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The amount of FAAAAAABULOUS in that image is off the charts.
Heroes of Might and Magic 5 so good.
Isabel is a fucking idiot though.
I don't know how the school system as a whole teaches this kind of thing, but my teachers personally were like look this happened, it was fucking brutal, and it should never be done again. Back to the jews getting shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gareko
Wasn't the former President of Iran a holocaust denier?
Cleaned out over 100GB of second rate games on the PS3. Mega sale starts tomorrow :)
Edit: I shouldn't call them second rate. They're just ones I won't play...
He was.
But then again he had something to gain in the denial of the holocaust.
IE: getting people to not side with Israel.
Being an Iranian politician and saying the Holocaust never happened is like working for a cigarette company and stating that there's no connection between smoking and lung cancer.
True. Good thing the new President is more open with talks to the West, looks like he won't be as badQuote:
Originally Posted by Raype
Give it a few months.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sloth
He's either going to change a bit or find himself dealing with a lot of angry older Iranians who are still a wee bit pissed about all the cold war era subterfuge.
I'm not sure Iran is quite ready to walk the walk when it comes to being more open to western co-operation.
Or I'm just horribly pessimistic about everything.
Which is often the case.
Hiya.
True. He already got a little angry in talks because we kept bombarding them about their nuclear development. I believe he said something like, the more you pester me about it, the faster I'm going to try and make our development.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raype
I killed it :(
So it seems like Roxas' computer blew up
No, not yet. Luckily. :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Sloth
Give it time :wacko:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mega Charizard X
That's what I'm scared about honestly. :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Sloth
We covered it for a while, but the entire holocaust lasted a lot longer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gareko
I think the real thing people don't want to talk about is the Trail of Tears.
It depends upon the teacher, I imagine. Text books are undoubtedly bare-bones, as they are on most things, whether potentially patriotically demonizing or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gareko
The guy who covered WW2 in my school was also our chess club teacher, and was pretty knowledgeable beyond what the official school crap said. He was actually very candid on the difference between them bombing a small navel base, and us in turn eradicating hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. He also taught about the Japanese American internment, which was completely neglected by the books (as it proved America wasn't much better than the Germans).
This is also a guy who proposed the theory that Japan actually declared war prior to their attack--being an honorable people and all--but that it was concealed (and the attack was allowed) so as to propagandize it to rally the people to war (as the American citizenry has a history of not giving a fuck when it comes to war).
Yeah they are pretty brief on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as Trail of Tears. Holocaust takes forever though. Showing other countries past mishaps of killing massive amounts of people rather than your own history is a great strategy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spose'
Although we are talking about the US education system here, "No child left behind" my ass
Heroes of Might & Magic 3 is one of my favourite games of all time. OF. ALL. TIME.Quote:
Originally Posted by The VCR
Eeehhhhhh, while the Japanese internment camps are definitely a blight on American history, I wouldn't even begin to compare them to Nazi Germany's extermination camps or labour camps. One was a knee-jerk reaction to a shitty situation by a nation that doesn't have a great history treating minorities, and the other was a series of camps that systematically overworked, starved, and slaughtered millions of people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Walken Dead
Shitty thing to do, yes. Comparable to concentration camps, no. I would actually venture a tiny bit further and say that the residential schools in Canada are a more apt comparison, if you feel like pulling up something from North America.
At my school, we covered the general cause and effect of the bombings in the way that they essentially ended the Pacific theatre war front. My school glossed over a lot of the more "personal" stories - what happened to the civilians after the bombings, execution of Allied POWs, Unit 731, etc - and just focused on how everything fits into the timeline of World War 2. The same treatment was given to the Holocaust -- we understood the gist of what happened, but details were kind of sparse, and we focused more on how Hitler & Co. were able to invade and defeat so much of Europe in so little time. Less focus on the stories of what happened in the camps, and more focus on the war front in general.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gareko
To be fair, though, I started skipping school quite a bit in high school and might have missed some of those classes.
