Ryujin
Legend
Clearly, your father wasn't a warrior.
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overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
Option 1. Klingon. “Dishonor on you and your House.”
Option 2 RPG pedant. “I think you mean paladin. They have immunity to disease.”
ichabod
Legned
That scene? Really? You're going to make memes out of that scene?
Ryujin
Legend
I think that we can rule out Monk as well, at least high level one.
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Per our earlier conversation, I finally got around to writing that post about ranking Civilizations.
I kept my descriptions relatively brief ... mostly so people could argue.
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Per our earlier conversation, I finally got around to writing that post about ranking Civilizations.
I kept my descriptions relatively brief ... mostly so people could argue.
Civilizations, RANKED!
So you probably saw the title and thought to yourself, "Self, this is a thread that is absolutely cruising to a thread-lock!" HA HA! No. A recent announcement had me thinking about a topic that is near and dear to my heart .... Snarf's Strange Preoccupations- Power Rankings 1. The banal...
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Ryujin
Legend
Games. Pft! If you had ranked civilizations, I'd be in. Babylon all the way, baby!@trappedslider
Per our earlier conversation, I finally got around to writing that post about ranking Civilizations.
I kept my descriptions relatively brief ... mostly so people could argue.
Civilizations, RANKED!
So you probably saw the title and thought to yourself, "Self, this is a thread that is absolutely cruising to a thread-lock!" HA HA! No. A recent announcement had me thinking about a topic that is near and dear to my heart .... Snarf's Strange Preoccupations- Power Rankings 1. The banal...
.... yeah, that would be thread lock fast.
(I do think that there is a dearth of good books about the various powers in Mesopotamia throughout ancient history. If you want to read up on the Romans or the Egyptians, you can't throw a stone in a library without hitting another book. But the Akkadians? Assyrians? Acaharmenids? Good luck with that.)
In order to offer something, I thought I'd re-post this recommendation from a while back for reading material-
Carthage Must Be Destroyed, by Richard Miles. I wanted to love this book. I've always been fascinated by Carthage, and, um...
spoiler, I guess....??? Really, who knows any more!
Yeah, Rome kind of kicked their posterior, burned the city to the ground, and salted the earth- so there's not a whole lot of history we have from their side.
Any way, this book supposedly told the story of Carthage from the Carthaginian p.o.v. by combining modern archaeological evidence and combing through the ancient histories (which were distorted) to present a more balanced and comprehensive look.
I guess it did the best job possible? The thing is, I didn't learn a whole lot that was brand new to me. It just made me sad ... because it re-emphasized that so much was lost and will never be fully known.
There was also something about the writing style that didn't quite work for me. The best example is how Miles kept teasing child sacrifice by the Carthaginians, usually in the context of "Oh, the Romans and Greeks always make up slurs against their enemies," and then moved on to something else, and then in what was an aside was like, "Oh yeah, they were totally doing the child sacrifice, even after the Eastern Phoenicians had abandoned it."
It was a very weird stylistic choice.
So if you're really into Carthage (um... that's not a euphemism) you should read it. I don't regret reading it. But I wish it was more. Or, more correctly, I wish that we knew more.
Don't get me wrong- I don't regret reading the book, which is why I said that if you're interested in Carthage (or just like reading about ancient history- and enjoy the slightly more academic "popular works" that assume you know what a stele is or the names of various famous ancient Greeks and Romans without having to spoon-feed it to you), you should definitely pick it up!
My ambivalence with book is born out of an essential sadness. So much of the book concentrates on "Greater Carthage" (the Western Mediterranean) and the actions and words of others. I know that the author is trying to rescue Carthage, but in the end, it's still absent- Carthage is almost all negative space. Rome was, for the most part, successful. As much as we try to reconstruct what Carthage was, it will always be defined by trying to understand it through what the destroyers of Carthage told us.
The Romans, they were thorough.
Carthage Must Be Destroyed, by Richard Miles. I wanted to love this book. I've always been fascinated by Carthage, and, um...
spoiler, I guess....??? Really, who knows any more!
Yeah, Rome kind of kicked their posterior, burned the city to the ground, and salted the earth- so there's not a whole lot of history we have from their side.
Any way, this book supposedly told the story of Carthage from the Carthaginian p.o.v. by combining modern archaeological evidence and combing through the ancient histories (which were distorted) to present a more balanced and comprehensive look.
I guess it did the best job possible? The thing is, I didn't learn a whole lot that was brand new to me. It just made me sad ... because it re-emphasized that so much was lost and will never be fully known.
There was also something about the writing style that didn't quite work for me. The best example is how Miles kept teasing child sacrifice by the Carthaginians, usually in the context of "Oh, the Romans and Greeks always make up slurs against their enemies," and then moved on to something else, and then in what was an aside was like, "Oh yeah, they were totally doing the child sacrifice, even after the Eastern Phoenicians had abandoned it."
It was a very weird stylistic choice.
So if you're really into Carthage (um... that's not a euphemism) you should read it. I don't regret reading it. But I wish it was more. Or, more correctly, I wish that we knew more.
Don't get me wrong- I don't regret reading the book, which is why I said that if you're interested in Carthage (or just like reading about ancient history- and enjoy the slightly more academic "popular works" that assume you know what a stele is or the names of various famous ancient Greeks and Romans without having to spoon-feed it to you), you should definitely pick it up!
My ambivalence with book is born out of an essential sadness. So much of the book concentrates on "Greater Carthage" (the Western Mediterranean) and the actions and words of others. I know that the author is trying to rescue Carthage, but in the end, it's still absent- Carthage is almost all negative space. Rome was, for the most part, successful. As much as we try to reconstruct what Carthage was, it will always be defined by trying to understand it through what the destroyers of Carthage told us.
The Romans, they were thorough.
RealAlHazred
Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
I don't know about that.
Another story about my dad. He is the cheapest man I've ever known. When Germany had a particularly good team going into the World Cup, he wanted to watch it but he didn't want to pay for a new antenna and the cheap one we had didn't pick up the UHF channels too well. So he convinced a salesman at the TV shop to let him try out a better antenna for one week -- the one week he needed to watch the World Cup finals. With his friend's help from across the street, he put it on the roof, watched World Cup matches every evening, and then took it down the following Sunday so he wouldn't get charged for it.
He got his friend to help him take it down, then sent him home while he stayed on the roof "to clean out a couple of gutters." When he went to take the ladder down to the deck, it slipped -- it had rained earlier that day, and with a wooden deck and an old, cheap wooden ladder with no rubber feet, it was a predictable accident.
My mom was trimming her tomato plants and heard a loud thump. She looked up, and couldn't see anything from where she was. As she walked up the stairs to the deck, she saw my dad unconscious and bleeding. As she got close, he suddenly came to with a start, sat up straight, and said, "NO DOCTORS!"
Narrator: "But there were, in fact, doctors."
He'd broken both bones in one forearm, and his glasses breaking on the way down had given him a nasty cut above one eye which needed seven stitches to close.
So, he's a warrior.
Just... not a particularly smart one.
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