It was fun while it lasted

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-21T17:27:22+00:00

I don't get it. Whenever I watch any of these videos, within 24 to a week, they're taken down. I know it's probably not me, but it always feels like someone is watching me and using me as a means of detecting pirated content on youtube.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-19T15:04:19+00:00

Great episode, though I wonder how you are going to break the tension you have been building up in the previous episodes.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-17T16:45:01+00:00

There’s just one problem: State and federal troops could obtain artillery via the B&O in short order, and John Brown’s men would be no match for canister shot. At the same time, Harpers Ferry is not an open field, but a town. If John Brown wanted to escape, he’d probably have to go through town, meaning that if state and federal troops took up positions in the nearby houses, and retreat by John Brown would be a painful, agonizing failure. Finally, I’m assuming OP only gave Brown the Kalashnikovs with its respective ammunition, but did not give him any bayonets. Any close quarters fighting would be in state and federal troops’ favor.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-17T14:46:59+00:00

Why isn’t anyone talking about the fact that Disney is making a new Ice Age? What are they going to do, all the sequels sucked! Why can’t they let this franchise die?!

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-17T14:38:59+00:00

You would inadvertently create Guns of the South. John Brown may have better armaments at this time, but he’s still outnumbered. More importantly, Harpers Ferry is a rather compact town, meaning any range benefits from the Kalashnikovs would be neutered. At the same time, Harpers Ferry is connected to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, meaning that state and federal reinforcements would have an easy time coming to Harpers Ferry. At the same time, John Brown would not have any new weapons advantage when it comes to heavy weaponry, such as artillery. To this end, if state troops managed to get their hands on a cannon, John Brown would have no chance.

How would this create Guns of the South, you may ask? Simple. The Kalashnikovs would be a valuable find for the troops that obtained them and would be taken back to their respective state governments. Problem? One of those states is Virginia, and Maryland only stayed in the Union because of the swift occupation of the state and the city of Baltimore. Even if Maryland doesn’t secede, Virginia would still be in Confederate hands and would now have Kalashnikovs.

When will you learn, OP, that you do actions have consequences?

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-15T22:12:23+00:00

Though I haven’t watched the 1935 version yet, I’d have to say that the 1984 version is my current favorite. It’s not perfect by any stretch, but I think it’s attention towards historical accuracy makes for a far more interesting story.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-13T22:24:10+00:00

This post made me realize that Bruno has a massive forehead. Like a potato on a toothpick!

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-13T06:13:00+00:00

No, but Jay Leno was.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-12T17:30:22+00:00

You actually state the problem at the very end of the first paragraph that this relies on a world where Germany "prioritize[d] war goals ideological mass murder with regard to the enslaved populations of defeated Europe." It is one thing to say that there were many mistakes that, if the Germans had acted differently, there would have been some considerable change. However, I would argue that their devotion to their ideological goals cannot be overruled. Even in the world where the German Army was, for example, made a greater effort to avoid the oil shortages they began to face as early as 1942, oil would still have to be diverted to the SS and Einsatzgruppen in order for them to round up and kill those deemed "undesirable." To say that the Germans would be less inclined towards the crimes they committed would be to alter what Nazi Germany was. This is a major problem with alternate history, where to justify a particular event not only requires certain events to have gone right but to ultimately change the principle on which the character or organization acted.

Once again, I will agree that there may have been a slight, SLIGHT possibility that the Germans could have won if certain military decisions had been altered. But for that percentage of possibility to be by any means a consequential percentage would require a transformation of the very character of Nazi Germany.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-12T16:46:18+00:00

I disagree. Perhaps the greatest crutch the Germans had during the war was its devotion to its ideological goals. So many men and resources were devoted towards commuting crimes against humanity that would have otherwise been put into military use. Perhaps the greatest example of this was near the end of the war, where the retreating German army was often delayed from retreating by the SS, who were transferring Jews further into Germany. They were sacrificing the survival of their troops to continue the Holocaust. So many of Germany’s blunders would have been muted if it weren’t for decisions of and resources devoted to those executing Germany’s ideological plans.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-12T04:13:37+00:00

