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someone ought to

The image shows a rectangular Roman dice tower (turricula) made of four copper alloy (bronze) plates with punched cut-out Latin letters and cut-out decorative patterns. At the bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the opening. The tower is a Roman anti-cheating device. It has an open top and is hollow inside except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomize dice as they fall, ensuring unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the exit chute they rang the bells! There is a decorative dolphin either side of the stepped exit chute. The top of the front plate has two decorative pine cone finials. Height 25 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped base to illustrate how it was used. The front inscription reads: PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LVDITE SECVRI Translated as: ‘The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’. Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads: ‘UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as ‘Use happily; may you live well’. Found at a Roman villa at Froitzheim in Germany in 1985.

Roman anti-cheating gaming accessory!

This Roman ‘turricula’ (dice tower) was used to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲

Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over sloping internal levels, and appeared randomly below.

From Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400

📷 LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn

#Archaeology

overdue for something good to happen,

‘Making’ chess pieces from Lego. Wow !

Source / Creator: Greg Saniatan aka slopsmcgee, in collaboration with LEGO

could do with a shot of that good luck virus from red dwarf…

internal server error

die cast

i was thinking more like 5%’ers

halfwits would be an order of magnitude improvement

(secret cool stuff)

this is an appreciation post for the word “awry.” what a weird little guy.

oh for fuck’s sake

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(dramatic pause)

that specific disappointment when the thunderstorm has passed

ok, i’ll look after admissions, you can kick out anyone who misbehaves

but we can’t join, otherwise there’d be more than none

a community of none

it’s almost like we are talking about different things

it only works for your own posts tho 😪

series, don’t know about the game

there’s also Steins;Gate 0 which explores another timeline, i’ve yet to watch that for some reason or other

future me recommends Steins;Gate

sounds positively awful, thanks for saving me the bother!

this is an appreciation post for the word “straddle,” what a neat sequence of letters

idk what you were looking for on my door handle in the dark, Mx Slug, but i didn’t appreciate the squishy surprise when i went to open the door…

be nice to semantically dedupe my feeds. people keep posting the same bad opinions with different words. seen it. don’t need to see it again.

the world couldn’t even standardise on what symbol to use for the “decimal separator”

kudos to everyone involved

“The major problem-one of the major problems, for there are several-one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)

indeed. Douglas Adams put it well:

shoutout to whoever at apple is responsible for macos still pinging me with imessage notifications when my phone is in do not disturb mode .. you should speak to whoever gets the macos sidebar panel to show that “do not disturb” is active

beginning to think the world would be better if positions of power weren’t typically held by irredeemable sacks of shit

🙃