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Link (The Legend of Zelda) vs Luke Skywalker (Star Wars)
In one corner, Link! The saviour of Hyrule with a really cool sword, a lovely horsie and a princess to save!
In the other corner, Luke! The saviour of the galaxy with a really cool sword, a lovely X-Wing starfighter and a princess to save (she saves herself, honestly)!
New Ea-nāṣir lore just dropped and I don't know how to feel about that. I hate the meme but the guy having thugs coming after him for bad copper sales is perfect.
Wait wait WAIT
As someone who hard agrees with all your tags re: tired of the meem
BUT who is also invested in antiquities
Is it possible for you to drop the new lore
So the building in Ur where the infamous tablet was found (1 “Old Street” Ur Excavations VII) was actually full of similar tablets, all detailing how badly this guy's deals went. All of these tablets were collected and put into storage at the British Museum. Typically this kind of thing gets forgotten about, many of these tablets have been sitting there for a century, untranslated or partially translated.
This was recently partially translated and it's incredibly fragmentary, but it's a letter from the man himself reassuring a customer in Larsa about a bad shipment (a lot of goods were missing). He is upset that the customer sent thugs to collect (which is located in a different tablet). In turn, he sends his own to the customer's home. They are to make offerings at the temple of Šamaš together to symbolically "smooth things over". They are taking an oath.
He later goes on to blame the customer for the missing ingots. He (Ea-nāṣir) decided to employ a third party to deliver said ingots to the customer (all the way in the next city-state in the Sumerian cultural sphere). It seems like the third party either stole or got into a fight with the customer over the goods.
Ea-nāṣir now has to haul his ass to Larsa to deal with this personally. There's a lot of "Why don't you believe me?" "They don't listen to me!" "Please don't send-" going on in the tablet. But from what I can gather it looks like this peace offering (making an oath at the temple of Šamaš) broke down too. Everyone is blaming each other for the missing copper ingots and now the man himself has to take the three-day journey to sort out this issue.
We have a name for one of the thugs: Mr. Shorty (kurûm). He seems to be a bit scary.
The man from Dilmun got kicked out of the Merchant's Guild for a reason, he's had this problem before with copper shipments from Elam. Either he's the world's worst judge of character or he's embezzling, and badly. This is his side hustle stage where he's selling everything from used clothing to speculating (badly) on real estate. He may have dabbled in money lending too. He's your classic failed finance bro.
new activity feed stuff from this post
1. Before: Blue highlighting used to signify activity from people you follow.
2. After: New highlight color now used on unread activity
3. After: Colorful new labels to distinguish activity from people you follow (following) and who follow you back (mutuals).
thots?
oh no. change.
oh yea seems useful
i dislike the specific implementation for some reason
i like it, but wish they would change (thing)
pretty colors :)
sure its fine
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
tag thots (in the tags)
(NOTE: further explaination in the post linked in title, and staff asked for feedback so feel free to give there)
to add bc ppl are asking in the tags, heres from the linked post regarding sideblogs:
"Mutuals" are people you follow who also follow you back. This only applies to your primary blogs, not your secondary blogs, for those of you with many blogs.
im not sure exactly how that will work, like if that means sideblogs wont show mutals badges at all on EITHER end, or if i follow someone from my main and they follow a blog will it show as mutuals on the activity feed on that blog? idk!
if it works the way im assuming its gonna, I think thisll mean that none of my blogs will show up as mutuals for anyone bc my "main" is just a reference blog with like 3 followers.
but i guess this is a forewarning, if you see someone you think youre mutuals with just marked as "following", it might just be because of sideblog stuff. or maybe not. and if ur friend is only showing as "following" but theyre constantly popping up in ur activity feed anyway who cares theyre looking at ur stuff. dont get too worried about it.
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