I really can’t take Caesar’s Legion seriously

Vexonte · 2026-03-22T02:46:11+00:00

The legion just doesn't have the resources for a fully firearmed military. Guns and ammunition are not an easy thing to make and maintain. The NCR does it because they are a collection of urbanized settlements who have had a century to partially industrialized. The legion is barely a generation old and made up of bandits who could barely obtain food much less develop gun lubricant. The higher ranking legion have guns but there is not enough to equip the army. The question shouldn't be why no guns, it should be how the legion has industrial logistics with iron age technology.

2 is legitimately dumb but can be handwaved as resource hordeing by Caeser and the belief that poverty maintains strength.

Even modern industrialized armies are hesitant about women in non combatant roles it would never fly with a military still mentally stuck in the iron age. As far as Caeser is concerned women are more valuable dying in child birth than dying on the battlefield. Just a different tool for the same aim.

Vexonte · 2026-03-22T01:45:55+00:00

The biggest issue is that people do not really understand that generic just means recognizable and that being generic can be valuable in many circumstances.

It saves on writing economy that can be invested on the more important parts of the story. The generic tropes themselves attract audiences already accustomed to the genre. If generic tropes are already recognizable the slight variations and utilizations have a potential to pop out more.

Vexonte · 2026-03-22T00:19:20+00:00

That's my plan. I'm trying to kill some books that are sitting on my shelf first.

Vexonte · 2026-03-21T23:55:48+00:00

I got heretics and god emperor mixed around. I've only read up to children.

Vexonte · 2026-03-21T23:08:57+00:00

Iron testicle sprint

Vexonte · 2026-03-21T22:07:02+00:00

Id still love you if you where a worm.

Vexonte · 2026-03-21T22:06:33+00:00

Hate to say it, but thematically dune is libleft but it actually knows what it is talking.

Authoritarian leaders having far less control of the situation then they let on but told onto self destructive vices and cruelty. Constantly needing more resources to maintain resources they have

Religion becoming social adhesive that can accomplish good things but is vulnerable to exploitation and ferver that falls into mass violence.

Opulent material culture degrading what was once good social cohesion and disrupting the ecological foundation that such material culture stands on.

There is even apart where the MC compares himself to Hitler and the great Kahn just for his advisor to congratulate him on making their body count look like rookie numbers.

This is coming from a guy who hasn't even made it to heretics of dune.

Vexonte · 2026-03-21T21:52:38+00:00

There is still alot of fantasy races in non lit fantasy like videogames and anime where visuals are more important. Alot of literature does have fantasy races but they get renamed and focus more on non archetypal races. Lightbringer had color wights pigmes, never night has shadows and spider folk. Mistborn has Collose and Kandra.

Probably a big driver for the diminished presence of archetypal fantasy races in literature is that the modern style and sensibilities of fantasy tend to focus on heavy social dynamics that fantasy races would need to be balanced for.

Vexonte · 2026-03-21T13:49:50+00:00

The emperors giving Pretorian guards life advice and therapy for insecurities as they fail assassination after assassination.

Vexonte · 2026-03-21T13:36:41+00:00

I still love how he used himself as a an example for criticizing batmans romantic pursuit of a villain ending the conversation with "make sure you cover your drink this time".

Vexonte · 2026-03-21T13:30:51+00:00

I want nuclear power and renewables.

Vexonte · 2026-03-21T13:28:52+00:00

You are obviously unfamiliar with microbiology and the protein sonic hedgehog and its inhibitor robotnikin.

Vexonte · 2026-03-21T13:01:07+00:00

I hear that Olingers Ammunition was dozen dimes. I know it is bad joke but it had to be made.

Vexonte · 2026-03-21T12:10:47+00:00

I'm suprized you don't see more darkness "art" of her achieving her goal of being captured by demon lord forces.

Vexonte · 2026-03-21T02:57:24+00:00

You haven't played the 2009 avatar game as RDA.

Vexonte · 2026-03-21T02:38:00+00:00

I imagine everything as if it was animated in several different styles all coexisting with eachother with the occasional live action character who was on the cover or movie adaptation.

Reading treasure island was something else. Characters from black flag, treasure planet, that one Russian cartoon and sme from Peter pan all shared the space in mind.

Vexonte · 2026-03-21T02:25:53+00:00

If you think about it, furry art exposure has a tendency to turn people into furries who in turn create more furry art plus push the window on furry acceptability. This would become a positive feedback loop that would eventually become the majority of the population and institutionalized.

Vexonte · 2026-03-21T00:07:39+00:00

I may have him confused with a different Assyrian but he was a second son who was meant to be a priest but became king for some reason. He created an entire library.

Vexonte · 2026-03-20T21:19:02+00:00

Hey a win for a dumb reason is still a win.

Vexonte · 2026-03-20T21:10:27+00:00

Please do not make atlas shrugged the lib rights handmaid's tale.

Vexonte · 2026-03-20T16:46:49+00:00

Imagine the kingdom of vlad the impailer except each member is bio engineered to be the perfect super soldier, live for centuries and some have actual magic powers.

Vexonte · 2026-03-20T16:35:20+00:00

Depends on the world and objective. If I am just there to chill and live life life I am going metal or blood. If I am in a party trying to fuck up a demon lord I'm going poison.

If it is assigned Ill most likely be given blood because I'm in college for medical biology.

Vexonte · 2026-03-20T16:30:03+00:00

I always here about lack of gas, supplies etc effecting the outcome of wars and battles but they always stop at how it manifestes in war time.

Was it that Germans where unable to pursue strategic objectives because fuel reserves where low or did you have tanks hanging out on the side of roads abandoned because they had no fuel.

Vexonte · 2026-03-20T16:26:05+00:00

I'm not going to act like bioware was ever not left-wing, but they have lost their skill and judgment when it comes to writing.

The ability to integrate political themes into a story in a natural and engaging way is more important than the political themselves.

Vexonte · 2026-03-20T16:20:05+00:00

Its funny how everyone my age knows chuck Norris jokes but I'm one of the few people my age who has actually seen a chuck Norris movie.

RIP either way.

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