#far cry rise of the revolution

[lulu2992]

It’s out!

#link to the tweet with the video and the actual link #far cry 6 #far cry rise of the revolution #giancarlo esposito #antón castillo #anton castillo #guess I need an audible account now

[jacobmybeloved]

When I say this audio book has made me wanna do a brand new playthrough on far cry 6 I mean-

Knowing what I know now, completely changes how I see some of the characters or at least adds more nuances to them that I think we're missing from the core game. Or at least builds upon what was already there and I'm literally crying cause goddamn it I wanna hug Anton, Diego and Clara so badly 😭😭😭

#far cry 6 #far cry #rise of the revolution

[datcloudboi]

List of Video Games Turning 10 Years Old in 2024

Alien: Isolation

Assassin's Creed: Rogue (the one where you play as an Assassin turned Templar.)

Assassin's Creed: Unity (the one set during the French Revolution.)

Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky

Azure Striker Gunvolt

The Banner Saga

Bayonetta 2

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea (the DLC where you go back to Rapture)

A Bird Story (a sort of spin-off of "To the Moon")

BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! (is this a sequel to 1 or a prequel to 1? I forgor)

Bravely Default (in North America)

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (the one with K*vin Sp*cey)

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (to date, the last new Castlevania game to release)

Child of Light

The Crew (going offline at the end of March)

D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die (a wonderfully strange game from the guy that made Deadly Premonition)

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (in North America)

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (in North America)

Dark Souls II

Deception IV: Blood Ties

Demon Gaze

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls

Disney Infinity 2.0

Divinity: Original Sin (from the team that would go on to make Baldur's Gate 3)

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

Dragon Age: Inquisition (the winner of GOTY at the very first TGAs)

Drakengard 3

Earth Defense Force 2025 (EDF! EDF! EDF!)

The Evil Within (from the creative director of Resident Evil)

Fable Anniversary

Fairy Fencer F

Far Cry 4

Freedom Planet

Guilty Gear Xrd Sign

Hyrule Warriors

Inazuma Eleven (in North America. And digital only.)

Infamous: Second Son (as well as its expansion, First Light)

Kirby: Triple Deluxe

The Last of Us Remastered (just one year after the original version came out...)

The Legend of Korra (the game from PlatinumGames that you can't buy anymore)

Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham

Lego The Hobbit

The Lego Movie Videogame

Lethal League (from the team that would go on to make Bomb Rush Cyberfunk)

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (the third and final chapter of the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy)

Lisa: The Painful (yes, really)

LittleBigPlanet 3

Lords of the Fallen (not to be confused with Lords of the Fallen, which came out in 2023)

Mario Golf: World Tour

Mario Kart 8 (the original version)

Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes (the prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which came out 18 months later)

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

Might & Magic X: Legacy

Murdered: Soul Suspect (it's like Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, but not as good)

Natural Doctrine

Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty! (a from the ground up remake of the first Oddworld game from 1997)

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures 2 (yes, it got a sequel. I don't know how or why.)

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

Pokemon Omega Ruby & Pokemon Alpha Sapphire

Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (the last time that Professor Layton himself was the protagonist. At least, until the New World of Steam comes out)

Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Pushmo World

Risen 3: Titan Lords

Sacred 3

Samurai Warriors 4

Shadowrun: Dragonfall

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (the 3rd one)

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

Shovel Knight (yes, really)

Skylanders: Trap Team (the 4th one)

Sniper Elite III

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal

South Park: The Stick of Truth

Steins;Gate (in North America)

Strider (the one from Double Helix)

Sunset Overdrive

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS (or Smash 4 for short)

Tales of Xillia 2

Tales of Hearts R

The Talos Principle

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call

Thief (the reboot)

This War of Mine

Toukiden: The Age of Demons

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (this game merged the storyline of the War for/Fall of Cybertron games with the storyline of the Michael Bay movies. I’m not joking)

Transistor

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

The Walking Dead: Season Two

Wasteland 2

Watch Dogs

The Witch and the Hundred Knight

The Wolf Among Us (sequel this year!)

Wolfenstein: The New Order

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z

Yoshi's New Island

#alien #assassins creed #atelier series #bayonetta #the binding of isaac #bioshock #blazblue #borderlands #bravely default #call of duty #castlevania #danganronpa #dark souls #diablo #divinity #donkey kong #dragon age #drakengard #the evil within #fable #far cry 4 #freedom planet #guilty gear #inazuma eleven #kirby series #the last of us #legend of korra #final fantasy 13 #lisa the painful #mario kart

[praeteritus-memories]

𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐄 .

Share at least 5 songs that you associate with or remind you of your muse!

