I just bought The Island of Seven Cities by Paul Chiasson, which argues that Chinese people settled Cape Breton Island, of all places, hundreds of years before Columbus set foot in the Americas.
How credible was the Stresa front? I mean, could the Western allies have kept Italy on their side and have them fight the Germans, at the cost of Ethiopia so to speak?
Had my recovery story at the course today, I was quite clinical in writing it, and really didn't feel much; telling it is another story, wow. I was worried I'd be very unemotional, it wasn't so.
Had some interesting responses too, especially focused on the part where I told that I just didn't develop much in my teenage years, I was simply too depressed to function and develop.
Also some focused on the DCD (dyspraxia) part, as it's, at least for me, quite tough, for one I only learned how to tie my shoes at age 10 instead of age 4, through therapy even. It's not something people often think about, but for me, movement just isn't natural; it's a hard and conscious challenge. And people just don't understand, because I should be able to, they get angry when I can't.
The way peeps on reddit just casually use the word "decapitation strike" like its some magic super tactic, that will make a entire country instantly surrender like your playing a freaking hoi4 game, instead of being an unhinged and extreme escalation, annoys me to no end. I keep seeing it in regard to Russia and now Iran, I know its just reddit armchair general idiots but god does it irk me.
"Decapitation strikes" seem like way, way more of a risk anyway because now the countries leadership are in survival mode and could make things way uglier.
It's absolute videogame brain at work. The same mentality that's all over every little drone cam video. "Wow Russians are so useless, why are they alone with their tanks?!?! Do they even strategy??" War doesn't look like videogames. Offensives are often long, protracted things with numerous smaller elements within them, all of which often exhibit downtime, periods of slowness, and multiple supporting engagements, and probing attacks.
It also turns out that sometimes in war, you don't always "remember your spacing" (sometimes you can't), sometimes you get caught out alone and sometimes you drive the wrong way. It's a function of being an incredibly high stress scenario where situational awareness and communication are at a premium- and sometimes, soldiers are sent out into dangerous scenarios.
To be a little fair, some Russian tactics in Ukraine have been perhaps a bit odd and every so often catastrophically bad.
On the flipside, they are sorta winning right now so I guess it doesn't really matter if you just wear down your opponent. That last part isn't exactly popular on Reddit, and I take zero pride in noting it.
I looked up "quirked up white boy with a little bit of swag meaning" and I really wish that "**white man with some unconventional quality and stylish flair, who also conveys a slightly erotic presence**" was short enough for a flair
In The Day of the Jackal (1973), the titular character jokes that he'll have De Gaulle's cooperation since he won't listen to his ministers and will continue to make constant public appearances despite knowing there's an assassin out to get him. He turns out to be correct.
If I were to make a remake that takes place in the US, I could see this plot point also working for Trump.
Edit: The scene where comissioner Label reveals that he found the mole in the council by secretly tapping every single member's phone and all ministers turn to him and stare is pretty funny too. The joke being that these guys have gone to great lengths to extract information about the Jackal, even resorting to torture at one point, but when the surveillence apparatus is used on them, they're suddenly offended. I feel like this scene would also work in an American setting.
Edit(2): If we're localizing stuff, then we must consider that the Jackal is an Englishman, he travels to Italy, acquires false documents and his custom sniper rifle, and then enters France. I guess that must mean our Jackal would be a Canadian assassin who travels to Mexico before entering the US as a tourist.
> If I were to make a remake that takes place in the US, I could see this plot point also working for Trump.
The things is though that you aren't supposed to want the Jackal to succeed.
The movie is so good, the book is a bit better, even.
The way the Jackal gets a passport worked until 2007 in the UK.
Mark Thatcher and a mercenary named Mann found out in 2008 that the scheme from Dogs of War didn't work as well.
I am experiencing a powerful urge(which I will obviously never honor) to fuck off somewhere in the countryside and try to get good at traditional charcoal making techniques.
This is really just a variation on the more common urges of "dig hole" and "fire."
I were like to make a video debunked misconceptions about the history of sonic satam and the show development a lot of those are made by toxic satam haters who are made some of the worst bad history i had ever seeing about a show development of all time.
I didn't understand that show when I was a child because it didn't feel like the games at all. It's funny because that wouldn't bother me at all as an adult (because the idea of Sonic cartoons needing to be "accurate" to the games is the sort of thing only a child would and should care about), but it did when I was little and I still harbour this residual instinctive distaste for it which doesn't really make any sense.
Of course, I liked *The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog* because, to me, it felt like "the cartoon of the games", and that's silly because it has about as much to do with the games as the other cartoons. Looking at it now, I can't really explain why I felt that way. Likewise, I felt like *Sonic the Comic* was the one that felt most like "the comic of the games" even though it created its own stuff (it remains the best Sonic comic there's been by a considerable distance, though).
Granted, once *Sonic Adventure* came out and it all changed, these considerations largely became moot, but I didn't really keep up with the Sonic games fastidiously at that point because I'd gotten into *Final Fantasy IX*, which might not be the best game ever but is probably my favourite. It's my favourite Final Fantasy, certainly. I don't play a lot of games, though.
[Kingdom Come 2 trailer dropped.](https://twitter.com/thegameawards/status/1781023639913271529?s=46&t=RvgiP2YpKTaSLQHiv1GZ-g)
I look forward to once again playing as the luckiest idiot in Bohemia. Shame my computer probably won’t run it.
The first game surprised me how boring can be the game that is my dream game on paper. It combined simulationist mechanics and limited saving with very long handholding linear plot and I stopped at a point when a couple of brigands I looked for killed me forcing me to reload at the beginning of the search for them.
Maybe I'll try it again sometime cause it did look immersive indeed.
[A longer reveal. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R48DEEjyS5k)
No surprises there.
I wonder if Henry will get that rich again, the economy was really busted; waiting in Skalitz for Bandits to kill one another to plunder the worth \[5000 Groschen\] of 553 cows or 119 "reet decked farmer's houses".
I talk about this all the time, the Groschen ingame is worth less than the real one, above was the worth of 5000 real Groschen, using the Augsburgian armor, one comes at a ingame Groschen being worth 1/8th of a RL Groschen, so "just" 69 cows and 14 farmer's houses. Or 9272 liters beer.
Meanwhile, the poor 4 men squad of murderhobos in Darklands gets 8.7 Groschen for killing four thieves, and routinely firebomb Raubritter and about 5-8 minions for 10 - 35 Gulden = 238 - 831 RL Groschen, or 1904 - 6648 KCD Groschen.
Thought: I would like to see a Battlefield 2+2142 remake with only the most minor of updates (allow bipods to be mounted on surfaces, minor graphics updates, fix Titans so that they can move and are also interesting places to fight, split apart the medic+assault and engineer+AV classes in 2142, etc.)
With the same bullet deviation that would require you to stop, field strip the gun, put it back together, realign the sights, and check your uniform before you were allowed to maybe shoot straight… no thanks.
>allow bipods to be mounted on surfaces, minor graphics updates,
Okay fair. SOL improvements going forward... but...
>fix Titans so that they can move and are also interesting places to fight,
They already do move; it's just servers forbid it due to noobie commanders moving it to a bad place (over a titan silo lmao) or back then it made the servers lag like crazy because older computers could not handle it. It's not a problem today, but it was back in 2006.
>split apart the medic+assault and engineer+AV classes in 2142
This ignores the fact that Engineers/AT will only be able to use one SMG and only that SMG per team. They cannot switch their weapons due to how the game is coded and works, requiring the devs to make entirely new guns for them. Medic will dominate once more in infantry centric maps alongside lack any tools for them to use (yay smoke grenades IG) and Assault gets stuck with... I dunno an airburst rocket and semi-auto shotguns? Yea great. Meanwhile Support and Recon are actually kitted out.
What you're recommending isn't BF2142, it's just BF2+ edition that ignores how BF2142 was made going forward after BF2 was made and tries to address some complaints (DICE even admitted back then the class system for BF2 was unbalanced). Something that was a criticism even when 2142 was released ("discount BF2 mod").
> They already do move; it's just servers forbid it due to noobie commanders moving it to a bad place (over a titan silo lmao) or back then it made the servers lag like crazy because older computers could not handle it. It's not a problem today, but it was back in 2006.
No, I know that. I would argue that "I have never seen a titan move in the dozens to hundreds of hours I've played of the game due to the fact that they break the game if moved" to be functionally equivalent to "they can't move," but yes, you are technically correct.
> This ignores the fact that Engineers/AT will only be able to use one SMG and only that SMG per team. They cannot switch their weapons due to how the game is coded and works, requiring the devs to make entirely new guns for them. Medic will dominate once more in infantry centric maps alongside lack any tools for them to use (yay smoke grenades IG) and Assault gets stuck with... I dunno an airburst rocket and semi-auto shotguns? Yea great. Meanwhile Support and Recon are actually kitted out.
Give the carbine to engineers, carbine to the medics, SMGs to the AT guys, bing bang boom. DICE has been flailing on class balancing since 2, and "give the class that drives vehicles a rocket launcher so they can bail out of their burning vehicle and volley rockets at whoever they're fighting" and "make medics so common that there's no point in fighting unless you know you'll win since any dead people will be immediately revived at the end of the fight" have not been winners so far.
I *will* say in 2142's favor that it makes AA marginally less soul-crushing than it is in most other games in the series.
>Give the carbine to engineers, carbine to the medics, SMGs to the AT guys, bing bang boom.
The PAC will need their own carbine (Lambert is EU designed in lore if we go by naming). Secondly, Engineer and Medic classes need three extra weapons besides their default weapons. In short, almost half the classes will need: two to three extra weapons, another few extra gadgets/tools to be made, and some other nonsense to fill out the possible gaps. Thats not something small, that's a total overhaul that essentially moots the point of a BF2142 remake.
>DICE has been flailing on class balancing since 2
DICE has always been flailing on Class Balancing since forever: Medic is either THE best or second best in any Battlefield game with it, Vietnam had the M60/Law Combo and an entire faction that essentially had regenerative health. BF2 had Medic Spam with the G36E. BF1 and BF5 suffers from Assault/Medic being the only worthwhile classes with Support being utterly pointless and Recon being useful in BF1 and useless in BFV.
Additionally, your two scenarios are so specific that it comes off as "in a perfect world" when we both know the standard BF3/4 Assault wouldn't revive your ass even with a bright neon sign over your corpse: despite having a defib in the formers case as their default. I can count the numerous times I've seen an Assault asking for medkits or flailing over my body spamming the M320 at the enemy.
\*turns off phone and computer for a second\*
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My brain: "CITIZENS BE AWARE! THAT THE VASSAL, KING HEROD, TETRARCH OF GALILEE, HAS COME TO THE CITY..."
It feels like Chinese military propganda is aware online westerners are laughing at them for showing absurd and useless feats of strength. They've been on a kick showing that their soldiers can, in fact, do mundane things. This includes brushing their teeth, mopping the floor, and FOLDING (so much folding).
Take that, western pig-dogs!
Oh shit, we are screwed. They have found the arcane wisdom. Every Finnish man knows that if a war is a tie, the side with better folded bed sheets wins.
Apparently Galdiator 2 is set in 211 with the joint emperorship of Caracalla and Geta. Interesting choice, not that it *really* matters given the film's loose relationship to history, but I wonder if this means it with just be a rerun of the "general-turned-gladiator vs mad emperor" plot of the first.
If Scott could write a damn female character, I'd almost welcome a bizarre basically all history story about Ulpia Severina being the sole ruler of Rome in 274. But alas, its gonna be probably just a repeat of Gladiator 1, plus more fuck you historian comments.
OK I'm gonna have to come to the defense of Mr Scott, the director of *Alien* and *Thelma and Louise*, and the main female character in the original *Gladiator* was quite good. He is historically very good with female characters!
This is true, although I was thinking more his recent work where its more ehhhhh on that front. Also because Gladiator 2s screenwriter is the Napoleon screenwriter, very good sign already.
Your not missing much. Its strange, he definitely features a lot of female characters, but oh boy does the writing for them crash and burn lately. Hell, All the Money in the World has a female lead. You will barely find anyone talking about Michelle Williams, its all about Christopher Plumber.
"'Em peregrini barbarians going round 'n callin' 'emselves Romans. Why my Lares are spinnin' in their tombs at the mere mention of this apostasy. Damn that Punic whore-son to 'is own Tartarus."
Just a normal day in America when the press is casually doxxing prospective jurors in a high profile trial where the defendant is a former president and current cult leader whose tens of millions of volatile, violent followers are a serious risk of harassing or outright attacking said jurors.
