Hei Wa Wa
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@Emile2009 The business cards existed already in Han, called '谒' made of wood. Later known as'刺'. In Tang and Song, called '门状'&'手本', evolved into paper. Ming & Qing called'名刺' & '名帖'. They are used for self-introduction, pretty much like today! (pic is a Qing ivory card case!)
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Parody movies are only funny if they're acted 100% straight by actors who aren't just known for comedy. This is really obvious when you watch the 00s parody movies and everyone is making funny faces all the time. A genre killed by smirking.
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In 1165 Saladin set up a debate between a Catholic Monk and three Sunni Jurists, and it ends with the monk trolling a jurist into accepting the Trinity, Saladin laughing at him, and another jurist interjecting that he won only for Saladin to tell him to shut up
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Did some digging and found out that these two Patrick Bateman lookin ahh brothers designed over 19,000 iconic hiphop album covers in the 2000s, but then a combination of napster and 9/11 tanked their business, which is why those albums virtually vanished after 2003
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Am I the only one who noticed this trope in revisionist western novels??
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Hiding my bio-Jollof from Igbo-Robocops pulling me over on the Lagos-Accra jumpway. Sweat drips off my chrome brow as his Quantum scanners retrocausally detect the plantain-cybersignature. I'm toast. The killswitch in my hypothalmus triggers the nuke under my seat. Ghana forever.
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The Yakub nametag is killing me. Its like he was just an idealistic undergrad with a cool idea for a research paper but the finno-korean authorities found out and he fled to cyprus.
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If George Lucashenko was born in the USSR he'd have been a GOAT director. Untouchable. Five "Hero of Socialist Labour" accolades awarded by Brezhnev. Panicking CIA agents trying to edit the greatness out of "Kosmo Voyny (1977)" before it gets shown to Americans.
I love how George Lucas on the very first day of writing the phantom menace instead watched silent movies on vhs while shaking his head saying “how??”
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What most people get wrong about premodern and especially medieval art is that it often has more in common with text or a map than modern art. What youre looking at here is a symbol for Babylon, not a 1:1 representation like we expect today.
my favorite type of medieval art is done by guys who have obviously only ever seen European cities
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My first landlady in Beijing mildly inconvenienced me by having 3 repairmen all come on one day, so she gave me about 10kg of fruit and bought me the largest possible mattress to replace the old one. I was sleeping 360 degrees for 2 full years.
Has anyone ever actually had a good landlord? And I don't mean "well, I never really heard from them so they were never a problem", that's an absent landlord. I mean a good one.
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It's always depressing when I see one of those "here are the inspirations for our game" tweets and its just 3 other games from 10-20 years ago. No books, music, films, nothing. Indie games now suffer the same issue as AI where the inputs are from the same source as the outputs.
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Historically both of these were true simultaneously and usually within the same person. Premodern military morals don't map neatly onto ours and most of the characters in medieval sources seem totally contradictory to us.
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This entire aesthetic is half the reason I love drawing cross-shaped compositions of characters staring directly at the viewer. I listen to a lot of hiphop and most of the albums i like have covers where it's just guys sizing you up
Did some digging and found out that these two Patrick Bateman lookin ahh brothers designed over 19,000 iconic hiphop album covers in the 2000s, but then a combination of napster and 9/11 tanked their business, which is why those albums virtually vanished after 2003
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Part of the reason I can't take the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings films that seriously is that they gave the orcs cockney accents & dialogue. In the books they're slimy, verbose creeps saying "greetings, my little darlings" but in the films they sound like my dad and neighbours
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There's a town of Germans in the Jamaican highlands who've been there since ex-slaveowners tricked them into indentured servitude after slavery was abolished
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Mount and blade loading screen in this turkish restaurant in east london
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One of my strongest memories of Kenya is when I went to the Masai Mara and the driver (illegally) tried to get closer to a sleeping cheetah. Then 3 furious park rangers in a jeep suddenly appeared behind a hill and they looked like this
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Most of you lot wouldn't last 10 mins in Medieval Europe. Not due to disease or because you're not christian or whatever, but because you don't have even a single outlandish story to tell on the road. Total dead weight on the pilgrim trail, abandoned in the inn at 5am headass
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Veiled woman warriors, from the illustrated Kitab-i-Samak 'Iyar, dated generally to late 14th century, late Ilkhanate/Injuid period. Female ayyars (heroic warriors) apparently feature heavily in the story
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"I know exactly what this stupid nigga is going to say but I have to listen to his predictable monologue out of politeness" body language.
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Ethiopian Religious art is probably the oldest unbroken style in the world, with an almost straight line back to to the 11th century and remarkable similarity to Europe despite mutual isolation. You even get the use of contemporary weapons in biblical scenes (a musket here).
Pharao's troops in the Red Sea 🌊. Ethiopia, 18th c. #pharao #troops #soldiers #redsea #oldtestament #mural #africanart
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Byzantine Iconoclasts publicly shame you (All of Constantinople now knows you worship Konnatikos)
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Every time this image makes the rounds it's always funny seeing the people who think he means bronze age water channels and not modern pipe irrigation. Last time I searched for this I saw a thread on reddit of people who thought the former and were trying so hard not to be racist
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Barry, 63 in Herr Stormer's Ingerlund (his own son became a Stormerite blueshirt)
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They say a maiden carrying a lamb can travel the entire length of the Mongol Empire alone
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An interesting feature of 17th century England is the tail end of plate armour meeting the origin of the modern suit. You get guys in primordial yet familiar dress shirts with swords and full plate right at the hinge-point of european modernity
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You can only believe this if you think the crusades were about fighting Islam in the abstract, instead of just taking Jerusalem. The moment Jerusalem was captured the vast majority of the crusaders went home, and the remainder intermarried with locals and allied with muslims.
