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  @89volvowithlazers3 минут бұрын

  Would love to hear your take on why Actum/Ethiopia get no play in any of these titles ever. Yet the one nation that never was subject to colonization. China was colonized Ethiopia not so much

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  @confusedlocal34 минут бұрын

  33:32 Any book with a Henry Kissinger quote at the start immediately gets my suspicion, lol

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  @89volvowithlazers42 минут бұрын

  How many women and poc even play paradox titles. I cant imagine a person of color playing this nor can I imagine a woman playing this game. I could be wrong but seriously doubt the game was meant for anyone other than a protestant perspective the bulk of written western history as a protestant view. Just my opinion but the games just dont lend themselves to anything other than nationalistic protestant view.

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  @89volvowithlazers59 минут бұрын

  I dont play games that exalt in enslavement or planet destruction. Which means no stellaris no vic 2 or 3. Hoi4 falls into a weird space avoiding atrocities so yeah I dont play that either. What i do find interesting are these video essays on historicity and 4x games. In the essays the discussions are fascinating

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  @confusedlocalСағат бұрын

  What do you mean? Everyone LOVES my contrarian takes on history at parties. You guys ever hear about the history of Thanksgiving????? Wait don't walk away

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  @chopper3875Сағат бұрын

  i can not be cozy when I'm on a timer perpetualy.

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  @fishsayhelo98722 сағат бұрын

  very well done :thumbsup:

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  @jemihia87102 сағат бұрын

  That Pavlov statement at the end is hilarious 😂

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  @bobmcbob98562 сағат бұрын

  Granted with China, there is some form of cultural continuity (prevalence, de jure or de facto, of Mandarin or its ancestors, Confucianism, Daoism, and certain Buddhist schools, for the entire imperial period the political concept of the Mandate of Heaven, common care about a few surprisingly long-lasting literary and poetic works also permeates a number of dynasties, also the exam focused method for selecting civil administrators), and most Chinese dynasties have openly insisted that they ARE the successors to previous ones and gone out of their way to make that clear. Also with Persia which is the next most historically continuous state, I guess part of it is a matter of how culturally Persian a dynasty is vs being strongly attached to a foreign conqueror’s ancestral culture, for example how we would consider the Timurid or Seljuk empires Turkic or A,expander or the Seleucids Greek while the Qajars though having Turkic emperors are seen as a Persian dynasty. Mexico lacks the cultural continuity from the Aztecs that one might find between say the comparably temporally distant Ming Dynasty and modern China. Not that China is culturally stagnant, obviously the CCP is in many ways deeply different from the Ming, Qing, and certainly more distant dynasties, but underlying cultural currents either in the government, or among the people, or both, and the claim to succession are definitely more notable than in most other countries. The past is a different country, but compare pre-Roman Celtic Britain to modern Britain and the China of that time to the China of today and the difference is clear. I guess it’s in large part down to how big the population of China’s core is and how hard it thus is for migrating or conquering groups to displace that culture with their own.

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  @elizabeth98416 сағат бұрын

  My biggest takeaway from this video is if I ever visit America I'm eating out on a weekday and tipping as much as I can

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  @mojonojo36 сағат бұрын

  Having been through UK immigration process with my Australian wife, its a nightmare - we ended up taking the British government to court over a rejected visa renewal. The incompetence and ignorance is staggering.

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  @Emanon...7 сағат бұрын

  "Evil" & "British" have historically meant the same. It's a pleonasm. Like saying "wet water" or "Supremacist Genocidal Israeli"...

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  @mildlydispleased322110 сағат бұрын

  0:29 That is NOT a spelling error, that's how it is spelt in real English.

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  @sithlordmikeyp10 сағат бұрын

  I like the old thumbnail more.

