Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Overly Sarcastic Productions" channel.

  1. ". . . as if the concept of improving as a person was invented by hypersensitive millennials in 2010 Nope, turns out people have been trying to not mortally offend their audience since forever! Who knew" Thank you for that Red. A beacon of sanity on the dark waves of the internet.
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  2. "I'm willing to suspend my disbelief. I'm not willing to hang it from the neck until dead."
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  3. My friend came up with a pretty damn good definition, actually. Magic: rules that break other rules.
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  4. I'm generally fine to be like "people got all sorts of wierd kinks, I'm fine to let them be"...it's when it moves to romanticizing f'ed up stuff that I start quickly having very strong objections.
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  5. glamourgirl656 and Apollo likes it a lot I think
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  6. If you build a temple to the god of craftsman and it's NOT the last one standing, you're doing it wrong!
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  7. I just realized that murdering Baldur could be read as trying to hook up his daughter who can't really get out and date because she's trapped in the underworld (and sparing Baldur from ragnarok)
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  8. I make Denouncing Venice my new religion Bonus points to any that get the reference.
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  9. Not just physically, but he crosses into a lot of roles that are traditionally given to female deities and I'm seeing a lot of parallels with things like his role as being in between sides in conflict and serving as a usually cooperative balance to the dominant power group that are often given to 3rd gender roles in many societies, which is very interesting.
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  10.  Aspiring Marauder  I mean, a lot of that is hardly unique to Japan. French maid and secretary uniforms didn't get sexualized out of nowhere, for example.
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  11. Yeah, the Greeks kinda went back and forth on how they treated women...mostly back. Ironically, dictatorial Sparta with its absurd level of machoness was probably the best, and (sometimes) democratic Athens, the worst...kinda got to pick and choose what to take from those city states there.
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  12.  @mfield942  yeah, with the rarest of exceptions, they cannot tolerate vampires in that setting. With how the vampires (especially the older ones) tend constantly towards ever greater depravity and inability to survive without causing ever greater harm while growing increasingly powerful (especially with how terrifyingly powerful the eldest ones are), the fact that (dispite typically being a kill-on-sight enemy) they might not even place on a list of their top 5 priorities is really telling of why it's the World of Darkness.
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  13. The Byzantines eventually solved this by stealing the silk worm and making their own
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  14. Terry Pratchett had a just wonderful mind!
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  15. All of the above and more....unfortunately.
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  16. Red, fellow viewers, please please go watch Steins;Gate. It's an amazing handling of time travel in fiction that manages to write a very compelling story about the act of time traveling and playing with the implications of the rules and consequences of its time travel while remaining consistent and comprehensible. It is also both funny and amazingly emotional beyond the technical mastery of being able to write with such a plot premice in the first place so I cannot recommend it enough. Here is episode 1 (it's a slow build, so don't be surprised when you don't understand everything happening immediately) https://youtu.be/tz-L_sgaLUY And here's a good review if you need a 2nd, more in depth, recommendation: https://youtu.be/tz-L_sgaLUY I know anime isn't covered much on this channel, but Steins;Gate is easily both one of the greatest anime of all time and one of the greatest time travel stories ever told in any medium (and it even has an absolutely excellent dub, which I linked above) so please don't let not usually watching anime shy you away from the series.
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  17. To be fair, without spiders, we'd have a lot more bugs.
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  18. So we don't want to remind Loki that Odin is riding his kid?
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  19.  @parkerhynson3581  *and bred to never grow out of being pups in mind, if not always size.
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  20. "Love is a very powerful force. Even more so when it's focused into a coherent beam of destruction. . . I'm given to understand the divorce rate goes up with each blast."
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  21. Unpolitically Correct well, more like applied loopholes, but when you have ways to ignore the rules of, say, physics, it's usually pretty easy to weaponize that to make a fragile human organism stop functioning.
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  22.  @gypsysprite4824  quite a few mythologies, really. Sometimes the not locked into 1 gender is quite explicit too (either through shape-changing, being some manner of non-binary, or having multiple aspects) because decent deities care little for a strict gender binary
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  23.  @phastinemoon  the dumbest cause of the deaths of 1-3% of the world's population so far
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  24.  @olivia892  I was thinking more getting his daughter a worthy bf, and then taking the fall for it to keep their anger away from her, like a protective parent, but yeah, he usually works in indirrect ways so it makes sense to look at even killing Baldur as the means and try and infer the ends.
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  25. Mass eye-plucking is the ultimate Byzantine "I am 100% done with your shit and need to send a warning to the next 10 generations" Also, I denounce Venice.
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  26. With Fae tales, that's almost always a possibility, even if said child hasn't even been conceived yet.
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  27.  @minerva9104  or are the Byzantine Emperor and doing something very right.
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  28. GeneralGoth yeah, that magic & healing combo is nearly universal for tribal cultures that accept non-binary people. It's kinda interesting how consistent it is.
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  29. It's impressive how small an amount of any substance can be lethal mixed with an adequate amount of kenetic energy.
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  30. It's also worth mentioning the (albiet rare) sleeper cell mind control where the character is mind controlled before they enter the story (or even before it starts) and the mind control is removed later.
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  31.  @Bird_Dog00  I think it would have to be both or neither to preserve symmetry
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  32. Angelo Igonia efficiency is intelligent laziness
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  33. Pacific Rim (cont): "by working together."
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  34. I mean, Rome did have Sicily, so a failed Sicilian assassination is not at all out of the realm of possibility.
