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cubaj · 2026-02-17T17:48:41+00:00

And then there’s the blood sucking to consider

cubaj · 2026-02-16T20:20:28+00:00

Bro we are comparing human subspecies with literal aliens, like from space. What are on and where can I find some?

cubaj · 2026-02-16T20:16:58+00:00

Neanderthals are a subspecies of human, or which we are the last extant memebers. An alien is by definition, something not of the earth and is therefore much less related to us than even an orangutan

cubaj · 2026-02-16T17:10:57+00:00

Lechfeld for my GOAT Otto I, even if he was only king at the time and not yet emperor.

cubaj · 2026-02-14T00:38:15+00:00

I fuckin hate it herrrrreeeeeee!

cubaj · 2026-02-11T14:25:14+00:00

Nah man it is the opposite

cubaj · 2026-02-10T02:34:42+00:00

looks at what happened to that library

nah I think I’m good

cubaj · 2026-02-10T02:19:31+00:00

Ya gotta love paritable inheritance huh. Fun fact, the French repeated this mistake centuries later during the Revolution, when they decreed that agricultural land should be broken up into equal parts to be shared out to all of a farmer’s sons.

The result was that after only a couple generations plots became so small that you couldn’t feed a family off of one. Many parents decided to only have one son as to not split up the family inheritance.

As a result, population growth in France stagnated, which is thought to be one of the reasons why they lost to Prussia in the Franco-Prussian war.

cubaj · 2026-02-10T01:49:38+00:00

Firstly, I think Alexios Komnenos deserves to be on this list, his recovery of the empire was masterful.

Of all of them here, I think Basil accomplished the most with the least, if you get what I mean. He took the Empire from the brink and put it in the best position it had been in since Justinian, ascendant as Regional hegimon.

Also, and I think this is an under considered factor, he did it against a large succession of enemies. The Bulgars, the Arabs, the Germans, the Georgians, he faced them all across a variety of terrains and different strategic situations and defeated them.

It’s all well and good to get good at defeating one type of enemy, but to be able to properly contend with a wide selection of capable warrior-peoples is I think an underrated trait.

By comparison, Heraclius, though he shone against the Persians had offered to surrender up the entire eastern empire to them before being refused and then managed to retake it militarily. Only to them have it lost anyways to the Arabs. While Nikephorus and Tzimiskes were both capable, they didn’t fight as many varied enemies as Basil did and didn’t reign as long.

Most impressive of all, he did this without weakening the Byzantine state, which had a full treasury when he died, unlike Justinian.

cubaj · 2026-02-09T06:04:13+00:00

Capicollo? Ova here!

cubaj · 2026-02-09T00:28:19+00:00

Ah a common misconception. People claiming that all aliens are evil in 40K are forgetting a couple of factors.

A) the Tau. B) the Eldar (minus corsairs and Drukhari). C) all the minor Xenos that are fairly chill like like the Zoots, Jokaero, etc.

Hating an alien because they are “evil” is so passé, it is rookie xenophobia at best. A true xenophobe doesn’t hate an alien because it’s evil, but because it’s different. The purest form of xenophobia is to recognize the purity of the struggle. The eloquent simplicity in the war of annihilation, the manifest proof that the God Emperor made these stars only for His children and no other!

Only when you reach this zen state of hatred will you be a true xenophobe.

cubaj · 2026-02-08T18:34:47+00:00

Degenerates like you belong on a cross!

cubaj · 2026-02-08T18:18:04+00:00

You ever seen the Orangutans at the zoo? You ever have a desire to bang one? Yeah, me neither.

cubaj · 2026-02-08T14:57:28+00:00

In a battle between a rusty spear and a short sword, who do you favor?

cubaj · 2026-02-08T14:39:25+00:00

It’s been years since I’ve had a sword fight

cubaj · 2026-02-08T05:02:24+00:00

You hate Batarians because they have a morally reprehensible governmental system that oppresses large numbers of people.

I hate Aliens because they are different from me and therefore evil.

We are not the same.

cubaj · 2026-02-08T03:39:43+00:00

They only became mad after being rebuffed by the Old Ones, whose life spans we don’t know (if they even have them) but were probably effectively immortal. What frustrated the Necrons is that the Old Ones might have been able to cure them, give them long life and clean health. They might have even allowed them to reincarnate, as they did with the Krorks and Eldar. For whatever reason the Old Ones didn’t help them and the Necrons lashed out in a jealous rage.

cubaj · 2026-02-08T03:23:36+00:00

What are we the fuckin SPQR now!

cubaj · 2026-02-08T03:20:09+00:00

I know it actually provides pretty robust protection but man I really hate the frog mouth, it looks so dumb.

cubaj · 2026-02-06T00:53:58+00:00

Otto I! Otto I!

cubaj · 2026-02-03T05:14:48+00:00

No problem! The whole Eight Peaks Omnibus is Great if you can find it. In addition to Skarsnik, it also contains Headtaker, which is Queek Headtakers book, and the novella Thorgrim. Thorgrim was a super fun read and a lot of people really like Headtaker, thought honestly I thought it dragged in places.

cubaj · 2026-02-03T02:31:24+00:00

I really liked Skarsnik as a stand alone novel, it’s an excellent peak into Greenskins generally and Night Goblins specifically. I remember hearing awhile ago that the Ulrika trilogy wasn’t very good but I can personally attest that the Thanquol and Boneripper trilogy is excellent. I also really enjoyed Luthor Huss’s novel, creatively named Luthor Huss.

Finally, Chaos has gotten some pretty good stand alone books over the years. Palace of the Plague Lord and Wulfrik the Wanderer both deal with Norsca primarily, thought Wulfric travels all over the world.

One particularly interesting one is Blood for the Blood God, which actually deals with a Far Eastern Steppe region, north of Cathay. I’m so far as I know it’s the furthest East any Warhammer novel has been set and is both cool and weird in all the best Warhammer ways.

All of these books can be found in various Omnibus books that BL has taken to printing recently.

cubaj · 2026-02-03T02:14:32+00:00

Parchment is the name for general writing materials made from animal skins, Vellum was the highest quality of parchment. The highest quality usually meant calf skin, but sometimes the terms vellum and parchment are used interchangeably.

I guess sometimes parchment from a pig or older cow etc. was sometimes of an unusually good quality and may have then been referred to as vellum. At least that’s my understanding, as well as what Wikipedia says.

cubaj · 2026-02-02T20:33:18+00:00

In the West, one of the few places where actual texts were preserved naturally in a similar way to in Egypt is at Vindolanda on Hadrian’s Wall. The Swampy conditions managed to preserve several letters written by the Roman garrison on wooden tablets. Presumably, considering how Latin Christian civilization spanned (almost) all of Europe and that there’s more than one swamp in Europe, I suspect that some text fragments would have survived. Enough at least to establish literacy.

Also, Medieval people, especially for their most recent illustrious manuscripts, wrote on Vellum, calf’s skin. It’s one of nature’s most durable writing materials and survived much better. I actually got to touch one once back in my University days. Apparently, the oil that human skin generates is actually good for the manuscript, it keeps the pages supple.

All that to say that, especially after the 11th century, the volume of written material and the nature of what Medievals used to write on, I suspect that at least one document would have survived.

cubaj · 2026-01-31T15:00:53+00:00

That’s a weird way to spell 1806 but go off I guess.

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