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  @akioasakura362411 сағат бұрын

  “You should always believe everything you see on the internet”-Albert Einstein

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  @akioasakura362411 сағат бұрын

  Wow 🔥🔥remember this comment when u have a million subs xdd

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  @MrPatchy24814 сағат бұрын

  "If you're watching this video you might not need my help with that" 💀

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  @RoamingAdhocrat16 сағат бұрын

  Map Games, Map Games, Map Map Map Games Games

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  @A-Z63217 сағат бұрын

  A little late on that request but one thing which I always look at in map games are the islands in the Puget Sound. There are many islands, isthmuses, and peninsulas spanning the sound and they aren't always represented. Even when they are on maps, they are often part of larger areas like seattle (which is fair given things like Vashon island being basically attached to seattle by ferry or the fact that there's such a thing as the Mount Vernon-Anacortes metropolitan area) but there's some cool things about this area. One is San Juan county, a group of islands connected only by ferry which are there own county, not really attached to anything except ferries that run to islands like Fidalgo closer to the mainland. It's been a long time since I played Victoria 3 but I wonder if they are on the map (I know they certainly aren't on EU4 which kinda makes sense considering Washington wasn't meaningfully settled by Europeans in that time period). Also, one island in particular, Fidalgo Island was very close to fame. It was nearly the terminus of the transcontinental railroad in the west, a potentiality very relevant to Victoria 3. Additionally, a large area of sea called Guemes Bay was nearly poldered to be turned into farmland (Americans don't really have a Great Gouda in the Sky... maybe it's a Cheddar?) only being stopped by the Great Depression and I'd bet there were similar projects to polder the shallow, muddy, estuaries flowing into Puget Sound. Finally, one long island called Whidbey Island is the site of a major US Navy base and is often omitted. Pretty uninteresting by the standards of your Scottish example but I always found it odd that these islands aren't very present and that games don't really include the process of "creating" new land or deforesting unless it actually happened. Great vid.

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  @A-Z63216 сағат бұрын

  I meant Padilla Bay, not Guemes Bay, I do not believe there is a Guemes Bay, only a Guemes Island and Channel.

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  @CM-lr7tf17 сағат бұрын

  3:53 what a nice triangle

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  @sergeantsharkseant18 сағат бұрын

  in victoria 3 Coburg my home town isnt a part of the Herzogtum Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha but of bavaria which it only became much later.

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  @fishsayhelo987219 сағат бұрын

  very gud 👍

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  @LadyOfAsh940019 сағат бұрын

  My key takeaway from this video is that Nietzsche invented the virgin / chad meme.

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  @kevinp.h15719 сағат бұрын

  I’m not from DC but I can think of 3 solution to this, but each with their own consequence: 1: get DC absorbed to either Maryland or Virginia, more likely the former because blue state, but that would mean giving up sovereignty as a “city district” on its own and revoking the 23th amendment. This option is more favorable to conservatives and republicans 2: this is more of a compromise. giving the district city rights and city and/or state should have, but it’s citizens can’t vote on who gets to be their representatives, senators or the president to keep its status as a “neutral site”. This one takes less to rework the 23th amendment and this will keep conservatives and republicans satisfied to not unbalanced the government nor congress to which they’ve made clear that they do not want 3: this one’s the one that’s been the most popular amongst DC citizens; make DC a state and create a new dedicated zone to become the new DC, the zone would contain in it all the important sites in DC and government such as the the White House, the capitol, Washington mall, etc. the problem is that this one would require a reform or downright revoke the 23th amendment and as aforementioned on option 2, conservatives and republicans have made clear that they do not want an imbalance of government nor congress of democrats unless a new mostly conservative state gets created along side DC’s statehood (my money is on East Oregon/east Idaho becoming that new state) just like how it was in the 19th century when new states were created and added, plus there’s the risk that the new DC zone would give the president themself much more power when voting

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  @_S.T.A.L.K.E.R._20 сағат бұрын

  I like how when discussing the famine they completely forget it occurred across the entire southern USSR killing many Russians ans Kazakhs

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  @Supahpowahnerd89022 сағат бұрын

  This video is a good summation of the troubled historiography of the USSR. This issue also comes up a lot in debates about MENA politics, especially in the Levant proper. Writers like Sacco and Khalidi lean very much on personal accounts, diaspora sentiments, and Subaltern-style focus on mass perceptions.

