Does he actually counts as an Isekai protagonist? He didn't travel to another world, just back in time.

It all started with Twain's disgust at the way Southern slave owners identified with olde time nobility and read way too much Walter Scott, so he set out to show how much better contemporary capitalist society was than any aristocratic or slave owning system.

Ther is a thin veil between time traveling without consequences in a very different time, and isekai. It like inuyasha which technically i time travl, but is practically an isekai, Also there is th isekai use the very ame theme of people getting in a medival society of ome kind like ascention of a bookworm, it a common isekai theme with just a fantasy tweak. An king arthur is fantasy, ther is a thin veil between time travel and isekai depending if time travel is actually explored. Ther are even reverse isekai like the fate franchise.

@@jesushernanpizarrogonzalez7297 Isekai doesn't technically require the world to be another one. The genre is based on someone going from our modern society, sometimes with specific knowledge and sometimes just with our modern sensibilities and common sense, into a society that's radically different. Obviously using a fantasy world in another dimension is usually the preference, as you can get a lot more creative and don't have to worry about historical accuracy, but any society with a drastically different technological level and societal norms works for the genre.

Pretty sure Dante got there first

Read that in Red's voice.

Harmonie Rainbow and I'm sure blue would love to ramble about the history of medieval social structure

Mc Mc I would watch the hell out of it.

Harmonie Rainbow 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Particularly in the style of Monkey King ‘DID SOMEBODY SAY HIJINKS?’

"Shut it down! Shut it all the Fuck down...(annoyed finger twirl)".

For all that is sacred on this heaven and earth you two beat me to it.

Truck kun will find you there is no excape

The bar has been working out i see.

Can we bring Crowbar-Chan into the isekai crew?

@@fantasylover87 Is that what happened to Jason Tod he didn't die he just went into another world

Don't forget bookshelf-kun and knife-chan

Same!! P. S. Like your account name!!

Kids, just keep in mind that you don't know what kind of other world you might get dumped in after making your preparations. If you're preparing to find Narnia and end up in the Francois Republic, you're gonna have a bad time.

I sleep naked so I wonder who I'm waiting for 🤨

Good way to plan ahead.

That might just be the cutest thing I've ever read

It's a great thing 😂😂

It may be a bad American accent, but it beats Benedict Cumberbatch's Southern and Boston accents, so there's that : D

You’re here! Looking forward to your next “Murder, She Wrote” video!

Oh damn i forgot about u! Hi!

Pushing up roses making a golden girls or murder she wrote reference Hm yes a normal day i guess

In any part of technical advancement there is a single engineering idea that advances technology by great leaps. I see you are using firearms. Try rifling. I see you are using electricity. Try AC and DC so you can get range and power. I see you are using steam. Have you tried internal combustion? ... Scratch that last

I don't think this is true. The best (or even the average) scientist and engineer in the modern day doesn't really need computers, plastics or phones. They may use them in their everyday work, but everything they do is founded on an understanding of a lot of fundamental principles that underpin all the more advanced stuff. If you need proof, search for a TV show from the early 2000s, called "Rough Science". Each episode, it dumped a team of half a dozen scientists in an isolated location and set them tasks, such as "build a radio", "make insect repellant", "build a metal detector" etc., all using natural resources from their surroundings. Sometimes they failed, but most of the time they were successful. Scientists learn from the ground up. They don't start their education with quantum entanglement and mass spectrometry.

Reminds me of a short story called the man who came too soon. Naval Engineer went back in time to viking Era Iceland. Tried to do the uplift but turns out all his training was for giant megaprojects that require huge manpower and advanced machines and he apparently was unable to gear down to something the Icelandic Folk could use. He told them he and his family lived in an apartment in a bug city and they scorned him for being of landless serfs. He told them about the draft and they were horrified that a ruling government could just rip people away from their homes and force them to fight for years. Not even the most power and wicked king of their Era could do that. He got into an argument over a woman with a man and when he offered to fight it out with fists, he was laughed out of the room because slaves use fists, free men fought with blades. When he balked at armed combat everyone scorned him even the woman he was sweet on. Eventually he did something that made him an outlaw and was forced on the run. He eventually died after talking up a sword and dying pathetically quickly, the only good thing anyone could say about him was that at least he died the right way.

