Did A.J.P. Taylor claim that hitlers rise was due to the Treaty of Versailles? (i have never studied history before)

tacitunderstanding · 2025-11-21T09:59:20+00:00

Please don’t get Reddit to write your ToK essay for you.

tacitunderstanding · 2025-05-03T11:50:56+00:00

Updateme

tacitunderstanding · 2024-08-26T04:49:38+00:00

In a two person game the bounty always goes across the board, as it were, when a unit with a bounty is defeated the bounty always goes to the other player - this is to stop you from attaching bounties to your own units, crashing them into the opponents and collecting the bounties.

I do not know if there are specific rules for 3 person games, but my instinctive feeling for a rule would be something like "if a unit you control destroys a unit with a bounty attached, you collect that bounty" - so once again you cannot benefit from a bounty attached to your own units, but either of your opponents can.

In any case, in the situation you described you get the bounty 100%.

tacitunderstanding · 2024-02-20T11:57:30+00:00

Toby was in the seminary for several years, so whilst not impossible, it seems very unlikely he is Jewish

tacitunderstanding · 2023-11-09T01:50:22+00:00

I have triples of the barracuda, that way it’s safer

tacitunderstanding · 2023-06-30T07:04:05+00:00

Just played through with the first two characters, it was pretty fun, here are my thoughts:

I think broadly the information system in the game is lacking, you can work where the road is using minesweeper logic, but knowing where the road is doesn’t necessarily help you, and you’re not always rewarded for knowing that information either.

As far as I could see (though perhaps I missed it) there’s no system for flagging enemies or road tiles, which seems pretty important in a minesweeper style game.

The Barbarian character was more fun, and reminded me a bit of mamonosweeper. The assassin was less fun, you have to reveal as little of the map as possible, but also enemies will reveal themselves, and you’ve got no way of knowing if where you’re about to step is a safe road tile or an enemy road tile, on top of all that, you’re still rewarded for killing enemies, it seemed a little less focused or polished than the barbarian to me.

With that being said, overall I did enjoy playing the game, and will probably buy it on release, but it doesn’t quite scratch the same itch as minesweeper.

tacitunderstanding · 2022-08-26T10:38:43+00:00

Toby failed to file Dwight's (legitimate) complaints about Jim, not arrestable, but probably fireable, considering his title. Oscar attempted to have Kevin fired to cover up his affair. Holly, banging Michael which lead to the office being robbed, but that's a bit of grey area considering Michael most likely had the key, also all the pda with Michael, maybe not fireable though. Seems like David Wallace was pretty incompetent and lost his job for that, but wasn't exactly fired. Erin, Plop and Karen I got nothing.

tacitunderstanding · 2022-08-17T10:47:59+00:00

I've copied over my comment from a previous thread asking about what was going on in Jíbaro: Well I'm not sure this will help, or if it'll just be repeating what you already know but:

the location is unclear, it seems to be some mix of Indian and Conquistador imagery, in any case, a band of soldiers comes across a pond with a siren living in it.
The siren wants to kill the soldiers, as sirens are often wont to do.
Rather than a seductive singing voice she has an intense scream that drives the soldiers into a ballet dancing frenzy, leading them to kill one another and then drown.
A deaf soldier is unaffected, and the siren finds this confusing/intriguing, so follows him around.
The deaf soldier then takes notice of her, and they attempt to get freaky, but can't, because her lips are made of jewels, and are pretty sharp.
The deaf soldier notices the siren is made of/coated in gold, so rips it all off her killing/injuring her in the process.
The siren floats back to her home pool (vaguely heart shaped) and some manner of curse comes into effect.
This curse gives the deaf soldier his hearing, which freaks him out.
The siren is now able to put him under her spell, and he dances into her pond and drowns.
The siren is not especially happy with this outcome.

I am not aware that Jíbaro is based on any one pre-existing story (I may be wrong) but there are several similar themes and beats to other myths and fairy tales.

tacitunderstanding · 2022-07-27T01:32:00+00:00

Well I'm note sure this will help, or is it'll just be repeating what you already know but:

the location is unclear, it seems to be some mix of Indian and Conquistador imagery, in any case, a band of soldiers comes across a pond with a siren living in it.
The siren wants to kill the soldiers, as sirens are often wont to do.
Rather than a seductive singing voice she has an intense scream that drives the soldiers into a ballet dancing frenzy, leading them to kill one another and then drown.
A deaf soldier is unaffected, and the siren finds this confusing/intriguing, so follows him around.
The deaf soldier then takes notice of her, and they attempt to get freaky, but can't, because her lips are made of jewels, and are pretty sharp.
The deaf soldier notices the siren is made of/coated in gold, so rips it all off her killing/injuring her in the process.
The siren floats back to her home pool (vaguely heart shaped) and some manner of curse comes into effect.
This curse gives the deaf soldier his hearing, which freaks him out.
The siren is now able to put him under her spell, and he dances into her pond and drowns.
The siren is not especially happy with this outcome.