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  @CartoonCastro22 сағат бұрын

  vancouver island on most maps is conected so I dont balme them

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  @WoodenBenchКүн бұрын

  Though I understand you can't bring up every single detail that supports your analysis, but what you're theorizing is pretty much stated plainly by Kreia herself in the light side enclave scene when she says "I've endured your corruption of my other students, you will not have this one." Kreia is an interestingly difficult character to get right in the sense that she is sort of at war with the structure we use to interpret her. If she has any reasonably characterized flaws it becomes way, way too easy for people to explain her motivations away rather than letting her make her own case. Weird villian has radical idea -> this is an action story -> kill her. Since she has made her own philosophy so core to her personality while also being very contrarian, explaining herself in plain english is extremely hard when the listener isn't buying that it's a normal motivation to have. When you mention her bringing up Chodo Habat's "agenda" as a mirror to Czerka doing the same it sort of strikes me as the actual dialogue option of walking up to Kreia and going "so what are you, jedi or sith?" As a metaphor I think it works wonders to set this story in the star wars galaxy because of how the force fuctions as a completely alien cartoonish version of an interpretive paradigm. I love how often I try to discuss or interpret anything in this game and my reason is completely wrenched my the fact there's a darkside/lightside tag at the end of it. Really makes me relate to wanting to get that out of the setting. I also think that comparing her view on Chodo Habat's healing as alternative medicine is great way of putting it, it's not like the core of medical professionals' opposition to homeopathy and anti-vaxxers is that they're "too spiritual". That's how their mistakes get motivated, sure, but alternative medicine being bad because it either inflicts bodily harm or neglects better treatments is a chemical/biological matter in the exact same way that scientifically evidence-based medicine being good for you is. It's also worth mentioning that, since the force certainly is a more spiritual entity than anything analogous in our own world, Kreia is in that specific way a force anti-theist. Since the Jedi Council is characterized as a close-minded orthodoxy by her I don't think it's a far cry that the position she's in is kind of like the only person who figured out germ theory in the galaxy, watching every promising student go 90% of the way there and then returning to the council like "I realized I just needed to pray more". Imagine you find the only promising scholar in the whole galaxy who actually *stopped praying* for ten years and then they start working with a christian botanist who tells them "oh you got sepsis? I can offer <traditional healing> for that" and honestly Kreia is almost too easy on Chodo. Adding on: Is it really weird that Kreia prefers Czerka? I know they do things that fit much more into the definition of the english word "duplicitous" but calling them unpredictable or volatile because just because "they would do <bad thing> if the incentive told them to" feels like an admission that they're perfectly reliable beyond that. I don't necessarily think they are, and the exchange *do* offer that incentive (though I don't know what kind of numbers Star Wars megacorps throw around compared to Star Wars cartels, and earth-wisdom tells me the megacorps should be bigger already but earth-wisdom also tells me they should be smaller than governmental spending, which complicates things because the exchange is the pet-project of a sapient government initiative), but I still believe the core of your argument is kinda tautological in a situation where Kreia already thinks the galaxy is full of people who want nothing but to kill and maim and exploit etc. Or a better way to explain it might be that Jack Sparrow quote about dishonest people being reliably selfish. (yes I know he says that just before deciding to do the right thing, that doesn't make it hard to parse)

