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I enjoyed HOMMV, it had a very cutesy and bright art style for a game with a dark tone. What it lacked it gameplay it made up with in character and a good story campaign.

VI however didn’t appeal to me in the trailer and I’ve never touched nor thought about it.

There were two major volcanic eruptions in 536 and 542 AD which led to a period known as the Late Antiquity Little Ice Age. It is suspected poorer diets from poorer harvests led to the Plague of Justinian wrecking havoc with a weakened population.

While there was a decline the Avars, Sassanid and Gupta civilisations, the vacuum led to the rise of Turks, Mongols and Islam. The strategy they have in common is that, at the time, the peoples lived nomadic lifestyles on the fringes of deserts. With the Sun being ‘feeble’, as Roman senator Cassiodrus puts it, these people could be more productive during the day.

There is also a country in tenth place in the 00s that disappears from the graph, I’m guessing South Korea

It’s worse for countries that didn’t start the list in 1980 and didn’t make it to 2020, as they have been eradicated from the timeline.

Poor legislation & regulation is the outcome of neoliberal economic planning which sees the state have devolved interests in industry, which have become monopolies and duopolies with regulatory capture.

Napoleon was shocked that when the coalition entered France there was no guerrilla war against the foreign invaders like there was in Spain.