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I cannot claim to know the actual answer here, but I can definitely see some possible ones. For a start the Pacific Islands just have nowhere near as much productive land as Europe, so it's going to be alot easier for Europeans to gather resources and build relatively large and unified societies that can cooperate on things. They're also much more isolated from other large population groups, being scattered across the world's biggest ocean, unlike Europe which can easily have contact with the rest of Europe, with the Middle East, and with North Africa. As such Europe has far more opportunities for ideas to spread and also a far greater need to compete against its neighbours

The maritime skills of Pacific Islanders were absolutely phenomenal, they were just working with a much tougher situation than Europe if the goal is to build a large industrial society. Europe's own maritime cultures distinguished it from its rivals like the Ottomans, who had a capable navy but nothing like the ability that some European nations at the time had to venture far from shore

Dyads makes sense actually, the closest I've ever gotten to finding a sound I like for it is when I'm playing my guitar that I keep in open C tuning. Vielles and citoles would be a rare sight over my way, but violins take on the exact same role. Thanks for the advice!

I don't think I can offer a solid answer to this I'm afraid, I am terrible at organising people. I would suggest that there are a lot of existing established groups with many different goals though, so it might be worth seeing if there's one you like that has a presence in your area

It seems very silly to claim that strikes don't work, they regularly get shit done. But I did not actually advocate for anything in particular in my comment, I just answered the question above

Nice to meet you too! Writing lyrics is one of the biggest blocks between me and putting together complete songs of my own, which is a little galling because I have been paid many times for non-lyric creative writing. I just need to practice more until I can do it (or find someone who has lyrics but doesn't know what to put under them, I suppose)

I dabble in the rest to pull together recordings of what's in my head

This is exactly how it happened for me, yeah! I had ideas and I wanted to actually hear them, and the rest sprang from there

I'm not a particularly heavy fediverse user, but I am subscribed to !guitars@lemmy.world. No matter how much I enjoy trying out different aspects of musicianship and putting them together, there is no doubt that my first love is guitars

I wonder if a more general community for music creation would be a better approach? Seeing as we're a relatively small number of people here it's maybe more useful to specialise the community less just for the sake of gathering more of us together? I don't know a damn thing about running or promoting communities though

I recorded and released a couple of EPs with a band once, but they were only released physically. I have also recorded a couple of metal versions of tracks from the Outer Wilds soundtrack. They're a bit rough because they were very much the process of me actively learning how to do these things, but I'm still pretty pleased with them

I am trying to record some proper music of my own, but sadly my health nosedived and I've struggled to be productive on much at all. Still, the effort continues! However long it takes me, it will be done one day

Costing relevant people money, basically. Strikes, sabotage, obstructions, that sort of thing

What sort of folk music do you play? I love Scottish and Irish folk and primarily play guitar, but I've never really figured out how to properly incorporate it into that kind of music

So long as you don't mean professional musician, I guess I count. I'm a decent guitarist and a reasonably competent bassist (the skills are transferrable, but they are not the same if you want to do anything interesting on bass) who does a bit of blues, rock, and metal. I've done a little bit of music production, essentially just enough to put together recordings with programmed drums at home and have them not be completely awful. I'm also working, very slowly, on learning piano and would like to learn violin, but life has gotten in the way lately and made that difficult

Settling the tonewood argument once and for all with bonewood

Then why call it the Eastern Roman Empire, or the Byzantine Empire if it's the same thing?

Because it's helpful to compartmentalise something with so much history. We can refer to Capetian France and Valois France even though they're both still France, for example. It is unusual for such compartmentalisation to be used with a geographic aspect rather than (only) temporally, but the Roman Empire was unusually big, especially for its time

The two were, of course, independent from one another for basically all practical purposes. I just also think that both are equally the meaningful continuation of the united empire

In very technical terms, the split was a legal loophole to maintain a "single" empire on paper for their own egos and to avoid conflict. In practice and in hindsight, they're 2 different things.

Surely if we are going with the principle that only one of the two halves of the empire is the real continuation, it ought to be the one that kept the capital and administrative structure of the unified empire? Or if neither is the real continuation, did the empire die under Diocletian and then Constantine ruled over a separate entity altogether after the end of the tetrarchy?

Does the British Empire still exist? I would say no.

To keep the analogy accurate here, we'd have to make a few changes. The British monarchy does not call itself the "Southern UK" - you pointed out yourself that the Romans did not call the ERE a different thing - and it'd also have to keep control of a substantial chunk of the colonies when Britain falls to Germany. I do think that, in that case of George V moving to Australia and continuing to rule, say, New Zealand, India, and South Africa from there, I would still consider it the same empire. This exact situation actually pretty much happened in real life with Portugal and Brazil, it just didn't happen in advance of the fall of Portugal and didn't last very long.

Other than this would make some great alternate historical fiction.

I think one of the big HOI4 mods, Kaiserreich, actually does do this! Although as I understand it, it was due to a communist revolution after a stalemated WWI. I do not know the details as I've never played it, I only found out because I had been chatting about ideas for an alt history WWI outcome with a friend and we found out that we had basically accidentally come up with Kaiserreich's version of Europe

That's more or less where I'm at too. I do have to recognise some personal bias though. Partly because I don't know that much about the Indus Valley Civilisation. Partly because for some reason I find it quite frustrating to not have a "proper" name for a society when talking about them, even though I completely understand on a rational level that we just don't have enough information to know what they called themselves

Still, I totally understand how someone could become fascinated by this society in particular. We have so much evidence but never quite enough for solid answers in so many cases. It's a tantalising mystery