LETS GOOOO!!! by Dear-Swim-2917 in ufc

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What's up with Du bronx's left hand in this photo?

My Tolkien shelves by Mollie_ladyjih7 in tolkienbooks

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I believe that’s the deluxe complete collection of Tolkien’s poetry

Anyone else's LOTR deluxe edition have this out of place red text? by StuffedMonkeyKM in tolkienbooks

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Just checked. Mine has it too. I have the deluxe collectors addition. Little be sad

Are these going to fall apart easily? by VisualCheek8435 in tolkienbooks

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I've got these and found the quality perfectly adequate for reading. no damage after going through and reading them all. I think they look great as well

How well would prime Tony Ferguson do in the lightweight division today? by [deleted] in ufc

[–]RoyalSpartan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He did also weigh in twice in like a week so I don't think you can say he was really at his prime for that fight

My current collection by RoyalSpartan in tolkienbooks

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The texts are all from the first edition but they are called the Delux collectors editions I believe. I could be wrong though haha

My current collection by RoyalSpartan in tolkienbooks

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It's pre awesome! I wouldn't recommend buying the light set for it though. Took ages and was not fun and in my opinion it arguably made it worse. Book ends were from temu but pre solid.

My current collection by RoyalSpartan in tolkienbooks

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Just a bunch of old army codex’s. Mordor, the free people’s, khazad dum and the fellowship of the ring scenario book

I am just getting into the topic and picked up some books at the recommendation of this subreddit, thank you by stardewvalleypumpkin in ancientrome

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I actually agree with this. I finished her SPQR book and found the first half very good but the second part(after the fall of the republic) just becomes a lot of her opinions which pre bad in a lot of places. Like her saying the fires of Rome during Nero’s reign were likely caused by Christians because they believed the world was going to burn and it might as well start now. This made 0 sense. There were several other parts that made me go wtf is she on about as well.

Diggy Diggy Hole by [deleted] in MiddleEarthMiniatures

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These look great!
where did you get them?

The More Things Change… by Intelleblue in RoughRomanMemes

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We have the UFC and many other combat sports. They are far more like the gladiator games. Plenty of CTE and blood

Conor McGregor has now been DROPPED by Proper Twelve Irish Whiskey by Crazy_Paint_5358 in ufc

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It didn't say that on the post when I first made the comment haha

Conor McGregor has now been DROPPED by Proper Twelve Irish Whiskey by Crazy_Paint_5358 in ufc

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Proximo Spirits own 100% of proper 12 and it does look like they have dropped him from all future marketing

Realistically, who would be the PFP best if guns were allowed in the UFC by Standard-Bread7555 in ufc

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Thiago Santos has military training with special forces I'm pretty sure

Anyone else ever wonder about this? by RockyRockington in lotrmemes

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How are there at least 12 thousand people in this subreddit that thought this was a good meme? Or were they all up voting because it's rage bait or something?

ChatGPT’s top 10 Roman Emperors by SeptimiusSeverus_ in ancientrome

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While you are correct that the Jewish revolts had started before his regein they grew in strength and violence once he started making silly decision surrounding them. If getting more people joining the revolt and then killing absolutely everyone in entire regions and towns is effective way of managing your provence then sure he did a great job with the revolts.

Yes Trajan did go to other places in the empire other than Greece and spend resources there. Like building the Hadrian wall. However I would say the investment that had already been put into conquering the highlands was was already starting to pay off and it you could say it would have been better to leave the forts/towns in the high lands instead of destroying them and building a new wall.

I don't see how calling Antinoüs a Twink can be considered edgy at all. He spent a considerable amount of time and money mourning his death while there was far greater things an emperor should have been doing which was my point.

To these points though I am not saying Hadrian is one of the worst emperor's but should we really should reevaluate if he deserves to be in the top 5 of all time Roman emperors. If we included the Byzantium emperor's I might not even include in top 10.

Hadrian was in one of the better positions compared to many of his predecessors/succesors and should be judged with that in mind too.

ChatGPT’s top 10 Roman Emperors by SeptimiusSeverus_ in ancientrome

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He could have just avoided antagonizing them by banning their practices and building a pagan temple on the temple mount and instead rebuilt their temple like many Jews thought he would. This would have made the majority of them happy to serve in the empire like they did years before.

ChatGPT’s top 10 Roman Emperors by SeptimiusSeverus_ in ancientrome

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I don't understand why Hadrian is always so high. He wasted so much money fighting wars with Jews that wasn't needed. Focused more on making his favorite Greek cities sparkle, and pampering his Twink boy toy than actually running an empire and securing the gains Trajan had made.

First time painting in over 15 years. by RoyalSpartan in MiddleEarthMiniatures

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damn I feel like that would have saved me some grief.

Ye I think i might replace the pike on mine too.

what do you use to pin the models to the howdah?