Gojo-

Shame On Me by Avicii

I'm baptized and born again You can go to hell with your fucked-up friends Crazy little bitch in the first degree Shame on you for lovin' me Yeah, woah

Not Over You by Bill Kaulitz

I can't escape, I can't erase you, you I can't forget, it's not the same without you, you You, I'm not over you, you, you You, I'm not over you, you, you I can't escape, I can't erase you, you I can't forget, it's not the same without you, you You, I'm not over you, you, you You, I'm not over you, you, you

Lost Time Memory by Jin (Will Stetson cover)

Boy ,18, continued waiting For her return he kept on living The ones he lost still scorch his mind Their silhouettes so warm yet blurring Towards the sun, the school behind me Today as well you smile kindly “Let’s play once more” You said while wavering just out of reach

CRAZY by Umetora-P ft VIVID BAD SQUAD and Luka Megurine

Say hello as the sun rises On your sky, that pitch black sky I'll rip it apart with my bare hands You see, in that place There's the trick of an audible heartbeat What roars out is my own tune My own tune - not someone else's

Children Record by Jin Ft VIVID BAD SQUAD and Len Kagamine

Boys and girls, face forward! Hope can be found even in this overpowering heat “Bring it back!” “Bring it back!” The crescent moon is burning red Come on, write the code with zeroes and let’s go to a world beyond imagination To the overwrought battlefront of fantasy

Ei-

OBEY by Crusher-P Ft Lady Parsec

There will be no revolution. I clearly have no time for that, Nor your petty plans to over throw me, You are but a minor nuisance. I clearly have no time for that, I will not fall to your anarchy.

Senbonzakura by Kurousa-P (Lizz Robinett cover)

Darkness has just engulfed the universe we know The lament that you sing can't reach ears anymore We are still far away from reaching peaks of hope Go ahead, keep shooting, use the flashing bolt!

Bad Apple by Masayoshi Minoshima (Remix of a Touhou boss song)

Maybe it's a dream, maybe nothing else is real But it wouldn't mean a thing if I told you how I feel So I'm tired of all the pain, all the misery inside And I wish that I could live feeling nothing but the night

YoiYoiKon by REOL

Ahh, why am I so sad Selfishness is the norm Everyone holds their own ideals, statues of imagination There was never any answer that could satisfy them all

My War by Shinsei Kamattechan

The only memory left is trauma Imaginary friend’s kind words The evening train was shaking I purified the imperfect flowers The pain in my heart getting higher My comedy show at its peak The frogs were crying on our way home This is my last war

Tagged by: @frostbounddevotion <3

Tagging: @solariasen , @origami-assassin , @crimsonfacets (Lilith!!!) , @sncwlight , @sacredpit , @alm1ghtysea (Barbie!) and @tricksheart

[beardedmrbean]

The surge of open hatred of Jews on college campuses is unprecedented in modern American life. We saw it outside universities in the 1930s, when it was openly preached by Detroit’s Father Coughlin and published by Henry Ford. We saw it from the KKK during the civil rights revolution of the 1950s and 1960s. The Klan targeted Jews, as a marginal group, as allies of black equality, and as vehicles to build solidarity in their target audience: poor, angry, Christian whites.

At universities we saw a different kind of prejudice. That bigotry was exemplified by quiet restrictions on Jewish students and faculty, referred to as “Gentleman’s Agreements”. Those agreements excluded Jews from fraternities and sororities at most schools. Harvard began the practise and stated their goal openly, while others followed in secret. This practice changed only when it was prohibited by civil rights laws.

These practices were obviously prejudiced, but they were a far cry from the open hatred, intimidation, and speech suppression we now see on campus. Some of that is an old mask stripped away, some is an increase in underlying hatred, and some is a collapse of any restraints on its public expression. The old mask was emblazoned with the coda, “We don’t hate Jews. We don’t hate Israel. We just oppose Israeli policies and support Palestinian rights.”

Well, if recent demonstrations are any guide, it turns out they do hate Israel. They want to see it wiped off the map. That’s the meaning of their constant chant, “From the river to the sea.” A Palestinian state that occupies all that territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean would extinguish Israel. That’s their “final solution” for the Jewish state.

Chilling as that goal is, the activists don’t stop there. They extend their hatred to all Jews, and they say so openly in campus meetings and demonstrations. That is led by extremist Muslims, who are part of the dominant coalition on campus. But it is embraced by their political allies. More on that coalition in a moment.

Decent Americans know something has gone badly wrong at our universities. This wider public recognises, quite accurately, that the attacks on Jews are only the latest, most visible examples of a more pervasive problem: the rise of intolerant, illiberal ideology on the far-Left. That has always been a problem on the far-Right, but they were never major players on campus or in elite media. The Left is.

Watching these latest instances of anti-Semitic words and violent demonstrations, average Americans want to know why it is happening and what can be done to reverse the damage. Parents and alumni have still more questions. Families want to know where their children should go to college, where they will be encouraged to grow and learn, not bullied for their views or their faith. Those questions aren’t limited to Jewish families. Most parents want their children to live and learn in a safe, tolerant atmosphere. They are deeply worried, and they are right.

Their anxiety is shared by many alumni. Until now, wealthy donors have been content to turn over millions, see their names on a building or professorship, and attend cocktail parties with the university president after football games. No more. Many are saying our leading universities are not worthy of their support. They want to oust the leaders who encouraged this decline, stood silent as it grew worse, and then were surprised – and speechless – when it broke out into the open.

It won’t be easy to enact change – university leadership is self-perpetuating and campus bureaucracy is deeply entrenched. At Yale, for example, when alumni wanted a few dissonant voices on the board, the existing members changed the rules so that only they could nominate new members.

These disturbing events on campus are the bitter fruits of trends that have been developing for years. A few concerned faculty tried, in vain, to halt this ideological frenzy and moral collapse before it sank their institutions. They failed. The number of bureaucrats employed has ballooned and now approaches the number of students on campus. Over these students, they exert enormous control. 

