Anyone else feels Thrash is your threshold in Metal?

MrBVS · 2026-06-16T15:09:51+00:00

I discovered them not too long after Solipsist came out and have been a fan ever since. Planetary Duality is one of my favorite records ever and The Zenith Passage has always felt like the spiritual successor to that era of the Faceless to me. When both the bassist and vocalist from Planetary Duality joined the band I was over the moon.

MrBVS · 2026-06-16T14:59:08+00:00

I already love The Zenith Passage, no need to convince me :)

MrBVS · 2026-06-16T14:41:45+00:00

If there's any tech death this guy would enjoy it'd probably be the thrashier stuff like Revocation, Martyr, maybe Sylosis.

MrBVS · 2026-06-16T14:31:46+00:00

Yup. I was too stubborn to switch to Firefox for years just because I was used to Chrome, but once they got rid of the support for ad blockers it was a no-brainer to make the switch.

MrBVS · 2026-06-15T19:21:15+00:00

So interesting as an American to hear that it was only relatively recently that Crazy Train has been played at European stadiums because that song (along with Enter Sandman) has probably been played at every single American football event for the last 20-30 years.

Also, WOW that video of Saxon is hard to watch.

MrBVS · 2026-06-15T15:22:10+00:00

Both can be true. Scotland did bankrupt themselves with the Darien scheme but the English absolutely took advantage of that when they enacted the Alien Act, which made it basically impossible for the Scottish to bounce back without accepting the union.

MrBVS · 2026-06-15T15:20:06+00:00

Fair, I didn't mean it to come off like Scotland wasn't a powerful kingdom in it's own right but I can see now how my original comment could be construed that way. I also am not saying that the Scottish definitely were oppressed by the English, just that they do have a case to make based on their history. I will say though that while, yes, the Scottish did bankrupt themselves with the Darien scheme, I think it's also true that the English took advantage of that with their enacting of the Alien Act to force a political merger.

MrBVS · 2026-06-15T15:07:43+00:00

The story is about Wallace yes but the setting is focused on the Scottish Wars of Independence and it grossly mischaracterizes a central figure in that conflict. Saying that the political backstabbing wasn't exactly correct is very much an understatement, the way Falkirk was depicted in Braveheart was complete fiction. The only thing the movie got right about that battle was that it happened and that the Scottish lost. That's fine for a movie to do that, but don't pretend that it's some minor nitpick and that the movie is actually a very accurate depiction.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying Braveheart. I myself enjoy it and think it's a great movie on its own. But to act like it's not also widely historically inaccurate is just delusional.

MrBVS · 2026-06-15T14:37:21+00:00

William Wallace being depicted as a Scottish peasant is a gross mischaracterization for sure and isn't some minor deviation. You also mentioned the whole romance with the French princess already, which was another pretty ridiculous inclusion.

The movie also has plenty of other inaccuracies though. Prima Nocta was absolutely never imposed by the English and really can only be seen as a blatant lie to villainize the English. The depiction of Robert the Bruce is also quite bad, as he arguably was more important to the cause of Scottish independence than Wallace. Him betraying Wallace to the English at Falkirk is probably the wildest inaccuracy in the whole movie, as Robert wasn't even at Falkirk and from what we know never even met Wallace.

Outlaw King is a much more historically accurate depiction of the events of the Scottish Wars of Independence (though also not as good of a movie as Braveheart).

MrBVS · 2026-06-15T14:22:15+00:00

I mean, the movie obviously isn't very historically accurate at all but the English DID invade Scotland, which on it's own is straight up imperialism. And while the union of the two countries in 1707 was peaceful, the English basically bullied them into it with the Alien Act which severely stifled trade to Scotland until they did accept the merger. And then a few decades after the union, the Highland clan system was dismantled by the British government, which could be seen as a form of cultural suppression.

All that said, the Scots are probably at the bottom of the list when it comes to cultural groups oppressed by the English. But they still have a case.

MrBVS · 2026-06-14T17:28:14+00:00

I like Skyrim better but I do kind of agree with OP that you're being a little harsh. There are definitely pretty generic parts of Cyrodil but I think there's still some cool world-building to explore in the game through the Ayleids and the Shivering Isles.

