crying

Another question you could ask is how different would the world be, had Rome fallen to Carthage. I would think government as a whole would be entirely different, along with the language we speak.

Of course

the only time we talk about Rome, it's ruined by people going on about who's right and the morals of the age.

God damn, you guys ruin EVERYTHING ever reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Focus on the topic at hand please, it's actually really interesting to discuss.

His adopted son Augustus was far better. Realized this mistakes his uncle made, and thus avoided calling himself Dictator, while having basically a secret guard too.

As for him, no I don't think he was too wrong. He was an excellent general and was correct that the Republic was falling apart due to corruption. I just think he tried to do too much, too fast.

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I ain't no furry but I'd consider Gardevoir to be the best Pokemon waifu.

she can be my psychic pokemon anytime

Quote from: Luciana on February 29, 2016, 12:44:49 AM

The descent of Tali

Mass Effect 1: Quirky tech girl

Mass Effect 2: Typical shy girl crush

Mass Effect 3: 16 year old girl

Kinda miss dusty old ruins Liara.

Liara was one of the more consistent characters of the series. Her and Garrus.

I bought it after everything was fixed.

I was more so referring to how it was now, along with all the free stuff DICE keeps giving out.

Don't get me wrong, it was bad. Bad PR and showed how bad EA's practices are. But in today's world, who buys games on launch day?

Also you mean lens flare

you guys are dumb

you realize they're not just going to intentionally make an unfun game to play, right

...

oh wait this is battlefield
what am i saying

Battlefield 4 was pretty fun. Hardline? eh

If you guys wanna see a good example of how mechanics can make a WW1 game work, go look up Verdun gameplay. It did the whole push pull of trench warfare really good.

Quote from: Luciana on February 27, 2016, 01:13:59 PM

Kruschev also played a vital role in not letting nukes happen.

Thank god for that

Yeah

both were surrounded by hot heads so terrified the other would strike first, so they urged their respective leaders to strike first. Thankfully both of them knew the repercussions of it and worked together. We were insanely lucky to have two level headed people in a moment when the world could have changed.

Feel like you're twisting the terminology there a little bit. The American slave trade didn't start because of some sense of racial superiority over africans, that false sense of superiority stemmed from the slave trade.

The issue is thinking that the American slave trade was vastly different from any other slave trade that occured. The only differences are that it lasted later than others and it continued after the importation of slaves was outlawed (which certainly didn't help to stem racism).

Slavery is slavery, it makes no difference whether you use "is" or "was". Was the south heavily racist? Oh hell yes. Was enslavement wrong? Hell yes. I don't know anyone who isn't living a century in the past who wouldn't agree with those views.

And just in case I just went on a huge tangent: what I'm saying is that trying to argue was/is is a silly kind of semantic argument. It's the same thing.

I feel like this is a better way of saying something I couldn't properly convey.

Quote from: Luciana on February 27, 2016, 10:32:00 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on February 27, 2016, 10:22:54 PM

Quote from: Solonoid on February 27, 2016, 10:19:06 PM

There were slaves of all races

[citation needed]

"slavery in America wasn't racist because history has had slavery of multiple races"

i think that is the message he's passing. or he's just looking at slavery in america at literally the base of the definition of slavery.

I mean even just slaves purchased in the slave trade between Europeans, Americans, and Africans.

A trade in which African merchants sold slaves to Europe and America.

Britain actually prefered white slaves and bought more of them from the White Market in Barbary than they bought black slaves from all other African Markets combined.

I get what you're saying about slavery as a whole, but I feel we're getting away from the base point of the thread, in that the south, and slavery, wasn't racist. When it was in fact about as racist as you can get. They viewed them as sub-human.

Quote from: Solonoid on February 27, 2016, 10:19:06 PM

There were slaves of all races

[citation needed]

"slavery in America wasn't racist because history has had slavery of multiple races"

i think that is the message he's passing. or he's just looking at slavery in america at literally the base of the definition of slavery.