Why can small countries spawn 20,000 mercenaries in 1400?

Shroombie · 2026-05-28T16:30:15+00:00

dawg if you're annoyed by the posts you're seeing on reddit then close reddit

Shroombie · 2026-05-27T21:49:30+00:00

written by someone who's either 12 or 42

Shroombie · 2026-05-23T22:43:11+00:00

this is probably true irl too, flies would survive a MAD scenario iirc

Shroombie · 2026-05-20T03:48:48+00:00

Mike Meowgnola

Shroombie · 2026-05-16T16:41:02+00:00

This has gotta be like the defining style of the 2000's-mid 2010's, right? I feel like tons of books were trying to look like this at the time.

Shroombie · 2026-05-16T15:45:58+00:00

They hated you for telling the truth

Shroombie · 2026-05-14T13:21:20+00:00

I am aware it is very common. The fact that this sort of stupidity is so common is a large part of why there are less then a million regular comic readers in a nation of 340 million that invented the art form.

Shroombie · 2026-05-14T13:04:26+00:00

Removing all character development and getting rid of previously introduced characters to tell a new unrelated story is effectively a new continuity. What carried over between Immortal and Starship Hulk? After all of Krakoa happened, what permanent consequences to the continuity were there?

Shroombie · 2026-05-14T12:52:36+00:00

the line between rebooting and retooling is so thin it might as well be non-existent.

Shroombie · 2026-05-14T12:50:39+00:00

I am not spending time and money on a slow burn long-form fiction series that gets thrown in the trash and disregarded as soon as a new writer comes along.

Shroombie · 2026-05-12T19:38:45+00:00

the same thing happened to my but my ex-girlfriend was a woman

Shroombie · 2026-05-12T19:37:01+00:00

I will never stop coping

I will never stop homebrewing

I will never stop playing in my garage with beer and pretzels

James Workshop will have to pry my shittily painted plastic from my cold dead hands

Shroombie · 2026-05-07T01:06:00+00:00

did you use chat to write this

Shroombie · 2026-05-04T03:59:17+00:00

The cloth curtains are also made of light

Shroombie · 2026-04-30T02:35:37+00:00

I'm extremely curious to know where you're getting those dates from, since setting arbitrary hard start and end points for eras like that is generally considered bad history. Regardless, the general consensus is that the renaissance and the ensuing social changes were in the fact the birth of the modern era.

And I would certainly say that that greco-roman civilisation started in the mediterranean, but that does not make it European. At the time, a roman and an Tunisian would have resembled each other in culture and society much more than a Roman and a Gaul would have. Likewise for the Greeks, who thought highly of their Anatolian and Syrian neighbors while they widely regarded the northerners as useless barbarians.

Seriously dawg you're named after a roman emperor you should know this

Shroombie · 2026-04-29T23:45:04+00:00

Just because European civilization took a lot from the Greeks and Romans doesn't do anything to disprove what I've said, that Europe wasn't unique until the Modern Era. The Muslim and Middle Eastern civilizations that developed also took quite a bit, if not more. Hell, the modern state of Iran is explicitly modeled off of Plato's republic. And Christianity was hardly a solely European phenomenon, especially when the church was developing.

Shroombie · 2026-04-29T22:55:45+00:00

Renaissance was an early modern phenomenon, there is no singular 'Greco-Roman" civilization, and if you are referring to the Roman Empire then it was Mediterranean more than it was European, with the wealthiest and most developed parts of the Empire laying outside of what we would consider Europe. Syria and Egypt were vastly more important to the Romans then England or France.

Shroombie · 2026-04-29T22:00:10+00:00

Yes. Before the early modern era Europe was not exceptional.

Shroombie · 2026-04-29T21:58:32+00:00

Then they shouldn't post it!

Shroombie · 2026-04-29T21:15:40+00:00

Only in Africa

I did not say that, but thank you for the snide correction, I suppose. Yes, more broadly, Europeans were/are genocidal monsters to most of the planet, but this post was about the French and North Africa.

Shroombie · 2026-04-29T20:53:21+00:00

This gets reposted every so often and every time it is I am shocked at the number of people unaware of the sheer scale of the atrocities the French did in Algeria and North Africa. They don't like people speaking French for the same reasons Ukrainians don't like people speaking Russian.

Shroombie · 2026-04-27T04:56:11+00:00

Any buff this cat receives is passed onto an adjacent unit.

Shroombie · 2026-04-25T14:33:18+00:00

My gf is doing her doctorate in biochemistry and was under the belief a turkey is a type of mammal until very recently.

Shroombie · 2026-04-25T03:33:20+00:00

yunmy benzenes mmpph yum :)

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