Eric Cline is great - when i had a tooth removed in a somewhat nasty procedure i spent a Caturday hepped up on goofballs watching his videos on LBA while playing Hatshepsut on Diety in Civ VII 1.4 (i got to play test 1.3.2 via Firaxis via discord, ooh la la i call a car hole a garage)

in my personal "immersive learning" period starting 2021, i discovered acoup.blog when Old World came out and extended into reading while playing Civ VI and CK III. it actually started the February before COVID, playing Plague while watching Contagion and reading whatever peer-reviewed shit i could find. total Chris Crawford with a brain-eating amoeba action

EDIT: in the blind i'm guessing the port city of which you speak is Ugarit, which i had never heard of. IIRC everything was weakened by drought and famine, and Ugarit's armies were pulled over to the Hittites who abandoned Ugarit to The Sea Peoples. and the Sea Peoples always came off like a "cosmological constant" fudge factor where constant advances in shipwreck archaeology should provide more clarity in its merry time

history is dope. it never repeats itself but it always rhymes :)

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nchmy 2 hours ago | parent [-]

its been a while since ive read a comment somewhere that I am so completely bewildered by. I understand about half the words, and none of the references, that you wrote.

Hope your teeth are doing better now!

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tsimionescu 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Caturday -> Saturday enjoyed with or similar to a cat

LBA -> probably supposed to be LBAC, Late Bronze Age collapse

Civ -> Civilization, a series of historically inspired strategy games, where you play as the historical leader of a civilization through the ages of human development

Hatshepsut -> an Egyptian Pharaoh who is one of the leaders you can play as in Civ VII

Deity -> the name of the highest difficulty level in Civ VII

Firaxis -> the company that develops the Civilization series

Discord -> a chat app/service often used in gaming communities

ooh la la i call a car hole a garage -> a reference to a joke in The Simpsons, where a character complains someone else thinks they're fancy because they use the word "garage", and when challenged on an alternative, he calls it "car hole"

Old World -> a game similar to the Civilization series

CK III -> Crusader Kings III, another game similar to Civilization

Plague -> probably Plague Inc, a game where you play as a pathogen trying to infect and kill the entirety of humanity

Contagion -> a movie about the start of a pandemic

Rest of the references I can't help with. Also no idea why they would mention the playtest of Civ VII version 1.3.2.

	▲	quickthrowman 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		“Caturday hepped up on goofballs [after dental work] -> I was high on opiates on Saturday Caturday -> Saturday Hepped -> Novel synonym for “high” likely influenced by the jazz slang word ‘hep’ which means ‘hip’ or ‘cool’ Goofballs -> 5/500 hydrocodone/APAP, aka Vicodin. The gold standard tooth pain prescription drug, an opioid. In this context.

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simtel20 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you find yourself more lost in the history parts or the gaming parts?

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The_Blade 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

my mother is a fish