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  35.  @Naoise012  I hear you. Another way to put the distinction I draw is between a short little thing that can be read as something someone into kink might use for fantasy material (for solo or non-solo play), which can include straight-up deliberate and explicit non-con stuff and things which are intended to be more than just fuel for fantasy and seek represent something someone might use to think about a relationship with. Kink can transmute all kinds of toxic stuff into a non-harmful form through fantasy (especially in the bedroom), but it's once you're portraying something that someone might mistake as a desirable relationship that you need to be a lot more careful. Tdl;dr, if you're just writing masturbation material for an erotica site, you've got a lot more room to focus on just "is it hot?" before it starts becoming a problem than if you're writing something that could be put into even an 18+ only romance section. That said, as with other art, knowing the "rules" before you try to break them is going to consistently better results, so there's never an excuse to not do research on what you're trying to portray, even if you're not going for realism.
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  36. More accutately: Western Rome: fallen Western Europe: "free real estate" Eastern Rome: "um, that's still ours" Western Europe: "over our dead bodies" Justinian: "that can be arranged" Black death: "you sure about that?" Eastern Rome: "hacks!"
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  37. yr4hcaZ pleasepleaseplease
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  38. That moment when you realize arguably the best Greek philosopher was basically a homeless guy living in a box.
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  39.  @Tetra392  the sea peoples need citrus badly accidentally destroy literacy and create myths about golden apples of discord due to story drift? ...that seems entirely too plausible.
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  40.  @mfield942  the eldest ones are very powerful, but also very rare. Most of them, though, yes, medium to low power with the youngest barely more capible than humans and with an average vampire v werewolf fight being almost guarenteed to go to the werewolf. What I understand of what happened when the founder of clan Ravnos awoke is...intense, requiring mages to get involved and resulting in collateral damage reaching beyond the physical world before it was put down, though this is, of course, an outlier to the more general power ranking.
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  41. So did the whole pantheon it seems
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  42. Yuwan and yet somehow less dumb than the standard version's "dumps out all the evils, so those are in the world, but hope doesn't come out so we have that too"... The myth is a huge mess
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  43.  @Bluecho4  yeah, if anything, the biggest problem with religion is how easy it is for people to cloak evil in the reputation of saints. A genuinely good person, left to their own devices, will largely shape their religious beliefs to their morals, but the potental for the absolute worst people to use the assosiation between religion and morality as a tool (unintentionally strengthened by its assosiation with the aforementioned good and moral believers) to justify attrocities to themselves and others is so incredibly dangerous repeatedly through history, unfortunately.
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  44.  @martinnolhaf3151  I denounce Venice
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  45.  @ArmoryMedia  nope, too busy denouncing Venice repeatedly
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  46. No one knows, because the technique is lost to time.
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  47. Including aftercare! 😜
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  48. Today I learned that corporate has budgeted a job that should have 15+ man days/week with 7 to complete the work even though they have seen us extremely backed up on work when we had 14 man days/week and were pulling labor from other parts of the workplace. Meanwhile, we spend about 4 times as much for some of our supplies as we should be, and of course, the people making these decisions are micromanaging from another state without ever having worked the job and want no corners cut.
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  49. She had the high ground.
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  50. Like the amount of subtext and shipping for a certain Faustian anime? shoots Kyubey
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  51. I didn't even catch that one. Nice!
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  52.  @cocoabeanzwantstopuzzle  religions do love their silly hats
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  53.  @reedspun  it's at least pragmatic pessimism.
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  54. Look, I'm just saying that sometimes you pray to a volcano deity for the volcano to NOT erupt. Sometimes it's about mercy, not a boon.
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  55. What got me was: "That's... less cute" "Ooh, that's a new obscene gesture! I'm gonna use that"
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  56. To truely appreciate Gawain's character, you have to go back to the older versions where he's still pagan. In those, he serves as another foil to Morgan la Fay, putting aside his religious differences and focusing on the shared values of chivalry to work together with Arthur and the knights for the good of the realm. Of course, once that element is removed, and you get a bunch of paragons added (deminishing the whole "good people trying to live up to an even greater ideal" theme), he becomes less interesting. Oh, I'd be remiss to not post a link to this song about him and the green knight. Some liberties are taken with the narrative, but as the story is rather inconsistent from the versions I've seen and the original version of Gawain has been flattened with his Christianization, I'm cool with it (and it's a fun one). https://youtu.be/O7Fa1B7cAGE
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  57.  @muntu1221  I think we celebrate criminals more than just sometimes, sadly.
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  58. I've a good bit of l sympathy for Scottish people right now. My understanding is the last vote for Scottish independence only narrowly failed because they wanted to remain part of the EU, only for Brexit to happen based almost entirely on the voting swinging pro-Brexit in England, which is what they wanted independence from in the first place. Not as rough as the situation in Ireland (which seems to be a pattern) but it still seems like an unpleasant situation to say the least even by my admittedly limited understanding.
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  59. HeWhoDwells to be fair, it's possible a politically-minded enough person could have made that work by making each title and authority style seperate for each region. As for his "Megas" epithet, part of me wonders if it's dual-meaning of "great" (as in excellent) and "large" may have been a bit of a double-meaning that stuck. Either as a sarcastic comment about his hight (not unlike how the connotation of Tyrion being called "half-man" changed in Game of Thrones) or a comment on another ahem attribute (there were indications he was likely Bi and in love with at least one man following him) I don't mean to be deliberately crass, but we're talking about a time that was far from prudish.
