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Also if anyone wants to play for a bit here's my FC:
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It's crazy to think those guys were 5 or 6 when barwl came out
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Not much nowadays. If I do I like diet pepai
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Also if anyone wants to play in about 3 hours let me know.
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Basically today there's two schools of thought regarding Sparta. The revisionists and the orthodoxy.

The revisionists claim that Sparta wasn't a warrior society nor did they dedicate much to martial prowess. This is the result of the Spartan mirage which is basically what the Spartan wanted others to think of them or the result of Athenian and later authors propaganda. In this case the Spartans were a professional leisure class as in they were professional rich people who didn't have to toil for a living.

Their status as Spartans rested on their wealth, not any martial skill. The Spartans would live a life of leisure by singing, dancing, hunting, raising horses and sponsoring chariot teams, and other things like managing their estates. They would exercise to train their bodies to reach the ideal figure. Something poorer Greeks couldn't achive for it was the ideal of the rich to strive to get the best bodies. They would wear their hair long as a mark of leisured gentlemen.

As far as any martial prowess they didn't have much. Aside from a simple formation drill it seems they didnt actually have much war training. There's also no proof of classical Sparta engaging in weapon training. Instead the Spartans relied on terror tactics to intimidate their opponents by reputation and apperance. There's atnleast four major battles the Spartans won without having to fight and in one everyone was trampling one another out of sheer terror in trying to flee.

The orthodoxy is pretty much what you read on wikipedia about Sparta being a hardcore military society.
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Godnorgosh posted...

HannibalBarca3 posted...

Maybe I suck p. bad but what's the best way to deal with Samus' missile spam.

What character are you playing as? Samus isn't very fast, so a lot of characters can rush her down with aerials, counter with their own projectiles or both.

Mostly Inkling. I know I should be pretty aggresive but somehow I struggle with Samus. At the same time I play pretty decently against simon and ritcher, at least online.

In other news I managed to make it to the 1.7m range. But at lot came from playing mirror matches with another Inkling which made me feel kinda bad because it was fun and he lost a lot of gsp. Kinda surprised I don't see that much inklings online.
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Maybe I suck p. bad but what's the best way to deal with Samus' missile spam.
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Been playing around for a bit online now. Started off pretty bad at around 20k but now I'm winning most matches now so I'm up to 200k for now so hopefully my Inkling game keeps improving.
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Darmik posted...

spikethedevil posted...

So where is your evidence for this?

A guy successfully predicted that Simon Belmont and everyone in the Wii U/3DS Smash Bros would be in Ultimate so everyone then believed him. He said that Steve from Minecraft was gonna be a rep. Then that changed to Minecraft content. Then that changed to DLC along with a Square-Enix rep. Piranha Plant or Joker were never mentioned.

No idea what he's saying now.

Vergeben never backed Steve, that was another leaker called Hitagi that Vergeben vouched for. In fact he said that the Minecraft content is a boss from what his main sources told him but he has heard others talk about Steve being part of the DLC.
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Banjo and Kazooie had their time almost 20 years ago, they're dead now. Minecraft on the other hand is beloved by the creator of Smash and Nintendo. According to Miyamoto Minecraft is the game he regrets he didin't create and Sakurai wrote a column giving praises to the game. And I think they're done with fan polls since they already put some characters for it and even some of the popular characters in the community were stuck as spirits and ATs.

JustinMeme posted...

Rare placeholder files and images have already been found by dataminers in Smash.

It's Banjo and Kazooie.

They also found Devil's Third material in the code but no in-game content. Meaning it could all be an oversight by the developers.
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Hulkasaurusrex posted...

Half the topics are bitching about what dlc characters will be or won't be added.

Just mention Steve from Minecraft being part of the DLC and watch the fireworks go.
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It's okay. I wasn't around for Smash 4 but going back there and having a bit of fun not taking it too seriously. Reminds me of when I browsed the bawrl board ten years ago.
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The guy from Minecraft
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Atralis posted...

OBCD posted...

Why are black/mexican... so rare?

The most common response I've seen is that the large slave population that was brought to Mexico either died or melted into the general population a long time ago. The definition of black or brown is very different in Latin America in general than it is in the US.

