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These guys really love having these confessions and hope nobody notices or picks up on it again. Choe just screwed himself over. Somebody's should send in the cops on him right now.
Saw Double Toasted play the clip on their stream last night, but not sure how or even if they'll post the moment on YouTube, considering they already having trouble with content being flagged or whatnot.
 

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These guys really love having these confessions and hope nobody notices or picks up on it again. Choe just screwed himself over. Somebody's should send in the cops on him right now.
Who would’ve thought his real life persona could be even more debase than his character on the show!
 
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Yeah, taking bets now: the next Kang variant is, coincidentally, gonna look nothing like Jonathan Majors.
Unless this situation gets very publicly reversed based on irrefutable (or thereabouts) evidence; you’re probably dead on the money.

Who would’ve thought his real life persona could be even more debase than his character on the show!
Well you know, cast the expert and all that.
 

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Ah yes, because in a Knuckles series, we all wanted to see Knuckles train a no-name human character :(



I just..... that doesn't even.... sigh....
I know this is a latest front in a culture war or somesuch, but if the producers were fixated on the skin color of Egyptian pharohs, did they forget that the Nubians were a ruling dynasty?
 

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Saw Double Toasted play the clip on their stream last night, but not sure how or even if they'll post the moment on YouTube, considering they already having trouble with content being flagged or whatnot.
Yeah, taking bets now: the next Kang variant is, coincidentally, gonna look nothing like Jonathan Majors.
 
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Cleopatra was of mixed Greek and Macedonian heritage.
Um, yes? That's my point. We know Cleopatra's background, and have reasonable ideas as to how she looked based on artifacts such as coins. It's on very shaky ground to say "I don't care what historians say, Cleopatra was black" given what's known about her, and if that's the primary interest of one looking at Egyptian history, wouldn't the Nubians/Nubian Dynasty be a better fit?
 

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Cleopatra was of mixed Greek and Macedonian heritage.
Oh, there's controversy there, people to this day still argue about whether Macedonian Greeks were really Greek. IMHO, they weren't, until Philip, and then suddenly they were cool and thus not excluded.

However, IIRC, she did have some Persian ancestry as well, and as historians don't know for sure who her mother was, there is some speculation she could have had Egyptian ancestry, though that seems unlikely.
 

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I wish Hollywood and pop culture in general would remember there were other Egyptian queens other than Cleopatra.
Well, Nefertiti gets mentioned. But yeah, there were other Cleopatra's than Cleopatra even.

Though, if you want to do Egyptain royalty stuff, you probably want to do stuff around when the pyramids were still being built, which rules the Ptolemaic dynasty right out anyway.
 

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Well, Nefertiti gets mentioned. But yeah, there were other Cleopatra's than Cleopatra even.

Though, if you want to do Egyptain royalty stuff, you probably want to do stuff around when the pyramids were still being built, which rules the Ptolemaic dynasty right out anyway.
Even the Brendan Fraser Mummy movies went with Nefertiti over Cleo...while calling her Nefertiri, for some reason.