tpaine posted:how many times have you completed ffx tom
i only played ff7 once for a couple days, never played any other ff
Petrol posted:Video games in general promote immaturity and ill health.
agreed
discipline posted:
1) Paul is playing the drums on that track (actually John and George overdubbed a drum track apiece, also, but theirs are buried really low in the mix and Paul's is the only one you can really hear)
2) it has some cool references to the Beach Boys and Chuck Berry as well as to the song "Georgia On My Mind"
3) Brezhnev called the Beatles "the belch of Western culture" because he was a fuckin' philistine who didn't know what good music was
discipline posted:look, I understand that there were really horrible things happening in the soviet union
and I’m not defending those things
*takes deep breath and blows into comically oversized alphorn*
TROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/1991/xx/sovecon.html
obviously planning worked pretty well for a while (not extremely long, but not for such a short time you can easily dismiss it as not viable either) and despite all of its flaws imo it would've been a lot easier to transition to a 'true' socialist economy under the soviet system than it is now under neoliberalism. it's also pretty much the only serious solution to the current crisis that doesn't require us to reinvent everything from scratch (and why the hell would you dismiss everything the USSR ever did instead of studying it and learning from their successes and their failures?)
commodiusvicus posted:trivia:
1) Paul is playing the drums on that track (actually John and George overdubbed a drum track apiece, also, but theirs are buried really low in the mix and Paul's is the only one you can really hear)
2) it has some cool references to the Beach Boys and Chuck Berry as well as to the song "Georgia On My Mind"
3) Brezhnev called the Beatles "the belch of Western culture" because he was a fuckin' philistine who didn't know what good music was
I wanted to post that The Beatles are middle-of-the-road and boring but BITU is a good track and so are other tracks ALSO a great track from Wings is "Junior's Farm"
catpee posted:obviously planning worked pretty well for a while
{citation needed}
Myfanwy posted:USSR was like the best government square headed slavs could ever hope for, save for some finnish warrior princes coming down from the swamps and ruling over them again. So it's good in that way
*mongolian, steppes
littlegreenpills posted:white, uniform noise
don't sign your posts
littlegreenpills posted:news flash everybody everywhere you go is exactly the same as everyone else; any perception you have to the contrary is your depressing urge to impose color and variety on a world made of endless fluctuations that coalesce into white, uniform noise
depression is a hell of a drug.
EmanuelaOrlandi posted:i dont remember who said it but it really is true that the two good ones died first... meanwhile mccartny still makes albums.
check your facts, ringo's still alive
crustpunk_trotsky posted:Myfanwy posted:USSR was like the best government square headed slavs could ever hope for, save for some finnish warrior princes coming down from the swamps and ruling over them again. So it's good in that way
*mongolian, steppes
Do you know anything about the period when the russian area was under mongol tartar control. I have no idea if any kind of lasting cultural stuff happened, its kind amazing how runaway polish lithuanian serfs became democratic horse nomads, I don't know if anything like that happened to russian slavs
Myfanwy posted:crustpunk_trotsky posted:Myfanwy posted:USSR was like the best government square headed slavs could ever hope for, save for some finnish warrior princes coming down from the swamps and ruling over them again. So it's good in that way
*mongolian, steppes
Do you know anything about the period when the russian area was under mongol tartar control. I have no idea if any kind of lasting cultural stuff happened, its kind amazing how runaway polish lithuanian serfs became democratic horse nomads, I don't know if anything like that happened to russian slavs
ahahahaha YOU HAVE ACTIVATED MY GRAD CARD
1. the mongol yoke was really fairly light in terms of RACE OPPRESSION AND HOLY WAR or what have you and in terms of russian peasant culture did not really effect much but *did* have a massive effect on russian aristocratic culture. for a very long time, right up until when ivan grozny conquered khazan and reversed the trend, russian princes considered themselves as successors of the great khan (ability to claim kinship with the great khan meant being able to legally claim his land) and intermarried with steppe tatars very frequently.
2. the cossacks were essentially a russian steppe cavalry auxiliary and was an even mixture of escaped slavic serfs and directly recruited tartar horsemen, who the feudal tsars would use as a deterrent against steppe raids (threatening to grant the cossack hosts the right to raid anyone who raided muscovy).
crustpunk_trotsky posted:
ringo was by far the worst part of the beatles. awful awful drummer yo.
The_Schliski posted:I only just now noticed that this forum is Fully Justified. Nice.
isnt it swank?