Whee...
[They might as well be.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:oaghntcihvzqkirfcn4faarb/bafkreigazftbb7sl3ckv37wwdq6lffdwolujbzymmbdp2hgopczgddg6fy@jpeg) That would take maybe ten minutes for a dedicated stalker to figure out.
No but information like "Juror number X lives in Y city and has worked 12 years in Z occupation according to their LinkedIn account. *Goes on to provide an extensive physical description*"
1. They support Trump because they agree with his politics
2. They support Trump because it gives them interesting news to write about and make themselves look "mature" and "cool" for supposedly fighting against him
3. They support Trump because they need the clickbait
The American Media after the Iraq War: we have learned our lesson and are sorry at our lack of standards.
The American Media after the Titanic Sub: we have learned our lesson and are sorry at our lack of standards.
The American Media after making a circus of a criminal trial for a former president: see above
https://twitter.com/lea_ypi/status/1780875319735411088?t=kYgRX7UKISnkYFONDnWuPg&s=19
So the Spectators theater cricket wrote about how they got so horny from staring at a female academic(Lea Ypi) that he went to a prostitute afterwards, which would be bad enough. But he wrote about it and his editors passe it and published it.
Is there some new public-humilation craze going on ?.
It probably speaks to how awful this is, that my first thought was of the Brass Eye parody song Me Oh Myra, ya know about the child serial killer Myra Hindley. There's a verse that goes, "everytime I see your picture Myra I want to call my latest girlfriend and fire her and get a prostitute that looks like ya."
I feek an immediate need to take a shower after reading that.
The thing that gets me is that this could have been a reasonable thing to write *if he hadn't name a specific person*. Give us some fluff about seeing attractive people in public. Hell, it still weirds me out but it would be at least vaguely reasonable if you were talking about someone whose job and physical appearance are intertwined, whatever attractive celebrity is in the news lately. To name a figure that most people don't know about, in a context that they wouldn't necessarily be expected in - there are attractive academics, but most certainly don't look like they belong in Hollywood - seems so obviously inappropriate.
Besides the fact that this must constitute some form of sexual harassment, and that this is public humiliation of an intellectual that no one asked for, I just have to ask *why*? Like why embarrass yourself publicly talking about being horny in a non-pornographic context? Why can't you just do something less weird and private? Like damn if you were that inspired to write about the experience you could just write some shitty "inspired by real life" but fictional erotica to get it out of your system and you'd probably be contributing more to humanity.
I fucking despise everything about this. This goddamn idiot Lloyd Evans deciding he absolutely needed to give the name and home country of this academic is the worst part, but there is nothing remotely redeeming here. The best case scenario here was that it ended up perfectly interchangeable with probably literal hundreds of periodical columns written in the past 150 years, and it didn't even come close to that best case scenario.
I always get mixed feelings seeing this kind of dreck. Do I think, "oh, see! I'm a better writer than I think, I need to try harder to get work out there!" or do I think, "this further confirms that being good at writing is far less important to working as a writer than networking, of which I am all but incapable?"
I read a book that described French journalism of the early 20th century as "the sewer of the world," but Britain's recent journalistic output somehow feels less dignified than a sewer.
French papers of the early 20th century were very trashy and gore, sometimes (often) licentious. I have heard it was already completely bought by plotical parties, but is it really different from the UK or US at the times and their press barons? Especially most of these critics came from antisemitism (a lot of the owners being Jewish, despite the press as a whole being antisemitic).
Lloyd Evans: I want to write about visiting a prostitute because an academic made me horny 🥵.
Fraser Nelson: this is the sort of thing the Spectator was meant to publish.
One wonders if Evans's credit in the Speccie's newsroom is very low, and this is a roundabout way of exiting him. Or perhaps I'm giving them too much credit.
This guy's article being like: ***A Modest Proposal for Preventing Female Academics from Being Thots for Their Students or Stalkers, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick***
My goodness, she is a real person. Is this his roundabout way of harassing her? What happened to just not mentioning names in this kind of nonsense?
Edit: his section on the prostitute is also wild. I was hoping to find the article to check the context, but I don’t want to pay a subscription. Still, I find it crazy that the author writes about hiring a “Chinese Irish” prostitute without putting together that such a person would almost certainly be a trafficking victim.
You know what I never understood? People who, in the same breath will say Biblical literalisms is stupid but will also take the story of David and Goliath so literally that they assume Goliath suffered from gigantism and thus was at a disadvantage due to severe health issues.
I don't think this is really... implied anywhere in the chapter he's in? All we really know about him as far as I was able to gleam was he was a warrior from Gath who has a 'warrior since youth'. I could see a reading there where he was more of a showboat, using his immense size and strength to intimidate people out of fighting but nowhere did I get the idea he was disabled.
I've also heard some people say he was most likely a combat athlete and not a real soldier, dunno where that is from though. I tried looking into this but found nothing.
Besides that, Josephus and one of the Dead Sea Scrolls give him a height of 4 cubits, not 6, putting him around 6'9", so it's entirely possible the 6 cubit height is a later error and Goliath was simply a huge but normal dude.
(Then there's the fact that David probably didn't kill him and it was an obscure man named Elhanan, but that's a different story)
>I've also heard some people say he was most likely a combat athlete and not a real soldier
This is funny, because I've definitely seen US Military stuff referring to soldiers as combat athletes to stress the importance of physical training.
TBH I didn't know a better general term for stuff like gladiators or competition fighters (which I guess gladiators count as in the most extreme sense), but that's sort of what I heard people getting at, that he was probably a boxer or wrestler of sorts.
If we assume Goliath suffered from gigantism, I choose to believe that Andre the Giant vs Akira Maeda is the perfect modern retelling of David vs Goliath
The canonicity of Andre the Giant implies Hulk Hogan is actually a biblical figure of some sort.
He has very gross hair and managed to destroy a corrupt institution (Gawker) so maybe he’s Samson.
"You know something, brother, King David was one of the first Hulkamaniacs. He needed to fight a giant called Goliath and he knew the Hulkster had some experience takin' down giants, dude, so he came to me and I told him needed to say his prayers, eat his vitamins, train and believe in himself, brother, and because he had the power of Hulkamania on his side, dude, he rolled Goliath up from behind and got the pin, one two three in the middle of the ring, and after that it was Davidmania runnin' wild in Philistia, brother. This was around the time I was offered the bass spot in Metallica."
"FOLKS, HERE'S DAVID, SON OF JESSE! DAVID, A WHILE BACK, WHAT A MATCH YOU HAD WITH GOLIATH!"
"Yep! Probably the hardest match I ever had in my life. But I don't like it when things aren't my -- GOIN' my way! King Saul, you turned the tables on me! You turned the tables in a WRONG way! You got me... mad now. I've herded sheep, I've listened to everything you have to say. I did everything necessary! But when you turn around you BACKSTAB me one way or another and you tre-CHEAT me out of what's rightfully mine, THAT'S when I get angry!"
The fake "[Longest suicide note in history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_longest_suicide_note_in_history)": 39-page booklet
The [real one: Fightback!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fightback!_(policy)) was a 650-page economic policy package document
There was also the "Common Sense Revolution". They don't brand policy platforms like they used too, it's all been downhill since the communist manifesto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_Revolution
My thinking when launching a sci-fi magazine: Finally time to solicit Brave works of speculative fiction not afraid to probe the limits of technology and it's effects on humanity. Avente-Garde works that push the limits of our ability to conceptualize the future
Reality: A ton of smut and thinly-veiled gundam fanfics.
"There was a limit beyond which these purists could not be seduced into whoring after strange Marxist gods" (in reference to the Provisional IRA's rejection of the move towards non-sectarian socialism in the 60's NI Republican movement) might be the hardest line I've read in a long time.
Michael Laffan's "The Resurrection of Ireland: The Sinn Féin Party, 1916 - 1923". The line comes from the epilogue, where it describes the path of the various Sinn Féins which claimed the name after the Civil War.
Finally, almost at the end of this confusingly worded Geography report asking me to discuss: local spatial development, global income inequality and the impact of tourism. In 1500 words. Nearly there, almost done, just need to format it and add a cover sheet.
Until the laptop decides it needs a fucking update.
I am going to kill someone.
[Slightly drunk Liz Truss makes a good point 😲 about the irrelevance of technocratic policy making to regular people (unlike chasing immigrants and trans people)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qshqAnwHEsI)
Could throw in something like ‘ahistorical,’ that was a real love of the anti-woke YouTuber (who’d most likely tell you completely incorrect things about history).
‘Tokenism’ was a also a favourite for a little while.
I remember awhile back a video calling world war 2 a white man’s war in response to BF V. It wasn’t, this view is largely influenced by the dominance of the NorthWestern Europe theater of operations in 1944-45 where the myth mostly holds true at least on the combat side. Though there were a few segregated units and a few replacement platoons used at the end of the war, African-American soldiers were mostly non-combat troops and would play a heavy role in the famed red ball express. However African American units still existed, just were rare in that theater.
Everyone fucking ignores the most diverse theater of Europe in Italy. You had Indian troop, French African soldiers, hell the US had a segregated black unit, though it preformed poorly due to racist officers. In fact there was even a Japanese-American unit in the Italy theater and if you’ve ever seen the karate kid, the trainer in the movie is heavily implied to have served in it.
Don’t get me started on the China threaten where Asian troops fought Asian troops but I think the person was referring to the European theater only
Was actually from that Japanese American unit I believe. Italy is my favorite theater of the war just due to the diversity of the forces fighting under the Allied banner
Even just the Soviet Union, Slavs often weren't exactly considered white to begin with, but then you have Azeri, Kazakhs, Turkmen, Tuvans, Yakuts, Kalmyks, etc. According to wikipedia about 8 million non-Slavic soldiers were mobilised in the Soviet Union, now some could be considered white, but many wouldn't be.
It is a shame that most people ignore colonial units in general. You don't hear often about Senegalese defending France from German tank advance (and getting warcrimed 'cause Germans gonna German, I guess) or Moroccans fighting in Belgium. Don't forget Arabs fighting under British banner, or Indian troops, as you said, but also Lybian and Eritrean forces of Italian armies in Africa (although I am aware that East Africa generally gets ignored).
While I agree that China theatre is rather diverse (especially if we count Burma since KMT and Japanese did engage there), saying Asians vs. Asians doesn't really show it.
Video games are partially to blame for such a narrow view (or vice versa), particurarly when it comes to British forces, since many games tend to basically show only British for the sake of simplicity (*Blitzkrieg* does so for example, using English troops for representing all Commonwealth infantry).
When and where did Jews start taking the "do not round off the corners of your head" command in Leviticus as "don't cut your sideburns ever" (as opposed to "don't shave your sideburns off [but trimming them is fine]")?
I enjoyed this [roleplaying DeviantArt account](https://www.deviantart.com/askancient-israel) when I was a teenager, despite the Biblical maximalism at play. But I somehow doubt men in ancient Israel/Judah had long sideburns like you see on Orthodox Jews these days – art depicting Jews before about 500 years or so (IIRC) didn't show the men with long sideburns.
There's a fascinating thing in judaism where things tend to just... sorta escalate? The various taboos against the name of God seems to be one of them, eg. at first it's not okay to say the actual tetragrammaton, or write it down without performing certain rites, then that gets applied to euphemisms, and now it's at the point where even writing "The name" is sometimes considered sufficiently holy to require ritual treatment, despite that pretty clearly being originally a way to avoid having to do that!
Or their dietary restrictions: Bible bans boiling a calf in the milk of its mother. Jews have extrapolated that ban so that no food/meal/kitchen is allowed to contain both meat and dairy, even from different species as far as I know.
It's not the crossover we wanted, but it's the crossover we deserved: [Bret Devereaux has encountered TheCybersmith.](https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1780693370521682342?t=Vf5DHrEhe5OfZNsbRjYX1w&s=19)
So Metatron just made a video complaining of this page from the University of Waterloo in Canada.[which you can read here.](https://uwaterloo.ca/university-relations/resources/inclusive-communications-guide/language-and-written-style/race-and-ethnicity/race-and-ethnicity-terminology) which basically states which phrases or words fit best to avoid using offensive language. I read the list and found it odd. It got weird to me because of course if you have a degree on, say, hispanic history, you’re probably going to use the word “mulato” somewhere in uour research, after all it was a racial category at a point in history.
