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History is not cut and dry. The decline of the Abbasid caliphate (who is usually associated with this period was weak. The rise of multiple Turkish groups, the crusades, the mongols all at times dominated the abbasids. Ultimately, in think the Seljuk Turks and then the ottoman predecessors were truly the most impactful group on the region.

However, that does not mean that there was not a scientific and trade explosion happening at the time where there was a major crossroad of ideas happening between east and west
Eh, no.

I’m not listening to this but I remember reading about this before Wikipedia ever existed…. In the 1990s.

There were major mathematical and other breakthroughs happening in the middle Middle Ages in that part of the world

re: The Green Knight

Posted by athenslife101 on 10/6/26 at 3:23 pm to
FWIW, if anyone ever plays tabletop RPGs, one of the rulebooks for Pendragon goes into interesting (but exhaustive) dissertations on how Arthurian legend has changed through the years and why and what society was saying for why these changes were made. How courtly love is a perfect example. Lancelot at times I showcased as a villain but at times as a hero and those fit into specific timelines of what courtly love is supposed to represent.

Also, Morgana LeFey is not always a villain. Sometimes she’s a villain who redeems herself. Sometimes she’s just an odd duck doing weird stuff and gets along with people

re: The Green Knight

Posted by athenslife101 on 10/6/26 at 3:04 pm to
Chivalry did t really start being a thing till around 1200, and it hit its zenith in the mid 1400s where we get so many of the poems we know today, from Arthurian Legend to Robin Hood,

re: The Green Knight

Posted by athenslife101 on 10/6/26 at 11:28 am to
I think… looking back, it’s been years…. But there is a fundamental misalignment in tone between source material and the movie. I listened to the poem right after the movie and they are just aimed at entirely different demographics.

Think of the green knight poem as a “how to” guide for how chivalrous knights to behave.

The movie decides to have a magical realism take on what if you or I were dropped in this situation, not the person everyone already knows is the greatest
Won’t matter. Profit being a leading indicator of good management has gone the way of the dodo.

Return on capital invested now is the leading qualifier on executive achievement. i.e. for every dollar spent in resources for the company, you get an x% return on it.

That’s why all these companies making record profits are still prioritizing laying people off. The executives aren’t going to get great bonuses just because the business is doing well.
Yes… because there needs to be some accountability. Who will the executive yell at and blame when no one likes their AI slop

Act Combat 8

Posted by athenslife101 on 10/5/26 at 9:03 pm
So ready for this. Sitting through the initial cutscenes

Got to say. The stories in these game is peak BS.

I must clarify. The cutscene story is all bs. The in battle dialogue and battle and shite is excellent as always.

First invasion of Thieve was great but the second one was just epic. And long
I’m good. Edgy about everything right now probably.

I just think it’s the fraternity sections in the upper level that are always late to arrive and first to leave. The lower level student section does its part
I never said a damn thing about students. I said fraternities
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We only kicking the frats off and not the season ticket holders who also didn't go because of a little weather?


Yes, because season ticket holders at least contribute to the program

re: Michigan is Sass

Posted by athenslife101 on 10/3/26 at 2:38 pm to
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Michigan’s track record of hiring non Michigan coaches is abysmal


That’s a sign of a bad program
What your saying is not relevant when you’re complaining about screens. Shows you don’t pay attention to the fundamental way Georgia operates.
I am not. Not been overly impressed with Robinson this year. He has been mistake prone
You take what’s given to you. They’re stacking the box. We are trying to spread them out to get them out of the box. We will continue to run the screen game till they adjust. If not, Vanderbilt is in for a long day
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I know gunners a little limited


No offense but what a bullshite comment
Also, kick the fraternities off campus if they can’t fricking show up to the games.

re: Thoughts on Coyote Vs Acme

Posted by athenslife101 on 10/3/26 at 11:12 am to
No, they didn’t I had wanted to watch a horror movie, they wanted to watch some obnoxious drama. I told them this was as close as they’d get me to watching a drama right now…. A courtroom drama

Thoughts on Coyote Vs Acme

Posted by athenslife101 on 10/3/26 at 9:32 am
What a cute funny movie.

The only negative thing I can say is the person I watched it with was a total buzzkill and left because they didn’t want to watch “cartoons”

And road runner is supposed to say meep meep, not beep beep.

Coyote is my favorite part of the movie. He is hilarious and his relationship with the roadrunner at the end was so beautiful.

If you like looney toons or corporate espionage movies, this is a must watch