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  @LangorithmicКүн бұрын

  pseudohistorical

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  @MattNovosadКүн бұрын

  I'd have to disagree with your statement that the quote about the Somme doesn't REALLY matter. Even if it is not the source of bad history about the Battle itself (which lasted months, not a single day), it is emblematic of that bad history. The First World War, and the Somme as a part of it, has undergone major historiographical shifts over the past 30-40 years. While the first day of the Somme went poorly, there are strong arguments about the rest of the battle, and the battle's context, that it wasn't the "great f*ck up". This has been most eloquently argued by William Philpott in his "Bloody Victory" (as known in the US) or "Three Armies on the Somme" (as it is known in the UK). Fussel himself has also been re-evaulated. His work on the First World War doesn't really hold up, and about 25 years ago or so a scathing review was published by Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson of both his Great War and Second World War books. While perhaps a bit unfair at times, they also weren't wrong in general about Fussel and his often ahistoric takes. Fussel was ultimately an English professor NOT a historian and it shows in the book. Not only does the truth count for something here, the view that is represented by that quote is not necessarily where historians are anymore when talking about the First World War.

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  @shimskates2935Күн бұрын

  Genuinely, the best video to have on while in the shower.

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  @wildsurfer12Күн бұрын

  No wonder our immigration never went down.

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  @TheRealEtaoinShrdluКүн бұрын

  Lolz, they don't care about detail. They care about profit. If a detail affects their profits, they will care about it. Otherwise they won't. That is how capitalism works. Nothing more, nothing less. Always has, always will.

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  @alexanderklee6357Күн бұрын

  From Wikipedia: "Initiative 82 passed its 30-day legislative review period and became law on February 23, 2023,[2] however on January 17, 2023, the DC Council voted to delay the first pay increase until May 1, 2023.[3]" "On July 1, 2027, the tipped wage will be eliminated in the District of Columbia and there will be one minimum wage for all workers. The exact minimum wage will not be known until January 2027.[25]"

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  @pungkutspapowinisumpuvtuku195Күн бұрын

  Hobby Lobby = ISIS

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  @btw6301Күн бұрын

  Shockingly good insight! Thank you for giving a fresh perspective on one of my most favorite games. Makes me wonder if there are more moments like this. Very refreshing bc most of the 'Kreiea discourse' (eww) revolves around lionizing or demonizing her character. Nice to see someone trying to 'understand' her. Cheers 🙂

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  @DW10463Күн бұрын

  Its ok to lie if you love jeezus

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  @emilsoderman3691Күн бұрын

  I do note that Civ actually *used* to have atrocity points, both Civ 2 and SMAC had mechanics where certain actions (razing a city, using nuclear weapons, etc.) would incur diplomatic penalties. And one of the civs had some kind of council mechanic were you could institute/repeal them, IIRC?

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  @bewilderbeastie8899Күн бұрын

  Finally a takedown of Montefiore. He's so overrated.

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  @mourad505Күн бұрын

  How would you recommend becoming a history buff while avoiding the trap of pop history?

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  @RealLottoКүн бұрын

  Pop history is grandiose, colourful and exciting, filled with intrigues and rhetoric. And academic history is dry, and boring (at least, to non-historians, that includes the majority of history buffs, that can only recall WW2, the Napoleonic wars and the likes), because it pertains to reality, and reality can be painfully mundane. Look at us, we are in a period of severe economic turmoil, climate change, historic level of wealth inequality, and corporations are more powerful than governments. But for the majority of us, everyday is still mostly the same, wake up, grind and rest, rinse and repeat.

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  @LaPrincipessaNuovaКүн бұрын

  A place I used to work (a Fortune 500 company) was based out of New York City not because of some particular benefit to the company, but because the former CEO didn’t want to leave New York when he took the job, and I think they had a small office there at the time so they just put his office there and made it the headquarters even though it’s maybe the 5th largest office owned by the company. Or at least that’s what I was told.

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  @alek8516Күн бұрын

  As an avid civilization 6 player, if the game took away my Era points because I made a mistake or the computer out maneuvered me, I'd be really sad especially if I was trying to unwind after a long day. It doesn't model reality, but that's OK. Neither does Paper Mario ❤

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  @Oops-All-GhostsКүн бұрын

  I'd love to see a discussion of Italy, and in particular the game's use of an extremely sanitized version of the campaign in Ethiopia as a tutorial, someday.

