Plebs are obsessed with empires.
Level up and start being interested in ideologies, mythologies, languages and in larger terms, cultures.
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I agree.... I'm obsessed with certain native tribes cultures. It's probably because our culture sucks and we are unconsciously searching for a better way
I wouldn't say I agree 100% with McKenna, but he was a genius.
Terence McKenna Explains his Most Fundamental Concept “The Archaic Revival”
I won't start writing my own version, I'd end up hitting the char limit. But I used to enjoy listening to him a lot. Still do sometimes.
Edit listening to this clip note that this is like a taped speech from the 90's and McKenna is literally discussing memes. Back then it was just the scientific concept, not the cultural thing internet knows it as. But still. It's around 10min
i got the martians. it's a future empire, does that still count?
Sumerians. Cuneiform. Suck it everyone who came after.
Homer? Try the Epic of Gilgamesh, you posers!
Allow me to once again recommend The Fall of Civilizations Podcast. It's excellent.
The Nobunaga and Tokugawa Shogunates.
And I'm not even a weeb. I only like, like, 6 animes. 😌
Is one of them Intrigue in the Bakumatsu?
Did you count pokemon?
Is one of them Boku no Pico? 😉
now great, what will google think of me 🙄
That's how it starts
Thank goodness I'm too old to give a incan shit about this.
Do the Etruscans count?
Team Etruscans ftw mother fuckers!
If I pick the same country every time I play Civ, can I test out of this course?
Ancient Egypt checking in.
I got the Sea Peoples.
Napoleonic France 😍
I'm glad I got included as the orange speech bubble.
Today is Chicome Coatl (7 Snake) in the Tonalpohualli. Party on nerds.
(Source, btw.)
Unfortunately, quite a few guys end up obsessed with that one.
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Do science fiction empires count? Because I got imperium of man
Yes, but unfortunately the credits won't transfer out.
Sweet. Terran Empire it is. Everyone gets a goatee! I'm not a guy though so it may not count :(
Goatee and/ or Shiny clothes
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I got the Grateful Dead as a freshman in uni and have stuck with that.
I think they're just supposed to be interests, not religions.
Caliphates still count.
That wow looks like it's coming out of that butt
Wait... You're only supposed to get one? Do I return the others somehow? Is there any support email or phone I can contact?
Mongol guy's font change has been living in my head all afternoon. Why is it only him? Why does getting the Mongol empire make him start speaking in a Charles-Rennie-Mackintosh-looking font? Like, the artist obviously likes to play it loose with typefaces in the rest of the comic too, but this one guy seems like the centre of the typographical attention and I do not understand the choices made
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Only since the last season of Cosmos got me obsessed with the Indus Valley Civilization. I'm over 40.
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i was assigned Ancient Egypt pretty early on, i made my mum read to me things like the process of mummification for bedtime stories
Same here. By around 3rd grade I had taught myself how to phonetically read/write hieroglyphs. So I would write all sorts of English stuff in hieroglyphs, but I still couldn't actually understand ancient Egyptian.
somehow my brain did a flip and i did the same but with nordic runes (elder futhark to be exact). now i'm catching up and trying to learn some ancient egyptian in my free time
Mine just said "the Daevites", and the walls started dripping blood when I opened it. Should I be concerned?
I was assigned The Scythians late in life
Does the Byzantine Empire count or do we kind of file that under Rome?
I think you get to make that call.
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