Mythology is part of ancient cultures. Unless you’re interpreting history extremely narrowly as “Events and dates” and not “The study of past societies”, it fits.

He was. I miss him terribly.

2 is Friedrich Nietzsche

4 is Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who also wrote Meditations, a long-lasting Stoic text

Explanation: Hades, the Greek god of the underworld, trapped his wife-to-be, Persephone, in the underworld by having her eat pomegranate seeds, binding her to the place. This is obviously very uncomfortable by modern standards, and even some later Greek myths re-interpret it as being a kind of willing elopement against her mother’s will rather than kidnapping-by-trickery.

YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND

I’M SAVING CIVILIZATION

Oh no, I’m just a meme vector! I spread memes, I’m generally too lazy to make them

Furries are odd fellows, but I would never say anything against them for fear of all IT infrastructure spontaneously trying to kill for the rest of my life because it’s just odd, not harmful. De gustibus non disputandum est.

He was old when he played it. My mother said that when she was growing up in the 70s and 80s my grandparents always had the latest game consoles, and were reluctant to share with their kids (ie her).

He was the coolest grandfather.

Straightest MGS moment

I think it’s meant more as “Bibi, specifically, has failed to get the ideological allies of Bibi into power” rather than “Israel has failed to ensure that both parties are ideological allies of Israel”

The distinction is important insofar as Netanyahu’s alliance with the GOP is concerned, as opposed to the general bootlicking attitude of American politicians towards Israel.

My grandfather was a big horror aficionado and played Resident Evil when I was growing up, and he always said that and the Hunter intro were the scariest parts for him.

Iran and China are hesitant on him. Iran because he might be stupid enough to actually start a pointless war that’s in no one’s strategic interests, not even the US; China because he can be bribed, but he also swaps to the opinion of the person who last spoke to him, which makes him unpredictable (and thus makes it difficult to establish any policy that deals with the US as long as he’s in power).

Kind of. Ever since I was diagnosed with ADHD, I’ve reinterpreted some of my lifelong habits, and I think for me my urge to chip in is at least partially ADHD related. My attention continuously refocuses, which means it continuously refocuses on whatever is going on at the moment - which makes anyone requesting help, even if not specifically from me, extremely hard for me to ignore.

Every time my attention jumps away and then jumps back, it’s like getting hit with the help request brand new, so it’s much easier to try to address the need for help than try to ignore it popping up in my head every ten seconds from now 'til the issue is resolved on someone else’s initiative.

I’m sorry to hear that, genuinely. I hope we can build a more inclusive environment going forward.

Oh, it goes to the account’s instance admins, not the community’s instance admins? That explains a lot.

Celtish

Considering that marriage was not optional for the vast majority of people and the extremely low standards for the treatment of women, incels would have been vanishingly rare. Maybe a few literal lepers.

That’s it, we’re injecting you with the lizard-man genes. Have fun jumping through mansion windows the rest of your life, dweeb!

Isn’t this just The Last Ringbearer

Speaking as a mod, even speaking as a mod who’s terminally online, we can’t have eyes everywhere at once. Somewhere, in the depths of the comment chains, we always miss something, or skim over it. Reporting isn’t adding to our work load (generally), it’s a great help. You shouldn’t hesitate to report anything that seems like it breaks the rules/expresses bigotry.