The Nero fiddling was entirely slander, and saying he probably could and should have done something is complaining after the fact. He was a day away from Rome when he heard a fire had started, he hauled ass back there, and he personally ran around with the fire brigades to pull people from the wrecks, oppening food supplies, gardens for shelters. And then after all that he plowed the debris away and set new building regulations to make sure a big fire couldn’t do that much damage again - so he did actually do a lot about it. And then he took the empty space to build his golden palace and that’s what got people pissed and rumors spreading. Before all that, he wasn’t doing anything weirder than anyone else, beside sitting by while his mom murdered everybody else to sit him on a throne that he didn’t care for (and then he murdered her to be free of the abuse). The people liked him, it’s the nobles/rich who didn’t. Historians tried to blame him, but it’s clear there was no easy prevention method beside razing and rebuilding; Rome was long known as a fire hazard with shit wooden buildings and zero ventilation safety, fires weren’t rare. The blame game didn’t come from what he could have done before and didn’t do or from any sort of prescience that he should have had that no one else had before, it’s purely religious propaganda after the fact, when he tried to place the blame to some weirdo sect. Hell, he might even have been right, but we’ll never know.

4 of those videos (probably 5) are the same channel though?

You see, this is why I speak of nuance.

No, you don’t. You “observe” that both sides are “saying the same thing.” You remove all nuance. And then you piss around complaining about being misunderstood and misinterpreted. And it turns out everyone sees through you because everyone already knows the “just asking questions” “just observing (very vague surface level vacuities)” stereotype.

I’m not American, dumbass.

Thing is, the Republicans are lying. So when you quote their excuse verbatim and put them on the same level of truth and representation, you are spreading a lie / propaganda.

Republicans are not doing gerrymandering to counter Democrats gerrymandering. They are doing it to silence opposition, over-value their voters, steal power, and abuse the law-making and law-enforcing system. And they claim that they are following the law.

No, Democrats removing undue power by placing equal representation back on top is not the same thing. They are saying the same thing on the surface, but one side is obviously lying, and when you say they use the same thing, you ARE acting like the excuse has the same value as the truth. And if you wanted to spin it as “they both makethe same claim / use the same excuse” , now you’re casting doubt on the veracity of the Dem’s argument, which is also inappropriate. The only spin that would make sense is to say that Dems are correct and Reps are lying by making the same claim.

That’s why you get downvoted.

I’m still sad they killed the 2008 Prince of Persia after the DLC, top of my list from them. (Lost Crown isn’t far)

Also TBF, Origins isn’t the best example to blame them for making a stale loop, since that’s precisely the game where they updated the AC formula to make it a lot more RPG.

But I cannot for the life of me understand how the series blew up into a juggernaut of a dozen releases over two decades.

Heavily historical setting fairly accurate about settings that a lot of people are interested about. Nothing easier. You can literally throw a dart at a map and a timeline and make something interesting with a shit story. People will buy a million of them, doesn’t matter if they’re all the same game. It’s a goddamn mystery that no one is doing anything like that with their own engine, absolute lack of imagination.

Good for the guy. Wikipedia says it started as short stories in a magazine starting 1986, became books in 1994, games in 2007. So it did take a while, work, and layers of recognition from the magazine readers to the Netflix execs. Showrunners just say skip all that.

No, there were books, then there were games. The games changed some stuff (probably, didn’t read the books didn’t play the games didn’t watch the show), the show changed more from the games.

The books were an original idea, but there were a few of them before it got notable enough. Point is the showrunners aren’t pitching original ideas that immediately shoot to popularity, original shows need time to build up to know if it’s good but networks and publishers can pull the plug anytime they decide it’s not fast enough. You don’t strike gold on the first 3 episodes.

They’ve been shitting out frequent movies on Pokemon, Naruto, One Piece, My Hero Academia over several decades that have always worked rather well with fans in Japan, but had a slower time making it outside; it feels like it’s been maybe a decade since they noticed the current biggest franchises had a real shot worldwide and putting more and more efforts in them. And it’s maybe because the Ghibli and the Shinkai movies in the last 3 decades have shown that people outside Japan do like anime movies when they’re really well done. Demon Slayer isn’t their first go, but maybe it’s the first real “anime movie from some popular manga,” not a big name like Ghibli, that movie people are really noticing. I think that’s where the trend is.

The hint was that the Aeneid is Roman and the Odyssey is Greek. Greece is centuries before the Romans.

The biggest party in the parliament, or a coalition, pick the prime minister. I’m pretty sure this one was from a coalition, and she was the leader of her party, and her party was the bigger of the coalition. Members of parliament do get elected into it by the people, who vote for a person and/or for a list. They didn’t pick her to be leader of the party, but they voted for the people in the party that she recently became leader of.

I don’t understand how but she’s supposedly a conservative.

Far right Trump lover who wants a return to traditional values. You know which tradition she’s talking about, and it’s not a Japanese tradition.

Also, prime minister not president, and not elected.

We should be passing bills that make President Trump’s executive orders permanent.

Can she though

I think Colbert also kept paying his full staff when in covid lockdown even when he was filming it from his bathtub and then his shed or something.

And then there’s also the whole freedom of speech, journalistic freedom thing.

Instructions unclear, ate burgers for 10 years and gained 30kg.

Not the basket D:

You can also add jets to make it shoot down faster.

saying it is against tradition

The fuck? She doesn’t know anything about Japanese traditions, does she?

Depends if we’re spinning this as “you should never attack a black Jewish trans catgirl, even if that person is Hitler” or “Hitler exists therefore I’ll attack anyone who shares a trait I identify with Hitler.”

This headline can be misinterpreted in many ways, first of all being what is the exact question they asked, as with any poll.

99.9% of anime is slice of life in real Japan with mostly real or real-ish names, what are you talking about

Define unwell. He and she are not talking about the same thing, he’s not agreeing with her, he’s muddying the water on what anyone is talking about.

Like “he’s committing genocide, he’s crazy” “but what about cinnamon rolls, that’s crazy too” is not him agreeing, it’s him changing the subject.