The Rossini cover made me remember this cover of Beethoven's 5th that I hadn't heard in like a decade. Until today I thought it was Yngwie Malmsteen playing this. But it seems this must have been one… (View Post)

So I posted this a year ago, and the same thing happened again this year too. Except now the nazis also found the time to assault people. I wonder how many times we are going to let literal nazis cre… (View Post)

And that's why I think it isn't a versatile system at all. Because you don't just need meta-knowledge to optimize your character - you need it to not end up with a crap character that can't compete o… (View Post)

Feel bad because you don't know how Tolkien described elves? Don't worry, the people who made the animated version of The Hobbit didn't know either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQz4jVmEaFI (View Post)

For what seems to have been a very brief period of time, ancient Greeks and Macedonians used a weapon called a kestros. The kestros was a kind of sling that you could throw darts with instead of slin… (View Post)