I just got my 3rd Gengar. :lol I got a buddy of mine to help me evolve my Haunter, then I got 2 Haunters in the Wonder Trade. Oy Vey. :lol
I didn't mean to imply the methodology was comparable to Germany's less practical methods, but the treatment in some of those camps was hardly civilized, and there were numerous deaths, even if that was not the sole purpose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drageuth
But given some of the strong anti-Japanese sentiments disseminated at the time--many of which are prevalent even today--I don't think it a far stretch to presume that if atom bombs came cheaper, the Japanese death toll might have been closer to the Jewish death toll.
Murderous racism is murderous racism, regardless of scale.
(I wasn't able to find the "Be a chap, kill a Jap" poster on Google, but both my Grandfather--who fought at the Battle of the Bulge--and History teacher had one)
Heroes V did a fair few things right. The story was NOT one of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by The VCR
Utterly pedestrian storyline which was at the same time completely predictable and completely mental. Bit of a shame, really.
I've taken like 10 shits today and need another one right now. Cuntbags.
I finally got every eevee....after way too long...:low:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mega Charizard X
It turns out Bulbapedia was WRONG in that to get a sylveon, you need to level up your eevee's affection in PokeMonAmie and then level him up. However, you also need to know a fairy move too which is only learned at lvl.9! I had a lvl 50 eevee with no fairy moves! BAAAAAHHHHHHH! BAsically, you need to raise it from an egg and keep the shitty fairy move until you're ready to evolve it. You MAY NOT teach a normal-type pokemon a fairy move yourself.
Hey everybody. It's me, Christopher Walken.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7rse...=youtu.be&t=3m
Yeah I know, I finally got a Sylveon too. I actually found an easy way to raise it's affection in Pokemon-Amie. :nod: I only have Espeon and Umbreon now to get, but I need to hatch these 2 Eevee eggs first. :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Jazzmarazz
That's so funny and sadly true. :wacko:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sloth
VCR-kun 4 mod? :wacko:
Trying to sell this Roxio Game Cap is a fucking chore. So annoying.
Iran's president seat is, has always been and will always be simply a proxy to supreme leader. Nothing has changed his stance, he just wants to stabilize the economy that has essentially gone to hell a little bit before moving back to doing whatever he wants. The new president is just a proxy who will carry out the economical stabilization. About the nuclear stuff, he'll try to give west enough to lift just about the right amount of sanctions (like the europe sanctions) to get the economy going. They have no intention to "co-operate with west".Quote:
Originally Posted by Raype
(Not directed to Drag, but just generally interesting related stuff)Quote:
Originally Posted by Drageuth
In Iran's school's history books the whole world war II is just a single paragraph something along the lines of "btw ww2 happened at this time, but Iran wasn't involved so it doesn't matter lol".
I had to search around the internet a lot to find out just what the hell is happening in BF1942 and CoD. (It was a state of "Not sure who's killing who" since I kept mixing up ww1 and ww2)
So about those Tokyo firebombings...
That's easy, one world war was about stopping the germans/austrians/italians from taking over europe and establishing dominance within the EU. Said stoppage was spearheaded by the british, french, and, in an odd moment of east/west cooperation, Russia. Much of the conflict occurred in the french countryside.Quote:
Originally Posted by gezegond
The other involved Nazis. :wacko:
EU wasnt present then, and the predecessor wasn't even started until after WWII.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raype
Makin' 'tatoes
I think I'm about to run out to the store really quick and make myself a massive chicken Caesar salad.
But the game starts in ~10 minutes. :(
Did you spell correct Caesar?
you mean to say nazis weren't nazis before they became nazis? :wacko:Quote:
Originally Posted by Raype
EDIT: :bed:
Depends on whether or not your sources happen to be in Hitler's history department.Quote:
Originally Posted by gezegond
All that defacement of priceless artifacts.
Kaiser.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jazzmarazz
Simpletons. :ignore:
Nope. :]Quote:
Originally Posted by Jazzmarazz
... seriously. It's one of those ones that I spellchecked a few times because I always used to write it "caesar," but that's wrong because Caesar (even when referring to the salad) is a proper noun and must be capitalized, apparently. :shrug: Evidently you can teach an old dog new ricks.