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Ancient aliens
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Here's the comic before it was squished by a hydraulic press
Thanks. Never understood why people break the aspect ratio or do weird crops. (And I don't mean just cropping out the watermark.)
On Reddit people used to distort images like this because it would confuse repost-identifier bots.
Ah, the good ol Youtube hack, flipping the video and increasing the speed by 2%
The aspect ratio, because phones. The cream of the crop are phone screen recordings of horizontal videos, which leads to 2/3 of the screen being huge black bezels
One of the best joke I saw about that shit was like "Hey, you know how those ancient aliens only seem to help building Egyptian pyramids, pre columbian and Asian temples, Moai, etc...? Only logical conclusion : looks like aliens must really hate white people."
The aliens hated white people so much they put a bunch of cathedrals all over europe to keep them under control.
Among the ...creative "historians" who plague French-speaking youtube, there's an idiot who spends hours and hours claiming all of the cathedrals were made by vikings to spread the true faith, fucking Odinism, against Christianity.
The guy doesn't even know what a "cathedral" is (literally just a church with a bishop in it), and cherry picks examples (some of them not cathedrals) that he can make roughly make correspond timewise (ignoring dozens of cathedrals long before or after the relatively short viking expansion).
He also quotes nazi pseudo-historians, theories about the templars being vikings and establishing South-American empires, and he presents himself to his most devoted ~~cult members~~ fans as the incarnation of a Norse deity. He hasn't made up his mind about whether he's Heimdall or Hermod though.
Heimdall or Hermod>
Sounds like he's Nimrod.
I mean, he did get right that Odinism is the one true faith, so I'm tempted to hear out the rest.
Wait, Odan? That's like the point where we all jerk off and such?
No, you're thinking about reddit.
Yeah, well not even French Normans believed that.
In exchange for land and a title, they converted as a formality and where indistinguishable from the rest of French nobility in a generation or two. Basically an afterthought.
Contrary to popular depictions, vikings were generally pragmatic people.
Was joke
do you also watch Quinton reviews? he even turned it into a shirt.
https://www.pixelempire.com/products/aliens-didnt-like-white-people-shirt
Yeah, wasn't sure where I had heard it first, but it was probably him.
That guy owes me literal days of my time.
same, I watched all the Nickelodeon videos. 10/10
Curious what A.C. is?
Portuguese equivalent to the English "BC" ("before Christ")
A.C. - Antes de Cristo
The artist is from Brazil https://www.instagram.com/dragonartebr.official
Oh nice! That makes good sense. Thank you for that!
Thanks for the clarification! Is 'aliens' the same word in Portuguese or did the artist use an English word or was this a translation?
I think it's a loan word. The root "alien" exists in words like *alienado* (alienated) or *alienação* (alienation), but as a single word alien/aliens I think comes from English.
Thanks!
My memory failed for a bit, as another commenter said, the actual word for alien in Portuguese is *alienígena*, but nowadays many shorten it to alien (likely due to English influence)
A bit of a correction, alien has its roots in Latin, alius (other) -> alienus (belonging to other), which spread over the places the Romans conquered. Since it's Latin, it's also the why most legal documents love using "alienate" when it comes to transferring ownership of stuff
No idea when alien started to be used to refer to extraterrestrials.
Could be "alienígena", but we use "alien" too. It's shorter
Same thing as AD but more archaic. No idea why the cartoonist used it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ante_Christum_natum
Edit: Wait, that doesn't make sense.
It's the same as BC, not AD
Ah, ok, then it does make sense. I was confused. Still weird though.
eyyyy a name check for my man Bede. Love that guy.
No lol, don't try to explain it if you don't know what you're talking about.
I literally said my explanation didn't make sense. I'm not sure what more you want from me. I have yet to get my time machine in functional order. I think I misread the instructions from IKEA.
I know it's part of the joke here, but not a bad time to mention the pyramids weren't built by enslaved workers at all. It was likely dedicated domestic laborers working 3-4 hr days.
Labor in ancient Egypt is a strange from our perspective. Everybody was essentially a serf in a very collectivist society with a command economy. Creating any form of discord was not just against the will of the state but a denial of the authority of the gods.
For example, they had a labor strike for the monument builders, and that was a big cultural moment for them that eventually signaled the downfall of a dynasty. The laborers even threatened to damage the tombs, showing just how much they were rebelling against cultural norms. But to get to that point, they hadn't fed those laborers for a month, meaning the pharaoh himself was creating discord(since he technically owned all the food and his job was to direct the people and give them what they need to carry out his orders) and society was breaking down.
As an aside to the command economy thing, pay in ancient Egypt was always in the form of rations. Like, if you were rich in ancient Egypt that meant that the pharaoh was giving you enough grain to support 50 retainers or trade that food for something else, but there wasn't money
Sort of astounding that the silhouettes are the group in the foreground copy-pasted.
Using wimpy aliens like ET would take too long. Gotta get a Xenomorph.
Ouch
I laughed more than I would have expected at this. Awesome. Get us some power stations or whatever.
Real?
They're actual photographs, so yes.
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2024
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