That did surprise me as well. I might need to readjust my opinion of him.

It is. Being complicated doesn’t mean that it’s not happening. Cancer is complicated (very much so), yet it is very clearly bad.

Huh, feels like someone in their intelligence service realised “oh wow, you can sabotage infrastructure that way and pretend it was an accident!” and their handler decided to just do that and nothing else. Sure won’t help chinese merchant vessels and will probably damage any relations longterm. Good job, Xi.

A) “You” as in your mammalian cells don’t care about (most) antibiotics. Your intestinal microbiome does, however. But it doesn’t exactly get resistant. B) Antibiotica used in medicine are generally reserved for medical purposes. High usage in agriculture is not pretty, sure, and certainly won’t help multi-resistant pathogen issues, but your statement is wrong regardless.

“culturual differences” what the actual fuck.

Nikolaus != Santa

Veterinarians.

This would be close to the maximum possible sentence in Germany, I assume France has similar rules.

Well, thank you for your explanation and the positivity! Always welcome :) Merry Christmas/Kwanza/Holidays

*are

I feel left out, what drama did I miss?

What do you mean “too easy to piss off a German”, do you want trouble? I’ll give you some you lousy … samba dancer.

“They … they’ve hit me, Finn” Enderal, a should-play

“Monstrous size has no intrinsic merit, unless inordinate exsanguination be considered a virtue.” And so SO many others from Darkest Dungeon. “Commander” from the newer X-Com games … tha dark, rapsy voice

Isn’t that Darkest Dungeon?

Goodness, thanks for reminding me, now I won’t sleep. Regardless, THAT empire is thankfully gone.

I feel you. I know how many hits I can get in just stabbing at unexpected moments at long range with my sword, with a spear it would be plenty easier.

Have you ever fenced against a spear?

Debatable, considering that with relativity and all one might age slower, thus pushing into a lower age braked.

Disclaimer a: Great shower thought! Disclaimer b: I am really bad a physics, make me rip if needed.

I once read a fairly interesting take on this: Historical settings are often chosen to wrap the story in a certain context in order to allow the reader to picture the style and theme without having to establish and explain a new setting first, so basically you skip on world building. If you read an analogy to Zeus you will immediately have an image in mind as well as a bunch of characteristics, no need to establish that beforehand.

Now, considering this it makes sense to choose a setting people already know - the 16th centruy Ottoman Empire is certainly interesting, but the average reader might know next to nothing about it and you have to explain everything first.

Why are these three settings used so much? Well, it’s positive feedback! Literature, Theatres and Video Games will select something well known and it receives popularity. In addition, a piece of media using a less-popular setting will have to a) compete with other media to become popular and b) provide plenty of worldbuilding in order to have the setting make sense. A piece of media that both establishes a “new” setting AND is very popular is going to be rare, making the entry of a new mythology/historical setting into mainstream difficult.