Students themselves have contributed mightily to this illiberal, intolerant atmosphere. That culture now begins in elite high schools and has seeped down to middle schools. Surveys now show that only about half of college students support free speech. Many tell survey researchers it is perfectly fine to shout down opposing views. A non-trivial minority think it is okay to use violence against people with different views. They never answer the hard question, “who decides?” 

It is hardly surprising that Jews are the targets. That has been true historically when illiberal ideologies gain political clout and look for scapegoats. That is exactly what is happening on American campuses today. It began with hatred of Israel, damning them as “settler colonisers” rather than a people associated with that land for three millennia. It quickly metastasised to vilify anyone who supported the Jewish state and then to Jews in general.

This movement is shaped by the dominant ideology, which divides the world into oppressors and victims. The oppressors are “privileged whites,” whose only hope of redemption is to accept their guilt and support the “oppressed” and “colonised” victims. The result, which dominates campus politics, is an angry, oppositional ideology grounded in identity politics.

It is easy to speculate how this fragile and at times nonsensical coalition might break upon contact with reality. True, you occasionally see students marching with signs like “Queer = Free Palestine.” That idea, to put it mildly, is not endorsed on the ground in Palestine or any majority-Muslim state. It shouldn’t take more than a moment’s reflection to realise that those activists would return home in boxes if they marched with that sign through Gaza. But it’s far easier to signal virtue by proclaiming their alliance with the “oppressed” and assuming it is reciprocated.

This dominant ideology and the coalition that supports it have undermined what should be the most basic values at our universities: free and open inquiry and a safe environment to express them. Those are essential for real learning, the creation of new knowledge, and human flourishing. The result is worse than a gloomy environment on campus. It is a hostile one for conservative students, pro-Israel students, Evangelicals, and others who dare to depart from the approved line. 

None of this will get better on its own. It will require a concerted movement of parents, alumni, and donors. They must demand systemic changes to restore sanity, safety, and free expression on campus. It won’t be easy: but action is long overdue. 

#nunyas news #someone is gonna pull the paradox of tolerance line out #without a single hint of irony

[articskele]

SPEAKING of playlist analysis! Here is my Meta Knight playlist, my favoritest playlist, my pride and joy-

Plus all of the explanations and meanings and stuff under the cut, in case you wanna go in blind first ouo!!

This Will Be The Day: This is Meta Knight joining the GSA and meeting Jecra and Garlude and stuff! He's young and reckless and doesn't yet realize just how serious and dire the war is- So this song is a pure representation of Meta’s current outlook! This is an adventure, a challenge, a revolution, an epic anime fight scene just waiting to happen! And the mention of fairytales and legends refers to Arthur and the knights (Falspar, Dragato, and Nonsurat) and how Meta idolizes them!

Eleanor Rigby (feat. Dream Jumpscare): OHOHOHOHO THIS ONE- And here the bright outlook is shattered as the reality of war sets in!! This one has the most animatic ideas bouncing around- Basically Jecra’s been missing for weeks but he comes back possessed, ambushing a GSA camp in the middle of the night and Meta’s forced to kill him-

AAAAAUGHH THESE LINES THIS IS JECRA AND META KNIGHT IT’S LITERALLY THEM- THE GSA NEVER HELD A FUNERAL FOR JECRA BC HE WAS POSSESSED AND THERE WAS THIS UNSPOKEN WARINESS ABOUT IT- SO META HAD TO DIG HIS GRAVE AND OUGHHHHH AGONIES

And that part at the end where the music slowly builds up is Meta alone on a rocky ledge (the whole thing takes place in like a mesa desert) looking through a journal with photos of him and Jecra- Tears fall onto the pages and it just cuts to him with his mask off just crying as the sun rises over the horizon-

Experience: The fall of the GSA. It becomes more and more obvious that this is a fight they just can’t win. Meta’s forced to watch as ships crash and troops are obliterated around him. Just utter destruction as the few survivors left are scattered across the galaxy. It’s over… What do we do now?

Hush: The start of Meta’s crew, and maybe also his plans to take over Dreamland? Super intimidating, almost secret society vibes as the group grows and they begin construction of the Halberd. This one reminds me of Smash Bros Meta Knight’s almost regal aesthetic with the frilled cape and the detailed armor- I imagine the ending is the crew taking in a young Sailor Dee, like they’re trying to be comforting but it just comes off as menacing lol-

Settle It With a Swordfight: Tonal whiplash time! The other side of Meta's crew and a representation of Revenge of Meta Knight!! Note the more energetic electronic vibe and the guitar, as a callback to the first song and representing Meta’s readiness for a challenge!

Take Off: Meta learning to Chill Out after Revenge of MK, just being with his crew bc the Knightmares are a FAMILY and they LIVE ON THE HALBERD together and they do KARAOKE ON FRIDAYS

Awoken: META KNIGHT IN PLANET ROBOBOT- Both the effects of getting cyborg-ified and all of the guilt and angst involved, and breaking out of it through sheer willpower and Kirby's help! It's very electronic but there's no guitar, like trying to emulate Meta Knight's power but it's noticeably forced and artificial

Pain: OK I KNOW THIS IS LIKE. THE EDGY SONG EVER. But the way I saw it, it represents Meta Knight's will to fight and struggle and improve and keep going and live! There's the full on heavy guitar this time, just the very essence of those burning feelings!! I imagine the "take my hand" parts are him in the New World saving a Waddle Dee from an abandoned building full of beasts

Sword of the Surviving Guardian: Ok this theme was just too much of a bop not to include- But it also shows just how far Meta Knight’s come! As a warrior, as a friend, as a legend. This is a testament to his growth and a toast to his future!

Legends Never Die: OK I ALWAYS IMAGINE THIS SONG IN 3 PARTS FOR EACH CHORUS AND EACH GENERATION; Arthur and his knights (plus Galacta Knight), Meta Knight, and Kirby with the Ultra Sword- OUGHHH it’s so cool and gives me chills every time- Legacies written in the stars and the immortal call of heroism, to protect and persevere and stand up for what’s right

AND THAT'S IT :D The autism was STRONG when I made this as you can probably tell lmao- But for real, I'm extremely proud of this! It tells Meta Knight's story through the music, every song plays a role, I even took the instruments into account, it's great ouo!!

#also yes i know there's a dsmp animatic and a fansong in there- i made this playlist a long while ago akdhfksldf #kirby #meta knight #character playlist #my nonsense #losing it over songs tag <3

[fatehbaz]

In the face of a world increasingly dominated by transitional US capital and military might, anarchists posed an alternative, egalitarian, and internationalist vision for the Americas. While Shaffer’s subjects came from and voyaged to far-flung sites in the Americas and Europe, his book focuses mainly on Cuba, Tampa, Panama, and Puerto Rico. A vibrant and expansive anarchist press connected these “nodes.”

“Between 1892 and 1929, Caribbean anarchists published over sixty newspapers and magazines” that were either entirely anarchist or that contained a strong anarchist influence (p. 31). Anarchists also published novels, plays, poetry, and short stories, producing a counterculture and “anarchist revolutionary imagination” condemning exploitation and offering internationalist, egalitarian morals (p. 275).

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As Kirwin R. Shaffer explains in his 2020 book, Anarchists of the Caribbean, anarchists had come “to see the Mexican Revolution as a step to worldwide revolution” (p. 130). Their rally cry around Mexico was just one of several internationally mobilizing causes for Caribbean anarchists in the early twentieth century. In another example, some ten thousand workers walked off the job on the US-run Panama Canal in 1916.

The Peruvian-born anarchist Víctor Recoba had founded the Maritime Workers Union, which led the strike, and its meetings were “truly transnational affairs” (p. 190). White, mestizo, and Black workers from across Europe, Latin America, and the West Indies attended, delivered speeches in Spanish and English, and read bilingual manifestos. Even the repression was an international affair. After US and Panamanian authorities collaborated to force most back to work, the Panamanian government attempted to deport the strike’s leaders -- who heralded from Costa Rica, St. Vincent, Greece, Peru, and other “underdetermined origins” -- aboard a Peruvian ship, but Peru declined to accept them and the men were scattered (p. 194). [...]

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Shaffer begins with Cuba’s final independence war, when anarchists on both sides of the Florida Straits -- and as far as Argentina, Spain, and New York -- were cautiously optimistic [...]. The anarchist-dominated Sociedad de Torcedores de Tampa’s members hailed from the US, Italy, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Canary Islands, the Dominican Republic, England, and Germany (p. 76).

In many ways, Shaffer picks up where Benedict Anderson left off with his book Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination (2007), republished as The Age of Globalization. Where Anderson focuses on anarchist struggles against Spanish colonialism, with an emphasis on the Philippines, Shaffer moves the picture to resistance against rising US imperialism in the Americas. [...] This was especially true of anarchists in Tampa, who lived under the thumb of the Anglo business community and local authorities.

This discussion of early anarchist anti-imperialism is a significant contribution to the literature on radicalism in Latin America during the era Barry Carr has called “the red years of the Caribbean and Central America.” [...] But, as Shaffer details, anarchists were “the original leftists in the region,” who “established some of the first transnational anti-imperialist solidarity networks in the Caribbean years before any orders to do so arrived from Moscow” (pp. 13, 21).

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In early 1911, California-based anarchists from the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) invaded the Mexican state of Baja California and held territory there for over six months. Anarchists from across the globe heralded this opportunity [...]. The Havana-based paper ¡Tierra!, which was the heart and soul of Caribbean anarchism in the early 1910s, urged readers to send money to the PLM and support legal defense for the Flores Magón brothers, PLM leaders who sat in US prisons for violating neutrality laws. ¡Tierra!’s readers came through, and “from 1911 to 1914, efforts to raise money for Mexico usually outpaced any single Cuba-based issue” among the paper’s readers (p. 132). The money came from fifteen Cuban towns and cities, but also from the Canal Zone in Panama, Puerto Rico, and as far as Hartford, Connecticut. Around this time, in Tampa, Florida, a New York City-based anarchist named Pedro Esteve was selling copies of the PLM’s newspaper, Regeneración,and working with the group Pro-Revolución Mexicana. Caribbean anarchists did not just support the cause financially and ideologically; some took up arms in the revolution [...].

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Many of Shaffer’s Spanish-speaking Caribbean subjects did join the famous International Worker of the World (IWW, or Wobblies) and in fact played a key role in spreading IWW unionization along the East Coast. [...] Rather than focus on the amply covered US-based IWW, however, Shaffer highlights anarchist institutions indigenous to the Caribbean, especially ¡Tierra!. In operation for over a decade in the early 1900s, the Havana paper showed readers across the region that “their struggles were not isolated,” funneled money to various causes, and served to introduce prominent anarchists as they traveled (p. 122). [...] Plans for an Inter-American Continental Congress of Anarchists, to be held in Panama in November 1925, however, were foiled in the violent aftermath of a rent strike that began in the Canal Zone but spread to the republic. On October 10 that year, the police opened fire on a gathering of strikers. The next morning, Panama began deportations of the international leadership and called in US military support. [...]

