Recent content by Sol Zagato

They evacuated them to Apulia? 🤣 Thanks for the chapter!

Not so subtle foreshadowing with Fjolnir and his nephew Amleth. Kádaráš-rahbád going out like a total boss. I don't even know who to compare him to except the Ottomans.

Gomez Addams, in the original comic, looked like an ugly Hispanic man, not dashing like (the Puerto Rican) Raul Julia. https://penntoday.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/2019-10/PennGazAddams.jpg Just linking because I won't download the imgur app, bastards. Anyways, it was jarring to go back...

In my honest opinion, the British Empire is most likely on the path to destruction when it enters WWI, and has no chance of being saved after the Armritsar massacre of 1919.

I mean higher Soviet combat casualties too. At the expense of the (enormous) number captured.

If they were uniformly organized and serious, it would have been multiple times higher. I venture this is mostly artillery, people cornered and not wanting to die, and the units that had their shit together.

IIRC, it was as late as 43 or 44, after it was clear the Germans were losing, an entire central Asian brigade attempted to defect across the lines (was detected and put down) They really could have taken advantage of discontent.

Space Runway Ideon Genocyber

Axishistory dot com exists, but 1. I have no idea about the politics 2. Appears to be a very slow forum 3. Has some of the same wankers I've seen on althist

Alternatehistory.com

Just found out you're bailing on althist. Glad you're available here!

I've listened to the Sardukar throat-singer clip at least 40 times. Villenvue nailed that scene.

ATP: I explained why. It's a reference to IRL Tuaregs.

Logically, what they did doesn't make sense, and at some level this is diversity-casting. But this is done because the director is French and therefore has some knowledge of Algeria, which would be relevant for Dune. It's clearly a call-out to the Tuareg of the Sahara, who are exactly like...