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Quoting: slaapliedjeIs it weird how much I want to just write an entire thesis on how Gilgamesh and Hercules are so similar that many of the key story points for the two could be assumed that Hercules likely stole a lot of elements from Gilgamesh, or in fact the hero stories of the Greeks just expanded on the original Sumerian?

And why do we assume that Gilgamesh is original, and not simply a collection of earlier myths and stories that were never written down?

I actually don't think he was, and that it's just the oldest version of the Epic that we've found. Just like a lot of the old testament stuff has equivalent stories found on old tablets once we started digging up the Sumerian stuff. A whole lot of them refer to a time before the great deluge, where there was much art and culture destroyed.

Ha, I think about such things a lot, as I try to design my own campaign settings for games. Like how legends form, how religions form (as some of them definitely seem to form from the legends, or even to the point where stuff like 'Oh, the gods gave birth to him, he was a demigod!' certainly could be added to a story to make it more incredible and captivating, or simply some way to excuse a hero that pulled off amazing feats.

Some myths and legends are simply used to describe events that happened in nature. I think as far as Zechariah Sitchin's work goes, the most intriguing thing is his idea that the cosmology of the planets being described in plays by the Babylonians to describe how the solar system was formed. That's just a really cool concept!

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Quoting: dpanterWhat exactly do these people consider "quality", I wonder. :unsure:

Yeah every time a AAA company says something like "quality over quantity", what I hear is "we are spending even more on a handful of big franchises in the most popular genres instead of doing anything new or creative or investing in more diverse games".

Quoting: Augustus-OctavianAww I wish there was more official support from companies than from random distros that may or may not exist tomorrow.

Quoting: finaldestCorrect me if I am wrong but does this mean that Nvidia will officially be moving to open drivers for all future cards?

If so what about HDMI 2.1 support? Because AMD recently confirmed that the HDMI forum will NOT licence out 2.1 support via the AMD open driver.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderIt might be a Marathon....... [External Link] But is it a Racer???....... [External Link]

Now I'm snickering [External Link]. :wink:

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Quoting: LinasSo I used 3.6 for a bit now, and I find it rather unstable. On multiple occasions I got stuck at black screen, mostly when trying to switch to desktop mode. Then this happened when launching Google Chrome:

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Well, at least it's neither a back screen nor a bluescreen... ;)

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Quoting: tfkSo, in layman terms, it does Bleep bloop Bleep instead of Bleep bloop bloop bloop Bleep, and that makes it faster?

That’s bleep-oulutley corr-bloop 🤖

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