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StashAugustine posted:I do wonder how aware he is that he's basically just treating America as imperial Rome. Though idk he's not the first historian to overdose on their field of study I have run into guys like this, usually ones who have never studied Late Antiquity and so are really invested in the Nerva–Antonine dynasty. They're all about the glory that was Rome. The thing is they don't really understand how it worked, in material terms, or what caused the Crisis of the Third Century and the fracturing into Germanic polities, so... it's all 19th century poo poo.
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Frosted Flake posted:I have run into guys like this, usually ones who have never studied Late Antiquity and so are really invested in the Nerva–Antonine dynasty. They're all about the glory that was Rome. The thing is they don't really understand how it worked, in material terms, or what caused the Crisis of the Third Century and the fracturing into Germanic polities, so... it's all 19th century poo poo. He actually did have a post about the "how bad was the fall of the western empire, actually" question where he admitted in practice your answer can be predicted by whether you study antiquity or the medieval period. Plus while he presented what I thought was decent archeological evidence that the answer was "pretty bad," much like the previous tweet it completely elides how much imperial security and prosperity rested on making everyone else worse off.
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Man this is making me want to play Attila again, but a lot of the game play really annoys me
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StashAugustine posted:Man this is making me want to play Attila again, but a lot of the game play really annoys me I know, I'm really conflicted bit it, and ToB. The Roman economy really relied on periodic injections of plunder because the rest of the time the senatorial elite would consolidate all of the wealth and things would slow to a crawl. If only someone could apply that knowledge to present conditions...
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Frosted Flake posted:I know, I'm really conflicted bit it, and ToB. iraq is americas dacia or something, the thought just came to me and i decided 
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my dad posted:As vile as that guy is, he's honest enough to drop the usual liberal mask to outright say some things which are usually left unspoken. Yeah, I like the redsails article about propaganda because it has better explanatory power about why liberals keep repeating atrocity propaganda and other idiocy. Namely, that such propaganda soothes their psyche in the face of deteriorating living standards and global standing. Liberals want that propaganda slop. In other words, all those games about epic anti-communism and SLAVA is to reassure liberals that their politics is the best up until the point that Hamas and Russia plant their flags on Tel Aviv and Kiev respectively followed by the US embassy's rooftop being crowded with evacuation helicopters.
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Frosted Flake posted:I have run into guys like this, usually ones who have never studied Late Antiquity and so are really invested in the Nerva–Antonine dynasty. They're all about the glory that was Rome. The thing is they don't really understand how it worked, in material terms, or what caused the Crisis of the Third Century and the fracturing into Germanic polities, so... it's all 19th century poo poo. Studying Late Antiquity turned me into an insane person who sees the decaying of taxation systems in the west and the basic hygienic functions of empire falling down like a blind beggar profit, wildly gesticulating at the historical precedent like a madman
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Rome Total War: Barbarian Invasion was better than Attila because it made playing the Western Roman Empire an insanely difficult mess. Attila is too nice to you.
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Endman posted:Studying Late Antiquity turned me into an insane person who sees the decaying of taxation systems in the west and the basic hygienic functions of empire falling down like a blind beggar profit, wildly gesticulating at the historical precedent like a madman Yes, exactly.
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Endman posted:Studying Late Antiquity turned me into an insane person who sees the decaying of taxation systems in the west and the basic hygienic functions of empire falling down like a blind beggar profit, wildly gesticulating at the historical precedent like a madman TBF, I think Bret just followed the typical liberal academic route of being brain broken over SLAVA UKRAINE rather than his studies.
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Endman posted:Studying Late Antiquity turned me into an insane person who sees the decaying of taxation systems in the west and the basic hygienic functions of empire falling down like a blind beggar profit, wildly gesticulating at the historical precedent like a madman
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AOE 2 has a pretty good "Fall of Rome" campaign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM6WK5hjcbE including an update for the Return of Rome DLC (but is playable with just the base game, as the Byzantines) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM6WK5hjcbE
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Dominions 5 was released 54257 hours ago. The following is a screenshot by the player with the highest playtime: 
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Frosted Flake posted:There were always hints in ACOUP when he would talk about economics, but lmao this is a lot more than I expected. dont worry, he's recently weighed in on the ongoing conversation about the USSR, historical memory etc., https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1753515758276243886
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I don’t recall the Soviets ever cutting the arms off of people for not collecting enough ivory
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tatankatonk posted:dont worry, he's recently weighed in on the ongoing conversation about the USSR, historical memory etc., https://twitter.com/SevaUT/status/1753574667007201600 it's been going on since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, but it's picked back up again this week they keep insisting that the USSR was just as imperialist/colonialist as everyone else - as a whataboutist rebuttal to accusations of Western imperialism/colonialism - as a way to draw a through-line from Tsarist Russia, to the Soviet Union, to contemporary Russia, that Russia was always imperialist and never actually stopped
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Strange empire which transfers resources to the periphery imo.
