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You would have more fun with a racist? Really?

No one tagged them here though.

But, Vela's video promo is bannanas.

I gotta say, goose stepping has more legs than I expected. We're in for another tight competition.

When you put it that way.... it doesn't make sense anymore.

Where's that vote @ghostrek?

Westpark was a robot all along.

Not sure what you're referring to here. Geoffrey of Monmouth recounts him as being a pivotal hero in the defense of the native Breton people from the invading Anglo Saxon (viking) hordes. In that respect, he would be an appropriate parallel fighter in WWII since the Anglo Saxons were germanic invaders. But that version of Arthur is distinctly Roman in nature.

Sure, there’s a party in the Oval Office and it just has to be Hunter…

How bout we just share our nose candy with you instead?

I don't see how denomination matters here.

Good Vs Evil is an oversimplification of the Christian mythology. Jesus isn't necessarily fighting the devil in the same way a crusader would be fighting heathens in the Holy Land. He spends far more time fighting is fellow Jews on issues of religious edict and intent. The liklihood is that Jesus would have died at the hands of the Nazis instead of the Romans if the times were transposed, and the Nazis themselves would have similarly been placeholders for the true enemy of Christianity. I'm really just pointing out that you have a heck of a lift if you want to make King Arthur a savior of WWII Europe. It's obviously not impossible, but it far more complex than the premise allows.

Arthur is almost explicitly meant to parallel the life of Jesus, including the fact he's "miraculously" created, his 12 knights of the round table (only some of the narratives), the denial of his most trusted disciple (Lancelot), his death by betrayal, and his "assumption" to the island of Avalon. It's not an exact parallel; Arthur isn't meant to be an alternate Christ. More likely, he's actually meant to be a bridge between local pagan traditions and the Roman Catholicism. Messianic figures rarely appear in war narratives because religions classify such deities as creators as opposed to destroyers.

You know what? It fucking works. I dont know how it works, but it works.

Nobody has seen Westpark... because he's dead and that was his murderer posing as him.

Derailing threads is always the goal.

No, it wouldn't be.

So, the implication of this and the "hypocrisy" of the US complaining about Cuba hosting Chinese spy operations is... the United States has the right to invade Cuba, depose it's communist leaders, and "return" the island to ethnic Americans?

The problem is more that Arthur is emblematic of idealized chivalric European society. While similar legends from the early pre-Medieval period built up cults of personality around "uniter" kings, King Arthur is more a creation of the High Middle Ages leading into the early Renaissance. He's less a warlord and more a (as you say) reincarnation of Jesus, and that makes him ill suited as a foil for the barbarism of the Nazis.

Alright, we'll make it until Friday at 11pm EDT if that's okay with everyone.

You know the difference between not dreaming and not remembering a dream.

You do know that none of Arthurian Legend suggests Arthur ever fought an invasion, and most historic figures likely to be the inspiration for Arthur were local warlords.

It doesn’t baffle me, but it does kind of worry me. I track my sleep, so it makes me wonder what I fucked up that I’m missing out on REM sleep.

Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy you guys were all in on this. It be disingenuous of me to say this is all Buddy's idea, but I did want this to be something that he'd appreciate and I had absolutely no idea if anyone would actually want to play. Even Gemini Shaqting the fool made it feel authentic.

I tried to keep the prompts as simple and open ended as possible so people could have fun, but you guys went way beyond what I had originally intended. What you all are doing is difficult even for me.