Rome, Sweet Rome

Endless Thread

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Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Could a unit of Marines destroy the entire Roman Empire if they traveled back in time? That is the question that inspired the now-legendary Reddit thread that turned James Erwin from an anonymous commenter into a Hollywood screenwriter. His once-in-a-lifetime opportunity did not go exactly as planned.

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0:00.0	Produced by the island at WBUR Boston.
0:07.0	Amory, do you know that I once belonged to the society for creative
0:15.6	and anchronism?
0:17.6	What?
0:18.6	Society for what?
0:21.6	The society for creative and anchronism.
0:24.4	Okay.
0:26.4	What is that?
0:28.4	I think like a highly organized international group of medieval history buffs who meet
0:33.9	on a regular basis to throw feast demonstrations and friendly, mostly harmless sword fight battles.
0:40.6	So it's like a Renaissance fair happening all the time around the world full of live action
0:45.7	role-playing nerds?
0:47.2	Yeah, we were larpen.
0:49.9	I usually stayed in what we called the East Kingdom, but yeah, I think you're getting the idea
0:54.8	here.
0:55.8	Maybe a little bit less silly than a Renaissance fair.
0:58.4	It sounds more ridiculous to me than a Renaissance fair, but you know, a lot more about you
1:02.9	makes sense to me now, I think.
1:04.7	Yeah, totally fair.
1:06.6	But I loved it.
1:07.6	I had a persona.
1:08.6	I had a tunic that I made myself.
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