Silk & Silver Dev Diary #1 - Design Vision 🖼️
In today’s Dev Diary we’ll be diving into the vision of this year's major expansion, Silk & Silver, covering trade, mercantile governments, and more!
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Delighted as I am to see Abu al-‘Abbas the elephant getting some love, there are a lot of problems with the idea of a military alliance between the Carolingians and the ‘Abbasids. 🧵 #medievalsky
🚨Ahhhhhhhh!🚨 The OA version of my book "Medievalism, Popular Culture and Politics in Metal Music" is already available at intellectdiscover.com/content/book... and I do not know when it went online! No promotional thread prepared! Nothing! Panic!
yea the monkey/child arc is the biggest flaw IMO
Page of the Green Knight with annotations by David Lowery in red in the margins.
Looks like this (from the A24 website)
Yes I believe so, I do own a copy so I could make a scan/take some pictures
Not sure how useful this would be, but in the deluxe edition there is an annotated excerpt of the poem with the director's notes. So he comments on why he changes certain things in the film, etc.
With school choice programs ascendant not just in Iowa but across the U.S., Cedar Rapids offers a preview of who wins and who loses when education meets the free market.
When people say a movie "rips", this is what they mean
Deleted my thread, but I would really be happy if you want to follow my writing directly at among-the-ruins.ghost.io
went and checked this, it seems that in the last 30 days I've gotten 38 new subscribers, of which 19 came from Notes I posted
But this is a good thing I didn't actually catch!
From what I can gather its from Notes I post there and other recommendations they serve. Im not disagreeing that it isnt as magic as they make it seem, but I do consistently get people to subscribe there! I don't have paid subs there, in any event
Im sure I can optimize it more, but its another level of friction! I dont think I will ever generate enough traffic here because I'm not big enough. When I see people switching successfully, they generally have tens of thousands of followers! They have a built in follower base that helps
1) Academic specialists make jargon when studying [thing]
2) A few activists/posters use [jargon] when criticizing [thing]
3) Right-wing media says all Dems’ want to [caricature using jargon]
5) “To win, Dems must stop saying [jargon] all the time, normal people don’t talk that way.”
6) Repeat 1
One of the best parts of DC is the incredible number of Ethiopian restaurants
Stone epitaph for the Carolingian Emperor Louis II. Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, 2007. From wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0111_-_Milano_-_Sant%27Ambrogio_Lastra_tombale_Ludovico_II_(%2B_875)_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_25-Apr-2007.jpg
Never realized that we have the epitaph on Louis II's tomb in St. Ambrose in Milan, neat
*you can find a transcription in MGH Poetae 3, p. 405.
#medievalsky
Exterior view of the Dew Drop Inn in Washington DC. It is a clear sunny day.
Beautiful day for the Dew Drop Inn
My advice is always: do not write for anywhere that will not pay you, even if it is just a token sum (unless it is literally your platform, then you do you).
Your work has value, make them pay for it.
Looks really interesting, at this rate I'm barely gonna read about the Middle Ages anymore
Begging them to stop releasing expansions before I have a chance to get back to CK3
The local dunks closed on my way to the office in Boston, so I had to proceed to a different one the next block over, it was a real odyssey of trials
oh definitely! Originally I wanted to do Revolutionary/Napoleonic France before I got interested in the Middle Ages, so it always has a soft spot for me
Some of the most evocative prose I've seen in a while, a brilliant essay
I dont remember who said it but we need to bring back the idea of investing in basic research as a public good, and thus funded like one
Title page for Paul Kershaw's book "Peaceful Kings: Peace, Power, and the Early Medieval Political Imagination".
Now reading:
looks neat, better not make me regret my decision to be a medievalist!!
Many of the criticisms in this report are true or partially true, but the biggest problem that's brought down U.S. colleges is indeed the 50-year crusade by the right to wipe away any notion that higher ed is a public good, massively cut funding for publics, and create the student debt crisis