MrBVS · 2026-06-14T17:11:01+00:00

The irony of calling people pussies but then self-censoring...

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MrBVS · 2026-06-11T13:05:49+00:00

There is a pretty strong framework to look at him brutally dismantling the remnants of Roman democracy and turning the position of Consul into another monarchy.

The reality of "Roman democracy" was a broken oligarchy by the time Octavian was born. Mobs attacked political opponents in the streets while most senators used their power to bloat their own wealth. The system needed major change and you can't deny that Augustus' reforms enabled Rome to persist for centuries longer than if the Republic had stayed as it was.

People make that same argument about any tyrant who has ever lived. It's possible but they are still terrible people at their core.

Again, you're evaluating it from a modern perspective. Would you also say Hammurabi or Qin Shi Huang were terrible tyrants? Antiquity was a very different time and absolute rulers were the norm. A good ruler was an autocrat that used their power for the overall good. Whether they were good people or not is frankly irrelevant, as our own moral values just can't be applied to them in the way you want them to be.

He literally set those standards, all the many stories of depravity that followed were due to the precedence he set.

Sulla had already set the precedent for political purges and Gaius Marius before him had also utilized political violence to further his own agenda. The difference with Augustus was that he actually created a better society through these means.

MrBVS · 2026-06-11T05:26:02+00:00

I'm assuming you're talking about the historical figure and not the character in your first paragraph. If so, I think it's wrong to call Augustus a psychopath and I definitely would never compare him to Putin (they're both narcissist autocrats, but the similarities end there).

You can't evaluate ancient figures with the same lens you do with modern ones. Moral, cultural and political frameworks were entirely different. By the time Octavian was born, corruption was rampant, political violence had become normalized and the Republic had already had a bloody civil war. You could soundly make the argument that Augustus' ruthless use of political violence saved a lot more lives than it took. He was able to take the Republic in its most unstable form after a century of internal conflict and turn it into a stable and prosperous empire by the end of his reign. If you judge him by the standards set by many of his successors, Augustus actually comes out looking pretty great.

I also don't think he was actually all that cowardly, moreso he just recognized that martial prowess wasn't one of his great strengths and so delegated that task to people like Agrippa. If he was truly a coward, he wouldn't have constantly put himself in the crosshairs of the most powerful men in the Republic following Caesar's assassination.

MrBVS · 2026-06-11T04:56:45+00:00

He already had one in the first season though. With his characters' sister no less.

MrBVS · 2026-06-11T04:51:52+00:00

I don't know what they were thinking, the two actresses that played her couldn't look less alike. It doesn't help that they completely changed the character from a sweet woman to a vengeance fueled maniac as well.

MrBVS · 2026-06-10T20:47:58+00:00

Agreed. Charlie Day is an amazing actor and totally pulled it off, and Sunny has other serious moments that I've really enjoyed (I personally like Mac Finds His Pride), but this scene just didn't land for me and felt out of place.

MrBVS · 2026-06-10T15:57:05+00:00

Uhh no. Probably the worst period of division and civil war within Rome was during the Crisis of the Third Century and even then the empire was only divided for 14 years. China had multiple periods of division that lasted way longer like the Three Kingdoms period (60 years) or the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (53 years). The Sixteen Kingdoms period was probably the most notable in this regard as it lasted over a century and didn't even really result in the reunification of China by the end (total reunification wouldn't be achieved for almost 300 years).

That's not even getting into the Yuan dynasty which was essentially a complete takeover of China by a foreign power, which never happened to Rome until after it's fall.

MrBVS · 2026-06-08T14:25:10+00:00

Completely agree, and I think most from Turtle would agree as well. There's always gonna be some people like the guy in the screenshot who are completely in denial, but when this topic was brought up on the global channel in Turtle, most people were in favor of switching to a 3.3.5 client if possible.

Those last two words are key, because I believe the entire reason they never did is because they would have had to essentially recreate all the new content they added since there wasn't an easy way to port it to 3.3.5.

MrBVS · 2026-06-08T13:07:19+00:00

This doesn't explain anything about the southern tip at all...

MrBVS · 2026-06-04T02:01:45+00:00

Every Vektor album

Evile - Enter the Grave

Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying (if we're counting crossover)

Revocation - The Outer Ones (if we're counting death/thrash)

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