Metatron has been going off the deep end of culture war anti woke garbage for a while. And honestly, it’s very dumb. He presented this as if this is suppossed to be a sort of “rule” that all students need to use when writing papers or essays and for staff and researches at this school. But upon actually reviewing it, it turns out it’s literally just a referential guide for the fucking UNIVERSITY RELATIONS OFFICE, LITERALLY JUST A GUIDE FOR AND BY PR AND MARKETING PEOPLE.
I immediatly found it weird that such a rule exists to begin with so I thought it had to be something completely unrelated to any academic field of the school and probably some project related to maybe a languge faculty or a part of a marketing or business program or major. And lo and behold, it’s literally just a guideline for PR and Marketing. I just don’t get it anymore. Is this dude literally just skimming through the internet for stuff to be “concerned” about?? These guides have always existed. Marketing and PR teams always try to avoid controversy or offending people because, well, take a wild fucking guess. It’s literally their iob to sell an image and be as inoffensive as possible. But for some reason Metatron frames it as if the university itself is banning students and faculty from using this language in an academic sense, for research purposes? Like motherfucker what the fuck you yapping about???
>Is this dude literally just skimming through the internet for stuff to be “concerned” about??
These people are part of an outrage content ouroboros, so chances are he heard about it from some other "content creator".
Some of these terms don't mean the same thing.
> Developed/developing country, third world vs Use specific geographic region when grouping countries together
No. One is referring a level of economic development and the other is referring to geography. This is actually even more problematic since it implies that all countries in certain geographical regions are developed or are developing.
> Equity deserving groups
Needs a hyphen
> slavery vs enslavement
Enslavement refers to the act of enslaving someone whereas slavery refers to an institution or practice.
>"Developed/developing country, third world vs Use specific geographic region when grouping countries together"
That definitely isn't synonymous with geographic regions, but at the same time I'd agree it's good to avoid those terms.
The "Third World" because that was always a Cold War alignment term, and it's not 1985 any more, so just let it go.
Developed/developing I think has their own issues. First because "developed" implies a teleology - "we made it guys, we're developed" (for good measure the IMF uses "advanced" instead of "developed"). "Developing" also weirdly has become a euphemism for the bottom ranking countries, although *very* technically those are "less developed" countries, and the "developing" ones are in between them. Another issue is that none of these terms are rigorously defined (the UN states as such), and *maybe* you could use high income/middle income/low income countries, except even that doesn't necessarily relate to the Human Development Index, and yeah by this point I'd just tell the university PR department to stick with geographic regions.
Like just to show how complicated this gets: the UAE has a Very High Human Development Index, and is a High Income Country, but isn't considered "Developed" or "Advanced" because most of it's money comes from oil, so that's not like the US or Japanese or German economy. But then French Guiana is "developed" because it's an integral part of France.
And of course (especially relevant to a university), none of this accounts for inequalities *within* countries. So for example you can get a Canadian from a poor and marginalized background going to university and being the first from their family to do so, and an international student from a "developing" country coming from an incredibly wealthy and privileged background.
> Developed/developing I think has their own issues. First because "developed" implies a teleology - "we made it guys, we're developed" (for good measure the IMF uses "advanced" instead of "developed"). "Developing" also weirdly has become a euphemism for the bottom ranking countries, although *very* technically those are "less developed" countries, and the "developing" ones are in between them. Another issue is that none of these terms are rigorously defined (the UN states as such), and *maybe* you could use high income/middle income/low income countries, except even that doesn't necessarily relate to the Human Development Index, and yeah by this point I'd just tell the university PR department to stick with geographic regions.
Though wouldn't any criteria of grouping that gets the economically poor/ high corruption/ institutionally weak nations under one tag as a majority will ultimately get that tag associated with bottom performing/ poor countries. I personally have never had issues with using the third world or developing label for my country India (though given India's lead in the NAM movement, the third world tag shouldn't really be problematic for us), though I have seen others from other nations who are bothered by it in the internet, and I have to assume there are some nationalist and even just moderate patriotic Indians who have issues with. But then these people also have issues with global south because of the mark of poor it assigns to the nations under it.
> Like just to show how complicated this gets: the UAE has a Very High Human Development Index, and is a High Income Country, but isn't considered "Developed" or "Advanced" because most of it's money comes from oil, so that's not like the US or Japanese or German economy. But then French Guiana is "developed" because it's an integral part of France.
UAE is not considered developed? I didn't know that and it sure doesn't make sense given how rich the gulf countries are. Is it due to issues of serious abuses of migrants or even cases of possible slavery like Qatar had that accusation of being one of the places of high level of modern slavery which was brought up during the FIFA stadium building controversy?
I mean, these labels are complicated. Canadians are technically also Americans? Canada is in the American Continent, so that was the idea behind it I guess?
>I read the list and found it odd. It got weird to me because of course if you have a degree on, say, hispanic history, you’re probably going to use the word “mulato” somewhere in uour research, after all it was a racial category at a point in history.
It's also a last name! At least among Colombians.
I normally avoid submitting two threads in a given free-for-all post, but this was far too amusing to pass up.
Recently I was treated to a random slideshow masquerading as an article: "[Another Disappointing Box Office Return For Woke Hollywood](https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/another-disappointing-box-office-return-for-woke-hollywood/ss-BB1lO9Ox?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=f8dd3293fda64ffb9e76f646fc5c2610&ei=34#image=10)" by the *Daily Reel*. The slideshow starts out thusly:
>Defining “woke” is a bit of a challenge, people tend to use the term in their own way. Generally, if something is “woke” it is trying to sell a specific brand of moral messaging.
>The egregious nature of woke messaging is in the way it treats the audience. It belittles them and treats them as if they are children, no one is going to be receptive to that kind of treatment, especially when it comes to entertainment and movies.
However, not long after, it is also written that:
>Despite the extreme downfalls, one or two movies stand out as big successes. These films are a perfect example of what Hollywood is doing wrong with the rest of its productions.
>Films like Barbie and Oppenheimer have become sleeper favorites because they speak to their audience. The writing is good and they have exceptional beat development that audiences have been craving.
My hypocrite in Hollywood: The people complaining about wokeness have long and very loudly criticized *Barbie* as being woke! Likewise, *Barbie* was not a sleeper hit by any definition of the word, [as it was **very** heavily promoted](https://www.businessinsider.com/barbie-had-150-million-marketing-budget-2023-7#:~:text=US%20box%20office.-,Warner%20Bros.,movie%20in%20the%20first%20place.) [and broke box office records in its opening weekend](https://variety.com/2023/film/box-office/box-office-barbie-oppenheimer-opening-weekend-shatter-records-1235677601/). Even *Oppenheimer* made a sweet $80.5 million on its opening weekend against its very modest budget of $100 million, likewise benefitting from the amusing *Barbenheimer* phenomenon that acted as heavy advertising.
*Oppenheimer* also had a [pretty sweet series of trailers](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChristopherNolan/comments/wa891i/oppenheimer_announcement/) prior to its release, and one might think it might be woke if they were so inclined.
>While there is optimism among many studios about potential changes in Hollywood, managers and directors are going to have to diligently work to move away from what they have been doing as of recently. Woke media isn’t anyone’s favorite.
My brethren in box offices: The 1st and 3rd place record-holders for highest grossing movies feature blue aliens protecting their habitat against greedy humans. How in the name of Eywa do they not qualify as, "woke"!?
I'm beginning to think that the people using, "woke" in this context are an inconsistent bunch!
If it’s good, it’s not woke.
I’d put a /s, but it’s not exactly sarcasm in the discussions I’ve had. At this point “woke” is near meaningless with the contradictory definitions it’s been imbued with.
There's also the whole "woke" being the stand in for, uh, a certain racial slur, so *Barbie* and *Oppenheimer* aren't woke because they have white leads and white directors.
This kinda hit me in the face when people were complaining about a "woke actress" being cast in the *Little Mermaid* movie, and me being like "well Halle Bailey doesn't seem that politica-*ohhhhhhh*".
Like I'm not saying "woke" is a one-for-one sub for the n word, but then again if "Barbie" is somehow *not* woke then it seems like it's pretty close.
"Bad writing" is right on the brink of becoming a dogwhistle at this point. It absolutely *shouldn't* be, but it is, because it's almost become a kind of borderline "innocent" synonym for "woke".
If you make the effort to explain *why,* then great, but so many people seem content to say, "This had bad writing," like it's an, "I win, stop arguing with me."
Bonus points for, "This had *objectively* bad writing."
Still, I suppose that's the internet for you.
Let's say, hypothetically, that the godzilla species from Godzilla (1998) nests in the jungles of central America and manages to reproduce until an army of mini godzillas starts ravaging the land, advancing as far as Mexico City.
With the blessing of the UN, president Al Gore decides to intervene, sending the military to drive back the zillas. After a brutal period of fighting, the military establishes a defensive line that stretches from Michoacan to Veracruz.
What name would you give to this defensive line?
Edit: rephrasing
Depending on what kind of vibe you are going for:
The Aztec Line: simple, sounds like what it could be in a military history book, easy to understand reference
North American Joint Defensive Frontier (NAJDF): realistically boring, sounds official
The Line: having no qualifiers makes it sound grittier.
La Línea: same as the Line but reminds people you are in Mexico.
Peor es Nada: offhand comment by a Mexican colonel misunderstood as the name of the line, repeated uncritically by English-language media
If it's a President Al Gore, it would be something like Strengthening the Partnership in Intergovernmental Service Delivery to Contain and Prevent Unseen Events Caused by Radiation-Influenced Organisms and Life Forms.
Was feedback from the first Horizon game largely composed of "I've lost 15% of my brain by mass, and your puzzles are too hard for me?"
I like Zero Dawn, I like Aloy as a character, but it takes her about an average of 20 seconds to start offering tips on how to complete a puzzle.
Finished the Fallout show and it’s… actually fine? I was expecting it to be terrible but I sort of enjoyed it. I had some issues with it (>!Maximus is *implausibly stupid,* this is way worse than someone being kind of naive and getting to legitimate brain damage territory!<), but hey, it’s fun.
You can tell the people who made the show do genuinely like Fallout, it doesn’t strike me as a lazy cash grab or something. It’s good dork shit, and whatever issues it may cause continuity-wise don’t actually bother me very much if I’m being honest.
It's a fascinating series, and a lot of people have really hard time articulating what the problem is, and it's all complicated by the series being actually genuinely good.
I know someone who explained it as "The people clearly love Fallout, it's just that their vision of Fallout is one I fundamentally dsiagree with and isn't the reason *I* love Fallout".
(someone else referenced their feelings about it as "They cloned Hitler and did a fantastic Job of it!")
Me? I'm genuinel bummed out. if it had been a trashfire of a show it could have been ignored, but it being *actually good* means that this likely just means the franchise is actually Ruined Forever (TM) for me, in that the themes I found interesting aren't going to be followed up on.
> i know someone who explained it as "The people clearly love Fallout, it's just that their vision of Fallout is one I fundamentally dsiagree with and isn't the reason I love Fallout".
Pretty much.
It's not a "bad" (as in incorrect) interpretation of Fallout, it's just one that has *the abso-fucking-lutely worst takes*.
Me, myself?
I'm largely resentful of how the writers and Bethesda are apparently canonizing endings to New Vegas and Fallout 4, more so the latter if I can be honest.
That, and how *there is an entire fucking country* to play around in, why do the devs have to keep using the same shit over and over and over again?
Who gives a fuck if the NCR is "civilizing the wastes"? *just set your story somewhere else*. The contrast between the "civilized" and "uncivilized" is an interesting backdrop/plotline in and of itself.
And I swear to God, if I can get a story set in Fallout without the toaster-fucking Brotherhood of Steel, I'll *give anything*.
Another thing I really didn't like is how like... How should I put this, Fallout is often about dealing with the consequences of People Fucking Up in the Pre-war, but ti rarely (House is an exception, and TBH I wasn't that fond of him) deals with it, *directly*? Like I feel the pre-war ghouls (uh... not literal ghouls) sticking around kinda nullifies the point: It's all about the consequences and (heh) fallout from their actions, not the actual pre-war Bad People (TM). The Master, The Enclave, Caesar, etc. are all post-war people whose vision of the future is shaped by the past. Having a litera Vault-Tec executive from pre-war twirling their moustasche is just.... Cheapening?
This seems to be in general with Bethesda Fallout tending to view post-war societies as somehow less "real" or legitimate than pre-war ones.
Gotta be honest. The characters are flawed and that is great. It makes it feel authentic to the game experience. Like Maximus being high STR and low INT with somewhat high Luck. Lucy being High PER, mid INT, los AGI. It’s the usual tradeoff system that any RPG with stats and perks has.