IIRC slavery wasn't much a thing in Mexico. At least not compared to South America and the Caribbean, according to wikipedia only about 200,000 African slaves were brought into New Spain. Afro-Mexicans make up about 1% of Mexico's overall population and maybe even less are descendants of slaves brought here.

However there are some famous Afro-Mexicans like Vicente Guerrero who was the 2nd president of Mexico and has a state named after him, possibly making him the first black president in North America.
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Or just their career
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ThyCorndog posted...

HannibalBarca3 posted...

OBCD posted...

Why are black/mexican, Chinese/ Arabic etc mixes so rare?

Mexican isn't a race. Hell, I just visited my homecity in Mexico recently and saw folk that could be considered "white" over there.

people in the US think hispanic (any type) is a race, and for some reason it's still on our census. it's pretty annoying

Yeah, I agree. I used to not care about it but now it's kinda annoying most people think people from Latin America all look like Danny Trejo or all the people there are "brown". Latin America is a pretty diverse region with a lot of different people living there. Heck, one of the whitest guys that I know of is an illegal from Monterrey.
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Tedtalker posted...

Hispanics are mixing with black people... It is well documented that their is a significant admixture of both indigenous and black in their culture. See Hispanic rap, etc.

The funny thing is that there is such thing as black hispanics. Afro-Latinos are a thing all over Latin America. Especially in places like the Dominican Republic and Cuba. Not as numerous in Central America IIRC.
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OBCD posted...

Why are black/mexican, Chinese/ Arabic etc mixes so rare?

Mexican isn't a race. Hell, I just visited my homecity in Mexico recently and saw folk that could be considered "white" over there.
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glitteringfairy posted...

As long as it's historically accurate there is no issue. Or are you talking about video games where black females fought in the nazi army because that will always be fucking stupid

Nah, I mean like the whole fight between that one guy from Infowars and Mary Beard over the inclusion of a black Roman guy. Or hell, I saw some people complain about dark skinned individuals in the new Assassin Creed game.

All I'm saying is that inclusion of characters of that background isn't far-fetched at all.
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I remember when that BBC video came out with a Roman guy with dark skin in Roman Britian and some people blew up over it. But it's not as far-fetched to have a black legionnaire in Britain. According to Historia Augusta there was an Ethiopian soldier who was a bit of a jester who decided to prank the emperor Septimus Severus. There was also two black ladies in Roman Britian that I recall, including one of them who was a lady of wealth.

Aside from that I also recall Aristotle talking about children of mixed ancestry, as in the History of Animals he recalls the story of a Greek woman who had children with an Ethiopian man in the Greek region of Elis. He recounts that one of the grandchildren came out later looking like an Ethiopian woman IIRC. Another account he recalls is that there was a woman who had an affair with an Ethiopian man in Sicily. At least showing light that black people weren't totally alien to Greece and Sicily. In his description of the Persian army invading Greece Herodotus also describes Ethiopians that came along with Xerses, and they were left with Mardonius as part of the left over army left to mop up the remaining resistance by Xerses as he went back to home after fulfilling his royal duties. It's possible that these Ethiopians were taken as slaves along with the remainder of the Persian army following their defeat at Plataea, even if the Greeks would rather skewer you in the back they sometimes restrained themselves to take war captives.

Overall if you're willing to look up the record it will provide you with sources on the subject. It should also be noted here that Ethiopian was a term to describe what we would generally call black people today.
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Guide posted...

HannibalBarca3 posted...

But what if the definition of who is white shifts to include others? Whiteness is not necessarily something that's set in stone, even as far back as the turn of the 20th century you had people arguing about the whiteness of non-anglo saxon minorities from Europe such as people from Southern Europe and Eastern Europe.

Hell, you have people now arguing that Slavs aren't white, just cause they don't like Slavs.

True. Hitler certainly saw them as sub-humans and as an "asiatic horde" for one.
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But what if the definition of who is white shifts to include others? Whiteness is not necessarily something that's set in stone, even as far back as the turn of the 20th century you had people arguing about the whiteness of non-anglo saxon minorities from Europe such as people from Southern Europe and Eastern Europe.
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The man was 95 years old. It's not surprising in the least.
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BeautifulBlaze posted...

