@badwedgie00 @sargentpsgamer

You don't have to be particularly good at fighters, or even play them very often to appreciate them.

Until recently I would rarely play them at all, yet I bought most of them because of the simple fun you could have mashing away at 'em.

It wasn't until recently that I started diving into the dark world of frame data and tier lists. That can be alienating to newcomers.

Maxwell has to take a newcomers perspective into account too, not just the jaded buttholes of the world.

@ivan_osorio

I get'cha.

I love playing Tekken, but I wouldn't really take it to be well balanced. On the other hand, I would definitely call Virtua Fighter balanced, without hesitation. Then why is it that I can't stop playing Tekken? It's good fun, with enough balance to get it by.

Very well written.

I honestly didn't think this sort of stuff was being analysed that far back. Or at least not in that depth.

I also loved the bit about Harada confessing to having more data shown than he previously let on.

Thanks Maxwell McGee, this made my day.

@matrixman2k

...I don't even...well..lol.

@blangenakker

True.

@transformer1992 @RPG_Fan_I_Am

I respectfully disagree.

The reason that Rome didn't conquer all of Britainnia specifically is because they weren't interested.

The part that they wanted, they took, much like Germania.

This ambush was the worst they saw in Germania, and there really wasn't any such ambush in Britain. They simply took it. It didn't take very long.

It's sort of like Scandinavia, they could have taken it, but seemed to have had no interest.They didn't want every square inch.

@RPG_Fan_I_Am @BradBurns

I get'cha. I was taking that very much into consideration.

My astonishment didn't come from the fact that the people living around the Mediterranean were advanced (that's a given, it's the only part of Europe that was advanced at the time), it was from a recent study that found that a particular group of advanced Europeans from the region are probably the earliest known Celts.

It was quite shocking to many people in the field who had long known about the tribe, but oddly never considered them Celtic.

In other words, it turned out that one of those advanced Mediterranean tribes was in fact Celtic all along. Changing the way we see Celts (traditionally somewhat barbaric and Germanic looking, to an older more advanced people like a Greek society).

I found it very interesting, to put it lightly.

@RPG_Fan_I_Am @BradBurns

Well said, sir.

You get it. I agree.

Though the underlying culture of the Britannians back then was similar and descendant of Hispanians (they used ships very, very early in history to reach the isles), the admittedly better weather and environment (and time spent there by people) made Hispania the more developed of the of the two.

We don't hear that much about it in history books, I can't help but feel that it may be for old political reasons (Spain Catholic, Britain Protestant, it's best we don't mention those evil Catholics in our history books, even if they weren't Catholic back then)

I just love to know that there were a group of Celts that could (Gasp!) read and write even before the Romans, and had better metal works (armor, swords, etc. that the Romans copied) and attack formations.

Celts are usually portrayed as idiots wearing loincloths with paint on their faces, clubbing each other over the head. It's weird to read about a group of Celts that dress and behave more similar to, well, Romans, before having contact with them.

@RPG_Fan_I_Am

Oh, I see.

You're referring to my analogy of Spain basically being Southern Britain.

Brits back then and Spaniards were descendants of the same people (they still are, but I digress). So to simplify it, I used that analogy.

Greeks used to place the British Isles as a set of island right off the coast of Northern Spain in ancient maps because the people of Spain that settled the isles used to think of them as one in the same .

My point was that the two people were basically the same, and were thought of as such by their contemporaries.I am aware of their geographical locations.

@RPG_Fan_I_Am @BradBurns

Southwest of France, yes, why do you ask?

Hispania is the regional name given by the Romans which included parts of modern day France and all of Portugal.

Spain is a modern kingdom/nation, like England.