It's the time of year to talk about some of the very personal stories on how awesome games can be which also means I'm going to need more tissues.
2020-12-15 17:48:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This series really had its genesis with an evening walk I took with my wife while visiting Kyoto in 2015. Wandering out of Gion where we were staying and to the promenade along the Takase River, we had no goal other than enjoying the lantern light, getting a late-night snack, and maybe seeing a few early Halloween decorations.
Instead, we found ourselves swept up in a political drama from a century and a half before.
As we walked, we ran across the historical marker marking the s...
2020-12-14 23:18:53 +0000 UTC View Post
And no Tom Cruise in sight!
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2020-12-11 18:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThese topics were picked from the runners up from our series over the last year. Just one small problem. You all tied several categories! So we decided to include 5 options this month. Tis the holiday season after all!
The Thirty Years War: From Religious Feuds to Nation-States
Eight million dead in the heart of Europe. To this day, the Thirty Years' war ranks as one of the most destructive conflicts in human history—on that would shape the borders of E... 2020-12-08 20:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay but being born from the blood of Tiamat's champion is an extremely metal creation myth and it's going directly into my next dnd game.
2020-12-08 18:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This might be the series with the most assassinations per episode we've ever done. Not the biggest body count but boy howdy are inns a bad place to be if you're a political figure in this time.
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2020-12-04 18:08:22 +0000 UTC View Post
The final episode of our mini science series and honestly, probably the WILDEST one
2020-12-01 18:28:58 +0000 UTC View PostUse code 47AG8RNVWWPH for 15% off any extracredits.store merch!
2020-12-01 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHi all! So normally we have our monthly suggestion box for our $10+ patrons, but we were talking about doing something a little bit different this year. We've heard a lot of requests for topics that lost out on their votes the first time around, sometimes by very very small margins.
So we're bringing them back for the next series.
Instead of having a google survey where you submit different suggestions, we're putting up a vote featuring the 2nd and 3rd runner ups from ...
2020-11-27 20:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
When in doubt, apply more gatling gun.
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2020-11-27 18:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Got a question? Noticed something wrong with a flag? Let us know!
A reminder that you can submit questions for our lies episode directly! We'll do our best to include as many as we can, and give you a shout out in the episode.
The form will remain open for the length of the series and close the Sunday after the final episode airs (11:59pm PT 12/11 ) Feel free to submit as many questions as you like!
2020-11-22 21:34:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Each person we name is like a whole episode unto themselves. Sakuma Shozan is fascinating and also developed Japan's first seismometer as well as the telegraph
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2020-11-20 18:31:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A lot of our medical videos tend to follow the origin of the disease (as best we understand) to the process of discovering the cure, but here's a little look at the fundraising aspect of medical research.
2020-11-19 17:21:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Fun fact: Schrodinger's cat was originally posited as a sarcastic example for why observational theory is dumb, but then it turns out that no, quantum particles do in fact do exactly that thing.
2020-11-17 18:01:48 +0000 UTC View PostTerrorism & pirates; pogroms & Jesus' brother. There are a LOT of interesting topics for this one that cover the places where religion and history intersect. So which one would YOU like to see covered?
John Brown: America's First Terrorist?
John Brown is one of the most difficult and contradictory figures in American history. Convinced of the evils of slavery and beliving God wanted him to spark a slave revolution, his convictions were extremely m... 2020-11-13 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
There is a certain kind of irony to opening a series on the Bloodless Revolution with an assassination.
(It was not, in fact, bloodless)
2020-11-13 18:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
If it's something you associate with being cool in the 1920s, chances are good that it came from the Harlem Renaissance.
2020-11-12 17:58:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow there are so many mythologies that follow the format of partner a asks partner b to never do something, partner b does the thing, no one is happy.
2020-11-10 18:34:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Recommended Reading
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
2020-11-06 18:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The second in our series on videogame science, let's talk about some major terraforming.
2020-11-03 18:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
The final episode for this season of Extra Politics! The title is a bit of a bummer but it's important to understand where the holes in our system so we can fix them. We can't rely on norms of behavior to prevent people from taking advantage of exploits.
2020-11-02 18:30:59 +0000 UTC View PostUse code JQ9QE821MFHM for 15% off any extracredits.store merch!
2020-11-01 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a batch of wallpapers from the most recent Extra Mythology episodes, as well as the Beast of Gevaudan and a Happy Spooky Season from everyone at EC
2020-10-30 23:51:37 +0000 UTC View Post
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL HALLOWEEN SPECIAL HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
Extra History finally fell on a Halloween and we've been PUMPED enjoy this story where folklore and reality blend. Feels like an Extra Mythology but nope!
I appreciate Jordan's interpretations of these absolute biblical monstrosities and I am here to love the Leviathan.
2020-10-27 23:43:07 +0000 UTC View Post
A bonus Extra History on how we used to vote and a collab effort with Devin from Legal Eagle! This was a really fun one to work on, and uh... yeah voting has changed a LOT over the years so never think that the system we have is fixed in stone.
2020-10-27 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Our theme for the month of October is That Old Time Religion
This time, we're focusing on matters spiritual—from the spread of Buddhism along the silk road, to the Proteastant Reformation, to the seance-tables of Spiritualism.
Want to hear about the Jewish pirates of the Caribbean, who exacted vengeance on the Spanish in the wake of their displacement by the Inquisition? What about the bizarre tale of China's Taiping... 2020-10-26 22:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry that this one is a little late on the Patreon side, there was a last minute art error we caught that meant this video wasn't ready until today. But there will be a bonus Extra History available for you all today.
2020-10-26 16:30:23 +0000 UTC View Post