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War and Peace ...and War (35 to 32 B.C.E.)
FOLKS, WE'RE DOING IT AGAIN.
OUR FRIENDS OCTAVIAN AND ANTONY ARE BACK.
IT'S ROME TIME.
2022-09-20 15:47:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Congress of Vienna (Part 2) (1814 to 1815)
Now available to the public on YouTube!
2022-04-02 16:31:40 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access to Next Video
The Congress of Vienna (Part 2) (1814 to 1815)
It's the THRILLING CONCLUSION to the Congress of Vienna!
Our heroes come out of this one looking quite bad! A lot of lying! A lot of incompetence!
What else is new! But somehow, miraculously, they stumble out of there avoiding another world war.
A lot of Poland-Russia stuff in this video which...as time went on...s...
2022-03-16 04:44:32 +0000 UTC View PostPreview
Animation for the next video is chugging along! Currently about half way done, just wrapping up the phase that I'm calling "Talkin' Week" and entering the phase that I'm calling "Flow Chartin' Week."
"Mappin' Week" is somewhere out there in my future, but I refuse to think about that because I like to live in denial.
Hope everyone's good! Cheers! :)
2022-02-17 22:05:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe Congress of Vienna (Part 1) (1814)
Now available to the public on YouTube!
2022-01-29 16:19:41 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access to Next Video
The Congress of Vienna (Part 1) (1814)
At long last! More 19th century content!
Try not to flip your dang lids, but it's another video sans squares. We got paintings, we got portraits, we got people's faces, it's a whole new visual world baby.
I was torn for a long time about doing a Part 1 and a Part 2, but once I realized that *both pa...
2022-01-12 17:43:45 +0000 UTC View PostPreview #1
The animation for the next video is more than half way done. The end is in sight!
I tried to find a non-spoiler preview image for a little hint on the next video's topic, but it turns out *everything* is a spoiler, so here we go! Talkin' 'bout elections, talkin' 'bout politics, talkin' 'bout Whig Oligarchies.
My guess is that I'm probably like 7-10 work days away from this video being done. Since the holidays are coming up I'll be cautious and say it'll pr...
2021-12-19 22:34:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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In the summer of 2020, I began the "readin bout boats" phase of my life. This is the first video to bear fruit from all that reading. As predicted, boats are mentioned literally zero times.
Last year I started INHALING books about the 19th century British Navy, and over time this slowly expanded into books about the political history of the 19th centu...
2021-06-27 20:58:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Antony's Invasion of Parthia (42 to 33 B.C.E.)
Antony's Invasion of Parthia (42 to 33 B.C.E.)
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2021-04-24 14:05:10 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access to Next Video
Antony's Invasion of Parthia (42 to 33 B.C.E.)
I HOPE YOU LIKE MAPS.
Another installment in the continuing series: "Mediocre Roman Leaders Who Are Incredibly Lucky To be Surrounded By Other Mediocre Leaders."
This video features me taking Antony's political situation quite seriously, and coming out the other side shockingly sympathetic to his point of view. Except in one case, where he 100% ...
2021-04-11 15:20:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Sextus Pompeius and the Sicilian War (42 to 36 B.C.E.)
BOATS BOATS BOATS BOATS BOATS
2021-01-16 17:19:50 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access to Next Video
Sextus Pompeius and the Sicilian War (42 to 36 B.C.E.)
It's a Christmas Miracle!
Boats, Pirates, Famine, Incompetence, Being Bad At Things, Bravely Running Away.
This video follows Octavian, and clearly it covers *a lot* of ground. When I began the research process, I thought that I would be able to cover Antony & Cleopatra as well, which in retrospect seems like madness. &n...
2020-12-29 02:54:27 +0000 UTC View PostPreview #1 (image)
Salut!
Currently down in the trenches animating the next video, which clocks in at a *ludicrous* 38 minutes.
By my calculations I'm about 30% of the way through the animation. That's always a deceptive number though, since the first half always takes a lot longer than the second half. I always joke that the actual work of animating a video is like... 51% the first minute, 49% everything else. You can tell that that's something I actually say because...
2020-12-10 18:42:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe Battle of Philippi (42 B.C.E.)
INCOMPETENCE ON ALL SIDES!
2020-09-22 13:48:15 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access to Next Video
The Battle of Philippi (42 B.C.E.)
It's here! Much anticipated, the story of the largest battle in Roman history [PROBABLY].
I also took this opportunity to just straight up *TRICK* people into learning about this weird little incident with Hortensia which has always captured my imagination.
Enjoy!
2020-09-08 17:48:28 +0000 UTC View PostPreview #1 (image)
I'm not even *REMOTELY* near the end of animating, but this is a little look at what I was working on today.
I censored something that would give away the literal name of the video, but... it probably doesn't take a genius to figure it out...
(No ETA yet, I'm still very early in the animation process!)
2020-08-21 23:07:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe Bronze Age Collapse (approximately 1200 B.C.E.)
PUBLIC RELEASE OF DA VID.
Weirdly, for the first time ever, the outro song I normally used got Content ID'd, incorrectly identified as an Indian pop song. I immediately filed a dispute, we're on week 2 of that, that's ongoing, whatever, I figured I'd replace the song and put out the video anyways.
I didn't notice until I was putting together the description that the new song I settled on was called "Deluge," from an album called "Sea Change." Seems like the Cont...
2020-07-25 13:30:21 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access to Next Video
The Bronze Age Collapse (approximately 1200 B.C.E.)
So!
It's come to my attention that the unlisted YouTube video that I posted below has been getting shared around pretty aggressively and openly on some social networking sites. YouTube analytics ***sees everything,*** and so I've been vaguely aware for a while that sometimes the videos get shared with small groups of non-Patreon people. I've just kinda ignored that up until now, but this time I'm se...
2020-07-20 20:06:47 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access to Next Video
In the lotus position, sitting perfectly still, contemplating the collapse of human civilization.
2020-07-17 22:40:15 +0000 UTC View PostPreview #1 (image)
I tried to find a really good image that wouldn't give anything away, but then I failed, so now you get this one instead!
The next video features... *AN* Empire. And cities. And something called an Ugarit. Very strange.
HOME STRETCH, FRIENDS, ONLY A MATTER OF DAYS!
2020-07-15 19:51:31 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access to Next Video
Welcome to the Cicero Hype Zone, good vibes only.
2020-05-08 04:10:07 +0000 UTC View PostPreview #1 (image)
Exactly 50% through animating the next video, I wanted to pop up for air and share this beautifully hideous map.
Full-on clown vomit, I love it.
2020-04-27 21:20:49 +0000 UTC View PostCaesar's Funeral (44 B.C.E.)
The Romans did not practice social distancing, and looked what happened.
2020-03-22 13:44:49 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access to Next Video
Next video is up, just in time for Ides of March Eve!
I hope everybody has their Ides of March decorations set up and their Ides of March gifts wrapped. (Hint: every gift is just another dagger.)
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Seriously, everybody have a safe and productive Global Quarantine! I'm doing my part, one additional YouTube video in the world, +1 to social d...
2020-03-14 17:17:55 +0000 UTC View PostPreview #1 (image)
Currently animating, (somewhere around the 40% mark,) realizing that virtually all of my videos talk about parades for some reason.
2020-03-05 19:27:17 +0000 UTC View Post