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[-] [email protected] 280 points 1 year ago

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as a basis for a system of government.

[-] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago

Strange woman here, anyone knows where I can buy swords in bulk, preferably with a pond thrown in? It's for... a personal project.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Are we to believe that famous actress Margot Robbie doesn't have some sort of connection for bulk medieval weaponry?

I am shocked and dismayed.

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[-] [email protected] 179 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

That wasn't really a thing in medieval times. I'm afraid an axe will have to do.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Of course! It's the superior siege engine.

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[-] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago

Having most of the year off for festivals and holy days

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Good news: take up subsistence farming, no healthcare, no electricity, and make everything yourself, and you too can have half the year "off".

[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

Don't threaten me with a good time

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

I mean the reality was that the time "off" was spent farming their own land, taking care of animals, fixing the house and doing the insane number of household tasks that come with premodern living. Spend a few days just cooking in a medieval style, and you'll quickly realize it's a LOT of work.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Meh,

  • They had horrible healthcare they couldn't afford and WE have horrible healthcare we can't afford
  • They spent a lot of time at festivals and with their communities helping each other and WE spend a lot of time chatting on our phones, but mostly playing games.
  • They spent a lot of time outdoors doing a lot of work but keeping active, and we can sometimes go for hikes or walks, but we're Americans, we as a whole, don't.
  • They knew how an could fix things around the farm, we can watch youtube videos unless it's electronic or DRM.
  • They had witch hunts and misinformation and WE have witch hunts and misinformation.
  • All of the food they grew was organic but they had to grow it themselves and we have to pay an arm and a leg for non-poisoned food.
  • They spent all day working for the king and we spend all day working for billionaires.
  • They have poor starving people during famines, we have a too big percentage of poor starving people (13% of US population was food insecure during 2023).
  • They had xenophobia and WE have xenophobia.
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[-] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago

My non-joke answer is apprenticeship. Kids could actually learn how to do a valuable job rather than graduating from high school with almost no useful skills.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

TIL that the US doesn't have apprenticeships. We have them over here in Australia, for the usual trades. But we also regulate a lot of those things - we're not allowed to handle our own electrical work if we're not trade qualified.

How does it work in the US, if a kid wants to become, say, a plumber?

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Thats not medieval, thats everywhere exept the US of A.

Where I live, apprenticeships are officially regulated and for many proffessions you are not allowed to open a business without proper qualification.

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[-] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Our leaders fighting in the wars they start.

You wanted it... go fucking get it cowards.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

guillotines are renaissance era.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Giant shirtless executioners then, I guess.

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[-] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago
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Peasant uprisings, to take down the kings of today.

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[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

Cloaks would be cool. I know that's more of a fantasy aesthetic than a medieval one but they are cool enough that it shouldn't matter.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

I have a cloak vendor bookmarked. I haven't pulled the trigger because I don't know if I wanna be the cloak guy, but dammit I want a cloak.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Medieval aesthetics also really had cloaks, but big detached hoods were more common.

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[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

Catapults, just to irritate the trebuchet people.

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

Inns, especially if they've got an enormous pot of perpetual stew, and people are giving out quests.

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[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

Guillotines for kings

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The stockade is something we desperately need. Some people need to learn how other people see them. Driving 50mph in a living area, stockade. Making a lot of noise at 6 in the morning, believe it or not, stockade. Being a racist cunt, straight to the stockade.

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Trebuchets - the superior siege engine. (Disclaimer: probably not medieval)

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Dueling. I say we use it as an option to reply to a civil lawsuit. Able bodied adults only, no proxies, and if you refuse then you have to do a trial and they can weigh your refusal as evidence against you.

Swords only, no guns.

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Royalty and nobility taking part in actual on-the-ground warfare. I'd be curious if that would have any effect on military operations...

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Receiving land for farting good.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Mandatory longbow training for yoemen and yoewomen. Let's get those skills trained up in case we're ever facing a charge of French knights.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Fucking guillotines already

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorcery, alchemy, soothsaying, baby. Come one come all I'll cure what ails you. I'll summon portals and turn lead into #gold.

Or maybe the town crier. Hear ye, hear ye, elon musk hast tweeted about his balls.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I guess we could use a little ice age right around now, and it would also be nice to have a Renaissance around the corner.

Someone said inns and taverns, and yes it's a missing piece of housing here - long term hotels with food, bars/restaurants with rooms to rent above.

Not much though, it is not a time I'd visit.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Random pedestals with swords driven into them lol

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Maybe a system where strange women lying in ponds distributing swords might actually be better

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Kings, plagues, private armies (more late medieval and renaissance, but you get the idea), career military with hi-tech weapons tearing apart barely armed peasants. Idk, OP, seems like we got almost everything covered

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Weird ass slices in public parks everybody has to garden in. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-field_system

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I would love it if taverns became a thing again, but only if they kept the time period theme up.

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