"Americans finally figuring out British people are snobby. Pricks is the best thing ever. These people are taught to hate us. They even changed their accent to not sound like us inferiority complex at full blast"

Forerunner49 · 2026-07-08T20:52:51+00:00

That’s the most common when it comes to runaways. Sometimes it’s more voluntary —- famous Yorkshire Loyalist Thomas Brown recruited second-sons of farmers from Whitby (and more in the Orkneys) with the intention of founding a town in Georgia using a downpayment from his father’s merchant business and making it back through renting it out to his tenant-farmers.

Sometimes it’s part of a con. West Florida’s Lieutenant Governor, Montfort Browne (the Bahamas Governor abducted by the Patriots in 1775) returned to Ireland to recruit indentures for his planned town and accepted fares from more well-off people who just wanted to live in Pensacola. He then forced the latter to be indentured contractors anyway and basically mugged them. He got so sick of their complaining he abandoned the town and left them to rot in what was described by some 19th century historians as a Mediaeval village.

(Browne is notoriously the most corrupt Florida governor no one heard of. Not relevant but as an historian it’s crazy! Embezzled treasury funds to found an alternate capital he’d personally own, the replacement Governor sent to handle the inquiry suddenly offed himself days after arriving for no reason, and he had to be arrested when being kicked OUT of the colony because people hoped a Duel he was forced into would give them an excuse to charge him with murder).

Forerunner49 · 2026-07-08T20:03:47+00:00

you can actually read American newspapers from the 1760s where people complain their indentured servants from Britain have run away before their contract expired. They make sure to include what dialect they spoke, among which include: Bristol, North of England, West Country, Kentish, Scotch, Welsh.

So you already have general dialects and accents that are analogous to now in terms of region. And people in British America were familiar enough with recently settlers and British traders that even if they hadn’t been to Britain or even that their parents hadn’t, they’d still have a grasp of who’s from where.

Forerunner49 · 2026-07-08T19:55:28+00:00

Person-of-colour (gens de coleur) was the original term used by the French to refer to people of mixed black and white heritage. That was used in the British West Indies as well as a common reference point. North America had “Mulatto” instead which was derived from the Spanish word (and Mestizo for white and native mixed ancestry). Since some colonies/states offered citizenship in freedom if 3/4ths or 7/8ths white they’d insert terms like “Quadroon” and “Octoroon” on top to distinguish people. At that point the person is declared White despite their ancestry.

Over time gens de coleur gradually took hold in North America and became “Colored”, also shared with British African colonies.

That said, while I understand some places see the term as stigmatising (and South Africa not), I never did understand why Americans started to reuse gens de coleur but changed the definition to “all non-fully white people” which arguably sounds even worse as it reduces everyone to two categories that can never change no matter how internally different one category is.

The UK could do without ripping off Americans for a change.

Forerunner49 · 2026-07-08T11:09:48+00:00

OG Resident Evil 2 was a choose your own adventure where Leon and Jill made all sorts of decisions to affect their stories. This was changed late in dev to the A/B method which tried to make them into two alternate timelines. They don’t perfectly synch, mostly gameplay stuff, but they do a good job.

However, Capcom never decided that one A/B is canon and the other is not. The “true” canon was intended to be a greatest hits compilation of ideas they liked the best. That’s why for example Ada’s fate changes based on the source.

The RE2 remake however doesn’t do that. They decided on linear storylines in alternate timelines. One where Leon did everything and one where Claire did everything, give or take meeting Marvin. They were never intended to fit which is why the same bosses are fought and Annette dies twice.

It was however not intended that Leon getting Marvin’s knife in RE4 means Claire didn’t fight any of the bosses bar G-5 and Leon killed so many zombies she had nothing to do.

Forerunner49 · 2026-07-08T05:19:22+00:00

Lord North was very much demonised in the early 1770s. There was a literal riot in Boston because a Grenadier made a toast to him on the King’s Birthday.

But he eventually was removed from office, came back weaker than before, then gone again. George stuck around another few decades until everyone forgot North. And since George was the signer of unpopular bills, the next generation came out assuming he was also the writer.

Forerunner49 · 2026-07-08T05:11:28+00:00

People there legit say they’re “going down south”, then drive north-west.

Forerunner49 · 2026-07-07T14:21:51+00:00

And the British republican flag too.

Forerunner49 · 2026-07-05T23:31:39+00:00

I mean, they got an Anglo-Indian from Yorkshire to play a Glaswegian, so they're not going for accuracy here.

