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SupremeReader 19 points ago +19 / -0

Well, the black King Arthur was clear and open about how he doesn't care about the legend in the least.

It was only 2 years ago and yet there was a much dissent even among the redditors on /r/Netflix: https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/i8t1h2/cursed_is_black_arthur_cultura_appropriation/

There were indeed vaguely exotic Saracens (Muslims) and even a few outright (half)Africans in King Arthur's court. One of these Saracens even long resisted the peer pressure to convert to Christianity and yet was described in only positive terms in the 13th-century stories written (down) by Christian monks, which is highly interesting in itself.

Also there were even similarly surprisingly highly positively-described homosexual characters, and a whole lot of crossdressing (while in real life Joan d'Arc was burned for wearing man clothes). And just tons of magic, which of course was also totally haram in the real world (while believed to be real).

I am all for inclusiveness, if Lotr Aragon was played by a Pakistani it would be 100% ok because its new fiction without cultural impact

Redditors gonna reddit.

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SupremeReader 42 points ago +42 / -0

He left behind a small mountain of writing about what exactly did he mean.

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SupremeReader 3 points ago +3 / -0

I’m not sure is worth the effort

Super enthusiastic, some more money "well spent" if so.

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SupremeReader 14 points ago +14 / -0

It's double ironic because East Asians have straighter hair than most Europeans.

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SupremeReader 8 points ago +8 / -0

No, but Batgirl got gassed.

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SupremeReader 3 points ago +3 / -0

There will never be another Tenchu.

Man, imagine a Tenchu with modern graphics and mechanics.

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SupremeReader 14 points ago +14 / -0

Who knew her love-hate relationship with a strapping young lad Bridgeish Swede would end like this?

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SupremeReader 3 points ago +3 / -0

The Dorset "giants" were all gone like 1350, not 1600.

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SupremeReader 7 points ago +7 / -0

You took it way too seriously.

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SupremeReader 2 points ago +2 / -0

In gangster games I try to be like Tom in Miller's Crossing (https://youtu.be/5P7FdpluO7U).

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SupremeReader 8 points ago +8 / -0

I actually tried and the game forced me to murder bank guards right away. Including inviting me to burn alive the first one, and there's not even knocking out people on stealth (and I've been finally playing MGSV around that time), just killing them. Found it really obnoxious, because:

The previous Mafia games I could actually play as a good guy mobster. Don't murder civs (don't even run them over), don't murder the cops too. In the first one I got in a shootout with the cops only when a corrupt bunch (like 2 carloads) accompanied the mob to my hideout to murder me when I was defecting to the FBI (and in the sequel you eventually will murder the first game's protag living under witness protection program). The second one had an awkward (for me) moment very early on when there's a shootout with the Micks and then the intervening cops and then everyone celebrated like if a great thing just happened. (Besides my moralfagging, killing a cop is actually a huge thing in organized crime because the police will be hellbent to get you as a copkiller. Look what happened to the likes of the Bonnie & Clyde gang, who weren't really "organized" but just a band of well, bandits.)

This is also what I liked in the True Crimes games and Sleeping Dragons. Didn't really play Yakuza games but these obviously count maybe even more.

I also just realized I wrote "actually" at least 3 times.

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SupremeReader -1 points ago +1 / -2

Do you have problem with comprehension? He's accused of six intentional murders and not "homicide by vehicle, use of a controlled substance" in addition to these 6 separate murders.

As well as 71 different other charges.

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SupremeReader 1 point ago +1 / -0

It's important to note it was 6 out of 83.

Waukesha County Judge Jennifer Dorow sided with the defense Thursday and struck Counts 78-83 (six counts of homicide by vehicle, use of a controlled substance). The judge ruled there cannot be multiple punishments for the same crime.

The six charges of first-degree intentional homicide remain.

I dont know what's your problem. He could appeal to invalidate the whole trial if it was conducted incorrectly.

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SupremeReader 1 point ago +1 / -0

Only the Chinese, Russian and French companies got the oil contracts from Iraqi government (besides the Iranians, that is).

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SupremeReader 1 point ago +1 / -0

Green War Zone

They just hit the Iranian embassy with the Katyusha-copy rockets that Iran had given them to fire at the Americans.

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SupremeReader 18 points ago +18 / -0

It started out pretty similar:

Shortly after he made his surprise declaration, Sadr's followers burst into the Republican Palace in Baghdad, where cabinet meetings are usually held.

Inside the opulent palace, protesters lounged in armchairs in a meeting room, some waved Iraqi flags and took photographs of themselves, and others cooled off in a swimming pool in the garden.

I remember some dude from the Armed Insurrection on 1/6 promising they would come back with their guns, but nothing happened and yet 1 year later Star Trek showed the scenes as the worst thing in human history.

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