Pretty much, he was the American Dickens, in a way.

@@RoseBaggins Twain has a short story, A Dog's Tale, that made me cry -- ON THE SUBWAY. The man had skills.

I cried after hearing the end of this book. I highly recommend the Offerman reading.

Yup.

Some off his books do end up well though (Tow Sawyer, Puddin' Head Wilson) but more often than not you'll have very low moments in them

Will science stop that magic?

We all know cats can time travel as well. Teleport, too.

Cats are not bound by any physics known to man. They appear and disappear at will.

@@TheOtherMoof They just use shortcuts.

Time stamp? I must have missed thatb

Thanks for the recommendation!

Sounds like your average palace drama mobile game on google play, lol

@@MintyCoolness it’s the blue print. It’s so good 😂😂😂😂

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

@@Tybron unless you're in the age of sail, in which case sword and pistol isn't a bad idea.

Twaine did Indiana Jones before that was a thing.

Katherine Alvarez Best scene in those movies. Besides “No ticket” of course.

@@skepticalrebekah and now I'm reminded of Dogma.

yes such holy blood of the goat

*_[Kiss From A Rose Intensifies]_*

I get so excited when channels mention each other.

Subtle Cross Promotion with hbomberguy at 17:05 as well if my eyes don't deceive me

@Hans Hanzo Yes good man the holy name was spoken

sounds like a damn good show. i'll have to look out for it

The books are better than the show. Especially the later seasons. Diana really does her research.

I hadn't known anything about Outlander at all, now I'm super interested!! Gonna check in out! Thanks!!

That sounds so much deeper than the shameless smut that it actually is haha

@@breerex4957 I mean, even shameless smut can have depth, but okay.

Yep sure does

It worked for GW Bush.

There is never a bad reason for Monty Python.

Nah, it's perfect. 👍👌😂😂😂

"MT, we have found a witch! May we burn her?!"

MsCassidy23 Mark Twain: Burn a witch at the state how revolting...do what civilized people do and lynch them. It’s all the rage in Missouri

Dennis the peasant- "Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."

Completely forgot he had to do that. I thought he was going to stop doing that to focus on LiA.

@@daniellado2523 Oh! No no, not that GoT series he used to do, I just meant in general GoT makes him unintentionally yell now. He's, currently, (probably) dropped his GoT series because it gives his heart rage and sadness when he thinks about it now XD;. It would involve too much yelling.

lovelysan 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

That's all you need to time travel? I'm going to find a body builder to whack me upside the head with a crowbar right now, I've always wondered what time travel would be like.

If someone actually did manage to hit you that hard.... wouldn't you be dead anyway?

I just sorta realized this book is basically the first isekai

christopher auzenne I- you’re completely right

@@chicostephenson wow I never thought of that

GL Knight, I find with Michael Crichton books, if you find out they're also a movie, watch the movie first, then read the book, because every time I've done the opposite and been very disappointed in the adaptation.

History Buffs does a great analysis of the movie’s many absurdities, which had often been addressed in the book but left out of the film in favor of more time for Gerard Butler to smirk at the camera.

How about a whole modern American town including a small army base? "1633" by Eric Flint and David Weber

The Cross-Time Engineer Book by Leo Frankowski

There's the Outlander books where she's a nurse and then a doctor.

Thats why i chose a general age 13 years old... it probably won't happen since it would be a terrible mistake to give that kiddo the power of time travel.

I've done this kind of thing before. I'm now choosing to come back to the day this video was posted if I can ever time travel.

