Lore Patrol

@elonmusk You the Commander of Space Cadets.

So much space in space that it boggles the mind!

@shining1977 @dfranke Just fix them wrenches bro

I have a large and unsorted collecting of tools from my father (and I suspect some from my grandfather). Wrenches and screwdrivers and such. Some rusted. I am seriously considering to throw them all away and buy a complete set of new tools. With cabinet. But I wonder: worth it? Or just make do with what I have.... Kinda don't really want to replace them,.but....

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection. You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum. You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom. You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine. You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two. You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.

@WulfenGrom @dfranke Do they ship to Euroland or are sanctions gonna cockblock it?

@dfranke All I heard was "Russian anvil". And yes, you'd be lucky to own one. You grand-grand-grand children will still be using it. For the intended purposes. 50k rubles is 662$ btw. And that's the top models:

@L__prime @blackstarops Sometime you gotta be diplomatic via the barrel of a gun.

@blackstarops Not very diplomatic if you ask me

diplomatic security service (DSS) agents training at a shooting range with MP2 submachine guns (1980s)

@HistorylandHQ Whoah. Nice bevvy of babes. Wish Benny's s show had carried on for a lot longer. Also is it just me or does the lass in the foreground look like a young M. Lewinsky before she collected cigars at the Whitehouse?

The Benny Hill Show, 1985.

@RnK41DA @RoguesPhilo Scenery is kinda less rugged and not quite the original Eurasian vibes though

@RoguesPhilo You can do this in Kansas btw

POV: You sold it all to ride horses with nomads in Central Asia. I organze the longest horseback tour in the world - more than 400 km with eagle hunters, nomads, and acrobats. Message to join our tribe from August 1 - 10. Here's what your life could look like:

@mimozasikerim @RoguesPhilo Time to get back in the game

@RoguesPhilo I did that but like 900 years ago

@TrenWaffen @RoguesPhilo Conquer your allergy by embracing the horse lifestyle

@RoguesPhilo If I wasn’t allergic to horses, I would drop everything and roll.

@TomDKirkpatrick @RoguesPhilo The Virgin Preservationalist Vs the Chad Renewer.

You are not a pioneer… The point is to disconnect and take it in… push to a frontier that most haven’t.. not invite every swinging dick to make it feel like a Disney land ride.. you are the type to ruin the beauty on this earth that is becoming more rare by the day by people who needs internet likes more than just being able to embrace existence .. Disgusting

@RoguesPhilo What does it cost?

I'm fully booked with a group of 20 content creators from August 19th - 28th. If I can get 10 guests, I'l create an entirely new tour route from August 1 - 10.

@szumkaser @blacknredtext It was more the puss filter and terminator AI plus ditching the chad game character from the first one that got it the bad rep.

@blacknredtext Just a reminder: Far Cry 2 was actually criticized for those kinds of nuances and was considered total dogshit by the general public.

anonymous submission

@bashfulpav @blacknredtext No it isn't

@blacknredtext Because it's cumbersome and that makes it not fun. Fun > Realism. People understood this even back in the 90's

@blacknredtext Die out? I thought they were still a thing?! The Fallout games has them.

@HistoryUnd Bond Girl loyalty right there.

Jane Seymour at the premiere of Octopussy, 1983.

@fartonhead @HomerPavlos Except it doesn't look cool at all, it looks like shit and will age about as well as that too.

@HomerPavlos Real armour looks gay and lame so Nolan decided to make it look cool instead

Friendly reminder: Christopher Nolan's costume designer contacted the renowned Greek metal artist Demetrios Katsikis, known as “the modern Hephaestus”, who creates the historically accurate armor often seen online. Unfortunately, according to Demetrios, it didn't work out.

@PROMAKOS_ @RealHellenist Maybe there were influences from them too my Greek bro?

@RealHellenist Hellenic clothes on the woman, yes. But the guy on the right wears the Peleset/Tjeker feathered headdress straight out of the Medinet Habu reliefs of Ramesses III. That's Sea Peoples iconography, not Mycenaean. Helmet on the central figure looks more Sherden than Mycenaean too.

Mycenaean Greeks of the Bronze Age

@MericaCulture I think he wounded it first with his rifle too?

Brutal American While scouting along the Grand River in South Dakota, Hugh Glass surprised a mother grizzly and her cubs. The bear savagely mauled Glass, tearing his flesh and breaking bones, but Glass managed to kill the bear with his knife. Left for dead by his companions, Glass famously survived and crawled over 200 miles to safety.

@HistoryUnd The original rage against the machine right there.

A bank robber fires at a security camera in Cleveland, 1975.

@cityhunter_sega @TheGameVerse I wouldn't exactly call it a dark age. That's more like now

@TheGameVerse Dunno, but it suit the dark age of gaming pretty well...

What’s the reason games had that “piss filter” in the 2000s?

@menge___ @TheGameVerse Nah

@TheGameVerse because it was badass. and it creates an unforgettable vibe