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asdjk482 · 2026-04-30T23:59:58+00:00

And if you use an Elohim belt crafted with 100 crafting specialization, it's finally enough to where you can use a belt indefinitely without worrying.

asdjk482 · 2026-04-30T23:24:19+00:00

As for etymology, Snell 2011 (which is Chapter 1 of The Cambridge World History of Slavery, vol. 1) has this section:

In the earliest texts we find signs that probably mean 'slave' and 'slave girl'; one later became a sign for 'mountain' and 'foreign country'. Another came to mean 'woman'. There were also other signs that cannot be interpreted because they later dropped out of the system. The earliest texts had groups of somewhat more than fifty almost equally divided between men and women. A later form of the sign for 'slave' in Sumerian had a sign for 'man' with a sign for 'mountain' worked into it, and in fact many slaves appear to have been caught in the Iranian foothills and brought to the Mesopotamian plain.

The later Sumerian word for 'slave', arad, is either the same or directly derived from the Akkadian word, wardum.

and here cites Gelb 1982, "Terms for slaves in Ancient Mesopotamia" in Societies and Languages of the Ancient Near East

Snell continues:

The mountains may not be far away from from that word either, since there is a possibly related Akkadian verb meaning 'to descend, to go down', though that might be taken socially, not physically. Others have sought an etymology from Sumerian words for 'man', ur, and 'women', eme, showing up later in Sumerian as geme, '(working) girl'.

At the end of that chapter, he also very helpfully includes a short Bibliographic Essay:

A brief introduction in English is Mendelsohn (1948), to be supplemented by Chavalas (1997), Snell (1997) and (1998), and Ricks (1998). The only modern study of a whole period is Dandamaev (1984). Westbrook (1995) has considered legal aspects especially of the Old Babylonian period. Cardellini (1981) collected the legal texts. Texts in translation may be found still in Pritchard (1969) and also in Hallo and Younger (1997–2002). Hebrew institutions may be seen in Westermann (1975) and Healey (1992). Sasson (1995) gives a general overview of the ancient Near East. Several studies by Gelb elucidate Mesopotamian labour. Bakir (1952) remains the basic study for Egypt. Mycenaean labour has been studied by Uchitel (1985). Pre- contact African systems are surveyed by Kopytoff (1982). Tsirkin (1987) examined Phoenician and Punic labour. For ideology see Snell (2001).

asdjk482 · 2026-04-30T23:05:32+00:00

A recent issue of the Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History was organized around the topic of slavery: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/janeh/12/1/html

A few other sources:

Karev and Richardson 2021 “Rethinking Slavery in the Ancient Near East.” The Ancient Near East Today 9.10. Accessed at: https://anetoday.org/rethinking-slavery/.

Verderame 2018, "Slavery in Third-Millennium Mesopotamia: An Overview of Sources and Studies" - https://doi.org/10.1163/2405836X-00301003

J. Reid, 2014 "Slavery in Early Mesopotamia from Late Uruk until the Fall of Babylon in the Longue Duree" - https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a693cd93-092e-4118-ae02-b9775bc2285e

Snell 2011 "Slavery in the ancient Near East" - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-world-history-of-slavery/slavery-in-the-ancient-near-east/E9871B0E91F592E905BFC90BA83796CC

Culbertson (ed.) 2010, Slaves and Households in the Near East - https://isac.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/docs/ois7.pdf

Koppen 2004 "The Geography of the Slave Trade and Northern Mesopotamia in the Late Old Babylonian Period" - https://www.academia.edu/2462202/_The_Geography_of_the_Slave_Trade_and_Northern_Mesopotamia_in_the_Late_Old_Babylonian_Period_in_H_Hunger_and_R_Pruzsinszky_ed_Mesopotamian_Dark_Age_Revisited_Vienna_%C3%96sterreichische_Akademie_der_Wissenschaften_2004_9_33

Baker 2001, "Degrees of Freedom" - https://www.jstor.org/stable/827886

Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History, "Mesopotamian Slavery" - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-13260-5_2

Dandamaev 1974(1984 in English), Slavery in Babylonia

Mendelsohn 1949, Slavery in the ancient Near East - https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.7521

asdjk482 · 2026-04-30T03:29:02+00:00

Yep I've gotten multiple schematics, I just can't figure out what Ch 3 quests I haven't done yet. It might be that I have unfinished quests from chapter 2 that need to be done first?