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  60. Maniacman2030 except that models of gender that aren't just male=man/female=woman can be found in plenty of societies of varrying levels of development from modern to hunter-gatherer, even in societies that do have a gender binary the roles differ significantly across time and region, intersexed people exist, we have brain scans that can show differences between cis- and transgendered individuals, behavioral and mental aptitude differences between sexes do not show clear distinctions (instead show mere tendencies), and (much like homosexuality) attempts to change how a person feels to how they look only result in negative mental health outcomes. So that means the fields anthropology, history, neurology, behavioral psychology, cognitive psychology, and psychotherapy all oppose rigid gender binaries. 6 fields of study agreeing is pretty solid support, and we have prescient for the same argument we're having today over trans-acceptance back with gay acceptance (which was also labeled as a mental disorder with some pretty horrific history of "correction treatments")
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  61. Um, I think the character of Mina Harker basically entirely refutes that point. She's at least as smart as the smartest male character and without fail, whenever the men treat her as anything less than a fully equal member of the group it goes poorly. If anything, the book is arguing that women can be just as mentally capable as men if they're allowed to exercise their minds like Jonathan Harker enables his wife to do, and that men, in trying to shield them from the real world, are doing more harm than good, no matter how noble their intentions are. The total consistency which the narrative meets sexism with disaster doesn't leave any room for that interpretation of author intent.
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  62. The colonizers did however, manage to find enough silver to crash their economy back home because they didn't understand how to manage inflation.
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  63. Yup, in the universe of the fate series, Aturia (female Arthur pretending to be a man to fill the role of king, with only her closest friends and advisors knowing the truth) and marries Guinevere, a close friend, so Camelot has a queen. She learns of the love between Lancelot and Guinevere, and allows it to continue as long as it's secret as she sees the real love between them, but things go bottoms up when the affair that Arturia was pretending not to be aware of goes public. Tragic for all involved. Also, supposedly there's magic stuff at play that makes Mordred, and a LOT of other stuff, because the "original" legends (in their altered forms) are just background for the fate stories.
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  64.  @yoimiyafan69  that's not even debatable or subtle!
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  65.  @HunterStiles651  well, considering it's a lesson we still haven't learned...
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  66.  @fohb7291  it's...really unclear, actually. There's an argument that she burned with the world because she's not listed among the named survivors, but she was also not part of the battle and not high up on the world tree, to there's also a good argument that she wasn't listed among the survivors because Ragnarok never burned her realm and she is frequently not counted among the Æsir and Vanir, so it would be reasonable that she wasn't mentioned even if she survived.
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  67.  @downsidebrian  nah, speaking for myself, it was more of a "ah, yeah...that makes total sense, actually" moment, followed by a depressing reminder of how little has changed in certain circles.
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  68. Except storm dragons of course
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  69. As a Byzantine enthusiast, the only attitude I can take to Venice's later problems is "good riddens. You brought this on yourselves."
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  70. Idk 5:59 is pretty good
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  71. ...it really puts the frequent warfare in Ireland through the middle ages in a new perspective.
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  72. Well done
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  73. Red, fellow viewers, please please go watch Steins;Gate. It's an amazing handling of time travel in fiction that manages to write a very compelling story about the act of time traveling and playing with the implications of the rules and consequences of its time travel while remaining consistent and comprehensible. It is also both funny and amazingly emotional beyond the technical mastery of being able to write with such a plot premice in the first place so I cannot recommend it enough. Here is episode 1 (it's a slow build, so don't be surprised when you don't understand everything happening immediately) https://youtu.be/tz-L_sgaLUY And here's a good review if you need a 2nd, more in depth, recommendation: https://youtu.be/tz-L_sgaLUY I know anime isn't covered much on this channel, but Steins;Gate is easily both one of the greatest anime of all time and one of the greatest time travel stories ever told in any medium (and it even has an absolutely excellent dub, which I linked above) so please don't let not usually watching anime shy you away from the series.
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  74. Basically every European mythology/legend that endured through the middle ages has some kind of connection to Christianity somewhere. Outside of Greco-Roman stuff, almost everything we know of European supernatural beliefs has been preserved through being either interwoven with Christian beliefs or as an account of what Christians were saying about "pegans" and their beliefs with almost every account of beliefs not making it to us by a Christian-held pen writing from a decidedly Christian perspective being erased from the historical record. The loss of knowledge is sad, but it does mean that it's not really "if" but instead "where" any supernatural tellings from Medieval Europe have ties to Christianity. Pick a subject and dig, and you will find them.
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  75. Much as Red didn't want to go that far, I still kinda wish she had. It would have been hilarious.
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  76.  @RiatsuNoYomi  have you read the biblical descriptions of angels?!? No, that is not the treatment you want to use.
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  77. ...it is so rare I want a shirt with a print that my desire for this is confusing.
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  78.  @sewerrat7321  that was a bad reference, but I got it 😉
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  79.  @Steven9567  the EU is flawed but "tyrannical"? Really?!? Got a pretty low bar for how you use that word, huh?
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  80. This is mentioned in the text at the end and where that version came from
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  81. I don't know why I didn't expect this comment. I really should have, in retrospect.
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  82. Adorable art, fascinating information, funny jokes, and that amazing shade at 13:22 all with some nice singing at the end. Red's doing awesome, as usual (and maybe a little above average, though with how high that standard is, that's always hard to judge)
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  83. Cons -pervasive disgust toward Crusaders Cons? Knowing what I know of the first Crusade, I'm inclined to agree, and I've got about 1000 years and a continent and ocean distance from it.
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  84. As a Byzantine enthusiast, Denouncing Venice is, of course, my religion.
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  85. Pluralism isn't a uniquely modern thing, though. Let the nationalists get their heckles up over history, as it's full of examples of cultures made stronger by not being closed-minded. The whole point of learning history is to be able to learn from it. Just because the risk of projecting our own veiws backwards onto others is ever present, doesn't mean we should look at history as just a list of names, events, and dates.
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  86. You or an archfay? Those are different answers.
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  87. It does give us both an insame amount of charisma from his character, and the best title for him: King of Conquerors (Alexander Promachos is pretty good too)
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  88. I will never say Avatar is a good movie. However, I will, dispite not normally caring about a movie's visuals beyond how they further the plot, say that it was drop-dead gorgeous and I don't regret going to see it in the slightest dispite the 3d glasses giving me painful eye strain. The plot dealing with the humans was just a wrapping and a visual palette cleanser to break up the enjoyment of the finest ambrosia of eye candy.