From around age 12, I gave myself a password. A single phrase that, if spoken to me, regardless of who said it, will tell me all I need to know: This person is from the future and you should believe whatever they say without question (within reason) I came up with it because I was tired of seeing movies and stories about people going back in time and struggling to prove to themselves or their loved ones that they are indeed from the future. So, instead, I will make sure that only myself and a very selective few (none so far) will learn of the password so that it can't be used against me outside its intended, totally plausible, time travelling purpose. This way, all that is needed is for the password to be uttered and bada bing, bada bum, you're set. Lez go on adventures

Tiago Goncalves NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY. I did that exact same thing I still know the word. I’m just waiting for a person who I know is not gonna prank me with it. I was also very frustrated when no one believed the person. My word was more general though, like if you the told me you saw your parents turn into aliens I would instantly believe you if you said the word. I thought it was a weirdly specific thing only I thought about, this is cool.

Plot twist: You went back in time and stole the diary.

Booooooo.

@@mirjanbouma Oh you know you love it.

Ba dum tsssshhh

@@cheezemonkeyeater ... I do.

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Errenium bingo. As an American who’s spent time in UK.... yeah, I don’t expect ANY of y’all to get our regional accents right. I’ve been told I can do a relatively believable RP but any type of British regional accent... I sound laughable at best.

Well, if you were watching instead of listening, you would’ve seen the message he put onscreen that said “I know this isn’t a New England accent, but it’s the closest to American that I can get.”

It's pretty obvious Samuel Clemens was writing a satire to criticize the American Antebellum South if you know more about what it was like. The plantation owners viewed themselves as inherently superior noble gentlemen/ladies who loved tales of romantic chivalry like Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. Some of them even styled their homes like medieval castles with turrets. Clemens believed that this view of the world was what made both rich and poor willing to fight the US Civil War. In Huck Finn, there's a sunken steamship named "The Sir Walter Scott".

there surprisingly a lot of communist time travel writers when the genre first came out. Shoot, the time machine (the first time travel book to really make the ideal mainstream) was basically a deconstruction of what wrong with capitalism through the use of evolution having drastic divide on what happen to humanity.

My pager was the epitome of cool. 😎

@@Dave_L913 I know I'm only a touch older than our host, but it's funny how little things like this can be huge milestones; they're small things that create massively-impactful social shifts.

Joseph Davies It’s totally nuts sometimes when I think about these major technological advances happening during my lifetime. I can almost remember having a cordless home phone being a “cool” thing to have when I was in middle school. So we went from landlines and phone booths, to being able to get someone’s attention no matter where they are? I remember we would send coded messages using our pagers in high school, having to use the keypad numbers to decode them, and it took me forever, while one of my friends could read them almost as quickly as words. And remember when you had to text by pressing the numbers multiple times for the letters? I just can’t believe the world went from technology like that, to me holding a computer in the palm of my hand, which can give me a live feed of my mom from miles away, and my half brother from literally the other side of the country. Given the hundreds of thousands and millions and billions of years humans have supposedly been around, how in the heck did this happen during my lifetime? The chances seem so minuscule. It’s crazy.. Edited cuz I can’t grammar

So do my first round of college days. I had one of those Nokias that broke the floor if you dropped them. But I went back to school in 2014.

My college days predate people having phones on them

not at the point where the main character gets bonked with a crowbar through time and space?

Simon Every story with a fantastical premise gets one gimme: the premise itself. After that, you push it by asking for more. Mark Twain was going for a satirical political commentary, though, so it’s more acceptable in that context.

And not that King Arthur was fictional? Or that a person from the 19th century would not speak their language?

@@Jordan-Ramses Personally, those are things I'm willing to somewhat suspend my disbelief for, as UltimateKyuubi put so succinctly. Yes they are far fetched, but comparatively feel less so than centuries of technological advancement being taught & implemented in such a short span of time.

@@sundered_ant how long did it actually take?

I agree. Because we're self destructive.

The two interpretations are both valid, and complementary. This status quo is bad, and not changing it fast enough will allow unjust suffering to continue, but trying to change it too fast may lead to the status quo being restored. (Or perhaps a new one with the same flaws and new names appearing. Not naming names here, but we can all name a couple...)

That's what Assassins Creed was trying to say before it got overwhelmed with historical cameo's and open world weirdness.

My interpretation is that people as a whole are idiots

@@sorayaalcyone2726 It is not because we are self destructive (though, in a way, we are). It is a psychological phenomenon called reactance (réactance in French, not sure of the spelling in English). Here the reactance is increased by the fact that the person bringing change is a stranger with a mentality virtually alien to the Britain in the book.