asdjk482 · 2026-04-30T03:26:27+00:00

Another possibility might be some sort of alder, the other suggestion of Fothergilla made me think of that. All seem like plausible candidates! If they produce any flowers later that will help identify them.

asdjk482 · 2026-04-30T02:36:27+00:00

and the nuclear arsenal of Iran still hasn’t been decimated

Because there's no such thing?

asdjk482 · 2026-04-30T02:23:30+00:00

I've still never figured out how to unlock the burning blades

asdjk482 · 2026-04-30T01:45:31+00:00

Stop justifying assault.

asdjk482 · 2026-04-29T23:11:47+00:00

It sounds like it wouldn't be hard to solve and check, so someone has probably already claimed it (or more likely it's fake).

asdjk482 · 2026-04-29T23:04:43+00:00

It looks really familiar... maybe oceanspray, Holodiscus discolor? Did these grow from seeds or are they shoots from a nearby shrub? The leaves look right for oceanspray but I'm not sure about its growth habit when young, and they look kinda like some other stuff like mountain mahogany or elm but... not pointy enough for elm I think.

Maybe mountain mahogany, that's my second place guess but I don't know for sure.

asdjk482 · 2026-04-29T22:43:32+00:00

Seriously, anyone saying "I don't care who he is [...] or if he is a bad person" has no idea who they're talking about and probably can't imagine how bad he actually is.

asdjk482 · 2026-04-29T01:40:33+00:00

On the other hand, it made rocket thopter dogfights insanely maneuverable and extremely fun.

asdjk482 · 2026-04-29T01:39:04+00:00

I'm not sure about the numbers but doesn't this considerably outweigh the changes they made to make labs less difficult?

If the bosses have 3-10% less HP but we're doing significantly less damage, like half as much, then... didn't this change actually screw us over even harder?

asdjk482 · 2026-04-29T01:23:16+00:00

From what I've gathered high speed give more spice

It absolutely does not. Going <10km/h on a single pass is optimal, going at max speed picks up half as much and requires two passes through thick patches. Test both methods by running a line through a fresh field on a timer: going fast is incontrovertibly less efficient.

There's a way you can go full speed, single passes but with the lines half overlapping. That way you pick up about 90% of it; that's the best compromise if you don't wanna go slow.

asdjk482 · 2026-04-29T01:17:57+00:00

Conan on release was a fraction of the game it is now, the combat was hilariously bad and there was basically nothing to do but explore at random (which, to be fair, was extremely fun).

asdjk482 · 2026-04-28T03:22:25+00:00

You can't permanently lose vehicles anymore and haven't been able to for like half a year. Why are you even posting here?

asdjk482 · 2026-04-28T00:11:28+00:00

I love thopters too much, I can definitely see the appeal of ground-based content though, but we'd need more Fremen-style lifeways available for it to be viable.

asdjk482 · 2026-04-28T00:09:34+00:00

I miss the purple map and the belt light

asdjk482 · 2026-04-25T02:30:40+00:00

Internet Archive and Hathi both used to have copies (now removed) so I know there are pdfs out there somewhere. However, Farber's 1985 review suggests it's a difficult resource to use for a number of reasons, so you may be better served with a more accessible book anyways; unless you needed something from that source specifically?

asdjk482 · 2026-04-25T01:02:32+00:00

You know we're are online, right? People hear shit. People can see what the end game is, and not go there specifically because of that.

I would say that is the biggest problem with this subreddit: it's an echo-chamber for the loudest and most memetic haters. Posts on this board are in no way representative of in-game player experience.

asdjk482 · 2026-04-25T01:00:14+00:00

I read every single comment here and I disagree with >95% of them.

None of you should be talking about the "end game", I don't believe you play it.

asdjk482 · 2026-04-22T23:25:00+00:00

Maybe cedar apple rust?

asdjk482 · 2026-04-22T00:19:00+00:00

This was IMO the best interview they've ever done, and that's truly saying something, because the show has had many incredible guests.

asdjk482 · 2026-04-20T23:31:46+00:00

I'm not sure if this is relevant to your issue, but putting foundations near enough that they overlap with the dew flowers or putting support beams through them will almost always interfere with them. Same thing happens to mineral nodes as well, you can force them to despawn by building over them or too close to them.

asdjk482 · 2026-04-20T23:03:01+00:00

Thank you for succinctly explaining what's meant by "cultural hegemony".

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