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Sure you guys aren't confusing the SS with regular old panzer divisions? They wore pink details.
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Nov 29, 2016 22:04
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You try staying sober while dragging a nation from the middle ages to the 21st century in less than 100 years. 
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Dec 10, 2016 14:52
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Tias, have you been to D&D again?
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Dec 13, 2016 14:05
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I've been reading a book about the history of taekwondo (A Killing Art by Alex Gillis) lately, and holy poo poo South Korea used to be miserable. According to Gillis (who is a journalist, not a historian) in the seventies the gov used to hire martial artists to drive motorcycles into protesting crowds and beat people up with sticks. Siivola fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Dec 17, 2016 |
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Dec 17, 2016 14:45
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Brits, the original scrubs going "omg fcking tryhard".  It looks to me it's mostly a celebration of natural talent and being happy with one's position on the great big scoreboard of life. Some people are just born to be great tennis players or whatever. Like almost the exact opposite of the American Dream, in a way.
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Jan 6, 2017 01:19
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HEY GAL posted:(2) there was a brief and funny period right before pikes stopped being used altogether (except in northeastern europe) that they got real small
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Jan 8, 2017 23:51
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Matt Easton keeps saying it was sword thrusts, because the Brits were making the swords too bendy. 
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Jan 17, 2017 23:08
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Nebakenezzer posted:1/35 Dora: 
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Jan 19, 2017 22:48
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Well, at least they probably didn't get assaulted.
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Jan 20, 2017 23:00
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Polyakov posted:Today I want to talk to you all about the start of what I think is probably the most interesting war of the 20th century, the reason I say that is that it was the one that had the most disruption, it was two powers of similar size hammering at each other with varying levels of technical sophistication and the consequences of the various blockades, purges, backroom deals and dictatorial meddling are just utterly fascinating to me in how the war unfolded, with levels of competency varying wildly depending on a huge array of factors that constantly shifted throughout the war. This post will be about the political context and the two men who would command each side.
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Feb 2, 2017 16:44
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Polyakov posted:I just patched the grammar, is that more readable?
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Feb 2, 2017 17:30
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david_a posted:
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Feb 5, 2017 12:43
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MikeCrotch posted:Live action Jin Roh remake looking good The movies are loving weird, but sadly don't have any riot tercios.
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Feb 17, 2017 10:52
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It's a popular enough story that a war museum over here displays a birch log among the other AT weapons of the war.
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Feb 21, 2017 16:27
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Just as an aside, it's weird to think of "only about a century of use" as the short-lived exception, considering how quickly military equipment has progressed in modern and even pre-modern times.
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Mar 25, 2017 15:38
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Thanks to whoever linked to that article about Dishonored and British honour culture some, er, hundred pages ago. I'm a big nerd for everything about swords, so I bought the interviewed guy's book on dueling. The most interesting part of the book ended up being the bibliography, but it was an entertaining read and only cost me 6€.
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Jul 6, 2017 21:47
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Nebakenezzer posted:During the Tokugawa Shogunate "practice killings" of random peasants when a samurai got a new sword were commonplace.
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Jul 8, 2017 22:06
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Everyone loves weird hats right?
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Jul 12, 2017 22:24
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Black Leaf posted:could you translate the finnish runes? Those are Korean tho, can't help you with them. We had a hyperwar about it and everything.
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Jul 12, 2017 22:43
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That sword looks so happy to get some fresh air soon. 
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Jul 13, 2017 23:31
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Imagine if you will a very slow steam catapult on the edge of a flight deck... ...but installed backwards.
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Jul 18, 2017 16:00
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:And decades later Japan honors the war criminals who murdered them by turning their ship into an anime girl in a skimpy dress.
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Jul 18, 2017 20:22
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When did people stop dying of the shits in wars anyway?
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Jul 25, 2017 10:39
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War. War never changes. 
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Jul 25, 2017 14:48
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Knyght Errant knows a poo poo ton about medieval armour and has a very nice voice.
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Jul 25, 2017 18:06
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HEY GAIL posted:if you like old weird guns, Forgotten Weapons is cool
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Jul 26, 2017 12:38
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chitoryu12 posted:They make airsoft versions of almost every type of gun you can imagine. There's even a fairly expensive musket. 
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Jul 26, 2017 17:10
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zoux posted:Unrelated: are there Waffen-SS reenactors? Hoo boy. 
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Jul 26, 2017 17:41
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The Lone Badger posted:Why would you tacticalise an SKS or AKM? Aren't they obsolete from a functional perspective? (that is to say, everything they can do a modern gun can do better)
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Jul 28, 2017 10:59
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Rockopolis posted:Isn't there something about left-handed duelists being good because they're much more used to fighting right-handers than vice versa?  And in that context, it really is true that they get a bit of an edge, since everybody spends most of their time fencing right-handers.
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Jul 29, 2017 07:53
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HEY GAIL posted:something about old guns, probs I feel like there's this background radiation of violence around a lot of American stuff nowadays, and any death cult sort of thing would have to be really over the top to stand out from it all.
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Aug 1, 2017 00:50
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HEY GAIL posted:] when I say that I want to go armed in the future in order to protect myself and my partner, it means I want to preserve my life, I want to live as long as possible. But lots of Fascist thought fixates on the idea that the writer or reader will die--and when he does, that it will be heroic, beautiful, morbidly sexual, etc. Cyrano4747 posted:You can disagree with the logic all you want, but it's nowhere near the same kind of focus on death itself that you see in glorification of self sacrifice to the state. It isn't dulce et decorum est, it's fear for one's safety.
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Aug 1, 2017 12:32
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Cythereal posted:The National Guard in the US has bombed successful black communities from the air. Yeah, no, that position is bullshit.
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Aug 1, 2017 19:24
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If it's printed by a university press and costs $200, odds are somebody has peer-reviewed it.
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Aug 2, 2017 08:37
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Hey, I spotted McCullough's book 1776 at a second hand bookstore recently. Worth grabbing?
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Aug 6, 2017 11:56
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dublish posted:Sure. McCullough's very readable, and I'm unaware of any academic objections to his books.
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Aug 6, 2017 22:14
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JcDent posted:What are thooooose and how are they different from argument-arguments?
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Aug 9, 2017 21:59
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This may have been asked before, but how'd people think about their own deaths back in the 17th–18th centuries? I've been reading about duels and I'm having trouble visualizing a context where a random stranger going "Hey we need a sixth for a sword fight, want in?" is a reasonable question.
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HEY GAIL posted:for almost all religions in western europe (i can't speak for Muslims), making what they called "a good death" was important. Ideally you'd know it was going to happen far enough in advance that you could call your friends and relatives together and say a few edifying things, maybe distribute your earthly goods, make up with your enemies if you have any, and make a little show out of it. Like everything in this world, death was public. HEY GAIL posted:And as far as the swordfighting is concerned, if you're a young man then as far as your peers are concerned you're supposed to be brave and valorous enough that the desire to avenge yourself or your friend, or even just take part in combat, outweighs the desire not to die. People who were not your peers would lament this and possibly write a pamphlet or two about it, but who gives a poo poo about them  That sounds a bit like how some losing duelists would end up asking their families not to talk to the authorities, since they didn't want to get the poor sod charged with manslaughter. On that note, Stephen Banks's A Polite Exchange of Bullets is a real good look at dueling in 1750–1860 Britain. Got footnotes and bar graphs and everything, as well as a large collection of exemplary duels from the period. Tangentially relevant to the thread, even, since it turns out soldiers were responsible for a large number of recorded duels.
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