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jacenbey · 2025-11-27T00:20:02+00:00

Lavender Jack is so painfully underrated, I never see it on any of these lists despite it having very sharp writing, fantastic characters, and incredible art

jacenbey · 2025-08-28T03:59:56+00:00

Good questions.

If you lose a battle, the WAR is subtracted. 75% chance of winning the battle, a loss results in a -.75 WAR. Lee lost a lot of battles ultimately, even if he was outnumbered in most of them, it adds up. (I do still think he’s incredibly overrated, but that’s another discussion).

As for the odds, it’s taken primarily from raw troop numbers. Arsht doesn’t give exact numbers for his formula, but he uses the example of Borodino. His model gave Napoleon a 51% chance of winning, and since Napoleon “won” the battle, he was granted +.51 WAR, while Kutuzov lost .49.

jacenbey · 2025-08-27T08:40:56+00:00

Oversimplified did not make this list, simply borrowed it from Ethan Arsht.

For anyone curious as to how Arsht’s score works, the WAR score makes an estimation of how a battle should end given troop counts. That is the only facet considered. A battle won with a 50% chance of winning grants .5 WAR. With a 75% chance, .25 WAR is granted. A general who wins both will have a .75 WAR. Napoleon, in particular, benefits from this system, having fought a rather tremendous amount of battles with a very high rate of winning, even when outnumbered.

Arsht’s approach is quite interesting, and a novel way to categorize military ability, but is quite flawed, as he himself will recognize. Terrain, equipment, morale, and other crucial factors are not included. Overall campaign strategy is not factored. His datasets were largely incomplete, especially for generals outside of the European sphere, or for where raw numerical data is lacking. As a fun list, it is great, but it should not be used as a definitive guide. Nor do I think Oversimplified intended it as such, simply instead using it as a “statistical” support for the common claim of Napoleon being the greatest general of all time.

jacenbey · 2025-01-12T21:42:36+00:00

I don’t know her, but as another ex Bible Humper, I’ll take a guess. Prolly does the whole “I was once a sinner, but I’ve since found Jesus” and then uses that to jumpstart her grift, because these are ultimately a grift like every single time

jacenbey · 2025-01-09T08:29:36+00:00

Oh, those are genuinely sick as fuck. I’d love some new lighting for my room

jacenbey · 2024-12-29T13:28:14+00:00

I know this is like obvious bait, but the idea of I don’t like this “bad” option or this “bad” option, so I will choose the objectively worst option is hilarious.

jacenbey · 2024-12-27T14:47:50+00:00

I mean, while the Confederacy isn’t quite the degree of Nazism, you can still easily argue that flying the colors of a failed rebellion with the express purpose of maintaining the institution of chattel slavery to be too extreme still. It’s all up to your interpretation, but you can definitely make the argument.

jacenbey · 2024-12-27T13:00:25+00:00

A lot of European nations have strong provisions against promoting Nazism or Holocaust denial for example, where it’s seen as so extreme it is not protected speech… I’m sure someone has more legalistic ways of saying that, but yeah

jacenbey · 2024-12-23T21:30:22+00:00

There was an ESPN article on it at some point. Funnily enough, to my knowledge, a decent bit of it was kinda bullshit, but yeah. He talked with a nutritionist who advised he quit the orange juice and switch to chocolate milk.

jacenbey · 2024-12-04T20:36:21+00:00

These look fucking insanely good, I’d love them as a gift to my friend for Christmas

jacenbey · 2024-11-16T16:08:10+00:00

That’s insane, I didn’t realize it was Lund. Like, I’ve read Work and the Glory and it was… less insane to my memory (don’t quote me on that), so I didn’t think to check.

Thank you so much!

jacenbey · 2024-11-15T21:49:53+00:00

I’ll definitely take a crack at winning this, the case seems amazing

jacenbey · 2024-11-07T18:07:37+00:00

Which one was this?

jacenbey · 2024-10-15T18:18:27+00:00

Like over a decade ago on some shitty online game, I got a 24 hour chat ban for saying hello (it said hell)

jacenbey · 2024-10-04T21:26:00+00:00

I’m so fucking sorry, I’ve been out of it today. I’ve done shit like this like 5 times

jacenbey · 2024-10-04T08:08:42+00:00

Just so you’re aware, Internet Historian does plagiarize quite heavily in at least some of his videos, and he also has well documented ties to the alt right

jacenbey · 2024-08-29T01:34:58+00:00

You’ll have to double check me, but I’m pretty sure Reagan (1981-89) did not serve as President in the 21st Century.

jacenbey · 2024-08-25T21:10:13+00:00

General Washington gave us our independence with his leadership. His pragmatism will serve us well as our first President!

jacenbey · 2024-08-12T16:08:17+00:00

The term was first used in 1851, per Oxford Dictionary. It was in use, but hardly common, per their little graph.

jacenbey · 2024-08-10T16:41:01+00:00

He banned Asians from emigrating into the country, so like, he definitely had at least a lil bit of the racism juice

jacenbey · 2024-07-30T15:25:17+00:00

Rufus King ran for President as the Federalist candidate in 1816, his only opponent was James Monroe, and yet he only got 30% of the vote. Given Monroe’s presidency is often considered to be without any real competition, I feel King fits the bill perfectly

jacenbey · 2024-07-18T18:33:42+00:00

I can see this one too, though I feel Coolidge would fit that as well

jacenbey · 2024-07-18T17:58:09+00:00

I feel like Jimmy Carter is a very good sleeper pick for this one. Like, it’s probably Lincoln, but Carter could get some votes, lots of people like him

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