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"Hey Anon, I had the day off kinoplex today. Merry Christmas". "Just saw an(other) interracial couple. Its so over"
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Theyre even wearing the same colours
⚡️Far right thugs destroying the most English food chain in the UK. Their intelligence never fails to amaze me….
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Saladin lying down at the end is so funny. He was well known for walking around in pajamas while at home and not holding his servants to a particularly high standard. Extremely chill guy considering the Hashishin later left death threat notes in his personal quarters twice.
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Leaf mask of the Bwa people in Burkina Faso, representing the God Dwo
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I never show my students my online drawings but today a boy drew enormous pyramid rockets flying into space and told me to draw the same thing. If only he knew
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close enough
I have a theory that artists look like their art.
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I love how she knows how haggered her face is and just owns it. 100% Scythian DNA. There is a lady like this under every burial mound on the pontic steppe.
I recently started talking to a white woman and I was lurking her socials & found her auntie’s page 😳
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Coworker blessed me with this silk road chocolate that I don't want to open
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Also interesting is how this Islamic misunderstanding of the Trinity continues to this day. I'm pretty sure I've had the same conversations with (ginger) Muslim converts who think the trinity is 3 separate Gods or something.
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I'm larping as a Norman, I totally didn't just put my razor on the wrong setting and mess up the entire haircut
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The best game developers in the past were well-read people who didn't actually play that many games. I can't think of a person less qualified to make a good design decision than someone who thinks playing video games is a "hobby" and who has 500 titles in their steam library.
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"By all the popish devilry. He's back. "
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One of the strangest rabbitholes I've ever gone down is the Holy Roman Empire's obsession with black people between 1250 and about 1600. From my extensive reading nobody else has cracked the code to this but I think I eventually worked it out:
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Fantasy worldbuilding is constrained by needing to make immediate sense to the reader, so no matter how well written or supernatural a setting is, it's always going to be less interesting than real history.
Give me your Fantasy hot takes that have you like this. Mine is your morally gray characters aren’t more interesting, they’re just more murderous
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Medieval artists portrayed alexander the great in contemporary plate armour in the same way that we always give Romans and Greeks English or American accents in film.
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The same thing happened with hollywood over time as the influences from theatre, books and paintings gradually got replaced by influences from film itself. America should adopt a Mamluk system where new film directors and game developers are drawn exclusively from enslaved Amish.
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Black Dynamite is the only film this side of 9/11 to do it right.
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Moment escaped Household Cavalry horses rampage through London
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what, for you, is the piece of media that is most emblematic of 'the before times'? for me it is master of none.
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Hearts of Iron 4 addicts be like.
Korean Light Novel 'Became Hitler' Volume 1 Cover. Man becomes Hitler overnight, and must win World War 2 to return to his original self.
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None of their games respect your time.
We listen, and we don't judge - Paradox edition. I thought for the longest time that the Paradox logo was some kind of malformed Europe with the platypus' upper leg being Italy and the lower leg being Greece
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When I moved out she had some people come to look at the flat and once again bought me a giant pack of assorted fruit lol. I had to do graph theory to work out what order to eat them in so that they wouldnt rot.
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"Be informed, O Prince, the non-believers are literally in hell right now, and whoever approaches them literally burns himse-". "MISTAH ABDUL FAIL, YOUR SILENCE WAS MORE FROITFUL THAN YOUR SPEECH. I WISH GOD HAD FOINISHED YOU WITH DUMBNESS, THEN WE WOULD BE QUITE AT EASE"
In 1165 Saladin set up a debate between a Catholic Monk and three Sunni Jurists, and it ends with the monk trolling a jurist into accepting the Trinity, Saladin laughing at him, and another jurist interjecting that he won only for Saladin to tell him to shut up
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I was looking for some clear shots of Mao's birthplace and the default ones on Tripadvisor are of a British guy that looks very pleasingly happy to be there.
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A lot of Jamaica was a like this before independence, my Grandmother talks about how the merchants in her town were Lebanese, some clerks were Jewish, she had a Japanese neighbour etc etc. Then the country went independent and they mostly mixed into one.
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One of my favorite films ever is a weird soviet scifi (???) from the 80s called Kin Dza Dza, where two guys get teleported to a planet with a rigid caste system and a bizzare value system, and everyone is a childish, honourless scammer. It feels like the ultimate perestroika film
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Friend of mine posted a horrible photo of some fried cheese thing so I spent the rest of the day drawing it as if it was a bagel
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🏴🏴🏴SCOTLAND FOREVER!! 🏴🏴🏴🏴. #touhouproject #東方Project #cirno #cirnoday #チルノ
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It's really impossible to depict how angry the first guy was. He was heaving like a civilization 4 leader, gritting his teeth and snarling. Ive never seen someone look so mad in my entire life.
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Total War isn't exactly well known for its historical consistency, but its really funny how over 20 odd years someone at CA has gone out of their way to put irish Galloglaich in almost every game set before 1500, even in Barbarian Invasion where they're 1100 years too early
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The Indian manifest destiny is to teach mathematics to the world. For 5,000 years they've put up with clockless behenchods saying "zero. ? w-what's that?", so when an indian teacher talks you sit your ass down and LISTEN.
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Everywhere he goes he creates works of socialist realism.
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My second strongest memory of Kenya is when I walked past some Masai warriors training, they mistook me for a Masai and started hurling cactus branches at me with pinpoint accuracy shouting at me to dodge. I didnt get hit so they stopped throwing and saluted me lol.
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