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Explanation: In the Super Mario games, made by Japanese company Nintendo, one of the main enemies are turtles, and the usual boss, Bowser, is himself a giant spiked turtle who spits fire.
... in the 16th century AD, Japan's invasion of Korea (the Imjin War) was foiled in part by a series of naval disasters inflicted by Korean 'Turtle Ships' which were spiked, armored warships armed with heavy cannons.
(Bowser is not actually based on the Turtle Ship, but the similarity is funny)
Hopefully other people have mentioned this.
I really appreciate all the context you give for your posts! Thank you
The PugJesus History Explanations™ are a highlight of lemmy (I guess piefed now) for me. One of my all time favorite interactions on here was roleplaying as senator Armstrong debating with PJ while referencing the history explanation thing. Divinity bless the glorious bastard and their historical hobby hyperfixations.
Holy fucking shit, I remember that interaction but I didn't catch that Raiden's face was a pug, how glorious
Is piefed a different thing than lemmy? I assumed it was just another lemmy instance. I'm subscribed to this community using the same reader as the old one, and everything seems to function the same. tbh, I still don't have a very good grasp of the "fediverse."
Yes and no. Its the same aggregated content but the underlying software running piefed instances is different than lemmy. The websites internals are made by different people with different programming language. On a surface user interaction level a piefed instance is the same functional thing as a lemmy instance and can be treated as such. They all use activitypub protocol to federate between instances whether its piefed or lemmy.
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
The main difference IMO is the personal politics of the people who make the software and run the instances. Lemmys main developers are controversial in regards to politics and administration practices on the main .ml instance. I don't want to be associated with that anymore. Also piefed is in very active development already has cool features that lemmy doesn't with a sleek default layout.
As dope said different software. If you want a translation into dummy (like had someone explain it to me) lemmy and piefed let you access the same communities, there’s just some different under the hood stuff as well as features, such as grouping cross posts together and getting notifications to comment replies that aren’t yours
Anytime! I'm always happy to share the trivia knocking around in my head!
I saw the title, then the picture, and was confused af. Then I looked at the sub, and who posted and was happy to see the explanation. 😅