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arnansiri

queued

emperornero

the assusination of julius caesar

emperornero

tavi-the-rat

the assusination of julisus caesusar

the-little-fox-in-the-box

Now recreate the famous painting of him getting assassinated

danikoshi-doodles

Brutus and 59 others were the imposters

thatlittleegyptologist

People keep commenting along the lines of 'why does a penis hieroglyph even need to exist?' and I'm gonna tell you now...it crops up a lot:

No, really, it crops up a lot:

These are only a small selection of words it can turn up in. Hieroglyphs aren't emojis. They have consonantal (sound) values, so if that sound is needed, or the sign is the correct visual metaphor, then the sign will be used. This is why the dick hieroglyph will show up in the word dick, and also in the word for 'to be correct'.

ebonykain

Okay, so... what sound does the penis make??

thatlittleegyptologist

The sign known as D52, in Gardiner's sign list, has the consonantal value that transliterates (the code we use to translate Hieroglyphs) as 'mt', which is why most of the words above contain 'mt' in some shape or form. The one's where it doesn't is where it's implying 'male' or in the case of donkey...well if you've been around horses and donkeys you'll know. Thing is, with Ancient Egyptian, we can't really fully reconstruct how it sounded because it's a dead language. So we have to piece together varying bits of information. I can say 'oh it's pronounced 'met'' but it's not fully accurate. That's just how Egyptologists verbalise this particular set of consonants.

blackrainbowblade

Is there any way I can retweet @ebonykain 's reply without context?

blackrainbowblade

But more delightfully, this means…

thatlittleegyptologist

toki-wren

sorry but i just cant get over the fact that the words for "semen" and "gift" are,,, the same word..,,,,

thatlittleegyptologist

Semen and poison are also the same word!

As are ankh 'sandal strap' and ankh 'to live'

Though tbf, the ankh symbol is itself representative of a sandal strap:

freshgratednutmeg

Re @thatlittleegyptologist ‘s tags

I like your shoelaces, did you steal them from the president pharaoh?

thatlittleegyptologist

*hisses*

dankmemeuniversity

catchymemes

#omg its sans #yes in 2021

ruinedchildhood

modernsuperhero

#oh #nice #am i bi?#probably

eldritchidiot

the whole squad

kalichnikov

Thanks I hate it: sarcastic disdain, you don't enjoy this at all that's insufferable, I love it: prankster solidarity. A compliment for mischief. You gotta try this dude, it sucks: solidarity through communal self-flagellation It's terrible, watch it immediately: Your classic so-bad-it's-good media

simplyclockwork

@annecumberbatch

Can’t forget, ‘gross, I love it’

rosetta-stoned-bitch

Not to forget the iconic

severedned

How could people forget Data?

#meme

minecraft-jukebox

just an iceburg of classic things

johncrocker

i found the video

source

snarkymcbarky

Are you shitting me?

puketween

this is what i like to see

nnbvcffggfsssxxvjkiiytfdvvjj

old memes die hard

officialcrow

ok but she gettin it

24ozsteak

thinking about that WoW epidemic

24ozsteak

swampgallows

i was telling my dad, ever the skeptic, about corrupted blood back in March at the start of lockdown, and how the cdc studied it. how it can be used as a model for what to do and how people might act in the event of an unpredicted pandemic, and how people were playing out the same behavior during covid.

he said “so they fixed it, right? how did they fix it in the game?” and i told him the truth: they didn’t. they couldn’t control it. they had to reset the servers and roll them back to the time before the ZG encounter.

a CNN article recently referenced another “viral” event in world of warcraft: leeroy jenkins facepulling as a metaphor for the expedited reopening of businesses. what it fails to mention however is how the video ends. everyone who charges in with leeroy dies. he wipes the raid.

it really feels like that meme where it’s like “wow, cool video game reference!” and the point soaring over their head says THE DAMAGE WAS IRREVERSIBLE. THE THREAT SPREAD TOO RAPIDLY AND EVERYONE DIED.

wheel-skellington

weird reframing of the corrupted blood incident to make it seem, for some reason, like it was all selfish actions that people said was unrealistic because real people would help others. in fact its literally the opposite, it was used as real world data specifically because of the player driven efforts to fix it

the-jellyfish-galaxy

The reason this plague in the game was a good model is because we had all walks of life type people reacting in different ways.

Those with healing magic would go into infected areas to see if they could save the infected or at least keep them alive through the disease. Those that couldn’t do that tried to warn players before they entered infected areas. NPC could be infected and have “no symptoms”; they could be asymptomatic carriers and pass it to nearby players.

The best part though was by the time Blizzard had finally come out and said “if you are infected, try to quarantine yourself so you don’t spread it!!” the player base was ALREADY DOING SO. The players had recognized the problem and worked together in myriad ways to fix it.

They also had negative reactions as well, another reason this was such a good example of a real outbreak. They had a couple people report healers or alchemists who were claiming to sell cures/treatments to the disease that ultimately would do nothing. They had a group of players that would hide in the mountains near cities and just pass the disease back and forth between themselves and then raid cities to infect them all over again. They had higher level players start rebelling on the servers. Saying it was an overreaction and if you get it you’ll just die and you can come back and be fine, etc. Since they could get the disease and survive, ie it didn’t do enough damage to them since they were higher level, they felt it unnecessary to care about whether they got it or not. They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.

ALL of these reactions, good and bad, were real enough to what we assumed a real life epidemic would play out that people started to use it as a model. And now look, we have proof that it was accurate.

However, what we needed to learn from it was primarily that it wasn’t reversible. The bad reactions and lack of care from the few players that weren’t cooperating made it impossible in the end to contain. The only reason it was fixed at all is the game had to reverse time, literally just delete their entire game log a few weeks and time travel weeks into the past to before the plague even began.

Think about that.

The reason no one believed it was a valid model is that it was a video game and thus the consequences weren’t permanent. “No one would act like that in real life.” But look at how we are handling this outbreak. Is it not eerily similar?

And we can’t time travel.

adobe-outdesign

ampervadasz

ofkindnessandchaos-deactivated2

OMFG.

all-aboard-the-bane-train

Very curious doggo

castle-engineer-deactivated2019

Reminder that puffins are extremely social and like to fit in with their friends, so they will adopt mannerisms and interests of the group. So there is a good chance this little guy is trying to be friends with the photographer by showing his interest in the camera.

willow-wanderings

TIL photographers are a lot like puffins, cuz we also make friends by showing interest in your camera XD

dykelliewilliams

Reminds me of the time researchers were trying to get puffins to land in a specific area so the put decoys up to draw them in but the decoys only had 1 leg and