Actual historians make fun of that type of ‘history buff’. They call them button-counters. People who praise the Wehrmacht reenactors for having the right number of buttons on his sleeve, but miss that they’re minimizing or glossing over the Wehrmacht’s war crimes.

Chinatown sinking under a sea of red?

The thing is, in the novel it wasn’t presented as a war crime. The goddess that sent him to the other world was informed that he had body count of 3000 over his previous life, but that he was essentially still a “good/honorable” person. THey never mentioned a war or even the fact he was a soldier. They made it…

In a war with machine guns and grenades, you’re generally not killing enemy combatants using a sword.

There is no Group of Death this time.

I enjoy Bakker a lot, but I also completely understand why some people would loathe his books.

At least S-G is capable of putting a dignified face on thiings.

Nobody here. But I was connecting it to a different debating about whether or not to ask guests to take off shoes in the house.

I think they’re implicitly assuming that Argentinian women are okay with men walking up to them and asking if they want to fuck, or rather that many Argentinian men believe this.

What’s with the anti-flip flop puritanism? People wear them without socks, just like they wear a bunch of other types of shoes with socks. It’s not a big deal.

For what it’s worth, I work with a lot of oil companies, and non of them are nearly that optimistic (from their point of view) about oil prices

I’m married to a Nguyen. Different Vietnamese people pronounce it slightly differently based on where from Vietname they’re originally from.

They knew of his criminal past and anger issues.

I only saw the first few episodes. My impression was that it just seemed like nobody cared. Not the set designers. Not the scriptwriters. Not the actors, except that one guy who hammed it up. I’ve heard enough about the show to realize that the creator really cared, but it’s just so stark that nobody else did.

The show heavily implies later on that Johnny’s downward spiral didn’t began not when he lost the championship that one time, but when his mentor and surrogate father tried to kill him for getting second place.

Sorta spoilers:

It takes skill to draft as badly as the Browns. If any other team had half as many first round quarterback selections, at least one of them would have hit.

It’s all a game to these people. Cillizza views Trump and his Goon Squad the same way the Pelicans view the Warriors. Sure, they’re the opponent for a little while, but after it’s all over we should be cordial.

It has nothing to do with marketing. The problem is that for 99.9% of people who aren’t trained pilots, it is literally impossible to remain a fully attentive driver while something else is doing all the driving.

Everyone took it so seriously