Tolkien made sure to omit from the Hobbit that as Smaug lay dying from the arrow through the one weak point in his chest, he was absolutely blasting it. Sure he died, but he felt *great* for a bit
But the bind is where the fun is!! Don't talk when you could be winding, that's what provocations are for! Every seconds-long sword clash I'm thinking "a wind into a thrust wins here"
I try to practice ambidextrously whenever possible so all things considered I'd probably do ok fencing S&B as standard. I think I have the most experience switching hands of anyone in my club tbh. There are worse things than learning a system non-dominantly. I think I did polearms that way.
I'm going to run for president in 2028 and one of my Day 1 promises is I'm going to hire a couple big bald guys whose only job is to hurl corrupt pols out of public buildings like bouncers ejecting surly drunks, and then yell "and STAY out" at them as they tumble down the steps.
I unironically believe this. If you're in charge of deciding what is THE LAW, and you hold that position for life, you should have to give up all of other pursuits and dedicate yourself fully to doing nothing but that, without anything else to distract you or influence you.
S&B, and really all dual-weapon systems are fascinating but as a lefty it'll never be my priority bc I need to learn a whole lot beyond the text to make it work in a way that seems reasonable. Bad enough with only one weapon to focus on.
I will always be a fan of that source, if only because it's the oldest one we know of and I want desperately for it to work. That said I haven't dug into it as deeply as I'd like, I keep ricocheting to different sources and weapons.
What source are you working from? I'm most familiar with i.33 but I know there's Lignitzer and various Bolognese sources.
Firing and jailing RFK is the moderate position
And firstly, when he comes to you in the onset, go against him with the Anger Cut strongly on his left side; instantly send your hilt over his right hand from outside, and push it well down from above toward the ground; instantly bring your falchion up and cut or slice through his mouth. Amen. #HEMA
i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.
This is what I think when I see this meme format
BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)
Just bought one this week! Sword is good safe place to put your money.
reiterating that i hate what the tech bros have done to legitimate subfields of computer science
YOU - By the way, I'm a fascist.
THE DESERTER - You're not. You're part of the meat shield surrounding the *real* fascists, while they rape children. That's what *you* are.
A digital drawing of a hairless domesticated rat with a miniature purple toy keyboard with rainbow and white keys. There are rainbow music notes around him and he’s tapping his feet and tail (implied to be dancing). The drawing is a reference to an image dated April 13, 2006, titled “Neil Banging out the tunes”. The drawing is signed Crayonmutt.
Happy Neil Day!
A photo of Neil banging out the tunes was taken 20 years ago today!
#art #furryart
When Elden Ring was new, I pirated DS3 (which, I was told, was the most approachable up to then) to see if the genre was for me. Made it most of the way through the base game and decided to get Elden Ring, and made it through to NG+4 or so in that. I don't want to give up the new controls, ever.
ESCAPING ASTRONAUTS RECAPTURED
DARING GETAWAY CUT SHORT JUST PAST LUNAR ORBIT
SPACE CRIMINALS BROUGHT BACK TO EARTH TO STAND TRIAL
"We're all in this big blue boat together." SAYS NASA SPOX IN NEW STATEMENT. "No exceptions allowed---not on our watch!"
MOST SUCCESSFUL BREAKOUT ATTEMPT SINCE 1972
“Charge your car faster than you can eat a bucket of chicken” seems like china just rubbing it in our faces now
Games like darts, billiards, bowling and chess completely give away what's going on.
The ONLY reason to segregate these sports by sex in the first place is because men cannot emotionally handle losing to women.
The ONLY reason to lock out trans people is bigotry.
Careful what you wish for or someone will open up Carranza and then it'll be all philosophy, no swords.
Best part is that Leckuechner was like "nah Watchtower is too general, I need folks to know I'm in Nuremberg call it Luginslandt" and Meyer was like "no one's gonna get that, it's been 90 years"
Folks, it's called the Winker and I'll tell you what we're gonna be seeing a lot more of those pretty soon. A brand new Secret Cut, never seen before, longsword folks think it's a sturtzhau but it wasn't good enough for ol' Licky ten hour to make it a major cut. I'm bringing it back. (I'm so sorry)
Metro Detroiter here.
A) This article is unfettered bigotry.
B) The Middle Eastern community here predates the IRGC.
C) Dearborn's Middle Eastern community is distinctly not Iranian.