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Hespheus

@WBAIII

Nerd, writer, into history, skiing, going outside, all that stuff.

Vermont Katılım Kasım 2016
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@aspiringpeasant Yep. I think he may actually believe in what he says, even if most of it is batshit stupid. Maybe that's too optimistic but whatever.
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Hespheus@WBAIII·
@tired_la_wolfie @heterophobeV2 What in the fuck are you talking about. Just because some Tech-Brain-Poisoned asshole misunderstood LOTR doesn’t mean that not reading it somehow stops you from being a fascist. My arguments against fascism come from principles that are on full display by Tolkien.
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@Bernstein I think I know of women who would *only* go there
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@zbogus77 Reading The Black Company would instantly kill these people
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Andrey 📚 - Fantasy Classic Book Club
Andrey 📚 - Fantasy Classic Book Club@zbogus77·
A lot of people in these Martin Tolkien debates clearly haven’t a read single 60s, 70s or 80s fantasy book and it shows
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bort@millerIowlife·
surely this 5 pounds of country fried steak and biscuits and gravy and eggs will heal me and NOT make my tummy hurt in any way shape or form
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Hespheus@WBAIII·
@BarbourBurner Viewing a gun as some kind of Safety Totem rather than a tool you train with and will suck at to begin with.
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Hespheus@WBAIII·
@MyNameIsRickyM I think it’s a little tasteless/surprising to do it at the memorial itself but yeah, not sure how them being Indian affects anything there.
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Danger Russ
Danger Russ@MyNameIsRickyM·
“Do you think VETS DIED so people could be HAPPY? And ENJOY the beauty of being alive without the death and destruction of global conflict??” Fucking racists lmfao
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Mack@kenzietuff·
An immense disservice is done by teachers who make high schoolers read Shakespeare but never show them Shakespeare.
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@FrenlyOfficer I don’t have any problem with these specific people, and I’d happily fight/hang out with them. But the HEMA community definitely doesn’t prioritize fitness, and it’s obvious when you go to tournaments how much of an advantage some basic strength and cardio training gives you.
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Hespheus@WBAIII·
@abysssalsss @i_hate_x1442 @Antlurss I think that it makes sense to directly compare the people who train with the same weapon for the same expectation. HEMA guys train with longsword for unarmored duels, so if you put them against the guys who trained with longsword for unarmored duels, that makes sense.
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Abysssalsss@abysssalsss·
Yes that’s cool and all, but I felt the temper of this discussion was about the best swordsman of the past being defeated by hema practitioners. I suppose if you restricted it to hema rulesets the hema people would have the advantage but I think it’s unrealistic to expect them to beat men who trained their whole life for warfare with the sword
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Hespheus@WBAIII·
@abysssalsss @i_hate_x1442 @Antlurss Because they were excellent fencers who wrote the most detailed treatises on it that exist. The fencing landscape of the 16th century HRE was a very specific thing, and I can see how you’re confused since I’m talking about that specifically and not swordfighting in general.
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Hespheus@WBAIII·
@abysssalsss @i_hate_x1442 @Antlurss The guys studying in the Fechtschules which these manuals were written by were very often not knights, and their end goal would not be fully armored warfare.
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Abysssalsss@abysssalsss·
Sure sometimes but it would hardly be the end goal they’re approaching for combat. Like a knight might prepare more things for being without his armor because that’s his most vulnerable but he’d spend his life preparing and training in armor primarily because he’s readying himself for war
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Yoggradon@yoggradon·
@WeirdMedieval WWII airplanes: Gregs Airplanes and Automobiles Ancient Rome: Told in Stone (short videos), Adrian Goldsworthy (Long videos)
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weird medieval guys@WeirdMedieval·
can anyone recommend youtube channels by knowledgeable crackpots I’m so sick of overproduced garbage
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Hespheus@WBAIII·
@abysssalsss @i_hate_x1442 @Antlurss The most popularly studied longsword manuals deal with longsword fighting with no armor. It was definitely an environment that historical people at least *sometimes* fought in.
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Abysssalsss@abysssalsss·
@i_hate_x1442 @Antlurss I mean that’s simply not the actual environment any historical person actually fought in. I suppose if you chose to have the fight be like diagrams in the manuscripts instead of the actual application of them it would be more advantageous to the people who do it as a sport
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