Your Favorite Empire

[UberWeegeeia]

The Romans.
Seriously, they had an awesome language, they crucified criminals to deter others, and they had arena's! WHERE THE FIGHTING WASN'T SCRIPTED.

Trust me, one gladiatorial show and you'd be wishing for scripted combat.

Why? This is coming from a guy who thought the "postal" series was the funniest thing ever, this is coming from somebody who often finds himself laughing at other people's misfortunes.
Pretty sure I'd like it.

[Vetalia]

Why? This is coming from a guy who thought the "postal" series was the funniest thing ever, this is coming from somebody who often finds himself laughing at other people's misfortunes. Pretty sure I'd like it.

Postal was a video game series...

[Farnhamia]

Trust me, one gladiatorial show and you'd be wishing for scripted combat.

Why? This is coming from a guy who thought the "postal" series was the funniest thing ever, this is coming from somebody who often finds himself laughing at other people's misfortunes.
Pretty sure I'd like it.

Seeing it in person is rather different. Blood, shit, screaming ... yeah, you'll laugh. When you finish vomiting, Mr. ITG.

[Conserative Morality]

Why? This is coming from a guy who thought the "postal" series was the funniest thing ever, this is coming from somebody who often finds himself laughing at other people's misfortunes.
Pretty sure I'd like it.

"I like Call of Duty so I'm pretty sure I'd like real life combat."

That's about the equivilent of what you're saying.

[Vetalia]

Seeing it in person is rather different. Blood, shit, screaming ... yeah, you'll laugh. When you finish vomiting, Mr. ITG.

Of course, that's probably tame compared to some of the gruesome wounds blades can inflict when people are fighting to the death. Disembowlments, lost limbs, massive bleed-outs...being beheaded would be a mercy compared to the other things that could happen including being mauled by animals. The gladiators really were the last true legacy of human sacrifice in the classical Roman world.

[UberWeegeeia]

Why? This is coming from a guy who thought the "postal" series was the funniest thing ever, this is coming from somebody who often finds himself laughing at other people's misfortunes.
Pretty sure I'd like it.

"I like Call of Duty so I'm pretty sure I'd like real life combat."

That's about the equivilent of what you're saying.

Not really.
I have a very sick sense of humor.

[Western cuba]

Come on where is the Mongol Option at?

[Vetalia]

Not really. I have a very sick sense of humor.

Have you ever seen an actual person die?

[UberWeegeeia]

Not really. I have a very sick sense of humor.

Have you ever seen an actual person die?

Not honestly, so you may have a point there.

[Farnhamia]

"I like Call of Duty so I'm pretty sure I'd like real life combat."

That's about the equivilent of what you're saying.

Not really.
I have a very sick sense of humor.

Sure, hon, whatever.

@Vetalia: Yes, it was. Gladitorial combat was originally a funeral rite, probably Etruscan, so the deaths would be a kind of sacrifice to the deceased. That aspect did tend to fade over time, though.

[Farnhamia]

Not really. I have a very sick sense of humor.

Have you ever seen an actual person die?

And not just die, be killed.

[Vetalia]

Not honestly, so you may have a point there.

I've seen the videos of beheadings in Afghanistan...while my sense of humor could easily be as dark as your own, that was something else. I can only imagine what it would be like to see that in person. Absolutely horrific, much more so than seeing someone shot.

[Italiani a Roma]

Question, isn't the Byzantine Empire just the Eastern Roman Empire?

[Conserative Morality]

Question, isn't the Byzantine Empire just the Eastern Roman Empire?

Cue hours of debate on the subject.

[South Lehi]

I submitted Other... The Holy South Lehi Empire

[Hungramy]

The Austria-Hungary Empire,The Russian Empire and The Mongul(Golden Horde) Empire.

[Buffett and Colbert]

That makes no sense.

It makes sense in the same way that the Church kept women down in Medieval Europe despite the evidence for such oppression in the bible being sketchy at best. It's Christianity, whether or not it was in the Bible.

It's application of Christianity, not Christianity.

[Wamitoria]

The Austria-Hungary Empire

Why?

[Buffett and Colbert]

A different story once he went to Medina and started to attain power. I don't understand why people who are not Muslim think that the Qur'an is a cohesive, non-contradictory document that can be seperated from the individual circumstances under which Mohammed operated in his quest to convince people of his status as the final messenger of God.

When did I say that? I've railed against the Bible and Qu'ran enough on here, I think, not to give the impression that I think it's infallible. \

[Buffett and Colbert]

The Austria-Hungary Empire

Why?

Awesome anthems.

[Hungramy]

The Austria-Hungary Empire

Why?

my family come from hungary to the USA and it was a great empire

[SD_Film Artists]

Question, isn't the Byzantine Empire just the Eastern Roman Empire?

Depends on the time period. The Byzantine Empire got less and less Roman as it aged.

It was still much more Roman than the Holy Roman Empire.


Infact, I still don't know how the German Empire in any of its forms (Holy Roman, Prussian, Imperial) can be seen as more victorious, larger or inventive than other empires.

[Harata]

I've always admired the Japanese military traditions (before that part of their culture was destroyed by WWII).

[The Pope States]

Long live the German Empire 1871-1935

[Fedeledland]

Long live the German Empire 1871-1935

The German Empire stopped existing in 1919.