æ is in purely Latin words like ex æquo, et cætera, or curriculum vitæ, that’s all. œ appears in œil (eye) so you see that a lot more commonly already, but I can’t think of any other word that uses it off the top of my head (beside other derivated words like œillères). (pardon the puns)
A lot of the trash talk about him was made up by Christian historians, I’m pretty sure the “beating his pregnant wife to death” is confirmed, or at the very least heavily debated, to be one of the made up bullshit. And yes, it’s generally believed that he is the “beast” from Revelation butt again that’s because of the early Christian hate. It’s probably because he accused the early Christian sect of causing the fire of Rome (which we’re still not sure they didn’t), and the whole “throwing them to lions” thing, and they fought back by spreading shit about him.
Marrying a castrated slave lover is legit though, and IINM I think Nero was the one dressed as the bride.
The way I see it, it doesn’t matter what she said, it was only happening to make her creepy. If Ruby’s guess near the end is right, the whole point of her being there, haunting her, making people run away, was to make specifically this one man run away in terror, and there’s no way whatever that was had anything to do with anyone else abandoning Ruby. She simply says something so terrifying that people run away, that’s it, it doesn’t matter what exactly, and it doesn’t even have to be the same thing for everyone. Same with the teleport: she did it the same way she time travelled back into her past. How? We don’t know either, and it doesn’t matter, it’s just here to make her creepy.
The Doctor told her about this terrible Welsh minister, and she made it her life’s mission to get rid of him, and then went back to her young self. Why did the Doctor vanish? Why 73 yards? Why did her mom and Kate turn on her? We don’t know, it’s magic. Or it’ll be revealed later, maybe, or maybe it won’t. The creepiness, the distance, is to make her afraid, to make others afraid, and to make her realize she has an easy way to make the guy run away. It doesn’t make sense, it just has to work for her to think “I can weaponize that” and connect the dots. I’m fine with the details not making sense personally, it’s not that kind of episode, I thought it was well executed.
Only thing I would have hoped to see at the end is the Doctor again realizing that his memory changed between telling Ruby about Robert and then Robert disappearing from History in the future. Just to tie with the previous one.
Idc that he’s black my issue is that assassin’s in ac "blend " into their environment they are “ghosts”
This hasn’t been true for a while, except Mirage that tried to do a callback to that. But you know there’s also a playable woman who is the perfect ninja archetype? Clad in black and hookchaining over buildings and throwing kunais in people’s necks from the shadows or from 10 feet in the air, the type that never actually existed in History.
So far it looks like they both take part in the story, with their own sections to play through. The character introduction video seems to say you might have sections where you chose between offensive or stealth approach so you’ll switch characters, but they want you to experience both so there will most likely be sections that force the use of one or the other.
People who still complain are just saying they refuse to play a Black man at all, so that’s still a trash take.
Good for you? You’re still pretending that a Black guy in Japan somehow breaks some rules of the game. It’s still true to History, the stealth is still there, nothing is broken, this is still the same Assassin’s Creed as the previous games.
Kassandra and Eivor (canonically the woman version) exist, your argument is invalid.
Also I assumed the comment about the Black guy being violent was a joke, but we have the historical document that says Oda was impressed with Yasuke because (among other reasons) he was as strong as 10 men, so it makes sense.
Also the use of a kannabo is sick AF, I’m already 90% sold just for that gameplay.
… It’s a valid complaint to ask that a historical African man be represented as a Japanese man? How?
Do you mean they should have used literally any other historical figure or even a fictional character, as long as it was a Japanese person? There’s a second playable character who is Japanese.
Well that’s kinda where the book ends. I find it odd they want to continue…
It looks like a lot of people are whining that they expected more battles, because it doesn’t matter that it comes from a book that is about political intrigue and smart people, not historical bloodbaths. So I’m gonna assume that they’ll give the people what they want, and I won’t expect any of the plotting around that the book did - they’ll probably pretend to care about it, but they’ll just pivot to a simple retelling of historical events. I don’t know who Michaela Clavell is, but I don’t know how much she can help sticking to the Clavell writing style. We have Sekigahara, Shimabara, and Osaka to look forward to.
in the end the entire series was about a battle never fought
Yes, that’s the book the show comes from. It’s been a long time but as I recall it, the book treats that battle as even more of an afterthought, something like “of course it ended in a big battle, but the conclusion was already foretold by everything we just talked about, we don’t even need to talk about the battle to know how it went.” The series actually gives even more detail about it than the book when Toranaga clarifies that Mariko’s role was decisive in making the mother of the heir drop her support of his enemy, and that’s it.
The book is not about the battle, the book is about how the battle was won even before it started and how Tokugawa / toranaga made that happen, the battle is irrelevant.