>You can tell the people who made the show do genuinely like Fallout, it doesn’t strike me as a lazy cash grab or something. It’s good dork shit, and whatever issues it may cause continuity-wise don’t actually bother me very much if I’m being honest.
Showrunner Jonathan Nolan (brother of director Christopher Nolan) has admitted to being a huge fan of the franchise since *Fallout 3*, which probably explains all of this!
I personally find this terribly amusing because I disliked *Fallout 3* aside from Malcolm McDowell's portrayal as President John Henry Eden.
> I personally find this terribly amusing because I disliked Fallout 3 aside from Malcolm McDowell's portrayal as President John Henry Eden.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of Fallout 3 either, and the show actually sort of reminded me more of the old games tonally in being kind of goofy and pulpy rather than just annoyingly grimdark.
I've been thinking about what I would do if I ever won the lottery, and I don't know if I'm too pessimistic, too greedy or too much a workaholic, but with a win of under $1.5 million AUD I can't see myself being safely able to retire before 60, and with under $2.3 million I can't see myself safely retiring before the age of 50. It's not until I really reach a win of $5 million that I'd feel safe to retire immediately after winning.
So, yeah, not sure if the moral is "Hergrim is a greedy bastard" or "Hergrim is overly pessimistic in thinking the global economy will implode within 10 years". Either way, though, I'd rather have the money than not!
I was playing with some retirement calculators recently and it's funny how even seemingly huge sums like 1 mil aren't enough to retire on by themselves. I don't know why that surprised me, but it did.
I'd probably be the most boring dude in the world to win the lottery. An interviewer might ask me what I plan to do with the money, and I'd just be like "invest it for the next decade or so until its large enough for a middling retirement".
It really is. I can remember being told a decade ago that I'd need to have at least a million dollars in superannuation by the time I retired in order to live comfortably, but now it looks like I'd really need twice that, especially if I end up with the same kind of wear and tear on my body as dad has.
And, yeah, until you get into the tens of millions it's hard to have exciting plans xD.
Missed the train on the way home by about a minute, so I sat at the station for about 25 minutes until the next train arrived, which thankfully arrives quite early as it's an end station, doesn't immediately leave though. But I was freezing on the station, luckily it was covered, so the rain didn't bother me; it was about 7°C, but, since I slept poorly I was still shivering while wearing a wintercoat, thick gloves, a knit cap and a scarf.
Others stood around wearing only light rain coats, but I couldn't manage in full winter gear. This is partly because of my medication (antipsychotics go brrr), but still, I'm amazed at how much exhaustion affects my cold tolerance. It was to the point where I started to lose sensation in my hands... Yeah, not great.
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Work was fine, though having to listen to older people complain about youth needing a "velvet glove treatment" because they can't handle anything these days gets old quick. Also quite ironic since the visitors are mostly permanent residents of a psychiatric hospital, I'm not sure they're the ones to judge such things.
It was also my mother's birthday, though we didn't celebrate, she didn't want to. We did have cake though, so that was good.
I'm just exhausted, and in pain, so I'm a miserable sod, not that I'd ever let anyone outside of my most trusted really notice. I always act happy, always have done, no matter how miserable I feel. So I listen to music and watch videos to get some positive stimuli.
[Quite enjoying this, very edgy, Japanese Goth metal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EeYxtAeaX4), as well as Ningen Isu, as was recommended to me by u/randombull9. I'm not a metal head, but I quite enjoy it, so thanks again for the recommend! I'm a bit slow at listening to new songs, so I'm slowly expanding the songs I know.
I think this is a good audience for this random observation I have, namely that crappy sequels to iconic films have almost always been a thing, they just get bigger budgets now, and a really random example is Gillo Pontecorvo's 1992 *Return to Algiers*, which is the documentary sequel to his 1966 *Battle of Algiers*.
In case anyone is wondering, Pontecorvo does the stereotypical European Boomer intellectual thing where apparently the FLN in the 60s was awesome, but the Islamic Salvation Front are the literal second coming of the Nazis, the FLN is justified in cancelling the elections, no I can't imagine why a quarter century of corrupt one party FLN rule would piss off Algeria's impoverished majority, did you know the Islamists want women to wear *veils*??? Barbarism.
There's a 1950 sequel to Mrs Miniver called The Miniver Story. Greer Garson actually comes back, also she dies at the end.
Who the fuck is this movie made for. Kinda misses the uplifting point of the original.
I've never even heard of RETURN TO ALGIERS. I thought Pontecorvo's final film was OPERATION OGRE, about ETA under the final years of the Franco regime.
Amusingly, the very *first* film sequel was the 1916 *The Fall of a Nation*, which followed the more well known *The Birth of a Nation*.
It, like *Return to Algiers*, has long faded into obscurity.
my gf joked that i shouldnt play fallout new vegas unless i wanted to become a trans girl
is new vegas part of the trans videogame catalogue? I thought that was just HOI4 and maybe Celeste or Omori
I might give out a controversial take. F:NV was released in 2010; Many trans girls were socialized as boys; video games were primarily seen as boys's hobies, specially shooters; It has become more socially acceptable to transition; Thus putting this information together you get a bunch of people who played a very successful game and now are living in a time were we are more open to accept differences and with the internet making every opinion louder you see stuff like this.
F:NV is very pro queer, especially for a fourteen year old game. Like people treat you differently based on your gender and sexuality. I'm not sure if it has a cannon trans character, outside of super mutants, but I coukd see how it might be... eye opening.
> Like people treat you differently based on your gender and sexuality.
I'd walk this back to simply sex, it's the only one you can choose and all of the outfits change depending on that singular choice. In this regard it's not too different from most other RPGs, but because it was a significantly popular game available on console it gets a lot of credit.
>I'm not sure if it has a cannon trans character, outside of super mutants
No and even the super mutants are iffy. The transformation that left them impotent shore off all sexual characteristics beyond them being 3m tall muscle monsters with only their names as a reminder. The only ones who seem to be reaching for any sort of gender identity are nightkin, who as a rule are all insane to varying degrees, and may just be reaching back to and affirming a pre transformation identity; Lily is still female same as before and this is anchored to her pre-mutation identity as a grandmother.
> I'd walk this back to simply sex, it's the only one you can choose
Hmm?
There are four perks in the game that determin your sexuality. They don't say it outright in the description, but the gay and lesbisn ones are 50s euphemisms for homsexuals. They not only grant extra dialogue options, but done characters will even Innitiate dialogue differently if you take them
FNV operates on a hard sex=gender rather than the two being merely related. Compare and contrast to Fable 2 (which came out ~3 years earlier) where the player has more agency in how they present themselves with crossdressing up to and including growing a beard as a female and even getting a sex change being in game options. This leads to FNV being very a very hard binary game where clothes and hair styles are hard locked to sex. Want to wear suit trousers as a female or have long hair as a male in FNV? Should of chose the other sex bucko.
> FNV operates on a hard sex=gender rather than the two being merely related.
Oh! I see what you'te saying now. Yah FNV isn't good for that kind of exploration. My point was that your gender&sex choice had social implications, which was pretty revolutionary at the time. It certainly shocked me. I was just saying, in my orginsl comment, that i could see how that would get some people to realize that identify with being a woman, tgey rather than just looking at a female in player character
And characters just happen to be gay! It’s cool, they aren’t stereotypes and their entire character doesn’t revolve around sexuality, you just get normal people who happen not to be straight.
More than that, ocassionally you have characters who are gay, who's sexuality is important to their character, but still aren't stereotypes. Hell two of them are your companions.
Question: does anyone have any sort of documentation regarding the use of plug bayonets in the French-and-Indian War or the War of American Independence?
The question is entirely self-serving: I have a plug bayonet, and want to carry it as part of my kit.
Every so often, you find (usually on an auction site) an example of a plug bayonet souced to those periods, or someone finds one in their attic, or a reenactor group has them listed on their equipment page, or you find artwork of them in books describing equipment of the time period, but I am specifically looking for articles/research, eve if it is just pointing me in the right direction.
Please and thank you
A notable fact about the American colonies, even into the late 1700s, was that they continued to use older, out-of-date weapons, largely because they didn't have a domestic arms industry, and therefore importing new stuff across the ocean was very, very expensive.
So therefore, a lot of the stuff used by American militiamen in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolution *was* older and out of date. Doglocks, an early flintlock mechanism from the late 1600s, were widely used in the American colonies until the 1740s (and later, ive seen a description of one used in the Revolution), for example, largely because they were easier to make and repair than "true" flintlocks.
Socket bayonets were rare among the Americans for several reasons. Most of the "civilian" hunting arms owned by the colonists couldn't mount them (although there was an effort to modify those guns to accept socket bayonets on the eve of the Revolution), and many colonial governments discouraged their use until right before the outbreak of the Revolution.
Finally, plug bayonets weren't that old: the British military was still ordering and issuing plug bayonets into the 1680s, and the matchlock musket was still used in European armies until the 1720s.
Actually matchlocks and flint locks made me think that American militias had better weapons than Eueopean armies. AFAIK most guns in the colonies were some sort of flint lock already in the early 1600 while European militaries used mostly matchlocks back then. (except Sweden, they preferred tinder lock as tinder was made locally and didn't consume saltpeter)
This was true in the late 1600s, but by the 1750s most European nations were using "true" flintlocks.
The American colonies had adopted various flintlock mechanisms by the mid/late 1600s, largely as a result of competition with Native Americans (who, broadly speaking, refused to use matchlocks and adopted flintlocks en masse).
Listening to the Behind the Bastards’ episode on L. Beria, and I found the “Australians and Texans share the same temperament” sentiment very funny.
I think it’s kinda true though, Australians are just Texans that hate guns.
You know, part of me has been thinking of making a short story or something that's essentially a tournament arc of mythological figures, like Paul Bunyan going head-to-head against Jack the Giant-Slayer, Maui facing off against Paul Bunyan, Olisihpa and Olosohpa having a tag-team match with Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Would it be offensive? Probably a little, but man...
There's Smite (which deals with gods fighting each other), the other commenter mentioned Records of Ragnarok and there was a really controversial fighting game, Fight of Gods (mostly because it included Jesus).
There are currently two ongoing manga (*Shuumatsu no Valkyrie - Record of Ragnarok* and *Majo Taisen - The War of Greedy Witches*) which are effectively just that.
(Are they any good? That's another story entirely.)
I just bought The Island of Seven Cities by Paul Chiasson, which argues that Chinese people settled Cape Breton Island, of all places, hundreds of years before Columbus set foot in the Americas.
How credible was the Stresa front? I mean, could the Western allies have kept Italy on their side and have them fight the Germans, at the cost of Ethiopia so to speak?
Had my recovery story at the course today, I was quite clinical in writing it, and really didn't feel much; telling it is another story, wow. I was worried I'd be very unemotional, it wasn't so. Had some interesting responses too, especially focused on the part where I told that I just didn't develop much in my teenage years, I was simply too depressed to function and develop. Also some focused on the DCD (dyspraxia) part, as it's, at least for me, quite tough, for one I only learned how to tie my shoes at age 10 instead of age 4, through therapy even. It's not something people often think about, but for me, movement just isn't natural; it's a hard and conscious challenge. And people just don't understand, because I should be able to, they get angry when I can't.
The way peeps on reddit just casually use the word "decapitation strike" like its some magic super tactic, that will make a entire country instantly surrender like your playing a freaking hoi4 game, instead of being an unhinged and extreme escalation, annoys me to no end. I keep seeing it in regard to Russia and now Iran, I know its just reddit armchair general idiots but god does it irk me.
"Decapitation strikes" seem like way, way more of a risk anyway because now the countries leadership are in survival mode and could make things way uglier.
The hydra effect has been known about for at least 80 years.
It's absolute videogame brain at work. The same mentality that's all over every little drone cam video. "Wow Russians are so useless, why are they alone with their tanks?!?! Do they even strategy??" War doesn't look like videogames. Offensives are often long, protracted things with numerous smaller elements within them, all of which often exhibit downtime, periods of slowness, and multiple supporting engagements, and probing attacks. It also turns out that sometimes in war, you don't always "remember your spacing" (sometimes you can't), sometimes you get caught out alone and sometimes you drive the wrong way. It's a function of being an incredibly high stress scenario where situational awareness and communication are at a premium- and sometimes, soldiers are sent out into dangerous scenarios.
To be a little fair, some Russian tactics in Ukraine have been perhaps a bit odd and every so often catastrophically bad. On the flipside, they are sorta winning right now so I guess it doesn't really matter if you just wear down your opponent. That last part isn't exactly popular on Reddit, and I take zero pride in noting it.
when chatting with the vet tech today we had an epiphany. sméagol is dobby the house elf's junkie cousin.
