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[–] [email protected] 76 points 8 months ago (10 children)
  1. Chainmail provides little to no protection against impact damage. As we saw in Fellowship, evil beings who attack heroes in bed use slashing attacks with broadswords or similar weapons. While it might prevent cuts, it’s basically like being beaten with an iron rod that will break bones and rupture organs. It is unsuitable as armor. That’s leaving aside weapons like maces, hammers, and clubs, or a Seal Team Six scenario.
  2. It’s aluminum. Or aluminium, if you’re that kind of person. This is basically a blanket designed by Jony Ive. It doesn’t warm. It doesn’t protect. But it’s thin and lightweight. Which is the opposite of what you want in a weighted blanket.
  3. You can buy weighted blankets that come in a variety of weights and warmth characteristics for a fraction of the time investment used to make this. The money you save could be used to buy a home security system that includes a minefield or electric fence. If you’re impressed by what a claymore sword can do to an orc, wait until you see what a claymore mine can do.
[–] [email protected] 103 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I know #1 is a joke but for everyone else in history that's why people wore the aketon, or gambeson or padded/quilted tunic under mail. Provided impact protection and made mail more comfortable!

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago

And the combo of padding + rings was more effective against cutting and blunt weapons than either on their own! And it was easy to maintain, repair, and the mail could be transferred from person to person with some addition or subtraction of rings.

Just all around quality protection.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

the point is its supposed to be cool
(temperature wise)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

And heavy, which it also is.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (6 children)

No, man. My comments are like jazz.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

I think OP is just passionate about this thing. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Too bad aluminum will oxides and cause black stains on the bed sheets

[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Replace bed sheets with aluminum.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Replacement bed sheets in question

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Pure diamond chainmail for if you really wanna be cold. 10x more effective at heat transfer than copper

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I need a pure diamond heatsink contact surface

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Every time I've messed with chain mail it's always felt like it's ripping out my body hair. This looks like torture.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, you're not supposed to wear it against bare skin. For suits of armor they wore padded jackets underneath the chainmail.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

coil cut cosplay 'chainmail' is NOTHING like actual combat chainmail.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is why chainmail is always used with a liner. I imagine the guy in the posts uses a sheet or a thin blanket beneath

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is what it means to be a man.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

A completely hairless man.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's because the ends aren't welded and microgaps can snag everything.

If you can't braise aluminum (and most people can't) then you can use little dots of JBweld in the gaps. Time consuming but 100x more comfortable.

Source: I used to be a Royal Chessman (Rook)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Accidental epilator.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Thank you for spelling aluminium correctly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

They were playing both sides

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (8 children)

hear me out: tungsten chainmail blanket

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Depleted uranium blanket. My sleep paralysis demon is a plutonium sphere.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Magnesium chainmail if you're sleeping on the surface of the sun or next to my tiny girlfriend

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I'll say this for the thick girls, they're cool on the outside and don't bitch about freezing. Meanwhile, my 95lb. wife, permanently frozen and shedding heat like a hummingbird.

First thing in the morning, sweating my ass off, legs glued together...

"Babe! Let me embrace you!"

"Get OFF! pant, pant, pant

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Haters will say it's too hard to machine

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

Well, not only men can be on the spectrum!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Also protects you from random stabbings at 4 am

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Hungry cats hate this WEIRD trick

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

He is now prepared for the 3am eldenring boss.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

nice work, but the guys got some pretty stupid ideas on what 'a man' is

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)
  1. pursues his own interest, even if it seems weird to others.

  2. brings an idea he cares about from germ to product, even though it’s a lot of work

It’s not so bad!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but are those two points gender specific?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A miserable little pile of secrets

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

But enough talk. Have at you!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (10 children)

apparently; a human who likes being weighted down with chainmail

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Unless he floats, in which case he’s a witch

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I can't judge. I do weird/benign shit like this too. I might even enjoy this if given the opportunity to try it.

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