PugJesus

PugJesus , 4 hours ago

Wait, what on earth are you trying to do? Jump into the lava?

PugJesus , 3 hours ago

Throw the switches on the forge. They release lava into the arena.

BG3 is pretty lenient in general, but I think your solution is really more of an open-world style kiting solution.

PugJesus OP , 3 hours ago

The Romans: "Fabius the dictator ('Speaker')? More like Fabius the CUNCTator! ('Delayer')"

The Romans after getting their asses kicked by Hannibal 10 more times and realizing Fabius is the only sane man in the fucking country: "ONE MAN, BY DELAYING, HAS SAVED THE REPUBLIC"

PugJesus OP , 39 minutes ago

"Put that thought on hold for a little longer, would you? I have important things to not do."

PugJesus OP , 4 hours ago

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:813_Letzte_Urkunde_Karls_des_Gro%C3%9Fen.png

PugJesus OP , 1 hour ago

I don't know that the res is high enough to make out words, but I think it's Latin in Carolingian Miniscule Font

PugJesus OP , 5 hours ago

Explanation: Goldwater was "Mr. Conservative", the 1964 GOP presidential candidate, a man so entrenched in small government delusions that he thought segregation by private businesses was a "states' rights issue". Yet come the 80s and 90s, when evangelical interests took over the Republican Party, Goldwater was a supporter of LGBT rights because the Federal government had no 'right' to interfere in such matters. Man was bizarre, but points for a strange kind of consistency?

PugJesus OP , 10 hours ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Writing_tablet_and_stylus_-_oldest_record_of_a_commercial_transaction_in_the_City_of_London.jpg

PugJesus OP , 5 hours ago

Well, the screw bit is true. The screw press was revolutionary in wine and olive oil processing and invented around this time.

PugJesus , 10 hours ago

Unfortunately, guns are deceptively simple. Just about anything that can detonate a realistic looking blank is capable of firing an actual bullet. And even if it's just a blank, any obstruction in the barrel can end up becoming an ad-hoc projectile by the force. Every once in a while, you have that happen in Civil War re-enactments.

PugJesus , 11 hours ago

♪ Kill for gain or shoot to maim ♪

♪ We don't need a reason ♪

PugJesus OP , 18 hours ago

The Sacred Band was instrumental, even, in destroying Spartan hegemony, which championed oligarch regimes, and beginning a period of Theban hegemony, which championed democratic regimes.

This is still one of my favorite historical exchanges of all time:

The Theban force was heavily outnumbered by the Spartans opposite them. The Sacred Band numbered some 300 hoplites, while the Spartan garrison consisted of two companies (mori), meaning that the Spartan force contained between 1,000 and 1,800 hoplites. Plutarch reports that one Theban soldier, upon seeing the enemy force, said to Pelopidas "We are fallen into our enemies' hands," to which Pelopidas replied "And why not they into ours?" Pelopidas then ordered the Theban cavalry to charge while the infantry formed up into an abnormally dense formation. When the two phalanxes came together, the compact Theban formation broke through the Spartan line at the point of contact, then turned to attack the vulnerable flanks of the Spartans to either side. The Spartan force broke and fled, although the Theban pursuit was limited by the proximity of Orchomenus.

PugJesus OP , 18 hours ago

Pelopidas, the first commander of the Sacred Band, was part of an uprising against a Theban oligarchy and one of the statesmen involved in the new Theban democratic regime. Lived a humble and modest life, gave most of his wealth away, led an untried unit to some of the most glorious victories of his day, and died as he lived - fighting tyranny like a badass. I'd pay my own blood to see a miniseries around him.

PugJesus OP , 11 hours ago

With those eyes, I can hear him licking his chops just from the photo.

PugJesus OP , 10 hours ago

This dog has interrobangs and semi-colons in his head.

Translation: "Furthermore; it is necessary to the security of the household that you allocate unto me a portion of all baked, cooked, or roasted goods that pass herein. For should I waste for want of sustenance, there would be no watch at the door; no bold guard to prevent the trespass of wicked men into the holdfast of our fair clan. And what could such a trifling price be, but rightfully rendered payment to a hound most virtuous and fair; indeed, such a payment is ennobling, even, to bursar and beneficiary alike!"

Dog Mind: ";;;"

PugJesus OP , 19 hours ago

Something like "one-upped", I believe.

PugJesus OP , 17 hours ago

Found in a necropolis, they're death masks. Gotta look good going into the afterlife!

PugJesus OP , 20 hours ago

I've spoken about it with my friends a few times - media based on the fall of Rome would make a bitching Medieval post-apocalypse setting. Literally living in the ruins of a past civilization.

PugJesus OP , 20 hours ago

Time to make a pilgrimage

PugJesus OP , 20 hours ago

Well, that and adjusting to suit mainstream tastes. Like how garlic bread is largely a Western introduction in Korea, but is preferred sweet there instead of savory.

Development of cuisine is a fascinating thing!

PugJesus OP , 19 hours ago

True professionals

PugJesus OP Mod , 5 hours ago

Weather weren't so fair at the time. Though there were a few companies in the 70s which afforded benefits to same-sex partners.

PugJesus OP , 1 hour ago

Saddles are ancient; you may be thinking of stirrups, which only spread to Europe after the arrival of the Franks.

PugJesus , 4 hours ago

Reminiscing on my school days, my mother recently suggested that I might have ADHD (Inattentive).

Really have spent the past few weeks reflecting on how figuring that out sooner could have cleared up so many things.

PugJesus , 3 hours ago

I'm not. I'm extremely anti-Israel, but not supporting a Trump presidency makes me pro-genocide in the eyes of accelerationists.