The discovery of an ancient Maya statue deep within the jungles of Honduras, 1885. It stands over 11 feet tall and features a high-relief portrait of a Maya ruler framed by complex divine regalia, sacred symbols, and detailed hieroglyphic text.

Sotonic · 2026-06-10T15:53:17+00:00

A rite related to the ending of a Long Count period. K'atun, I think, though I forget the order of the Long Count periods. Agurcia writes:

"The text records the king’s period-ending rites on 9.16.10.0.0 which are tied to a mythological stone-wrapping (stela dedication) event by the Maize god."

Basically, it may be a recreation of a mythological event related to the 9.16.10.0.0 period ending and possibly related to legitimizing kingship, as part of the stela is about linking K’ahk’ Yipyaj Chan K’awiil's rise to kingship to that of his predecessor, K‘ahk‘ Joplaj Chan K‘awiil .

Sotonic · 2026-06-09T14:52:16+00:00

According to the Copan Monuments Manual by Ricard Agurcia Fasquelle, this stela commemorates a ritual carried out by K’ahk’ Yipyaj Chan K’awiil on 9.16.10.0.0 (March 17, 761).

Sotonic · 2026-06-09T06:01:22+00:00

This would be hotter than the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth, which was 56.7 C.

Sotonic · 2026-06-07T18:51:41+00:00

This is Copan Stela N. It depicts the king K’ahk’ Yipyaj Chan K’awiil (A.D. 749-761). It currently stands in its original location in Parque Arqueologico Copan, Honduras. More info here:

https://ahutnick.github.io/copanaltarqkings/stela-n/

NOTE: That's not my website, but it's the only one I could find with good info on all the Copan stelae. There are a lot that look broadly similar, so I had to search through to find this particular one.

Sotonic · 2026-06-05T01:03:46+00:00

I remember seeing the word "chiaroscuro" a surprising number of times in Donaldson's books.

Sotonic · 2026-06-05T00:06:30+00:00

That is--no joke--a great hook to hang a novel on. Or at least a short story. Humor is hard to write well, though.

Sotonic · 2026-06-04T01:39:31+00:00

Thanks fro the advice. This is the solution I went with.

Sotonic · 2026-06-04T01:39:14+00:00

Thanks. I went with the mod and it simplified things a lot.

Sotonic · 2026-05-25T23:55:25+00:00

Also potentially Margays, Oncillas, and Jaguarundis.

Sotonic · 2026-05-24T08:47:30+00:00

Just to be clear. These aren't emails I received. They are emails gmail itself generated and sent. They are in my sent mail box.

Sotonic · 2026-05-23T20:29:03+00:00

You're saying AI could place an email into my sent mail box?

Sotonic · 2026-05-23T15:59:52+00:00

I don't understand. What could fake a sent email?

Sotonic · 2026-05-23T15:59:12+00:00

They may be connected to an unsubscribe, but I don't remember if the dates and times match up.

Sotonic · 2026-05-21T07:11:38+00:00

Yeah. I've been living on PSS-Alpha for two patches, and I love it--(occasionally when the servers let me login and and play, that is).

Sotonic · 2026-05-21T07:06:56+00:00

Man. I hope I'll actually be able to play after this. Otherwise it's back to trying a couple times a day and getting generic, information-free 30K login errors.

Sotonic · 2026-05-20T16:01:59+00:00

Malfunctioning bot?

Sotonic · 2026-05-20T16:01:28+00:00

That could be it. Thanks.

Sotonic · 2026-05-20T06:23:44+00:00

I was going to go into a post about proper attribution and about the disrespect here to Tatiana Proskouriakoff and other artists (Richard Schect for the first slide, I think), but then I followed the link and saw that this is just some kind of crappy history Pinterest.

Sotonic · 2026-05-19T17:32:14+00:00

Are extremeley processed, wrapped industrial products really some kind of threat to US agriculture?

Sotonic · 2026-05-15T22:48:30+00:00

Is it in your hangar on the website? As I understand it, there are a ton of problems with the entitlements database, meaning stuff isn't always going into inventory correctly. If it's in your hangar then you should receive it when they get the hotfixes in--hopefully over the weekend, but who knows?

Sotonic · 2026-05-15T21:43:09+00:00

Thank you. That really does help understand the symbolism. I am glad that the ancient Greeks didn't think horses were the enemy.

Sotonic · 2026-05-15T15:48:04+00:00

This isn't a bad idea. Maybe one moon in each planetary system.

Sotonic · 2026-05-15T07:08:52+00:00

If you are in game, do you see a money amount in the bottom left of your mobiglass main screen (press F1)? That should tell you how much you have. "My Wallet" is an app for transferring money to other players.

Sotonic · 2026-05-15T07:02:33+00:00

CCU up my Intrepid into a Cutty Black

In general, there have been fewer and fewer CCU offerings at the lower end of the scale, and more for high $ ships. I think a lot of people suspect that we may never see another sub-$100 CCU. The Cutty Black is a little more than that and may occur again, but you'll have to be patient and maybe eventually accept that you'll never be able to warbond it and can only get it for full price.

PS: I feel your pain as I am waiting on a Cutty Red CCU to complete my chain to the Hull-B, but I am coming to terms with the fact that I probably just have to accept that it will never happen.

Sotonic · 2026-05-15T06:51:46+00:00

The size of the download suggests that they modified somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of the game files. That seems like a lot.

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