I love that you used the Skeleton artwork from the 1993 Monstrous Manual

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I’m not sure how to feel about the fact that I immediately recognized it

Here’s a shot of the undercarriage. I’m really happy with how this crust turned out.

What else is on there with the fries? Some kind of meat, or only cheese and sauce? It’s hard to tell from the photo.

I know that pizza Paperino is a thing in Italy, a pretty common novelty pizza that parents will order for their children. It’s named after Donald Duck (Paolino Paperino). It’s topped with fries and hot dogs, sometimes served with mayo.

I think Italian Americans are more sensitive about “pizza crimes” than actual Italians, lol.

Looks like something I would do

Get his ass, Blade

That evil motherfucker Astarion refused to stop drinking my blood, killed me, and then deflected blame and acted like I was overreacting after Gale resurrected me

Why do you have two Kansases?

Kansas is named for the Kansa Nation that already lived in the area when early American explorers arrived.

Arkansas is pronounced like Arkansaw, silent s at the end. It is apparently the French spelling of an Algonquian word for the Quapaw people, completely unrelated to Kansas.

Why is everything a square???

Because by the time the colonizers made it west of the Mississippi, they were so tired of figuring out logical boundaries such as “geographical features” and “which people already live in which regions” so they decided to take the lazy way out and slice up half of the continent like a sheet cake.

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Definitely not enough sleep

Except for Lola

Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola

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I have the weekend off work and I’m going to a very chill wedding that I have no responsibility to organize, so it’s nice. Also the storm last night took the edge off of the heat

Clearly I have more reading to do, thank you for calling my knowledge and assumptions into question. If he was as outspoken against the Armenian genocide as you say then that already does a great deal to shift my perspective.

By benefiting from the genocide, I meant that his government benefited from the availability of valuable land that had been depopulated, and that it was easier to enforce cultural erasure and ethnic assimilation after the dirty work of mass slaughter had already been done. The “Citizen, speak Turkish” campaign in the 30’s certainly had the effect of strongly discouraging (and in some places punishing) ethnic minorities from speaking their native languages in public.

You also raise a good point that we shouldn’t conflate every act of the government with the views and policies of one man. Just like the President of the United States isn’t my entire government. I ought to examine this period of history much more critically.

Atatürk, “Father of Turks.”

He led his people to so many great achievements - national independence, secularization, democratic elections, promotion of science and education, women’s suffrage, and the preservation/de-Arabacization of Turkish language and traditions.

He also denied the existence of, and actively benefited from, the genocides perpetrated against Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, and other ethnic minorities under the Ottoman empire. His forces perpetrated bloody massacres against tens of thousands of Greek civilians during the war (though there was far too much of that happening on both sides). His government forcibly assimilated those who remained, requiring minorities to adopt Turkish surnames and banning their languages from being spoken.

I totally get the satire in your comment but I just wanna say, the forced Christianization of indigenous Americans was definitely carried out by Protestants.

edit: I guess Protestants didn’t have widespread, overt “accept baptism or we’ll execute you on the spot” policies like some Catholic missions in the Americas, but the result of forced relocation and family separation was much the same. When they force people onto a reservation on an inhospitable plot of land half a continent away from their homes, and then withhold aid unless they accept Christ as their savior, they might as well be saying “convert or die.” Same goes for using the natives’ “heathenry” as part of the justification for wars and war crimes.

Maybe in 4800 years people will share jokes about ancient 21st century doomsaying to poke fun of doomsayers in the 69th century, and someone will respond,

"back when the fastest a human could travel was on a combustion-propelled rocket in space.

back when the long distance strategic weapon was a nuclear ICBM."

“Solve The Open Hand Murders.” Too much running around, no real emotional payoff when speaking to the clergy of Ilmater after solving the murders, and Inspector Valeria is just complete and utter ass and I hate her. Why is there no option to say “IF BRILGOR ‘OFFED HIMSELF’ THEN WHY WASN’T THERE A MURDER WEAPON ON HIS PERSON YOU SHITEY LITTLE ELEPHANT?!”