As far as I’ve read, most of the work was done by highly skilled and well-paid craftspeople. Masses of slaves being whipped into building the pyramids is just a misconception.
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¯_(ツ)_/¯ Well, shut my mouth.
Can’t really think of a better place on here to put it, so gonna put it here.
Hamilton was SO GOOD YOU GUYS.
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I wish I’d seen it before it started to disgust me. It’s so totally whitewashed that I’d probably scream through any performance of it I watched.
This might only be funny to me and I was there, but this parody of Richard Thompson’s “Vincent Black Lightning 1952” was fucking amazing.
On Hey Scoops right now Penn Jillette is killing it with an amazing story. If you have a moment hop on their twitch
www.twitch.tv/ heyscoops
This Youtube channel.
Gonna lean myself out the window here a little bit, but in the wake of watching Moana/Vaiana yesterday I also watche two youtube videos exploring Disney, music featured in their movies, and Cultural Appropriation (gasp).
I should warn that the second video starts with major plot spoilers to Moana (and Pocahontas for that matter), though you should watch that movie. It’s really good.
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That is an unofficial channel for it. According to an interview with him on the lunduke hour the offical release of the episodes are on archive.org.
These guys will make a skateboard out of literally any material. Lego? Glass? Origami? Why not?
The “video game” Hareraiser and the story surrounding it is really interesting.
Here’s Ashens giving a 30 minute presentation of the whole thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouvi-fwrfIY&t
A dramatic reading of “Nerd Porn Auteur,” by Ernest Cline, definitely Not Creepy Guy.
There is so much to love in that 2 minute short. One of the suggestions after the video is another great Undertale animation. If nothing else the art design is fantastic on this one. This is what I’d want an Undertale series or movie to look like: