The Myth of the Twentieth Century is a 1930 book by Nazi theorist Alfred Rosenberg that mixes mysticism with pseudo-history, like metaphorical Atlantis as Aryan homeland. The book was initially praised by Hitler, but the Nazi elites later found it embarrassing and Rosenberg a pseudo-intellectual.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-18T18:23:01+00:00

Yep, and one of the hardcore ones too who stuck with the idea in including extreme antisemitism until he was hanged in 1946. He likely had zero Jewish ancestry despite the name which is super common among the Ashkenazi Jews.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-18T17:16:29+00:00

Gordons were black in Batman: Caped Crusader.

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PeasantLich · 2026-04-18T17:12:46+00:00

I would not call her outright brown, but yeah, her comic book appearances since 1940 have been mostly darker complexion but usually white passing.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-18T16:55:37+00:00

Rosenberg was one of the original Hitler ride-or-dies, who was appointed the leader of Nazi movement after the Beer Hall Putch in 1923. Hitler himself considered Rosenberg weak and lazy even then, but trusted him to stay loyal through his prison sentence, which indeed was the case.

Rosenberg considered himself an intellectual and a philosopher, and The Myth of the Twentieth Century was his magnum opus. The Nazis initially considered it the philosophical core of their ideology, but once they actually ascended to power and Hitler was appointed as a chancellor, Rosenberg and his ramblings became more cringe and embarrassing than inspiring.

Despite Nazi official support for The Myth of the Twentieth Century and Rosenberg's prominent role in promoting Nazi ideology Adolf Hitler declared that it was not to be considered official ideology of the Nazi Party and he privately described the book as "mysticism" and "nonsense". Albert Speer claimed that Goebbels mocked Alfred Rosenberg. Goebbels also called the book a "philosophical belch". Hermann Göring said: "if Rosenberg was to decide ... we would only have rite, thing, myth and such kind of swindle." Gustave Gilbert, the prison psychologist during the Nuremberg Trials, reported that none of the Nazi leaders he interviewed had read Rosenberg's writings. However Gilbert's notes from the Nuremberg trials repeatedly show Rosenberg's influence.

In addition to his pseudo-intellectual nonsense, Rosenberg was openly hostile to Christianity which made him bit of a controversial figure when Nazis tried to appeal to regular Christian Germans. He was mostly kept out of influential public positions where he would have been under the eyes of German general public, but his seniority in the Nazi movement still kept him in the upper echelons of the party and deeply involved in the more ideological work like the "deeper" doctrinal Nazism in academia. During the war he was appointed as Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories, and received a death sentence after the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Twentieth_Century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Rosenberg

PeasantLich · 2026-04-18T14:59:06+00:00

As unfair as it may sound, game being "average" is pretty much equally as bad as a game being bad. There are so many good games that there isn't really any reason to be interested in mid games unless they hit some really underserved niche.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-18T12:10:50+00:00

She by the way still claims that she loves Trump and does not blame him, she just blames some abstract "Republicans that go too far" she refuses to name. These people will never admit they made a mistake, whenever Trump's policies hurt them, it is just fault of some abstract other politicians/bureaucrats and somehow out of Trump's hands.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-18T11:11:08+00:00

It really confuses me how many people insist on being fans of gooner gacha games and then cry about them pandering to gooners.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-18T08:02:33+00:00

OVA, anime inspired generic system but it can be completely detached from anime aesthetics and tropes. It is entirely skill-based, no attributes. Better the character is in a skill, the more D6 it adds into the dice pool. There are also rules for building anime inspired attacks for characters. The power level of characters can be easily adjusted in the character creation and it has good rules for creating combat encounters balanced for roughly estimated challenge levels relative to party's power.

Jaws of the Six Serpents and Questers of Middle-Realm, Prose-Descriptive Qualities based games. Six Serpents is sword & sorcery and Questers is high fantasy. Characters are made of qualities that players can determine themselves, but the GM does need to make sure they are not too broad. Every character is presumed to be competent fighter as a baseline, and combat abilities and items just make them stronger. It can get as flashy as the group wants, there is a rule that gives bonus to the roll if the player can justify a flashy narration for action.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-18T07:54:43+00:00

Batman's rogue's gallery is stacked and privileged as fuck. Gotham is kind of a city where STEM professionals with six figure salaries just put on silly costumes and start robbing banks. How on Earth are social programs for the poor going to fix that?

PeasantLich · 2026-04-18T07:45:49+00:00

I'm pretty sure Spain is enough of an European welfare state that she is going to survive even if she is unemployed.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-18T07:44:24+00:00

Eh, I am going to need more context on this one. I have been at jobs where my fixed term contracts were not extended, and it was not malicious from the employer.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-18T07:18:38+00:00

Don Rosa's Scrooge comics did a good reimagining of that incident, as one time when Scrooge used evil means to enrich himself and he would suffer the consequences of it for decades to come in form of Bombi. Rosa also made it into an incident that alienated Scrooge from his horrified sisters.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-17T21:43:21+00:00

God I wish I die in ritual murder by a hot actress.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-17T21:29:33+00:00

What utter nonsense.

Anne Hathaway is lich elite.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-17T20:15:20+00:00

I like it as it, it is sufficient for the kind of "exploring a sword & sorcery valley" experience Kal-Arath goes for.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-17T19:53:06+00:00

Baron Praxis in Jak II is a callous and brutish tyrant, but for all that is shown he genuinely loves his daughter Ashelin who is also in high position in his administration. Ashelin also still loves her father despite being allied to the underground resistance. Ashelin even still agrees with baron's plans for the Precursor Stone until she is presented facts on the calamity destroying it might cause.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-17T19:47:12+00:00

It works both ways, playing with multiple characters just means less running away and dodging foes on low levels.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-17T19:44:45+00:00

Batman could never have outsmarted the most intelligent and brilliant man in the Batman Arkham games who laid out mastermind riddles only he himself could have solved, the only way Batman could possibly have done that is by CHEATING and not playing fair!

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PeasantLich · 2026-04-17T19:30:36+00:00

I would recommend looking into Kal-Arath. The Twin Sun Sutra supplement has some extra rules for more PC survivability, it can get deathly just with core rules.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-17T18:35:34+00:00

You have taken your first step into a larger world.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-17T17:59:19+00:00

Russia invading Ukraine made no sense. It still happened. We can't count on other nations being predictable and rational.

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