Hate the Hapsburg fans who think the holy roman empire should be restored with them. They fuckin lost! It's an elective monarchy! Whoever the Napoleon heir is has a better claim!
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There should be a villainous variation of the trans flag that is navy blue and electric pink. Like when countries do a darker version their flag (Greek junta etc).
I agree the books have scant details and could be much better, and less eugenist.
I think that with limited methods of communication deciphering the specific circumstances of all the conflicts on an incomprehensibly huge number of world's, after the fact would be difficult.
Have a great day. I'm out.
I'll go back and time and get Frank to fix it.
And if those "billions" of deaths throughout the universe were slavers and feudal lords getting got, can't say I think it's the great tragedy Herbert tries to paint it as.
I don't think it would be all righteous terror. We see historically when some empires collapse (Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Russian etc) some people in the chaos decides it's a good time to do a pogram or genocide.
The explanation that would make sense to me is that there were contradictions all across the empire held in stasis but not resolved by the Imperial throne. When Paul ascends he basically triggers them all at once.
Slave and peasant rebellions. Great house feuds. Ethnic and religious tensions. The Fremen turn up to places and find people fighting already using supporting or opposing Paul as their excuse.
Like you couldn't rebel (good) or kill your rivals (neutral) or ethnically cleanse a minority (bad) without Shaddam and the Sardakaur possibly intervening, but now you can if you're quick enough to raise the banner if Atreides.
It's funny how the pronouns surveyed give away the answers of some of the users with less common ones.
"For the sake of Privacy Let's call her Lisa S... No That's too Obvious, let's say L. Simpson." Except fae/faer I guess
Is it propaganda if it's true?
The best propaganda is the truth.
The problem is they aren't often actually portrayed as bi or pansexual. If the player doesn't interactive with them, nothing happens to establish their queerness and the fandom treats them as if they straight by default. Bi character in a game are good when they're making it clear from the get go that they are bi (like Iron Bull in Dragon Age).
The three Pope options were her, Leliana and Cassandra. She was probably the least popular so it kind of makes sense to give her that ending. Leliana had the most revolutionary one where she freed the mages and allowed them to govern themselves, which ended up causing lots of conflict.
Cassandra had the centrist option of making the mages cops partnered alongside the Templars (instead of their prisoners) and that fixed most things.
Templars wanted to eat rocks and kill all mages, mages wanted to not be killed?
Pretty much.
Such a weird character arc she has too. She can become their equivalent of Pope, even though it should be impossible as she is a mage. Then if you do she sticks to the status quo on Mages and causes everything to be fucked up by not resolving the Mage-Templar contradictions.
I liked Dragon Age 2. It was not good gameplay wise, but I did like that you were just some guy/gal and their odd collection friends hanging out in a fantasy city doing jobs and get rich schemes, rather than some chosen hero on quest to save the world.
Inquisition had some really good story beats but it was basically like playing a single player MMO, so much grinding and fetch quests.
Andor