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Perestroika posted:Since dumbass youtubers with guns came up a couple pages ago, I just stumbled over a dumbass youtuber with swords. Basically it's a channel about a dude hitting various reproductions of medieval armour with various medieval weapons to see what happens. It's not the least bit scientific, but it's usually fairly entertaining to watch. Now this time around he was testing a particular kind of shield, and figured that to make the test more accurate, they should simulate somebody holding that shield by its grip so that it'd accurately flex and move against a strike. This generation's Tripp Fisk coming along well. https://youtu.be/uuI1zY46OX0 RandomPauI posted:There's an interesting YouTube on spears being more useful than swords for ye olden combat. LindyBeige is almost universally full of poo poo. He assumes that what makes sense to him after thinking about it for 20 minutes, or works in LARPing, must have been how it really was, ignoring any actual documented accounts in the process. I recommend his video about how class systems are good. PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Apr 28, 2019 |
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Spotted in the wild yesterday in Cleveland Heights, OH... I like the bolts sticking out several inches (looked like spikes at first glance)
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Holy poo poo that's awful. Looks like it's the new Amazon buildings, which i think (?) are unoccupied yet so at least it's not as bad as it could've been It happened around Mercer Street & Fairview Avenue which I would bet is in the top ten busiest intersections in all of Seattle on a typical weekday. This could've been way, way worse if it happened on a weekday afternoon. Apparently the crane was in the process of being disassembled when the accident happened. I went through the crash site only an hour prior to the accident too 
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I have a strong stomach, but those photos made me have to take a couple extra breaths. Goddamn, dude. I lost a big toe nail last year because I didn't re-lace my boots before descending 4300 feet back to the trailhead. It turned black so I kept it taped on until the blister healed and the new toenail pushed it off.
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Also I'm extremely glad me and my gf didn't decide to head into downtown today. The crane might as well be our city bird for how many of them are perched over downtown.
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PittTheElder posted:LindyBeige is almost universally full of poo poo. He assumes that what makes sense to him after thinking about it for 20 minutes, or works in LARPing, must have been how it really was, ignoring any actual documented accounts in the process. Don't forget about the  sprinkled around.
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PittTheElder posted:LindyBeige is almost universally full of poo poo. He assumes that what makes sense to him after thinking about it for 20 minutes, or works in LARPing, must have been how it really was, ignoring any actual documented accounts in the process. My favourite is his video on the Bren being a better weapon than the MG 42, despite them being used in different roles by two armies with completely different doctrines and not being directly comparable at all. One of his reasons why is that "the UK won the war". He is 100% full of the dumbest poo poo and if he's ever right it's entirely by accident.
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GotLag posted:My favourite is his video on the Bren being a better weapon than the MG 42, despite them being used in different roles by two armies with completely different doctrines and not being directly comparable at all. One of his reasons why is that "the UK won the war". But you see his extensive experience with live action role playing makes him the best possible person to draw conclusions of this sort, furthermore...
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I mean when it's stuff that's directly related to larping then yeah he can have useful info, like on how with medieval leather boots you have to choose between traction on mud and traction on hard surfaces (hobnails or no).
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This might be a thread classic but it's new to me and  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD3bnRcuQfY
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Bummer, if he's still on my YouTube list I'll unsubscribe from him. But I still like seeing spearmen destroying swordmen.
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GotLag posted:I mean when it's stuff that's directly related to larping then yeah he can have useful info, like on how with medieval leather boots you have to choose between traction on mud and traction on hard surfaces (hobnails or no). Could you have hobnails, but then a thick sheet of leather with holes punched in it that you can fit over the hobnails? Pull it off or put it on as neccesary.
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The Lone Badger posted:Could you have hobnails, but then a thick sheet of leather with holes punched in it that you can fit over the hobnails? Pull it off or put it on as neccesary. you should go back to 700AD and become a billionaire
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-29/workers-expose-shocking-conditions-inside-melbourne-factory/11048346 About that factory that blew up in Melbourne. 
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Powershift posted:
Video edition: https://i.imgur.com/mBeJkUC.mp4
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Today I saw a man driving a Ford Taurus while holding two saw horses out the window. They were bouncing off the door and poo poo. Like what the gently caress are you building that it's worth sacrificing your cars paint job?
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:Today I saw a man driving a Ford Taurus while holding two saw horses out the window. They were bouncing off the door and poo poo. Like what the gently caress are you building that it's worth sacrificing your cars paint job? A Ford Taurus? Basically any old shack.
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How do they even stack the pallets that high, and how to they plan to get them off without being smashed by them?