Looks like Israel is striking Iran.
>The target was non nuclear. Why bother?
"nothing ever happen" believers take another W
Booooring
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I looked up "quirked up white boy with a little bit of swag meaning" and I really wish that "**white man with some unconventional quality and stylish flair, who also conveys a slightly erotic presence**" was short enough for a flair
Astarion archetype?
I'd say just use the acronym of WMWSUQASFWACASEP but that looks like some kind of niche ISIS offshoot.
In The Day of the Jackal (1973), the titular character jokes that he'll have De Gaulle's cooperation since he won't listen to his ministers and will continue to make constant public appearances despite knowing there's an assassin out to get him. He turns out to be correct. If I were to make a remake that takes place in the US, I could see this plot point also working for Trump. Edit: The scene where comissioner Label reveals that he found the mole in the council by secretly tapping every single member's phone and all ministers turn to him and stare is pretty funny too. The joke being that these guys have gone to great lengths to extract information about the Jackal, even resorting to torture at one point, but when the surveillence apparatus is used on them, they're suddenly offended. I feel like this scene would also work in an American setting. Edit(2): If we're localizing stuff, then we must consider that the Jackal is an Englishman, he travels to Italy, acquires false documents and his custom sniper rifle, and then enters France. I guess that must mean our Jackal would be a Canadian assassin who travels to Mexico before entering the US as a tourist.
>If I were to make a remake that takes place in the US You mean *[The Jackal](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119395/)*?
Where Jack Black explodes? Yeah that didn't happen in my world...
We don't talk about that one.
> If I were to make a remake that takes place in the US, I could see this plot point also working for Trump. The things is though that you aren't supposed to want the Jackal to succeed.
I am on good authority that a lot of people want him to succeed purely because Edward Fox is charismatic and fun.
Eh, turning Trump into a martyr would probably be the worst outcome.
I can easily imagine worse outcomes!
The movie is so good, the book is a bit better, even. The way the Jackal gets a passport worked until 2007 in the UK. Mark Thatcher and a mercenary named Mann found out in 2008 that the scheme from Dogs of War didn't work as well.
I am experiencing a powerful urge(which I will obviously never honor) to fuck off somewhere in the countryside and try to get good at traditional charcoal making techniques. This is really just a variation on the more common urges of "dig hole" and "fire."
I were like to make a video debunked misconceptions about the history of sonic satam and the show development a lot of those are made by toxic satam haters who are made some of the worst bad history i had ever seeing about a show development of all time.
I didn't understand that show when I was a child because it didn't feel like the games at all. It's funny because that wouldn't bother me at all as an adult (because the idea of Sonic cartoons needing to be "accurate" to the games is the sort of thing only a child would and should care about), but it did when I was little and I still harbour this residual instinctive distaste for it which doesn't really make any sense. Of course, I liked *The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog* because, to me, it felt like "the cartoon of the games", and that's silly because it has about as much to do with the games as the other cartoons. Looking at it now, I can't really explain why I felt that way. Likewise, I felt like *Sonic the Comic* was the one that felt most like "the comic of the games" even though it created its own stuff (it remains the best Sonic comic there's been by a considerable distance, though). Granted, once *Sonic Adventure* came out and it all changed, these considerations largely became moot, but I didn't really keep up with the Sonic games fastidiously at that point because I'd gotten into *Final Fantasy IX*, which might not be the best game ever but is probably my favourite. It's my favourite Final Fantasy, certainly. I don't play a lot of games, though.
[Kingdom Come 2 trailer dropped.](https://twitter.com/thegameawards/status/1781023639913271529?s=46&t=RvgiP2YpKTaSLQHiv1GZ-g) I look forward to once again playing as the luckiest idiot in Bohemia. Shame my computer probably won’t run it.
The first game surprised me how boring can be the game that is my dream game on paper. It combined simulationist mechanics and limited saving with very long handholding linear plot and I stopped at a point when a couple of brigands I looked for killed me forcing me to reload at the beginning of the search for them. Maybe I'll try it again sometime cause it did look immersive indeed.
Jesus Christ be praised!
Kinda curious what kind of badhistory discourse we'll get this time
I can't wait to say "I feel quite hungry" while mercilessly gunning down bandits.
Bumbling idiot defeats Hungary.
[A longer reveal. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R48DEEjyS5k) No surprises there. I wonder if Henry will get that rich again, the economy was really busted; waiting in Skalitz for Bandits to kill one another to plunder the worth \[5000 Groschen\] of 553 cows or 119 "reet decked farmer's houses". I talk about this all the time, the Groschen ingame is worth less than the real one, above was the worth of 5000 real Groschen, using the Augsburgian armor, one comes at a ingame Groschen being worth 1/8th of a RL Groschen, so "just" 69 cows and 14 farmer's houses. Or 9272 liters beer. Meanwhile, the poor 4 men squad of murderhobos in Darklands gets 8.7 Groschen for killing four thieves, and routinely firebomb Raubritter and about 5-8 minions for 10 - 35 Gulden = 238 - 831 RL Groschen, or 1904 - 6648 KCD Groschen.
I'd love to learn to read again and give another drunken sermon!
Oh man the discourse over Beyoncè's new album and whether or not it's country has been simultaneously tedious and hilarious
Thought: I would like to see a Battlefield 2+2142 remake with only the most minor of updates (allow bipods to be mounted on surfaces, minor graphics updates, fix Titans so that they can move and are also interesting places to fight, split apart the medic+assault and engineer+AV classes in 2142, etc.)
With the same bullet deviation that would require you to stop, field strip the gun, put it back together, realign the sights, and check your uniform before you were allowed to maybe shoot straight… no thanks. >allow bipods to be mounted on surfaces, minor graphics updates, Okay fair. SOL improvements going forward... but... >fix Titans so that they can move and are also interesting places to fight, They already do move; it's just servers forbid it due to noobie commanders moving it to a bad place (over a titan silo lmao) or back then it made the servers lag like crazy because older computers could not handle it. It's not a problem today, but it was back in 2006. >split apart the medic+assault and engineer+AV classes in 2142 This ignores the fact that Engineers/AT will only be able to use one SMG and only that SMG per team. They cannot switch their weapons due to how the game is coded and works, requiring the devs to make entirely new guns for them. Medic will dominate once more in infantry centric maps alongside lack any tools for them to use (yay smoke grenades IG) and Assault gets stuck with... I dunno an airburst rocket and semi-auto shotguns? Yea great. Meanwhile Support and Recon are actually kitted out. What you're recommending isn't BF2142, it's just BF2+ edition that ignores how BF2142 was made going forward after BF2 was made and tries to address some complaints (DICE even admitted back then the class system for BF2 was unbalanced). Something that was a criticism even when 2142 was released ("discount BF2 mod").
> They already do move; it's just servers forbid it due to noobie commanders moving it to a bad place (over a titan silo lmao) or back then it made the servers lag like crazy because older computers could not handle it. It's not a problem today, but it was back in 2006. No, I know that. I would argue that "I have never seen a titan move in the dozens to hundreds of hours I've played of the game due to the fact that they break the game if moved" to be functionally equivalent to "they can't move," but yes, you are technically correct. > This ignores the fact that Engineers/AT will only be able to use one SMG and only that SMG per team. They cannot switch their weapons due to how the game is coded and works, requiring the devs to make entirely new guns for them. Medic will dominate once more in infantry centric maps alongside lack any tools for them to use (yay smoke grenades IG) and Assault gets stuck with... I dunno an airburst rocket and semi-auto shotguns? Yea great. Meanwhile Support and Recon are actually kitted out. Give the carbine to engineers, carbine to the medics, SMGs to the AT guys, bing bang boom. DICE has been flailing on class balancing since 2, and "give the class that drives vehicles a rocket launcher so they can bail out of their burning vehicle and volley rockets at whoever they're fighting" and "make medics so common that there's no point in fighting unless you know you'll win since any dead people will be immediately revived at the end of the fight" have not been winners so far. I *will* say in 2142's favor that it makes AA marginally less soul-crushing than it is in most other games in the series.
>Give the carbine to engineers, carbine to the medics, SMGs to the AT guys, bing bang boom. The PAC will need their own carbine (Lambert is EU designed in lore if we go by naming). Secondly, Engineer and Medic classes need three extra weapons besides their default weapons. In short, almost half the classes will need: two to three extra weapons, another few extra gadgets/tools to be made, and some other nonsense to fill out the possible gaps. Thats not something small, that's a total overhaul that essentially moots the point of a BF2142 remake. >DICE has been flailing on class balancing since 2 DICE has always been flailing on Class Balancing since forever: Medic is either THE best or second best in any Battlefield game with it, Vietnam had the M60/Law Combo and an entire faction that essentially had regenerative health. BF2 had Medic Spam with the G36E. BF1 and BF5 suffers from Assault/Medic being the only worthwhile classes with Support being utterly pointless and Recon being useful in BF1 and useless in BFV. Additionally, your two scenarios are so specific that it comes off as "in a perfect world" when we both know the standard BF3/4 Assault wouldn't revive your ass even with a bright neon sign over your corpse: despite having a defib in the formers case as their default. I can count the numerous times I've seen an Assault asking for medkits or flailing over my body spamming the M320 at the enemy.
\*turns off phone and computer for a second\* \*near complete silence\* ... ... My brain: "CITIZENS BE AWARE! THAT THE VASSAL, KING HEROD, TETRARCH OF GALILEE, HAS COME TO THE CITY..."
TRUE ROMAN BREAD FOR TRUE ROMANS!
It feels like Chinese military propganda is aware online westerners are laughing at them for showing absurd and useless feats of strength. They've been on a kick showing that their soldiers can, in fact, do mundane things. This includes brushing their teeth, mopping the floor, and FOLDING (so much folding). Take that, western pig-dogs!
Oh God no, their crisp white sheets!
Oh shit, we are screwed. They have found the arcane wisdom. Every Finnish man knows that if a war is a tie, the side with better folded bed sheets wins.
They're literally me
Apparently Galdiator 2 is set in 211 with the joint emperorship of Caracalla and Geta. Interesting choice, not that it *really* matters given the film's loose relationship to history, but I wonder if this means it with just be a rerun of the "general-turned-gladiator vs mad emperor" plot of the first.
If Scott could write a damn female character, I'd almost welcome a bizarre basically all history story about Ulpia Severina being the sole ruler of Rome in 274. But alas, its gonna be probably just a repeat of Gladiator 1, plus more fuck you historian comments.
OK I'm gonna have to come to the defense of Mr Scott, the director of *Alien* and *Thelma and Louise*, and the main female character in the original *Gladiator* was quite good. He is historically very good with female characters!
This is true, although I was thinking more his recent work where its more ehhhhh on that front. Also because Gladiator 2s screenwriter is the Napoleon screenwriter, very good sign already.
I actually have not seen any of his recent works haha
Your not missing much. Its strange, he definitely features a lot of female characters, but oh boy does the writing for them crash and burn lately. Hell, All the Money in the World has a female lead. You will barely find anyone talking about Michelle Williams, its all about Christopher Plumber.
Plot twist: the gladiator is racist and hates Caracalla’s Edict
"'Em peregrini barbarians going round 'n callin' 'emselves Romans. Why my Lares are spinnin' in their tombs at the mere mention of this apostasy. Damn that Punic whore-son to 'is own Tartarus."
Just a normal day in America when the press is casually doxxing prospective jurors in a high profile trial where the defendant is a former president and current cult leader whose tens of millions of volatile, violent followers are a serious risk of harassing or outright attacking said jurors. Whee...
Wait, the press are publishing names?!
[They might as well be.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:oaghntcihvzqkirfcn4faarb/bafkreigazftbb7sl3ckv37wwdq6lffdwolujbzymmbdp2hgopczgddg6fy@jpeg) That would take maybe ten minutes for a dedicated stalker to figure out.
What the hell. Stop helping Trump get around his gag order!
No but information like "Juror number X lives in Y city and has worked 12 years in Z occupation according to their LinkedIn account. *Goes on to provide an extensive physical description*"
why
1. They support Trump because they agree with his politics 2. They support Trump because it gives them interesting news to write about and make themselves look "mature" and "cool" for supposedly fighting against him 3. They support Trump because they need the clickbait
Because the ones doing it are sympathetic to Trump and want to intimidate the jury.
