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Taihei Tengoku wrote:

Joohan wrote:
That was a few centuries before the setting of the newest game, so let's lay the sins of the father to rest here comrade

It's immaterial to anyone that one genocide happened in 500AD and another happened in 800 (or 1066, etc etc). The Vikings imposed themselves on Britain because they could, just as the Jutish heathens did ten generations before. "Right" and "wrong" here isn't even academically interesting, it's hairsplitting in service of an ideology just as stiff and somehow more stultifying than left liberal democratic religion.

I was just thinking more in the context of the posited game. If the game were taking place in 500 A.D., then clearly the Celts and Romans would have been the good guys. But this game is taking place centuries after that, were in people having nothing to do with the wars of the past are getting invaded by a brutish enemy.

Diopolis wrote:

Salus Maior wrote:If I ran a Western country, I would promote historical European longsword fighting in schools in the same way that Japan has promoted Kendo and their historical sword arts.

No, teach every boy in schools to stand in a tercio. None of them graduates unless they can form a proper pike square.

But pike squares use the arquebus too, and I though such “modern” gunpowder weapons are degenerate

Actually many Germans fraternities still teach sword fighting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing
Which is pretty cool.

But un-ironically this is why one year of ROTC should be mandatory again in colleges as it does teach basic military drill and physical fitness. (Of course the US actually has no tradition of the Tercio but for some European countries that would be cool).
Besides it would be pretty cool to see how big some of the college ROTC units would be for some schools, they could raise a legitimate strength Brigade.

Is this rad trad or weird enough?
I feed feral cats, and an opossum was stealing their food. I chased it away with a halberd.

Novus America wrote:Is this rad trad or weird enough?
I feed feral cats, and a opossum was stealing their food. I chased it away with a halberd.

What are you a witch?

Joohan wrote:

Novus America wrote:Is this rad trad or weird enough?
I feed feral cats, and a opossum was stealing their food. I chased it away with a halberd.

Sounds like witchcraft to me

Dio please do not burn me...

They are good to keep the vermin away. The opposite is too, but unlike the cats the opossum does not moderate food intake, dumps the whole bowl and eats it all. I do not want a morbidly obese opossum, but I do not want to shoot it either.

Novus America wrote:Is this rad trad or weird enough?
I feed feral cats, and an opossum was stealing their food. I chased it away with a halberd.

Huh. I'd generally feel compelled to safeguard the opossum and chase off the feral cats.

Individual taste I guess.

Joohan wrote:

Novus America wrote:Is this rad trad or weird enough?
I feed feral cats, and a opossum was stealing their food. I chased it away with a halberd.

Sounds like witchcraft to me

Dio please do not burn me...

They are good to keep the vermin away. The opossum is too, but unlike the cats the opossum does not moderate food intake, dumps the whole bowl and eats it all. I do not want a morbidly obese opossum, but I do not want to shoot it or actually hurt it either.

Novus America wrote:Is this rad trad or weird enough?
I feed feral cats, and an opossum was stealing their food. I chased it away with a halberd.

I'd poison the feral cats, they're a serious pest.

Albrenia wrote:

Novus America wrote:Is this rad trad or weird enough?
I feed feral cats, and an opossum was stealing their food. I chased it away with a halberd.

Huh. I'd generally feel compelled to safeguard the opossum and chase off the feral cats.

Individual taste I guess.

I would have nothing against the opossum except unlike the cats he eats the entire bowl, and knocks it over. If he had better table manners he could share
And I do not want to go broke feeding him only to end up with a opossum that resembles a basketball.

Novus America wrote:

Albrenia wrote:
Huh. I'd generally feel compelled to safeguard the opossum and chase off the feral cats.

Individual taste I guess.

I would have nothing against the opossum except unlike the cats he eats the entire bowl, and nicks it over. If he had better table manners he could share
And I do not want to go broke feeding him only to end up with a opossum that resembles a basketball.

Ah, I see. Practicalities and all.

Jack Thomas Lang wrote:

Novus America wrote:Is this rad trad or weird enough?
I feed feral cats, and an opossum was stealing their food. I chased it away with a halberd.

I'd poison the feral cats, they're a serious pest.

Some places they are, but the are good for keeping vermin away if their numbers are small.

Jack Thomas Lang wrote:

Novus America wrote:Is this rad trad or weird enough?
I feed feral cats, and an opossum was stealing their food. I chased it away with a halberd.

I'd poison the feral cats, they're a serious pest.