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  89. And is at least fairly well defined.
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  90. Koko and another character from the anime Jormungandr also come to mind now that you mention it.
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  91. To be fair, the overall building had one, and the scale, era, and location (near a major fault line) win it some major points. Holding the record for largest dome in the world for so long (over a millennia!) next to a fault line outweighs the negative points of the more recent poor interior design and maintenance choices in my book. Best dome.
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  92. I caught that and it was Super adorable!
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  93. On the one hand, due to the inclusion of hell, I question how bastardized this version is. On the other, I know fae myths, so the origional may not be much better.
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  94. Well, you could tell someone that tomorrow. Just sayin'
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  95. If it makes you feel better, the first full game of Crusader Kings I played to the end was when I started as a Welsh duchy, took over all of Britania before Norman and Saxon culture had time to homogenize into English culture (I kicked the Normans out). Then I went on, with nothing better to do, to win a crusade basically singlehandedly (and permanently), and do plenty of other awesome stuff to eventually end the game with more prestige in my Welsh dynasty than any of the real life benchmarks the game gives you for comparison. Good times.
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  96. "Pay a tithe to hell" God damnit Christianity, stop messing up my myths. I want to know the original versions! -my legit and immediate reaction Going back to watching the video now
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  97. Knowing your audience is a very important life skill.
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  98.  @merrymachiavelli2041  how is trying to create a compelling personal narrative immune to any of your criticisms or in any way more useful than trying to make value judgements?
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  99. This should exist!
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  100. Troupes are not cliches. Trying too hard to break the mold and expectations gets you the final season of Game of Thrones.
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  101. Not asking questions you don't actually want answered is a very important life lesson (and that goes tripple for asking google for image search results)
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  102. As historical accuracy bleeds out into the arena sands "That wasn't the question I asked though!"
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  103. Not really. Most of the ones we get have been scanitized by Disney and a 55 gallon drum of bleach. Debatable if it counts as a myth (depending on how loose you want to use the word) but Sleeping Beauty, for example, is fucked up. For decency's sake I'll just say that she wakes up a mom.
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  104. I had to pause the video to fully appriciate that one! I'm glad Red's powers are used for good because, damn, I do not want that wit aimed at me!
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  105.  @Hatsternator  I wonder if there is a correlation between butt/breast preference and sunset/sunrise preference...
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  106. amy small YES
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  107.  @maximsavage  and what is the troll going to do about the aforementioned 500 paladins? Sure, it's also good to keep a handful of specialists close so you don't have to brute-force every problem with numbers, but that's easy when you convince them that it's a team of equals who all bring something different to the table (afterall, wouldn't want to trigger the inferiority complex of the professional killers who guard you while you sleep).
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  108.  @restlessDSM  I mean, that's not all human fears, but even as someone without a phobia for any of those things, that is SO much nope!
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  109. Shirt!
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  110. It's also the origin of the sexy lesbian vampire trope as I understand, so totally a relevant follow-up this Halloween
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  111. I mean, fascists do, but when anti-intellectualism is a core component of your ideology you tend to say some pretty stupid shit on a near constant basis.
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  112. If your mythology has seperate deities for the sun and dawn who are not dirrectly related, and you're not shipping them, that would be wrong.
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  113. Anyone want to start a petition to strap Disney executives to chairs and force them to watch their own movie until they learn the same lessons as Scruge?
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  114. IMO, the less Galahad we get the better unless someone does a good job wiping the Sue-ness off him. Gwain, Tristain, and some of the other knights of the round table would be nice to see more of though. There's some nice story that can be done with Arthur, Gwain, Merlin, and Morgan if both the latter stick to their pegan versions over the change from the old pegan ways. Arthur in some versions of the tales embodies the change from older pegan ways to a new religion and society, and the ways and reasons each react to that could be explored a fair bit. You can make a lot of stories around little 3-4 character sets around a theme, but then all the stories center around Arthur as he ties all the stories together. Then, you can have a narrative over all of them of how both how powerful a group built around a great leader can be, but also how fundamentally fragile such a structure can be when it all comes crashing down.
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  115. PJ Demigod Danny may not make the best decisions, but "politically savvy" Cersie is not. She may have power and succeed in politics because of marrage, Tywin being her father, and people consistently underestimating how evil and foolish she is (leaving her to do things they didn't expect) but she pretty consistently acts in ways that make her situation worse, not better. She's responsible for most of the problems in her own life and close to half of the dead characters were smarter than her (including ones who weren't even playing the game). She just started in a more advantageous position.
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  116. Alternatively, early humans all over the world: found dinosaur skulls and freaked the fuck out.
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  117. Lara Aletta Aside from a lot of the punishments, being outragiously disproportionate? (beyond the whole eternal punnoshment for a finite crime thing) I mean, come on, depression means you're going to hell? Dude's wish fulfillment book is largely just stroking a massive hate boner.
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  118. Which is why those characters work.
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  119. Someone had to be
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  120. Isn't it public knowledge that it's under the river Thames?
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  121.  @dreamlandbuds7710  it aged just fine. Some people (by choice or stupidity) just didn't understand. The fact that this turned into complaining about safe spaces should leave some people mortified at themselves.
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  122. If you don't it, you'll only be playing into the organization's plans
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  123.  @Steven9567  what policy/policies of the EU are so tyrannical? What do you want so bad that the EU won't let you have? If it's so obvious, enlighten me by all means.
