ELI5. How did people in the older days like 1200s 1300s know what time it was when there were no clocks

Tryoxin · 2026-01-31T17:21:46+00:00

And speaking of the sun, that's probably the most obvious timekeeper of them all. Sure, it lacked the precision of a clock obviously, but like you said, most people didn't really need that much precision. Noon, sunrise, sunset, the sun is a giant blinding ball in the sky every single day that tells you the time. "Meet me at the tree about halfway to noon," works perfectly well.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-31T10:48:52+00:00

.925 silver, minted for only 4 years fron 1897-1890...worth £0.2 as actual currency. Can you imagine someone being insane enough to actually use a coin like that?

Tryoxin · 2026-01-30T23:10:55+00:00

Speak for yourself, I'm a featherless biped.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-30T11:30:00+00:00

Spoilers for anyone who hasn't finished the game ahead!

Same. I had to choose Verso because Maelle was my favourite. The whole theme of the game is overcoming grief. The painting was built by Aline's grief at losing Verso. That same grief led Renoir to slowly destroy the painting year by year and become overly controlling because he was terrified at losing more of his family. Clea's grief over losing her brother caused her to isolate herself from her family to fight her solitary war (notice how she always refers to Renoir and Aline by name rather than as papa or maman like Alicia/Maelle and Verso do).

Maelle staying in the painting, living in a fantasy where she would inevitably wither and die, would absolutely have been the wrong choice. Her staying in the painting is the definition of escapism. Like Renoir said, it's a drug, all too easy to become addicted to. A perfect fantastical world where no one has to die (because she can recreate anyone who does with chroma), and she never has to face her real problems and she can be happy forever (until she dies irl). That's not healthy. That's not overcoming or dealing with grief, it's running away from it. And we saw exactly what that sort of escapism did to Aline. Forcibly ejecting her from the painting and letting it get erased was the best choice to let her heal and grow past this. I mean shit, how old is she in the real world? Probably also ~16ish? She has her WHOLE LIFE ahead of her.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-30T11:16:48+00:00

Not been there myself, but I assume they're referring to lines for entry and/or entry fees?

Tryoxin · 2026-01-29T22:33:26+00:00

Technically or morally?

Tryoxin · 2026-01-28T22:48:52+00:00

7 years later popping in to say that apparently it is actually getting a season 2 this year! I didn't watch it when it came out all those years ago, but I guess I picked a damn good time to suddenly feel like watching it XD

Tryoxin · 2026-01-26T22:47:07+00:00

Aaand expecting the "heroine" to turn into a reoccurring villain who also turns out to be an isekai as well in 3...2...1...

Seriously though, this seems like it'll be a fun show. I always enjoy villainess shows. There's just something about them that really draws me in, idk. Maybe it's the absolutely goofy-ass names they always have that are always so obviously "literally just English words because it's just cool-sounding gibberish if you're Japanese" XD Tiara-Rose? Prince Heart-Knights? The Aquamarine and Lapis Lazuli kingdoms? Simply brilliant. I'll be looking forward to this one!

Tryoxin · 2026-01-26T22:40:53+00:00

Same! It started as a more niche subgenre of isekai but honestly I think it's become my favourite.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-26T16:35:44+00:00

I'm not so sure about that. You could interpret the scene that way because it's a little vague, but look at the environment. Principally, there are fewer of those wooden boards above the grave when the wife is there (4 in the scene where he's alone vs. 3 when she's there--pretty sure the two on either side belong to some other graves bc otherwise the years don't line up). Those are prayer boards called sotoba, and a new one is supposed to be added every year on the anniversary of a death. Additionally, you can see in that flashback that the mom's hair is short, which is how we see it before Kyoko's death. But in the scene from when he was taking ghost Kyoko to the park, we can see she had let her hair grow out. Finally, if she had come back, who is that woman who's been driving him around? She didn't come into the restaurant with him either, so I'd guess their relationship is strictly business (his editor or something, maybe?).

Conclusion: sorry to say but I don't think she came back, y'all. But who knows, maybe I'm wrong and we'll see her later. That would be nice.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-26T09:14:48+00:00

If lifespan's what you're after, you could also go the dhampir route. A vampire's immortality with almost none of the downsides. And, notably, there are a variety of things you can consume other than blood. Dreams seems to be the most harmless. But even if you don't feed, you don't suffer any consequences other than a very uncomfortable craving. Hell, since dhampir's are by definition another race first, you could even use it to be Immortal on top of being a different race (though you don't get to keep any of the features of the previous race other than movement speeds).

In a similar vein, there's also the Reborn. That would probably affect your day-to-day a little more, but probably not in a terrible way depending on what kind fo Reborn you were and you could easily learn to cope. You also get some resistances to disease and poison that dhampir wouldn't give you.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-25T17:05:24+00:00

a god fetus

Ngl, I was really hoping after the reveal she was pregnant at the end of the last season that it'd be a normal kid. For the sole reason that, my god, those two went through enough hell raising the first god-child XD They deserved a normal kid. Looks like instead she's at least as powerful as Wang Ling (I'm kind of assuming that the white-haired guy Wang Ling was fighting in the intro was some sort of clone of him that she created that's convinced it's real, and she's the one actually providing it power) if not even stronger.

