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That’s quite a bump! 😅 No, I’m afraid I don’t have any of these any more, so if it’s not something that can be fixed by editing the INI there’s not much I can do.

I can't see them here in the UK. No VPN!

Ainwood is one person with two natures, unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably.

An epic read! Takes me back to those days in the early 2000s when I stumbled across the site while seeking modding resources. I'd forgotten about the funeral spambot though!

I always wondered if there was any connection to this gentleman (a contemporary, as it happens, of this one!).

I'm working my way through Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown on the Quest 3, which is incredibly endearing. I wish I had more time for games these days!

That's not quite right! Lectureships in geometry, astronomy, anatomy, and natural philosophy were all established at Oxford in the seventeenth century. Cartesianism was taught there later in the seventeenth century, without the attempts to suppress it seen in some universities on the continent...

Well I do hope to complete the next one…

Yes, this one just last year. They haven't sent me a copy though!

Tabor's a legitimate scholar but as I understand it he does have something of a track record of making sensationalist claims about Christian origins without a huge amount of evidence. I think this article is interesting in that it evidently recognises this but is trying to put a positive spin on...

I loved that Star Patrol pilot! Thank you for posting it. What a shame it didn’t get greenlit.

Well I’ll grudgingly approve of him. But only on sufferance!

These things are very vague, because medieval universities developed gradually. They emerged from cathedral schools and independent scholars who, over time, tended to congregate in the same cities, and start to coordinate their teaching until they were effectively a single institution. Later on...

Newton wasn't at Oxford. He was at some kind of inferior establishment to the east whose name escapes me. But more seriously, I would guess it's because the scientific discoveries made at Oxford (and indeed anywhere else) came in the seventeenth century and later, and those are what the game...