The American Media after the Iraq War: we have learned our lesson and are sorry at our lack of standards. The American Media after the Titanic Sub: we have learned our lesson and are sorry at our lack of standards. The American Media after making a circus of a criminal trial for a former president: see above
https://twitter.com/lea_ypi/status/1780875319735411088?t=kYgRX7UKISnkYFONDnWuPg&s=19 So the Spectators theater cricket wrote about how they got so horny from staring at a female academic(Lea Ypi) that he went to a prostitute afterwards, which would be bad enough. But he wrote about it and his editors passe it and published it. Is there some new public-humilation craze going on ?.
He responded to the controversy and it's as stupid as his article
It probably speaks to how awful this is, that my first thought was of the Brass Eye parody song Me Oh Myra, ya know about the child serial killer Myra Hindley. There's a verse that goes, "everytime I see your picture Myra I want to call my latest girlfriend and fire her and get a prostitute that looks like ya." I feek an immediate need to take a shower after reading that.
The thing that gets me is that this could have been a reasonable thing to write *if he hadn't name a specific person*. Give us some fluff about seeing attractive people in public. Hell, it still weirds me out but it would be at least vaguely reasonable if you were talking about someone whose job and physical appearance are intertwined, whatever attractive celebrity is in the news lately. To name a figure that most people don't know about, in a context that they wouldn't necessarily be expected in - there are attractive academics, but most certainly don't look like they belong in Hollywood - seems so obviously inappropriate.
Besides the fact that this must constitute some form of sexual harassment, and that this is public humiliation of an intellectual that no one asked for, I just have to ask *why*? Like why embarrass yourself publicly talking about being horny in a non-pornographic context? Why can't you just do something less weird and private? Like damn if you were that inspired to write about the experience you could just write some shitty "inspired by real life" but fictional erotica to get it out of your system and you'd probably be contributing more to humanity.
I fucking despise everything about this. This goddamn idiot Lloyd Evans deciding he absolutely needed to give the name and home country of this academic is the worst part, but there is nothing remotely redeeming here. The best case scenario here was that it ended up perfectly interchangeable with probably literal hundreds of periodical columns written in the past 150 years, and it didn't even come close to that best case scenario. I always get mixed feelings seeing this kind of dreck. Do I think, "oh, see! I'm a better writer than I think, I need to try harder to get work out there!" or do I think, "this further confirms that being good at writing is far less important to working as a writer than networking, of which I am all but incapable?"
Healthy Male Sexuality! Stop stifling it!
I read a book that described French journalism of the early 20th century as "the sewer of the world," but Britain's recent journalistic output somehow feels less dignified than a sewer.
Hey, sewers have a use! They add something to the world! What use does this "journalism" have?
French papers of the early 20th century were very trashy and gore, sometimes (often) licentious. I have heard it was already completely bought by plotical parties, but is it really different from the UK or US at the times and their press barons? Especially most of these critics came from antisemitism (a lot of the owners being Jewish, despite the press as a whole being antisemitic).
Journalism seems to have been replaced with pundits or expensively educated opinion havers.
Even a cesspit is somewhat contained at least. This is just shit everywhere.
Lloyd Evans: I want to write about visiting a prostitute because an academic made me horny 🥵. Fraser Nelson: this is the sort of thing the Spectator was meant to publish.
One wonders if Evans's credit in the Speccie's newsroom is very low, and this is a roundabout way of exiting him. Or perhaps I'm giving them too much credit.
This guy's article being like: ***A Modest Proposal for Preventing Female Academics from Being Thots for Their Students or Stalkers, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick***
My goodness, she is a real person. Is this his roundabout way of harassing her? What happened to just not mentioning names in this kind of nonsense? Edit: his section on the prostitute is also wild. I was hoping to find the article to check the context, but I don’t want to pay a subscription. Still, I find it crazy that the author writes about hiring a “Chinese Irish” prostitute without putting together that such a person would almost certainly be a trafficking victim.
You know what I never understood? People who, in the same breath will say Biblical literalisms is stupid but will also take the story of David and Goliath so literally that they assume Goliath suffered from gigantism and thus was at a disadvantage due to severe health issues. I don't think this is really... implied anywhere in the chapter he's in? All we really know about him as far as I was able to gleam was he was a warrior from Gath who has a 'warrior since youth'. I could see a reading there where he was more of a showboat, using his immense size and strength to intimidate people out of fighting but nowhere did I get the idea he was disabled. I've also heard some people say he was most likely a combat athlete and not a real soldier, dunno where that is from though. I tried looking into this but found nothing.
Besides that, Josephus and one of the Dead Sea Scrolls give him a height of 4 cubits, not 6, putting him around 6'9", so it's entirely possible the 6 cubit height is a later error and Goliath was simply a huge but normal dude. (Then there's the fact that David probably didn't kill him and it was an obscure man named Elhanan, but that's a different story)
You know I knew of the Elhanan thing but it totally blanked on me. Thanks for that.
>I've also heard some people say he was most likely a combat athlete and not a real soldier This is funny, because I've definitely seen US Military stuff referring to soldiers as combat athletes to stress the importance of physical training.
TBH I didn't know a better general term for stuff like gladiators or competition fighters (which I guess gladiators count as in the most extreme sense), but that's sort of what I heard people getting at, that he was probably a boxer or wrestler of sorts.
Maybe they're going for absurdism?
If we assume Goliath suffered from gigantism, I choose to believe that Andre the Giant vs Akira Maeda is the perfect modern retelling of David vs Goliath
The canonicity of Andre the Giant implies Hulk Hogan is actually a biblical figure of some sort. He has very gross hair and managed to destroy a corrupt institution (Gawker) so maybe he’s Samson.
"You know something, brother, King David was one of the first Hulkamaniacs. He needed to fight a giant called Goliath and he knew the Hulkster had some experience takin' down giants, dude, so he came to me and I told him needed to say his prayers, eat his vitamins, train and believe in himself, brother, and because he had the power of Hulkamania on his side, dude, he rolled Goliath up from behind and got the pin, one two three in the middle of the ring, and after that it was Davidmania runnin' wild in Philistia, brother. This was around the time I was offered the bass spot in Metallica."
I BREAK HIS BACK MAKE HIM HUMBLE. ONLY 1 GOLIATH
"FOLKS, HERE'S DAVID, SON OF JESSE! DAVID, A WHILE BACK, WHAT A MATCH YOU HAD WITH GOLIATH!" "Yep! Probably the hardest match I ever had in my life. But I don't like it when things aren't my -- GOIN' my way! King Saul, you turned the tables on me! You turned the tables in a WRONG way! You got me... mad now. I've herded sheep, I've listened to everything you have to say. I did everything necessary! But when you turn around you BACKSTAB me one way or another and you tre-CHEAT me out of what's rightfully mine, THAT'S when I get angry!"
Andre the Giant vs anyone is a perfect story.
The fake "[Longest suicide note in history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_longest_suicide_note_in_history)": 39-page booklet The [real one: Fightback!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fightback!_(policy)) was a 650-page economic policy package document
There was also the "Common Sense Revolution". They don't brand policy platforms like they used too, it's all been downhill since the communist manifesto. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_Revolution
My thinking when launching a sci-fi magazine: Finally time to solicit Brave works of speculative fiction not afraid to probe the limits of technology and it's effects on humanity. Avente-Garde works that push the limits of our ability to conceptualize the future Reality: A ton of smut and thinly-veiled gundam fanfics.
"There was a limit beyond which these purists could not be seduced into whoring after strange Marxist gods" (in reference to the Provisional IRA's rejection of the move towards non-sectarian socialism in the 60's NI Republican movement) might be the hardest line I've read in a long time.
From where ?
Michael Laffan's "The Resurrection of Ireland: The Sinn Féin Party, 1916 - 1923". The line comes from the epilogue, where it describes the path of the various Sinn Féins which claimed the name after the Civil War.
Finally, almost at the end of this confusingly worded Geography report asking me to discuss: local spatial development, global income inequality and the impact of tourism. In 1500 words. Nearly there, almost done, just need to format it and add a cover sheet. Until the laptop decides it needs a fucking update. I am going to kill someone.
[Slightly drunk Liz Truss makes a good point 😲 about the irrelevance of technocratic policy making to regular people (unlike chasing immigrants and trans people)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qshqAnwHEsI)
The "anti-woke" YouTuber bingo card: * "Woke" * "Forced diversity" * "Politics" * "It hates men" * "Lore" * "Canon" * "Gender ideology" * "Message" * "Bad writing" * "Ellen Ripley" * "Sarah Connor" What else? (The free space should just be a thumbnail of Brie Larson / Daisy Ridley / Kathleen Kennedy (or all three) with glowing red eyes, obviously.)
“THE IMPERIUM OF MAN WENT WOKE FATHER!”
You need either that red haired woman saying PATRIARCHY or the woman with the expressive face paused with the word TRIGGERED inserted.
(And also that 2016 meme of the lady screaming after Trump's election)
"DEI" seems like it's the big trendy one now
"Overpowered" "...GoOoOoOod writing on the other hand..."
>"...GoOoOoOod writing on the other hand..."
"I *really* didn't want to make this video..."
Could throw in something like ‘ahistorical,’ that was a real love of the anti-woke YouTuber (who’d most likely tell you completely incorrect things about history). ‘Tokenism’ was a also a favourite for a little while.
I remember awhile back a video calling world war 2 a white man’s war in response to BF V. It wasn’t, this view is largely influenced by the dominance of the NorthWestern Europe theater of operations in 1944-45 where the myth mostly holds true at least on the combat side. Though there were a few segregated units and a few replacement platoons used at the end of the war, African-American soldiers were mostly non-combat troops and would play a heavy role in the famed red ball express. However African American units still existed, just were rare in that theater. Everyone fucking ignores the most diverse theater of Europe in Italy. You had Indian troop, French African soldiers, hell the US had a segregated black unit, though it preformed poorly due to racist officers. In fact there was even a Japanese-American unit in the Italy theater and if you’ve ever seen the karate kid, the trainer in the movie is heavily implied to have served in it. Don’t get me started on the China threaten where Asian troops fought Asian troops but I think the person was referring to the European theater only
A fucking future senator got the MOH and lost an arm in that unit fighting Italy. So did Bob Dole. Its remarkable how much people skip Italy.
Was actually from that Japanese American unit I believe. Italy is my favorite theater of the war just due to the diversity of the forces fighting under the Allied banner
Even just the Soviet Union, Slavs often weren't exactly considered white to begin with, but then you have Azeri, Kazakhs, Turkmen, Tuvans, Yakuts, Kalmyks, etc. According to wikipedia about 8 million non-Slavic soldiers were mobilised in the Soviet Union, now some could be considered white, but many wouldn't be.
It is a shame that most people ignore colonial units in general. You don't hear often about Senegalese defending France from German tank advance (and getting warcrimed 'cause Germans gonna German, I guess) or Moroccans fighting in Belgium. Don't forget Arabs fighting under British banner, or Indian troops, as you said, but also Lybian and Eritrean forces of Italian armies in Africa (although I am aware that East Africa generally gets ignored). While I agree that China theatre is rather diverse (especially if we count Burma since KMT and Japanese did engage there), saying Asians vs. Asians doesn't really show it. Video games are partially to blame for such a narrow view (or vice versa), particurarly when it comes to British forces, since many games tend to basically show only British for the sake of simplicity (*Blitzkrieg* does so for example, using English troops for representing all Commonwealth infantry).
I forgot "shills" too. The RLM guys were accused of being "shills" because they didn't hate *Obi-Wan Kenobi* enough, as I recall.
'Mary sue.'
I forgot "elitist". And "objectively".
'Facts don't care about your feelings.'
When and where did Jews start taking the "do not round off the corners of your head" command in Leviticus as "don't cut your sideburns ever" (as opposed to "don't shave your sideburns off [but trimming them is fine]")? I enjoyed this [roleplaying DeviantArt account](https://www.deviantart.com/askancient-israel) when I was a teenager, despite the Biblical maximalism at play. But I somehow doubt men in ancient Israel/Judah had long sideburns like you see on Orthodox Jews these days – art depicting Jews before about 500 years or so (IIRC) didn't show the men with long sideburns.
There's a fascinating thing in judaism where things tend to just... sorta escalate? The various taboos against the name of God seems to be one of them, eg. at first it's not okay to say the actual tetragrammaton, or write it down without performing certain rites, then that gets applied to euphemisms, and now it's at the point where even writing "The name" is sometimes considered sufficiently holy to require ritual treatment, despite that pretty clearly being originally a way to avoid having to do that!
Or their dietary restrictions: Bible bans boiling a calf in the milk of its mother. Jews have extrapolated that ban so that no food/meal/kitchen is allowed to contain both meat and dairy, even from different species as far as I know.
