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Feb 20
Video sponsored by Mongoose Publishing/the Traveller RPG
Why Traveller Star Marines are solid super soldiers
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I first heard of this when I was driving, and I started freaking out about how they did targeted advertising through the radio
May 15
We donโt have a crystal ball, but we can see a potential for no minimum deposit and no fees in your future.
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Whenever I see a Tesla on the road, I think of a fake Bo Burnham song I imagined about inconveniencing Teslas.
It talks about if you're speeding, just going the speed limit.
If you're at an intersection, look both ways twice.
If one is behind you, slow down for a yellow light.
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Jun 13
This image has shaped me as a human being
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Jun 12
While, sure, you could get lucky, being an "influencer" isn't a direct career path.
It's much easier if you're getting into it from something else. If you have knowledge about it from elsewhere.
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Jun 12
I didn't just start talking about swords after high school and luck out.
I worked as a fencing instructor.
I was in the military.
I worked on a farm.
I went to school.
I was a writer.
All that (except maybe farming) helped set me up for this current career path.
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Jun 12
Shepherds regularly used slings to keep predators away. It was a "shepherd's tool" much in the same way a revolver was a cowboy tool.
Both were still common military weapons.
The point of the story is David is a sheperd and not a warrior. A sheperd killing a giant with a sheperd's tool. David's faith in God's will is the narrative. That's why he prevailed. He believed.
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Jun 12
How come it's such a common myth that swords are HEAVY
But no one has left comments on how strong I must be swinging them around in videos?
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Jun 12
C'mon, if I need to debunk this all the time at least let me benefit from it a bit.
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"Swords were so expensive that only knights could have them."
We have numerous documents and laws spanning about 1,000 years requiring many citizens who were expected to provide some military service to own swords.
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Jun 12
Some interesting takeaways from reading those and more:
"Axe or sword" was pretty common.
People recommended at least owning a sidearm even over owning a shield or spear (but not having the latter two lended to you for service was bad).
Shield was seen as the minimum amount of armor. After that, a helmet.
Swords (or axes in the form of a tomahawk) were mandatory as late as 1779.
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Jun 12
The best thing to do would be to use the money to help people.
But why don't they do cool passion projects?
Elon allegedly likes scifi. Dude could make caseless ammo real effortlessly and we'd be using .67 Elon for decades.
Jun 11
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Jun 11
There was one bit of 40k lore I remember that had some hive world throw any psyker they found into some pit underneath or next to the city to wait for the Black Ships.
Can't remember where I read it... Maybe some RPG sourcebook
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I mean... it would be pretty neat to eat a bunch, I guess
Video games are supposed to be masculine power fantasies. That's the whole point of the medium.
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Marcus Vance ๐ก retweeted
every Spartan war is just this
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Marcus Vance ๐ก retweeted
There was that famous Persian โif we conquer your lands weโll destroy everything.โ
And the Spartanโs reply was simply โif.โ
And then they conquered Sparta a few years later and destroyed everything.
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Jun 11
Another example: Spartans.
They are known for some absolutely cold one-liners, but no one wants to tell you about what happens right after they say those
Jun 11
It's so weird how what we think of historical things doesn't stand up to actual history.
David vs. Goliath. Underdog story.
But David brought the standard issue ranged weapon of countless armies. Sometimes even seen as superior to bows. Of course he won.
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Jun 11
It's so weird how what we think of historical things doesn't stand up to actual history.
David vs. Goliath. Underdog story.
But David brought the standard issue ranged weapon of countless armies. Sometimes even seen as superior to bows. Of course he won.
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Jun 11
God was literally like "you wanna beat that guy? Bring an AK47"
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Jun 11
What does realistic even mean anymore?
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Jun 10
Neat.
But makes me realize just how often we name things based on historic military words without them actually doing what those words mean.
"Dragoon" and "commando" are some others.
Jun 9
U.S. coast guard auxiliary anti-submarine forces, known as the "corsair fleet," patrolling the atlantic ocean (1943)
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