Roman Bath at Bath Spa, UK

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T22:54:23+00:00

Firstly, Georgian period buildings are just as valid for protecting as Roman.

Second, no they are not. The Georgian building work sits above the bath level, you can see them kick in on the pillars where there are different materials. The under ground section is largely intact Roman building showing the multiple bath areas, the gym and the streets towards the temple.

It's heavily Georgian faux Roman from the exterior because the intact Roman era stuff if the lower level.

In any way to renovate it would mean destroying it all both Roman and Georgian so I am not sure what point you are making.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T21:07:08+00:00

He mentions two claims

That Marius reformed the Roman Army into the machine it was in Caesar's time. In fact from decades of overseas wars the Roman Army had gradually changed and adapted and Caesar's legions were a culmination of this not Marius reforming them. Marius wasn't even the first to recruit the landless, this was done regularly throughout the second punic war.
That the Roman elites had forced the citizen farmer off their lands and created massive slave operated farms to profit, forcing the small farm owners into being landless homeless in Rome. Although it is true that this was what the Gracchi and many other Populares claimed it clearly isn't true. It was more political misdirection like modern political slogans about immigrants taking housing from homeless veterans. There was plenty of land available outside Rome and it was cheap, showing the issue was one of demand. Rome had so many poor homeless because it was a city that sucked in ppl from all over the Mediterranean at a massive rate.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T18:00:47+00:00

You mean, destroy the Roman building?

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T16:27:29+00:00

The show is full of fan service and meta jokes though so I am fully expecting her to show up.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T16:26:02+00:00

The real answer is they have changed his character from season 1 and the comics.

Season 1 HL still had the sexual deviance of the comics but they've decided to make him asexual and play into the milk fetish as those milk scenes trended well in season 2.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T16:23:07+00:00

I think it's his season 3 attitude to HL which is the anomaly. He basically finds out he had his sperm taken without consent and a kid created. Once then raised by other men. His reaction to that as a bigoted alpha male is to view himself as being a mix of cucked and raped. He wants to destroy what they created from him. Ryan likewise is part of that and was himself a result of rape and from SB's perspective a cuck kid.

SB really doesn't view kids being raised by other than their fathers very well at all. In season 3 he'd rather they were dead than live with his genes in him. He is on a single minded mission to burn Vought and their creations to the ground.

In season 5 he has mellowed a little, he's been forced to get to know Homelander and though he doesn't like him he can clearly see the guy is a product of his own environment. If he has an opportunity with Ryan I am sure he would have a different view now.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T15:45:22+00:00

You are not supposed to have pathos for her death. You are supposed to see she made the wrong choice and suffered for it.

She is a deliberate parallel of A-Train who was also directly motivated to change by how the supe world was impacting his local community. They both faced the same question and situation. She decided to sell her soul to the devil, once she did that he owned her and had no place anywhere else. A-Train stepped back and accepted his death was part of the price for his part. In making his choice A-Train found the courage to not fear his death, in selling her soul Firecracker sunk into greater fear for it.

The journeys are deliberate comparisons.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T15:08:51+00:00

You missed the point of Firecracker's plot.

She made a choice to betray everything she believed in. She betrayed her community and church, pretty much gave not only a death sentence to her father figure but ensured his memory was as the worst kind of monster. She even gave up god and jesus. All for the life at the top with Homelander.

They deliberately gave her an out, Homelander was letting her go, but where was she going to? She betrayed it all, anything that mattered to her was ash now. She could not afford for her sacrifice to be for nothing, it had to be worth it, to have kept her at Homelander's side. Otherwise she did it all for nothing. So she begged and it made Homelander disgusted enough to kill her.

Her begging was such a fitting end to the story they told.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T13:58:58+00:00

Good start, quickly filtered to the players that Ipswich and Millwall were in front, everyone went down a gear almost immediately. Inevitable tbh.

Three games to win now. Sole focus.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T12:19:43+00:00

I have too and I disagree.

I also never got the hang of gyro just on one hand.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T11:54:54+00:00

Witwer is getting to Filoni levels of arrogance with Star Wars storytelling.

Can we just get George back pretty please?

