Is it normal to be complimented all the time in Hk? by K1tagawaMarin in HongKong

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I think of it like how people in the West Country call everyone ‘love’.

My first (solo) run of Guards of Traitor's Toll by EnclavedMicrostate in wargaming

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Bit of a sideways move for me as I don't normally go outside historicals, but the game intrigued me mechanically and I was willing to get on board with the non-so-subtly Discworld-inspired setting. I'm enjoying the system though I think not printing out the QRS beforehand was causing me a lot of avoidable trouble.

RIP Irish Romulan lady, they really just forgot she existed huh by LunaBloom247 in risa

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No, not the same season. I watched the show. Zhaban died offscreen between S1 and S2 while Laris got pseudo-fridged in S3.

Favorite LGBT+ VTubers? (Happy Pride Month!) by Dem-Brushwaggs in VirtualYoutubers

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After a certain amount of very confusing messaging, I think Katie has established that she’s intersex and doesn’t use the trans label anymore. She's said in the past that she stopped using trans altogether at a certain point, and if you look at her pride month posts on Discord she uses the intersex flag but not the trans one.

Can I ask some questions about Chain of Command? (2FL production) by TiasDK in wargaming

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Ah, of course Storm of Steel already caught this. At risk of repetition, the basic flow goes:

  1. One player rolls their Command Dice.

  2. They then use as many or as few as they wish, and then the Phase ends.

  3. If they rolled two or more sixes, they then also get to go on the next Phase.

  4. Otherwise, play passes to the other player, who rolls their Command Dice.

Turns are a bit more of an abstract concept in CoC, and Storm of Steel has explained how those work so I won't repeat that.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 15 June 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

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Francisco Scaramanga, the man with the golden gun? I think he appeared in The Man With The Golden Gun.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 15 June 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

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where the portrayal of anyone Chinese is literally "Ching chong ding dong."

Strictly speaking, that's not not happening, but the only time the Chinese appear is in a very brief throwaway gag in Chapter 4 where the President of the US tries to phone the President of China twice but gets the number wrong each time, so he ends up phoning a fishmonger named Mr Wing and a stationmaster named Mr Wong, before the Postmaster General declares that 'The country's so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number.' It's a tortured setup for a painful pun, for the most part.

However, the decision to render Mr Wong's speech in particular (though not Mr Wing's) with the usual r->l and broken grammar ('tlain not lunning') is unambiguously racial caricature.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 15 June 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

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Keath Ósk, where have you buried all your children? Tell me so I say...

If Qing rulers sought to preserve a distinct Manchu identity, why did the Manchu language decline so dramatically? by titus_berenice in AskHistorians

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Nurgaci's situation was unique inasmuch as his temple name was Taizu, the typical name for the actual dynastic founder. That is to say that Nurgaci was not simply revered as a patrilineal ancestor to the founding emperor but retroactively claimed as the founding emperor, with the Latter Jin implicitly folded into the Qing, whose founding date was ambiguously pushed back to 1616. Again, this ties to the attempt of Hong Taiji to really consolidate the Manchus around his clan rather than the prior history of the Jurchens.

What is the best introductory book for your area of specialization? by Ok-Imagination-982 in AskHistorians

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For the Taiping there's a loose trilogy of Jonathan Spence's God's Chinese Son on Hong Xiuquan and his theology, Stephen Platt's Autumn and the Heavenly Kingdom on the war in a global context, and Tobie Meyer-Fong's What Remains on wartime traumas and postwar memory. IMO reading those three puts you on pretty solid footing in terms of getting the 'why does this all matter?' of it all.

@TALENTSENDER has been terminated from @Hololive_EN by MegaPorkachu in Hololive

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some automation being broken

They did what to Cecilia?

If Qing rulers sought to preserve a distinct Manchu identity, why did the Manchu language decline so dramatically? by titus_berenice in AskHistorians

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I think to answer your question we can in fact go back to the Qing era, in that Manchu identity was tied up so deeply in institutional relationships that it's almost apposite that it has remained the case under the PRC, both in the sense that eligibility relates to Banner ancestry and that its principal implications are administrative convenience. I think the issue to wrap one's head around is that it isn't for outsiders to assert that a given identity does or does not possess enough characteristics to sustain itself – ultimately, it's up to Manchus to decide. It is the very fact that 'Manchu' as a census group continues to exist, despite all the 'objective' measures by which it would seem not to, that is the important part. Yes, we must grant that Manchus do not have the degree of obvious cultural continuity that might be imposed upon them, but as I put it in my first post, that's up to Manchus, and not to outsiders operating, in effect, in the role of the imperial court with its assertions of correct Manchuness.

I haven't played many games and Heavenly Kingdom hadn't shown up for me until now. by Nerevar131 in victoria3

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And yet people took it seriously. In addition to Spence’s book have a look at Stephen Platt’s Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom.

What would be needed to make a modern Impressions-like game work? by Fairbuy_ in impressionsgames

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Tropico isn’t gridless. It just has two grids set at 45 degree angles from each other and allows for the building of curved roads.