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[MadMojoMonkey]

I started Empire Games on Netflix last night... first 2 episodes were documentaries about Rome and Greece.

It's not bad. It fails in the typical ways historians fail. They clearly embellish the story to add direct quotes where none exist in the historical record and describe how a person smiled or their emotional response to something... all made up BS. It's like they're too damn snooty to think that us plebes could possibly be as fascinated by the facts of history as much as they are, so they have to dress it up with their fabrications.

I've never found a historian that didn't fall into this pit. I just have to accept that it's all biased, even the written histories, and try to take it as a cool story.

[Jack Sawyer]

I started Empire Games on Netflix last night... first 2 episodes were documentaries about Rome and Greece.

It's not bad. It fails in the typical ways historians fail. They clearly embellish the story to add direct quotes where none exist in the historical record and describe how a person smiled or their emotional response to something... all made up BS. It's like they're too damn snooty to think that us plebes could possibly be as fascinated by the facts of history as much as they are, so they have to dress it up with their fabrications.

I've never found a historian that didn't fall into this pit. I just have to accept that it's all biased, even the written histories, and try to take it as a cool story.

I gotta get netflix but haven't gotten around to that yet. I have sooo much media to watch it would be overkill, simply paying for the sake fo paying.

That said, Altered Carbon is a hard watch, but wholly recommended

[Poopadoop]

I gotta get netflix but haven't gotten around to that yet.

Dude it's like £5 a month (at least where I am). If you watch at least two full-length movies/docs a month you're winning.

[Jack Sawyer]

Dude it's like £5 a month (at least where I am). If you watch at least two full-length movies/docs a month you're winning.

I know, but I already have way much more media to watch than I have the time for

I'm media saturated for lack of a better word