Isn’t that how everybody watches movies unless they’ve set out from the start to document and analyse instead of enjoy it?

Yeah. Come to think about it there are a lot of comedies like that. Like in Death of Stalin you’re probably not going to identify with Khrushchev too much or care about what happens to him.

Still, having protagonist(s) you’re supposed to relate to and care about at least a little bit has been the mainstream way of telling a story and making the story engaging for a long long time.

goddamn it why did the fucking Europeans have to find the Incas when they were in the middle of a civil war such awful timing

Supposedly one of the reasons the civil war happened was because a bunch of Inca including the emperor died of smallpox, so it’s not exactly a coincidence.

I also don’t know much about the whole Ukraine Free Territory thing despite being curious. Most of the popular stuff on the issue reads like hagiography and dunks people go for in ml vs anarchist slap fights don’t seem to land, so I assume Makhno was pretty good.

Afiak hose commercial VPN services are on borrowed time in Russia.