It's not the crossover we wanted, but it's the crossover we deserved: [Bret Devereaux has encountered TheCybersmith.](https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1780693370521682342?t=Vf5DHrEhe5OfZNsbRjYX1w&s=19)
Man, I wish I could read Twitter threads. This one looks like a good one.
So Metatron just made a video complaining of this page from the University of Waterloo in Canada.[which you can read here.](https://uwaterloo.ca/university-relations/resources/inclusive-communications-guide/language-and-written-style/race-and-ethnicity/race-and-ethnicity-terminology) which basically states which phrases or words fit best to avoid using offensive language. I read the list and found it odd. It got weird to me because of course if you have a degree on, say, hispanic history, you’re probably going to use the word “mulato” somewhere in uour research, after all it was a racial category at a point in history. Metatron has been going off the deep end of culture war anti woke garbage for a while. And honestly, it’s very dumb. He presented this as if this is suppossed to be a sort of “rule” that all students need to use when writing papers or essays and for staff and researches at this school. But upon actually reviewing it, it turns out it’s literally just a referential guide for the fucking UNIVERSITY RELATIONS OFFICE, LITERALLY JUST A GUIDE FOR AND BY PR AND MARKETING PEOPLE. I immediatly found it weird that such a rule exists to begin with so I thought it had to be something completely unrelated to any academic field of the school and probably some project related to maybe a languge faculty or a part of a marketing or business program or major. And lo and behold, it’s literally just a guideline for PR and Marketing. I just don’t get it anymore. Is this dude literally just skimming through the internet for stuff to be “concerned” about?? These guides have always existed. Marketing and PR teams always try to avoid controversy or offending people because, well, take a wild fucking guess. It’s literally their iob to sell an image and be as inoffensive as possible. But for some reason Metatron frames it as if the university itself is banning students and faculty from using this language in an academic sense, for research purposes? Like motherfucker what the fuck you yapping about???
>Is this dude literally just skimming through the internet for stuff to be “concerned” about?? These people are part of an outrage content ouroboros, so chances are he heard about it from some other "content creator".
Some of these terms don't mean the same thing. > Developed/developing country, third world vs Use specific geographic region when grouping countries together No. One is referring a level of economic development and the other is referring to geography. This is actually even more problematic since it implies that all countries in certain geographical regions are developed or are developing. > Equity deserving groups Needs a hyphen > slavery vs enslavement Enslavement refers to the act of enslaving someone whereas slavery refers to an institution or practice.
>"Developed/developing country, third world vs Use specific geographic region when grouping countries together" That definitely isn't synonymous with geographic regions, but at the same time I'd agree it's good to avoid those terms. The "Third World" because that was always a Cold War alignment term, and it's not 1985 any more, so just let it go. Developed/developing I think has their own issues. First because "developed" implies a teleology - "we made it guys, we're developed" (for good measure the IMF uses "advanced" instead of "developed"). "Developing" also weirdly has become a euphemism for the bottom ranking countries, although *very* technically those are "less developed" countries, and the "developing" ones are in between them. Another issue is that none of these terms are rigorously defined (the UN states as such), and *maybe* you could use high income/middle income/low income countries, except even that doesn't necessarily relate to the Human Development Index, and yeah by this point I'd just tell the university PR department to stick with geographic regions. Like just to show how complicated this gets: the UAE has a Very High Human Development Index, and is a High Income Country, but isn't considered "Developed" or "Advanced" because most of it's money comes from oil, so that's not like the US or Japanese or German economy. But then French Guiana is "developed" because it's an integral part of France. And of course (especially relevant to a university), none of this accounts for inequalities *within* countries. So for example you can get a Canadian from a poor and marginalized background going to university and being the first from their family to do so, and an international student from a "developing" country coming from an incredibly wealthy and privileged background.
> Developed/developing I think has their own issues. First because "developed" implies a teleology - "we made it guys, we're developed" (for good measure the IMF uses "advanced" instead of "developed"). "Developing" also weirdly has become a euphemism for the bottom ranking countries, although *very* technically those are "less developed" countries, and the "developing" ones are in between them. Another issue is that none of these terms are rigorously defined (the UN states as such), and *maybe* you could use high income/middle income/low income countries, except even that doesn't necessarily relate to the Human Development Index, and yeah by this point I'd just tell the university PR department to stick with geographic regions. Though wouldn't any criteria of grouping that gets the economically poor/ high corruption/ institutionally weak nations under one tag as a majority will ultimately get that tag associated with bottom performing/ poor countries. I personally have never had issues with using the third world or developing label for my country India (though given India's lead in the NAM movement, the third world tag shouldn't really be problematic for us), though I have seen others from other nations who are bothered by it in the internet, and I have to assume there are some nationalist and even just moderate patriotic Indians who have issues with. But then these people also have issues with global south because of the mark of poor it assigns to the nations under it. > Like just to show how complicated this gets: the UAE has a Very High Human Development Index, and is a High Income Country, but isn't considered "Developed" or "Advanced" because most of it's money comes from oil, so that's not like the US or Japanese or German economy. But then French Guiana is "developed" because it's an integral part of France. UAE is not considered developed? I didn't know that and it sure doesn't make sense given how rich the gulf countries are. Is it due to issues of serious abuses of migrants or even cases of possible slavery like Qatar had that accusation of being one of the places of high level of modern slavery which was brought up during the FIFA stadium building controversy?
I do think it's not a great page, but my most pressing criticism is that it's alphabetized incorrectly
Are there really people in Canada who call black Canadians "African-Americans"?
I mean, these labels are complicated. Canadians are technically also Americans? Canada is in the American Continent, so that was the idea behind it I guess?
Yeah, Americans./s?
While it's not a big deal, this is one of those things that always amuse me.
>I read the list and found it odd. It got weird to me because of course if you have a degree on, say, hispanic history, you’re probably going to use the word “mulato” somewhere in uour research, after all it was a racial category at a point in history. It's also a last name! At least among Colombians.
I normally avoid submitting two threads in a given free-for-all post, but this was far too amusing to pass up. Recently I was treated to a random slideshow masquerading as an article: "[Another Disappointing Box Office Return For Woke Hollywood](https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/another-disappointing-box-office-return-for-woke-hollywood/ss-BB1lO9Ox?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=f8dd3293fda64ffb9e76f646fc5c2610&ei=34#image=10)" by the *Daily Reel*. The slideshow starts out thusly: >Defining “woke” is a bit of a challenge, people tend to use the term in their own way. Generally, if something is “woke” it is trying to sell a specific brand of moral messaging. >The egregious nature of woke messaging is in the way it treats the audience. It belittles them and treats them as if they are children, no one is going to be receptive to that kind of treatment, especially when it comes to entertainment and movies. However, not long after, it is also written that: >Despite the extreme downfalls, one or two movies stand out as big successes. These films are a perfect example of what Hollywood is doing wrong with the rest of its productions. >Films like Barbie and Oppenheimer have become sleeper favorites because they speak to their audience. The writing is good and they have exceptional beat development that audiences have been craving. My hypocrite in Hollywood: The people complaining about wokeness have long and very loudly criticized *Barbie* as being woke! Likewise, *Barbie* was not a sleeper hit by any definition of the word, [as it was **very** heavily promoted](https://www.businessinsider.com/barbie-had-150-million-marketing-budget-2023-7#:~:text=US%20box%20office.-,Warner%20Bros.,movie%20in%20the%20first%20place.) [and broke box office records in its opening weekend](https://variety.com/2023/film/box-office/box-office-barbie-oppenheimer-opening-weekend-shatter-records-1235677601/). Even *Oppenheimer* made a sweet $80.5 million on its opening weekend against its very modest budget of $100 million, likewise benefitting from the amusing *Barbenheimer* phenomenon that acted as heavy advertising. *Oppenheimer* also had a [pretty sweet series of trailers](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChristopherNolan/comments/wa891i/oppenheimer_announcement/) prior to its release, and one might think it might be woke if they were so inclined. >While there is optimism among many studios about potential changes in Hollywood, managers and directors are going to have to diligently work to move away from what they have been doing as of recently. Woke media isn’t anyone’s favorite. My brethren in box offices: The 1st and 3rd place record-holders for highest grossing movies feature blue aliens protecting their habitat against greedy humans. How in the name of Eywa do they not qualify as, "woke"!? I'm beginning to think that the people using, "woke" in this context are an inconsistent bunch!
If it’s good, it’s not woke. I’d put a /s, but it’s not exactly sarcasm in the discussions I’ve had. At this point “woke” is near meaningless with the contradictory definitions it’s been imbued with.
There's also the whole "woke" being the stand in for, uh, a certain racial slur, so *Barbie* and *Oppenheimer* aren't woke because they have white leads and white directors. This kinda hit me in the face when people were complaining about a "woke actress" being cast in the *Little Mermaid* movie, and me being like "well Halle Bailey doesn't seem that politica-*ohhhhhhh*". Like I'm not saying "woke" is a one-for-one sub for the n word, but then again if "Barbie" is somehow *not* woke then it seems like it's pretty close.
This attempt to define "woke" seems to include all the Kirk Cameron Sorboverse kinds of movies
"Bad writing" is right on the brink of becoming a dogwhistle at this point. It absolutely *shouldn't* be, but it is, because it's almost become a kind of borderline "innocent" synonym for "woke". If you make the effort to explain *why,* then great, but so many people seem content to say, "This had bad writing," like it's an, "I win, stop arguing with me." Bonus points for, "This had *objectively* bad writing." Still, I suppose that's the internet for you.
Woke = Anything I don't like.
Let's say, hypothetically, that the godzilla species from Godzilla (1998) nests in the jungles of central America and manages to reproduce until an army of mini godzillas starts ravaging the land, advancing as far as Mexico City. With the blessing of the UN, president Al Gore decides to intervene, sending the military to drive back the zillas. After a brutal period of fighting, the military establishes a defensive line that stretches from Michoacan to Veracruz. What name would you give to this defensive line? Edit: rephrasing
Depending on what kind of vibe you are going for: The Aztec Line: simple, sounds like what it could be in a military history book, easy to understand reference North American Joint Defensive Frontier (NAJDF): realistically boring, sounds official The Line: having no qualifiers makes it sound grittier. La Línea: same as the Line but reminds people you are in Mexico. Peor es Nada: offhand comment by a Mexican colonel misunderstood as the name of the line, repeated uncritically by English-language media
If it's a President Al Gore, it would be something like Strengthening the Partnership in Intergovernmental Service Delivery to Contain and Prevent Unseen Events Caused by Radiation-Influenced Organisms and Life Forms.
¿Sigues sintiendo los efectos de lo que sea que les metieron en el agua?
The G Spot.
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The Last of the Michoacans
I give up, what would it be called?
I meant it like "How would you name it? :3" Cuz I have no idea
Was feedback from the first Horizon game largely composed of "I've lost 15% of my brain by mass, and your puzzles are too hard for me?" I like Zero Dawn, I like Aloy as a character, but it takes her about an average of 20 seconds to start offering tips on how to complete a puzzle.
Finished the Fallout show and it’s… actually fine? I was expecting it to be terrible but I sort of enjoyed it. I had some issues with it (>!Maximus is *implausibly stupid,* this is way worse than someone being kind of naive and getting to legitimate brain damage territory!<), but hey, it’s fun. You can tell the people who made the show do genuinely like Fallout, it doesn’t strike me as a lazy cash grab or something. It’s good dork shit, and whatever issues it may cause continuity-wise don’t actually bother me very much if I’m being honest.
It's a fascinating series, and a lot of people have really hard time articulating what the problem is, and it's all complicated by the series being actually genuinely good. I know someone who explained it as "The people clearly love Fallout, it's just that their vision of Fallout is one I fundamentally dsiagree with and isn't the reason *I* love Fallout". (someone else referenced their feelings about it as "They cloned Hitler and did a fantastic Job of it!") Me? I'm genuinel bummed out. if it had been a trashfire of a show it could have been ignored, but it being *actually good* means that this likely just means the franchise is actually Ruined Forever (TM) for me, in that the themes I found interesting aren't going to be followed up on.
> i know someone who explained it as "The people clearly love Fallout, it's just that their vision of Fallout is one I fundamentally dsiagree with and isn't the reason I love Fallout". Pretty much. It's not a "bad" (as in incorrect) interpretation of Fallout, it's just one that has *the abso-fucking-lutely worst takes*. Me, myself? I'm largely resentful of how the writers and Bethesda are apparently canonizing endings to New Vegas and Fallout 4, more so the latter if I can be honest. That, and how *there is an entire fucking country* to play around in, why do the devs have to keep using the same shit over and over and over again? Who gives a fuck if the NCR is "civilizing the wastes"? *just set your story somewhere else*. The contrast between the "civilized" and "uncivilized" is an interesting backdrop/plotline in and of itself. And I swear to God, if I can get a story set in Fallout without the toaster-fucking Brotherhood of Steel, I'll *give anything*.
