The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread 36

[aimeeandbeatles]

While adding a bunch of tour dates to this page, I noticed that there's quite a few venues in England (and one in Scotland) named Apollo. Is there a reason for this?

Wikipedia's disambiguation page didn't really help.

 

[Farm Boy]

Greek god of music and poetry, I'd guess.

 

[Traitorfish]

While adding a bunch of tour dates to this page, I noticed that there's quite a few venues in England (and one in Scotland) named Apollo. Is there a reason for this?

Wikipedia's disambiguation page didn't really help.

A lot of the venues used for live music in the UK in the 1970s were former theatres. A lot of theatres chose classical names to try and generate some low-cost prestige, and as Apollo was the one of the patrons of dramatic theatre in Greek mythology, it was a common choice.

 

[Gori the Grey]

While adding a bunch of tour dates to this page, I noticed that there's quite a few venues in England (and one in Scotland) named Apollo.

And a very famous one in Harlem. It's for the reason that's been given: Apollo was the god of music.

 

[cardgame]

Greco-Roman mythology basically limits you to two or three games. Age of Mythology being the greatest, of course. Might be a thin paper...

 

[Silurian]

While adding a bunch of tour dates to this page, I noticed that there's quite a few venues in England (and one in Scotland) named Apollo. Is there a reason for this?

Wikipedia's disambiguation page didn't really help.

There was an Apollo leisure group which looks like it could be responsible for some.

ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gregg

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/1238

the Glasgow Apollo appears to have been called Apollo before it was aquired by Apollo leisure group


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apollo_(Glasgow)

 

[Cutlass]

When was the last time a British PM or monarch was assassinated? Or a major attempt at such.

 

[Silurian]

When was the last time a British PM or monarch was assassinated? Or a major attempt at such.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Spencer_Perceval

 

[Cutlass]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Spencer_Perceval

Wow. That was a long ass time ago.

 

[Silurian]

Wow. That was a long ass time ago.

An not many MPs killed either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serving_British_MPs_who_were_assassinated

but more could have died in Brighton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing

 

[Arakhor]

I think that there was an attempt on Queen Victoria's life once, an attempt to kidnap Princess Anne and at least one intruder into the Queen's bedroom.

 

[Cutlass]

An not many MPs killed either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serving_British_MPs_who_were_assassinated

but more could have died in Brighton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing

You've got such a pacifist nation.

 

[Arakhor]

I think it's the US at fault more than the UK is unusually peaceful. There was also the assassination of Louis Mountbatten (the Queen's uncle) by the IRA in 1979, I think.

 

[Cutlass]

Is security good, or is the threat level just that much lower?

 

[Arakhor]

It was highlighted at the time of the French lorry murders that London's urban defences (concrete bollards and the like) are excellent, explicitly due to the Troubles in the 70s and 80s, but we did have the 7/7 attack and the Arndale bombing and so on, so clearly things aren't perfect (not that they ever could be).

 

[Takhisis]

Anyone can help me out with a list of their favourite PC (computer) games based on Greek and Roman Mythology?

Also - which PC games based on Greek and Roman mythology from the past 10 years do you consider the most popular?

It's a genre of game I haven't been playing much, except for the legacy install of Rome: TW just for the sake of nostalgia, but I'll recommend Zero A.D. if you care to try. It's more history than mythology but that depends on the mod. It's an open-source project, still under construction.

To a pretty large extent, yes. I'm not sure what percentage of the country goes without a car. But it's probably under 20% of adults of working age. And that's concentrated on or near the larger to largest cities. For the rest, walking distance or transit just aren't adequate. I knew this one woman who couldn't get a better job at a store in the mall because the last bus ran before the work shift ended. So she couldn't take a manager's job. Many people will spend an hour or more getting someplace by bus that could be reached by car in under 10 minutes. This is because the bus service has minimal route options, and you often have to go well out of your way, and then wait on a transfer to a different bus. Housing is very spread out, and even many people who use transit, use their cars to get to the transit stop. It's called park and ride.

