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Huts, cooking fires, eating plates/bowls, and other logistical support still leave archeological evidence. Large numbers of slaves are going to also need guards and ways to keep them from running away. They don't need to be stone and mud walled building, and I doubt most were.

They still had to be housed somewhere, do you propose they all slept on boats, to die in the yearly floods, or something?

People use a wide definition of slavery, so of course you can call a yearly debt of work, by the peasants, to the Pharaoh, slavery. Just like people today call working for "the man" wage slavery. There are certainly different types of slavery. For example, some slavery has the ability for the...

Victor Conte is a sports coach who designed doping programs with world-class athletes. Through his platform, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or BALCO, he supplied an untraceable designer steroid among other drugs to competitors who dominated the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympics.

Day laborers are dudes you pick up at Home Depot, these were just laborers that worked with stone day in and day out for decades. It's not like the bosses weren't sure they needed them to move and cut stone tomorrow, or the next day, or the next day, etc. In a 50+ year monumental project, it...

There is supposedly archaeological evidence of huge camps around the Pyramid constructions sites that could house 10s of thousands of people with layouts and sites that correspond to payed laborers, not slaves. If that is the case, then it would not be a stretch for 100s or 1000s of them to be...

That video shows they can get very close to the final shape with stone tools alone. Carving stone just takes time, the tools dictate how long; rubbing 100s of bronze picks across a stone for a 1000 hours will leave a grove. There are theories the Egyptians (not the Inca/Maya) used sand between...

Watching this video on carving limestone, using stone (from a channel @Bandwagon found in the Video thread) made me think of the Chucks following post. It seems to relate to other posts I've seen here too (whenever I parachute in): So, of course, it made me do a quick search on this too...

Don't know anything about the DLCs, but what about the 10,000 summons strat? Load up all your casters on as many summons as they can muster, then resummon as they die. Give non-casters summon wands too. Give your melee some ranged weps, or have them able to disengage from combat so summons soak...

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The board looks rather active to me. The inactive ones will have posts from 2+ days ago in the top 10. The time stamps are when that was first posted, not last comment and it auto-sorts them by "Hot" which I think takes into account upvotes plus comments in the last 12 hours, maybe (some magic...

Well here you go bro. HAVE YOU EVEN WATCHED ANY ACTUAL STAR WARS SHOWS BEFORE?!?!

Go read that r/TheAcolyte sub and you will see positive reviews. I doubt they are all bots and they are just talking to themselves too much to be paid by Disney.

I use Benefiber, since it has zero taste and dissolves almost completely in water/tea. What I stated is with fiber supplement, unless I am already eating enough fiber naturally in the 2000+ Cal a day diet. I learned the hard way a long time ago with the 1200 Cal cutting diet of 80%-90% chicken...

Funny to relate it to healthy at any size, because for me it directly equates to how much I eat. If I am eating over 2000 Calories a day, then I usually poop every day. If I am eating 1000 to 1500 Calories a day (heavy cutting diet), then it's 1 to 2 days between poops. If I am fasting for 2+...

Have you tried Elden Ring? It's real time, but more suited to that kind of gameplay.

lol, big king Ogre? So you were playing like some sperg action game clicking through everything and have no idea what's going on, eh?

The whole Manson thing happened before I was born, so maybe it's about age, but I don't like Hollywood, full stop. I don't generally care about the lives of actors and only know a handful of directors by sight, with most of those being dead or close to it. I never had much interest in learning...

Have you looked at setting up a Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi or similar device? They may have figured out how to control your fans. I used the guide below to set one up, but I don't really like smart home shit talking to the internet, which more and more require, so I just switched it all...

I liked Inglorious Basterds because I thought the writing and story were far superior to this movie (or Kill Bill). I put it middle of the pack for his work, but I have only watched it once.

A lot of Tarantino's violence is too silly for me when he gets carried away. The only movie were he goes ham with it, and I actually still liked the movie enough to watch it more than once was Dusk till Dawn, probably because I saw it as a teen. If the rest of the movie is great, it makes up for...

Your father's 1st cousin is your 1st cousin, once removed. Family tree naming, in regards to cousins: Horizontal on the tree is the naming we all know. You -> 1st cousin -> 2nd cousin -> 2nd cousin -> so on. Vertical on the tree adds: once, twice, three times "removed" (and so on) in addition...

Quick clip of Bill Burr talking about the show some (first half), second half is more about Burr's start in standup:

No lightsabers and ability to do iconic Jedi movies makes getting "Jedi" or "Sith" powers as a non-jedi/sith seems silly. While the work to replace all the skins with SW skins is impressive, the biggest problem is that the base gameplay of the game is mediocre and it especially doesn't seem to...

I didn't know they showed full frontal of the Swede in a later season, but I guess that's your thing, and I can see how that incentivized you to finish it!

No solution here, but your post made me go look for some videos on sanding epoxy that I watched 6+ years ago. Didn't find them, but found a couple "pro" tip videos that were interesting enough to post. Also, getting shocked when using electric tools should certainly be a bit of red flag...

...but didn't you see that the chain is titanium? TITANIUM!! There's no way to get out of that! Nitpick I noticed for this episode: It didn't seem to have internal consistency within itself in regards to the octopus. At the beginning they are laying in bed, like they just had "sex" and she was...

Wait, Europe had a ricer plague too?

You can play it yourself, without a sub, on the PTR... supposedly... if the servers ever come back up. I started downloaded the TWW 11.0 PTR to test it out, but there are post on the forums saying the servers have been offline for a week or more.

Fake News: https://www.firesofheaven.org/threads/gamergate-and-all-things-sjw.12/post-4827235

Xpac pre-patch July 23: They are doing the same thing that they did with Diablo 4 and making people pay for the highest tier ($90) to have access on the real release day: Thursday, August 22

Anyone expecting even an ounce of historical accuracy from Ridley Scott need to go read the Napoleon movie thread. If this movie is any good, it will be due to spectacle and/or the farcical story, just like the first movie.

Roughly first half of video is Eric Weinstein talking about the controversy of him even being on the show with Terrence and more comments about how wrong Terrance is. Second half is talking about how science and peer review have been harmed by non-scientific claims by public health during the...

Of the little I have read about them, people seems to like propane over diesel/gas. Something about higher upfront, but less maintenance/upkeep (maybe).

Dodgers trying to get dem weeb kids to watch baseball:

I had the opposite reaction. I forgot why I never watched this movie when it came out, then saw this thread bumped back in April, which then made me decide to watch it. Going into it blind (outside of the last two pages about Lee), I found most of the movie to plod along like an average...

When he's so thoroughly stupefied, why do you need more proof? Why are you still reading these fucking people and subjecting us to their retardation. Your schtick with this shit is getting thin when it spills over from the other threads where we are prepared for that idiocy, if we so choose to...