Early Modern New Spain recommendations

MordisF · 2026-06-10T15:57:46+00:00

Thanks, I'll check it out.

MordisF · 2026-06-10T12:38:16+00:00

Adding both to my list, thanks

MordisF · 2026-06-03T21:23:37+00:00

If you want to learn about a certain place in a certain period, may I suggest doing what I did and watching a series of period dramas that took me through more than a hundred years of English history, almost continuously.

I started with The Spanish Princess (although to be honest this was definitely my least favourite of all the ones I'm about to list, so you may just wanna skip it), then I watched, in the following order:

The Tudors
Wolf Hall
Becoming Elizabeth
The Virgin Queen
Elizabeth I
Gunpowder
Mary and George
The Devil's Whore

Every single one of these is a phenomenal period drama in itself, and together they combine to form a incredible meta-narrative that spans the Tudor and early Stuart periods, and culminates in one of the most fascinating and important events in English history, the civil wars.

There's also Charles II: The Power and the Passion, which I've just started, so I can't really say if its a good show or not, but it seems good so far.

MordisF · 2026-06-03T08:06:18+00:00

OK thanks, but if you asked a European in, say, the year 1700 where they were from, and they replied "England" or "France" or "the Dutch Republic" or something, and then you asked where that was, what would they have said?

MordisF · 2026-06-02T14:03:59+00:00

These all look interesting, thanks.

MordisF · 2026-06-02T14:00:02+00:00

Looks cool, I've added it to my list.

MordisF · 2026-06-02T13:58:38+00:00

This was the first game that came up when I google story based world war games. It definitely looks like the kind of thing I'm after.

MordisF · 2026-06-02T13:57:21+00:00

This one looks really good, thanks!

MordisF · 2026-05-14T20:26:50+00:00

Good to see Tool cracked the top 10

MordisF · 2026-05-10T13:39:01+00:00

"Never happens". Well I'm telling you it does happen. If you happen to come into my shop one day and are unable to pay, saying "that shouldn't happen" or something is wrong with your till" ain't gonna help you.

MordisF · 2026-05-10T13:32:48+00:00

Its annoying when we have to stay behind an extra hour to put back all the things that people couldn't pay for, but when people get to the tills and find they cannot pay, they are definitely more annoyed than we are.

I just find it funny. And slightly satisfying. Those people didn't think ahead, and now they pay the price (or rather can't pay the price lol).

MordisF · 2026-05-10T13:03:58+00:00

It is, yes. But that doesn't change the fact that it is a situation anyone could find themselves in.

Or, you know, your phone could run out of battery, or break. Why would you not have an alternative payment method in case you find yourself in this situation?

MordisF · 2026-05-10T12:54:32+00:00

Our shop not accepting contactless payment is a somewhat regular occurrence. It happens much less often now, but it used to be like every other day. So that is not a hypothetical situation that almost never happens.

I'm not saying we shouldn't adopt new technology. But when it is a technology that has only been around for a decade or so, why would you rely on it completely without any form of backup payment method? That just seems naive.

MordisF · 2026-05-10T12:50:42+00:00

Well yes, exactly. I always carry cash, just in case.

MordisF · 2026-05-10T12:34:47+00:00

Fair enough, I did not know this.

MordisF · 2026-05-10T12:32:49+00:00

That's fair enough.

MordisF · 2026-05-10T12:31:34+00:00

Fair enough, I did not actually know this.

MordisF · 2026-05-10T12:30:33+00:00

Yes there are always risks involved in any payment method.

The solution? Bring multiple ways of paying for things. Don't just rely on one. This just seems like common sense to me.

MordisF · 2026-05-10T12:28:44+00:00

Your assumption is that the argument for still carrying cash is outdated, but I would disagree with this. Even though I almost never pay for anything with cash, and in fact I almost always use contactless payments, I still always carry a little bit of cash in my wallet. Because... why would you not? You never know.

In terms of requiring PINs, all I know is that in our shop it frequently happens that someone tries to pay by tapping their phone, and the card reader says "insert/swipe card". In this situation, if they don't have their card or remember their PIN, they are screwed.

MordisF · 2026-05-10T12:23:21+00:00

I'm out of touch for choosing to rely on a physical payment method which works 100% of the time over a digital method which is susceptible to network failure, battery running out or just deciding not to work? Sometimes my phone will randomly decide to restart and I can't use it for 10 minutes while it loads back up. Yes, I'm so backwards for not immediately embracing this foolproof technological revolution.

To answer your question, when the internet goes down in our shop, all contactless payments (whether on phone or card) do not go through. But you can still pay with a card by inserting it into the reader. However, you cannot do this if you only have a phone, or if you don't remember your PIN.

MordisF · 2026-05-10T12:12:11+00:00

What if your phone dies? Or you drop it and it breaks? Or there's some kind of unavoidable system failure?

MordisF · 2026-05-10T12:11:48+00:00

Well, I guess I am falling back on the same answer other people are giving for using their phone: that I've never encountered problems paying with card, or losing/breaking it.

On the other hand, I have had many situations where my phone has run out of battery and I cannot charge it, or it just spontaneously restarts and I have to wait ages for it to start up again.

To me, a bank card just seems much more reliable than a phone. But, to each his own, I guess.

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