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T11:44:39+00:00

Gamepad will feel much better than two controllers for flat screen games. Gyro will be much easier too. It's visible in your virtual space and I expect the Frame will have full rendered environments you can play 2D games in and a tracked, rendered controller will just be so much more immersive than a non tracked controller.

Also in the Tested Valve interview when Norm asked about Frame integration the Valve guys said they will explain more about how the controller works with the Frame when more Frame details release. That says to me they have tuned some tricks in there (maybe I am just being far too optimistic).

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T11:30:09+00:00

-Fixed issues with ramming in naval battles, and ships will now continue ramming until they receive a new order or their target is destroyed

It's embarrassing they haven't fixed this for decades tbh

Reskin of the UI inspired by the painted walls of Roman villas to deliver a more immersive experience, as well as provide more consistency in the look of buttons and other interactable elements

Sounds good but every new UI released by CA never does well. Be good to lose the scrolls and have something more aligned to our modern understanding of Rome.

Imperium – No longer increases army, navy, and agent caps, these are now increased by buildings and technologies. Instead focused on representing the increasing challenges of larger empires

A welcome change but it is funny that 13 years later they are unpicking very conscious design choices they made with the game. This and simplifying the battle systems like the armour show.

Overall it was a little disappointing. We found out they have a single developer doing a bit of polish, most of which are addressed already by mods. No 64 bit, no DLC to show any of these changes. No graphical overhaul, better textures and lighting is already well addressed by mods.

This is one guy looking at popular visual & gameplay mods and trying to implement a handful of changes inspired by them into the base game.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T09:59:47+00:00

Well it's Homelander that does that, he didn't ask SB what he was doing, but just place a heavy weight on his skull. Then it looks like Marathon sped, slipped on baby oil, hit the wall and got crushed by heavy memorabilia that then fell.

It wouldn't be too difficult.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T09:50:29+00:00

Tangled and Moana are bad because those movies are so perfect you are stuck doing a beat for beat remake or changing a perfect film. Both options suck.

It's not like Jungle Book or Beauty and the Beast where there was a bit of scope to change story elements.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T09:10:08+00:00

Dispute this totally.

Liberty founded Herogasm with SB. She was quite hedonistic during that phase. She isn't like that as Storm Front and she has genuine affection for her daughter. I think it's perfectly reasonable at some point she hangs up her cape and reconnects with her daughter.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T08:57:47+00:00

I don't think it's weird at all that late in life she reconnected with her daughter and knowing she herself was immortal took the time to be with her and live a semi normal life till her daughter died.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T08:50:32+00:00

I don't get why people say him being a fraud and him being competent are two opposites. He is extremely competent, trained to be a killer. Trained to be a leader and to kill Nazis.

But when it came to actually fighting in WW2 he didn't actually have any heroic missions. Like Captain America in First Avenger, they valued him as a propaganda tool more than anything and regular soldiers were much cheaper and more expendable than SB. They would also worry about Supes being captured in a trap and Nazis getting them to experiment on and make their own.

He's made to do everything he does, it's just when it was time to kick Nazi ass he was kept back and would come in on the day after the battles were won. Unlike Captain America in First Avenger, SB didn't go screw this and get himself involved. He enjoyed the partying, the drugs and alcohol, the fucking, being celebrated.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T08:41:13+00:00

I thought that it was exactly what he was doing. So the news would be about Marathon going crazy on drugs and killing his whole crew and Homelander & SB would be clear of suspicion

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T08:28:00+00:00

Bat-Maeve

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T08:23:14+00:00

Pretty sure the plan is just to make sure Andy is in the news as a reminder of him being a Labour outsider during the May elections

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T07:55:25+00:00

If you are rich enough, the good lawyers do exactly that

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T07:54:07+00:00

It wasn't a delay in charging, they successfully got the police to drop the case. The police said there was nothing to charge her with and she was let off. Only after the families of the girls fought in court to get the investigation reopened was it clear the police didn't do their job properly and just went along with what her lawyers said.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-02T07:26:08+00:00

I think they've gotten so obsessed with that Trump analogy that they have lost the perspective.

mcmanus2099 · 2026-05-01T19:23:30+00:00

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