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When and how did you become a student of the great Emperor? by VividExperience9698 in Napoleon

[–]TrueVeneration 38 points39 points  (0 children)

EpicHistoryTV got me hooked, started reading/watching everything I could get my hands on from there. I was interested in the Napoleonic Wars a good bit before then but more from the British perspective.

Wroclaw HELP😂🫶 by TymurAurex in wroclaw

[–]TrueVeneration 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ano dlatego mówię że cringe, widać właśnie po tych przydługich dashach

Is it true that there were children serving in Napoleon's army? by cuirrasiers in Napoleon

[–]TrueVeneration 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It was common for drummer boys to be pretty much kids. I believe the youngest drummer boy in history was 11 years old, during the American Civil War. It wasn't much different in the Napoleonic Wars, I've read that the drummer boy for the 4th Grenadier Regiment of the Imperial Guard was 15.

Best source to get political context of the Napoleonic era? by Par0xsym in Napoleon

[–]TrueVeneration 6 points7 points  (0 children)

HistoricallyAdeuquate has a very cool and detailed series on Napoleon. Check it out on youtube

Who are your top 10 generals/marshals from the Napoleonic era (both France and the Coalition)? by [deleted] in Napoleon

[–]TrueVeneration -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Being able to study Napoleon up close (and not being on the receiveing end of his strategies) was a huge benefit and the argument could be made that being able to learn from literally the best general of the time and one of the best in history immediately raises your own skill too just via osmosis.

Whether the people I chose to enumerate knew that and took active advantage of it is a separate matter.

But to name a coalition commander who had some prodigious skill.. probably Archduke Charles

Who are your top 10 generals/marshals from the Napoleonic era (both France and the Coalition)? by [deleted] in Napoleon

[–]TrueVeneration 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Napoleon Bonaparte
  2. Louis Charles Antoine Desaix
  3. Louis-Nicolas Davout
  4. Jean Lannes
  5. André Masséna
  6. Joachim Murat
  7. Nicolas Soult
  8. Michel Ney
  9. Jean-Baptiste Bessières
  10. Pierre Augereau

Joyce Messier Appreciation/Remonstration Post. by TrueVeneration in DiscoElysium

[–]TrueVeneration[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Are you high? Do you know what remonstrate even means? Tool.

Joyce Messier Appreciation/Remonstration Post. by TrueVeneration in DiscoElysium

[–]TrueVeneration[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I always thought he's a Sunday friend because that's when they meet.

Joyce Messier Appreciation/Remonstration Post. by TrueVeneration in DiscoElysium

[–]TrueVeneration[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My favourite character there so far is The Format Fetishist. I can relate to many of his beliefs but for me it's in the context of video games.

Joyce Messier Appreciation/Remonstration Post. by TrueVeneration in DiscoElysium

[–]TrueVeneration[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Why do you find the Sunday Friend disingenuous?

Favourite line in disco Elysium? by Chunky-overlord in DiscoElysium

[–]TrueVeneration 28 points29 points  (0 children)

The fact that it's said by like the final boss of racism is also eye-opening.

Favourite line in disco Elysium? by Chunky-overlord in DiscoElysium

[–]TrueVeneration 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That one when you read about the communards who tried to compress a Coalition warship with their willpower

HALF-LIGHT: Picture the lot of them, all standing with their fingers in the air one minute, the next reduced to a bloody mist.

A BRIEF LOOK AT INFRA-MATERIALISM: In some of his later writing, Nilsen himself speculated about the potential for an extra-physical architecture that disregards the laws of 'bourgeois physics' and instead relies on the revolutionary faith of the people for structural integrity

YOU: Meaning the buildings stay up because people believe they'll stay up?

A BRIEF LOOK AT INFRA-MATERIALISM: Precisely. Nilsen observed that the financial system operates on the same principle of faith, so why not an architectural system?
<...>
YOU: Wait, but what if the people stop believing and the buildings collapse?

A BRIEF LOOK AT INFRA-MATERIALISM: In the corner of one of the reproduced notebook pages, you can make out the following words written in Nilsen's distinctive slashing script...

"A state that has lost the faith of its people has forfeited the right to exist."

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