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« on: February 29, 2016, 08:30:40 PM »
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.
6152
« on: February 29, 2016, 08:28:44 PM »
Another important question- could the Republic have survived as it was before Caesar, or was it inevitably going to have to change to prevent implosion?
I think it could have survived a few decades longer, but it would have collapsed on itself if no reforms happened. Look at Western Rome when it fell in the 400's. The same things that plagued the infighting of it, were the same when Caesar was around. Assassinations, political infighting, no stability, elites ruling, etc.
6153
« on: February 29, 2016, 08:25:21 PM »
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.
6154
« on: February 29, 2016, 08:22:44 PM »
Here's that official age meter everyone's familiar with
I like how 50+ is literally something from Lord Of the rings. Witch-king of Angmar.
6155
« on: February 29, 2016, 08:20:02 PM »
12
6156
« on: February 29, 2016, 01:38:59 PM »
I thought ME3's story was fine until the end.
6157
« on: February 29, 2016, 03:35:17 AM »
I ain't no furry but I'd consider Gardevoir to be the best Pokemon waifu.
she can be my psychic pokemon anytime
6158
« on: February 29, 2016, 02:50:26 AM »
Bloodborne captured the atmosphere and level design well. I just thought it was eh when compared to Bloodborne. It's not fashion souls and the lore was boring to me.
6159
« on: February 29, 2016, 01:02:59 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.
6160
« 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
6161
« on: February 29, 2016, 12:36:11 AM »
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?
6162
« on: February 29, 2016, 12:03:17 AM »
Story in the BF games are horrible, yeah
but the MP has always been consistently well done across all the games. Core formula and all that.
6163
« on: February 29, 2016, 12:02:26 AM »
Also you mean lens flare
6164
« on: February 29, 2016, 12:01:10 AM »
I like Star Wars as much as the next guy but I hope it doesn't win anything other than "most money made" the visuals weren't even anything special. It's shit we saw plenty of in the Star Trek movies.
I mean at least this time it wasn't obscured by JJ's flashbang fettish
FLASHBANG THROUGH THE DOOR!
6165
« on: February 28, 2016, 11:55:22 PM »
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
6166
« on: February 28, 2016, 11:54:56 PM »
Still, this rumor alone makes me happy. I swear if we got another AAA modern/future military FPS, I'd kill myself.
Odds are it's not true though.
6167
« on: February 28, 2016, 11:52:36 PM »
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.
6168
« on: February 28, 2016, 11:51:38 PM »
He finally won
thank god
6169
« on: February 28, 2016, 02:11:08 AM »
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.
6170
« on: February 27, 2016, 10:46:56 PM »
Just because America bought the cheapest slaves, the black ones, doesn't mean that our market of subjugation was racist.
But... it was. The other post conveyed it far better, so just refer to that.
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« on: February 27, 2016, 10:46:00 PM »
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.
6172
« on: February 27, 2016, 10:41:00 PM »
Probably viewed them as subhuman because whites were better at even being slaves than blacks.
true
6173
« on: February 27, 2016, 10:38:02 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.
6174
« on: February 27, 2016, 10:33:05 PM »
God bless the Free Market.
We need Trump to make this free market great again
6175
« on: February 27, 2016, 10:32:00 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.
6176
« on: February 27, 2016, 10:30:18 PM »
But black lives matter isn't racist, huh?
I don't think you understand the root message of it. This is like saying "but MLK's movement wasn't racist, huh?" and then referring to Malcolm X and some of the violent protests back then.
6177
« on: February 27, 2016, 01:13:59 PM »
Kruschev also played a vital role in not letting nukes happen.
6178
« on: February 27, 2016, 11:01:15 AM »
There are plenty of things to stick Hillary with, but beating the benghazi horse is beyond ridiculous at this point.
It's a valid point. I sure as fuck don't want someone like that as my commander in chief.
I'm sorry, but people act like it's the first time a politician lied and tried to cover something up. And even then it's not even proven she lied and covered up Benghazi. "SHE LIED OVER 4 COFFINS  !!!" How about 4,500 people dying in Iraq over some stupid lie that was PROVEN 100% false? People like to forget about that.
6179
« on: February 27, 2016, 10:54:53 AM »
I'd just like to point out one thing.
The institution of slavery isn't racist.
The slaves were black because Africa sold the cheapest slaves.
Don't slip on that slope
It's true tho
Irish slaves were things.
So were Jews and Germanic people. I get that.
6180
« on: February 27, 2016, 04:38:53 AM »
And on a random note before bed after reading up on Johnson on Wiki again, I still find it baffling how Republicans and Democrats did a literal 180 on each other after Roosevelt popped into office with his New Deal.
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