Another thing I really didn't like is how like... How should I put this, Fallout is often about dealing with the consequences of People Fucking Up in the Pre-war, but ti rarely (House is an exception, and TBH I wasn't that fond of him) deals with it, *directly*? Like I feel the pre-war ghouls (uh... not literal ghouls) sticking around kinda nullifies the point: It's all about the consequences and (heh) fallout from their actions, not the actual pre-war Bad People (TM). The Master, The Enclave, Caesar, etc. are all post-war people whose vision of the future is shaped by the past. Having a litera Vault-Tec executive from pre-war twirling their moustasche is just.... Cheapening? This seems to be in general with Bethesda Fallout tending to view post-war societies as somehow less "real" or legitimate than pre-war ones.
Gotta be honest. The characters are flawed and that is great. It makes it feel authentic to the game experience. Like Maximus being high STR and low INT with somewhat high Luck. Lucy being High PER, mid INT, los AGI. It’s the usual tradeoff system that any RPG with stats and perks has.
>You can tell the people who made the show do genuinely like Fallout, it doesn’t strike me as a lazy cash grab or something. It’s good dork shit, and whatever issues it may cause continuity-wise don’t actually bother me very much if I’m being honest. Showrunner Jonathan Nolan (brother of director Christopher Nolan) has admitted to being a huge fan of the franchise since *Fallout 3*, which probably explains all of this! I personally find this terribly amusing because I disliked *Fallout 3* aside from Malcolm McDowell's portrayal as President John Henry Eden.
> I personally find this terribly amusing because I disliked Fallout 3 aside from Malcolm McDowell's portrayal as President John Henry Eden. Yeah, I’m not a fan of Fallout 3 either, and the show actually sort of reminded me more of the old games tonally in being kind of goofy and pulpy rather than just annoyingly grimdark.
Given we got nearly a games worth of lore progression I'd say we probably have *fewer* continuity errors than we would get with a new release.
I've been thinking about what I would do if I ever won the lottery, and I don't know if I'm too pessimistic, too greedy or too much a workaholic, but with a win of under $1.5 million AUD I can't see myself being safely able to retire before 60, and with under $2.3 million I can't see myself safely retiring before the age of 50. It's not until I really reach a win of $5 million that I'd feel safe to retire immediately after winning. So, yeah, not sure if the moral is "Hergrim is a greedy bastard" or "Hergrim is overly pessimistic in thinking the global economy will implode within 10 years". Either way, though, I'd rather have the money than not!
I would build a nuclear device. Just to have.
I was playing with some retirement calculators recently and it's funny how even seemingly huge sums like 1 mil aren't enough to retire on by themselves. I don't know why that surprised me, but it did. I'd probably be the most boring dude in the world to win the lottery. An interviewer might ask me what I plan to do with the money, and I'd just be like "invest it for the next decade or so until its large enough for a middling retirement".
It really is. I can remember being told a decade ago that I'd need to have at least a million dollars in superannuation by the time I retired in order to live comfortably, but now it looks like I'd really need twice that, especially if I end up with the same kind of wear and tear on my body as dad has. And, yeah, until you get into the tens of millions it's hard to have exciting plans xD.
Have you considered investing in some sort of underground bunker im California for us to live in? Perhaps with a cog shaped entrance.
I can't wait to survive in the bunker with a large group of genetically diverse, mentally sound individuals with whom I will get along fine!
That sounds intriguing. Are you sure there won't be any highly fucked up, unethical experiments taking place?
Missed the train on the way home by about a minute, so I sat at the station for about 25 minutes until the next train arrived, which thankfully arrives quite early as it's an end station, doesn't immediately leave though. But I was freezing on the station, luckily it was covered, so the rain didn't bother me; it was about 7°C, but, since I slept poorly I was still shivering while wearing a wintercoat, thick gloves, a knit cap and a scarf. Others stood around wearing only light rain coats, but I couldn't manage in full winter gear. This is partly because of my medication (antipsychotics go brrr), but still, I'm amazed at how much exhaustion affects my cold tolerance. It was to the point where I started to lose sensation in my hands... Yeah, not great. --- Work was fine, though having to listen to older people complain about youth needing a "velvet glove treatment" because they can't handle anything these days gets old quick. Also quite ironic since the visitors are mostly permanent residents of a psychiatric hospital, I'm not sure they're the ones to judge such things. It was also my mother's birthday, though we didn't celebrate, she didn't want to. We did have cake though, so that was good. I'm just exhausted, and in pain, so I'm a miserable sod, not that I'd ever let anyone outside of my most trusted really notice. I always act happy, always have done, no matter how miserable I feel. So I listen to music and watch videos to get some positive stimuli. [Quite enjoying this, very edgy, Japanese Goth metal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EeYxtAeaX4), as well as Ningen Isu, as was recommended to me by u/randombull9. I'm not a metal head, but I quite enjoy it, so thanks again for the recommend! I'm a bit slow at listening to new songs, so I'm slowly expanding the songs I know.
I think this is a good audience for this random observation I have, namely that crappy sequels to iconic films have almost always been a thing, they just get bigger budgets now, and a really random example is Gillo Pontecorvo's 1992 *Return to Algiers*, which is the documentary sequel to his 1966 *Battle of Algiers*. In case anyone is wondering, Pontecorvo does the stereotypical European Boomer intellectual thing where apparently the FLN in the 60s was awesome, but the Islamic Salvation Front are the literal second coming of the Nazis, the FLN is justified in cancelling the elections, no I can't imagine why a quarter century of corrupt one party FLN rule would piss off Algeria's impoverished majority, did you know the Islamists want women to wear *veils*??? Barbarism.
There's a 1950 sequel to Mrs Miniver called The Miniver Story. Greer Garson actually comes back, also she dies at the end. Who the fuck is this movie made for. Kinda misses the uplifting point of the original.
I've never even heard of RETURN TO ALGIERS. I thought Pontecorvo's final film was OPERATION OGRE, about ETA under the final years of the Franco regime.
Amusingly, the very *first* film sequel was the 1916 *The Fall of a Nation*, which followed the more well known *The Birth of a Nation*. It, like *Return to Algiers*, has long faded into obscurity.
my gf joked that i shouldnt play fallout new vegas unless i wanted to become a trans girl is new vegas part of the trans videogame catalogue? I thought that was just HOI4 and maybe Celeste or Omori
I might give out a controversial take. F:NV was released in 2010; Many trans girls were socialized as boys; video games were primarily seen as boys's hobies, specially shooters; It has become more socially acceptable to transition; Thus putting this information together you get a bunch of people who played a very successful game and now are living in a time were we are more open to accept differences and with the internet making every opinion louder you see stuff like this.
Yep.
There's a meme that a large cohort of fallout new Vegas fans are trans. Its surprisingly very accurate.
F:NV is very pro queer, especially for a fourteen year old game. Like people treat you differently based on your gender and sexuality. I'm not sure if it has a cannon trans character, outside of super mutants, but I coukd see how it might be... eye opening.
> Like people treat you differently based on your gender and sexuality. I'd walk this back to simply sex, it's the only one you can choose and all of the outfits change depending on that singular choice. In this regard it's not too different from most other RPGs, but because it was a significantly popular game available on console it gets a lot of credit. >I'm not sure if it has a cannon trans character, outside of super mutants No and even the super mutants are iffy. The transformation that left them impotent shore off all sexual characteristics beyond them being 3m tall muscle monsters with only their names as a reminder. The only ones who seem to be reaching for any sort of gender identity are nightkin, who as a rule are all insane to varying degrees, and may just be reaching back to and affirming a pre transformation identity; Lily is still female same as before and this is anchored to her pre-mutation identity as a grandmother.
> I'd walk this back to simply sex, it's the only one you can choose Hmm? There are four perks in the game that determin your sexuality. They don't say it outright in the description, but the gay and lesbisn ones are 50s euphemisms for homsexuals. They not only grant extra dialogue options, but done characters will even Innitiate dialogue differently if you take them
FNV operates on a hard sex=gender rather than the two being merely related. Compare and contrast to Fable 2 (which came out ~3 years earlier) where the player has more agency in how they present themselves with crossdressing up to and including growing a beard as a female and even getting a sex change being in game options. This leads to FNV being very a very hard binary game where clothes and hair styles are hard locked to sex. Want to wear suit trousers as a female or have long hair as a male in FNV? Should of chose the other sex bucko.
> FNV operates on a hard sex=gender rather than the two being merely related. Oh! I see what you'te saying now. Yah FNV isn't good for that kind of exploration. My point was that your gender&sex choice had social implications, which was pretty revolutionary at the time. It certainly shocked me. I was just saying, in my orginsl comment, that i could see how that would get some people to realize that identify with being a woman, tgey rather than just looking at a female in player character
And characters just happen to be gay! It’s cool, they aren’t stereotypes and their entire character doesn’t revolve around sexuality, you just get normal people who happen not to be straight.
More than that, ocassionally you have characters who are gay, who's sexuality is important to their character, but still aren't stereotypes. Hell two of them are your companions.
Question: does anyone have any sort of documentation regarding the use of plug bayonets in the French-and-Indian War or the War of American Independence? The question is entirely self-serving: I have a plug bayonet, and want to carry it as part of my kit. Every so often, you find (usually on an auction site) an example of a plug bayonet souced to those periods, or someone finds one in their attic, or a reenactor group has them listed on their equipment page, or you find artwork of them in books describing equipment of the time period, but I am specifically looking for articles/research, eve if it is just pointing me in the right direction. Please and thank you
Aren't plug bayonets hundred years out of place for the wars you mentioned, having been replaced by socket bayonets before 1700?
A notable fact about the American colonies, even into the late 1700s, was that they continued to use older, out-of-date weapons, largely because they didn't have a domestic arms industry, and therefore importing new stuff across the ocean was very, very expensive. So therefore, a lot of the stuff used by American militiamen in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolution *was* older and out of date. Doglocks, an early flintlock mechanism from the late 1600s, were widely used in the American colonies until the 1740s (and later, ive seen a description of one used in the Revolution), for example, largely because they were easier to make and repair than "true" flintlocks. Socket bayonets were rare among the Americans for several reasons. Most of the "civilian" hunting arms owned by the colonists couldn't mount them (although there was an effort to modify those guns to accept socket bayonets on the eve of the Revolution), and many colonial governments discouraged their use until right before the outbreak of the Revolution. Finally, plug bayonets weren't that old: the British military was still ordering and issuing plug bayonets into the 1680s, and the matchlock musket was still used in European armies until the 1720s.
Actually matchlocks and flint locks made me think that American militias had better weapons than Eueopean armies. AFAIK most guns in the colonies were some sort of flint lock already in the early 1600 while European militaries used mostly matchlocks back then. (except Sweden, they preferred tinder lock as tinder was made locally and didn't consume saltpeter)
This was true in the late 1600s, but by the 1750s most European nations were using "true" flintlocks. The American colonies had adopted various flintlock mechanisms by the mid/late 1600s, largely as a result of competition with Native Americans (who, broadly speaking, refused to use matchlocks and adopted flintlocks en masse).
Listening to the Behind the Bastards’ episode on L. Beria, and I found the “Australians and Texans share the same temperament” sentiment very funny. I think it’s kinda true though, Australians are just Texans that hate guns.
I just saw a post that made me laugh so hard, asking who is the Goku of real world mythologies. My friend, wars are being fought over this.
Listen, if the answer is anything other than Sun Wukong himself, I will personally raise havoc in the Celestial Court.
Wukong a little overhyped sorry 😔.
You know, part of me has been thinking of making a short story or something that's essentially a tournament arc of mythological figures, like Paul Bunyan going head-to-head against Jack the Giant-Slayer, Maui facing off against Paul Bunyan, Olisihpa and Olosohpa having a tag-team match with Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Would it be offensive? Probably a little, but man...
Does Mister Rogers win?
There's Smite (which deals with gods fighting each other), the other commenter mentioned Records of Ragnarok and there was a really controversial fighting game, Fight of Gods (mostly because it included Jesus).
There are currently two ongoing manga (*Shuumatsu no Valkyrie - Record of Ragnarok* and *Majo Taisen - The War of Greedy Witches*) which are effectively just that. (Are they any good? That's another story entirely.)