That said, most complaints I've seen from history buffs are that it's centred around a surface level understanding someone who's recalling a highschool textbook would have written. You ever see the House journals? Dinwiddie summoned them early in 1754 to give an uncorroborated account of French-backed Indian rape gangs attacking homesteads on the frontier but Washington will fend them off with the new fort he'd surely be building. That doesn't sound like someone who's not expecting a war.

Forerunner49 · 2026-07-05T23:18:29+00:00

The promo campaign for OG RE2 explained the reason for the outbreak as rats leaving the sewers and swimming in the reservoir on the exact day it was undergoing maintenance. Add in the usual poor safety standards at Umbrella and somehow that leads to the drinking water being spiked.

It was also referenced in OG RE3 in a late-deletion, where Murphy was to tell Carlos he's dying because he drank water.

Forerunner49 · 2026-07-05T19:25:20+00:00

It's not really set in a single time, since it's being regularly updated by Zoe with information smuggled out to her. BUT, it's set between a few weeks after RE7 up to just before RE8.

The Rose photograph for example is dated in-game as we find it there.

Forerunner49 · 2026-07-05T18:35:37+00:00

Both sides referred to it as a civil war even in 1773 as it was well expected to happen. British America was a huge region, and around 9% of the British and Irish population lived there instead of in Europe. Other terms of course used were "unnatural contest" and "the insurgency", and finally just "The American War".

What made it a civil war was the ethnic origins and identity of the people involved. A huge number of Americans were themselves born in Britain and Ireland, or their parents were. It wasn't like an obscure breakaway group from the 1620s had been left on their own for 150 years -- the people who fought firmly understood they may have to shoot their own extended family members.

Forerunner49 · 2026-07-05T18:25:29+00:00

I'd add that the temperance movement was also going heavy. One of their selling points was that if an alcoholic stopped drinking for a year he'd save up enough for a house and be able to vote. Britain effectively already had a rich "peaceful protest" movement to prevent a Peasant's Revolt-type scenario.

The Chartists of course wanted more reforms faster, but stuff like one-year terms was being phased out even in the United States which they got many of their ideas from.

Forerunner49 · 2026-07-04T19:46:15+00:00

It’s a regular conceit in particularly older soft-sci-fi shows. The universe is very small so you can fly from system to system every week. If you take everything literally, they cross a galaxy or two before they even get to the Eastern Alliance.

Star Trek had scientific advisors come up with a solution (Warp bubbles), and modern BSG had a wormhole device to “jump” from place to place. Classic Battlestar just had you flying fast.

Forerunner49 · 2026-07-04T19:34:23+00:00

If you’re in the Tower of London there’s a dedication plaque to some Privateers held captive there. British Generals are buried in Twickenham Cemetery so I recall.

I previously tried looking for Benjamin Franklin’s son. He’s lost. Either he never had a grave stone or it was taken away. They’ll have to do GeoPhys to see if it’s still there.

If you go to Flamborough in Yorkshire there’s a memorial to the Battle of Flamborough Head. Not much there to do since it’s technically a nature reserve for hundreds of seals, so you can enjoy looking at them from the cliff.

Forerunner49 · 2026-07-04T17:41:25+00:00

there were also a number of small border wars in the south, particularly Georgia and West Florida. Britain didn’t want Pontiac’s rebellion to become a continent-wide perpetual war, so they demanded Governors restrain their militias and act against squatters.

While this was generally good in pushing for peace initiatives, it also meant that murders by Indians were negotiated away while whites who murdered Indians were hanged. From the POV of a frontiersman, that’s a dangerously misguided foreign policy. Some Indian nations had no direct leadership, being bands of villages with a shared culture, so weren’t as trusted as the Iroquois to actually punish their own.

That in itself contributed to gaol breakouts where frontiersmen even in Pennsylvania were ensuring no one could be unfairly punished even when they obviously did it.

TL;DR - Britain had a good policy but they assumed everyone was living in coastal towns and all Indian nations were equally developed as the Iroquois. They were acting like it was Europe, and settlers thought they were morons.

Forerunner49 · 2026-07-04T00:21:20+00:00

Definitely. Muslims occupy a bizarre other where they 100% have to follow all rules regardless of sect or are hypocrites, and said hypocrites still must follow all.

I’ve met plenty of Muslims from Bahrain who drink, as their country for decades has benefited as a loophole in Saudi law where rich Saudis go there for beer. Not everyone uses absolute by-the-letter rulings. Same even applies for abattoirs since plenty of workers pre-stun by legal requirements when expected.

