Since this is a story relayed by Charles Robert Jenkins, who was not exactly an objective journalist, and rather a quite interesting individual:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Robert_Jenkins

Sharing the context since there’s such an excited appetite for, uh, tankie spin.

Well shit, I always wondered why that community never really got much engagement. Now I know.

That is true. We never got much Dragon Quest at all in the US. (I’ll just keep my Startropics and cope.)

But nonetheless, if it is just Dragon Quest left in Japan, I think it still was a stagnant genre.

It broke inertia in a genre that had been struggling for a long time. A lot of folks have mentioned games like Super Mario RPG which was (one of) the last SNES Squaresoft game(s).

With the Square-Enix merger the franchises of the companies kinda merged together alongside adopting the innovations of MMORPGs.

And so the turn based RPG fell along the wayside, much like the RTS, until E33 renewed interest. So I think E33 is important for what it represents: the viability of a once popular genre ignored by major studios. There’d been smaller time pixel art games, but that was the sort od timecapsule realm it was stuck in.

It may be worth pointing out that the metal ages are used primarily for old world archaeology. The Americas utilize a different system that isn’t so bound to metallurgical ages.

Lithic > Ancient > Formative > Classic > Post-Classic

Each era is about mlre than material sciences, and specifically metallurgical ones, of the old world. (But let’s be clear, the Bronze age is so, so much more than bronzeworking. Sometimes that gets lost in the nomenclature.)

Arguably one could apply the american measurements similarly to old world history too, since these are all approximations for coherent discourse.

A user posited the question of why hot air balloons were not invented sooner despite the materials and tools being available.

Ah. It seemed like a vague question so without context it was confusing to respond to. The context helps, and so much of what I wrote was based on trying to understand the framework to begin with.

How is that in any way contradicting what was said?

It wasn’t really. There’s usually a common thread and history to technology where their concepts are translated and travelled. Like you have signal balloons being used in China, which the Mongols adapted, which the Poles witnessed and recorded, which was how it came to be known in in Europe.

Comments aren’t always contradictory or a refutation, so taking them as such is going to cause some unnecessary grief.

Keeping the discussion exclusive to humans is typically just assumed, so to add a correction of ‘Sapiens’ felt a bit odd, is all.

Sapiens

As opposed to…?

Is there a tendency to assume ‘everything should have been possible in antiquity’? What is that supposed to mean?

Nonetheless:

There are plenty of examples of inventors through history with concepts and ideas that were not really practical in their time. Leonardo da Vinci’s airship concept comes to mind as a well known example. Atomism is an another ancient concept across cultures east and west, which was conceptually used in the development of modern atomic theory. I think the Turks invented the steam engine based on Hellenic Greek concepts, but it was the English put it to state-level use and implementation.

So there’s just a long history of technologies being adapted and improved for different purposes. Ballooning is a good example of something that has existed for many centuries in Asia. Lifting a person into the sky, instead of a message, is a newer concept that branched off an existing technology.

A great deal of technological advancements have been out of military necessity/value, such as with the balloons, but the prerequisite for innovative adaptations of technology have simply had to do with how well they were recorded and disseminated throughout populations. Militaries have been pretty good about learning a thing and getting a group to do that thing, and then recording itnfoebthe next time.

So with that in mind: Large scale education with writing and reading is a pretty late stage development. A chinese manuscript translated into English for someone who could read it occurred once every a few millenia for most of history, picked up to a few decades in the 1800s, and now that likely happens many thousands of times a day today.

I know a lot of people who claim they have only one account have at least an alt.

Do you though? Please, let me know what account(s?) ya’ll think I use other than this one and then:

We got folks who can find out who’s who.

If they’re thinking I am still another user on the Fediverse then they’re pretty incompetent at finding out who is who. Otherwise it’s just making idle threats.

This begs the question of just who you think is being hurt.

I am on sh.itjust.works. We are not federated with Hexbear and this is my only account.

This is what I am talking about. I have had threads made specifically about me on MWOG about these things. Whatever you all attribute to me on hexbear ain’t me. I am not on hexbear and never have been, yet this persists.

One of the things that can help with water is that it’s reflective rather than being colored. Since you established the waterfall in the background, slight hints of those colors can help the water droplets convey what they are more than just white.

Since you mentioned it was a model in a shower, that’s much higher pressure water that’s conveyed well as white, not to mention I will bet the shower she was in was white.

Nonetheless, great work!

The tree is the normal part. It’s these coconuts!

These data centers have virtually no purpose except for keeping a bubble from popping. A year out may as well be a permanent ban as far as the whole operation is concerned.

Finding out how to permit them isn’t hard: Stop exempting them from laws and regulation. All the laws and regs are there to address all those ‘impacts’ and ‘factors’ they want to form committees about.

Man I wish we had communism on our shores.

Aunt Rainbow took over MWOG. You may as well be talking to goat on voat.

whether you prefer the original localization of Final Fantasy Tactics or the later one with flowery archaic dialog.

I wager this comes down to just one single line of dialogue: “Blame yourself or God.”

Oh no, it falls under ‘etc.’!

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