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OpenlyEvilJello posted:Ah, the Maus I was starting to get upset no one made that connection as I was scrolling through.
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chitoryu12 posted:Assume all technology is the same, but the Henry guys fight with modern tactics suited to their weapons. It'd be really hard for modern army to mass enough firepower to do anything significant if all they have are henry rifles and other period equipment. They'd probably generate more casualties but without a bunch of modern systems there isn't much different they could do tactically.
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SlothfulCobra posted:10 is technically true from the way that much of the modern patriarchal system that feminism is a response to hadn't been developed or alternatively, hadn't penetrated anywhere near the lowest strata of society.
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Oct 18, 2019 21:18
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People really sleep on smallpox eradication when they think of "greatest human accomplishments." gently caress the Pyramids.
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TK-42-1 posted:I was starting to get upset no one made that connection as I was scrolling through.
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HEY GUNS posted:there is no organized system of thought called feminism but there sure are women who are willing to advance their own interests against this dude I wanna smash him over the head and steal his buttons to sell in the next town over for a pint of watered down beer.
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Oct 18, 2019 21:27
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LingcodKilla posted:I wanna smash him over the head and steal his buttons to sell in the next town over for a pint of watered down beer.
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Oct 18, 2019 21:30
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The Lone Badger posted:Who was the first army to start issuing every common infantryman with a magnifying optic on their rifle? Without having checked what every European military was using during the cold war, it was likely the Austrians, who would have integrated the original Steyr AUGs by the end of the 70s.
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zoux posted:People really sleep on smallpox eradication when they think of "greatest human accomplishments." gently caress the Pyramids.
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Oct 18, 2019 21:37
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Also carrying away that water when we've used it, and staying up after dark for virtually no lighting cost.
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I try to think charitably about everyone, but I'd loving love to see the way medieval peasants would skin this hapless nerd alive.
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Oct 18, 2019 21:59
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These are the same dipshits that say 'Oh but yet you're posting a phone made by capitalists' every time someone mentions socialism. Their heads are denser than their avatars.
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Oct 18, 2019 21:59
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All these "we need to get back to our primitive ways" dudes have woefully terrible understandings of history while simultaneously believing that they'd badass their way into a knighthood or some poo poo.
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Oct 18, 2019 22:01
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Jaguars! posted:Also carrying away that water when we've used it, and staying up after dark for virtually no lighting cost.
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zoux posted:All these "we need to get back to our primitive ways" dudes have woefully terrible understandings of history while simultaneously believing that they'd badass their way into a knighthood or some poo poo. don't call yourself a traditionalist unless you have at least two degrees
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Oct 18, 2019 22:08
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I'd never heard of the story of Gilbert Bates. I'm kind of surprised that he could march through the South in 1868 carrying the US flag unmolested and in fact treated quite cordially. Was there a desire among Southerners post war to be seen as loyal Americans again? What was the sentiment in the South towards the US in the 10 or so years after the war. Also, why were the Brits so hype about him
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Oct 18, 2019 22:09
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zoux posted:All these "we need to get back to our primitive ways" dudes have woefully terrible understandings of history while simultaneously believing that they'd badass their way into a knighthood or some poo poo. Yeah, I went and looked at his twitter and the guy is just as thick as mince, so it doesn't even feel worthwhile to attack him anymore.
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Oct 18, 2019 22:17
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Want to try that bread though.
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TK-42-1 posted:I was starting to get upset no one made that connection as I was scrolling through. Was genuinely unsure if it was too obvious to mention
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Oct 18, 2019 22:32
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:phasing in isn't the same thing as every rifleman with a magnifying optic, though Yeah. Some of them have broom handles painted black.
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Gort posted:Huh? What about armoured cruisers? I was mostly discussing interwar cruisers, which were not expected to fight larger ships. The heyday of the armoured cruiser was 20 years earlier, and, under the paradigm in place then, having fewer, larger guns was superior, hence why you get ships with 2-4 9.2in guns. Sorry for not being clearer about what I was talking about.
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Oct 18, 2019 23:05
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Fangz posted:Surely they had less sex before effective contraception because of the risk of having way too many babies? If anything they probably had more but it evens out because "whoops the baby fell in the pig stye again"
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Oct 18, 2019 23:27
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I don't think that medieval parents lacked the same capacity for love that modern ones do, but also I don't see how you can live in a world where 30-50% of children die and not have your emotional affect reduced. What do we know about parent/child relationships in the era?
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Oct 18, 2019 23:35
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zoux posted:I don't think that medieval parents lacked the same capacity for love that modern ones do, but also I don't see how you can live in a world where 30-50% of children die and not have your emotional affect reduced. What do we know about parent/child relationships in the era? Was there really a thing where they wouldn’t name babies until X months/years old? It seems like a myth born out of modern perceptions.
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TK-42-1 posted:Was there really a thing where they wouldn’t name babies until X months/years old? It seems like a myth born out of modern perceptions. Well, some Jewish traditions don't reveal the name of a newborn son until a week (so as not to reveal the name to the Angel of Death before the bris) so I know the custom at least exists.