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  124.  @derskalde4973  "The small grains of platinum were mixed with a little gold dust and small portions placed upon a piece of wet charcoal; when the gold runs it will coat the grains of platinum with gold . . . the grains are simply ‘soldered together’. If the piece is now further heated by means of the blowpipe, . . . a portion of the fused gold permeates the platinum and simultaneously a little of the latter is dissolved in the molten gold. This mixture of gold and platinum can now withstand a light blow of the hammer, especially when hot; by alternately forging and heating it is possible gradually to build up an homogeneous mixture. All the specimens found are small, which is natural, since they cannot be larger if they are to be exposed to the maximum degree of heat that can be produced from a bit of charcoal and a blowpipe.” https://www.technology.matthey.com/article/24/2/70-79/ (The powder was naturally occuring much like the flecks of gold found when panning) See also: sintering
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  125.  @derskalde4973  np, you perked my curiosity and figgured I'd share. Low tech metallurgy is an interesting subject analyzing with modern understanding the creative solutions people were coming up with when they didn't understand the elements they were working with and often weren't even able to produce temperatures high enough to melt the metals they were working with. I'm normally learning about it through the metallurgy for weapons (steel and bronze), so I didn't know this one either, but found it no less interesting.
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  126.  @zoro115-s6b  come back next week for another lesson of "Why Your Paladin Should be Carrying Incendiaries" where we will be discussing the necklace of fireballs and how to use it.
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  127. "Are you not entertained?" This movie summed up in one of its own lines (the answer is "yes, I am" though) ...actually, a list of movies summed up with a single line from their script could be entertaining
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  128. Running water is also less susceptible to diseases. If you look at common wards against evil and undead (such as garlic, silver, and salt) you'll find at least minor antimicrobial properties to be common. There's even some symbolism packed into the exemptions to his restrictions (exact sunrise, noon, and sunset marking the moments when he can shapechange and the high and slack of the tide allowing him to cross water) as the moment in between periods of time giving him power mirrors being trapped in the moment in between life and death.
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  129. Lara Aletta Aside from a lot of the punishments, being outragiously disproportionate? (beyond the whole eternal punnoshment for a finite crime thing) I mean, come on, depression means you're going to hell? Dude's wish fulfillment book is largely just stroking a massive hate boner.
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  130.  @AlashiaTuol  yeah, the changes they make to the women in the adaptations are the biggest reason why I stick to the book.
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  131.  @typacsk  that or they ride them as far as they'll go, which is often even worse.
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  132. Usually power and riches. Most times when a place is conquered, assimilation happens the other way around and the locals are lucky to be able to keep their culture (which is good for the conqueror too, as it makes them less rebellious). It's not common that the conqueror assimilates into the conquered culture, and even rarer that a habbit is made of it.
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  133.  @dithaingampanmei  "Gott MIT UNS" What do you want me to tell you? You've fallen for rediculous and ahistorical scaremongering pushed by bigots. Atheists make up only a fraction of a percent of prison populations and are less likely to approve of torture. Likewise, religiosity correlates fairly strongly with higher levels of violent crime (and many other negative social metrics), whether we're talking countries or states in the US.
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  134.  @gothnerd887  since when is British synonymous with "not an asshole"?
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  135. 1-3 pope(s) enter(s), 1-3 pope(s) leave(s)
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  136.  @ryuj7693  yeah, but you can't do the realism half-way if that's what you're going for....and they did, so it sucked.
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  137. Thank you for that!
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  138. Can we take a moment to talk about how unusual Japan's class heirarchy was, flipping the normal positioning of farmers and merchants? That shit is fascinating!
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  139.  @nickmalachai2227  I mean....you're not wrong
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  140. Fae are at their storytelling best when their sense of morality and manners is unnervingly alien. See the troupe blue and orange morality.
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  141. Eat This more if, for example, each peach counts.
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  142.  @JamesBond-ns8di  _you are getting what you deserve for playing Venice. (Also, I denounce you)
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  143. arkila enilo not one you'll find in a dictionary. Mis-sex-ing would, by the parts and context mean he's complaining about them making King Arthur the wrong sex in his oppinion. It's generally better to think of the English vocabulary as root words modified by prefixes and suffixes to make a huge array of new possible words. Like our spelling, however, there are exceptions.
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  144. Tolkien: Balrogs: basically fallen angels turned into demons by a dark god/Satan in an attempt to make them more powerful Dragons: living weapons designed by said dark god/Satan to be able to fight angels Spiders: descendants of a horrible creature of origin unknown to even the heighest beings that crawled into reality through the cracks seperating it from the abyss beyond and collaborated with said dark god/Satan (arguably as an equal) in a plan to consume the sources of light in the world which succeeded and plunged the entire world into darkness. The sun, moon, and stars are set so high in the sky to prevent such a thing from REoccuring because putting it in what amounted to the garden of eden and guarded by the equivalent to angels and elves on par with high-to-epic level D&D characters wasn't enough protection from the eldritch abominations that don't belong in reality (but none-the less have infested it) called spiders, of which Shelob was to the origional one what your house spider would be to Shelob. Yeah...don't be afraid to write your phobia into your fantasy story.
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  145. Also backwards for some reason...not that it couldn't be done, but an odd choice to say the least.
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  146. I recommend the dramatic reading on libravox (don't worry, it's free)
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  147. Side note: can we acknowledge that masterful shade at about 13:22 cause, wow, Red, well done!
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  148. Yes, very!
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  149.  @Eric6761  technically true. Also true to phrase that as "Loki sent his daughter the best man in Asgard to sit beside her and set him up to later co-rule over a new and better world"
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  150. To be fair, the team sponsor is prince of the afterlife and the team was owed one wish for winning.
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  151. I'd ask why we're not teaching teens about healthy relationships and how to spot abusive behavior, but I'm not sure I want to know the answer to that right now...
