizations.

Another thing that makes Haegemonia different from other 3D RTS games is the espionage system which, to this day, is not available elsewhere. This allows you to build a ship that’s invisible on enemy sensors. And they’re used, of course, to monitor other planets, ships, or stations. This is a nice feature that gives Haegemonia more depth!

A few PC gamers complain that this game hasn’t been updated for newer resolutions and widescreen aspect ratios. However, it is possible to set widescreen by going into the registry key and setting the values for your desired resolution. I simply don’t do this because I’d have to keep doing it each time I launch the game. But also, this being a retro game, I can live with a 4:3 aspect ratio.

Both Steam and GOG.com sell this game. While the Steam version is cheaper at C$5.49, I believe it’s better to buy Haegemonia Gold Edition edition on GOG.com because it also bundles The Solon Heritage expansion pack, HD wallpaper, avatars, and the soundtrack. It also works on older versions of Windows.

If you’re looking for a simpler, more accessible 3D RTS set in space, Hegemonia: Legions of Iron is a good choice – just so long as your keyboard has a numpad.

Hegemonia: Legions of Iron screenshot (RTX 3080 Ti)
Hegemonia: Legions of Iron screenshot (RTX 3080 Ti)
Hegemonia: Legions of Iron screenshot (RTX 3080 Ti)

winter, 22 days ago to random

fedi should implement myspace's Top Friends feature so I can more easily find people's profiles without dating them

winter, 22 days ago to random

uh oh! your instance has malfunctioned and fetched fedi posts from 2nd century Babylonia! :blobcatnotlikethis:

@parthian4ever@nisibis.lgbt 1826 years ago
I fucking HATE Romans!!!! :angy:

@eliezer@mishna.social 1826 years ago
DNI if you agree with Beit Shammai about how long before sunset a loaf of bread must be inserted in the oven on Erev Shabbat

@mathautistic@amida.university 1826 years ago
we never should have stopped using base 60 it’s so much stimmier

atomicpoet, 1 month ago to random

When I was a kid, I thought, “I wish I was alive when Elvis and the Beatles were around.”

Now I hear kids say, “I wish I was alive when arcades were around, and there were real Outrun cabinets.”

Time is a funny thing because kids imagine these arcades were neon-drenched in pink and purple, with people casually wearing powergloves and leather jackets.

So it makes me wonder if my entire idea of the 50s and 60s is a caricature.

darlingofinana, 1 month ago to random

A lot of y'all use making fun of America as a proxy for making fun of POC, the disabled (physically and mentally) and the poor and it absolutely shows.

Make fun of our failed systems, please fucking do. But show some god damn compassion for those who suffer under this system. Like, not every person who happens to live in this cursed country is your oppressor.

I hate that I even have to fucking make these posts because I feel like I'm "sticking up for America" when like, no, I hate this country and what it represents. But as a person who suffers from this country's bullshit, I have compassion for my fellow people who also suffer

yassie_j, 1 month ago to random

“Molotov cocktail is an anti-Soviet/Russian slur” has to be one of the most cursed takes I have ever seen on the Fediverse

Bard, 1 month ago to random

So I should probably clarify: all that has happened to me is that I have come to terms with the fact that I'm not cisgender.

I don't know what form that is going to take, all I know is that something inside me has given, and I want to be less traditionally masculine and embrace more of my femininity. I don't think I'm a woman. Just not a man.

He/him pronouns are fine, and I'm okay being referred to in neutral terms or perhaps as a boy, not a man.

darlingofinana, 1 month ago to random

Does anyone know any good Iranology discord servers? I don't mean devotional Zoroastrian servers, but rather, Academic spaces for Iranology?
Basically a place that knows how to differentiate the good shit from the pseudo-archaeology and nationalist stuff

Because Iranology spaces on Facebook are filled with nationalists