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  @MsJaytee1975Күн бұрын

  This would be a nit pick, but I already don’t like Andy Wightman. Robert the Bruce was king of Scotland from 1306-1329, Rockall was annexed in 1955, where on earth did he get 500 years from?! One correction, Wightman is no longer an elected official at any level. I thought this video looked good, did not expect to find excellent analysis of Scottish history. As a lowland Scot who loves Scottish history, is undecided about independence and hates everything Scottish culture related that’s clearly aimed at America, this was excellent. The section on Simon Sebag Montifiore really confirmed I was right to stop reading or watching anything he does. I stopped reading a book of his in 2016 because he kept using the phrase mentally handicapped. In 2016 surely most grown adults should know not to use handicapped, but midget is also a slur, as is Quasimodo, so clearly he doesn’t know or doesn’t care.

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  @hungryhedgehog4201Күн бұрын

  Was the gta san andreas fast food meal just on your mind or... ?

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  @nngnnadasКүн бұрын

  5:45 I kinda feels any journalistic tendency that is irresponsible in an historical subject is also irresponsible in journalism.

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  @epronytКүн бұрын

  Sigh. I have a trauma response when I think of visas generally and VFS specifically. I am a national of an African country, which means I need a visa to go to perhaps > 70% of the world. I moved to the UK few years ago as a student and stayed for work. For my student visa application, I paid an extra fee to have my biometrics appointment in the VFS office in the part of the city close to where I lived and worked. Using the other office was free but I'd have missed a whole day of work. At the office, the appointments never happen at the scheduled time, we were left outside on the sidewalk by the office complex in loooong queues, come rain or blazing sunshine. For my worker visa appointment, I discovered that even within the UK, different appointment dates and offices have different appointment fees (separate from all the visa fees, and totally legal), almost all of them over £100. I live in London now and recently had to have my BRP replaced - appointment slots cost as much as £399! It took only 5 minutes to scan my passport and provide my fingerprints during said appointment. For Schengen visas I require to travel to most of Western and Northern Europe, it's even worse. You rarely find appointments on the VFS country portal but somehow travel agents always can, and offer them to you at a price. The corruption stinks. I have resolved to limiting my contact with visa applications to work related travel because I just cannot stand the naked exploitation of the whole racket. I have missed my fair share of important social events but I'll live, there are much worse problems to have in life.

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  @nngnnadasКүн бұрын

  Yo. Good job on that nice triangle. Really liking that it has three angles and three edges.

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  @TheDanorteКүн бұрын

  It's insanely sad how Humankind turned out. Game is dead. They actually managed to greatly innovate on Civ 6, just like they had prior done with Endless Legend (an absolute gem of a 4X) and Civ 5. But at the same time, completely fumble the bag on the implementation of every major aspect except combat. This game deserved better. In hindsight it's mindboggling how they decided to release this game in such a sorry state.

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  @freddiegardner4776Күн бұрын

  I have had the misfortune of having to use VFS 'services' in order to obtain a student visa to Finland as a UK Citizen. The excessive fees, poor organisation, and utterly shameful standard of service at their visa centre in London is nothing short of a complete scandal. I have seen some very desperate people stuck in endless lines and waiting rooms being badgered and treated very poorly by staff. I had to visit the centre 4 times over the course of 2 months, and every single visit took at least 3 hours in which I was effectively stuck in this bureaucratic nightmare trying to just... pick up my approved visa. Emails went completely ignored and trying to even schedule an appointment or contact them over the phone was a herculean task which I guarantee would be essentially impossible if English wasn't your first language. I never want to go through that crap again - and I really, really despise the way that other people, mainly people who aren't UK citizens, are being treated by this awful company. It took direct intervention from the Finnish embassy to even be informed of the delivery of my visa. And when I picked it up, VFS had the audacity to charge me £65 for no apparent reason. Truly awful