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A duel with swords and bucklers,illustrations from Paulus Hector Mayr's (1517-1579) Athletic Art (1540s).

Duel on combat sickles.

Illustrations depicting knights at a tournament.

The Bavarian State Library in Munich

the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire

icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down

cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)

feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated

TRANS PRIDE HATSUNE MIKU KITTY

It dawned on my why in "historical/medevial" movies, nothing is what it should be, be it the armor of that time, the outfits of that decade (yes, they changed that quickly), the architecture isn't of the time period, or even the accent is incorrect

Either:

A) The people behind it don't care that much

B) The items would be too expensive to produce. Just look at Henry VIII's armor; that stuff is stupid, complicated, and fancy... wait, LOTR has crews slave away at chainmail, which is very time-consuming and can get very complicated

C) You'll never tell who's who on the battlefield... oh wait, banners exist

D) History is too boring or takes forever to hit all the main points over a century... even though there are ways to show the passing of time and, just, game of thrones

E) speaking on an OP or earlier accent can get unintelligible if you're not accustomed to it... but subtitles exist

And finally. 99.99% of the time, axes and swords are worn on the hip, not the back. The only exception is the beast being oo long to wear on the side.

Spears are cheap and are stupid easy to use, especially with a sheild.

Combat is always fast and can lead to a messy ground fight. Yes, getting bonked really hard is an option. Bows were used by strong people and were fired quickly and/or with high precision (trick shots were used to pass the time, not hitting archery targets)

People snuffing it was a normal occurrence, be it from illness, infection, accidents, or fighting.

"But it's a movie," yeah, and my countless hyoerfixations say otherwise

The Norfolk Knife

The Norfolk Knife is an oversized exhibition knife with 75 blades/tools, made by Joseph Rodgers & Sons in 1851. It is exhibited in Cutlers’ Hall, the headquarters of the cutlers’ guild of Sheffield (officially the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire). [x] [x]

It gets even funnier when you realize Koko used broken sign language, which the people around her made note of because they wanted to fit the narrative that other primates can keep up with out complex language systems.

Put koko and a human that signs in the same room to have a conversation, and no conversation will happen.

Sorry to break the illusion of Koko having the frontal lobe compacity of a human. She's a gorilla, not a human; the language part of the brain (frontal lobe) in her brain isn't as gigantic as a human's. The computer just can't support that massive and complex of a program that is human sign language. At least not in a direct "import, immediate output" kind of way that we recognize as a cohesive form of communication.

Environmental storytelling toilet skeleton with the obligatory ominous personal journal lying on the floor beside it, except the journal entries continue beyond the writer's death, with periodic updates describing events occurring in and around the abandoned restroom where the skeleton is located and offering wry observational humour about the process of decomposition, all in the same highly distinctive authorial tone as the entries from life. Following several large time skips owing to nothing interesting happening during the omitted spans, the final entry ends with a notably uncomplimentary description of the player character entering the restroom.

Does anyone just... forget what day it is and the entire date, and don't really care to figure any of it out.

It's currently summer, and that's about all I care about.