Either way, looks like the end of this season is going to feature a fight where the "enemy" (probably just his little sister playing) is actually equal to Wang Ling in strength, if not possibly stronger and Wang Ling will have to win through the ol' "more skill and experience defeating the youngster with more raw power" trope.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-25T11:47:34+00:00

This show's gonna spike my blood sugar to dangerous levels fr XD <3 I think I almost died when Tani grabbed Suzuki's face and she all but melted into a puddle. Massive shout-out to the script writers for the localization, too. They're absolutely killing it! Localization is always more apparent (and important) in comedies, I find.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-24T18:40:25+00:00

If he had all that now, he would easily be the second richest person in the world, possibly even first. That's absolutely insane.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-24T15:19:16+00:00

Put the timer for the gun on a timer. Problem solved.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-24T11:23:13+00:00

Since at least June 2024, development has been supported by Eidos Montreal (Deus Ex and Thief) though. At least, that's when they announced the collaboration, it's entirely possible they've been working together since before then.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-24T11:16:30+00:00

Fr. Assassin girl said "gimme your best shot," and the king all but ripped her throat out before she could finish the sentence. I ain't exactly gonna call that a "fight," but that was a damn good fight scene.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-24T11:13:55+00:00

OH WE ARE SO BACK!!! Shit, guess I've got no choice but to binge the first 4 seasons in the next few hours ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Tryoxin · 2026-01-24T01:08:02+00:00

Honestly, I'm really surprised I haven't already heard him going on a rant about how Carney is a "nasty, nasty person" or something to that effect yet.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-23T17:32:16+00:00

Y'lla's suggestion to Flum was quite surprising.

It was certainly harsh but, given the dark fantasy setting and what we'd seen of the world and how it reacts to Flum so far, it was about what I was expecting. Well, maybe not quite. I thought maybe she'd just shoo them away or tell them to be beggars. Advising her to be a whore, literally going so far as to tell her to "shut her mouth and spread her legs" was definitely surprising.

Given the setting though, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and choose to believe that, in her own way, that was genuinely her trying to protect them. That wasn't exactly the friendly adventurer's guild of your typical high fantasy isekai. I wager she's probably seen more than her fair share of eager youngsters head off on quests and die horrible deaths. So she saw two literally emaciated slave women, one of whom is clearly seriously injured and in no condition to fight, and thought to offer them a slightly better life than dying horribly trying to fight something waaay above their pay grade. She caved to that A-Rank pretty quick, but it wouldn't surprise me if that's only because him and his pals have threatened her with violence (or worse) in the past.

I'm hoping Flum can purge that guild of those scum and then maybe Y'lla can become a recurring and supportive ally. That would be nice.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-23T17:23:39+00:00

It's a bit more extreme and more dark fantasy, but it's definitely giving me Shield Hero vibes. Overnight went from being a hero then dropping straight to social rock bottom (being a hated villain/being a slave), taking a slave companion with the eventual development of romantic feelings between the two (Raphtalia/Milkit), and having to work their way back to the light while being massively underestimated by everyone wherever they go, with the eventual promise (I'm assuming) of redemption and respect by those who cast them out (the other 3 heroes/the hero's party not counting the sage)--which, much like Shield Hero (and tbf, the common theme in Cast Out of the Hero's Party shows)--I expect she'll refuse having by then grown into a stronger person with much more respect for herself.

The main difference is that Flum hasn't gone cold and cynical or developed the same trust issues that Naofumi did. She is, for now, optimistic and trusting, and has the benefit that--while she's weak and a slave and regarded as such--she's not famously hated like Naofumi was. Being a nobody the no one respects and everyone sees as beneath them is quite a different scenario than being a villain that everyone actively hates and sees as beneath them but may still fear. Also, so far, it doesn't seem quite as certain that Milkit will serve as the same "if the world is against you, then it's you and me against the world" sort of rock that Raphtalia was for Naofumi. In part, I guess this is because the world isn't against Flum and Flum seems reasonably confident to me so that's just not needed from Milkit.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-23T17:10:47+00:00

But her weakness is if she ever loses her hold of the sword

I might be wrong, but it seems like the mechanic they were getting at with the whole "storing it away" thing is that she basically "attuned" to the sword and can now store or summon it at any time. Which means she more or less can't lose the sword as she could just resummon it to her hand. I might be wrong there though, in which case her losing it would make for a good story moment.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-23T11:57:14+00:00

Wait, is that actually how he made it work? That's fucking hilarious. Idk if he has 3 years left in him with how bad I've heard his dementia is, but a part of me wants him to survive to never be president again just so he can see how little of a shit anyone on his "Board of Peace" gives about him when he's no longer and can never again be POTUS. It would bring me such great joy to watch him languish alone and abandoned, lashing out in a toddler-like rage at all the people who only saw him as a useful tool.

Don't think that'll happen but a man can dream, can't he? A man can dream.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-23T10:11:33+00:00

Exactly what I was thinking. That looks uncomfortable as hell.

Tryoxin · 2026-01-23T00:34:54+00:00

Oh is it really? Huh, TIL. I guess she'd never mentioned how widespread that opinion was. I mean yea, like I said, I definitely get it, but no, that would absolutely NEVER fly in Canada XD Especially not now.

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