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I do not see how Historie is going to get anywhere before the author dies. The rate of release is nowhere keeping pace with how long the story they appear to be attempting to tell is, unless the author uses judicious time skips.
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Eiba posted:Using real world knowledge leads to contradictory dates. The real Thorfinn Karlsefni went to Vinland in 1010. That's before Sven Forkbeard was proclaimed King of England. Well, lets say I doubt we'll be seeing Thorfinn getting involved with local politics. This is the last highwater mark for Byzantium, from here it's all downhill aside from the brief turnaround provided Alexius and the other Komenos rulers it's right into the abyss. The only thing going on during Basil II's reign at this timeframe is the Bulgarians. The Turks show up after he dies. Really makes you wonder why there is never any movies and comics about the time period starting with The Battle of Manzikert -> 4th Crusade. That period is loving intense with a lot of big names. Bohemond is largely forgotten to history these days. There is so much backstabbing and politicking that it makes Game of Thrones look like a kids playground. YouTuber fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Aug 8, 2014 |
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Zorak posted:I do not see how Historie is going to get anywhere before the author dies. The rate of release is nowhere keeping pace with how long the story they appear to be attempting to tell is, unless the author uses judicious time skips. But that's why rereading it is really fun, I've been rediscovering it, it went in a lot of crazy awesome directions early on that I'd totally forgotten about (like a rampaging Scythian using a small girl as a human shield against archers)! And what blows my mind is: we're not even at the coolest parts of the historical story! I'm not even talking about the glory of Alexander, the Wars of the Diadochi are a Games of Thrones-style epic except way better and with less rape (wait, nevermind, maybe...an equal amount. Depends on if you think Arrhidaeus can give consent!). The thought of how awesome Historie is so early in Eumenes of Cardia's biography and epic tale makes for pretty promising thoughts, can you imagine how great a well-done adaptation of the saga of Alexander's successors would be? (I recommend everyone who hasn't go read Mary Renault's Alexander the Great trilogy: Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy, and Funeral Games) I'd be willing to combine Kentaro Miura and Hitoshi Iwaaki, sacrificing one of their ongoing series to make sure the other one actually gets finished before they die!
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New Kingdom. Is utter badass-dom the norm now? I've been wanting to see Kyou Kai's power-up in use against average dudes.
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pentyne posted:Of course it was balanced by people drinking mercury, bleeding a sick person of multiple pints of blood, and smearing feces into open wounds. Holy poo poo, people did this? I knew about the other things, but I had no idea what smearing feces onto wounds was once considered helpful. I mean, before germ theory people at least associated "miasma" with sickness, and recognized said "miasma" as emanating from sewers and the like.
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Ytlaya posted:Holy poo poo, people did this? I knew about the other things, but I had no idea what smearing feces onto wounds was once considered helpful. I mean, before germ theory people at least associated "miasma" with sickness, and recognized said "miasma" as emanating from sewers and the like. Not a hundred years ago a significant number of learned, otherwise incredibly intelligent human beings legitimately thought that sticking a rod into someone's brain and swishing it around like you were beating an egg yolk was a legitimate medical technique. A few hundred years from now people are gonna look back at us right this moment and marvel at how stupid and barbaric we were.
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They'll probably think things like "What?! Chemotherapy?? You mean you just load someone up with toxic chemicals and hope the cancer goes away?! What the hell, 21st century Barbarians??  "
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DrSunshine posted:They'll probably think things like "What?! Chemotherapy?? You mean you just load someone up with toxic chemicals and hope the cancer goes away?! What the hell, 21st century Barbarians?? It works though, even if the method is basically "poison yourself but poison the undesirable bits harder" (my understanding of chemotherapy is limited). Packing poo poo into wounds seems completely counterproductive.
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I legit have never once heard of people stuffing feces into wounds as a medical thing. Urine on the other hand I have heard of being used for stuff. Catullus of face loving fame has a poem about some guy using urine to whiten his teeth.
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Dentistry is still in the god drat stone ages.
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Yasser Arafatwa posted:Dentistry is still in the god drat stone ages. Did not Shakespeare say, if a tooth offends you, pluck it out? New Otoyomegatari,  yet again for nudie gals and sticky juices 
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goddamnit get those huge tittays out of the way they're blocking the gorgeous backgrounds and embroidery
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Pierson posted:goddamnit get those huge tittays out of the way they're blocking the gorgeous backgrounds and embroidery Yeah I mean at this point I have to think that the artist is giving her poor hands a vacation.
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What is Shirin's hair, exactly? Is it a beaver's tail or an eggplant? 
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Aug 23, 2014 16:15
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Watermelons. What manga is this again?
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Rodyle posted:Watermelons. What manga is this again?  Fat fluffy cats that don't give a poo poo are the best.
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Mo_Steel posted:
That cat was actually looking for some attention from her but she's only thinking about the big tits. Otoyomebathari has been pretty weird lately.
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To be fair this is the same series in which one of the first chapters was just a boy watching an old man make a door. It's always been weird.