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Danann posted:TBF, I think Bret just followed the typical liberal academic route of being brain broken over SLAVA UKRAINE rather than his studies. he was politically awful long before that
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I was looking something up today and found out that Curt Shilling, who otherwise blew tens of millions of dollars on taxpayer money with 38 Studios and the Kingdoms of Amalur series, was apparently a big fan of Advanced Squad Leader, and was instrumental in its revival: he made offers to Hasbro (which acquired Avalon Hill back in the day) to acquire the rights to ASL outright, and was turned down, but when he found out that Multi-Man Publishing was in talks to license the rights, he joined the company as a one-third owner, and it was rumored that he put up at least some of the money needed for the initial deal. so that's maybe one good thing he did
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/SevaUT/status/1753574667007201600 If you peep the Ukraine thread, this is an idea deliberately cultivated and spread by Canadian and Political Ukrainians that’s got basically no real basis but is very effective at laundering Ukrainian nationalism to squishy western libs. e: Generic “you”, not “one of the most prolific and insightful posters in that thread” you.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/SevaUT/status/1753574667007201600 Yeah, I read posts just yesterday saying Wagner in Africa was Russian colonialism and Ukrainian SOF killing them was implied to be decolonization. But there is definitely a group a people wanting to link the Russian Federation to Imperial Russia via the USSR. I'm sure BRI "colonialism" will reappear once the fickle attentions of the West turn to Taiwan.
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i maintain that it was a mistake to teach liberals words like "colonialism" and "imperialism" and also words in general
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BadOptics posted:Yeah, I read posts just yesterday saying Wagner in Africa was Russian colonialism and Ukrainian SOF killing them was implied to be decolonization. But there is definitely a group a people wanting to link the Russian Federation to Imperial Russia via the USSR. I'm sure BRI "colonialism" will reappear once the fickle attentions of the West turn to Taiwan. It's definitely going to get really weird where the lack of dialectical (or even historical) materialism results in the west being hated by the global south the more the west acts on its rhetoric of decolonialism because it means the west keeps intensifying bombings and coups without building any infrastructure or helping them climb the value chain at all.
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They should draw in the Motherland statue so they can explicitly show that it has the trident on the shield instead of the hammer and sickle.
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after playing it for a while, I think I can say that Civ4:Colonization with the "We The People" mod is the definitive version of colonization. i would recommend it for anyone who gets the itch to colonize
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Trabisnikof posted:i would recommend it for anyone who gets the itch to colonize wow. Do Better
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i dont like the art for civ4 colonization. i like building up my little towns in the original.
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Trabisnikof posted:after playing it for a while, I think I can say that Civ4:Colonization with the "We The People" mod is the definitive version of colonization. i would recommend it for anyone who gets the itch to colonize It is very silly that it does the whole "No! It has to be pigskins for leather aprons, get those cowhides the gently caress away!" and that it introduces a bunch of random sort of food exportables and also features hens and geese as separate resources, but it's pretty neat even if I always feel like I'm falling behind. I don't remember the original gameplay as much, but it is also nice that the mod seems to do more to encourage different gimmick playstyles to mix things up.
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quote:Putot en Bessin, Normandie, 8 June 1944  here we go...
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Kill those 12th SS bastards.
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Tekopo posted:i'm shameless so i'm gonna continue to plug my GTS LP but ive been enjoying your LP, thanks for posting it!
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thanks! i was worried that the game wouldn't be very interesting but theres been enough twists and turns to make it interesting
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Frosted Flake posted:Kill those 12th SS bastards. Please clap.
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Trabisnikof posted:after playing it for a while, I think I can say that Civ4:Colonization with the "We The People" mod is the definitive version of colonization. i would recommend it for anyone who gets the itch to colonize Yeah I agree, I play it every so often when I want to head out into terra nullus and explore a new, unclaimed continent. I will say that the slavery system is trying to have you make a choice between profit and morality, but it doesn't really work since it's almost always better to hire indentured servants and then train them as experts in native villages.
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O.o looks like hegemony is coming out on tabletopia and has solo mode Been wanting to try the game forever but can't find ppl to play with, this might be my lucky day
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are the flaws with civ 4 col that made people say it was inferior to to the original fundamental design flaws or just things that can be modded away? I recall a big complaint was that the king’s army snowballs and becomes impossible to beat but that sounds like something a mod could easily fix?
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ASL update: already hosed up the deployment by not being aware of the rule that mortars cannot shoot from inside buildings. And the 8 morale Jerries are passing so many morale checks. The Canadians have only broken one squad so far with MG fire. This is going to come down to close combat very quickly.
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