It's fun when a GM makes the opposite mistake though. When a new weapon or ability synergies in an unexpected way that let's you stroll through a combat in seconds.

Brown too. And in the case of Brown and Cameron they had children that needed extra support, and they were never half as lazy as some of our current ministers.

And as I wrote about during the election, the sensible early months of Sunak-Hunt were actually surprisingly effective in improving the Tories performance in the opinion polls itcouldbesaid.substack.com/p/it-could-b...

He loves doing the "But I billion people can't all come to the UK! So that's why I support *whatever anti immigrant policy is in the news*.

I mean there is a realy city Minas Tirith is based on. And it's Gondolin.

I'm not sure he ever thought it would be published!

Also explains why her debating strategy was quoting unrelated text's written by a dead guy.

Which the published Aklabeth was written after.

Being able to read and know where and when it was written mostly :)

Everyone in the replies is saying the same thing.

But in short, the Scouring of the Shire was much more to do with British fears of the fascists it was fighting than the fall of Constanpinople 500 years before.

Yes and we think they are wrong to do so, and you think they are right.

It's better than spamming a pay walled article, and then screenshot from the article that don't engage with what we are saying.

Again with the appeal to authority.

If a famous tax advisor wrote a piece about how Lord of the Rings was really about tax policy, I wouldn't assume that was true either.

Like I don't care if some dead guy in an unpublished letter thought it was about the crusades. It obviously wasn't. Next.

That's wrong though

Yeah, they are ignoring people's points and spamming appeals to authority under every post.

Tolkien was writing as a citizen of the largest empire the world has ever seen, that was engaged in a life and death struggle with fascism.

You think the fall of cyprus in the 16th century matters more than this?

Why would they keep linking to the work of a long dead man, refusing to engage with the actual argument people are making.

Oh, shit it says communist in their bio, never mind.

Do you know what was a fear in the 1940's? Invasion by a fascist army!

Mate, doesn't fill me with confidence that you have to resort to posting links instead of doing the thinking your self.

It's one step above asking chatgpt.

It's like the people arguing that want the met police to be less shit was wrong, because if they can cat h a bike theif they could deport people.

Guys your not meant to agree with the facists on their law and order position!

I bet you I could find Irish writers saying the same of the English, does that make them wrong?

Tolkien was absolutely not thinking about Muslim immigration to the UK when he wrote the Scouring. You're being as anocrastic as Musk.

It's just always funny when you can see the Wikipedia argument on the page.

I mean, who else would it be?

I couldnt remember where the actual consensus was on that, and Wikipedia made me laugh.

"Some historians suggest that Brigid is a Christianisation of the Celtic goddess Brigid[citation needed]."

Is kind of shocking when you find out how lacking our knowledge of pagan religion is. What do you mean all our sources for all the norse gods is a Christian writer centuries later?

The fire obviously represents the great fire of Rome.

And penny is clearly a corruption of Penne, because Christians used to get a last meal of pasta before being sent to the arena.

Man, didn't history used to be fun when you could just make it up?

Yeah, it wasn't "trick or trick" it was "let's commit petty vandalism"

John Curtice holding a sign saying "We've fucked it lads".