it’s hilarious how if you do any amount of research into life or death melee combat the prevailing themes that emerge are that
you’re gonna get tired very quickly
tired leads to injured, injured leads to tired, tired leads to—
you’re not gonna be as composed as you expect
humans are more fragile than you think and also more durable than you think. both are true and neither stop them from dying of an infection later (DO NOT GET BITTEN)
DO NOT GET STABBED (generally good life advice)
DO GET A SPEAR
knights are faster than you think
Other favorites from history:
Humans are very good at *pretending* to fight each other in hopes that the generals way in the back are buying it so nobody has to get stabbed.
Most of the dying only happened after a side broke and tried to run, because then the rich assholes on horseback got to start running them down.
When you do get a bloodthirtsy force, it gets bad real quick (see the battle of Adrianople, 378 CE, and the battle of Cannae, 216 BCE)
SUPPLY LINES FFS
Uuuuuuuh wow professionalization matters a lot actually
There’s a lot of dust actually
Horses Will Not run through opposing infantry, but they will run at other horses
Elephants are not worth it, tbh
Shields matter a lot if you want to not die but good luck finding a balance between being too heavy and not protective enough
Anything is a projectile if you throw it hard enough
Always have a knife
Do Not Fall Down - you will be trampled
The guy with the biggest hat/plume is the leader
Release The Hounds
Valleys are BAD NEWS
Uphill is much nicer than downhill
A retreat route to boats on the sea is only helpful when you’re already ready to sail
Forests are torches waiting to be lit
A professional soldier does a surprising amount of sitting around and day labour on massive projects
The army has always been a good place to become an engineer, it seems
Ffs, pleasr listen when the sergeant tells you something. He’s always right
If you’ve got a shit general, make sure you’ve got a good tactician/strategist
That rich guy really doesn’t know what he’s doing, huh
Drowning is awful and being in the navy is certainly A Choice, but your wife will not be happy with you
Damn, all this shit is heavy :(((
Attack the baggage train >:)))
Uhhhh, sarge? The battle line broke. I’m going home
Why aren’t the enemy running and screaming back at us? They’re just … walking towards us. I will not be sticking around to figure out whatever fuckery they’re up to.
Blood is actually really slippery :(
I did not clean my blade and now the blood has dried and glued the sword and scabbard together :(((
Tf you mean we’re gonna fight during harvest season. I think tf not.
I Hate This. All Of This.
Fuck me, battle is LOUD despite the fact I can’t hear shit in this helmet
You’re better to be down an arm than down a leg, tbh
Desertion rates are not as high as you’d think, but if you let the troops starve and get sick, they will abandon you en masse
WHAT MADE YOU THINK CROSSING THE MOUNTAINS WAS A GOOD IDEA?!
The fewer pieces to armour the better is usually is (with the exception of chain and scale)
Skirts and loose-ish clothes actually help conceal the lines of your body in combat
Don’t wear too much armour in a hot place because you will be sweating until you pass out and die
CHARIOTS ARE SO COOL
Falling off a chariot is Less Cool
You’re less likely to get stabbed than you are crushed or run over
Ceramic armour is actually so effective at defending its wearer that we still use it in bulletproof vests and tank armour (though once its broken it needs to be replaced)
A blade lodged in bone can actually be really hard to get back out
If your belly is cut open, you’re already dead to an infection
Unless they hit a major artery, bleeding out takes a long time
it’s hilarious how if you do any amount of research into life or death melee combat the prevailing themes that emerge are that
you’re gonna get tired very quickly
tired leads to injured, injured leads to tired, tired leads to—
you’re not gonna be as composed as you expect
humans are more fragile than you think and also more durable than you think. both are true and neither stop them from dying of an infection later (DO NOT GET BITTEN)
DO NOT GET STABBED (generally good life advice)
DO GET A SPEAR
knights are faster than you think
Other favorites from history:
Humans are very good at *pretending* to fight each other in hopes that the generals way in the back are buying it so nobody has to get stabbed.
Most of the dying only happened after a side broke and tried to run, because then the rich assholes on horseback got to start running them down.
When you do get a bloodthirtsy force, it gets bad real quick (see the battle of Adrianople, 378 CE, and the battle of Cannae, 216 BCE)
SUPPLY LINES FFS
Uuuuuuuh wow professionalization matters a lot actually
There’s a lot of dust actually
Horses Will Not run through opposing infantry, but they will run at other horses
Elephants are not worth it, tbh
Shields matter a lot if you want to not die but good luck finding a balance between being too heavy and not protective enough
Anything is a projectile if you throw it hard enough
Always have a knife
Do Not Fall Down - you will be trampled
The guy with the biggest hat/plume is the leader
Release The Hounds
Valleys are BAD NEWS
Uphill is much nicer than downhill
A retreat route to boats on the sea is only helpful when you’re already ready to sail
Forests are torches waiting to be lit
A professional soldier does a surprising amount of sitting around and day labour on massive projects
The army has always been a good place to become an engineer, it seems
Ffs, pleasr listen when the sergeant tells you something. He’s always right
If you’ve got a shit general, make sure you’ve got a good tactician/strategist
That rich guy really doesn’t know what he’s doing, huh
Drowning is awful and being in the navy is certainly A Choice, but your wife will not be happy with you
Damn, all this shit is heavy :(((
Attack the baggage train >:)))
Uhhhh, sarge? The battle line broke. I’m going home
Why aren’t the enemy running and screaming back at us? They’re just … walking towards us. I will not be sticking around to figure out whatever fuckery they’re up to.
