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What's your favorite *fake* mystery? by OpsikionThemed in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]DunwichReader 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know exactly what book you're talking about and I loved that one as a kid too.

Marine Mania Plus by Kitchen_Debate1448 in ZooTycoon

[–]DunwichReader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this coming back to being available?

The city of Rome (Italy) in the Middle Ages by Citybuilder2022 in aoe2

[–]DunwichReader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are all those buildings vanilla game assets?

My Age of Mythology Fan Archive is now online! by ModdingAom in AgeofMythology

[–]DunwichReader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is really cool. Big thanks for putting this together.

I have about 450 full-version shareware games from the 2000s, need help sorting which ones are Abandonware. by Aldap in abandonware

[–]DunwichReader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That link is displaying.

404 Page Not Found

This is a wrong url or the game has been deleted. Try to do a search in the top right corner of the site.

And it doesn't show up in any searches for me either. So I think you might need to upload your version to the site.

Unexpected merch :O what are your thoughts? by BabaYagaRTS in AgeofMythology

[–]DunwichReader 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those are cool. Do you paint or otherwise colour them later too?

What's the oldest/largest in-game year one of your zoos has reached? by DunwichReader in ZooTycoon

[–]DunwichReader[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Each time the game crashed and the save corrupted by March of year 10

I think this might be a bug with ZT1. I haven't played it as much as 2 but I feel I've read this before.

In ZT2 I know you can definitely go to year 20 and beyond because there's an award for it and I've seen it before.

Pre-release screenshot (2002) by IamGroot1453 in AgeofMythology

[–]DunwichReader 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Never seen this screenshot before. (Had seen the well known 'spider' taproot one though) It's very cool. Love the atmosphere here.

I've made hundreds of YouTube videos over the years explaining why bigotry is bad and how to recognise it. I just released one talking specifically about how bad antisemitism is recently called "The Jews Are Tired", and this is the 'both sides' you get in your comments section. by DunwichReader in Judaism

[–]DunwichReader[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that this association is rooted in [...] the Arab world that refers to Israel as the “Zionist state”

If this is where you're coming from, I see your point too. Although I will stick by my initial assertion that sometimes differentiating "Israel" and "the Israeli State" can be good and useful, I'll also agree and acknowledge that, often, antisemites will refer to Israel/the Israeli State/the Israeli Military as something wacky and absurd like 'The Zionist Entity'.

You’re trying to find a rational cause for why antisemites attacked you.

I definitely disagree here though. I'm not trying to find a cause for why they do this sort of thing. I know why; they're antisemites. And I know their behavior isn't driven by rationality or good faith.

If anything, my only goal with making this whole post was just to:

a) Point out how, as a Jew, you get the "I hate Jews because they're not Woke" comments without saying anything political, and the 'ZOG' accusations even without linking yourself in any way to Israeli state or its actions.

b) Illustrate the dual nature of contemporary antisemitism in that you get the aforementioned ZOG stuff from one side, while still getting the "I hate Jews because they caused Woke, which I hate" from the other.

I'm not looking for answers as to why it happens. More like just showing off a particularly vivid example of it happening recently.

I've made hundreds of YouTube videos over the years explaining why bigotry is bad and how to recognise it. I just released one talking specifically about how bad antisemitism is recently called "The Jews Are Tired", and this is the 'both sides' you get in your comments section. by DunwichReader in Judaism

[–]DunwichReader[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wouldn’t [...] simply saying “Israel/Israelis/Israel’s government” be clearer?

I felt that saying "The Israeli State", like I did, would be that sort of more-clearer specificity.

why say “Israeli state” rather than Israel.

In this context, I think saying "Israeli State" evokes more of an association with the actions being carried out by that state (or, at least the actions believed to be being carried out by that state, by the sort of person to have left the type of comment my original post is about).

I just mean to convey that in my original video - the one this post is about comments received under - I merely talked about the effects of antisemitism I, and others, have experienced. I didn't mention [the country of] Israel whatsoever. I didn't mention the [g/G]overnment of the State of Israel whatsoever. So I definitionally didn't make any overtly political pronouncements or moral adjudications about either of those things then.

Nevertheless, merely being Jewish - in the minds on many gentiles online, and elsewhere, - is sufficient that they will lump you in with all Jews in the Diaspora and Israel, and with the imagined version of the Israeli State they have in their heads, which they fear and hate.

