Transporter Room 3

I’m going out with a girl after work and we’re gonna play in the park.

(It’s my wife and I’ll be riding my bike while she tries to get used to inline skates again. We’re in our 30s.)

But for real I miss being able to just… Enjoy a playground. Go throw rocks at the creek with friends. Have sword battles with sticks we found while walking by the trees.

But if I do that, people call the cops because some old guy is clearly confused and wandering around…

A lot of these comments reek of boot polish…

Personally, I don’t see a difference.

More like “calling your neighbor a pervert when they offer you a place to shower when yours is out and you find out they’re taking videos” but okay

The Difference

Reminder that if they can forcibly delete the app from your phone, you don’t own your phone

It’s a generic term they can use to justify removal of any app they don’t like, which I’m sure is what this is really about

I guess the log of “apps we want to kill but can’t justify it in a way that courts would find more acceptable” got too large.

I’m genuinely curious, do you happen to recall what museums you may have seen similar designs at? I’m interested to see when their estimated age was and from what regions, because I can totally see people making armor like that, it’s just not as effective as actual combat armor as what’s on the left.

I’ve seen some pretty wildly impractical armors, and weapons over the years.

All of the metal ages all had wonky weapon designs at the starts, as we were still figuring out how to work things, how to kill each other, and how to use the new shiny stuff to our advantage.

And don’t get me started on ceremonial outfits/weapons… Those are just… No. Just no.

Honestly the gambeson is underrated.

It’s crazy how good densely packed cloth can be at stopping cuts, and the padding basically makes a mace strike feel more like a barefisted punch.

*to the average person

I regret to inform you that a great many people find it “cool”, including a lot of the people I know who are huge fans of the Peter Jackson films.

Im not sure I’d say anywhere near half the people who have seen it would say it’s “cool” but unfortunately the average person doesn’t really know much about what makes good armor. I don’t fault them for it, but I do fault the show for it.

Boromir is infinitely cooler even without the armor.

Regardless, you know someone looked at that thing, and said to themselves “yeah, this is good. This is correct.” which is just… Unfortunate.

The people involved in The Good One know historical armor, and how it’s supposed to fit, while also knowing how to blend in the fantasy elements that make them pop

The New One just wants to look pretty, while clearly having vastly underestimated the needed budget to make good costumes.

Honestly, I think I’ve seen some repainted Spirit Halloween stuff.

Granted, a good prop/costume department can make anything cheap look good. I’ve seen a lot of plumbing parts attached to Sci fi guns. (some ship guns are literally entirely plumbing parts with vfx lasers done in post)

I’d love to see a total breakdown of the expenses. I’d wager the costume department is one of the lowest on the list.

LPT: If you want armor that allows proper motion, you need sliding joints, or narrow areas with less protection. The chest piece should not be flat across the bottom, nor should it come down to your waist. You can’t bend properly with the one on the right. Range of motion on the arms is also severely limited, which makes combat basically a death sentence for you since you literally can’t move your arms to block high.

Boromir on the other hand, everything allows for greater range of motion. The chest piece flares out once it goes a little past the ribcage, which while probably wouldn’t win you any yoga competitions, allows you to bend and ride a horse. The pauldrons are oversized to cover the thinner shoulder straps, so the arms can rotate up properly, and the armor around all the joints slides nicely over itself.

Once you know how to make GOOD armor, you start realizing a lot of modern movies just clearly have no consideration for it. It’s all about what looks cool to the average person.

Skallagrim on youtube has some breakdowns of historic accuracy in movies, but he usually focuses on the combat itself. Though every point I’ve brought up comes up in one way or another during combat.

100%

Although I’m a big fan of a good old fashioned killdozer.

Lol that’s some awardspeechedit content right there.

Now it really IS like being on r*ddit again.

Edit: to anyone wondering about the deleted comment, the guy was being pedantic about wording implying a different meaning, and then whined in an edit that this place is just like the other place because he got “downvoted for providing scientific fact” or something along those lines.

The only spiders I want gone are the ones that can kill me, and the ones that get too close to me.

If I see one setting up a web in the distant corner? Hell yeah Bro catch all the pests you can.

Crawl toward me less than a foot away? Sorry smash but you sealed your own fate.

So like… I’m agreeing with the things you’re saying, but the way it’s phrased makes it seem like you’re saying “It’s actually the poor people who are the problem”

Just struck me as kind of funny lol

Lmao

DON’T BE A STOOG

With my third arm.

I don’t feel so good…

You would think the TPN IV would include something that suppresses appetite…

Like… I vaguely remember seeing a brief article not too long ago (last few years) that talked about how some lab or other had figured out the exact mechanism that triggers the brain to go “hey you’re hungry” which should lead to better ways to suppress appetite for people who always feel hungry/overeat/have issues that need it.

Again, brief article, months ago at best.

But I know we know of a lot of things that suppress appetite surely one could have been used…

Food, food everywhere, but not a bite to eat.