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  • It was the other way around, Philip was trying to conquer Greece and he figured sending a threatening letter to Sparta might be enough, since at that point they were about powerless.

    So the invasion was always planned and the courtesy of the answer didn’t matter.




  • This isn’t completely fair, Bethesda addressed the issue in universe and there are multiple authors arguing about this and why that is. It plays very well with the rest of the lore which is all about conflicting accounts and variety of interpretation.

    If I recall correctly the three in-universe theories are (1) it’s an error and there never was a jungle (2) there was a jungle but Talos CHIMed it away (3) there was a jungle when the high elves (Ayleids) lived there, but when the humans took over the white-gold tower changed the landscape to suit them.

    Unfortunately, /r/teslore has no fediverse equivalent that I know of so I wouldn’t know where to have this kind of discussion.


  • Il faut bien dire qu’une région Val-de-Loire sans Nantes n’a pas grand sens. Peut-être qu’il faudrait séparer les concepts de «Région administrative» et «Région culturelle».

    On renommerait les régions qu’on a maintenant avec des numéros comme les départements, et on créerait de nouvelles entités pour reconnaître et promouvoir la culture locale. Un endroit donné pourrait appartenir à plusieurs «régions culturelles» mais une seule «région administrative».

    Ainsi Nantes ou le Mont Saint-Michel pourraient dépendre à la fois de la Bretagne (en tant que région culturelle) et de leur région actuelle.

    («Région administrative» et «Région culturelle» ce ne sont pas de très bons noms, mais je n’ai pas mieux pour l’instant)






  • Your comparison is biased because the economy of Russia is quite insular — you’re basically saying that if they were to export all they produce and buy all they need from the US, they would reach the wealth of 1/4 Mississippi. But the Russians make a lot of stuff themselves, they just have trouble buying from abroad.

    What you want is to compare GDP adjusted for purchasing power parity. Then Russia’s economy becomes comparable with California’s or Germany’s.

    However this must be taken with a grain of salt, because GDP-PPP is hard to measure in the first place (because purchasing power is hard to measure), and Russia is undergoing sanctions and running a war economy, and the Russian government is probably fudging the numbers anyway.



  • Not sure what you mean, obviously they must provide some bindings for developers to actually use their product.

    But it’s not enough to offer a solution — you need to get people to use it. Doing it this way means Nvidia has to go out and convince studios to spend the effort, provide assistance if necessary, etc — which plays to its strengths as market leader, because it doesn’t require their product to be better, it “just” requires more employees and business contacts.

    AMD, being smaller, instead goes for a riskier lower-level approach that needs less contact with developers, hopefully side-stepping the need to extend resources to drive adoption, because games get the feature “for free”.