Blood is actually really slippery :(
I did not clean my blade and now the blood has dried and glued the sword and scabbard together :(((
Tf you mean we’re gonna fight during harvest season. I think tf not.
I Hate This. All Of This.
Fuck me, battle is LOUD despite the fact I can’t hear shit in this helmet
You’re better to be down an arm than down a leg, tbh
Desertion rates are not as high as you’d think, but if you let the troops starve and get sick, they will abandon you en masse
WHAT MADE YOU THINK CROSSING THE MOUNTAINS WAS A GOOD IDEA?!
The fewer pieces to armour the better is usually is (with the exception of chain and scale)
Skirts and loose-ish clothes actually help conceal the lines of your body in combat
Don’t wear too much armour in a hot place because you will be sweating until you pass out and die
CHARIOTS ARE SO COOL
Falling off a chariot is Less Cool
You’re less likely to get stabbed than you are crushed or run over
Ceramic armour is actually so effective at defending its wearer that we still use it in bulletproof vests and tank armour (though once its broken it needs to be replaced)
A blade lodged in bone can actually be really hard to get back out
If your belly is cut open, you’re already dead to an infection
Unless they hit a major artery, bleeding out takes a long time
executive dysfunction is inherently funny because it sounds so painfully fake that it wraps back around to being a good excuse. like if i was lying about not being able to do stuff, i would at least be able to come up with something more convincing than “i have not doing stuff syndrome”
executive dysfunction is inherently funny because it sounds so painfully fake that it wraps back around to being a good excuse. like if i was lying about not being able to do stuff, i would at least be able to come up with something more convincing than “i have not doing stuff syndrome”
Sam Vaknin, the man who coined the term “narcissistic abuse” also had these absolutely brillant things to say about narcissism:
Gay sex is narcissistic, am I rite?
Transitioning? Yeah, also a total narc move.
Fellas, is it narcissistic entitlement to not want to be gatekept out of life-saving transition care?
And of course, an absolute quack on the subject of NPD agrees with a quack on the subject of trans people.
All this to say: If you believe in “narcissistic” abuse, this is who you’ve chosen to listen to.
The idea that there is a type of person who’s fundamentally broken in a way that makes them evil, is an idea that also lends itself to a lot of bigotry for reasons that shouldn’t surprise you.
Also note that the idea that brains don’t stop developing until twenty-five is being used to back laws that would ban trans healthcare for anyone under twenty-five.
that whole fantasy trope of werewolves and vampires hating each other pisses me off every time. it’s like lgbt exclusionism you feel me. like I bet the real ones think it’s dumb. they’re out there going guys we’re all children of the night. in their eyes we’re ALL unholy abominations. bet there’s posts on darkcreatures.net like vampires and werewolves are actually kissing on the lips rn
LMAO not Israel calling for an emergancy UN meeting, when they have done NOTHING but shit on the UN and their resolutions the entire time…. why should we listen to Israel and their “emergancy” when they didnt listen to Palestinians and the countries trying to protect the palestinians by calling for a ceasefire? Israel needs to learn to fight their own fights but they know they’ll lose on their own. cry harder assholes.
Humongous data breach just happened, with loads upon loads of sites being affected. Tumblr’s among those. Also on the list is Wattpad for you fanfic people out there- among many, many other places.
There’s a searchable list at the bottom of the article. Highly recommend scrolling or searching through, seeing what places you may be on that have been affected, and securing all your accounts. This thing’s kind of big.
Sam Vaknin, the man who coined the term “narcissistic abuse” also had these absolutely brillant things to say about narcissism:
Gay sex is narcissistic, am I rite?
Transitioning? Yeah, also a total narc move.
Fellas, is it narcissistic entitlement to not want to be gatekept out of life-saving transition care?
And of course, an absolute quack on the subject of NPD agrees with a quack on the subject of trans people.
All this to say: If you believe in “narcissistic” abuse, this is who you’ve chosen to listen to.
The idea that there is a type of person who’s fundamentally broken in a way that makes them evil, is an idea that also lends itself to a lot of bigotry for reasons that shouldn’t surprise you.
Also note that the idea that brains don’t stop developing until twenty-five is being used to back laws that would ban trans healthcare for anyone under twenty-five.
There’s a cinematic equivalent of “this meeting could have been an email” where you get about two hours into a feature-length blockbuster and it occurs to you that this would have lost nothing meaningful if it had been a ten-minute short film on YouTube.
I would also volunteer “this miniseries should have just been a movie”.
See Kenobi. It’s a good story … that only really needed ninety minutes to two hours to tell. They had to really pad out the middle to stretch it out to a full season when it could have just been a movie.
Level 1: Miniseries that could have been a feature film.
Level 2: Feature film that could have been a short film.
Level 3: Short film that could have been a TikTok sketch.
Level 4: TikTok sketch that could have been a rage comic.
Level 5: Yeah, maybe just keep that one to yourself.
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