The title of the BOOK my friend 😅

Dominic Noble it would be hilarious if you were talking about the title of the video though.😄

Dominic Noble Of course, 10 000 IQ right there

@@zhamac1 Especially because there'd be 10,000 more books that would deserve the same title

Book video

Me, a Canadian woman: reads the title Nice?

Me, a Murrican: *smashes through the wall on a Bald Eagle, swinging my Star Spangled Banner & flinging tea bags everywhere*

Me, a Mexican: I wonder silly this will get *proceeds to eat quesadilla*

Me, an Ohioan: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q5Z1psV01Mmzdps.html

not the weirdest thing. my first download was a harry potter fan fic. and by download I mean I printed it out to read at school. first actual download was either a taco cat meme or a pokemon gif.

That a lie

when you first got the internet you..... NERD!!!

See also the Bing Crosby version

There are a couple others as well. I remember one that starred the youngest daughter on The Cosby Show (I forget the name of the actress, Kiesha Knight Pullman or something like that).

And Black Knight, and an episode of Mr. Peabody. Actually all episodes of Mr. Peabody.

Yup

@@mattymoowhite Surprised he didn't do a Lost in Translation... Or maybe he did and KZfaq hasn't offered it to me yet

I appreciated the descriptions of how the items are made in this book. One of the first things Hank does is set up the infrastructure for manufacturing.

yeah, I just passed by a comment earlier that talked about how the story could only have truly worked with this guy from this time period of American industrial revolution. Because if it was a modern physicist/scientist/engineer they wouldn't have the practical knowledge of building these devices with the current resources (a standing on the shoulders of giants sort of scenario) so having an engineer from the early industrial rev/steam power era works because they know how to create the earlier forms of these items with high industrialization

Right? That was my first thought. Not just a nurse, but a wartime nurse, so basically a trauma surgeon. And a botanist. I REALLY expected him to go the Outlander way… but I get picking the originator.

I keep recommending the series in the comments. Maybe if we spam him enough, he'll do it?

Well… but what if he's avoiding it because of all the rape stuff? I'm not saying it's inaccurate or shouldn't have been included because I think the stories are probably being too fair for the time, about what tended to happen to unaccompanied women. But I seem to recall him being disturbed and sort of… emotionally drained? by it coming up all the time in romance stories. Although… maybe since it IS framed as assault, not love, he'd be fine? I don't know; sounds like you have more knowledge of the channel- and I only JUST got into Outlander. Thoughts?

@@ellieb.1231 A fair enough reason, though the sexual assaults are a small percentage of the storylines (even if Gabaldon likes to use it as a plot device.)

@@ellieb.1231 Well, I've only seen the tv show but if the book is anything like it... sure, rape in Outlander isn't romanticized in any way and is depicted as what it is- and as you said I suppose it's kinda realistic for the period it takes place in- but it was still implemented more frequently than necessary imo. Also, I find that while the sexual violence isn't depicted in a romanticized way, it is sometimes drawn out more than it should. Combining the two, I guess my point is that not romanticizing it doesn't necessarily exclude rape from becoming a spectacle. Idk, I still like Outlander but some of those scenes rubbed me the wrong way. Would like to hear Dom's opinion on it.

So, eastern Kentucky, then? (Where I live and the thicker accents around here sound like that.)

There were a few moments there where I thought he started to sound more like "Rhett Butler trying and failing to do a New England accent." Definitely worth the price of admission.

I was thinking the same thing. Like, ain't you 'posed to be a Yankee??

Yankees were the union in the Civil War (Northern states), you sounded like a Confederate (Southern states). You've just offended every Yankee (It doesn't bother me, I'm from the West Coast)!

COUNTRY ROOOOOOADS~

Actually, her real name is Alisande a la Carteloise. Sandy is the nickname Morgan gives to her.

