Thunderstrike2024

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Depends on the country. In the US, and most European countries, you are entitled to a reasonable explanation for being fired. Taking time off for a wedding photoshoot is not something that you can be fired for unless you no-call no-show to work, and you generally have to have done the same action before at least once or twice. Workers have many more rights in these countries, and can appeal to the courts if they believe they were unreasonably terminated. China and India have significantly fewer protections though, so it's true that you can be fired for basically anything, with only minimal reason necessary.

Just call them cold weapons. Guns were invented and developed during the Medieval Period, so that label isn't very accurate in this context. Variations of the weapons that became guns and similar items existed even in the ancient era, with weapons made to throw flaming oil, a precursor to grenades, were used even by the Greeks and Persians.

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Solidly better than Age of Mythology in terms of balance and number of civilizations and campaigns. The recent Age of Mythology Retold is great too, but still a bit glitchy and with notable bugs. I will say that Age of Empires 1 is directly inferior to Age of Mythology though, so do Age of Empires 2 or 3 if you want something similar in quality or superior to Age of Mythology.

Pretty sure the author hasn't been to a KFC. There are other inconsistencies too.

The OC was saying that destroying mountains isn't truly a god-level feat. Jesus, the incarnate Son of God, performed much greater feats than moving a few mountains, so if you take the literal interpretation that a god must at least be equal to Jesus, then the OC is correct. The minimum standard is not met, only the dregs of what Jesus could do. On a side note, Jesus was never considered God until after the resurrection. Nothing in the Bible shows that people perceived Jesus as anything more than a teacher and a prophet. Hence the fact that even his closest disciples at the Last Supper still asked "Lord, show us the father, and that will be enough for us". They had abandoned him even before nightfall. They didn't truly believe that he was God.

That's not how the system works even in this novel though. The other children aren't just abandoned, but they don't inherit the land or titles. That is exactly what happened in the era of the Crusades. Some children fought for power in larger kingdoms like France (Charlemagne) or England (William), but those were primarily the children of Dukedoms or Kingdoms, not lesser nobles such as Counts, Viscounts, or Barons. Even Mstislav was fighting over city states within the massive Kievan Rus, not lesser territories like Bohemia or Brandenburg. The Hautevilles, a clan of Normans in Italy, were given nothing but swords and armor and then let loose to fight for glory. One managed to conquer most of Italy. Another founded the Kingdom of Two Sicilies which eventually merged with Sardinia, absorbed Piedmont and Naples, and conquered Venetia, to form the modern state of Italy. Bohemond de Hauteville even battled the Byzantine Empire and conquered the ancient city of Antioch from the Saracens of the Abbassid Empire. This story focuses on a fictionalized version of a different path, the church, that many second or third sons took, but it was still very real, and even was the preferred path of the Florentine Medici family, which produced multiple popes at the city's peak of influence.