In other words, Shaffer tells a story that comes full circle. US transnational military, political, and economic expansion set in motion the pathways that would facilitate anarchist travel and network building across the region. And, in turn, the repressive powers would collaborate internationally to move against the radicals. Shaffer reminds us that Charles Magoon was busy keeping anarchists out of the Canal Zone as US governor in 1905 before he was busy trying to keep them out of Cuba as governor during the 1906 US occupation. And interstate collaboration squashed plans for the anarchist congress of 1925. But the movement itself was not crushed. Anarchism held on longer in Cuba and Panama than it did in Puerto Rico and Tampa, where US authorities “used the full weight of the federal government” to uproot the movement (p. 185). [...]

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In short, Shaffer’s book is a most welcome contribution to the study of the early twentieth-century Latin American Left. His scrupulous research (he consulted archives spanning five countries!) reveals the deep transnational connections that sustained anarchism in the region while never losing sight of the particular local and national contexts in which his subjects operated. [...] Shaffer takes just as seriously the (often quite fun) literary imaginings of anarchist writers and reveals a counterculture that “had a different internationalist romance and dream for the region” (p. 289).

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Text by: Frances Sullivan. Review of Shaffer, Kirwin R., Anarchists of the Caribbean: Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion. H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews. January 2022. [Bold emphasis added by me.]

[rockislandadultreads]

New Title Tuesday: History Recommendations

Ancient Africa by Christopher Ehret

This book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa, tracing how the continent played an important role in the technological, agricultural, and economic transitions of world civilization. Christopher Ehret takes readers from the close of the last Ice Age some ten thousand years ago, when a changing climate allowed for the transition from hunting and gathering to the cultivation of crops and raising of livestock, to the rise of kingdoms and empires in the first centuries of the common era.

Ehret takes up the problem of how we discuss Africa in the context of global history, combining results of multiple disciplines. He sheds light on the rich history of technological innovation by African societies - from advances in ceramics to cotton weaving and iron smelting - highlighting the important contributions of women as inventors and innovators. He shows how Africa helped to usher in an age of agricultural exchange, exporting essential crops as well as new agricultural methods into other regions, and how African traders and merchants led a commercial revolution spanning diverse regions and cultures. Ehret lays out the deeply African foundations of ancient Egyptian culture, beliefs, and institutions and discusses early Christianity in Africa.

Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I by Tracy Borman

Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination. By far the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives, she has inspired books, documentaries and films, and is the subject of intense debate even today, almost 500 years after her violent death. For the most part, she is considered in the context of her relationship with Tudor England's much-married monarch. Dramatic though this story is, of even greater interest - and significance - is the relationship between Anne and her daughter, the future Elizabeth I. Elizabeth was less than three years old when her mother was executed. Given that she could have held precious few memories of Anne, it is often assumed that her mother exerted little influence over her.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Piecing together evidence from original documents and artefacts, this book tells the fascinating, often surprising story of Anne Boleyn's relationship with, and influence over her daughter Elizabeth. In so doing, it sheds new light on two of the most famous women in history and how they changed England forever.

Symbols of Freedom by Matthew J. Clavin

In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an American identity that helped unify a divided people. A language of freedom played a similar role in shaping the new nation. The Declaration of Independence’s assertion “that all men are created equal,” Patrick Henry’s cry of “Give me liberty, or give me death!,” and Francis Scott Key’s “star-spangled banner” waving over “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” were anthemic celebrations of a newly free people. Resonating across the country, they encouraged the creation of a republic where the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” was universal, natural, and inalienable.

For enslaved people and their allies, the language and symbols that served as national touchstones made a mockery of freedom. Deriding the ideas that infused the republic’s founding, they encouraged an empty American culture that accepted the abstract notion of equality rather than the concrete idea. Yet, as award-winning author Matthew J. Clavin reveals, it was these powerful expressions of American nationalism that inspired forceful and even violent resistance to slavery.

Symbols of Freedom is the surprising story of how enslaved people and their allies drew inspiration from the language and symbols of American freedom. Interpreting patriotic words, phrases, and iconography literally, they embraced a revolutionary nationalism that not only justified but generated open opposition. Mindful and proud that theirs was a nation born in blood, these disparate patriots fought to fulfill the republic’s promise by waging war against slavery.

In a time when the US flag, the Fourth of July, and historical sites have never been more contested, this book reminds us that symbols are living artifacts whose power is derived from the meaning with which we imbue them.

The Ruble by Ekaterina Pravilova

Money seems passive, a silent witness to the deeds and misdeeds of its holders, but through its history intimate dramas and grand historical processes can be told. So argues this sweeping narrative of the ruble's story from the time of Catherine the Great to Lenin.

The Russian ruble did not enjoy a particularly reputable place among European currencies. Across two hundred years, long periods of financial turmoil were followed by energetic and pragmatic reforms that invariably ended with another collapse. Why did a country with an industrializing economy, solid private property rights, and (until 1918) a near perfect reputation as a rock-solid repayer of its debts stick for such a prolonged period with an inconvertible currency? Why did the Russian gold standard differ from the European model

In answering these questions, Ekaterina Pravilova argues that politics and culture must be considered alongside economic factors. The history of the Russian ruble offers an opportunity to explore the political reasons behind the preservation of a supposedly backward financial system and to show how politicians used monetary reforms to block or enact political transformations.