Elora's redesign is adorable.

Her model makes her look like a gremlin
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I think people take the rooster too seriously. But if the rumors about certain DLC being true like the dude from Minecraft I'd imagine things might get uglier.
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K181 posted...

They had an election where Ted fucking Cruz was a drag on the GOP and rose Democratic numbers significantly, with the end result of being a few seats flipped while the GOP held on to the Senate and easily retained the governor's mansion and the statehouse.

This was a good election for the Democrats in Texas, but I'd be hard-pressed to equate that as a sign of anything to come. Cruz isn't going to be on the ballot again until 2024, and Trump easily outpolls that creeper so even a presidential turnout in 2020 won't have the same GOP detriment.

I think this is a good analysis. I think the results being close is the result of how poor of a candidate Ted Cruz is.
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Steve's in.
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Having been keeping up. Did the Dems murder like they were projected to?
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Your score: 402 CPM (that is 80 WPM)

Your score beats or equals 92.62% of all.
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Kisai posted...

slmcknett posted...

Oh god, the furries are about to become too powerful

I don't think catgirls have any overlap with furries.

Catgirls are probably what the average person thinks when they hear about furries.
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Godnorgosh posted...

HannibalBarca3 posted...

I remember a while back there was a user here who died of cancer. I think he was in his early 20s IIRC. Shit sucks, man.

Big Samus.

There was also Count_Hamstein.
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I remember a while back there was a user here who died of cancer. I think he was in his early 20s IIRC. Shit sucks, man.
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I wonder why people put so much stock on a blurry image from a snapchat video.
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I don't care about ultimate but this leak thing is amusing. Apparently none of the insiders put much stock in it.
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https://clyp.it/o4uvurkl
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Wasn't there a subreddit that sperged out over catgirl characters to the point of banning a member who did a banner with said characters
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Dash_Harber posted...

Also, people literally believe that the Spartans side only had 300 men, when there were almost 2,000 other Greek soldiers backing them. Whether their 'heroic last stand' actually made any difference, or whether it was a pointless sacrifice that only delayed the inevitable, is also rather contentious IIRC.

Another point is that, according to Herodotus, each Spartiate had seven helots with him per men. So aside from the 700 Thespians and 400 Thebans staying behind the Spartans also had their helots with them. According to Herodotus they were mixed in among the dead Spartiate both at Plataea and Thermopylae suggesting that the Spartans may have fought as a mixed crowd of heavy infantry and light infantry.
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ElatedVenusaur posted...

Hell, a lot of people don't even acknowledge or realize the presence of the rest of the Greek army at Thermopylae, let alone not understanding how the Spartans actually fought.
While we're on the topic of Ancient Greece and the Greek city-states, Athens and Sparta hog all the air time. There were plenty of other prominent city-states in Hellas proper: Corcyra, Corinth, Rhodes, and, most of all, Thebes. Thebes, of course, actually became by far the pre-eminent power in Greece after the Peloponnesian War. And Syracuse, while distant from Hellas proper, was a regional power that was able to hold its own with Carthage and Rome for quite a while.

Well, to be honest, we have a more complete picture of Sparta, even if a lot deals with propaganda, and especially Athens since most surviving works deal with the two. But you're right that there were other big city states and Syracuse was a big player that rivaled Athens.

Keeping with the spirit of Ancient Greece I've always liked studying Greek warfare. You'd be surprise how wrong wikipedia is regarding it and it's using sources that are decades old. For example saying that a Greek phalanx advanced slowly to maintain cohesion. This couldn't be further from the truth, your average Greek hoplite advanced into combat at a frantic run between 100-300 meters and they couldn't maintain cohesion at the charge and even during the march into combat. Xenophon once describes Greek armies on the move as a "crowd leaving the theater".

