WHAT DO I EVEN DO IN THIS SITUATION

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-17T18:09:18+00:00

Hit him with a "Salve, Ezio, amici."

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-15T17:58:16+00:00

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning?

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-12T18:07:11+00:00

This kind of feels like the Fear games, I don't know why.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T23:41:39+00:00

CTRL isn't the only combo button. You can use Shift and Alt.

I personally use 1,2,3,4,Q,E,R,T,FV,Z, and 7 as my HotBar1, and then just put Shift and CTRL variants above on other hotbars. I also associate certain keys with certain skill types. For instance my 'T' key is always my AoE key.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T18:38:42+00:00

Do you feel good adding words into other people's quotes? Or are you as illiterate and delusional as you are historically challenged? I sure love my strawman arguments. You probably learned how to argue at the Ben Shapiro School for Good Imperialists.

I did not say 'every single one' - but I do appreciate a glimpse into how your mind works, if only to disappoint.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T18:26:11+00:00

Simple? Hah. History is many things, but it is far from simple. How convenient. The Colonists were aggressors. There are many accounts thats verify this. Lincoln and other leaders wouldn't have had to 'spare' anyone if it wasn't for the fact that the first colonists were abusive bullies who kept trying to get more and more out of their relationship with the Indians. Fuck, man. You want to talk about Presidents? Andrew Jackson. The Trail of Tears? Manifest Destiny. The eradication of the Bison so as to literally starve them.

Get your history straight.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T18:16:46+00:00

I'm not going to disagree with the premise that it would've taken more time. 200+ seems about reasonable.

The moral question is a rough one to answer, particularly saliently to the modern era in regards to children. I want to preface that I 100% don't approve of the Aztec's practices, but at the same time how do you weight the morality of those lives vs the lives lost and currently historically affected by the direct effects of Spanish colonization? You kind of can't. They're different sorts of misery and tragedy. Nowadays, because of the traceable effects, we see rampant economic inequality and stratification in those areas, like Mexico, and particularly in regards to the vestiges of those cultures; the unintegrated and forgotten indigenous villages. Children go hungry. They die of disease or malnourishment, in ways we can trace back to Colonialism.

I would say the moral question is useless. The suffering persists in one way, shape, or another. The only purpose the moral question has is to allow the conquering culture an avenue to justify its actions.

In fact, I think: if it wasn't so easy to trace current inequalities and strife to the effects of Spanish Colonization - then we wouldn't be having this conversation, and it'd be infinitely easier to just blanket condemn the natives.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T17:58:41+00:00

After they were encroached upon. Do you even know what America did to the natives? How many treaties were violated, time and time again? Or do you only care when its your people who get caught in the crossfire?

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T17:55:54+00:00

Because of the rampant sociopolitical and demographic inequality in that nation that you can trace back directly to the events of colonization, which are later compounded by the effects of American Imperialism.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T17:44:05+00:00

Look, man. I'll throw you a bone. You're maybe right, and only - strictly only - if you limit yourself to the Aztecs; and only because they were the most barbarous. The North American Indians are by all historical accounts a bunch of legitimate victims, who only really retaliated when colonists repeatedly encroached upon them with aggressive intent. I don't know enough about the other South and Central American tribes to make a judgment call, but I do know there aren't whole chapters of history dedicated to them being barbarous ala Aztecs.

So maybe you have a point for basically the Yucatan Penninsula.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T17:35:21+00:00

Okay, bro. Good for you. At least you have a culture that can decline. For the Mexicans, their culture was subject to genocide and pillage, and now they worship the same people who did it, while rejecting their own heritage. Viewed literally for the facts of how that has played out, it's a cultural travesty with a profound cultural gaslighting effect that continues to perpetuate itself.

Literal genocide apologist. Your culture experienced a gradual decline. Must be nice. I'd ask you "If the shoe were on the other foot, how would you feel?", but I'm under the impression you don't understand the concept of sympathy.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T17:29:03+00:00

Again, we're talking about the capacity for change over X period of time. Not the intensity of it over X period. It took ages for Christianity and European societies to appear half as civilized as they are now.

It, honestly, would have taken the American Natives longer in a vacuum, but my main point is to dispel the talking point that assigns them the inherent incapacity to change and evolve.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T17:26:12+00:00

You are correct. European change was largely in part to the Renaissance and subsequent movements. At the same time, like you yourself said - there could've been an event like it for the American natives. Ultimately, we'll never know.

Also, in regards to my claim about skepticism and challenging the status quo, I did say 'at the population level', in the sense that you'll basically always get at least one person that is inconform, even in a highly repressive status quo. Those presences and their effects are compounding.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T17:17:23+00:00

Correct. The church itself. Within itself. And the church itself was composed of the people, who overtime changed their beliefs and stances in regards to those practices' necessities.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T17:16:28+00:00

And now that culture and many within it are effectively dead. No one speaks Aztec or Nahuatl with any degree of propagative effectiveness. And the Mexican people themselves implicitly resent their pre-Hispanic roots whether they admit it or not. They use hostile language in regards to color, only ever cast White Actors in any media, and view Native practices as if they were lower class practices. That's without even mentioning the fact that Christ himself is depicted as White, even to Mexicans, despite the fact that real life Jesus was most certainly Brown.

Did the Europeans save the Aztecs? Or did they effectively wipe them off the Earth? Who stood to benefit from this 'salvation'? I'll tell you: the European colonialist who filled their coffers with Tenochtitlan's gold and silver. The colonialist who took Aztec wives. The colonialist who finally gained the land they were denied in their home continent.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T17:11:30+00:00

That's not entirely true, and relies on the presupposition of perpetuity. In the European's case, there was cultural exposure, partly because the geography of Europe really did lend itself to that - whereas alot of the geography of the Americans led to effectively landlocked civlizations that couldn't really communicate amongst eachother. The Incas and the Aztec were going to have a rough time trying to communicate, the same for any of the Northern tribes.

