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When people argue that food from Chinese and Mexican restaurants in the US are not 'real' representations of that culture's cuisine ignore the historical reality that these dishes were developed by diasporic communities striving to recreate the flavors of home with available resources. Such criticism frames adaptation as a loss of authenticity, rather than recognizing it as a sincere and evolving expression of culture by people separated from their homeland.

One thing that happens with smaller colonies is the stopping of cultural transformation, and its very weird, there is a city in south brazil with 1800 german architecture or something

Actually had this exact thing happening to me when I was in Brazil. Met a Brazilian guy, obvious native German speaker, but his accent was like nothing I've ever heard before. Turned out his family(and most of the town he was from) were from eastern Pomerania, a state that has not been German for a long while, with a dialect that no longer exists back home.

flashback to that time one of our then partners went to a worldbuilding convention, and texted us from there about how she and a bunch of other autistics found each other and a quiet room and then built a pillow fort in there, and she was texting us to ask for some name suggestions - so we thought for a moment and then wrote back "Snuggler's Cove™" and she said "everyone cheered" and we felt like we got a good mark in [something]

“reading nooks” are such a fucking scam like I’m sorry you can’t convince me that a shitty cramped corner with minimal cushioning and no back support is a desirable place to read. I know about comfy chairs.

something i like about disco elysium is that although it has an obvious viewpoint (if you think the game isnt explicitly communist you're just wrong i'm afraid) it doesn't make the proponents of the other ideologies big silly goofballs to make this point--joyce and kim are wrong, both morally and factually, but they are wrong eloquently and compellingly. even measurehead, in the final cut, gets a long and compelling (and wrong! and fascist! to be clear!) monologue where he makes the case for his ideology.

like it compares very favorably to a trend i see a lot in media that wants to Say Something About Fascism, which is to have a guy walk on and say 'im fasho the fascist!' and then he slips on a banana peel and goes 'bwagh!'. like--that's not a critique of fascism. you've made the fascist look bad, yeah, but not by attacking any substantial part of their politics or actions. anyone could fall over and go 'bwagh'. it's not even bad critique, it's just not critique, it's painting a groucho marx moustache and glasses onto a photo.

Solving a potential world-building issue: the reason every town in the realm isn't lit by continual light streetlamps is because some mischiveous wizard goes around dispelling them, and it's much easier to relight a regular light source than wait for a 3rd-level magic-user or 5th-level cleric to come by.

Direct action

my dear legend Algernon, just "Why?" is actually hilarious and i promise it will be used

stares into the abyss. the stylized graphics are actually my favorite part of loz games but whatever what do i know