Have personally seen someone in his new (and first) full-plate armour kit do a cartwheel. Also have worn armour myself, and yeah. Hell, my teen finds our chain mail so comfortable that he likes to just wear it around the place. He's even slept in it. --Mind you, ideally it's belted so you can take some of the weight (around 40 lbs dead weight of iirc 14 gauge rod) off your shoulders and transfer it to your hips.

I just posted a commentary kind of like yours, I should have checked more commentaries before posting... Though I will say that armor is still restricive : it is harder to lift yours arms above your heads, you tire faster and you are SO FUCKING SLOW while running. But yeah, I can fight in armor and I am not that much of an athlete. What really bugged me was the fact that he could not remove his helmet himself. As far as I know, no civilisation, be it antique, medieval or modern, has ever designed a helmet you cannot put on or remove yourself. Being able to remove your helmet quickly at the end of a fight fell so goddamn good ! I never put my helmet on until the fight is nigh.

@@atlantefou566 Some late medieval-early renaissance jousting helmets would have been bolted on (eg: frogmouth) but yeah i guess it was written in the nineteeth century and it shows.

@@fridjidkleftaeon3908 I talk about jousting armor in another comment. The difficult helmet and the armor so heavy that you have to be lifted to your horse are both for jousting armor, but here I think he is wearing a war armor (or at least, that is what he should be wearing).

Well, it wouldn't be a surprise if he didn't actually have properly fitted armour for him. My guess is he got to try some on in some kind of museum and they'd maybe have two or three sizes at best, and the stuff they'd give visitors would not neccessarily be of he best quality. Not far from where I live there used to be a roman border wall with a garrison and nowadays there's a museum. They do also have some armour to try on and their Lorica Hamata was actually made from butted mail. Still gives you an impression of how mail feels but on the battlefield that stuff would probably give in on the first solid hit you take.

That's what I thought, too! Primitive or not, you can recognize a bloody hole as a probable cause of death. And did Twain really think in Medieval times knights were buried in their armor?

@@astrinymris9953 Yes, but you're forgetting the arrow that would be sticking out of Sir Dead Knight. Just a hole with no visible cause would be mystifying and seemingly magical...as per the ideas of Arthur C. Clarke.

Guns are pretty much (extremely) upgraded slingshots, a weapon that cultures around the world have used since prehistory. Also there had to have been instances of fatal stabbings/impalements with awls or other small yet no less deadly implements.

@@alisaurus4224 Yes, but all those things are visible. Now I don't remember exactly how this is portrayed in the book, but the idea of a knight in heavy plate armor keeling over and dying from an invisible arrow, spear thrust etc. would be freaky. Some sort of magic or satanic powers would probably be assumed...the idea that this would happen and people would NOT react in a superstitious fashion is silly. Not that it matters. This wasn't a sci fi novel or anything...it was comedic satire, poking fun at (then) current American and British society. It doesn't have to be realistic...just realistic-ish. As hard-core sci fi or a historical fiction it might not work, but as humorous satire it kinda does.

Maybe Dom is just a bit of a scrawny nerd.

thank you, your comment is so nicely worded yet. It some how avoids sounding condescending or patronizing while being delightful!

If your armor is custom fit its fine. Scholagladatoria and other middle age/histotical educational KZfaq channels explain this is detail

@@kathrynehiersche1817 oh thank you so much! I tried very hard lol It's a topic that I have great interest and some experience in and my main interest was to share some knowledge, why should I be a dick about it lol I only now saw your comment. Thanks a bunch again!

@@chadfalardeau3259 oh yeah! love me some Lindybeige as well. he has a series of videos where a smith does a custom suit of armour for him.

Wouldn't surprise me since Huck Finn talks of slavery and how they're treated.

Makes sense, when I've studied southern history and economics I've been struck by thinking about how it resembles medieval aristocracy.

@@Devtrek Exactly. The southern colonies were founded, first and foremost, as corporate states. The only freedom the early governors cared about was the freedom to do whatever necessary to maximize profits. So they established a system that mirrored English society, but swapping out serfs for slaves. Because slaves were purely property and had no rights, and therefore pesky things like the Magna Carta weren't applicable. (Funfact: When Ben Franklin organized the Albany Congress of 1754, which was the first multi-colony conference to discuss working together for the common good, not a single southern colony even sent a rep.)