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  152. An intersting, but ahistorical telling I've heard of the myth reguarding Odin and the 3 pools results in humans being freed from the bonds of fate, able to avoid them with wisdom and knowledge, but the gods being intrinsically bound to fate no matter what they do.
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  153.  @vladspellbinder  I was wondering if anyone would even get that reference considering how old it was!
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  154. Fate/ZERO? Did I miss something or did you get your grail wars mixed up? O.o
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  155. More information and Red's excellent sense of humor. But yes, very impressive Red.
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  156. It's a weak defense as lack of knowledge and involvement put her in more danger, not less. Understandable, in an emotions overriding reason kind of way, but still a dumb idea.
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  157. Have you seen Project Mouthwash's UBW Abridged yet?
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  158.  @anonymousfellow8879  yeah, that's a "cannot block fast enough" type of situation there! Edit: also, I wouldn't be exactly hesitant to at least let the police know what is going on if you feel it warranted. But yeah, even just the pedigree thing seems super-wierd outside of whatever subculture where that is normal and throws up red flags for me before we even get to the more overt problems.
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  159. "I know what I need to do, I just need to sit down for like 6 hours and just do it" sounds like my job...only for longer and without sitting. On the upside, I'm allowed headphones and wifi. 😜
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  160.  @matthewmuir8884  #justfaethings ?
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  161. D&D fans, see also the bebilith. Something like a spider crossed with in inverted scorpion that is strong enough to infest one of the lower layers of the abyss and subsist on hunting demons and big enough that you could just about walk under it (if it cooperated instead of killing you, of course)
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  162.  @Alejandro-te2nt  Grimgar?
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  163.  @fredricknoe3114  taxes are not theft, success doesn't happen in a vacuum, wealth naturally accumulates when left unchecked, and charity is almost never in proportion to what is needed Sorry, but your understanding of economics is a lie you've been fed. If you need to hear it from someone that isn't a socialist, I'd be happy to explain a point of the above you don't understand.
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  164. HA!
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  165. Monsters and Mazes...wait, that one was done before!
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  166. See this playlist for that: Hello future me writing magic systems: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNudWoRTw--26J1ObtJbqAOw5TvoY_rOO Edit: also see https://youtu.be/jXAcA_y3l6M and https://youtu.be/Hm7S4g85qPo and https://youtu.be/WKSu1uJFYFs
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  167. Scott Estrada I tend to shorten that mindset to "the best poetry tends to have multiple valid interpretations, and origional intent means less than what can be taken from it."
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  168. I love all the songs she sings at the end.
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  169. It's almost like trying to return to an idealized version of your past while discarding openness and kindness is always a failure.
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  170. Anyone happen to know any other sources for 9:05 - 9:10 by chance?
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  171. To be fair, it ended up producing the best ArthurXGuinevereXLancelot love triangle IMO, with all 3 sympathetic.
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  172. If the goal was always to keep potential rival states weak and constantly too busy with their own conflicts to rise to power you could call it well done...just sayin incompetence isn't the only explanation here.
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  173. @cringey kid  The scale of space doesn't scare me, but there's no way I'd actually want to go there. I'm quite happy to admire it from the relative safety of the bottom of this gravity well with lots of atmosphere and a powerful magnetosphere above me. I'm not getting into a tin can to blast off into an irradiated vacuum full of micrometeorites where the lack of gravity will basically cause my body to start eating itself, but I'll happily learn about it from down here.
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  174. Radical centrist repeatedly destroys the world? ...yeah, that checks out.
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  175. Side note: Red, at 12:24 -12:34 I think you hit the nail on the head because that sounds painfully American...and I say that as an American who has never left the country.
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  176. I think Basil the Bulgar Slayer established mass eye-plucking as the ultimate Byzantine "I am 100% done with your shit and need to send a warning to the next 10 generations" Also, I denounce Venice.
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  177. Do yourself a favor and watch YuYuHausho dubbed, even if you normally go for subs. The english cast flat-out does a better job. If you like classic anime, it's a must watch.
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  178. Think that would fall under their literature section more appropriately.
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  179.  @TidusplZUO  I think you misspelled Steins;Gate https://youtu.be/GxEmyN8fPSE (Seriously, and no offense to Ghost Trick, even if you don't normally watch anime, watch Steins;Gate.)
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  180. Not inaccurate
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  181.  @animalia5554  it doesn't categorize neatly because it's a bit of a new experiment (kinda like the US was around its founding) but "a confederacy of countries with limited partial federalization" is a workable categorization for most purposes. As a side note: if it follows the historic norm (though that's not at all guaranteed), we would expect increasing federalization (resulting in decreasing power to member states) alongside increasingly democratic representation of the EU itself. If that happens, the current EU will likely go down in history as merely an extended transition between the Europe of the 20th century with its many countries and a future where most has united into a single country with a federal constitutional democratic republic as its forn of government. For further reading, I suggest the Articles of Confederation and the USA's transition from that (when the phrasing would be "the United States of America ARE. . .") to the federalized, single-country system under the Constitution we're familiar with today (where we now say "The United States of America IS. . ." dispite the plural in the name coming from the time when each of the states really was a sovereign state)
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  182.  @VXMasterson  she is in the origional Deen adaptation (though I don't recall if she is given a name beyond "caster"). I presume (but do not know) that she's also in the UBW movie, which should cover all the fate/stay night adaptations (+ Carnival Phantasm) Idk past that. Glad to hear I didn't completely blank on an appearance in Zero considering I've seen that one at least twice.
