Come on man, you're the guy who updated the Vinland mod for DW. Surely you can appreciate a bit of silliness.
Which should give you a hint that anyone who gives half a shit about historicity isn't just a horrible stick-in-the-mud out to ruin everyone's day. My modding work is littered with references and eastereggs too. The difference is that it's
modding work. We're often making silly stuff for people so inclined (even if the mere existence of Vinland is just alt-History). It's fine for it to be in the main game too, it just shouldn't be so.. blatant. Like I said, I wasn't saying the event itself shouldn't be there, but what does it detract from leaving open the possibility that it's some Chinese sage traveling along the silk road, or maybe even some civilization even closer? It's unnecessary to restrict it to the least plausible option.
Seriously, all you people going on about how anyone who dislikes this needs to "lighten up" and, quote, how they're "laughing at the butthurt retards".. yeah, we're the immature ones without a sense of humour. Obviously. It couldn't possibly be that we just don't need a lecture on how we should find the things you find funny just as funny.
I'm not even that shocked about this development. The addition of fantasy Empires deadened the surprise for me, I suppose. I just hope that the Pagan DLC doesn't end up as some Conanesque nonsense.