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    Official Recent Musical Purchases Thread

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    Update

    1914 - Eschatology of War

    1914 - Blind Leading the Blind

    Conspiravision: Deus Ex Remixed

    Devin Townsend Project - Transcendence

    Eternal Champion - Terminus Est

    Hu - The Gereg

    Sabaton - The Great War

    Juno Reactor - Shango

    Sinners & Saints: The Ultimate Medieval & Renaissance Music Collection

    Northumbria - Vinland

    Odiolab - Medieval

    Paleowolf - Megalithion

    Saxon - Thunderbolt

    Stamatis Spanoudakis - The Marble King

    Stryper - Fallen

    Estampie - Signum: Die Stimme des Mittelalters

    and some Nightwish songs.

     

    Next I get paid, you shall see Let There Be Nothing, by Judicator, and Oathbreaker, by Hoth here.

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    Judicator - Let There Be Nothing

    Hoth - Oathbreaker

    Video Game You Last Played?

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    Mortal Kombat 11

    Game's story was great, and I like the customization, but the game feels like a slight backwarding from MK10. Where is Takeda dude? and Kronika's design lacks inspiration given her stature in the pantheon.

     

    Crusader Kings 2

    My go-to game if you have frequented the topic long enough. With the release of Holy Fury, Great Works, and Iron Century (those last two content add-ons being free) there has been a lot of new stuff to try out. Created the HRE as Otto Liudolfinger "the Great", but as the realm historically was nto called the Holy Roman Empire at this time i decided to go with a German spelling for Roman empire, Romisches Reich (I was blessed that sweet sweet Translatio Imperii by the Papacy, yum). Umayyad Caliphate of Andalusian Cordoba enslaved the Christian resistance in Spania and invaded Aquitaine, and the Pope called for a crusade over a century earlier than our time-line to liberate Aquitaine. I partook in the liberation and my son Liudolf Liudolfinger was awarded being a duke.

     

    Decades later after squabbling with heretical kings and vikings, a new Crusade was called for to liberate the enslaved Christians of Egypt (who their lot had not yet been entirely economically draiend by the sharia humiliation tax and not been forced to choose between death or islamic conversion). I partook in that, Otto now being in his 70's and owner of a lush beard. while this was happening, Liudolf had his titles robbed by a greedy Occitanian King (who by now had expanded his realm by liberating Catalonia), who became paranoid after being humbled by conquering invasion of Gaul by heathen Denmark and an opportunistic Venice, so now exiled and titleless, Liudolf became my benefactor for my deeds in the Nile. Otto's Romisches Reich ended up being the primary polity to aid in the endeavor, so Liudolf Liudolfinger became King of the Crusader State of Egypt, effectively making him a German Pharaoh. We shall see if our catholic Liudolf will be as schismatic about religion as Roman Emperor Heraclius was, whose caesaropapism was so tyrannical that the Coptic Egyptians invited the Rashidun Caliphate to conquer them, ensuring the enslavement of their poor countrymen and their very own descendants when funds eventually ran dry). Now I am presently given the choice to continue playing as Otto "the Benelovent" or as Liudolf "the Holy".

     

    Kingdom Come: Deliverance

    Playing in the Holy Roman Empire in CK2 made me have an itching to try out Kingdom Come: Deliverance once more. Last time I played it I got distracted with other video games and never got back to it. I am restarting from the beginning so as to prevent psychological disenchantment, which is a crime in of itself as the game's atmosphere is indeed enchanting. if you ahve patience i reccomend this game to any who like open-world RPGs (like Elder Scrolls), just don't expect magical stuff. Oh, and God bless Father Godwin, the best parish priest of all the land, man is a legend, lmao.

    Official Recent Musical Purchases Thread

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    Two weeks ago, i ordered CDs and came to forget the parcels twain. Then they arrived hours before my birthday (Wedn). So in a sense, I gave myself a surprise birthday gift, haha.

     

    • Where Stories End, by Darkwater
    • Human, by Darkwater

     

    Bought these for the Symphony X feel they have. While good, Where Stories End has a list of songs where one sounds similar to the next. Why I Bleed still stands as the best on there, the song that led me to buying the album. Haven't gotten around to listening to the physical product itself, but I remember enjoying Human a lot more when giving it a taste a month prior on YouTube. We'll see if that is the case after-all or not upon a relisten.

    Useless Knowledge

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    • In the Bible, only the book of Ester does not mention God directly.
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    Additional fun fact: the Greek version of Esther contains extra chapters that do mention God. My personal theory is that the Greek translator was uncomfortable with it not mentioning him and added the extra chapters.

     

    True, but I was thinking of the original version.

     

    I wonder when this was done. If it was done during and after the reign of Roman Emperor Theodosius I, it may be Roman Imperial intervention in biblical records. Thank God for the Dead Sea Scrolls.

     

     

     

    • Hannibal only had one eye after getting a disease while attacking Rome.

    Hannibal Barca was marching his forces through an Italian marshland in the summer, the swarms of mosquitoes ravaged his men, killed his last elephant, and one such monster bit his eyeball and it became infected. He stabbed out his eyeball with his sword and wore an eye-patch thenceforth.

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