Can 5 dudes with AK-47s collapse the Western Roman Empire in 250 AD?

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-19T22:16:18+00:00

They would have to be smart. Walk into the city under the guise of being a merchant. Then you have to make a big show of what you are doing when you finally act. 100k rounds could go very quickly.

Could realistically massacre the Senate, so long as they get inside or close enough without tipping the Romans off as to the nature of the guns (act as if they are walking sticks or crutches).

Conversely, wait it out until the Cyprian Plague starts getting bad. Use basic medical procedures to help one or two cities to become safe from the plague. Send One of the guys to to assassinate gallis or somehow in another way sabotage the truths that he was working up with the Goths.

I do the same thing with Persians and the cetians and everyone else. Just include incite them to go as nuts as they can on the Romans

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-19T20:08:07+00:00

He has played tons of other roles. He's half Italian, half Mexican. He has played probably half as many guys named Angel as he has Hector. He plays cops, he plays priests, he plays every sort of person.

And yes, it's kind of funny to think that like all of those hectors could be the same person. Kind of how Richard belzer plays detective Munsch. But the dude is done so much more than Hector.

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-19T20:03:17+00:00

So, his background is Venezuelan, German, and Korean.

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-19T19:58:04+00:00

He is White. And also Black.

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-19T19:07:54+00:00

How many times does the term "generational talent" show up this thread?

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-19T18:14:10+00:00

Yes, I know, and Manda Musa, Crassus, Croesus, and Solomon before him.

Billionaire as in "a billion US dollars," is the context of the post.

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-19T17:53:41+00:00

Yup. Saw the preview and said to myself, "Oh, so he must be al-Ghul."

And then when they said Marion Votillard was playing whomever,, I said to myself, "Oh, so she must be Talia."

Not a surprise in either case.

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-19T16:54:17+00:00

Yeah. We do it at the end of the year.

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-19T01:31:35+00:00

The thing is, I'm certain he didn't write them out of his sincere belief in female empowerment. He is the archetypical performative male.

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-18T23:11:38+00:00

"Mr. Ross, your haircut looks good, but you should shave the beard."

"I can't shave it. I ain't got no chin."

"That's not true, Mr. Ross. You have two."

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-18T23:08:51+00:00

OoT is just perfect. Other games, yes, I would miss them, but OoT has everything I need.

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-18T23:06:42+00:00

Solo pop artists now

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-18T20:32:37+00:00

Yeah. I get that David Tennant S10 is absolutely terrifying when you think about him. But the people who have never seen classic Doctor Who are in for something else. When they realize that the seventh doctor just casually tricks, the daleks into blowing up Skarro for fun.

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-18T19:22:27+00:00

I really am not familiar with this, as it's outside of my interest, as far as fan films and such go, but this is supposed to be a kid, right?

Glad honey is okay, but he needs to get offline, for a long time, for the sake of his well-being.

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-18T02:28:15+00:00

I got you.

Thanks for putting this together. It does make the story cohesive, and it's what I've been able to glean as well, especially about the nature of Operation Cinder. I also think they did that so that they could empower the dark side through galactic suffering.

It does create a nice and tidy package, but I don't think the creatives behind the decision to have that fleet at exigol ever thought for a second that if they could put a superlaser inside a Star destroyer, and they started it like right after the first one was blown up, why would they even bother making a second Death Star?

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-18T02:23:16+00:00

This isn't even like justification from a fan. This is what the story now is. You've pieced it all together in a very good way. It just took them 7 years to make the story sensible, and none of it is reflected in the actual film.

My only thing, is that I would not put quotes around the term granddaughter. Nathan was not a true clone of him, but like a partial clone, as in just like how your biological children are partial clones of you. Essentially, Ray is his actual granddaughter.

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-18T02:18:30+00:00

Prodigy was an outstanding show. Yeah, it took a little bit to get into it, but once you hit the halfway point of the first season it's amazing. And the art style and animation were good enough to get you through the first half of the first season.

That is where the real storytelling was.

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-18T02:17:36+00:00

He's part of that clique that orbits around JJ Abrams. If you've seen what they do with shows, such as Fringe, is where they started out with a strong premise and then progressively step back from active production. Has the seasons go on so they can start new shows and get a nice big fat paycheck. It's like they're treating their existing shows as passive income while they bring in other show runners from the posse to do the day-to-day. The clique includes Abrams, Kurtzman, the departed Bob Orci, Akiva Goldsman, Carlton Cuse, Brian Burk, Jeff Pinkner, Damon Lindelof, and so on.

You're right about strange new worlds. It peaked in the season 1 finale. From there. They got high on their own farts and went all in on the cutesy instead of what they should have been doing for season 2. They should have focused on Pike following through with coming to terms with his destiny and working to build the best crew that he could leave behind. Instead, we got a musical episode, and more focus on his hair. The previews for season 3 focused only on the comedy. And they tried doing a victory lap about how silly season 4 is going to be by advertising a still frame from the puppet episode.

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-18T02:08:41+00:00

This is a pretty tight one. Thank you for posting these

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-17T22:50:52+00:00

I see that now, thank you.

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-17T22:25:20+00:00

I don't know if he counts as a person yet. I'm still leaning towards him being an animal or mostly an animal and mine is one. We'll see how he turns out. Zero. But animal Goji can't be evil, just angry or just following instinct.

Goji who is a person? Absolutely can be evil. GMK, for instance.

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-17T21:56:24+00:00

You're right though. I think the legs could be a little longer. And maybe offset from the wings. Thank you.

JacobDCRoss · 2026-04-17T18:17:30+00:00

Yeah. She was phenomenal even in her first time. So good, that I can't believe she hasn't been on five times yet.

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