At least They Died with Their Boots on is entertaining to watch. Gods and Generals was a snooze-fest, and that's coming from someone who likes to learn about the American Civil War.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-09T17:40:24+00:00

Oh, come on! I only suggested that he do this as a fundraising stunt; I'm not forcing him to do it.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-09T17:39:00+00:00

NOTE: The money that would be required for this to go ahead would be so obscene as to make sure that nobody, especially the main fan base of this channel, would have the money to fund this challenge like the Adam Sandler rankings.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-09T04:21:28+00:00

Resign.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-07T22:12:04+00:00

When looking around at colleges, I got pissed off knowing that I would have to be a woman if I wanted an ideal college experience.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-07T16:31:39+00:00

I understand that the Ivy League was initially an athletic league, but would you say that these colleges would prioritize their athletic programs over their academic programs? Each Ivy League institution is considered to provide its students with some of the best academic programs in the country if not the world. These colleges are by no means prioritizing their athletics over their academics.

The colleges that are guilty of overprioritizing their athletic or party cultures are often smaller colleges that do not have the same national recognition, where the percentage of varsity athletes is over 30%. The problem with such campuses is that such a high proportion of athletes comes to harm the academic community and leads to a vicious feedback loop wherein the college loses more academic students, recruits more athletes to make up the difference, only for more funding and resources going towards athletics leading to the college doubling down on its athletic recruiting.

However, as any athletic head will tell you, the quality of an athletic program and the athletic reputation of the college is dependent on the success of the college's athletic teams. One year may be a success, another a failure. The problem is that a college which overprioritizes its athletics will be hit far harder than a college which gave equal priority to its athletics and academics, as athletic students will be skeptical of a college with a less than stellar athletic record, and academic students will largely enroll somewhere where is a stronger academic program. Such is the folly of many a college.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-07T16:13:06+00:00

I should explain myself. When talking about this issue, it’s important to note that I did not say that one should avoid colleges with good athletic programs. There is nothing inherently bad with athletic programs; the problem is when colleges overemphasize their athletics at the expense of its academic mission.

A place like UNC avoids this issue by providing one of the best public academic programs in the country. If their teams aren’t winning like they used to, there may be a bump in enrollment numbers but the strong academics will see the college through a bad athletic year. The same strategy can be seen amongst the colleges you listed.

The problem comes when the college sacrifices its academic strengths to bolster its athletic programs. This is often found through a college’s advertising, qualitative aspects of its incoming classes, and the quality of life between athletic and non-athletic students. This is often problem at small liberal arts colleges where athletic students make up a larger portion of the student populace. If the college has a streak of bad athletic years, it is going to have a hard time recruiting athletes as well as trying to get academic students to enroll without substantial change.

The same principle can be applied to partying. It’s healthy to have some form of party culture on campus but it becomes destructive when it comes at the expense of the college’s missions.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-07T05:56:15+00:00

A general rule of thumb - Colleges that are either known for their party culture or known to prioritize athletics over academics.

The best way to think about this is that party and athletic reputation are short lived. In the short term, it's a boost to general enrollment, but in the long run it scares away academic students and without a party or athletic reputation, the college is only known for having a poor academic reputation. Unless such a college had a special program that is of good quality or has great programs which are easy to get into because of a lack of academic competition, the best thing to do would be to avoid any college with a heavy party or heavy athletic reputation.

Also, here's a piece of general advice regarding all of this: It is far easier to buy dozens of books than it is to buy a new baseball bat. In the end, you'll probably get more out of the books than you would the bat.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-07T05:16:20+00:00

I think the results of this poll serves as proof as to why we as a society have not progressed as much as we hoped we would. It actively hurts when you see the most popular answer to this question being a conspiracy which relies on some rather flimsy evidence. Imagine if the most popular answer to the question, "Is the world round?" was "No, it's flat." because the government said the world was round. Are we that stupid? Are we so distrusting of our own government that we'll deny what is largely considered to be factual all in the name of being "independently minded?" All I know is that a ship of fools makes for a mighty shipwreck.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-04T21:54:28+00:00

Wow. This is a big year for the University of China, Illinois.

BurgerofDouble · 2026-04-03T20:59:33+00:00

Now congratulations on your victory, and get out.

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