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Eiba posted:On an unrelated note... Gudrid's story is unbearably sad. Her sitting on a rock looking at Lief's map in the sand was really good. I like the idea of being so inspired by some lines in the sand, with only the barest inkling of what their true implication was. It must have felt like learning astronomy today- understanding the numbers just enough to get a slight impression of how incredibly massive our universe is, and how tiny our world is. To snap from that to... marital politics, so utterly petty, but horrifyingly life-consuming, was... quite the transition. And no one around her cares in the slightest. History spoiler: Gudrid, in addition to trying to settle Vinland, eventually went on a pilgrimage to Rome after converting to Christianity after Thorfinn's death. It softens the transition knowing that, even if Yukimura's story diverges from real history. Rodyle posted:Watermelons. What manga is this again? It's pretty obvious that the watermelons are a metaphor for lesbian sex. Anis and Shirin are obviously attracted to each other, but they can't express it explicitly because they probably have no idea that what they're feeling even constitutes attraction.
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Gyre posted:It's pretty obvious that the watermelons are a metaphor for lesbian sex. Anis and Shirin are obviously attracted to each other, but they can't express it explicitly because they probably have no idea that what they're feeling even constitutes attraction.
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Is it just me or is Shirin a really uninteresting character?
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I find every character in this arc pretty boring to be honest. Feels like a bland shojo series.
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caberham posted:Hopefully cancer and aids won't be lethal in the far future AIDS is already becoming less lethal. If you have access to medicine you can apparently live more or less indefinitely with it now (though the problem is that the majority of people with it don't have access to or can't afford said medication). Cancer on the other hand probably won't be cured for an extremely long time, if that. Even once personalized medicine takes off, cancer cells within a single tumor can different genetically, making it sometimes nearly impossible to treat. There probably won't ever be a single medication that can be used to treat it. While we'll look back on current medicine as being worse, I don't think we'll ever look at it as the same way we did medicine a couple hundred years ago. We approach things scientifically now, and something that is more effective than placebo now is still going to be more effective than placebo 100 years from now.
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Ytlaya posted:AIDS is already becoming less lethal. If you have access to medicine you can apparently live more or less indefinitely with it now (though the problem is that the majority of people with it don't have access to or can't afford said medication).
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Petiso posted:I find every character in this arc pretty boring to be honest. Feels like a bland shojo series. It doesn't help that the chapters are being released at a snail's pace.
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Compendium posted:It doesn't help that the chapters are being released at a snail's pace. It's weird, the raws for c40 were available a couple of days after c39 came out, and just before that a chapter had about half the pages than usual. Apparently Mori's been touring recently, perhaps that's shaken things up release and content wise?
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so the latest release of Kingdom ends on a pretty awesome note! excited for the next one!
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GlassEye-Boy posted:so the latest release of Kingdom ends on a pretty awesome note! excited for the next one! Ending the chapter with Shin's glaive halfway through his chest is pretty drat badass
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New Vinland Saga http://www.batoto.net/read/_/269478/vinland-saga_ch107_by_4chan Continues with Gudrid's adventures. But, seriously Japan, you don't have to make her a virgin, we can handle otherwise.
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trucutru posted:New Vinland Saga http://www.batoto.net/read/_/269478/vinland-saga_ch107_by_4chan Wives being virgins back then was a big deal, to the point to where if the husband thought she wasn't a virgin on the wedding night he could get the marriage nullified. Every woman of status back then usually had someone close to them, mother/aunt/handmaiden teach them how to fake the "virginal bleeding" with a pigs bladder filled with blood so when the moral arbiters would come in after and throw back to sheets to inspect for said blood, it'd be there. Historically, marriage has been really hosed up in regards to woman's rights. Gudrid's stabbing of that guy would also be really bad for her family. Not only would he beat the poo poo out of her (as was his right back then) but he could probably demand some recompense from her family as well. And not like "give me 2 sheep" but "give me your other daughter". pentyne fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Aug 29, 2014 |
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pentyne posted:Gudrid's stabbing of that guy would also be really bad for her family. Not only would he beat the poo poo out of her (as was his right back then) but he could probably demand some recompense from her family as well. And not like "give me 2 sheep" but "give me your other daughter". Viking law was pretty hardcore in general, including literal trials by fire (oddly introduced by Christians) duels, and a whole bunch of other crazy poo poo. Also Constantinople confirmed. 
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pentyne posted:Wives being virgins back then was a big deal, to the point to where if the husband thought she wasn't a virgin on the wedding night he could get the marriage nullified. Every woman of status back then usually had someone close to them, mother/aunt/handmaiden teach them how to fake the "virginal bleeding" with a pigs bladder filled with blood so when the moral arbiters would come in after and throw back to sheets to inspect for said blood, it'd be there. Seeing as she's already a widow, her maidenhood is irrelevant. Going  on someone though, yeah, not so good.
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^^^ that'll teach me to refresh ^^^pentyne posted:Wives being virgins back then was a big deal She's a widow. Edit: Basically, it has gone from "Wives being virgins back then was a big deal" to "Waifus being virgins right now is a big deal". Which I find pretty drat silly. trucutru fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Aug 29, 2014 |
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Dilettante. posted:Also Constantinople confirmed. Miklagard, not Constantinople. You're welcome.
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trucutru posted:Basically, it has gone from "Wives being virgins back then was a big deal" to "Waifus being virgins right now is a big deal". Which I find pretty drat silly. I sincerely doubt this would be the motive for a writer of Yukimura's quality.
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Did Vikings even care about the maidenhood of their wives outside noble marriages?
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