what does /his/ think about Skallagrim
is he mostly full of shit?
Fat larper who had a steampunk wedding and chimps out about "functionality" while being obsessed with outdated weapons.
Don't get me wrong, I like swords too, but he is a typical "haha, the katana is inferior to western swords because of functionality; now I'm going to cream myself over the wester katan... i mean gross messer >;^)"
The only things swords are good for are sparing and cutting shit for fun in your back yard, even dressing up for fun is fine.
This historical recreation shit is cringe AF though
He's a loser faggot but he's cool inside of that category, at least he doesn't disrespect people
>>414991
He doesn't claim to be an expert and he does pretty good and concise reviews. He's entertaining (mostly) and does no harm provided you take what he says with a pinch of salt and realize that it's just his opinion. Also, he vaguely reminds me of that one guy from the video game Mercenaries, so that's a plus too.
Who was right?
Sartre had better ingredients, but he fucked everything up so incredibly bad.
There is a reason he is basically ignored in modern academia.
Camus is closer to self help than philosophy, but at least some of the things he said are useful and still meaningful.
One didn't want to cloak the reality of the gulags from the west. What do you think?
Camus by far
Sartre was a hack
If the Mongols had the desire, could they have invaded and subjugated all of Europe?
>>414647
If you mean mongols that were /cg/ or /tg/ level bloodlusted then, yes, sure.
If you mean Mongols that aren't retarded and actually have their own economic welfare in mind, no. There are far greener pastures and far easier to rape women for the mongols to prey on without having to lug around a bunch of Chinese and Persian artillerymen to destroy each and every one of Europe's hundreds of stone castles.
A mongol SCOUTING PARTY devastated eastern europe
Fuck do you think?
It'd be a bigger stomp than China
Probably, but not easily. It took them half a century to fully subjugate China, and I imagine Europe would have been no less difficult. But the Mongols were by far the most advanced military force in their day, combining steppe tactics, just about every piece of siege technology that existed in Asia, and unmatched discipline and leadership. They could easily wipe out any European army; the Poles and Hungarians were completely crushed by them. Sieges would have been more difficult, but with their technological capabilities there's no reason to think they couldn't overcome European defenses as they did in China and the Middle East. Hell, they even managed to capture the supposedly impenetrable fortress of Alamut.
Plus, the Mongols always had a great ability to exploit tensions between their enemies, and Europe was absolutely filled with tension. The idea that Europeans would all get together to kick them out is a fantasy; when the Mongols were slaughtering the Hungarians, the Austrians rather then offering any help actually took advantage of the Hungarian's weakness by stealing a few of their provinces and straight-up mugging their king. Plus that this was the same century that the West sacked Constantinople. The Mongols probably could have easily used European tensions against each other just as they did with Chinese dynasties and the Muslims.
Another idea, that the Mongols would have been stopped by Europe's forests, makes no sense. The Mongols had no problems with the semi-tropical climate of southern China.
Still, Europe probably had some the best fortifications in the world, and the decentralized nature of European states would have made them hard to capture. That would have been the hardest thing for them to overcome. They might have also had trouble with Europe's seas; naval power was the one thing the Mongols lacked.
They could only have taken Europe so long as they were as committed to it as they were with China, and used every resource they had.
Japanese Empire was the best empire, 12/7 best day of my life
>inb4 weapon fag
>>414602
It was an interesting empire, to say the least, with a lot of contradictions. It flitted from Liberal Democracy to an Autocratic Stratocracy, an ally of democratic movements in China to its greatest enemy, its economy both capitalist and oligarchic. Few nations have changed in such a bipolar fashion within the span of less than a century as the Japanese Empire between 1868 and 1945, and it's really interesting in that respect.