#history #nonfiction books #nonfiction #new books #reading recommendations #reading recs #book recommendations #book recs #library books #tbr #tbrpile #to read #booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog #readers advisory

[johnlocsin-johnyakuza]

Far Cry 6 was a game about a Country and that fell into a dystopia, ran by a massive dictatorship. Yara, the games setting, was put under its corrupt president Anton Castillo, where his regime cracked down on political dissent, fundamental freedoms and democracy in the country, with anyone who dared to speak out against his methods or regime being sent into slave labor camps or outright executed without trial.

Anton expanded slavery to include poor people in general, Yara became unstable and rampant violence erupted, as the overwhelming majority of Yarans have military training due to being former conscripts and FND veterans.

Far Cry 6 was a game about overthrowing the people of Yara rising up into a revolution against the corrupt government and killing the corrupt CEO’s, Military Generals, and The Dictator.

Far Cry 6 thought me that if we ever fall into a dictatorship, we can’t just sit laying down and suffering, we have to rise up and take back our freedom.

#far cry 6 #far cry series #far cry fandom #ubisoft

[theleaderinblue1]

I found this app called spotify with a bunch of music. Here's my favorite songs, feel free to suggest music to me! This is a really long list-

Legend - The Score

Stronger - The Score

Revolution- The Score

Never Going Back - The Score

Born For This - The Score

Unstoppable - The Score

Miracle - The Score

On and On - The Score

Natural - Imagine Dragons

Warriors - Imagine Dragons

Bleeding Out - Imagine Dragons

I'm So Sorry - Imagine Dragons

Roots - Imagine Dragons

Gold - Imagine Dragons

Believer - Imagine Dragons

Friction - Imagine Dragons

Enemy - Imagine Dragons, JID, Arcane, League of Legends

Feel Invincible - Skillet

Battle Cry - Skillet

You're Gonna Go Far, Kid - The Offspring

Stressed Out - Twenty One Pilots

Morph - Twenty One Pilots

Guns for Hands - Twenty One Pilots

Redecorate - Twenty One Pilots

Legends Never Die - League of Legends, Against the Current

RISE - League of Legends, Mako, The World Alive

Eye of the Storm - Watt White

Stand Up - The Cab

Top of the World - Greek Fire

Heroes - Zayde Wølf

War of Change - Thousand Foot Krutch

Point of No Return - STARSET

This is War - Thirty Seconds To Mars

#teenage mutant ninja turtles 2012 #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt 2012 leo #tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2k12 #tmnt #leonardo hamato #leonardo #leo rambles #alternative music #music #roleplay account #tmnt roleplay #tmnt rp

[lulu2992]

I’ve listened to Far Cry: Rise of the Revolution, the prequel to Far Cry 6!

It’s pretty much what The Book of Joseph was to Far Cry 5 but as an audio series instead of a book. There are minor inconsistencies and a few things I personally imagined had happened differently, but the story mostly made sense to me. The writer, Alexandro Aldrete, didn’t work on Far Cry 6, but the game’s narrative director and lead writer, Navid Khavari, was the narrative advisor for the series, so it can probably be considered canon.

If it is, though, I just wish that most of what Rise of the Revolution reveals were already in the game. In my opinion, some characters didn’t have enough screen time and it was difficult to really understand their personality, motivations, and how they got there (Admiral Ana Benítez and María Marquessa, especially). We already learned a lot more thanks to notes, but the audio series provides much-needed additional information and details. We know characters and what they went through better, so it’s easier to have more empathy for some of them.

Weirdly, Dr. Edgar Reyes was renamed Dr. Edgar Ramirez… but I realized that was also his name in the game’s credits, for some reason. However, I have no idea why McKay’s first name went from Sean to Colin (I think).

I enjoyed Rise of the Revolution, as violent as it sometimes was (but not more than the game, and it’s just the sound). It’s an interesting addition to the world of Far Cry 6 and a well-produced audio series. Plus, the vast majority of the original cast is back!

#someone else plays maría but I believe all the other actors are here #far cry rise of the revolution #rise of the revolution #far cry 6 #ah it’s okay young antón you can say ‘mon père c’est le président’ #it’s informal and more like what children would say #but if you add a comma it’s not incorrect

[jacobmybeloved]

I'm only 40 minutes into this far cry 6 prequel and I just wanna give Anton his happy ending man 😭😭😭

#far cry 6 #rise of the revolution

[fleurriee]

Do you have any book recommendations? I think you write beautifully so I am sure you read some good stuff too🫡

oh, you have come to the right place!! honestly all i do is read, but they are all of the fantasy genre so i hope that’s okay :)

also, not u saying my writing’s beautiful stop 🥹

• so at the moment, im currently reading the game of thrones series, like literally just started it last night. it’s bc i fell in love with house of the dragon so i bought fire and blood lmao. im just gonna assume you know what that whole shebang is about 👍🏻

• my favourite book of all time is the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon, which in short is about a separate parts of the world experiencing the rise of an evil that was once believed to have been defeated - which is basically just a huge dragon. i’ve really undersold that though like it’s so good - it’s got dragons, sorcery, ✨women✨. there’s a prequel too called a day of fallen night that can be read either before or after bc it’s like 500 years before or something, so they’re technically 2 different stories but in the same universe.

