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[Flying Dice]

Yeah, that's the thing. If you can't demonstrate intent, it isn't genocide, just as accidentally killing an individual isn't murder. Things don't need to be labeled as genocide to be horrific, just as someone doesn't need to be guilty of murder to have killed someone else. It's the same mindset that labels everything bad as a tragedy because idiots don't understand that superlatives aren't always necessary to convey meaning.

[EnigmaticHat]

I also roll my eyes whenever people say that WW2 was the deadliest conflict in the history of the world EVER, or that hitler invented fascism.

WW2 is the deadliest conflict in the history of the world ever.  By a lot.  Wikpedia claims that the Mongol conquests come close but frankly its silly to list all of an empire's conquests as a single war.

Bear in mind, WW2 exists in a (horrible) "sweet spot" where evenly matched conventional wars were still in style but the world's population was much larger than it had been historically.  Most major wars since have been asymmetrical and most wars before then there weren't enough people around to approach WW2's casualty levels.

Also WW2 generals on all sides had this funny idea that killing enemy civilian populations would make them more likely to surrender.

[TempAcc]

That was poorly worded on my part. The WW2 is the most deadly international conflict the world has known, but I'm pretty sure I read some non wikipedia source years ago on that a certain period of chinese internal conflicts (both related and unrelated to the communist era) quite possibly killed more people, altough I have yet to find it again, so dont quote me on that.

This isn't the source I mentioned, but estimatives on death tolls vary a lot from source to source:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And in regards to the soviets not actualy intentionally causing the holodomor, there's been many arguments on the subject, but the one I find to be closer to the truth involves interests on forced modernization and weakening possibly rebellious groups. The soviets likely didn't want to kill that many people, but there were likely interests of that nature mixed on the modernization and food distribution policies, which only compounded the natural inefficiency of the administration. The soviet union wasn't a magical kingdom with no dissent, after all.

But anyway, I do agree that we dont need to use "genocide" to define any human atrocity perpetrated against groups of people, its just a word that gets thrown around a lot, specialy when its a nation/culture vs nation/culture thing.

[Flying Dice]

I'd argue that WWII is the most... dramatic, perhaps that's the word? The other human-caused events which come close to the same number of deaths were spread over much longer periods.

[Helgoland]

Dude, I've done pillow talk about unit 731. They're not that unknown.

Helgo, you're a weird sonofagun.

Actually she mentioned that unit. I think I was talking about Mengele. I don't remember how we got to that topic though.

[hops]

Dude, I've done pillow talk about unit 731. They're not that unknown.

Wanna discuss history?

[Tawa]

Remember that time I linked Sherlock Season 4, the fanfiction in which Shelrock Homes and Waston team up with Dvaid Cameroon to fight the Joker?

The author wrote more.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Remember that time I linked Sherlock Season 4, the fanfiction in which Shelrock Homes and Waston team up with Dvaid Cameroon to fight the Joker?

The author wrote more.

Includes such gems as CAPTIN AMERICA INVASION OF VLADEMIR PUTIN and Arrival of THE THIRTEENTH DOCTOR.

[Tawa]

My personal favorite (aside from Sherlock Seasons 4-7, of course) was DAMON GANT ESCAPS FROM PRISOOOOOOON, although the immersive and complex plot of MATRIX SPACE SHIP comes close.

One of the author's favorite authors is Peter Chimaera, though, so these are either intentional or he greatly enjoys trollfics. (The constant appearances of Obama and David Cameron raise some alarms, though...)

Uh, scratch that... I found this on his favorites list...

[BlitzDungeoneer]

But... But...
But spy dolphins, man! SPYYYYYY DOLPHIIIINSSSSSSSS

[Jopax]

These are amazing.

My favourite has to be System of a Downtown Abbey

[Graknorke]

https://youtu.be/t07UzTcApMI

It has to hurt your pride to be a professional medium and mess up your cold reading so many times in a row.

[hops]

That's the part where you take out your flamethrower and start doing hot reading. That is, torch anyone who contradicts you.

[Graknorke]

"Does the date the 11th of February mean anything to you?"
"N-"
*click* "Think carefully"

I can see that working.

[Bohandas]

Spoiler: Gilligan's Island Theme, according to Google Translate (click to show/hide)

Regular version:

Just sit right back
And you'll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip,
That started from this tropic port,
Aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailin' lad,
The Skipper brave and sure,
Five passengers set sail that day,
For a three hour tour,
A three hour tour.

The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The Minnow would be lost.
The Minnow would be lost.

The ship set ground on the shore
Of this uncharted desert isle
With Gilligan,
The Skipper too.
The millionaire
And his wife,
The movie star,
The professor and Mary Ann,
Here on Gilligan's Isle.

A classic of sitcom themes.
Traditional Chinese Recursive version:

Just sit right back and you'll hear a story ......
The story of a fatal trip.
From the beginning of this tropical port ...
Aboard this tiny ship.
Mate is a powerful man of sailors;
Captain courageous and short.
Five passengers set sail that day ......
For a three-hour trip;
A three-hour journey.
Weather started to get rough!
The tiny ship was tossed!
If not for the courage of the fearless crew ......
Minnow will lose!
Minnow will lose!
The bank set the ship on the ground ......
Fam desert island.
With Gilligan ...
Captain.
Millionaire ...
And his wife.
Movie star ...
The professor and Marian,
Here Gilligan's Island!

Standard Engrish. Nothing out of the ordinary. Points for the unintentional socioeconomic commentary.
Fed through every language my fonts could handle:

At the same time ...
history
Tropical Park ...
building
players
crime royal
Some of the seven ...
three
05:00
time
Boats!
Ini ...
Do not forget to fishing
Do not forget to fishing
If you have a ...
the family of the Islands
For example ...
to assess the situation
John billion baht ...
He and his wife?
Steaua ...
Professor Maria
Gilligan Island

This is a recursive translation on steroids. Not just any steroids, pure, unrestrained testosterone, an entire quart of the stuff.

I assume this to mean something along the lines of:

In a gaiden story to a historical work, perhaps during the Interbellum period, in a tropical park, the "Players" organization assassinates the King of England. Three of the seven Players meet at 5:00 on a boat with their associate, Professor "Ini" Maria, while they fish. The assassins assess the situation behind a Mafia family member's private island chain, and John "Billion" Baht loses the deal. John and his wife murder the other associate, an enigmatic man known as "Steaua", in revenge, and kidnap Maria to keep her silent. They travel to the Island of Gilligan at the end of the archipelago, where they drop off Professor Maria and leave her to die.

(An older version involved the Skipper as the King of Hearts and Gilligan as the Kite Runner, stopping John "Billion" Baht, originally written as the head of the NSA, from executing his evil plan for mass surveillance of the United States.)

the "Fresh Prince" theme google translated

EDIT:
Also, did you know that the "Gilligan's Island" theme can also be sung to the tune of "Amazing Grace"?

It kind of works with Just What I Needed too.