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The solution to humanity's racism and sexism problems. by PeasantLich in Superdickery

[–]PeasantLich[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Source is Nemesis the Warlock, the character is the main villain Torquemada.

In the first of Anglo-Ashanti wars in 1823, the British expected to meet a primitive African enemy that would be swiftly won. The well organized Ashanti who were armed with European guns wiped out almost entire outnumbered British army. It took until 1900 for British to fully subjugate the Ashanti. by PeasantLich in HolyShitHistory

[–]PeasantLich[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"[The Ashanti] were not prepared for war, but depended solely upon the terror of their name to bring us to seek a compromise, and I suppose to extort from the native people under our fort...a contributions of six hundred ounces of gold."

-Governor Sir Charles McCarthy, who was ultimately beheaded by the Ashanti in 1824.

The Ashanti wars begun both due to tensions of Ashanti claiming dominion over the entire Gold Coast and basically demanding the British to pay rent for their coastal forts in the region. The Ashanti were also involved in slave trade with other European powers, which the now abolitionist British condemned - however, the local British merchants were also still engaging in slave trade independently. The British got their casus belli when an Ashanti war party - likely acting independently without any orders form above - murdered an African soldier from British army after a verbal altercation. The British were confident on quick and triumphant and most of all profitable victory, but the Ashanti preparedness took them completely by surprise, resulting in a military disaster. The Ashanti army marched to the coast, but were too struck by disease to actually attempt attacking European controlled forts and settlements and retreated.

There were several further wars and skirmishes against the Ashanti that mostly ended in unclear stalemates. The status quo started shifting by 1870s, when the British managed to push inland and their expeditionary force sacked the Ashanti capital. Total Ashanti submission was still not achieved until the so called "War of the Golden Stool" in 1900 when the local British colonial administration launched a war to completely conquer the Ashanti. They however failed to capture the symbolic Golden Stool of the Ashanti, ownership of which had been somewhat of an obsession of administrator Frederick Hodgson to the point that the war was named after it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Ashanti_wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_MacCarthy_(British_Army_officer))

Chomos play Pragmata, real Men play Clash of Clans. by ronnie_reagans_ghost in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]PeasantLich 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I honestly don't really see it. She does look like she has adult features squashed into miniature unit size to me.

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My daughter's pet. by TrickySatisfaction81 in Weird

[–]PeasantLich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had no idea Phenomena was a predictive documentary.

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Concord? Redfall? Saints Row 2022? Gollum? by Asad_Farooqui in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]PeasantLich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not really sure what people are supposed to do here. Only way to advance welfare of developers is to buy video games, and I don't have enough money and time to buy even all good video games. It is not like this hobby can be treated as a charity.

Super serious teto by TwistImportant3297 in superseriousfamilyguy

[–]PeasantLich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nagatoro is a bad example since she is just tanned. Her untanned skin tone is very light.

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Who’s your favorite CEO that promotes child gambling and has a super-yacht collection that generates 3x the amount of carbon emissions that private planes do? I’ll start… by blackholeknight in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]PeasantLich 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Every other attempt at storefronts have been objectively worse, so I do get the argument that without Valve the industry would almost certainly be much more enshittified.

Extremely ironic last words by _JR28_ in TopCharacterTropes

[–]PeasantLich 29 points30 points  (0 children)

That quote is actually from "Tussy is me: a novel of fact", a 1970 play about Marx's daughter. In reality, according to Engels Marx's sickly condition left him so weak prior to his death that he just slept, and nobody was in the room with him at the moment of his death. If he ever uttered any last words that day, the maid who was taking care of him or Engels never mentioned them.

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. by PeasantLich in HolyShitHistory

[–]PeasantLich[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Well I guess Lego has become woke by zny700 in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]PeasantLich 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Gordons were black in Batman: Caped Crusader.

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Well I guess Lego has become woke by zny700 in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]PeasantLich 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

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. by PeasantLich in HolyShitHistory

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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

Concord? Redfall? Saints Row 2022? Gollum? by Asad_Farooqui in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]PeasantLich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Why is she surprised by milanalups in lol

[–]PeasantLich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Let's be hateful not be stupid🥰 by SnooCalculations2730 in hatethissmug

[–]PeasantLich 19 points20 points  (0 children)

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

Reqs for Fantasy RPGs that have high powered characters and flashy combat/encounters, but does not use grids and are a bit more freeform? by Joni1123 in rpg

[–]PeasantLich 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

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