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What is an interesting fact that you recently discovered? (pawb.social)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Which videos did you watch?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Flash Point History - The bit on Kochin was in the last 2 or 3 videos about Duarte Pereira, I watched via the compiled stuff "Forging an Empire - The Portuguese Empire - Part 2 Commerce"

I'm not exactly fond of the excessive use of AI generated images, especially when the host could've used more historical pieces from wikipedia, but the overall structure of the video is really good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thank you!

I have to say though, the AI imagery is off-putting as an idea alone, because what else from the video is AI-generated? Text and perhaps even voice as well? I've seen this before, entirely artificial videos with absurd mistakes as part of the content or even entirely nonsensical content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I share that sentiment. I can understand using some AI to give more visual candy so people have more help their imagination as to what things might have looked like. AFAIK, however, all the map and "token movement" (moving the portraits, ships, etc) can't be done by AI, so there's plenty of human meddling in the creation of the video.

A somewhat related channel that might interest you then is SAMA - Study of Antiquity and Middle Ages. Seems to be more focused on archaelogical findings than written history, the video on Sunken Sciences taught me a lot about stuff found in now submerged coastlines, as well as the Yonaguni Monument (with a nice tangent on why some people insist in conspiracy theories about "lost continents")

A more directly related channel is Kings and Generals, it goes into good details of historical conflicts and battles. Seems to use the same graphic pack/map software as Flash Point

Fall of Civilizations podcast also releases big videos sometime after the podcast proper, and it's always amazing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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SAMA - Study of Antiquity and Middle Ages

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Flash Point History

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