@@Devtrek The southern Aristocracy read too much Arthurian legend. And that's not hyperbole. That is in many ways what they were going for: medieval aristocracy *of legend.*

It WOULD be an isekai, wouldn't it? Haha! Well, it's not another world as in another universe or planet but I would say going 1300 years in the past would be a very different world from today.

Ahem... Narnia is an Isekai.

I'm convinced that Väinö Linna&mika Waltari invented the tsundare trope and then the Japanese stole them. Either that or hacky writing is universal 😄

@@madmalkavian3857 not just Narnia. Alice in Wonderland is an isekai.

And it's STILL better than absolute trash like Re:Zero

80% of the economy? Nah it just means slave traders are out of the job and plantation owners got to actually pay their workers with money by law instead when/if they feel like it.

@@Terminalsanity Not just plantation owners. This isn't old America. this is almost everyone who isn't a slave/serf. 80% of people were serfs. also, shockingly, there were people who owned slaves but couldn't afford servants, MEANING many MANY people were out of a job and starving in an already unsteady food economy.

@@TotallyHuman 90% in russia like seriously why dose no one talk about this

Name checks out :')

@@lesvernornvienas8232 gulag

True. 😂

@@littlearies3862 though twain lived in connecticut so probably whatever regional accent he experienced applies

Always a sign of a good childhood education.

@@CiarnaK agreed

Chow Yee Lee Mine was a Bugs Bunny adaptation.

@@truefanforum3273 I once read that cartoons were responsible for widespread cultural literacy.

Chow Yee Lee I'm not surprised. A great many classics have been adapted into cartoons in one form or another. And they certainly acted as a introduction for many children to great literature. Sadly, I don't see as many cartoon adaptations these days. I guess all the greats have just been used already.

*shivers automatically* fuck is it cold in here?

"Jack adjusted his glasses." - Every Magic Tree House book at least 4,500 times

I REMEMBER THOSE! I freaking loved those as a kid.

Those were my jam!

Well, ain't that name a throwback.

Same basic story, totally different themes. But honestly...I think I enjoyed it more.

Kate Winslet was Craig's love interest in the movie!

I did start thinking about Daniel Craig during the review, but mostly because I was comparing Dominic's American accent to Craig's performance in Knives Out.

And not only one! I remember at least two. One with Whoopi Goldberg.

Three if you count Black Knight.

Did you count unidentified flying oddball and you can count that one spongebob episode

It was even incorporated into British satire - the vessel with the pestle became the missles that were fiscile - it was in the Dubya/ Blair era. I think they were referencing the Danny Kaye version that probably lost a lot of the political satire.

Oh several, there's one where an astronaut went back in time! And there was a robot involved. 😆😆

Maria Torres i believe the black cat is called Sir Terry Pratchett. This may be shortened to Sir Terry, but the title is always preserved.

@@alisaurus4224 As well it should be!

Samuel Barber that’s traveling forward, though, so no altering/“improving” of the past is involved.

Ali the Heep it was a reference to when he said "Just once, couldn't they be a scientist or inventor."

It did.

There are also two MacGyver episodes, where MacGyver "travels" into the past. His interaction with Merlin are pretty much the same as in Mark Twain's book.

And was also a social commentary with the Eloi being a species of elfin lotus eaters evolved from the privileged rich and Morlocs being orc-like underground dwellers, evolved from the working class, who maintain the ancient machines that give the Eloi their perfect, comfortable lives, keeping the Eloi in a state of child like indolence until the Morlocs come to the surface on moonless nights to literally hunt and prey on the Eloi as food.

@@weldonwin That, I recall very well. Usually, when a media travels into the future, it takes what is known about society and magnifies it to reveal all its imperfections. I really should read this book again (in english instead of my native tongue this time). I used to like it a lot when I was younger.

One of my favorite classics. I named my dog after Weena 🥰

Yeah, consider that Edward 7th didn't live long in reality and Henry the 8th being controversial (I mean even in Protestant Britain, Henry the 8th might not be well-loved due to his divorce-driven schism and persecution against Catholics who only got their rights of citizens--except non-Northern Ireland--restored not too long ago).

