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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what relevancy does 'how many people are talking about this' have, critically? it's a good movie that lots of people watched, it's a good movie that didn't make too much of a splash---the critic watched it though, all they need to do is review the movie, not do haruspicy about it's future cultural weight and what the studios, executives, and production team are going to do about that sum of money they collected or failed to collect

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

In the religion of ancient Rome, a haruspex was a person trained to practise a form of divination called haruspicy, the inspection of the entrails of sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrificed sheep and poultry. Various ancient cultures of the Near East, such as the Babylonians, also read omens specifically from the liver, a practice also known by the Greek term hepatoscopy (also hepatomancy).

I've heard of the practice, but TIL the proper name for it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

this is why we need matt back on chapo, to teach me words like haruspex and hhyswixw

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

hhyswixw

this is welsh

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haruspex would he a sick name for w black metal band if it hasn't been taken yet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are a couple of haruspex in magic, but I thought it was just a word for "wizard". You draw a card when other creatures die, so it is even doing the thing, as well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I found out what the word meant when Hvomverguy did his Pathologic video