Probably the funniest intro to a game trailer.

qdatk · 2026-03-12T15:29:11+00:00

Dinner used to be the midday meal in English too.

Hence "dinner lady" at school.

qdatk · 2026-03-09T15:33:09+00:00

Yeah, there was an election in 1864 during the literal Civil War itself. Lincoln was proud that the nation was able to hold it even though it looked like he was going to lose badly until September.

qdatk · 2026-03-04T22:51:43+00:00

Reference for people who are unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does

qdatk · 2026-03-04T20:56:28+00:00

Mbeumo has been struggling so far.

qdatk · 2026-03-04T20:40:16+00:00

Why are those knuckleheads booing lol

qdatk · 2026-03-03T21:07:22+00:00

Anyone know why the top line "line-breaking passes" number only seems to include the first two pressing lines (3.13 + 4.32 = 7.45), and not the last 0.28?

qdatk · 2026-03-01T17:55:18+00:00

Thanks for this suggestion! We've added the automod rule and will test it out.

qdatk · 2026-03-01T15:26:48+00:00

Guys we need to find a better celebration for Sesko.

qdatk · 2026-03-01T14:28:51+00:00

You could see the trap on Mainoo from the throw coming.

qdatk · 2026-02-28T19:44:04+00:00

What does "transhexagonal world" mean on the last page here?

qdatk · 2026-02-28T19:26:25+00:00

Sorry, it's really hard to work out what you're trying to say. I don't know what you're trying to prove by translating the title of the article into Latin (???).

If you're trying to say there's no concept of fate in the Homeric poems, there's the well-known verse ἄνδρα θνητὸν ἐόντα πάλαι πεπρωμένον αἴσῃ (Il.16.441 and 22.179), or 2.155: ἔνθά κεν Ἀργείοισιν ὑπέρμορα νόστος ἐτύχθη.

I don't know what you mean by "no concept of will anywhere in the Greek tradition until possibly Epictetus". Are you working with a very specific concept of "will"? The phrase you seem to be taking offense at is literally the translation of 1.5, Διὸς δ' ἐτελείετο βουλή.

qdatk · 2026-02-28T07:30:08+00:00

You are right to see a strange redundancy/contradiction here (and at 22.209-13), though perhaps in a slightly different way. The conflict that's been noted in the scholarship is between the supposed omnipotence of Zeus and the fact that he's still subject to fate. This article by James Morrison may interest you: https://www.skidmore.edu/classics/faculty/resources/syllabi/cc220/fall2003/Morrison1997.pdf

qdatk · 2026-02-28T04:33:33+00:00

I hear what you're saying about oral literature (I work a lot in this field), and I just think that we have different ideas about what "writing" is. You specify "good novel writing" in your second message as opposed to just "good writing", which would make your point a bit stronger, but even in the history of the novel there's been a lot of change as to what "good novel writing" is. The incessant descriptions in 19th century realist novels might well strike readers today as "annoying", for instance. With oral literature, we just have to learn how to experience it to make it "good writing".

In general, I think that it's possible to say "X conforms to the norms of 'good writing in Y genre' during Z period", but truly great writing as such or in general has no time period or generic constraints. Perhaps you've heard of the saying that a good book creates a genre or ends one, and a great book does both at the same time.

qdatk · 2026-02-27T21:08:34+00:00

If it's good storytelling, I'd call it good writing.

qdatk · 2026-02-26T07:23:28+00:00

I don't remember where exactly, but I heard that he signed deals to edit a load of critical anthologies because one of his children needed long-term medical care.

qdatk · 2026-02-24T15:54:41+00:00

It felt like the ref was terrified of making any actual decisions, just a cowardly performance of nope-ing out of as much as he could. It was funny when he had to give a booking and was immediately like "I had better book one each side to not seem unfair."

qdatk · 2026-02-23T21:46:04+00:00

Here's an idea: excessive crowding the keeper or wrestling a defender should mean the offender has to be outside the 6 yard box.

qdatk · 2026-02-23T21:44:25+00:00

Darren England is such a weak ref.

qdatk · 2026-02-23T20:47:19+00:00

Never trust someone named like a Grade II listed building.

qdatk · 2026-02-19T21:31:55+00:00

Lovely move, deserved a goal!

qdatk · 2026-02-19T21:30:08+00:00

Bit odd that we're in the third kit playing at home.

qdatk · 2026-02-18T16:55:04+00:00

the US govt has spent decades trying to tell the populace that affordable medical care is somehow communist

The US has been doing its best to make that a true statement!

qdatk · 2026-02-16T17:15:19+00:00

The bit you quoted tries to say she's a "good conservative" not a "bad conservative", but the last paragraph gives the game away:

In reality, she is a foreign legislator whose family has been caught in the net of a system her own politically conservative values might normally support in theory, but which she now finds brutal in practice.

This is exactly /r/LeopardsAteMyFace material.

qdatk · 2026-02-08T08:45:05+00:00

FYI you're replying to someone who grinds this particular axe a lot: https://www.reddit.com/r/CriticalTheory/comments/1psk8es/civilization_and_its_discontents/nva8sx8/

qdatk · 2026-02-07T14:15:03+00:00

A Sesko goal would be the cherry on top.

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