Recent content by Acies Argentum

A miscarried fetal kitten in a litter box..... Working at an animal shelter is not fun sometimes

Wow, that is an extremely poetic death. After a life of lethal inventions, his final one killed him. I was going to say Stalin for the reasons already listed, but that just took the top of my list. Going crazy in a position of power is one thing, but to use incredible genius to screw things up...

I once woke up to a hornet flying around about a foot away from my face. Keep in mind, this was in a basement, in a very cramped room.

I still jump a little bit whenever I hear Godsmack's "I Stand Alone"

Q: Do You think you could take a life to defend your own. Definitely. In the heat of things I have no doubt that, if killing was the most apparent method of preserving my own life, I would kill. How I would feel about it after, however, is where the issue would probably come in. Q: The BadGuy...

Fair enough. But I suppose thats why this is all 'what if' discussion. I mean, without the campaigns waged to bring all of Europe under the christian faith, how long would have the entire continent stayed as 'barbarian' tribes? Just look at Scandinavia. I forget the name but I know of a king who...

It'd probably be either a migraine or my mother cutting off a part of my ear when she was cutting my hair when I was 5. The little part that kinda covers the ear canal is now only about half as big on my left ear as on my right.

No crusades, no renaissance. No renaissance, Europe would have stayed in the dark ages for who knows how long. Not saying that means everything is justified in the end, but you can't really take a single historic event and hold it apart from everything as if it had no influence anywhere else.

After considerable thought, the simple answer I have come to is yes, people should keep their opinions and preferences to themselves if they are afraid of a negative response. I have a considerable amount of support for my argument which I will share, but I would first like to emphasize that...