Yeah the banter is what makes the show . Without that it would just be a boring lecture about the topic . <| sep |> Save yourself some money and stick with the 6500 , the difference I find , isn ' t significant enough and you could put that money towards a 240 gb ssd . There is absolutely no need for a 1070 if csgo is your primary game as the 1060 is perfectly capable of running csgo at 400 frames and other titles at ultrahigh settings . I ' m running a 6500 and 1060 myself and play a lot of cs , I ' m satisfied with the cpu and gpu and can play many other graphically intense titles <| sep |> I completely agree . I love history , but I hate listening to Dan Carlin . He keeps using the copout that he ' s not a historian , but then he goes on to talk with authority on all kinds of things . Rather than presenting lots of different views , he claims to know the truth , and his version of the truth is almost always different from the one taught in books , because he ' s the one who knows the real truth . So , it ' s great if 1 . You want to kill a lot of time , like 6 4 hour shows on something someone else might cover in an hour You like a rambling style , where the host might go completely offtopic for 20 minutes You don ' t mind if the things you ' re learning are controversial or discredited , as long as they ' re interesting and juicy You don ' t mind looking like a fool when you repeat things you ' ve heard on the show , only to find out that that ' s just not what experts actually think happened You like absurd metaphors or similes to attempt to describe something , but that change major facts in a way that makes the metaphor or simile completely wrong You really like the idea of a major point in history turning on a single minor event even if that ' s not really historically accurate , it does make things really exciting What matters most to you is a good story , facts be damnedEdit History is messy . What tends to matter are the large scale trends a drought lasting several years that results in farms failing , resulting in people being hungry and a lot of people migrating . That general trend might result in conflict between two groups where there had been tension simmering under the surface for decades . Dan Carlin seems to love picking out a tiny event and focusing on that as the turning point for everything . If that blacksmith hadn ' t gone out and gotten drunk , he might have securely attached the horseshoe . When the horse lost his shoe , the messenger was delayed , and that ' s why the entire war happened ! No . First of all , that ' s an apocryphal story that ' s been thoroughly discredited . Second of all , one messenger being delayed is never enough to completely change history . It might slightly change the timeline , but at some point the war is inevitable , it ' s just a matter of when it kicks off .