The first episode, like Ruby Road, had awful dialogs because they spent like 10 minutes having the Doctor sum up Time Lords, Gallifrey, and the TARDIS in more words than the entire series has ever used for it. “By the way did you know that TARDIS is an acronym? Here’s what it stands for! And here’s an exciting situation that makes my hearts beat - that’s right, plural, I have two hearts!” So I have no idea how new viewers and gen Tiktok took it, but for a nuWho fan that was fucking exhausting.
I did find the GOP planet hilarious, but only for a couple of minutes. And the fart propulsion… There’s no one who hasn’t wondered about that for at least 5 seconds - good thing that they don’t dwell on the joke longer than that. Other than that, you know the people who hated the rest did so because the Doctor tells a bunch of literal babies “don’t let others set up expectations for you, you are perfect as you are.”
Maestro was a big step up despite still having some flaws. Directing wise too, like with the silent sequence, that was pretty cool. Acting is a bit over the top, which can be grating, but it’s not out of line for Dr. Who.
I’m looking forward to the rest, I just hope they’ll take a damn chill pill and talk a little less before my eardrums burst. I’m into the social commentary, just in less words please.
For some reason I’ve just never liked Spider-Man. He comes off as a whiney, ignorant child that never seems to grow up or mature despite everything he goes through. I love a good coming of age story, but he just never seems to become an adult.
I found that Tony’s slide to fascism following his PTSD and thinking he knew better than everyone else was a good character development in a show where he’s not the hero. What we’re missing is a 4th solo movie where he faces his fuck-ups and his selfishness, but no, he went out like a hero through sacrifice after causing it and blaming the rift on Cap (when returning from Titan).
I also found that early Steve really needed to get a better angry face, but that evolved well between Infinity War and Endgame.
Former White House Situation Room officer Mike Stiegler revealed that then-President Donald Trump never called down to check on then-Vice President Mike Pence as Trump fans hunted him at the Capitol, and that we were “that close” to losing the VP....
Weird article. It’s been a very long time since I’ve read the book, but I was pretty sure the series ends up exactly where the book did to the letter, yet the article claims the series ends before. In fact, the vision of the Sekigahara showdown was probably added to make viewers understand what it was about, as the book kind of treats it as an afterthought like the reader already knows where this is going.
It also claims Tokugawa won with the smallest amount of bloodshed, which is weird since Sekigahara is up there in the number of dead people in a single day in all of recorded History. It may have been less than the alternative, but it’s just an odd and wrong comment to make about that battle.
As for a second season - I don’t even know what it would be about, because contrary to what the article says, there’s not much else of interest after that, it’s only Shimabara and the battle of Osaka (and I guess Sekigahara too). The former could conclude the religion topic of the series, but neither would have much to do with the level of intrigue that the book focused on. A second season would mostly be lots of battlefields. Maybe to throw a bone to the people who didn’t know about the book and expected just that, why not? Everything the book didn’t do.
I’m kidding here, but the similarities are odd. The weather is always between 70F and 85F all year round. The biggest threat to you on the island are apples. You shouldn’t eat the apples that grow on the island; the small green ones are poisonous. Oh, and it isn’t easy to immigrate there. It’s a place where only few...
There’s a field that was called Gu-edin (meaning “open fields”) in the mid third millennium BCE that was the subject of a border war that lasted a couple centuries, between the cities of Lagash and Umma (which is right where you said), because the founder of Lagash bought an unassuming piece of land from Umma and a bunch of surrounding terrains, and then did mad irrigation work and it became crazy fertile. According to Lagash’s records, Umma got mad that it was swindled out of such great land and kept attacking Lagash over it, and kept getting its ass kicked and its kings killed. People from Umma were “allowed” to till the field for Lagash for a time, but most of the grain would still go to Lagash, causing more revolts from Umma (and more punishment).
It’s fairly agreed that this place probably gave some degree of inspiration for “Eden”, along with some rare green gardens in the region created with irrigation work. The apple bit, the woman rib bit, and the knowledge bit came from other Sumerian myths.
I’m not sure if it’s the Galapagos, maybe in the Canaries instead?, but some island famous for its apples, weather, and safety did play a part in inspiring the myth of Avalon, the island of apples.
Right, the Inanna myth where she learns about sex also talks about eating the herbs and trees on a mountain / highland, I’m not sure when Eden was associated with an apple.
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Believe it or not, no aliens were likely involved! Just some very smart humans and a massive amount of labor.
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Nvm that Yasuke was a real person.
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Name a Superhero you just can't stand
For some reason I’ve just never liked Spider-Man. He comes off as a whiney, ignorant child that never seems to grow up or mature despite everything he goes through. I love a good coming of age story, but he just never seems to become an adult.
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The Garden of Eden was based on The Galápagos Islands.
I’m kidding here, but the similarities are odd. The weather is always between 70F and 85F all year round. The biggest threat to you on the island are apples. You shouldn’t eat the apples that grow on the island; the small green ones are poisonous. Oh, and it isn’t easy to immigrate there. It’s a place where only few...