It's just desperation. If you manage to make your enemies desperate enough to try such a lame attempt, you're quite the badass.
edited 22nd Jan '11 1:54:46 PM by juancarlos11
It's not exactly naive. And it can happen. But it's tough. And definetly worthwhile.
Rabbit Season
I find it amusing that "have my guards stab her" was apparently Plan H or whatever, after "kill her with a collapsing boat".
You're an ad hominem attack!
Agrippina also had some pretty badass last words. I've seen a bunch of different variations of what she supposedly said, but it all comes down to the same thing: She looks at the guards, points to her womb, and says something along the lines of "strike here first, this bore Nero."
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That's Nero for you.
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@ Orange Spider: Agreed on Constantine XI Palaialogos - In a sense he was like the last emperor of the Ming dynasty, someone who could have done great things had his predecessors not so completely and utterly wrecked the empire to the point of irreversibility.
Overall, I do believe the Byzantine Empire is very underrated by popular culture.
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Gotta go with Augustus. Hadrian was pretty cool, too.
"Weird doors open. People fall into things."
Hadrian gets plus point for, you know, not being a tecnical Roman.
Badass Hispanic Roman Emperor is badass.
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Augustus, for the reasons stated.
Ok, I know the thread's died, but I just found it and I have to post—Hadrian's my man, all the way. He was badass enough to be successful in the military, but smart enough not to wage war for the sake of waging war, his devotion to Antinous is heartwarming, and he had the best damn beard in the Classical Era.
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Original: Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor.
Sequel: Justinian, my absolute fucking idol when it comes to dealing with sport hooliganism.
"Atheism is the religion whose followers are easiest to troll"
Is that cake frosting?
Julian the Apostate.
Due to he being a tolerant, laid-back person who genuinely tried to improve the lot of the general population and who wrote a very interesting oration in honor of the Sun.
Also, after he learned that people were complaining about his messy beard, he wrote The Beard Hater
, which is an awesome name for a treatise written by a Roman Emperor.
edited 14th Apr '12 12:10:27 AM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
I'm whitebread, so I name Augustus. He was freaking badass.
Eclipse the Moon
I'd say my favorites are Caligula, Commodus, Nero and Elagabalus. If only for the fact that all four were bashit crazy and/or Crazy Awesome.
In fact, they should form a band. It would be the greatest thing eve-oh wait.
edited 15th Apr '12 4:37:01 PM by PippingFool
I'm having to learn to pay the price
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I'm tied in my head with Hadrian, Vespasian, Nero, Caligula, Augustus and Marcus Aurelius, all for reasons previously mentioned. Heck I have a quote from Favorinus as a signature after he had a debate with Hadrian. Make that was, now it's just either a quote from Marcus' Meditations, or a paraphrase of a quote from Marcus' meditations.
edited 19th Apr '12 1:26:29 PM by Olivetree
"You'd never do something as irrational as dying."
Hey, gorgeous
Caesar Augustus, the first and greatest.
The reasons have been stated.
Memento Mori
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August Personage
Augustus and Constantine XI Palaiologos
PARTY PARTY PARTY I WANNA HAVE A PARTY
... Nero *is shot*
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Ah, okay. I thought I might have been remembering incorrectly.
I still think a collapsing boat is a lame way to try to kill someone.
You're an ad hominem attack!