Wow. That's… so alien. I've never needed a car to get to a job or to class.

Most of it. Depends where. It's a big place. I mean, a family I know has 8 kids, one spouse works for about that range, the mom keeps house, and they own their own home and a car because they're willing to do fixup/renovation work themselves. It's a happy sort of chaos, but they have to be tight by my math.

You can live places that have residential/housing/and transit, but then you're pretty much in one of the major cities or in an unusual regional one(Champaign-Urbana might work, for example, it's a college town so better than usual transit for its size). And there is where live all the people that will tell you 35,000 is inadequate(they may be right, they know more than I do there), and ~80,000 median isn't fair/enough for a teacher. Pick your poison, pick your neighbors, I suppose.

Ah, yes, I always got the impression -from movies- that people in the US never repair their own homes or cars. That's usually a big expense.

The urban layout with those commuter towns and university towns is also completely alien to me. It almost sounds worth it to just go there to see how the hell people live there.

You've got such a pacifist nation.

Actually, I think that even the US hasn't invaded as many countries as the British Empire has.
Anyway, Brexit saw an MP murdered by a patriot (the kind that Trump defends) so recently that it seems a long time ago and *checks* there was the Mountbatten killing in '79.

Is security good, or is the threat level just that much lower?

Police need special permission to carry and use firearms. It's a completely different culture.

 

[Silurian]

It was highlighted at the time of the French lorry murders that London's urban defences (concrete bollards and the like) are excellent, explicitly due to the Troubles in the 70s and 80s, but we did have the 7/7 attack and the Arndale bombing and so on, so clearly things aren't perfect (not that they ever could be).

I was work on a road construction project in London and we were asked to put in some bollards to stop lorries driving on the pavement where they came out of a side road. The lorries drove over them and we reinstalled them.

Then we got a better bollard...

Spoiler :

It ripped one of the axles off an articulated lorry

... which seemed to solve the problem.

 

[dusters]

Why not extend it to general greek and roman history? More to choose from, and the rest of the objective and background can stay the same.

Ah, my bad, you are right. The title is "Ancient Greek and Roman motives in computer games". I was thinking to add mythology part, but already dropped it.

So far it looks like Rome: Total War, Total Realism mod is the best I came up with. It remakes the game and makes it very realistic, so the player can understand all the minutiae of each battle.

I will check the Big Fish games and add those genres to the list of genres which incorporate Roman and Greek themes. Thanks.

 

[Takhisis]

If you're going for Ancient Greek/Roman motifs then do play Zero A.D., but it's an incomplete game as of now. :/

 

[Dachs]

Ah, my bad, you are right. The title is "Ancient Greek and Roman motives in computer games". I was thinking to add mythology part, but already dropped it.

So far it looks like Rome: Total War, Total Realism mod is the best I came up with. It remakes the game and makes it very realistic, so the player can understand all the minutiae of each battle.

I will check the Big Fish games and add those genres to the list of genres which incorporate Roman and Greek themes. Thanks.

If you're looking at Total War mods, I'm obliged to stan for Europa Barbarorum rather than Rome: Total Realism. EB was the granddaddy and has always been a more extensive and, in my opinion, better-put-together and better-researched mod than RTR. As hard as it is to believe, EB both gets the history right and makes the gameplay significantly more fun than in the vanilla game.

Depths of Fear: Knossos is a "roguelike" (not really a roguelike) that came out a few years ago based on the Theseus legend. Washed-up former YouTuber Ster memorably said this about the Minotaur boss fight: "No! Now he's just volcano-farting popcorn for no reason!"

Persona 3 borrows some ideas and nomenclature from Greek mythology but is largely about other stuff.

God of War has some vaguely Greek-like things in it but mostly has its own thing going on. Also, as you have said, it ain't a PC game.

Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, despite the name, is actually set largely during the Peloponnesian War. It...gets some things right.

Ryse: Son of Rome is certainly a game that exists.