• i’m also gonna recommend the house in the cerulean sea by t.j. klune, which is set in a fantasy world, where a man is basically a social worker for kids out of the ordinary with special features or abilities. it’s very found family trope and it made me cry and it’s just so beautiful 🥹

• the last book im gonna recommend is babel, or the necessity of violence: an arcane history of the oxford translator’s revolution by r.f. kuang. i know the title sounds scary and probably a little boring?? but it’s far from that honestly. i’d previously read the author’s poppy war trilogy and fell in love with her writing & i heard that babel was getting all the rave so i checked it out, and despite thinking i wasn’t gonna like it and probably discontinue reading it, i fell in love with it. in short, it’s about a group of teens being accepted into oxford as translator’s for around the world, along with the secrets they unravel and how they rebel against the standards set before them. at the very least, i recommend giving it a try - i’d say it’s very different to what people may normally read, but look into it!!!

i do have a lot more for you, so im gonna link my goodreads account where you can find everything ive ever read lmao!! <;33

#𝐅𝐋𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐑’s mail ── 📨 #𝐅𝐋𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐑’s thoughts ── ✧.*

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Petr Fiala, the Czech prime minister – whose Civic Democrat (ODS) party has long been considered climate-sceptic – told the Prima TV channel after visiting the scene that he would “have to wear blinkers and not think rationally … if I did not see that the climate is changing in a certain way and that the whole of Europe is facing fires caused by unusually high temperatures”.

That view was a far cry from the hardline climate change denialism of the former Czech prime minister and president Václav Klaus – a co-founder of Fiala’s party – who branded global warming “bogus” and called campaigners against it “a threat to freedom and economic growth”.

Other weather-related encounters in the Czech Republic have fuelled a shift in sentiment – particularly a deadly tornado that struck several villages in the south Moravia region last summer, killing six and injuring hundreds more.

Even before that, a survey conducted for Czech Radio found that 93% of Czechs accepted that climate change existed, with 86% expecting it to change the world. But in a striking contradiction, only 39% expected it to affect them personally.

Such lingering scepticism raises questions over the political will to embrace mitigating policies – doubts crystallised last month when the Czech environment minister, Anna Hubáčková, declared that cars with internal combustion engines would continue to be sold after 2035, despite an EU directive banning them in line with the bloc’s Green Deal climate package.

“The current cabinet has upheld some of the key legislation that in the long-term favours the Czech energy conglomerates benefiting from the current energy mix,” said Albin Sybera, a Czech political analyst. “There’s a reluctance to clash with the powerful lobby that has kept that mix together – and which could be undone by a greater share of renewables, for example. That’s why the main parties in the ruling coalition are reluctant to recognise the urgency to act – even in the face of a devastating fire that has destroyed swathes of the country’s most remarkable national park.”

This caution has a historical irony. Officially tolerated environmental activism under the communist dictatorship of the former Czechoslovakia is credited with having helped trigger the 1989 velvet revolution. The regime was swept from power amid a rising outcry over pollution and acid rain produced by state-run heavy industriy, which in turn destroyed much of the country’s forests.

“The visible damage to the environment disappeared in the 1990s thanks to those state industries going bankrupt, to new technology, and also to EU regulation,” said Kutilek. “The country has been busy since then trying to catch up economically with western Europe and the environment felt fine – right up until the past couple of years, when the effects of climate change began to feel obvious.”

#wildfires #czech republic #czechoslovakia #europe #european politics #european union #climate change #civic democrat

[born-to-lose]

santa cruz and guns n roses!!

Santa Cruz

Favorite song: River Phoenix Pt. 2, Anthem for the Young 'N' Restless, High on You, Crossfire

Least favorite song: Here Comes the Revolution (it could have been good if it was sped up a bit)

First song you ever heard/remember hearing: Young Blood Rising

Favorite album: Screaming for Adrenaline

Least favorite album: Return of the Kings

Favorite member: Middy

Least favorite member: Archie but you know my love-hate relationship with him

Favorite solo: all of them from the classic lineup era

Favorite video: either My Remedy or Aiming High because bebs 🥺🤲🏻

Seen them live?: no 😔 they played in the town where I usually go for my concerts in 2017 but I didn't know them back then

Met any members?: I met Taz!!

Do you own any albums/merch?: I have Bad Blood Rising, Katharsis (thank you again 🥺💖) and Return of the Kings on CD

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Guns N' Roses

Favorite song: Nightrain!!

Least favourite song: anything from Chinese Democracy probably

First song you ever heard/remember hearing: November Rain but actually I had heard a bunch of their songs before

Favorite album: basic but Appetite for Destruction. This album shaped me when I was 16 and that's how I got into all those other 80s bands aside from Mötley Crüe

Least favorite album: Chinese Democracy

Favorite member: it's a tie between Duff, Slash and Izzy

Least favorite member: Matt Sorum

Favorite solo: don't do this to me 😫 Don't Cry maybe?