>>414602
I feel bad that that hopeful outlook Rurouni Kenshin gives us about the Meiji era turned into shit
>>414602
>Trade with China via Korea
>Invade them three different times
>Develop based on Chinese culture
>fight four different wars with them and try to make them japanese
>Opened up by the US
>bomb pearl harbor
>Based their military on the Germans
>Attack them at Tsingtao while they were busy in Europe
>Bought their early navy from Britain
>Invade them while they're busy in Europe
Is there a nation as prone to betrayal as Japan?
What is /his/ opinion on the "Ancient Aliens" theory?
I just started watching the History Channel documentary;
>inb4 muh ancient aliens, historychannelfag
and Even if the theory seems nonsensical, it does raise some valid points - and highlights the vagueness surrounding the construction of so called "Ancient" constructions.
>>414545
>it does raise some valid points
Like what?
So stupid it makes me rage every time.
>>414545
>vagueness surrounding the construction of so called "Ancient" constructions
more easily explained by ayy lmao's?
Has art ever made you cry, /his/?
Yes. It was a portrait of your mom
>>414408
Yes, she was a beautiful lady.
>>414399
This one did.
Why do Christians have this "I'm a better Christian than you" mentality?
Jesus himself said that the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven would be like a slave to the rest.
>>414391
They're all tripping over themselves to be the most slave-like and the most oppressed
>>414391
>Why do Christians have this "I'm a better Christian than you" mentality?
Thats literally an American thing, all those Americans and their silly denominations are just retarded. Nobody in the Orthodox world considers himself a "better Christian" that concept doesn't exist in Orthodox Christianity, and im sure it doesn't exist in Catholic Christian countries as well.
>>414419
>Jesus himself said that the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven would be like a slave to the rest.
Yeah the greatest in the material of Ceaser world be like the slave to the religiously great but materially poor slave.
That combined with the fact that many Christians are Christians by inertia or convenience than by conviction
can it even be called a state if it was almost always in civil war?
>>413839
>finland is the heir to the roman empire
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that's fucking awesome.
all Feudal states were like that, only difference is that whereas the kingdoms managed to consolidate their state, the empire just split up to several different kingdoms.
>>413922
might as well
>>413839
>Finland is heir of RE
>Finland has claims on whole Europe
Kek
>Granddaughter of Queen Victoria and an older sister of Alexandra, the last Russian Empress, Elisabeth became famous in Russian society for her beauty and charitable works among the poor. After the Socialist Revolutionary Party's Combat Organization murdered her husband with a dynamite bomb in 1905, Elisabeth publicly forgave Sergei's murderer, Ivan Kalyayev, and campaigned without success for him to be pardoned. She then departed the Imperial Court and became a nun, founding the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent dedicated to helping the downtrodden of Moscow. In 1918 she was arrested and ultimately executed by the Bolsheviks.
>After Sergei’s death, Elisabeth wore mourning clothes and became a vegetarian. In 1909, she sold off her magnificent collection of jewels and sold her other luxurious possessions; even her wedding ring was not spared. With the proceeds she opened the Convent of Saints Martha and Mary and became its abbess.
cont
>>413007
>She soon opened a hospital, a chapel, a pharmacy and an orphanage on its grounds. Elisabeth and her nuns worked tirelessly among the poor and the sick of Moscow. She often visited Moscow’s worst slums and did all she could to help alleviate the suffering of the poor.
>In 1918, Lenin ordered the Cheka to arrest Elisabeth. They then exiled her first to Perm, then to Yekaterinburg, where she spent a few days and was joined by others: the Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich Romanov; Princes Ioann Konstantinovich, Konstantin Konstantinovich, Igor Konstantinovich and Vladimir Pavlovich Paley; Grand Duke Sergei's secretary, Fyodor Remez; and Varvara Yakovleva, a sister from the Grand Duchess's convent. They were all taken to Alapayevsk on 20 May 1918, where they were housed in the Napolnaya School on the outskirts of the town.
cont
>>413010
>At noon on 17 July, Cheka officer Pyotr Startsev and a few Bolshevik workers came to the school. They took from the prisoners whatever money they had left and announced that they would be transferred that night to the Upper Siniachikhensky factory compound. The Red Army guards were told to leave and Cheka men replaced them. That night the prisoners were awakened and driven in carts on a road leading to the village of Siniachikha, some 18 kilometres (11 miles) from Alapayevsk where there was an abandoned iron mine with a pit 20 metres (66 feet) deep. Here they halted. The Cheka beat all the prisoners before throwing their victims into this pit, Elisabeth being the first. Hand grenades were then hurled down the shaft, but only one victim, Fyodor Remez, died as a result of the grenades.