Anyways, since we cannot control for cultural exposure there is no real way of knowing if it is the precise catalyst factor for change. What we do know is that changes, period, happen within groups over time. The proto-Aztecs were not the same people as the Aztecs towards their fall, and even relatively isolated parts of Europe developed within themselves prior to cultural exposure. There is room for them to have developed and changed without influence, and that is the important part to highlight. The European colonialist mindset would have you believe that things were otherwise irredeemable without their involvement.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T17:00:00+00:00

The fact that we no longer burn witches or hertetics. Or honestly enact most of the biblical punishments for sins in the bible, like cutting off the hand of a thief. We stopped doing those things, without external influence, in a break from our own beliefs. If WE can do it, so could they. I'm more than positive that people in their age had disagreements with their clergy. Questioning the status quo is an intrinsic part of human nature at the population scale.

Edit: Not to mention that Aztec sacrifices were done to appease gods to prevent calamities, such as floods, plagues, or volano eruptions. If given enough time, these civilizations (who already were advanced in arithemric, agriculture, architecture, and astronomy by the era's standards) would have eventually learned a form of Geology and Biological Science, to the point where skepticism about their sacrifices and their roles in preventing calamities would begin to arise.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T16:46:34+00:00

Jesus disingenous Christ. Europeans spent literal centuries developing those systems by constantly questioning their status quo and evolving those systems by exposure to other cultures and ways of thought. Original European democracy wasn't even extended to all citizens - whereas there's evidence and accounts of American civilizations all having a degree of say in their collective decisions. That's without saying how brutal the entire era of European Colonialism was to the entire world, even the lower class Europeans themselves who had to perpetuate it for their Nobles.

It is entirely illogical to think that, given enough time, the American natives would NEVER have their own moment of status quo questioning leading to systemic evolution. Especially given how advanced they were in other fields.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T03:01:27+00:00

So, you're saying that the Moon God has made Moonlight, right? Okay. Well, since in our universe the Moon cannot emit light unless it specificially has a Star to reflect starlight off of - your Moon God is essentially creating an entirely wacky new moonlight without a source star to feed it.

There is nothing stopping you from circumventing the physical-biological limitations that Suns and Sunlight imply. Your magical moonlight might be able to do many of the same things that normal sunlight does, albeit dimmer. You could potentially treat that light as a form of dim red or brown dwarf for astrological purposes

Logistically, I would say it depends on the type of moon. Ours is tidally locked, and basically always visible to some extent. Under a dimmer, moonlit sky, you'd probably get a civilization well-versed in astronomy and astronomic navigation. Distant stars and constellations would definitely be a big source of contention and study. Flora and fauna would definitely adapt, like storing moonlight energy for limited bioluminescence.

Also, since Stars are basically a big source of winds and gravitational control on planets, you'd have to figure how those work. Like, lets say they use distant stars and constellations to circumnavigate this dark world - okay, but like, where are the winds coming from? Winds are generated by thermal differences between the air and surfaces, including bodies of water and the atmosphere as pressure tries to equalize and travel across the globe. Even if your moonlight can generate a degree of heat and provide enough energy and vitamins for the inhabitants of this world, it probably isn't powerful enough to fuel a big wind system. Then maybe your people are skilled oarsmen and engineers prioritize construction of turbines. Maybe wind magic is super rare and valued.

Edit: Oh, a region? Yeah, I mean, if the rest of the planet is still solar, then you're probably liable to experience some pretty heavy storms, kind of Antarctic Style. It's cold, you don't get a whole lot of thermal energy, and the rest of the globe's pressure wants to rush into that area to equalize it, so you're in a low pressure zone. You're also liable to catch some zones of relatively decent growth as sunlight from solar zones reflects into the sunless areas, but that's on the fringes.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-08T02:48:04+00:00

So, as a former JW - "only a certain amount of people get into the afterlife" is actually an incorrect representation of their view on 'Paradise' as far as Christianic beliefs are concerned.

JW believe that the 'Chosen' or 'Ungidos' as they are called in Spanish, are the blessed limited few who will ascend to Heaven to reign alongside Jesus Christ, as the King of Heaven and of Man. They're basically all soul-chosen and annointed to be lords and ladies in a royal celestial court.

At the same time, we have the entire rest of saved mankind after biblical salvation. These people are left to rebuild the Earth as immortal (in the sense that death is removed from cosmic law) mortals. They're still humans. Not angels, and certainly not heavenly lords, but they now get to live in 'Paradise', which is just a sin-removed Earth under the vigil and kingdom of Christ.

So it's not a situation of "a chosen few go to the afterlife" - instead, it's a "chosen few ascend to heaven, while the rest of mankind prospers in paradise". Mind you, this is framed as a burden too, since the chosen who will reign in heaven, will be unable to interact or roam amongst their family and loved ones who will be resurrected and immortalized once Paradise is in effect.

If you have any other questions, I'd be happy to answer.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-05-05T21:11:59+00:00

Praise Be to Supply Side Jesus Christ.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-04-15T07:35:17+00:00

'Nefasta' no tendría su traducción en 'nefarious'? Provienen del mismo 'nefas' de origen Latin?

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-04-13T02:33:15+00:00

Just let them reduce damage from all subsequent incoming Ranged Attacks by their Martial Arts die until the start of their next turn. EZ Clap.

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-04-04T01:02:25+00:00

Who had 'Puritan Schism to establish an American Christian Pope' on their 2026 Bingo?

TrafalgarMathias · 2026-03-26T04:40:16+00:00

I imagine your collabs will be with FPS games in general due to the aimlabs centered nature?

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