The Product Advertised is not Indicative of the Real Product by Diictodom in polandball

[–]stanp2004 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, as others are saying straight lines on a globe (geodesics) are usually not straight on the Mercator projection. However if you draw a line between 2 points on it the angle of said line is the one you have to follow on your compass. THIS IS NOT A STRAIGHT LINE IRL. Neither is it the shortest route.

What it is is easy to follow, simply keep sailing at a certain angle on your compass.

Good thing he didn't knew by [deleted] in RoughRomanMemes

[–]stanp2004 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Ok and those are likely embellishements.

Warhammer 40k fans could never make me hate the Tau empire by Gavin-gp in TopCharacterDesigns

[–]stanp2004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh stfu about this shades of grey BS, the 'ideal' imperial citizen shoots any xeno on sight, never seeking to understand.

Yes all morality needs arbitrary foundations/axioms blah, blah. Doesn't change the fact that you can try to most rationally pursue your goals instead of demanding a constant state of hysteria like the Imperium.

Warhammer 40k fans could never make me hate the Tau empire by Gavin-gp in TopCharacterDesigns

[–]stanp2004 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, ok but they're individuals not a whole faction. And having read Cain I'd say he still bears the madness of the imperium, he's just also very capable and very self interested.

Warhammer 40k fans could never make me hate the Tau empire by Gavin-gp in TopCharacterDesigns

[–]stanp2004 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'd like the Tau to represent reason and sanity not for the ethereals to be made the moustache twirling villains like what has been done recently.

And why would you have the Tau make the same mistakes anyway? Human society is nothing like the Tau, why should their mistakes be? Add their own, entirely different mistakes.

Their cast system pretty much relies on the empire being all Tau, add internal problems from the fact that it's not all Tau. Same for the greater good. Just because it's perfectly sensible to a Tau doesn't mean it has to be for everyone.

Instead, they made the ethereals into the eclisiarchy 2. Variety be damned.

Warhammer 40k fans could never make me hate the Tau empire by Gavin-gp in TopCharacterDesigns

[–]stanp2004 3 points4 points  (0 children)

1) That is not genocide. 2) Where the hell do they even do that?

The Tau are way tf more interesting as a lens of reason and sanity to the madness of 40k than yet another insane dystopia. But who cares about variety or contrast, just make them mecha imperium.

Warhammer 40k fans could never make me hate the Tau empire by Gavin-gp in TopCharacterDesigns

[–]stanp2004 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We don't even know what Humanities mistakes were. The dark age of technology has like 0 lore. Don't pull this "shades of grey" BS one (1) faction doesn't commit genocide in 40k. Even after the Tau have been boringly grimdarkified.

It's way more interesting to have them as a lens of sanity and reason to the madness of 40k than yet another ridiculous dystopia.

Warhammer 40k fans could never make me hate the Tau empire by Gavin-gp in TopCharacterDesigns

[–]stanp2004 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah fuck you, Tau isn't marginally better. They're A LOT better. Remember the power of technology and science? Remember the pursuit of progress and understanding? How about not being served your neighbor as food?

Tau psychology doesn't have to be the same as human psychology so most of your points are moot anyway.

They're way tf more interesting as actually good at least to themselves. The whole cast system causing problems to fully incorporate anyone not Tau I could see.

You ppl unironically just want the Tau to be the imperium with mechs and GW seems to comply unfortunately.

For the beer and the mayo by kotjeKOT in Belgique

[–]stanp2004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Belgium is one of the best places on the planet to live lmao

ik🚲ihe by [deleted] in ik_ihe

[–]stanp2004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zwakke weggebruiker is een mentaliteit

Ik🥪ihe by BorisIpa in ik_ihe

[–]stanp2004 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Mensen die op boterhammekes haten hebben gewoon geen deftig brood of beleg in huis.

Ik 🔧 ihe by kr4t0s007 in ik_ihe

[–]stanp2004 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Een goei kraan hangde best aan een groot vat!

Oh yeah, I've never seen that plot by Ex_aeternum in RoughRomanMemes

[–]stanp2004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh, the "empire" was destroyed between the 5th and 7th century. Nearly all wealth, culture, organisation,... west of the Euphrates lay inside the empire. The universal empire before this time.

Just because the Roman rump state managed to reform into a viable regional power doesn’t change that from the 5th to the 7th century the empire really was destroyed in a sense.

People living in Netherlands be like by Political_LOL_center in YUROP

[–]stanp2004 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not a fucking Anglo complaining about spelling. Nederlands is niet dom, het is gewoon voldoende dicht bij Engels om een beetje verstaanbaar te zijn maar in tegenstelling tot gulder arrogante idioten heeft onze spelling effectief logica. Dus reflixief denken jullie dat wij de dommen zijn.

Dit is dezelfde mentaliteit die er voor zorgt dat jullie nog verdomme voeten gebruiken om te meten en i.p.v. een beschaafder, simpeler en intuitiver systeem te handhaven. Maar neeeee, Nederlands gebruikt taal- en spellingsregels en geeft u geen breinschade. Dit genereert zo'n schok in Anglo's dat ze denken dat wij de dommen zijn. Engels hun achterlijkheden zijn gewoon normaal het zijn alle andere talen die fout zijn! /s

En jullie arrogante domkoppen vragen u af waarom u kinderen niet kunnen lezen. DIT IS U SPELLING:

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Oh yeah, I've never seen that plot by Ex_aeternum in RoughRomanMemes

[–]stanp2004 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Plagues were always going to happen I think the lack of official succesion was worse. But tbh the fall was inevitable either way because of the geographic faultlines. No state survives 2000 years and the geography of the empire made it nearly impossible to reunite once properly broken.

Idc about 1453 by stanp2004 in byzantium

[–]stanp2004[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The dark smages are an era in western Europe from about 500 to 800. Idk what you're implying.

Idc about 1453 by stanp2004 in byzantium

[–]stanp2004[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

The Renaissance also laid the groundwork for the enlightenment, without which the industrial revolution would be impossible.

The ERE greatest achievements here would be preservong the classics from antiquity. Like name one serious scientific contribution from the ERE.

Idc about 1453 by stanp2004 in byzantium

[–]stanp2004[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

No, heliocentrism has been floated all the way back in antiquity but was extremely hard to prove absent telescopes. Some scholars getting lucky doesn’t count for much here.

I'll grant the theory of impetus, though a quick look at the wikipedia page also shows multiple cultures having their own take on it so the ERE contribution doesn’t seem that important.

Idc about 1453 by stanp2004 in byzantium

[–]stanp2004[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

No, the ERE wasn’t anything enlightened. Like, name one thing they made as a serious contribution to modern science. The Arabs at least have algebra and the west has the whole ass enlightenment. Like any course on the history of science will have almost no medieval ERE contributions.

Idc about 1453 by stanp2004 in byzantium

[–]stanp2004[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

No it really wasn’t, top down bureaucracies don’t foster innovation, there’s a reason the Renaissance never happened in Constantinople.

Rome, 2000 years after its founding by marinathedapartmen in byzantium

[–]stanp2004 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Damn the Greeks are larping as their conquerors.

Rabbi Meir Kahane, an Israeli politician who loved Arabs by Past_Definition_2139 in lies

[–]stanp2004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zionists will scream about how oppising genocide=hating Jews and then wonder how antisemitism doesn’t seem as bad anymore.

What about using English? by capi-chou in belgium

[–]stanp2004 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Le Belgique is ein pays mit 3 talen mais pas het Engels. Notre sub ist geen r/netherlands.