>According to the personal account of Vasily Ryabov, one of the killers, Elisabeth and the others survived the initial fall into the mine, prompting Ryabov to toss in a grenade after them. Following the explosion, he claimed to have heard Elisabeth and the others singing an Orthodox hymn from the bottom of the shaft.[5] Unnerved, Ryabov threw down a second grenade, but the singing continued. Finally a large quantity of brushwood was shoved into the opening and set alight, upon which Ryabov posted a guard over the site and departed.
cont
>>413015
>On 8 October 1918, White Army soldiers discovered the remains of Elisabeth and her companions, still within the shaft where they had been murdered. Despite having lain there for almost three months, the bodies were in relatively good condition. Most were thought to have died slowly from injuries or starvation, rather than the subsequent fire. Elisabeth had died of wounds sustained in her fall into the mine, but before her death had still found strength to bandage the head of the dying Prince Ioann with her wimple. With the Red Army approaching, their remains were removed further east and to China before being ultimately taken to Jerusalem, where they were laid to rest in the Church of Maria Magdalene.
>god tier
Humans are inheritantly good, and only commit evil deeds because atrophy dorces them too
>mid tier
Humans are inheritantly evil, and only form alliances/society because it benefits them
>plebcore tier
Humans are inheritantly neutral. This isnt possible because good and evil are defined by us.
>>412875
Humans are forced to fight eachother.
>>412854
>This isnt possible because good and evil are defined by us.
So is neutrality
>"I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful." - Christopher Hitchens
how do you respond?
Y-Yeah...well.....at least I'm not dead
>>412476
With optimism
Thats a naive and cynical view of religious belief
What would you send, to whom? And how would it change our world today?
>>412448
A fleshlight
Idk but it would be funny
I would send a copy of Star Wars, people would think that it is cool and the majority of the people today would worship the force.
>>412448
Donald Trump to pre Colombian America
why didn't George V save them?
>>412160
cuz he a bitch, nigga. Nicky sided with the wrong cousin. When you turn on the Kaiser, there Will be helm to pay.
>>412160
Because the mob known as popular democracy wanted to condemn them to their fates at the hands of the Revolutionaries.
Moral of the story: Never trust Democracy.
>>412160
He was already dead by the time the news got to London.
Is it possible that there was technology developed and experiments done during world war II that still remain classified to this day?
I remember reading once that the Soviets tested a 45mm anti tank round filled with poisonous gas, and apparently the results are still secret.
And I wonder if there were experiments, weapons, technology that were used that we don't even know exist because they are still kept secret.
it's unlikely that the russian government would keep stuff that was developed in ww2 secret unless it was literally still in use in their armed forces today
>>411943
I'm sure that not all of the findings/experiments of Unit 731 in Japan were divulged to the public. They must have had some great stuff to all be given immunity.
>>411981
Eh, read Dead Hand. There is a lot about their biological and chemical programs we don't know and probably never will.
Is it allegorical to all of history or is it more of a shakesperian romance?
Idk I haven't seen it yet
>>411455
It's a cartoon Dave. Just a cartoon.
What allegories it contains are found myriad throughout history and the show itself isn't the best way of portraying or elucidating them.
Don't put too much stock into a cartoon which runs over 100 episodes and is literally a waste of some 45+ hours of your life where you could do far more productive things if you were genuinely interested in politics, military, history etc.
>>411645
>this
i fucking love /his/
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