You’d still need immigration judges even if it was a purely civil system, as far as I understand it. But there should be far more money devoted to the issue given the backlog in cases. It’d certainly be cheaper to hire and train more judges than to detain so many people, given the costs for detention even in such…

This is a terrible idea, as anyone who has done even a tiny bit of translating, formal or not, can tell you. People have follow up questions, video can confuse people, and someone who is confused and frightened and unable to speak their native tongue is more likely to make mistakes that, in our brutal immigration…

Pop-culture medievalism. What most people get from TV shows and games is a very narrow and highly distorted idea of the period. It’s something historians are discussing more and more.

Leather armor is a fairly notorious problem. It doesn’t hold up in the archaeological record, though there is textual and likely visual evidence that suggests it was used more widely than where it survived. So I wouldn’t say it’s impossible in Europe, and in fact I’d personally guess probable in regions that had been…

Oh it’s absolutely not about historical accuracy. I looked at some screenshots. The game is very much “medieval-ish” pop culture fantasy. I saw one with a mixture of late medieval metal armor (helmet and pauldrons) and a leather lamellar chest piece. It’s not impossible that existed in the historical record, but I’m…

If the theme is inherently anti-historical, how does deviation harm the theme? You seem to have a very narrow view of the medieval period. You’ve consistency dodged the lack of realism in the game when presented with it by people who understand the historical record far better than you. 

One screenshot I saw had a mixture of 14-15 century plate pieces and leather lamellar. Looked vaguely late Byzantine though I can’t for the life of me think how or when that combination would be used in real history. Armoring your chest is usually a higher priority than pauldrons.

Yeah, I can see this passing as “smart guy on far-right forum”. I’ve seen the same types on Twitter a lot. It’s got the trappings of education and logical argument. The substance behind it is flimsy if challenged, but if you’re in circles where it isn’t there’s no problem. There was a neo-Nazi running a…

His commenting history strongly suggests he truly believes the hyperbolic bigoted assertions. There’s a lot of misogyny there, and it doesn’t take long to find it. Incel-adjacent at best. 

For fuck’s sake. Historians are an authority on history you mendacious bloody troll. It’s a shame Kotaku didn’t really ban your misogynist ass and spare us all this comedy of errors.

Your argument is nothing but your bigotry backed up by a fallacious appeal to “historical accuracy” that doesn’t exist.

I’ve checked your profile. You’ve got a history of incel-level misogyny on clear display regularly. You want to pretend you’re not a horrible bigot and I should read your words as if I lack that context. No one is going to humor you. You don’t deserve it.

She definitely bumps her trailing leg. I don’t think it’s a foul though. Sauerbrunn is trying to cut the angle to block her shooting lane and is running past her not through her. It was bad luck they tangled but I disagree with a yellow or a foul call there. England had been working the ref pretty hard by that point…

I really don’t understand why we aren’t seeing Pugh late to run at tired defenses. If you’re a pressing team abandoning the press for a defensive formation seems like an iffy tactic. You can waste time without ceding so much ground.

There’s no historical accuracy. The idea that there is is a myth wielded for largely bigoted ends by bad people. Having women fighting is no more “inaccurate” than someone in 9th century Scandinavian lamellar and mail fighting someone in 15th century full plate. 

“If you disagree with me, react in a way that doesn’t undercut my bullshit”. Really? That’s some absurd entitlement.

What makes you think you’re qualified to assess the “degree of deviation”?

Bit of international news people might care about, an airstrike on a migrant detention facility near Tripoli in Libya has killed at least 44 people, injured around three times that many from the last report I saw, and probably constitutes a war crime.

Anyone who claims they want accuracy from that game is hopelessly ignorant of the historical record and how much their idea of what is “medieval” is a bunch of false tropes, myths, and often racist caricatures of the actual period. 

This is a pretty obvious way to excuse misogyny and it’s abundantly clear you lack the historical knowledge to actually discuss “realism” in any honest manner. None of it is realistic! That screenshot up there is mixing armor styles from various centuries already.