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    History thread

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    RIP Araysar

    when we watch the parlimentary games played in europe to deny any outsiders it's clear euro's have no real choice either, you delude yourself
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    RIP Araysar

    you know you can just vote for whomever you want whenever you want right? literally nothing is stopping you now
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

    I thought one of the reasons nvidia wants to go dlss is they can gut the video cards of their horsepower and sell a cheaper ersatz because it's not trying to calculate more and more triangles anymore.
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    The Video Thread

    women can be losers now too it's funny
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    History thread

    I like this guys series, he edits well, picks good music, tickles my intellectual side by being edutainment a good amount of the time fitting it in a grand narrative story. there's a lot more video's this guy has but his two best series are the assasination of caesar and the congress of...
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    History thread

    The voice for this reading of caesars commentaries is just magnificant, i must have listened to this read through at least 10 times. Very good audio book listen.
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    History thread

    Watch this one, it's a lot better than the ridley scott one and has an insane amount of people and horses reanacting the battles like, 15k+ extra's.
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    History thread

    yeah there's some of it in here. they figured out where indo european language came from that was the basis of sankrit based on some of the words that were in the language and narrowed it down.
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    History thread

    I've watched like 5 different video series of napoleons campaigns, I like this one the most, well narrated and animated, well peppered with qoutes and drawings or paintings, solid history channel esque music that really sucks you in and adds dramatic tension, very good sound design. Also the...
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    History thread

    I've watched all of these, 51 part animated battle map based on sharing the best excerpts from the best of multiple really detailed books of the 1942 eastern front campaign and a very good accounting of early british success with operation compass wich views as a wild ride in the desert. 51...
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    History thread

    I like how siddartha was from the Kshatriya caste which means he most likely was a white man because the great arayan migration that settled in india had them setting themselves up as the Kshatriya warrior caste.
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    History thread

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    History thread

    i like this 22 part series on the history of western europe from rome onwards to 1400's because it's drops one obscure origin, word, phrase or tradition after another in this series. A nice non standard walkthrough of western civ with entymology and origin of customs as a throughline this...
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    History thread

    This would make a pretty baller movie imo, it's like a mix of thermopalye/300 and dunkirk.