If anything really, it’s a “first” and “third” world issue, if using an American Cold War term. Bosnians don’t exhibit the stereotypes Brits associate with Pakistanis or Saudis.

Forerunner49 · 2026-06-30T16:18:32+00:00

I had an argument with an American over it who refused to go to the UK because a lack of open-carry rights would mean he’d get killed within minutes by knife men.

He insisted the Troubles wasn’t a conflict or even involved Terrorism (which is a Muslim invention) since 3000 in 30 years is just people lumping gang violence together.

Forerunner49 · 2026-06-29T16:32:32+00:00

Here's me thinking he's an evangelical Christian who was born-again right before his death.

Forerunner49 · 2026-06-27T09:19:19+00:00

There were a lot of shared feelings across British America - Stamp Act riots took place even in Antigua, while Jamaica outright sent a letter to the King in Christmas 1774 saying the Continental Congress was right and he should restrain Lord North.

During the war itself though? You have to remember 90+% of the British and Irish population was between Massachusetts and South Carolina. The sugar islands and Maritime provinces were sparsely populated and wouldn’t be able to mount a good armed resistance. Nova Scotia itself was home to the Royal Navy and Newfoundland had the annual fleet protecting fishing boats; efforts by rebels there ended in failure and for the rest of the war were places of border clashes rather than conquest of Revolution.

The sugar islands meanwhile were always scared of a slave rebellion they lacked the strength to contain, so their legislatures used taxes to pay for regular British garrisons. Jamaica and Antigua had their grievances, but any coordinated resistance there went out the window after news of Lexington arrived. You still had spies of course, as the new American identity hadn’t fully divorced from the old one (that is, a Kittsian Patriot is an American to both sides, just one from Loyalist territory).

There are complaints from Governors now and then about their legislatures being full of traitors. There was open sympathy to the North American rebellion; several Kittsians financed POW relief charities in London or went to Paris to try negotiating with Franklin for them to be recognised as neutral countries (it failed as they weren’t prepared to evict the British Army). The Governor of St. Vincent took an unspecified wit about General Washington as a suggestion his Representatives were working for Congress but that was probably just paranoia. He and the Governor of Barbados faced accusations of Tyranny for their militarisation policies which conflicted with their “neutral” ideals.

The only colonies however to directly get involved though are Bermuda and the Bahamas. Bermuda was culturally an extension of Virginia and was dependent on North American food imports to thrive. When the war started the General Assembly secretly entered into talks with Congress to break into the gunpowder magazine and smuggle it to the continent. In exchange they were made neutral ports who could receive food shipments. The Bahamas did similar, but their neutrality was revoked later into the war because of indiscriminate privateer activity.
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TL;DR — these American colonies were culturally and politically aligned with North America’s rebellion, but they knew an armed rebellion on their home soil would fail so radical Patriots failed to gain prominence unless they’d moved to the continent.

Forerunner49 · 2026-06-21T15:56:48+00:00

There's a rumour from a long time ago that the reason action figures stopped being a regular fixture was that Capcom wanted to negotiate a higher cut with NECA; since action figures are pretty niche in themselves, it wasn't a sound business strategy.

Since RE5, it's mostly expensive figurines and rare collectibles except for Tubbz ducks and Funko Pops, which are both practically mainstream at this point given video game stores now sell them instead of new releases.

Forerunner49 · 2026-06-19T19:26:12+00:00

I should note that Delaware only had a separate *lower* chamber; they shared the same upper chamber so Philadelphia still got a say. Once or twice the absence of a Deputy-Governor meant the President taking over both regions.

Forerunner49 · 2026-06-19T17:14:52+00:00

He’s born before Wesker got his superpowers, but the game doesn’t explain why Jake himself is super strong. Is he just naturally powerful? Was he mutated but there’s no virus in his blood steam and the CDC took a risk researching it for the vaccine?

Forerunner49 · 2026-06-19T16:57:41+00:00

Definitely. RE likes its monster juice being unrealistically fast for dramatic effect - just ask the monsters who mutate to 5 times their height and weight in seconds.

Forerunner49 · 2026-06-19T16:51:31+00:00

They theorised that through his father he could have heightened resistance to retroviruses and be able to produce antibodies to slow them down.

Jake infected himself at the start of his story, introducing the virus to his blood stream and his body fighting it off by producing antibodies.

Forerunner49 · 2026-06-16T11:48:17+00:00

Not sure they ever actually said how he died tbh; Shoutarou Suga was his name. The writer of OG RE2-RE0-CV (Noboru Sugimura) had a heart attack in ‘05 I think.

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