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  183.  @anna_in_aotearoa3166  I think it was largely a stability thing. If the merchants are more segregated from political and social power, their accumulation of economic power is easier to keep in check. Likewise, having your largest demographic block be the lowest rung of a heirachal system is a breeding ground for unrest. While you see a lot of feudal and feudal-like power structures depicted like pyramids, that's actually incredibly unstable as it means that the group with the most to gain by knocking it down is also the largest group. If you want to keep an oppressive system in place, you need to not just segrigate the types of power (so only those at the very top can have all forms in abundance) but make that structure more diamond-shaped. This gives the majority of people someone to feel better than and, by doing to others what you to to them, constantly encourage them to rationalize kicking down as "just the way things are" and to see any anti-heirarchy movements as a threat to their position rather than a possibility for their own liberation. Also, just broadly, getting people to blame those "below" them for their problems keeps the attention away from those at the top. Any such heirachal system will either need to put a certain caste there, or turn to marginalizing ethnic, religious, and/or sexual minorities to fill the scapegoat role if they don't want the people to start realizing that "hey, maybe we don't actually need these rulers above us all the time"
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  184. How to write a good tournament arc? Go watch a sports anime and then bring those lessons on character development back to your genre.
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  185. You know...if one were to have a dong I, personally, feel it should be Amaterasu. That may just be my tastes involving their personalities, but it also does make a more...ahem, fertile pairing with the more typically feminine-gendered ground for the symbolism for plant(&crop) growth...and I have already put more thought into divine private parts than I probably should have so I'm going to stop there. Lol
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  186. Matthew St. Cyr kind of a case of correct point, but bad choice of source.
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  187. The 2 discussed in this video are hands-down the best in shonen anime.
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  188.  @setsunanoroi4971  not really familiar with this omegaverse thing, but, tbf, it's also pretty well agreed here that Zeus is usually in the wrong and the cause of so many problems.
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  189. "Work through your daddy issues on your own time" ha!
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  190.  @tinytoychihuahua7306  very good article showing why getting your politics from soundbites is a bad idea.
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  191. "Throws a flayed pony into Ameterasu's weaving hall." Imagine your brother threw a pony with no skin into your living room, splattering blood everywhere, ruining all your hobby projects and giving a friend that's been helping you a heart attack. I mean really imagine that.
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  192. Btw, most are available as audio books for free on librivox (not a shill, just how I got to experience them, and so I recommend it)
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  193. Or German plate armor?
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  194. Technically not a samuri
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  195. No, too busy being stunned by how accurate that map is. To anyone familiar with pre-modernish maps, that is incredible!
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  196. How to write a good tournament arc? Go watch a sports anime and then bring those lessons on character development back to your genre.
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  197.  @墨隨筆  should've said "hard rods"
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  198. 0:55 the helarious bit is, in all likelihood, that was entirely unintentional and made by one of the completely out of touch older people who apperently run Boston and have no-one of a younger generation (or even who understands the younger generation) anywhere close to them to double check when they do something absurd...like thinking that LED Aquateen Hunger Force advertisements were bombs. (Yes, that happened, look it up)
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  199. Didn't cry for Baldur? Red is Loki confirmed!
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  200. It's called spring cleaning.
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  201.  @dennisz1252  "destroys a bunch of things just to be with her" wow, no, you don't understand her character at all
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  202.  @joshuarichardson6529  not really bouncing. Colliding and exploding. Also supernova can create heavier than iron elements too
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  203.  @temptemp4174  I have no idea what the real tax was, but that sounds very fake. Citation?
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  204. More likely drop into a paranoid state that left him without being able to get a full night's sleep for over a week, but yeah
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  205. Somewhere between supernatural and alien
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  206. Eh, stone eyes for pissing them off means the fay likes you. It gets much worse from there.
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  207. Red, you missed one very important detail: they did manage to find enough silver to crash their economy because they didn't understand how to handle inflation (which, ironically, probably fueled their drive for gold even more). Otherwise great video with a lot I didn't know. https://youtu.be/rjhIzemLdos
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  208.  @zoro115-s6b  to be fair, hills are really useful in mechanized warfare too...you just want to be behind one (perhaps hull-down in a tank), not standing tall on one like a jackass.
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  209. Not only did I get Telltale heart, Masque of the Red Death, and the Monkeys Paw pretty early, but I got to see plays of the first, last, and I think another of Poe's work that I've forgotten
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  210. Just get enough money and it'll start getting money for you...'cause this is a meritocracy?
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  211. 1:11 - 1:13 that shift of map perspective bothers me an irrational degree
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  212.  @maximsavage  I think you missed the joke in the 2nd part
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  213.  @AlexanderRJaruk  yup, just learn some frigging tact... especially with any supernatural beings who help with the housework because whooo-boy can they turn on a dime.
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  214. Either that, or generations later well into recovery. The "it's been several years and everything is still a mess" is almost never done well (in part because they almost all want some kind of post appoc stasis where people neither recover or become doomed, but just scavange perishable goods semi-indefinitely)
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  215. Another great use of a pure evil villian is to put the focus squarely on how people react to them (essentially acting like a cross between an anti-paragon and a force of nature villian). Take the Lord of the Rings for a classic example and look at how all the characters (especially outside the fellowship, but to a lesser degree within) act when faced with the evil and power of Sauron. To pick just one example, the reason "and Rohan will answer" is so powerful is, in part, because the conflict remains focused on how the character react when put under pressure. Theodin had many reasons to refuse the call, but setting aside his own issues to do what needs to be done was a powerful moment. Thinking about why Sauron was doing what he did diminishes that. The same pattern of forcing other characters to make difficult choices/rise to the occasion works for more present and charismatic villains too. Paragons make heros by leading by example. Pure evil villains make heroes by forcing choices.
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  216.  @JMObyx  I blame Venice
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  217. I mean, it's not hard to notice the moon moving towards the sun before the eclipse, into the same spot in the sky as the Sun durring the eclipse (if you don't mind some spots in your eyes from looking nearly straight into the Sun) and then away from the Sun after the eclipse. It's not hard to put together that the moon has something to do with the eclipse.