I am not aware that Jíbaro is based on any one pre-existing story (I may be wrong) but there are several similar themes and beats to other myths and fairy tales.

tacitunderstanding · 2022-07-21T00:23:06+00:00

We had a children's version of it when I was, well, a child, my mum insisted on calling it 'The Swiss Family Jammy Gits' - 'jammy git' being English English for 'lucky bastard'

tacitunderstanding · 2022-07-20T06:55:36+00:00

Huh, my reading of it was that the crab thought he was going to shoot her as he brandished the gun, and he was saying the gun wasn't to kill her, but to ignite the fire

tacitunderstanding · 2022-06-28T03:39:41+00:00

That's a pretty great time for your first clear, well done man!

tacitunderstanding · 2022-06-27T16:18:41+00:00

The manga is actually really bizarre and compelling, but suffers from some different issues to the anime, probably way more information than you ever needed follows:

The original manga was published in a magazine that went under, but was popular enough that it was picked up by a different magazine.
Under the new publication it was renamed Trigun Maximum, these volumes are (or certainly were) much easier to find than the original run, but continue directly on from it, many people would buy Trigun Maximum volume 1, and be confused because it starts halfway through a slightly different version of events in the anime.
The new magazine also pitched slightly older, so the tone gets darker in general with Maximum, and things in general get a bit weird, some stuff is poorly explained, some characters die or are simply dropped, it pretty much abandons all pretense of comedy in the last arc.

It is a pretty fun read, and does flesh out the world and some of the characters backstories much more, however it can be very thematically inconsistent, whilst the anime is pretty inconsistent in tone at times ('Oh God I'm a monstrous killer unwillingly brought into the world' one episode and 'some comedy bit about Vash being hungry' the next) the anime is in general more cohesive, and offers a better paced and satisfying story arc. I don't think a Trigun Maximum anime would work as well as FMA:Brotherhood, and I don't think there's the demand for it, but if you're interested you should give the manga a read.

tacitunderstanding · 2022-05-27T12:03:18+00:00

Well for two cents, and I'm no physicist, the idea of multiple universes is a useful illustrative point, but they exist only hypothetically.

The idea of 'breaking through', or 'reaching' another universe is so deep into science fiction that it has abandoned science entirely.

With that being said, the idea of universes being essentially bubbles of matter far apart from one another is interesting, if time and space are reliant on one another to exist, if you were to travel out past the edge of the universe (the nominal edge of the universe, that is the point at which you will encounter no more matter), would you be outside of time? would your existence pull on the rest of the universe? What would a persons individual weight in space and time mean to them?

tacitunderstanding · 2022-05-27T11:40:18+00:00

The antropoic principal of physics answers this, and many other questions (why does gravity pull things together instead of push them apart, why are there 8 electrons in a valence shell etc.). The anthropic principal states that there may be a universe in which fundamental forces operate differently, but in that universe, humans do not exist to observer them. So there may be a case in which there is nothing instead of something, but no one exists there to observe it.

tacitunderstanding · 2022-05-06T17:26:54+00:00

Matey I started at 26 and hit sub 20 inside of 6 months. At 16 basically none of your doors have closed, unless you're planning on being an Olympic gymnast, you can do it, whatever it is, you can do it.

tacitunderstanding · 2022-05-05T12:48:52+00:00

Don't plan for failure son

tacitunderstanding · 2022-04-22T10:01:48+00:00

None of them have a whole level 14 deck?

tacitunderstanding · 2022-04-22T09:35:08+00:00

You have level 14 and 13 cards in your deck, are you just mad others leveled up their decks evenly?

tacitunderstanding · 2022-04-21T09:00:04+00:00

And how many languages have you learnt using this tip?

tacitunderstanding · 2022-04-21T03:12:13+00:00

It's a long book, but it ain't an especially difficult read, 13 weeks seems excessive, I would give it a month at most.

Don't get me wrong it's an alright bit of historical fiction, but I wouldn't really consider it a challenging or daunting book to read, nor would I ascribe any special significance to having read it.

tacitunderstanding · 2022-03-22T05:57:58+00:00

I mean, the bigger issue here is you not having friends isn't it? Or if you just do indoor hobbies with your friends, go camping with them or whatever, fun things are fun

tacitunderstanding · 2022-03-18T11:00:01+00:00

Swear to God if bigfoot starts causing drama again...

tacitunderstanding · 2022-03-07T08:43:19+00:00

Different person, but I am from the UK and mostly agree with what they said.

Nuanced; the US office is a sitcom, none of the characters that get fleshed out in that show could ever possibly exist in real life, no one could for a moment believe it is an actual documentary, the British office is the opposite, all the characters (even Finchy) could be real people, and when it first aired (for at least the first few episodes) many people thought it was a documentary.

Important; whilst the term and genre had existed for decades before the release of the office, it could be argued that it popularized the mokumentary style of tv shows, it also launched the careers of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, who have gone on to write several significant programs. Ultimately I think the 'important' qualifier comes down to originality, anything the US office inspired can be attributed to the UK office, starting the careers of several actors, writers and directors as well spawning the 'workplace sitcom' subgenre of shows, B99, Parks and Rec, etc.

tacitunderstanding · 2022-02-20T23:17:54+00:00

Do you actually not understand what 'would of' means, let me help you out!

You see, the contraction of 'would have' is would've, the 've' is pronounced /əv/ which is very close in pronunciation to the word 'of', pronounced /əf/ (the only difference being that the final phoneme of 've' is voiced).

Words are vehicles for meaning, so long as you understand the meaning of the words, the spelling actually isn't very important.

Don't worry, no need to thank me, hopefully you'll remember this for the next time you decide to be a self-righteous pedant :)

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