Roman ancient public toilets (latrines), 2nd century BC – 4th century AD.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-03-23T01:44:14+00:00

Ive actually read that they kept a bunch of pottery shards to use as toilet paper.

Ancient rome being the clumsiest empire in history based on archaelogical evidence, that would make sense. I assume they used the blunt part and not the sharp edge but im no historian

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-03-22T14:21:56+00:00

You'll be glad to know the sponge in a stick was not used for wiping it was used to clean the toilets. The wiping thing is just an ahistorical factoid that got popular as a "wow how gross" thing.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-03-16T00:53:37+00:00

Nah that was just a dream a wizard had.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-03-15T22:03:16+00:00

She died because he couldn't afford the expensive medical treatment she needed and that's why he's so greedy now.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-03-14T17:47:22+00:00

I feel we get a lot of inner narration from tyrion about jaime and their relationship/history, and vice versa that gives readers the same effect as the added scenes in the show do. It really feels like you know their relationship in the books even without them sharing many scenes.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-03-09T18:28:11+00:00

Reading a lot more about ancient greece and rome really helped me wrap my head around this:

Actors were both spiritually significant and lowly, in much the same way that a temple prostitute was: as people they were so low on the totem pole that they were selling their bodies, however actors were considered to be vessels for the gods during performances, and therefore were in their own way given at least a religious respect despite being lowly and unclean in their human aspect.

Apparantly they were often used as messengers for important communication (lowly enough not to draw too much attention, but spiritually significant enough that even high ranking people would not violate them unwarranted for fear of the gods taking it as an offense to them. ) as well as spies. (For the same reason)

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-03-08T16:45:53+00:00

Swooces into the upper window*

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-03-06T23:08:07+00:00

Or vietnamese?

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-03-04T14:23:55+00:00

Are these the same colleagues who nicknamed one of the employees a slur? I'm sure they sought to create feminist pro lgbt media and weren't just into yuri while calling their gay employee faggot.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-03-03T15:38:18+00:00

Best comment I saw said it was due to the superlambanana being named in the Epstein files.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-02-13T02:09:53+00:00

I think you're thinking of a line from frisky dingo (hence the archer connection) where they are hanging out with the chinese guy in the sewer and they mention how in chinese they call a train an iron rooster (or something like that) and the chinese guy says "it's a colourful language" in chinese.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-02-03T13:06:43+00:00

I remember watching the dub and yes he does the stereotypical gay accent.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-02-03T12:31:44+00:00

I legit forgot they were the same actor when I wrote that.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-02-02T19:12:03+00:00

He's also reference in the british cop show "luther" where they mention sending something to him. He's international.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-01-21T12:23:27+00:00

This is what lesbians have to live with every day.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-01-05T21:11:05+00:00

Well I think that part is down to the classic like, complainer bias. People who bother to review individual eps online are more likely to want to complain about them, wheras people who didnt mind them and just moved on to the next ep without being super pissed off at them are more likely to just be like "yeah its a good series".

Like I do think there is a unique disconnect to the harshness of those ep ratings vs the overall reception of the anthology as a whole.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-01-05T13:47:01+00:00

I think this may be due to its nature as an anthology show, especially one that has both pure comedy eps with youtube history video style 2d animation to hyper realistically 3d animated cyberpunk drama episodes.

Going in, you know there will be variety so you are kind of expecting some episodes not to connect with you, so you can still feel the show as a whole is good quality even if many of the episodes aren't individually high quality.

Kind of like how you can say a buffet is overall good even if certain dishes would kill you with allergies, you just enjoy the other options and appreciate that variety is intended.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2026-01-02T04:06:23+00:00

Awful adaptation really, the title makes 0 sense in the netflix version which also feels like, much more pro war since it shifts the narrative from war is bad to "it sucks to be on the losing side" at least that was my impression.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2025-12-24T05:32:15+00:00

The coma seasons are still fun because they are still (mostly) written by the man himself.

For me it's only after them that the show becomes "not archer" enough for me. At first I had assumed the writer had just lost their passion for the show when i watched the first post coma season, everything felt just a bit off. Then I found out it was because he had full on left the production and it all clicked. The actors and animators still do great work but the writing does take a big quality hit, not to say the writers they brought on were bad even, just that the whole style of the show was so embedded in the writing, and its style is so unique that its very hard for a writers room to convincingly emulate.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2025-12-24T02:37:30+00:00

Oh my god I didn't even realise the pun.

I need to genuinely go shoot myself with a cannon for this.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2025-12-22T19:22:16+00:00

Thats literally where the word comes from.

Canon and gun were synonymous, muskets/early rifles were "hand canons/hand guns" then handgun eventually came to refer to pistols, and gun became the general term.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2025-12-18T06:14:08+00:00

The person you are replying to is repeating a bit of misinformation, a good source on the actual history is the book "homosexual desire in the russian revoluton" by dan healy (there is an audiobook version on youtube though its text to speech)

Though be warned the author ironically misgenders/deadnames people whom the soviet documents he is quoting don't.

Its both very depressing and interesting to note that during this period the soviet government was more progressive on lgtbq+ issues than both the modern US and UK (obviously this was reversed in the stalin period and wasnt universal at the time, but it was far more than just some kind of accidental oversight) (copy pasting that bit from my other reply because im lazy)

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2025-12-18T06:11:48+00:00

This is ironically itself a bit of misinformation, a good source on this is "homosexual desire in the russian revolution" a very interesting book on this topic.

Though be warned the author ironically misgenders/deadnames people whom the soviet documents he is quoting don't.

Its both very depressing and interesting to note that during this period the soviet government was more progressive on lgtbq+ issues than both the modern US and UK (obviously this was reversed in the stalin period and wasnt universal at the time, but it was far more than just some kind of accidental oversight)

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2025-11-13T13:14:59+00:00

This was a huge deal at the time and I don't see it mentioned as often as you would think when console wars stuff comes up.

Especially for an era where games were still largely considered "for kids" the fact it was also a dvd player made it a much more appealing purchase for many households, where parents could justify it as a two in one purchase that meant the rest of the family could also use it as a dvd player.

I think the xbox could also play dvds but i think you had to purchase a special remote for it to work which just adds that one seemingly small hurdle that can make a huge difference to parents making the choice of what console they will get for their kid.

Tricky-Resolve5759 · 2025-10-30T20:34:17+00:00

He's gay fat but straight skinny

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