idk what they did to make the ancient Israelites so mad at them but it must've been something bad. but I will say as a certified Big Shape fan nobody's done Big Shapes better than Ancient Egypt

I don't have a lot of knowledge of the subject, just an interest in secret societies, but I would think: in principle no (insofar as it was supposed to facilitate interaction between people from different social strata), in practice often yes

I'd been saying they should replace the Columbus stuff with Garibaldi for a while, hadn't even considered Fermi but you're so right

oh man I got halfway through 1493 a couple years ago, loved it but got distracted and never finished it (yet)

what a dick

I took a video game history course a few years ago and the assigned textbook took more or less the same perspective on Nintendo as this book did. there was another chapter where they positioned Myst and DOOM as archetypal Good and Evil video games. iirc it was written in the late 90s or early 2000s

you'd expect it to be the other way around but that's how he gets you

Cromwell kept Christmas out of Britain for years, but of course when the Protectorate fell apart there was nobody left to keep Santa at bay

they drift a train in it! also tom hanks was alright

I used to argue that their population was too high to just be one state but the way things are going that might not be the case

I was thinking of The Mango actually, I forgot about that one

there was an episode of Seinfeld with something kinda like that

*Luther

I think Lither said at one point he preferred the Sultan to the Pope

Actually yeah. He could carry a bunch of different kinds of revolvers & single shot hold out pistols & sawed off shotguns along with using rifled muskets and breech loading carbines. Etc. plus one of those gladius looking swords like John Brown used

1860s John Wick … cool as hell tbh

it's kinda funny to see this bc me and my gf have been saying this a lot lately ("bring back snobbery/hipsters/etc")

the thing about Herlock Sholmes is that his presence in Ace Attorney connects that setting to Columbo, since Sholmes was a rival of Arséne Lupin whose descendant Lupin III at one point met Columbo's skateboarding detective son Bolonco. I'm not making this up

the Scots try to pretend they're cool but they were just as bad as the English historically