Semjeza

What’s confusing?

There’s a guy living in wage slavery making poor life choices that he justifies to himself as he finds no joy elsewhere in life.

We sympathise with and laugh at the fool.

Fun fact: rabbits eat their own poo.

Yes, but had had mental health issues from the start.

I mean, Pictures for Sad Children was the title, and wasn’t the ghost a suicide?

Aye, I don’t consider myself especially sensitive to such things but a world where hunting and cannibalising babies is par for the course means there’s a lot of horrific moments of very horrific things.
It is a book/series that continues to bother me/come to the front of my thoughts often enough. Albiet sometimes in fun or non-traumatic ways too.

The PRC is helping kill Balochi and Burmese to keep it’s access to resources in those areas in the 21st century.
Which is far fewer than US imperialism across any comparible time scale.

Over the last 5,000 years: millions.

I enjoyed them, but felt at some point in Book 3 that I didn’t care hugely about most of the characters. But then things somewhat redeemed themselves, although I think something with the climax and Wormwood, but can’t quite recall what irked me specifically. Mostly fun romp, however. Sadly did mean I recognised a necklacing in a news headline while browsing International news, however.

Which makes it easy for me to compare and contrast with the not Sci-Fi but actual grim crapsack fantasy world of Red Wolf, Black Leopard (probably racistly since they’re both African inspired stories), where I stopped reading because of how grim and horrible the world and setting was, but the picked it up again a week later because it was so compelling and I wanted to find out what happened.
The horrors and atrocities get worse in Moon Witch, Spider King, and others more cerebral, which made it easier to keep reading.

But why quibble over the murkier “did he exist” ground when you could engage on “was he a miracle working guy who came back from the dead” and make them find more evidence for that!

Orwell wasn’t only criticising Stalin and the Soviets, he was also criticising the UK and the BBC.

No shade on long songs, but when a good 3 to 5 mins are quite dissonant and with bizzare snippets of lyrics it tends to get called out by people who haven’t listened to Maggot Brain all the way through before.

All fun and games until they realise that Wars of Armageddon has a 10 minute run time.

That said, no one has complained about PJ Harvey yet.

I usually download Eurovision, as the politics isn’t new… Just more apparent.

Maybe find a Eurovision community and ask about alternate viewing methods? I’m sure there are other ways to watch live, which if you’ve got a gathering is the way to do it.

And sadly still currently are in much of it.

I thought it was a common first name because of all the fooling around in the Cyberdog dressing rooms?

Until a bunch of unknowns and uncertainty are added because no-one knows the future.

And they almost always assume that their actions won’t lead to a decline in users, too.

I think you’ve focused on the extraordinary conditions of the protagonists, and ignored the features of the world for normal people.

Most people do not battle their pokémon regularly.

Pokémon are partners, not slaves - and the people who treat their pokémon as objects are consistently bad and harmful of society. And you’ll note that this is an area that villainous teams focus on.

There is a lack of poverty, healthcare is free, education is free, and there isn’t hunger or homelessness.

Society works to support each other without the profit motive. Except for those who push into competitive battling, and criminals.

The thousands of years old tradition from non-Abrahamic Persia, (in fact a proto-IE region with shared religious rites with Slavic, Celtic and Germanic Europe), predating not only the splits of Christianity into Eastern Orthodox and Other, but of Christianity actually existing, doesn’t show it was a Pagan tradition?

What else do you call non-Abrahamic religious rites?

(And apparently new evidence has since backed up Bede’s account of Pagan Oestra in the British Isles, too.)

There have been more discoveries since Grimm boys, and despite earlier scepticism scholars are now mostly accepting that there was an Eostre diety worshipped in Europe around the Spring Equinox.

New findings and archeo-lingustics have supported Grimms and Bede, so the existence (culturally) and worship of Oestra (or however your 1000BC Celto-Germanic language spelt it) is now generally accepted by scholars (and anyone who isn’t pushing an anti-intellectual, and often antisemitic, “war on Christianity” agenda).

Ah, to live in the non-capitalist, non-comoddified pokémon society where most things are done for social good rather than self gain.

You’re right, as the medieval period progressed a lot changed. Those 1000 years were very different across space as well as time.

The conversation has also not been distinct with serf vs. peasant, which is an important distinction in conversations like this.

Thank you for the extra details and pointing out there Lords did still work to retrieve serfs.