What movie is your flag from again? I intend on watching it

Joohan wrote:
What movie is your flag from again? I intend on watching it

I'm glad to hear it. It's Ogniem i Mieczem (with Fire and Sword), a Polish historical epic based on the first part of the Sienkiewicz trilogy. I think you can find it on youtube.

I recommend you watch Potop (The Deluge) next, another fantastic film. Both are very long though, befitting an epic.

The youtube link in my sig has a link to the full movie in the description, both in Polish and Russian. I know for sure the Polish one has English subtitles.

Jack Thomas Lang wrote:

Joohan wrote:
What movie is your flag from again? I intend on watching it

I'm glad to hear it. It's Ogniem i Mieczem (with Fire and Sword), a Polish historical epic based on the first part of the Sienkiewicz trilogy. I think you can find it on youtube.

I recommend you watch Potop (The Deluge) next, another fantastic film. Both are very long though, befitting an epic.

Have you read the books? They seem like the might be worth reading.

Novus America wrote:Have you read the books? They seem like the might be worth reading.

No I haven't, but I want to. I love the period and historical epics. For now, I'm just getting my fix with the Ogniem i Mieczem II mod for Medival Total War, until I watch Pan Wolodjevsky (the third part of the trilogy, and ironically the first one made in film).

Jack Thomas Lang wrote:

Novus America wrote:Have you read the books? They seem like the might be worth reading.

No I haven't, but I want to. I love the period and historical epics. For now, I'm just getting my fix with the Ogniem i Mieczem II mod for Medival Total War, until I watch Pan Wolodjevsky (the third part of the trilogy, and ironically the first one made in film).

I know Fire and Sword mostly from the Mount and Blade expension/conversion based on that which takes place in the same era.

Italios wrote:

Loben The 2nd wrote:
i keep forgetting the Vikings TV show popularized that view.

fucking history channel, id rather have the hitler channel back.

we need more female human sacrifice victims

#aztecs #feminism

Jack Thomas Lang wrote:

Novus America wrote:Have you read the books? They seem like the might be worth reading.

No I haven't, but I want to. I love the period and historical epics. For now, I'm just getting my fix with the Ogniem i Mieczem II mod for Medival Total War, until I watch Pan Wolodjevsky (the third part of the trilogy, and ironically the first one made in film).

The era is interesting. I found a clip on YouTube showing the Winged Hussars in battle.
It looks definitely worth watching. Early early modern and late medieval warfare does not get enough portrayal, but I think 1400s to 1600s warfare some of the most interesting.

And I the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth is one of the most interesting and underrepresented states of the era.

Loben The 2nd wrote:

Salus Maior wrote:
Vikings are so woke, dude, you don't even know.

marauded Christendom, stole various riches, killed members of the clergy,

So they assaulted an oppressive organisation responsible for many wars and interrupted their childfucking. True heroes

The Alma Mater wrote:So they assaulted an oppressive organisation responsible for many wars and interrupted their childfucking. True heroes

Child sex abuse isn't funny.

Jack Thomas Lang wrote:

The Alma Mater wrote:So they assaulted an oppressive organisation responsible for many wars and interrupted their childfucking. True heroes

Child sex abuse isn't funny.

Hence why it is a good thing to remind people that churches were not bastions of pure goodness and benevolence with poor defenseless monks being raided by those evil brutish vikings.

Heck, all folklore describes them as greedy and manipulative. Just ask Robin Hood

Novus America wrote:Is this rad trad or weird enough?
I feed feral cats, and an opossum was stealing their food. I chased it away with a halberd.

Possums are great, this is unbased.

I'm still waiting for consistency on sexual assault allegations against powerful people. #MeToo have been pretty disappointing the last couple years, especially given how many notable people ought to have been socially crucified over sexual assault allegations and convictions. I'm motivated to make this comment because I remembered that Roman Polanski still has supporters and the two most probable candidates for the presidency are probably serial rapists/harassers.

The Alma Mater wrote:So they assaulted an oppressive organisation responsible for many wars and interrupted their childfucking. True heroes

Supporting jihadi murder-hobos to own the Christians. Nice. :^)

Jack Thomas Lang wrote:

Novus America wrote:Is this rad trad or weird enough?
I feed feral cats, and an opossum was stealing their food. I chased it away with a halberd.

I'd poison the feral cats, they're a serious pest.

Sounds like a Disney villain. Maybe make a coat from kitten fur next.