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Zyklon C said:
That poor motherfucker -- he would have had to watch the director's cut multiple times to make his video. That's real dedication...and pain.

Call me a fag, but the scene where the Imperial Guard chooses to be slaughtered rather than surrender always brings a tear to my eye. And I hate the French.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PEp-SxSoKUM
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The fact that it really happened is what makes it so emotional, Although Idk which is cooler as their last words, a simple "MERDE!" or "The guard dies but does not retreat".

As a side note, The "old guard" characters are all background dudes that barely say a word and only show up in filler shots but just looking at them already tells you everything you need to know. In the scene where Napoleon faces down Neys forces after returning from Elba, theres a shot of the the guard where one of them says "theres no way around them" and someone replies "the way is forward", literally 3 seconds of dialogue and you don't even see who is saying it, but the Guard is characterized for the rest of the movie (even if you know nothing about the historical context) - in contrast, Riddley Scotts slop has NOTHING like that for 3 entire hours.
 
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On todays exciting episode of Orange Man bad World War 2.
 
Foltest said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6zgU9BNWlhAIt is here.
I had forgotten how awful the Ridley Scott film were, but knowing that that directors cut is worse is beyond my comprehension.
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I feel Scott took the modern progressive line of believing in the great man archetype (The idea that throughout history there have and will be men that have through their own willpower and talent being able to shape the world e.g Caesar, Napoleon, Alexander) is a inherently a fascist belief that will only encourage history's next Hitler. You can see it by the way at the end of the movie they show the death counts of Napoleon's wars in a kind of humanist appeal of "none of this needed to happen" kinda schtick.

Scott seems to have thought the best approach to dealing with this view of Napoleon being one of history's great men was to basically make a hit piece on him making him an autistic weirdo who could barely hold a conversation and somehow bumbles into becoming ruler of France not once but twice. Of course he decides to do this by basically fabricating Napoleon's character entirely and manipulating real historical events through fabrications to make a creepy weird serial killer esque Mama's boy. its just baffling honestly what made Scott go down this road and you can kinda of tell from the interviews he gave for the film he really just didn't give a shit or know what he was doing.
 
Squanto Airi said:
Here is the video on Armchair Historian talking about his retirement at the end of year.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kbrjnNq3aoQ
Edit: he also just posted a video on Hemmingstedt
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RSjMtbHBJDQ
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Sad as it is to see an alumni go, I would like to take a moment to shill Armchair Historian's game, Master of Command. It takes Total War Empire, the best parts of Ultimate General: Civil War (which was made by Empire/Napoleon/Shogun 2 modding legend DarthMod), and throws them into a Mount&Blade/Battle Brothers style campaign format. The result is really good. It's not as strategically ambitious as Empire was but the combat is what Empire should have been and then some. If you like Armchair Historian or are still yearning for a good gunpowder Total War (that isn't set in the Sengoku), get it.
 
Joshua Cohen Mohnstein said:
Early and Medieval Church History by Ryan M Reeves

I think it's been posted here before. This series goes back to the Classical Era up till the Reformation, so you'll find what you're looking for in that playlist. The content is pretty broad and dry but it's well-produced, and the free from the sprinkling of political snark that's now ubiquitous in modern history videos.

Guy has a PhD from Cambridge (not that one means much by itself looking at our own Cynical History) and I think he's some flavor of Prot but any biases aren't really apparent in his lecture style. It's reliably historical with respect to the limitations of the sources of the time and supplemented by archelogy. No critical deconstruction or dismissing all religiosity as just a cultural force.

He seems normal and I like what I've seen, but I haven't really dug too deep into his background to say he's totally clean. At this point, I find apologetic perspectives more reasonable than those post-modern secular perspectives pushed in university today, anyways.

There's now less of a conflict of interest with a religious guy discussing religious history than hypothetical Ancient History Explained on Youtube (queer_demifox432 on Bluesky) smarmily equating mundane Biblical stories to Greek myths in their veracity because "erm, people just don't walk on water in real life." while also trusting all non-religious historical works as complete fact
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Thank you very much, one thing i've tried to find (and it's a bit hard to) is a line of succession/finding out the deaths of each of the apostles with concrete books/writings on them, the best i can find is paul and James. there's some others but it's usually sketchy.
 
What are some good channels for the period between 216 (Cannae) and 202 (Zama), if no channel, what are some good sources for it?
Im specifically looking for some information and detail regarding the political conflict between Fabius Maximus and Scipio.
 
KingLiberty76 said:
I heard about how bad that Napoleon film was but I had no clue it would be that bad, the sole purpose of it seems to turn Napoleon into Chris Chan
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Foltest said:
You can make a movie where Napoleon is a villian (hell, the 2002 series that I mentioned show his unsavoury side numerous time) but how Scott did, was making him into a damn buffon.
I can't buy that his Napoleon would be able to conquer a supermarket.
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ATPH said:
Scott seems to have thought the best approach to dealing with this view of Napoleon being one of history's great men was to basically make a hit piece on him making him an autistic weirdo who could barely hold a conversation and somehow bumbles into becoming ruler of France not once but twice. Of course he decides to do this by basically fabricating Napoleon's character entirely and manipulating real historical events through fabrications
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Still more historically accurate than Gladiator btw. :jaceknife:
 
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I'm surprised this mentality ill faggot didn't use his favorite hand emotes for that. Can't for this guy to snap and get a well deserved thread here.
 
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