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unhook strap, hop in, floor it. duh. i seriously don't get why people are wrecking their cars that bad for pallets. did i miss something or are cars still more expensive than pallets?
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The OSHA is the neck injuries people get from trying the read the text.
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Who are all these people stacking pallets on their cars, and why are they doing it???
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BMan posted:Who are all these people stacking pallets on their cars, and why are they doing it??? They are building rustic furniture to sell to HGTV to put in the tiny homes of billionaire caterpillar counters.
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Pallet recycling places pay decent money for pallets (a few dollars each, last I heard) so people can pick them up for free and the more they can carry, the more they make. This leads very dumb people to try to carry way too many with vehicles that were never supposed to do it in the first place.
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BMan posted:Who are all these people stacking pallets on their cars, and why are they doing it??? Nobody likes making two trips.
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Nocheez posted:Pallet recycling places pay decent money for pallets (a few dollars each, last I heard) so people can pick them up for free and the more they can carry, the more they make. This leads very dumb people to try to carry way too many with vehicles that were never supposed to do it in the first place. Then they get the bill from CHEP.
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RandomPauI posted:Bummer, if he's still on my YouTube list I'll unsubscribe from him. But I still like seeing spearmen destroying swordmen. I like scholagladiatoria, try him out instead.
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Yeah Matt Easton owns and he actually does HEMA which is still dorky as hell but also like actual beating each other with swords and poo poo instead of extolling the virtues of magic missile vs. fireball like Lindy Also way less annoying to listen to and his videos are less "_____ is wrong and _____ is right" and more "check out how loving dope this cavalry sword is goddamn"
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:Today I saw a man driving a Ford Taurus while holding two saw horses out the window. They were bouncing off the door and poo poo. Like what the gently caress are you building that it's worth sacrificing your cars paint job? I didn’t see the word “saw” in this post until the second time I read it. It was a pretty funny image the first time.
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GotLag posted:He is 100% full of the dumbest poo poo and if he's ever right it's entirely by accident.
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Synthbuttrange posted:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-29/workers-expose-shocking-conditions-inside-melbourne-factory/11048346  because gently caress those guys.Memento posted:... Let's not trade bans over it though, I'll put up $25 to the forums and $25 to your charity of choice as my stake. Cable Guy posted:OK... I'll match instead of the ban. Edit: link Cable Guy fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Apr 29, 2019 |
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One decent hammer strike on the side of one of those barrels and you've got yourself a nice one-car pileup son.
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Cojawfee posted:Baku is just insanity because they act surprised when someone crashes at the narrow bit that goes between two castle walls. I can't imagine what the mason who built that castle 300 years ago or whenever would think about race cars going through there. F1 can't go to a bunch of actual race tracks because they don't meet the safety standards, but you can throw some tire walls around town, pay FOM a hundred million dollars and then you've got Lewis Hamilton crashing his car outside your apartment window. overall this is good and cool though
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Perestroika posted:Since dumbass youtubers with guns came up a couple pages ago, I just stumbled over a dumbass youtuber with swords. Basically it's a channel about a dude hitting various reproductions of medieval armour with various medieval weapons to see what happens. It's not the least bit scientific, but it's usually fairly entertaining to watch. Now this time around he was testing a particular kind of shield, and figured that to make the test more accurate, they should simulate somebody holding that shield by its grip so that it'd accurately flex and move against a strike. There's a channel called Zombie Go Boom that tests various weapons on blood-filled replicas of human heads (which they claim to be accurate in terms of skull and tissue density). The problem is neither of them are actually trained professionals, just dudes who like to play badass and whack poo poo with machetes, so their replica of the improvised spiked club from The Last of Us went poorly.
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IPCRESS posted:Then they get the bill from CHEP. Commonwealth used to employ private detectives around here (Tampa Bay) just to catch people trying to turn in blue pallets. No money and a nice, hefty fine. The ones that get me are the people jumping in dumpsters at night to grab cardboard. $50k truck, $500 trailer, $35 cardboard bale. How the gently caress do you even get your gas money back?
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:One decent hammer strike on the side of one of those barrels and you've got yourself a nice one-car pileup son. Yeah... ok, Thor
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chitoryu12 posted:There's a channel called Zombie Go Boom that tests various weapons on blood-filled replicas of human heads (which they claim to be accurate in terms of skull and tissue density). The problem is neither of them are actually trained professionals, just dudes who like to play badass and whack poo poo with machetes, so their replica of the improvised spiked club from The Last of Us went poorly. After lacerating his left shoulder, the victim cradles the weapon in his right arm such as that the sharp ends of weapon are digging into his torso just past the area covered by padding.
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