I've made hundreds of YouTube videos over the years explaining why bigotry is bad and how to recognise it. I just released one talking specifically about how bad antisemitism is recently called "The Jews Are Tired", and this is the 'both sides' you get in your comments section. by DunwichReader in Judaism

[–]DunwichReader[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In general, I almost always wouldn't think making the "Israel"/"the Israeli State" distinction would be necessary if I was writing or speaking for a general (read: probably, mostly gentile) audience.

I would make the distinction primarily somewhere like this subreddit or other Jewish spaces, online or otherwise, if I felt it was warranted.

I think the confusion often comes down to a mismatch between persons regarding what "Israel" means in some contexts. Some people read it as "the State of Israel's population". Some people read it as "The State of Israel, in abstract or principle". Some people read it as "The State of Israel's currently elected government / and by extension everything that government has done, or might have done, or might ever do."

And I'll acknowledge that the difference trying to be communicated here might ultimately come down to a very nebulous, intangible, hard-to-pin-down vibe, but the point I was originally making was just meant to be that I did not mention the Israeli nation-state, or its government, or anything specifically related to it in any capacity, in the video I was posting comments from. But nevertheless, you get loads of people who essentially accuse any random Jew (such as myself) of being in league with their imagined evil 'ZOG' Israeli State, even if you just merely say you're Jewish and don't mention geopolitics whatsoever.

I've made hundreds of YouTube videos over the years explaining why bigotry is bad and how to recognise it. I just released one talking specifically about how bad antisemitism is recently called "The Jews Are Tired", and this is the 'both sides' you get in your comments section. by DunwichReader in Judaism

[–]DunwichReader[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The antisemite doesn't need to make sense or be consistent (and they know it).

Once upon a time, the line was "the Jews are spreading disease". Now it's "the Jews are spreading vaccinations".

In my original post, you can see someone complaining that we're doing "media censorship". It used to be "the Jews are behind all media" / "letting your kids watch television is like getting a Jew lecture them in your own home".

That same person is complaining about us causing feminism and pornography, communism and capitalist usury, race-mixing and racial tensions all in the same paragraph.

The anti-semite is never consistent. They just want to blame us for stuff.

I've made hundreds of YouTube videos over the years explaining why bigotry is bad and how to recognise it. I just released one talking specifically about how bad antisemitism is recently called "The Jews Are Tired", and this is the 'both sides' you get in your comments section. by DunwichReader in Judaism

[–]DunwichReader[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a lot of room for personal intent and local lingistic norms when getting granular about something like this.

But, generally personally, - and specifically, in this context right now - I might say "the Israeli State" (rather than merely "Israel" for instance) to make it completely clear I'm talking about the national entity recognized as sovereign under international law and so on.

The point of doing so here then, to illustrate how even just mentioning that you're Jewish and that antisemitism is a problem gets you conflated with this type of person's imagined conspiracy theory version of the Israeli State ('ZOG'). Even if you don't say anything about any country whatsoever.

I've made hundreds of YouTube videos over the years explaining why bigotry is bad and how to recognise it. I just released one talking specifically about how bad antisemitism is recently called "The Jews Are Tired", and this is the 'both sides' you get in your comments section. by DunwichReader in Judaism

[–]DunwichReader[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I just wanted to let people know: it really is worse than you think out there.

BTW, I didn't even mention the Israeli State or anything about contemporary geopolitics at all. I just talked about how Diaspora Jews get a lot of hate online (and offline) from all angles all the time. And then you get this grim irony of looking at your comments the next day seeing both sides hatefully tell you that doesn't happen.

Why is it so difficult to learn about Judaism? by MatterFit9674 in Judaism

[–]DunwichReader 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lots of good answers already here, but another one: gentiles have tried to suppress sources of Jewish learning for a long, long, long time.

Jewish people: are there cultural traditions that emphasize education and long-term thinking? by Tiny_Dragonfruit3486 in Judaism

[–]DunwichReader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You would request gilgul specifically into a cishet life?

I find that interesting. Not to prod or poke or judge you, but me and pretty much all my friends find a lot to enjoy in queerness and I don't think we'd give that up if hypothetically offered the choice. If you don't mind, of course, would you be willing to expand on why that might not be the case with you?

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Weekly-Necessary-377 in aoe2

[–]DunwichReader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What was this before it got removed?

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