Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Overly Sarcastic Productions" channel.

  1. Fun fact: In Finland and Estonia Valentine's Day is called "Friend's Day".
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  2. Fun fact: The people of Madagascar are also Austronesian. Madagascar was apparently first settled from what is Indonesia today, not from mainland Africa as one might guess.
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  3. But what language would sound gay to the French?
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  4. Red: "I'd like to pitch an idea for a slice-of-life comedy where King Arthur and Fionn Mac Cumhail both rise form the grave due to some potentially catastrophic political upheaval in the general UK area..." Hmm, "some potentially catastrophic political upheaval in the general UK area" eh? How about a story where Arthur etc. rises from the grave to prevent Brexit? :)
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  5. And lower lip.
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  6. 1:30 "If I do the Ramadan fast in this heat I may actually die of thirst." Good thing Babur didn't conquer Svalbard and try to do the Ramadan fast there (in the summer).
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  7. Would that be period appropriate to include North African corsairs as well? That would add some variety.
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  8. Well, Hawaiian has an extremely small phonemic inventory so it's probably easy to write with almost any alphabet.
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  9. "Two people in history" Though we don't know if they were actual people that existed. The Iliad and other such stories might be just stories or partially stories.
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  10. Though Classical India didn't pretend to be a single state.
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  11.  @FortunateSon-mo9zi  You just need to search for some Hetalia fanfic or fanart.
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  12.  @camilledasse4331 : "I think that the reason it disappeared of the map is because it is no longer considered as a colony. It is now a “département”, which could be roughly translated as a “county”" But doesn't that make it even more of a part of France (at least until they possibly leave) since it's at least in theory as much France as any département in metropolitan France?
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  13.  @OverlySarcasticProductions : I might add to the previous comment that in your earlier Ancient India video you showed illustrations of scenes from Mahabharata with horse-drawn chariots, though I guess those could be anachronistic. Btw, you say instances of pre-horse cavalry were usually elephants. If it was only usually and not always, does that mean that non-horse, non-elephant cavalry existed somewhere at some time?
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  14. 2:30 "Olympus is pretty tall and hard to climb." From what I've read online Mt. Olympus seems to be actually pretty easy to scale. You can go most of the way by just walking without the need for climbing (though you can't reach the very peak without some climbing at the end). Disclaimer: This is just something I read on a random website.
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  15. "Wouldn't trust Tudor age chroniclers/historians either." By watching Blackadder I learned that Henry Tudor, in fact, lost the Battle of Bosworth Field but just falsified the history to state the opposite! :)
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  16.  @emangalea537 : I'm a bit skeptical if a thing like that could be known. Piracy is an extremely ancient practice after all.
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  17. She just wants to attend a furry convention.
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  18. He also did a cameo on Potential History channel talking about Greece in WWII.
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  19. At least they actually used shields unlike the hastati (spearmen) who didn't use spears after a certain point.
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  20.  @knightofficer : Think about how you would universally define north? One possibility goes as follows. First, the cardinal directions have to go north -> east -> south -> west in a clockwise order. But this doesn't pin them down unambiguously because you could still rotate those directions. You could furthermore define that e.g. north and south have to point to the poles based on the planet's rotation. But this still leaves two possible choices because it's not yet obvious which pole is the north pole and which one the south pole. You could then furthermore require that the sun of the planet has to rise from the east and set to the west and thus get an unambiguous definition in many cases based on the planet's rotation. However, what about when the planet is tidally locked with its sun and thus doesn't have sunrises or sunsets? Or what if its axis of rotation is parallel with its plane of orbit around its sun? Then it might not be so easy to define north or south for the planet.
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  21. In Finnish "Malta" means "wait" or "be patient".
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  22. Then they went to war over a wooden bucket.
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  23. Being small didn't save Luxembourg. Maybe they weren't small enough.
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  24. Quantum physics has the upside that in a sense you don't have to understand what's really happening in the quantum world to perform calculations. You can just calculate eigenvalues and eigenstates for a Hamiltonian and not consider what superposition "really" means metaphysically. On the other hand, all the calculations are super heavy. Everything usually scales at least to O(n³) even with some serious approximations.
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  25. Isn't that OK? I thought: England + Wales = Britain Britain + Scotland = Great Britain
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  26. Why is Walpole so famous?
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  27.  @socialismandrevolution8299 : "Venezuela is suffering due to a social democratic government that failed to properly challenge capitalists, combined with US sanctions and Maduro being much less competent than Chavez" Venezuela is suffering because expropriating businesses, price controls, restricting exports/imports, etc. are very inefficient policies. "Cuba has achieved relatively impressive standards of life compared to other Latin American countries" GDP (PPP) per capita of Cuba: $12,300 and of Chile: $24,600, so I would say Chile is much more impressive in this respect (though not free of problems by any means). Many other Latin American countries (e.g. Colombia) are also richer though not by as much.
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  28.  @jlokison : In terms of population Luxembourg is about 15 times bigger than Liechtenstein (and at the start of WWII was about 22 times bigger).
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  29. At least they did better than the Western Rome.
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  30.  @chewxieyang4677  True, though the lower gravity might help with scaling that one.
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  31. 0:23 "I'll go into more detail later" Took you long enough! 4 whole years! ;)
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  32. A splendid use of public money. I'm sure Mohammad bin Salman hasn't let his personal feeling affect his judgment when putting forth that proposition.
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  33.  @Magmafrost13 : Ah, so a bit like that "except the Mongols" thing.
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  34.  @andyknightwarden9746 : "The man who complained of his neighboring countries that they hadn't read Marx?" I've not heard of that before. Do you have a source because otherwise, I remain sceptical. Hitler is usually described as denouncing (Jewish) Marxism.
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  35. Haha!
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  36. Moral bankruptcy wasn't uncommon back then.
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  37. Rule 34?
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  38. 10:05 You're blaming Sweden? Denmark (re)started it first!
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  39. 6:50 Tax policy? I thought ancient Athens didn't have taxes.
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  40.  @Magmafrost13 : Hmm, I've seen a bunch of Extra History videos and I don't remember references to Walpole except in the South Seas bubble videos.
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  41.  @twotothehalf3725 : Ah, that explains it. I've usually only watched the main videos and not the lies part.
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  42. By medieval standards, they were pretty tolerant of Christians and Jews in earlier times. Later on, they got more oppressive.
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  43.  @starburst98  It might also be great if you just like money.
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  44.  @Penguinmanereikel  You meant "pursued"?
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  45. I actually like that better than Blue's suggestion.
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  46. At least in North America, the French treated the natives better than the English did.
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  47. England was already at war with Spain but then sued for peace and tried to get rights to trade with the Spanish ports in South America. The got the right to send one ship per year to each port, which was nowhere near enough.
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  48. Well, they haven't been a mercantile superpower, now have they? ...yet!
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  49. Besides Sengoku period, you could also have mentioned Hideyoshi's (failed) invasion into Korea. I think it deserves a mention because it's one of the very few times the samurai actually fought against foreigners.
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  50.  @DepressivesBrot : Camels have obviously been used for transport but have people actually fought on camelback on a battlefield.
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