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zoux posted:
I take it 'tithes' isn't a word this chap has heard of. Or 'corvee'.
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HEY GUNS posted:pretty sure a large central european woman who has spent her entire life up to this point doing farm work would be fully capable of taking his lunch money If we ever do some sort of weird time travel or incredibly detailed simulation I would honestly be down for a reality show where these guys get pasted by the reality of the eras they romanticize.
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Oct 19, 2019 00:30
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LingcodKilla posted:I wanna smash him over the head and steal his buttons to sell in the next town over for a pint of watered down beer. Good way to get lost IMO.
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Oct 19, 2019 00:31
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Neat! They found the wreck of Kaga, one of the Japanese carriers at Midway.
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zoux posted:Well, some Jewish traditions don't reveal the name of a newborn son until a week (so as not to reveal the name to the Angel of Death before the bris) so I know the custom at least exists. Interesting, but this can cause problems if they don't reveal the name to the Social Security Administration.
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SeanBeansShako posted:If we ever do some sort of weird time travel or incredibly detailed simulation I would honestly be down for a reality show where these guys get pasted by the reality of the eras they romanticize. it’d be cool to see them get ridden over by a knight in a hurry and the last thing they see is a coin flipped onto their face as a sorry.
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'I want to be a knight!' 'What are your qualifications?' 'Well I am whit-' *mace to face*
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bewbies posted:everyone knows napoleon was just a compiler Forgive me, but I had to figure out the rate stats. Top 10 qualified generals of all time, according to random dude's Wikipedia algorithm: 1. Georgy Zhukov (0.46 WAR/battle) 2. Alexander the Great* (0.438 WAR/battle) 3. Julius Caesar (0.433 WAR/battle) 4. Khalid ibn Walid (0.402 WAR/battle) 5. Wellington (0.396 WAR/battle) 6. Napoleon (0.388 WAR/battle) 7. Oda Nobunaga (0.384 WAR/battle) 8. Takeda Shingen (0.338 WAR/battle) 9. Augustus* (0.338 WAR/battle) 10. Frederick the Great (0.333 WAR/battle) Other than how obviously silly it is to objectively rank generals from a timespan as broad as 221 BCE to 1956 CE, the list itself is not bad. *Didn't meet my arbitary cutoff of 10 battles notable enough to get a Wikipedia article, so I took their total WAR and divided by 10. Chamale fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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zoux posted:I don't think that medieval parents lacked the same capacity for love that modern ones do, but also I don't see how you can live in a world where 30-50% of children die and not have your emotional affect reduced. What do we know about parent/child relationships in the era? A lot depended on social class. But I'm not sure about your first sentence. I mean, not to get too personal, but half of my grandparents' kids died in childhood and a quarter of my parents' kids did, and I don't think either my parents or grandparents lacked emotional affect.
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I'm sure they felt bad about it, but when all of your neighbors also lost a kid to <medieval OSHA poo poo> it's a lot easier to carry on because you're not the weird couple who lost a kid early.
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Chamale posted:Forgive me, but I had to figure out the rate stats. Top 10 qualified generals of all time, according to random dude's Wikipedia algorithm: Wellington beating out Napoleon! I will duel this vile man for even suggesting it. For the past few months I've been eating sour rye bread due to stomach issues and I'm not sick of it at all. Medieval food is pretty good, it's just that Medieval people didn't have enough of it. The web of mechanized agriculture that leads to doritos production is impressive and cheap, but pretty much a nutritional dead end. The real problem with the roman bust guys is that they're pathologically self-obsessed and ignorant. Can't do anything right when you're a ball of frustration and poorly-disguised self-loathing. Slim Jim Pickens fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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Allen’s group found the Hornet a little while ago, and deep cold water is magic. The tugs lashed to the deck look like you could flush the engines, put gas in them, and start them right up.  Unrelated: 
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Chamale posted:
someone should do only world war ii with that formula and see how it shakes out
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HEY GUNS posted:imagining a formation of them trundling across the plains and i...i kinda like it It loving owns is what it does.
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zoux posted:People really sleep on smallpox eradication when they think of "greatest human accomplishments." gently caress the Pyramids. At the rate we're going, Smallpox will be back before the pyramids get eroded into dust. Checkmate, smallpox. (I consider vaccinations and antibiotics legitimate medical miracles in a way that rare and difficult surgeries don't even come close to comparing) zoux posted:All these "we need to get back to our primitive ways" dudes have woefully terrible understandings of history while simultaneously believing that they'd badass their way into a knighthood or some poo poo. They're invariably the nerdiest nerds who ever nerded it up. Same way the "zombie apocalypse" geeks are 5 foot even and 400 pounds yet think they're gonna rule the wasteland. It's keyboard commando poo poo Phanatic posted:Want to try that bread though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga5JrN9DrVI Phanatic posted:Allen’s group found the Hornet a little while ago, and deep cold water is magic. The tugs lashed to the deck look like you could flush the engines, put gas in them, and start them right up. That's amazing and a gorgeous picture. Milo and POTUS fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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