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  218. Better ear then me, I guess, as it's always been good enough that I can't tell the difference.
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  219. It's mainly the Abrahamic faiths that suppress that. Once you discount them and the cultures strongly influenced by them, it's fairly common. Unfortunately, religious edicts favoring high rates of procreation tend to make a religion more expansionist, leading to some non-ideal results when things are left to play out. How much someone wants to say that those religions are to blame vs it being a negative cultural norm that hitched a ride on the religions (or visa versa) is up to them and not something I'm going to touch right now. Thankfully we're starting to move past such repression again.
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  220. Yes Please! I need to see an OSP overview of that!
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  221.  @jmiquelmb  also Scotland: "Sure you don't want to just quit while you're ahead? Because you don't want any of this!" Unrelated, but I would have respected the fuck put of Eva Rebuild if the 4 movies thing had been a fakeout and it had ended with the credits roll in the 2nd movie as a "Well, you wanted Shinji to grow a pair and just get in the robot. Happy now?"
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  222. https://youtu.be/GxEmyN8fPSE (link to episode 1 of Stains;Gate)
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  223. There's a video on YouTube with the beginning being sung, in Sumerian, about how old the story was to the people recording the epic.
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  224. Failed
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  225.  @s871-c1q  an easy, but time consuming route would be to go back further using CK2 and then port a game where you're not starting from a position handicapped by a run of terrible (usually short-lived) emperors. If you do well you might even be able to hit 1444 having most of the Western Roman Empire reunified under your rule. If you do really well, you can do even better than that.
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  226. Know any of the others from 9:05 - 9:10 by chance?
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  227. Erin's death should NOT have been a fakeout death. We went through the most interesting part of his character arc before and all that was left was stuff we'd seen countless times before. Meanwhile, while he was "dead" Armin and especially Mikasa went through massive and rapid character development starting to become great lead characters in their own right rather than supporting characters because they couldn't rely on Erin to take the lead anymore. Mikasa in particular went through a phase of suicidal grief and rage only to realize that she had a responsibility to step up and be a leader rather than getting her squad killed and in that state would have made a great main character going forward if the creators had had the balls to pull a decoy protagonist trope with Erin like Guran Legan did. Instead we fell right back into Erin getting revived with an uber powerup. This killed the "anyone can die" dramatic tension they had spent so much effort and so many character deaths building up. The other 2 "main" characters went right back to just following Erin's ass (in Mikasa's case, arguably literally) and lost half or more of the character development they just achieved. You also lost the main interest in the combat thus far which was humanity being GROSSLY outclassed and needing to come up with insane ways to desperately try to even the odds and that still not being enough. You could even have the plot run nearly identically if Erin just cannot heal mortal wounds by turning into a Titan, and so finish bleeding out after he turns back. Add Mikasa knowing about the key and that their father did something to Erin and you're basically running the same plots with very little changes necessary. Seriously, how amazing would Attack on Titan have been if they Erin ACTUALLY died there?
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  228. I mean...it's a centuries' old tactic for justifying imperialism still used today.
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  229. Yes the post script was excellent! More of that please
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  230. If you want to feed the first wolf I listened to a free audiobook (I ❤ libravox volunteers for what they do) of The Book of Werewolves which is a fascinating compelation of a massively wide range of werewolf legends put together in 1865. If anyone's interested in starting a deep dive, I highly recommend it.
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  231. You requested to let you know what I think. Respectfully, I think you need to leave your disclaimers or any other large block of text on the screen at least long enough that I can be reasonably be expected to pause on it without backtracking and slowing down the playback speed. I enjoy your content, but please don't pull impossible-difficulty quick time events on me. It's hard enough with a spacebar to slap, but on a phone [Gollum Voice] it hurts us. [/Gollum Voice] (Try listening to YouTube videos at 0.25x with headphones if you don't understand what it does to the audio)
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  232. Type 6b where your dark reflection nemesis is your future self is surprisingly common when time travel is involved. Beware to any who would interfere with the flow of time!
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  233. Oh yeah, that used to be a big thing all over the place.
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  234. Didn't that worldview shattering happen in like ep3 though?
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  235. 5:35 apologies to blue for reading that entirely in his voice and putting red's on the "shut up"s
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  236. Psychronia lmao that was awesome!
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  237. Blame, or credit?
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  238. Conclusion: honest street philosophy is the best philosophy.
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  239. Honestly, if anyone can list the souces for 9:05 - 9:10 that would be amazing!
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  240. I'm kinda the opposite. I've actually gotten pissed when a writer ruins a great death with a cheap revival. The worst offender was probably Gundam SEED Destiny, where they brought back a character with one of the most epic character deaths I've ever seen...but with amnesia, as a villian, and wearing a mask to hide his face but it's super obvious who it is. My reaction was legit: "No, bullshit! That death scene was perfect; do not cheapen that sacrifice with this fanfic-tier copout. We even saw the helmet from his spacesuit floating in space after that explosion. FUCK YOU!" ...and frankly, the idea that they went back in the remaster to editout the helmet doesn't make that death any more survivable at all (the mech was vaporized with a weapon that one-shots even the heaviest battleships in the series), and just cheapens it for a retcon in a terrible sequel...and this from a series that was not shy about killing characters.
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  241. These are very good suggestions
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  242. Do you mean an interesting take on the Scandinavian/Germanic mythology or something else?
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  243. In between movies may I recommend Heather Dale's song "The Maiden and the Selkie" which completely inverts almost everything about this story structure. https://youtu.be/SR7QTKe1D7Q Not a perfect redemption of it but a fun and interesting subversion.
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  244. Ice Doggo there was a long period of isolation
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