Tona Criid didn't pull herself out of the Underhive to be disrespected by these pricks
And initially there were a lot of people who figured he'd be a moderate compared to his ultra murderer father
Player: I guess I’ll major in engineering— AOE2: wololo Player: Right, history it is.
Age of Empires II turned 25 and so I wrote a piece about the impact it had on me, and many other historians who were inspired by the game 🏰 Thanks so much to @gregjenner.bsky.social, Agnes Arnold-Forster, and @mathewlyons.bsky.social for chatting to me www.theguardian.com/games/2024/o...
Many historians of a certain age admit that the game reinforced their passion for the past and got them into the field. Four of them explain what drew them in
Thinking about the guy who said to stop obsessing over metrics and read the room and accompanied it with laser eyes Marx, as if Marx’s obsession with measuring and modeling things wasn’t only exceeded by his determination to never, ever, ever read the room.
It's also just like...ok and so? They're not entitled to your vote. Fine, granted. Now what?
Folks, if you come to me saying that in fact everyone is right to hate government and it's hopelessly naive to believe that better things are possible I'm just going to block you. It's not savvy or worldly, it's just dooming. Which, you do you but I'm not going to pretend I take it seriously
Yeah it was just the only thing I could think of that might be *close enough* but I also reject the premise of the exercise so...
Hell yes, great idea
I respect the intent of the thread but I'm going to be honest, I think this is kind of wrong. If I'm comparing something to cancer I *want* it to have weight and be uncomfortable. I guess you could say contagion but I'm not sure that's better
I was flabbergasted that such a thing had ever been published. "Moses was probably actually an Atenist who made his way to Canaan because Moses is kind of like the name Thutmose" like bro what?