History is kind of the opposite. When someone says they like history I'll get excited and ask what period is their favorite. If they say "Romans" without any qualifiers like Early Republic or Late Eastern Empire, I get a bad feeling and they usually follow up with "and WWII"
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2026 will be the year of the Linux car
They even have a pet ghost cat or two in the bottom right
"My expertise is mostly in sorting algorithms. I don't see how--"
"Shut up, nerd! Get in the tower and make the planes stay in the air"
I made the Enola Gay joke a couple weeks ago thinking there's no way they could be that stupid. I don't know why I'm surprised.
It goes straight to Hell, MI
We should keep pointing out moments of ambiguous facial expressions among Trump's inner circle to gaslight MAGA into constant infighting.
Modern men's fashion peaked in the 1920s. I've been watching Boardwalk Empire lately and everyone is dressed so sharp.
I say modern fashion because we use be allowed to wear all kinds of cool stuff like poofy sleeves, cod pieces, capes, and tights.
I shit. I shat. I have shitten.
So we'll have green energy but capitalism will be as strong as ever. A solar dystopia. At least there will be a future for us to be shadowrunners in.
I'm glad they wrote Gaza twice so I would know what they were referring to
WWI is super interesting since it set the stage for so much of the current geopolitical landscape. My main issue with "I watched History Channel as a kid" types is that they really just think guns and swords are cool (which they are) and don't care much about the story of how people ended up in a war.
Also, I know what you mean about how interesting the day to day things from the past can be. I got really into preindustrial economies and how we used to make everything by hand. It's fun to go into old buildings and seeing the tool marks on the wood and guessing how they made it