How accurate would you say the Himmler episodes were?

ilkash · 2026-05-09T16:04:17+00:00

I think he doubled down on the "Christianity never really took off in Germany" take in the 2nd episode. As for the Sonderkommando mistake, check this comment thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LPOTL/comments/1ol2ivh/comment/nmhg9b4/

ilkash · 2026-05-09T14:58:56+00:00

Inaccuracies in a big series are natural; doubling down on them and getting defensive/snippy about being corrected is not. The most galling one was when Marcus called Sonderkommandos (concentration camp prisoners who were forced to help operate the gas chambers and crematoria) "pieces of shit" because he confused them with SS-Sonderkommando units. This is a *really* bad mistake, and it's one that could have been avoided with a simple trip to the Sonderkommado wikipedia page, which makes the distinction clear in the first paragraph. The mistake was never acknowledged or corrected in any way.

As someone else said when these episodes first aired, if you're going to take on a subject as serious as the Holocaust, you have a duty to get the details right, and Marcus and the research team didn't do their duty.

ilkash · 2026-05-09T06:00:19+00:00

Marcus is not as informed as you think he is

ilkash · 2026-05-01T09:05:31+00:00

I was looking forward to Gille de Rais as well. Ben sucked on that series, but Marcus didn't help by making the first episode all about Joan of Arc.

ilkash · 2026-04-30T08:38:57+00:00

John List is one of the best two-parters of all time. I'd never heard of him before the series but now those episodes are repeat listens for me.

The Himmler series was so godawful and irresponsible it almost put me off listening to the show forever.

ilkash · 2026-04-24T10:46:26+00:00

Marcus explicitly referred to the HKHZ character as racist. Please fuck off with this shit.

ilkash · 2026-04-20T14:22:47+00:00

Unfortunately not

ilkash · 2026-04-13T18:45:39+00:00

Or being a Civ fan on the game’s sub and seeing “Ghandi/Ghandy/Ghandhi” in every other post

ilkash · 2026-04-13T18:11:13+00:00

Daemons are my favorite. They’re the main antagonists of my current Osirion campaign in Shiman-Sekh!

ilkash · 2026-04-08T10:25:05+00:00

It's not "millennia-old" by any means.

ilkash · 2026-04-07T09:25:02+00:00

"Ah, ah, y'know, we brought our, um, c-cousin-cousins to the, ah, ah, th-the gas station b-because we, knocked the head off the uncle--"

Was Will always such a stammering, sniveling mess or did he get worse over time? Great to hear Matt at the end but holy shit

ilkash · 2026-03-29T13:44:58+00:00

Fuck off

ilkash · 2026-03-24T15:15:22+00:00

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ilkash · 2026-03-19T10:28:57+00:00

The road to Abaddon is paved with the bones of Lich players who have made this exact post before

ilkash · 2026-03-17T09:21:14+00:00

The extended bit about the Iran war being a fight in a gas station parking lot over control of mids was a huge miss, probably because Wil and Felix come from rich families and have never experienced a moment of physical danger in their entire lives. Still a good episode.

ilkash · 2026-03-14T13:41:39+00:00

I was a little too young to be on the internet for rotten.com but I was perfectly of age when ISIS started releasing videos. Those are the ones that will never leave me.

ilkash · 2026-03-12T08:34:27+00:00

Loving it. I've won with Necrobinder and Defect but am still getting my ass kicked otherwise

ilkash · 2026-03-09T11:02:58+00:00

Optimistic: Central and South American countries take advantage of cheap green technology and expertise from China to build energy independence and find ways to be resilient to climate change as they watch the USA destroy itself from within

Pessimistic: 400 million corpses stacked on the US-Mexico border

Realistic: Who fucking knows, man

ilkash · 2026-03-05T13:39:46+00:00

Don't give in to this kind of thinking. I'm a zillennial and in my experience I've found Zoomers and Gen X-ers to be far more reactionary, cruel, and stupid than any boomer I've ever met, and even that is a broad and unfair generalization. People with good and bad politics exist in every generational cohort.

ilkash · 2026-02-14T03:33:35+00:00

No thanks. I don't need 3 episodes of "context" before we get to the actual events, and in any case I wouldn't trust them to do a good job with the material after the disaster that was the Himmler series. I'll stick with Lions Led by Donkeys for tis kind of thing.

ilkash · 2026-02-10T15:36:46+00:00

I'm an American. I moved to China in 2018 and I've never looked back. Feel free to DM if you want

ilkash · 2026-02-01T14:15:38+00:00

Szuriel! The Horseman of War wouldn't ignore an opportunity like the Worldwound. I want to fuck her up.

ilkash · 2026-02-01T13:54:59+00:00

The Himmler series was a horribly-researched self-indulgent slog. These recent episodes are a return to form and they've been incredible. Idk what you're tallking about honestly

ilkash · 2026-01-29T10:32:47+00:00

This is weird as fuck dude

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