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Things like how Siracusa is played up so much as a country governed by the mafia to the point it didn't even have a police force before I Portatori dei Velluti, or how Ursus subsituted faith in God with faith in the State, or how Victoria as whole is an atheist country are all examples of this. These things are not strictly realistic, but they do their job perfectly because they're intended to work on the metaphorical level - again, they're better seen as stages than as perfect equivalents to real countries.

Nuance is added later by the interactions between the different regions and the individual characters' relation to them and the way they try to change their country into something better, thus making them more complex, and Arknights does spend quite a lot of words in narrating their history so I don't think it's strictly wrong to get interested in how everything works and be absorbed by the worldbuilding (we do have a very good big ass lorebook I'm quite insane about), and everytime the game does develop them more it's always a nice added bonus, but I don't think of that as the primary function and find it a bit unfair to what the story is going for most of the time to focus too much on its lack of realism. Masses' Travels didn't really need a deep and complex dive on the workings on Lateran faith for its themes to work because it's not intended to act like a real life religion does. Laterano is a metaphor (for many things, not just catholicism) and as such its faith only needs to be explored as much as it's needed to build that metaphor (compared to how Kjerag is more directly exploring a specific in-universe religion and how it affects every level of a country and as such it gains more from going in-depth).

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i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

Happy Pride Year to all who celebrate!

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

A counterpoint to the more well-known meme, spawned from my group's codekisser saying the left side was missing more "heehoo magic"

So I’ll put my addition here:

NOTE: this is the original Beluga, NOT the Beluga XL with the cute face. The Concorde is not specifically Pepsi Concorde, but you can imagine it is if it helps.