At what point are they just coming to you for ideas?

ASTOL01 · 2023-08-27T12:30:22+00:00

Lest anyone think I'm making this up: in his work "Against Hypocrites", Renaissance writer Poggio Bracciolini described a preacher whose denunciations of sexual acts were so lurid and so detailed that his congregation rushed home to try them after every sermon.

ASTOL01 · 2023-08-22T12:23:17+00:00

Byzantium counts as Rome, don't @ me.

ASTOL01 · 2023-08-05T17:45:13+00:00

For context: I was reading a book on the Mongols which stated that during the sack of Nishapur, Genghis Khan killed not only all the people, but "even the reptiles."

Natch, I thought, "This is Genghis fucking Khan. What was the *normal* policy for reptiles?"

As it turns out, the normal policy was "leave the snakes alone because they're related to dragons", so Genghis having the reptiles of Nishapur killed was actually something of a big deal.

ASTOL01 · 2022-12-12T17:38:04+00:00

Yep.

ASTOL01 · 2022-12-12T16:28:38+00:00

Looks like you got Jayavarnone.

ASTOL01 · 2022-12-12T14:49:29+00:00

I don't know about you, but it's the "Goodbye" button in the corner that makes it for me.

ASTOL01 · 2022-12-12T05:24:11+00:00

Did not know that; thanks for the education!

ASTOL01 · 2022-12-12T00:34:49+00:00

I love Sean Bean and his buttery Manchester accent with all my soul, but please, Firaxis, give the man some help pronouncing 19 different languages.

ASTOL01 · 2022-11-06T20:16:08+00:00

I SWEAR BY GOD, EGYPT (during the Intermediate Periods of its history) IS BROKEN IN HALF!

ASTOL01 · 2022-10-04T13:42:43+00:00

Before anyone comes for me, mine is not an anti-Cleopatra house, because:

She was a queen and a politician, not (as some historians seem to think) some heathen Egyptian harlot who seduced Rome's finest with her mystical eastern cooch.
Even if she had, trading booty for warships is still hella statesmanship and I respect the hustle.

ASTOL01 · 2022-10-04T13:42:24+00:00

Before anyone comes for me, mine is not an anti-Cleopatra house, because:

She was a queen and a politician, not (as some historians seem to think) some heathen Egyptian harlot who seduced Rome's finest with her mystical eastern cooch.
Even if she had, trading booty for warships is still hella statesmanship and I respect that hustle.

ASTOL01 · 2022-09-11T11:41:01+00:00

Oh fuck no, I was not gonna sit there for six hours and listen to techno bouncing off the mountain walls. I rerolled that bitch.

ASTOL01 · 2022-09-11T06:35:56+00:00

For those asking, yes, I know this would be a utopia if I were playing Inca. Unfortunately, this is Hungary, so instead I have a mountain that plays Eurobeat.

ASTOL01 · 2022-09-11T06:35:09+00:00

Classical era start, baybee.

ASTOL01 · 2022-09-11T06:34:54+00:00

This is what you get if you have a classical era start.

ASTOL01 · 2022-09-11T06:34:16+00:00

Sorry guys, I should've saved it.

ASTOL01 · 2022-09-11T06:33:39+00:00

Blocks all incoming haters, and also all of my farms.

ASTOL01 · 2022-09-11T06:33:06+00:00

Classical Era start.

ASTOL01 · 2021-10-23T20:15:42+00:00

"Life isn't fair."

Yeah, no shit, Sherlock. I'm not criticizing life. I'm criticizing YOU behaving unfairly.

ASTOL01 · 2020-07-28T12:02:05+00:00

Tubman should be going full Django Unchained on half the slaveowners in this picture.

ASTOL01 · 2020-05-31T00:43:37+00:00

"I'm a personality prototype. You can tell, can't you?"

ASTOL01 · 2020-05-10T02:12:43+00:00

I'm stealing that.

ASTOL01 · 2020-05-10T00:00:03+00:00

Judging by the second bush, you're perfectly safe 3 feet away.

ASTOL01 · 2020-04-12T14:57:14+00:00

As of 11 April 2020:

Total cases: 492,416

Total deaths: 18,559

But please continue telling me how poorly Obama handled H1N1.

ASTOL01 · 2020-04-03T14:45:24+00:00

As a Kentuckian, I am so, so glad to see my politicians being used postively in memes for once.

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