The most telling passages on this is Thucydides description of Spartan practices during the battle of First Mantinea in which he at various points stops his narrative to explain the alien customs of the Spartans:

After this they joined battle, the Argives and their allies advancing with haste and fury, the Lacedaemonians slowly and to the music of many pipersa standing institution in their army, which is not for the sake of the god, but so that they advance walking evenly and in time, without breaking their order, as large armies often do when they go into battle. Thuc. 5.70

The Spartans stood out simply because they practice a formation drill that allowed to maintain order on the move. Other Greek armies advanced into battle as a mob, initially being able to deploy in ranks and files but unable to maintain such cohesion on the move.

There's other bits and pieces in the article but suffice to say the Greeks were pretty disorganized when it came to battle. Their fear of tyrants and failure to submit to military authority pretty much stagnated military developments in an army of equals.
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glitteringfairy posted...

I don't think very many people are that well versed in the battle formations of ancient Spartans to even speak on what your talking about TC

I don't doubt that but at the same time you can go to videos like this:


And find statements such as:

- They don't even attempt to lock their shields together, and proceed to steal the cinematic scene from the 300 movie

So why am I watching the greatest soldiers the world has ever known, not use formations or discipline in the slightest and instead go on a personal mission of glory?

And one with over 800 upboats:

If the Spartans really did break formations like this, they would have all die within the first day

And so and so. You can probably go to any video of 300 and see similar responses about how ridiculous it is that the Spartans are fighting out of formation.
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One of the most common one I'm seeing, and this is possibly due to the new AC game, is about Thermopylae. There's this common conception of pop history that the Spartans wouldn't have abandoned formation as depicted in game or like in the movie 300. Instead most folk would take it for granted that they would've fought in a rigid formation.

However Herodotus account of the battle is more at home with 300 and the newer AC game for the fact that Herodotus never describes the Spartans fighting as a rigid formation at Thermopylae. In fact he describes their method of fighting as such:

The Lakedaimonians fought memorably, showing themselves skilled fighters amidst unskilled on many occasions, as when they would turn their backs and feign flight. The barbarians would see them fleeing and give chase with shouting and noise, but when the Lakedaimonians were overtaken, they would turn to face the barbarians and overthrow innumerable Persians. Herodotus 7.211.3

And Plato claims that the Spartans fought in a similar manner at Plataea

For they say that at Plataea, when the Spartans came up to the men with wicker shields, they were not willing to stand and fight against these, but fled; when, however, the Persian ranks weree broken, the Spartans kept turning round and fighting like cavalry, and so won that great battle. Plato Laches 191c

In accordance to this the notion that the Spartans would have not broken formation is actually on the wrong as far as our sources go.
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If you're looking for custom in retail chains than most likely you're looking for "made to measure". I'm not actually too familiar with mtm options in retail. I know Men's Wearhouse has a mtm program with Joseph Abboud if you want a common chain.
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Rad_Chad posted...

still would

would what?
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AceMos posted...

HannibalBarca3 posted...

Doesn't the original comic display that the bowser wears a crown that turns him into Peach? It's not really a female version of bowser I think.

eh she still has a tail and such

Yeah but it still looks like Peach. I think the original powerup in the game gave Toadatte pig tails in her transformed state. So pics like the OP kinda miss the point of the character.
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Doesn't the original comic display that the bowser wears a crown that turns him into Peach? It's not really a female version of bowser I think.
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As a plain Mehican I can't say I've felt discriminated against. Not that I can recall anyways.
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Eh, I like Taco Bell.
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HashtagTartarus posted...

Vyrulisse posted...

So it was actually true? There was a lot of contention on /g/ that it was a hoax.

It's still not really 100% confirmed either way, but recently in the Kiwi Farms thread on Terry, someone got confirmation (via email) from the police department that Terry was the individual killed by a train in an incident that occurred near where Terry was roaming. There were a few other bits of evidence too that lead me to think that Terry probably is dead.

Pretty sure it's 100% confirmed. The last video he recorded reads like a suicide note:

Plus the library he was at was a mile away from the train station. An article from the area confirmed that a man in his late 40s and out of town was struck by a train the same day that video was uploaded.
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I remember going into one of his IRC chats. The man was talking about squeeky aliens or something. Anyways his last video makes a lot of sense now and his last line makes it seem like he had some clarity about his own situation.
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