I don't think the book broke its own rule with that -- I mean, maybe at the beginning with the time travel thing, as Noble pointed out -- but then again, maybe not. merlin was just doing the usual merlin thing. of course he had to gesticulate and chant, but I'm sure he also knew a thing or two about poisons and powders.

He also showed Hbomberguy up there for a second.

Oh I renember that book I read that as a kid and was wondering if it was just a fever dream

AlSidre nope it was a thing and it was WEIRD

By Thea Beckman! Yes, good book, I think just about every Dutch person from my generation has read it.

Lianne De Graaf Yeah I read that as a child. It was pretty dark for a children's book.

Amber Swafford Twain grew up in Missouri, traveled west then ended up based in the Northeast. I’d say he’s more Western than Southern. I share your love for Faulkner, though.

Hey, fellow anime otaku family! Does he watch anime though? Indeed, Dr. Stone is amazing.

Meanwhile, Steins Gate is sitting in the corner

Burn That Witch is a light novel receiving an adaptation that I'm fond of for all its flaws. Chinese engineer dies of overwork, wakes up in an European medieval parallel in the middle of a witch trial (as a foppish prince presiding over the local land and trial), stops the execution under the assumption that "lol magic doesn't real" only to find it is, there, and uses that witches power over fire to kickstart an industrial revolution. Was hooked for a long while, though I personally felt like towards the end it became rushed and fell apart. Great fun if the sound of that appeals, though.

@@PapaNierForReplicant I have tried three or four times to get into Steins;Gate and can't and I don't know why! I get to like, episode 3 and just lose interest! And I've ready heard that it starts slow but no matter what, that is just never enough to get me to commit to anything further, lol.

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley I personally have liked the show from the very beginning, but I understand why you don't like it. Still, if you have the time, you should get to the midway point, at least. That's the point where the plot really kicks in.

The concept is great but I couldn't stand that anime more than a few episodes. Like we are supposed to be like yes real science but also a teenager kills a lion with his bare hands and the logical intelligent kid keeps saying stuff like "this will work 1million%" 😂😖

@@rebekahnunes8480 Episode 7 is when it really kicks off. But if its not your cup of tea, its all good.

Renee Hunt that guy is the “main antagonist” but thankfully he’s not in that much.

Too bad the grotesque hypersexualisaion and odd infantalisation of most females plus the frequent screeching by many characters negated all interest I had in keeping up with the series. (Ame problems w Food Wars.)

I am commenting for several reasons. One of course is the nebulous force that is the algorithm, the second is to endorse your idea for a crossover, and thirdly, I wish to wish you a very good day.

I would watch the hell out of that

Hear Hear!

Yes! Yes! All the yes! I'm actually pretty sure I found The Dom from a recommendation while I was watching OSP.

The king is only elected from among the rich and powerful BY the rich and powerful, therefore it's an oligarchy regardless of whatever else it is.

In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth universal suffrage didn't exist either. Only the members of nobility (szlachta) were allowed to vote. It was still an Elective Monarchy, and that is a much better descriptor of GoT ending.

Well, a true monarchy would be the power of one, and only one, and that is impossible. A true democracy would be perfect equality between all citizens, and that is impossible. I understand why people would call the Seven Kingdoms an oligarchy, because the heads of the main noble houses definitely have power. But in my opinion the king is clearly abovre the rest, and thus it is a monarchy. But yeah, the limits between monachy and oligarchy are definitely gray.

@@atlantefou566 "a true monarchy would be the power of one, and only one" no, that's *specifically* absolute monarchy, not monarchy as a whole.

@@robokill387 I am talking about the greek meaning, mono archos, the "power of one". That is what I mean by "true monarchy"

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It was more of a mark twain accent than a connecticut yankee accent XXD

Was gonna say, as a Nutmegger that accent was far more Mark Twain than Connecticut Yankee XD

I don’t know what sort of accent us Connecticut people have, but I’m pretty sure Dom didn’t quite hit it. 😂