Tsargon posted:Myfanwy posted:crustpunk_trotsky posted:Myfanwy posted:USSR was like the best government square headed slavs could ever hope for, save for some finnish warrior princes coming down from the swamps and ruling over them again. So it's good in that way
*mongolian, steppes
Do you know anything about the period when the russian area was under mongol tartar control. I have no idea if any kind of lasting cultural stuff happened, its kind amazing how runaway polish lithuanian serfs became democratic horse nomads, I don't know if anything like that happened to russian slavs
ahahahaha YOU HAVE ACTIVATED MY GRAD CARD
1. the mongol yoke was really fairly light in terms of RACE OPPRESSION AND HOLY WAR or what have you and in terms of russian peasant culture did not really effect much but *did* have a massive effect on russian aristocratic culture. for a very long time, right up until when ivan grozny conquered khazan and reversed the trend, russian princes considered themselves as successors of the great khan (ability to claim kinship with the great khan meant being able to legally claim his land) and intermarried with steppe tatars very frequently.
2. the cossacks were essentially a russian steppe cavalry auxiliary and was an even mixture of escaped slavic serfs and directly recruited tartar horsemen, who the feudal tsars would use as a deterrent against steppe raids (threatening to grant the cossack hosts the right to raid anyone who raided muscovy).
That's awesome, I guess that's why russians have slanty eyes. Do you know when they started loving french culture more than anything, I know they had an alliance in the late 1800s, but it seems like all of that started a lot earlier.
The cossacks did have a few hundred years of autonomy though, and then another good period after the end of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth. It just makes me happy to see some raggedy serfs abandoning their lives of toil and becoming cool horse raiders.
I just read something about the polish nobility's attacks against the teutonic knights featuring lots of tartar mercenaries, and I was like damn. It sort of makes me wonder about the soldiery concept of loyalty, and how much it's related to mass mobilization. Sort of natural warrior societies of light horsemen never seemed to care, and the horse riding aristocracy certainly didn't. I don't know if it's an enlightenment napoleonic thing,
I know that it's always commented on how the free men of france and poland fighting for napoleon had high morale and were super happy to follow orders, while the mercenary and gunpoint criminal dregs of the prussian and other european infantries were always at risk of doing plundering or running away without officers to shoot them or torture them if captured. I don't know! But your knowledge is great and I hope to one day learn many things
EmanuelaOrlandi posted:i dont remember who said it but it really is true that the two good ones died first... meanwhile mccartny still makes albums.
In December 1980, Christgau provoked angry responses from Voice readers when his column approvingly quoted his wife Carola Dibbell's reaction to the murder of John Lennon: "Why is it always Bobby Kennedy or John Lennon? Why isn't it Richard Nixon or Paul McCartney?"
EmanuelaOrlandi posted:crustpunk_trotsky posted:ringo was by far the worst part of the beatles. awful awful drummer yo.
he's a competent musician, which in my book is better than lennon's awful attempts at being avant garde
Myfanwy posted:Tsargon posted:Myfanwy posted:crustpunk_trotsky posted:Myfanwy posted:USSR was like the best government square headed slavs could ever hope for, save for some finnish warrior princes coming down from the swamps and ruling over them again. So it's good in that way
*mongolian, steppes
Do you know anything about the period when the russian area was under mongol tartar control. I have no idea if any kind of lasting cultural stuff happened, its kind amazing how runaway polish lithuanian serfs became democratic horse nomads, I don't know if anything like that happened to russian slavs
ahahahaha YOU HAVE ACTIVATED MY GRAD CARD
1. the mongol yoke was really fairly light in terms of RACE OPPRESSION AND HOLY WAR or what have you and in terms of russian peasant culture did not really effect much but *did* have a massive effect on russian aristocratic culture. for a very long time, right up until when ivan grozny conquered khazan and reversed the trend, russian princes considered themselves as successors of the great khan (ability to claim kinship with the great khan meant being able to legally claim his land) and intermarried with steppe tatars very frequently.
2. the cossacks were essentially a russian steppe cavalry auxiliary and was an even mixture of escaped slavic serfs and directly recruited tartar horsemen, who the feudal tsars would use as a deterrent against steppe raids (threatening to grant the cossack hosts the right to raid anyone who raided muscovy).That's awesome, I guess that's why russians have slanty eyes. Do you know when they started loving french culture more than anything, I know they had an alliance in the late 1800s, but it seems like all of that started a lot earlier.
The cossacks did have a few hundred years of autonomy though, and then another good period after the end of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth. It just makes me happy to see some raggedy serfs abandoning their lives of toil and becoming cool horse raiders.
I just read something about the polish nobility's attacks against the teutonic knights featuring lots of tartar mercenaries, and I was like damn. It sort of makes me wonder about the soldiery concept of loyalty, and how much it's related to mass mobilization. Sort of natural warrior societies of light horsemen never seemed to care, and the horse riding aristocracy certainly didn't. I don't know if it's an enlightenment napoleonic thing,
I know that it's always commented on how the free men of france and poland fighting for napoleon had high morale and were super happy to follow orders, while the mercenary and gunpoint criminal dregs of the prussian and other european infantries were always at risk of doing plundering or running away without officers to shoot them or torture them if captured. I don't know! But your knowledge is great and I hope to one day learn many things
well, slavs have always been intermingling with turkic and mongol horse lords ever since the southern migrations, afaik. like there was a combined Slavic-Avar kingdom at a point.