Favorite video: Paradise City but that's mostly because I first saw it at the Hard Rock Café in Venice and the whole thing was just Special

Seen them live?: no because I'm too broke and they only come to the big cities which are all too far away from where I live but damn I'd love to

Met any members?: sadly not

Do you own any albums/merch?: Appetite for Destruction (Deluxe Edition), GNR Lies, Use Your Illusion I & II, The Spaghetti Incident?, Chinese Democracy, Greatest Hits, Live Era '87 - '93 on CD, Appetite for Destruction and a concert bootleg on vinyl, some CD and 90s concert DVD set, an 80s concert on DVD, a DVD with the music videos, a shirt, a beanie with the Appetite cross on the front, Duff's It's So Easy (and Other Lies), Slash's autobiography, a Slash action figure and Funko Pop, an Axl Funko Pop, all of Slash's albums on CD, Duff's Believe in Me and Tenderness on CD, Izzy's Shuffle It All single on vinyl, a Slash guitar pick that came with the 4 CD and uhhh definitely some more I'm forgetting here

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#thank you for your patience it took me so long to get all the gnr stuff together in my head skhgjd #ask #thetimecrystal #mica

[bardic-tales]

Hi NL!! Happy WBW btw!

What is general life like in Cold as Ice, Flight of the Dragon, and Pale Fire?

Hello Midnight! Happy WBW! Thank you for your question.

All of the novels are dark fantasy. As Cold as Ice and Pale Fire happen during the same time period, I'm going to combine the answer for them.

I'm going to focus on Olessa, as that is where the Flight of the Dragon takes place in. Eneth and Gloreydt are mentioned.

I must apologize for how long this is. I tried to make it brief.

Flight of the Dragon

Depending on the region in Olessa, general life may be quite different. Olessa is broke up into a loose collection of city-states and other territories. Each city-state had a different type of government: monarchies, councils of oligarchies, or through democracy. This is for Brennan's city-state.

Regardless of the class they were born into, children had about a 50% survival rate beyond age one. They would be expected to contribute to their family around 12.

Everyone drank wine and ale and never water.

Lower Class

Life was harsh for the lower class, with a limited diet and little comfort. Women were subordinate to men, in both the peasant and noble classes. They were also expected to ensure that the household ran smoothly.

The home of the lower class was poorly constructed. The floor was normally earthen and there was little ventilation or light from windows.

These people would eat porridges, broths, stews, and bread. They rarely ate meat, and when they did, it would be from their own animals.

Middle Class

Brennan's knights were the middle class. This class consisted of the knights and their families. They each owned a section of land. These people would perform military service for Brennan, but they would not do any menial tasks like the lower caste.

What and how the Middle Class ate depended on a diet and fasting schedule. Meat was allowed three times a week, while meals were eaten twice a day. These meals would consist of fruits and bread. Silence was the norm.

Fancy dress, outside of furs in the winter, were forbidden. The knights were warriors, they were also monks who were allowed to marry. They were expected to rise at 4am for a service before returning to sleep until 6 am. They would also be expected to train and attend three more services throughout the day, as well as the other meals. One of the meals would have a priest read aloud from one of the many tomes about the god of love.

Cold as Ice & Pale Fire

In both regions, orphans would roam the streets. Because they didn't attend any schools, they had little chance of improving their situation.

The survival rate of a child was still low as they were often malnourished, dirty, and had limited supply of good food and water.

The Glorendt Kingdom

During this period of time, Glorendt had an industrial revolution. Owning land was the main form of wealth. At the top was the King and the Council of Elders. These people would live in lavish, elegant mansions and country houses. It was a far cry from how they were a raiding people in Flight of the Dragon.

Cities were noisy and very dirty. Their calendars would include dinner parties, opera, and the theater. Many would inherit their fortune and never had to work, cook meals, or empty their own chamber pots.

Schools were not required by law, but many upper-class boys and girls would attend school. Girls would be educated more in skills like embroidery and music than in academic subjects. There were also charity schools for lower-class children.

Poor people ate plain diets that were made up of bread and potatoes. Like its neighboring empire, meat was an uncommon luxury for Glorendines.

Regardless of class, many people began to drink tea.

The lower-class lived in just a two to three room place while the poorest families lived in only a room with very simple and plain furniture.

The poorest would often turn to the Glorendine Shadow Council and offer their services as a shadow blade, an assassin, or an artifact hunter.

Olessan Empire

When Brennan Draig unified all of Olessa, he became its king. His people would call him the Dragon King. There are now eight regions: Avis, Lucci, Norven, Olessa Major, Olessa Minor, Olessa Providence, Spacci, Surven.

Daily life throughout the Olessan Empire was different based upon the social classes. There were five social classes: Peasants, Workers, Merchants, Nobles, and Rulers.

The nobles lived on large estates in the region and on the Summas Hill within the capital. Nobility had a variety of fashion made from different materials, such as furs and silks while peasants had only one or two sets of clothing.

Food was not equally distributed to every person. A person's place in society still determined what type of food that they ate. An average peasant could eat soup or mush. The peasants still lacked meat as it was expensive and not widely available.

Weathy people would have huge feasts with roasts of beef, stag, or ham. They did not drink much water, but they would have wine with every meal. They would also attend operas.

In regard to education, fathers were allowed a choice with education for their daughters. They could be sent to a finishing school or become a lady-in-waiting for a noblewoman.

Societies had to be really rich to support artists, elaborate building projects, and industrial powerhouses.

There is more about the southern portion of the Olessan Empire, but this part is already getting long as is.

#cw: slavery #setting:fotd #setting: pf #wbw #worldbuilding wednesday #worldbuilding #setting: cai