George William Rolls 🧙🏻‍♂️🤖

Aspiring writer and lover of SciFi & Fantasy | Obsessive of pre-modern history |
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[George William Rolls 🧙🏻‍♂️🤖 @gwrolls]

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[George William Rolls 🧙🏻‍♂️🤖 @gwrolls]

The Roman Empire (ended 1453) and the printing press (invented 1440)

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What are the craziest two people/things to coexist at the same time in history?

[George William Rolls 🧙🏻‍♂️🤖 @gwrolls]

@PopulismUpdates The Roman Empire (ended 1453), and the printing press (invented 1440)

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@Siennafrst Fair play to you - it's a great name!

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@DavidLarter Fully agree, very Game of Thrones

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@JCS_H94 She's clearly never seen Morris dancing

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Basing this on my own experience / journey of learning about the period

[George William Rolls 🧙🏻‍♂️🤖 @gwrolls]

Feel like your position on whether Hiroshima was justified changes depending on how much you know about the war in the Pacific:

Don't know much - seems bad, but Japanese were bad?
Know some - seems awful, unjustified war crime.
Know more - terrible, but ultimately justifiable

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Learning about Hiroshima in America, the propaganda didn’t get to me, and I was in class saying “that was too much” arguing with classmates and even the teacher about it being “the only way” to stop WW2 and I just knew that was bullshit. And it was. It was just American barbarism

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@Fantasy4theAges I'm about halfway through the crippled god and dust of dreams leads directly into it - I think as Erikson has said they are basically two halves of one big book. Happy reading!

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If the #Witcher4 follows recent gaming trends a custom character would be the protagonist. This might be best to avoid the multiple endings of 3, but you could also have Ciri as the lead with different prologues depending on the ending you chose

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@HFLane_writing I submitted to you recently and you asked for partial manuscript - I appreciate you taking a look at my book (I realise it is a very competitive business)

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@UpdatingOnRome @sturdyAlex I'm sure you'd appreciate it the other way around

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@UpdatingOnRome @sturdyAlex I keep seeing Americans chiming in on British issues without having a clue. Please stick to Roman stuff

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@BookSpotlight I read Dune, then Dune Messiah a while later - didn't really care for the way they were written. Is it heresy to admit I like the (new) films more?

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@AntiRacismDay Nothing says "love your country" like a hate symbol from another country

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@simonmontefiore This may be the encouragement I needed to finally read it

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@LordGrimdark I, for one, would love to buy some Blurbrick

[George William Rolls 🧙🏻‍♂️🤖 @gwrolls]

Which is of course why it took the West 400+ years to do anything about it. Anachronistic and not what the first crusaders were thinking. Most people in 1090s would not have had a sense of scale of early Muslim conquest.
Bad history breeds bad opinions

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

One can understand how the first crusaders saw themselves as fighting for their very survival.

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The money involved in American elections is insane - almost double what a UK political party is allowed to spend in an entire election campaign (£35m / $45m)

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Some news

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@DonaldEBeaneJr @Varangian_Tagma Almost certainly