Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

I hope the next update drops the Heavy/Assassin class charade and just calls them Bears & Twinks

Also I cannot take the Growly Trailerman Announcer in Duel Tournaments seriously, and he clearly can't either. His always-at-11 job enthusiasm for gargling roadsalt and then yelling procedurally generated team names out is just

I don't mind losing rounds because even when he sounds disappointed he's clearly enjoying himself

For Honor is a good counterpoint to marathoning history podcasts.

"Then, war. Then no war, & horrible internal social things reached a boiling point."
Mmmnnnhhh..
"Yeahbutwait what if a Viking Scotsman(🤔) fought a Knight Gladiator(​)? ..And then a Ninja appeared in a puff of smoke and backflipped them both into a fire (​)!?!??"

Ah, thankyou, yes. that will do nicely as a chaser.

The Romans were constantly at each other's throats, and the rich Patrician class using near-constant foreign wars as an excuse to plaster over economic inequality, class divides & representation (hello, modern parallels) was as much a reason for early expansion as advantages in infrastructure/military- let alone 'character'.

So yeah, I have no time for "So brave, much solidarity, never back down! (except for..)"

(Or worse, whig history attributing their dominance to ~Democracy Magic~)

I agree w/ the general sentiment that Roman history is overdone but also it's rlly hard to talk about anything happened later in Europe (or the USA govt system) w/o a solid grounding in the culture they mythologised & used as a template.

Also it's most often done patchily + rlly badly in school, so stuff that fills in the blanks/talks about historicity of source material.. Is useful.

(That said, hmu with any decent podcasts you know of that cover other eras/cultures & I will be a happy bat)

I'd rate Patrick Wyman's Fall of Rome podcast higher, but also note that it focuses on the last 3 centuries, rather than going from Kingdom -> Republic -> Empire, which is a lot longer a period to cover in any sort of depth (like. 1000 years or so, much of it with little recorded evidence to go on)

So.. A better podcast but also with a very different focus.

I'm liking this podcast: http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/

It's not perfect (the host occasionally falls into the same idealizing of the 'Roman character' that he criticizes primary sources for, and.. I have 0 time for that stuff, doubly so from modern historians =_=) but not to the point of buying into blatant-legends or skimming over downturns, cultural schisms/failings & defeats.

Overall its a good "each episode's a quick-overview of a topic/period" kinda podcast imo, if you ignore those parts.

I've been trying to find podcasts but like

A lot of them the host bursts into advertising without any.. Explicit demarcation of the border? Just suddenly dude's talking about trail bars or mattresses. It's like a nasty whiplash combo of breaking the fourth wall and snapping you out of it.

"Oh this person can just turn on enthusiasm for anything, & I'd been believing them.." is a stark reminder that there's trust involved in the speaker/audience dynamic & that trust can be misused