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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 4 covers nearly 1500 years so that is not very specific. Also if you knew anything about Roman history you would know we most closely line up with the time of the Gracchi which is hundreds of years before the start of The History of the Decline and...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 4 covers nearly 1500 years so that is not very specific. Also if you knew anything about Roman history you would know we most closely line up with the time of the Gracchi which is hundreds of years before the start of The History of the Decline and...

Saying that a Sartre has nothing of value to say about privilege because of the socioeconomic position he was born to is the same as saying that Marx and Engels had nothing of value to add to communism because of their's. That is not what he is saying, he was a Marxist and a humanist, he...

You are probably thinking of the Creature Collection series, and I agree they where great, especially if you wanted to really through your players off balance. They where published by Sword and Sorcery as part of their Scarred Lands setting which was a really interesting setting.

Also Dogmeat from the original Fallout, dogs make the best companions,

What is this the 90's? How many games these days need more keys than you can easily get to from WASD? And in the few games that do you are better off just binding a couple to your mouse.

This is a bit of a simplification but in the US the government, in most areas, does not sting or maintain the cable lines, instead they allow a private company to do so and act similar to other utility companies so there is only ever one cable company in any given area. There are other broadband...

Does anyone care that RoboCop (2014) wiped the RoboCop cannon?

Among scholars, of his works, the consensus is that it was written as criticism. Whether or not the word 'satire' is the best term to describe it is debatable. There are some that disagree and say that it is not criticism but instead is meant as a trap, as some of the advice in The Prince...

Figuring the majority opinion of scholars is that it was written as criticism, you seem to be on the denial side.

So you are familiar with his much more extensive works directly criticizing principalities and that he had a tendency to get arrested for advocating against them?

I see you are unfamiliar with satire. Other had already written much more detailed guides and the princes where already being educated in these strategies. The difference between what others wrote and the Prince is that the Prince makes the actions sound reprehensible. It was either criticism on...

His philosophy was that dictatorships where inferior to republic and the fear necessary to maintain the dictatorship would always lead to violence. The Prince is a book criticizing violent dictatorships not advocating for them.

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The Prince is not Machiavelli's view on how one should rule but on how one must rule if one is a dictator. Machiavelli strongly believed that principalities where an inferior form of government, was a strong advocate of republics, and wrote much more extensive works on republics, that most...