you might think this guy is regurgitating apartheid-era Boer propaganda but actually he's just really into Sid Meier's Civilization and playing as the Americans from 4000BC onwards

I was honestly a big proponent of his earliest work but it was present there too

even the tree is leaning bisexually

I haven't read any of his books since Red Country but always found his portrayal of the "Gurkish" (lol) to be dodgy in that unthinkingly racist liberal way

I've never heard of this but have no idea where to start looking to prove or disprove it

hope it's nothing too serious and you feel better soon

my main issue with Fallen Order (haven't played the sequel) was that the lightsaber wasn't a physical thing if you weren't actively attacking. I wanted Jed Knight 2 style 'melting trails in the walls if you get too close with it lit' and it doesn't do that at all

listening to the sea

his documentaries are such unwatchable reactionary trash and yet people pretend they're not (or don't realise it, which might be worse)

posh London public schools are, in fact, sending their best

how's that (not) a fuckin recommendation?

I think most of them are via Norman French in the medieval period

Yeltsin visits America and is stunned by the variety of ghosts at the supermarket compared to the USSR

"social democrat" came to mean what it means now as the various member parties of the 2nd International betrayed their ideals to side with their parent nations in WW1 and take a reformist approach to 'achieving socialism'. The German SPD was a trailblazer in this

another accidental jenny: the dog in that panel

I enjoyed this little vignette of visiting a minor Soviet court, where Hooper is fascinated by the informality and how the judge is elected by the workers and can be recalled at any time if they want it